‘Pathetic’ Willy Wonka chocolate expertise blown vast open weeks in the past on Reddit

Glasgow‘s “pathetic” Willy Wonka-inspired expertise was really uncovered on Reddit weeks in the past, it has emerged.

Police have been referred to as to the £35-a-ticket occasion at Glasgow’s Box Hub on Saturday (February 24) following a raft of complaints, with individuals demanding refunds.

The Willy’s Chocolate Experience web site promised a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises”. The “exhilarating and immersive adventure” was to characteristic “charming characters singing original catchy tunes” in addition to a “twilight tunnel” and “imagination lab”.

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However, when individuals arrived they discovered an almost-empty warehouse with a number of Willy Wonka-inspired decorations and a bouncy fort. Aileen Butcher, who took her daughter to the occasion, branded it “pathetic”.

She mentioned: “We went inside and there were some posters, a visual display including a rainbow, toadstool and a gobstopper. There also appeared to be a table strewn with jelly beans and a bouncy castle at the back. It took us a minute to walk through.”

People additionally seen how there have been seemingly AI-generated photos on the web site for the occasion, together with gibberish AI-generated textual content. And now it has emerged somebody on Reddit tried to show the occasion 18 days in the past.

A submit on r/Glasgow learn: “Has anyone else been getting FB ads for ‘Willys Chocolate Experience’? Every image is AI generated along with all the gibberish text it try’s to create. Not 1 single picture giving people an idea of what they are shelling out money for and yet people are buying up tickets. [sic]”

The poster mentioned they “can’t wait for the inevitable influx of posts… of people demanding refunds after it turns out to be a lot of s***e”. They added: “For anyone finding this post that attended the event, I don’t want to come across as all ‘I told you so’ but please in future look into things before barrelling in and handing over money.”

House of Illuminati, the organiser, cancelled the occasion halfway by way of its first day on Saturday and has promised refunds. A Police Scotland spokesperson mentioned officers attended and “advice was given”.

Matthew Waterfield, operations supervisor on the Box Hub venue, instructed the BBC: “People arrived on Saturday and they didn’t seem to be too happy. The event organisers were experiencing a lot of customer complaints. Off the back of this they decided to cancel the event.”

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