Wonka Themed Attraction Ends In Cops Getting Called
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- čas přidán 27. 02. 2024
- The highly anticipated Willy’s Chocolate Experience, advertised as an immersive children’s event reminiscent of Willy Wonka's creations definitely didn't meet expectations. Ana Kasparian discusses on The Young Turks.
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"The website for Willy’s Chocolate Experience promised a world of pure imagination: an immersive children’s event with attractions to rival even the creations of Willy Wonka, the fictional chocolatier. Illustrations on the website advertised lush gardens with giant lollipops and swirls of colorful candy.
When Stuart Sinclair arrived with his family at the event in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday, they found something very different. Willy’s Chocolate Experience, for which Sinclair paid around $45 per ticket, was a brisk walk through a barren event hall dotted with folding tables, the occasional candy-themed prop and passageways covered in black tarps.
It wasn’t quite enough to immerse Sinclair’s 4-year-old daughter, Nevanah, in visions of a candy world, he said. She was given two jelly beans and half a cup of lemonade before the family left."
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I have neighbors who set up a haunted house every year at Halloween.
That haunted house has more effort put into it than this sad, sad, sideshow reject trying to pose as a Willy Wonka experience.
Wow that was... Unbelievably sad.
They called cops because it was a scam.
This was absolutely insane seeing go viral! Haha looking back on the event it was such a shitshow.. Thanks for using my video! :)
$45 is a day ticket for Six Flags, like...wtf?!!! And you get THIS?!!!
Almost choked on my coffee.
The cops should have been called. This is a robbery in broad daylight.
Y'all missed the best part, there was a monster trolling around called "the unknown"... Literally just scaring kids for no explained reason 😂
The purpose of calling the police would be to shut down the scam
This is the Willy Wonka equivalent of Fyre Festival.
Promising chocolate and having absolutely no chocolate is completely false advertising and scamming the public.
>Chocolate Experience!
>No Chocolate...
High school proms are more decorated than that.
Right?! They really are! The lights, decorations all over, the DJ, alcohol...They didn't even have chocolate! LOL
I wouldn't hire any of them to bake me a cake!
@@olympiaskye2324
I'd probably be mostly saw dust. 😳😂
highschool prom tickets tend to cost more. You get what ya pay for lol
Massive red flags when all promises are accompanied wth CGI/AI generated images instead of actual photos and/or video.
Yepppp
My sentiments exactly! Cheap bastids 'prompting' their concepts onto midjourney, no doubt.
This is something straight out of an Ed, Edd n Eddy episode.
Oh please, the Eds had more effort in their scams than that. The rocket car alone was better than that sad attempt to recreate the world of Willy Wonka.
In fact, I bet the Eds could do so much better using several cardboard boxes and a few rolls of packing tape.
@@shadowjudge921 and the best part is it would cost a quarter
Yea! Although I’m getting more Krabby Land vibes here
Nah it's Mr Krabs that crab is soo cheap lol
This was either an outright money grab, or organizers were high on something when they sent out advertisements for this event, then faced harsh reality of what all of this would cost to put together when they sobered up and it was already too late. Either way, at the very least, send someone out to the store to buy some freakin' chocolate to hand out to the kids and apologize profusely while doing so.
🎶come with me, and you’ll be… in a world of utter disappointment🎶
holy hell, this seems like something a LAZY highschooler would put out.
This is plain theft. It deserves jail time.
Camp Krusty's legacy lives on
This entire story sounds like an Onion article.
It's called "Land of Pure Imagination" because you have to use your imagination while youre there.
😂😂😂😂
God, this is embarrassing. This event was held a 10minute drive from my house. World of pure imagination because you had to imagine that there was fun stuff there. As they say round my way "it's a pure riddy"
Edit: It wasn't the parents that called the police, it was the event staff that called cops because the parents wanted refunds and the event refused to pay out so things got heated.
I’m so proud to live in the Glasgow area right now! It’s our Fyre Festival!
$4.50 MAYBE. But $45 and NO CHOCOLATE!
And two jelly beans!?!
For $45, I want a chocolate river, an oompah loompa, an army of elves, a child catcher with treacle tarts, and a wizarding school!
Not even two jellly beans, the actor who played wonka on this thing said they were forced to give one jelly bean per kid and a quarter cup of lemonade 😂
@@jsmashrumble419 u forgot a half of cup of lemonade
"no allergen information"
I hope the owners of the Wonka name sues this guy into oblivion.
Actors were given AI generated scripts that were totally senseless and were playing characters who never appeared in the book or movies.
In Scotland the 'small claims court' is outside.
