Willy Wonka has recently been trending for all the wrong reasons, and an recreation of the event that cast his name into disrepair captures all that's equal parts sad and funny about it. Although Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is intended to be even more wondrous than it is unsettling, a Glasgow Wonka-themed event missed out on the note about the whimsy. What was supposed to be an exciting destination for kids turned out to be a mostly empty warehouse with some amusingly pitiful attempts at decoration, and images of the affair are hard to forget.
X (formerly Twitter) user Haztecamarera took it upon themselves to recreate pictures from the event in , the most recent entry in Nintendo's popular social simulation series. Their takes on the material make use of the game's costumes and props to capture all the visualized disappointment, just in a significantly cuter form.
The thread contains seven sets of comparison images along with one short video, with content ranging from the hazy Oompa-Loompa corner to the actor playing Wonka himself.
Although is largely known for its cutesy appeal, it's also perfect for capturing uncanny subjects like the Willy Wonka experience. Even if they're not exact replicas,the game's share of whimsical party items and seasonal decorations make great stand-ins for the props littered about the event. A Bunny Day arch replicates the rainbow entryway in the middle of the warehouse floor, and one of the variety of teddy bears available in is a surprisingly accurate match for an oversized model of a bright yellow gummy bear.
The video included in the thread highlights the villain of the show, a devious chocolate maker referred to as The Unknown, who apparently lives in the walls of Wonka's off-kilter factory. The version is considerably more charming than the masked entity at the actual event, and the Scare reaction added in a Halloween event comes across as more cute than creepy. If kids could only have visited the version of the Wonka
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