The police were called because the organisers got worried about the pissed off parents.
They didn't falsely advertise if you think about it. They promised surprises and one of those surprises was......... disappointment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Willy Wonka's Fyre Festival!
That was definitely a scam and every single person should be refunded.
🎵
*Come With Me & You'll Be in a World of Pure Lamentation*
*What you see will Lack Inspiration*
*Every Step Filled With Dread In a World of Sheer Depression*
*What you see Might Instill Some Aggression*
🎶
There ya go that was Free...
*~Tips Top hat~* 🎩
Magnificent
They even used AI art for their advertising 🤦♀️
They used ai for more than the art. The scripts were also a giant ai generated monologue 😅
Who remembers the Spongebob episode with cheapass mr crabs Krabby Land with "krabby the clown"
I do this definitely feels like that
I went to a very similar event for Halloween, when I complained they said the whole point was to take photos with the props for Instagram. That’s actually what the dude told me after I paid $100 for my son and myself, this did include parking.
I’ve been watching TYT since 2011 and Jon’s growth and development as a host and public speaker is just so impressive to me.
Did a Nigerian prince organise it?
I literally just checked the price of Otherworld in Columbus and it’s $15 cheaper than this disaster lol. Holy shit
They could’ve literally just went to a supermarket and bought a bunch of chocolate at the very least.
John is right. Jail time because a "chocolate experience" with no chocolate is FRAUD for real 😂🍫 And also yes refunds.
I think the police were called because the parents were getting so angry that the staff were feeling threatened
The Fyre festival of chocolate factories
Holographic paper wasn't gonna make the difference
In New York, you would go to small claims court under General Business Law for false advertising.
Fyre festival for kids.
Literally an Ed Edd n Eddie scam.
Hey this feels more like Mr Krabs.
The Ed boys are innocent 😂
Technically, traumatizing kids is a true Willy Wonka experience.
In a world of pure imagination, buyer beware.
I don’t blame these people. There’s nothing there. Plus, they paid a lot of money. I would’ve called the cops too if I was a parent.
She said you get two jelly beans and a half a cup of juice!!!!😮😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s important for kids to learn early that life fuking sucks
The only positive to the event lol. Prepares kids for the disappointing hellhole that is adulthood.
It was ACTUALLY around US$120!!!
Not even worth $1.20
Sounds like Fyre Festival
Ironically enough, "Stuart Sinclair" sounds like a disgruntled Wonka rival turned saboteur.
This reminds me of that immersive van Gogh experience that was advertised on Facebook. I really wanted to go and tell one of my friends went and she said it was super disappointing it was basically them just projecting van Gogh paintings onto walls and charging $40 for it
"You get nothing!"
Any introduction that begins with "Literal police were dispatched" is not "quite a lead".
Oompa Loompa Doopa di do consider this mess the Fyre Fest 2.
In the US when people called the cops on McDonald’s for refusing to refund The caller ended up arrested
That's 45£, it works out to be $56 U.S. dollars.
No it was actually £35 which equates to $44.15, so TYT simply rounded up to $45.
@@HockeyWerewolf Regardless, it was a very expensive nothing burger... without the flying ketchup.
@@CanadianSmoke Agreed, everybody got scammed. I read another article on this which said that some customers had travelled all the way from Aberdeen & Newcastle to Glasgow for this event. That's 145 & 151 miles each way respectively!
@@HockeyWerewolf Beautiful drives, no doubt, but I'd be a bit furious over the deceit... definitely not worth the drive.
Is that per person? If so imagine that cost on the average mother and father with their 2 small children.
Not gonna lie Willy’s chocolate experience. Sounds like an only fans account created by an underground group of Oompa Loompas
my dog created a "chocolate experience" in my yard, only $5 admission and get a free selfie!
@@Feral_Turd come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure canine feces 😂😂😂
Just one degree away from *Chef's Salty Balls.*
Willy Wanka's factory didn't have any 'attractions'. It was a literal death trap. All but 1 kid hated it.
So 10/10 for staying true to the source material.
Looks like expo building at local county fair. I'm always disappointed.
. . . . sigh . . . . what they could have done is rent tables out to candy and bakery venues to display their Willy Wonka themed items with samples to give out. They could have done a raffle that was Willy Wonka themed, and a contest on the best dressed characters, best chocolate, display, best cookie, best candy item. Stuff like that . . . . and I think I just spent more time on this than the actual people behind this mess.
I am SOOOO glad you covered this. it happened in my home town and the twitter memes of it have been priceless
I may be wrong, but I feel police work differently in Scotland than they do in America. I'm from Glasgow, and here police are often called to situations like this to stop them from escalating into something worse. I've dealt with Glasgow police a lot since I've moved here, and they've been great and patient people who are usually brilliant are calming everything down and stopping anything becoming an issue.
Yea from the UK myself and from what I have seen/experienced the police here are much much much better at deescalating than their counter parts in the US
Your military probably doesnt work so closely with the idf, either
It was quite the (traumatic) experience for the attending kids...and plenty of imagination is required for this to be justified as "job well done".
OMG! Jimmy Kimmel made fun of this on late night comedy.
I saw that too! The "meth lab umpalumpa" made me laugh the most and wish TYT had a pic of that crazy lady! 😹
They've obviously used AI for their web splash image. That should've been the first red flag. Nothing screams 'CHEAP' more than AI-generated imagery.
And apparently it was full of spelling mistakes since AI can’t spell words in fancy fonts
Nah, their marketing was good, website, words on the website, and AI images arent always free. But obviously the execution was terrible. Like Fyre Fest
Pay with a credit card, request a chargeback with your bank/credit institution in the event of organizer failure.
This is hilarious
Slugworth pulling new tricks to ruin Wonka's name again!!😋
It was indeed an immersive event based on imagination. You had to imagine what should have been there and immerse yourself in that. 😁
Disappointing but not illegal...until...NO CHOCOLATE?!? The horror!
It truly defined 'an outright scam'.
Sounds like the fyre festival for kids.
Had the same scam done with the Dino Expo. Was supposed to be a transformation to a land of dinosaurs and it was so lame and took 5 minutes to walk through. My kids were really disappointed.
The Willy Wonka Fyre Festival.
It wasn’t two jelly beans.. it was ONE.
How were these people not able to IMMEDIATELY tell that this was clearly a scam??
Turns out it was Willy Wanker.😅
The Field Museum in Chicago did a chocolate exhibition promising an immersive chocolate “experience” we brought the kids and there was no chocolate in the actual exhibit. They did sell expensive gourmet chocolate at the end.
Well, it could be argued that they will provide a world of pure imagination is a fancy way of saying you make it all up yourself!
They could've at least sprung for a jumpy house.
The thing is they could have done close to what they promised for that amount. There was this thing called candytopia in Arizona and it was amazing
It was in Scotland - it was always going to be shit.....
I believe you mean shite...
They are in Scotland so they didn’t call the cops. They called the Bobbies.
Not to be mixed up with your baoby
Didn’t someone just sue for $5 million because the Reese’s didn’t look like the picture on the package.
"bonna fetus" comes right after "eggcorn" in the Anna Kasparian dictionary
Wow. I can't imagine the disappointment, they straight up did these poor folk dirty with that place, whatever it is ... Id want my refund straight up. Ruining these kids childhood like that? Give me my money. Id take them to a better theme park. With LOTS of speed go cart driving.
I guess if I was mad and wanted my money back I might call the cops for documentation should I need to take them to court? C'mon guys, cops aren't just for shootings gone wrong. They take reports for the courts.
Exactly. It can help when you file claims for refunds later.
I *WISH* we could just call the cops on Capitalists. 🤞
Krabby Land in real life
It was a Journey into Imagination. You had to have the best imagination in human history to see that as anything close to what was advertised.
It’s kinda keeping in line with the Willy Wonka movie, though. In the movie, Will does a ton of things that make the families go: “WTF? Are you serious right now?” In that sense, they stayed true to the core, even if the disappointment was related to the aesthetics (to be fair, doing the things that Will did would probably end in a SWAT team).
John became the Venezuelan Ambassador, played by Fred Armisen, from Park and Rec.
No chocolate, straight to jail.
Only two jelly beans, jail.
Lacking decoration, again jail.
Disappointing children, yes, jail.
They neglected to say, "You need your imagination to get your moneys worth... close your eyes and dream."
Sounds like a trump promise to me... Shoddy, Gaudy and Cheap... his new law firm.
Doesnt look worth $45. From growing up and watching the movie Willy Wanka & The Chocolate factory compared to this i see why they were disappointed. And no chocolate? Hersheys Chocolate World in Pennsylvania is better than that place. And cheaper! The family must have been really pissed to call the police but should have talk to management about a refund instead. But wow, 1/2 cup of lemonade and a few jelly beans 😂oh my!
Lost it at “refund the police” 💀
“Literal police…”
Our language is doomed.
Americans.
If you've been told once you've been told a million times that if you go up into Loompaland disrespecting the "Oompa-Loompas" you're asking for trouble...