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BloodMoon7
02/28/24 10:13:44 PM
#151:


Is it bad if I think the Oompa Loompa look here is kinda hot

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008Zulu
02/28/24 10:29:26 PM
#152:


bigtiggie23 posted...
Could've gone with an adult film shoot.
Willy Wanker and the Great Ass Elevator.

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pegusus123456
02/28/24 10:31:46 PM
#153:


008Zulu posted...
Willy Wanker and the Great Ass Elevator.
Willy Wanker and the Chocolate Starfish Factory

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Quorthon109
02/28/24 10:38:58 PM
#154:


Putting sprinkles on shit. She did her best.

https://streamable.com/cr8teo

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e9975cdd.jpg
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CRON
02/28/24 10:42:34 PM
#155:


What the fuck were the victims of this scam expecting? Ignoring the fact that all of the promotional material was badly-generated AI (with typos everywhere) did they really expect production values exceeding the actual movie despite the scammers going out of their way to not explicitly give the event the same branding?

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Quorthon109
02/28/24 10:57:50 PM
#157:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


A few people on the Facebook group (many of whom were really there in person and provided pics and experiences) said that it was a high school-aged girl but I can't confirm

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LeoRavus
02/28/24 10:59:26 PM
#158:


Apparently they were only handing out 1 jelly bean per kid and 1/4 cup of lemonade. No chocolate was at the event.

https://www.tiktok.com/@paulconnellcomedy/video/7340318935629172000

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Punished_Blinx
02/28/24 11:17:54 PM
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CRON posted...
What the fuck were the victims of this scam expecting? Ignoring the fact that all of the promotional material was badly-generated AI (with typos everywhere) did they really expect production values exceeding the actual movie despite the scammers going out of their way to not explicitly give the event the same branding?

As someone with young kids it's really not that difficult to make an experience that excites them.

Like seriously if they didn't skimp on jelly beans, lemonade and had a chocolate fondue they'd already be halfway to where they needed to be.

Get the kids tables of craft or decorating a chocolate bar or whatever and things to do that aren't just whatever this is and then it's just decorations left.

They do stuff like this all the time at Christmas with Santa and Christmas themes and decorations. Their standards aren't hard to live up to.

Problem is they listened to an AI and not a person who actually thinks about how a kid will be having fun during a kids event.

The sad thing is that whatever this was probably cost them more money for less.

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W_S_C_M
02/28/24 11:21:18 PM
#160:


I want me some sweet teats

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Trepan
02/28/24 11:22:54 PM
#161:


Hahahaha
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unclekoolaid73
02/28/24 11:23:02 PM
#162:


I feel if CE were to put on some sort of themed event it would of turned out better than this Willy Wonka shit show.

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Toonstrack
02/28/24 11:24:15 PM
#163:


Those ads were very obviously ai lmao

Im pretty much going to immeidtaly scrutinize any media using ai to advertise itself.

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LeoRavus
02/28/24 11:25:40 PM
#164:


unclekoolaid73 posted...
I feel if CE were to put on some sort of themed event it would of turned out better than this Willy Wonka shit show.

Yep, but this was just a scam. These people paid $44 USD to get in and only got 1 jelly bean? They could have bought enough to give them a little bag full or something.

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CruelBuffalo
02/29/24 1:42:00 AM
#165:


The unknown and the Oompa Loompa would have been an amazing couples costume if this happened like in August or September
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nocturnal_traveler
02/29/24 2:19:10 AM
#166:


Oompa, Loompa, doopity-doo
I've got a sad looking sight for you

You might think this is very funny
But try telling that to the family

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kirbymuncher
02/29/24 2:25:24 AM
#167:


Punished_Blinx posted...
The sad thing is that whatever this was probably cost them more money for less.
considering the actors involved were not even sure they were gonna get paid, I suspect the cost was essentially 0

I think the AI part of it is getting some weird emphasis, probably because there's just a lot of general anti-AI sentiment around nowadays. It's not like having the advertisement posters made by a human would have helped the event itself be any better

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SiO4
02/29/24 2:48:07 AM
#168:


This whole thing is gloriously fucked up.

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Punished_Blinx
02/29/24 4:16:24 AM
#169:


kirbymuncher posted...
considering the actors involved were not even sure they were gonna get paid, I suspect the cost was essentially 0

I think the AI part of it is getting some weird emphasis, probably because there's just a lot of general anti-AI sentiment around nowadays. It's not like having the advertisement posters made by a human would have helped the event itself be any better

The posters itself is one thing. That isn't overly uncommon.

But it seems like they designed this entire thing around a nonsensical script generated by an AI. Which is why there's a segment of The Unknown emerging from a wall frightening children.

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Rika_Furude
02/29/24 5:41:14 AM
#170:


I am Rika_Furude and this is my favourite topic on the CE
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Seaman_Prime
02/29/24 11:25:48 AM
#172:


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Lol, the baby roaring at the Unknown
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Quorthon109
02/29/24 12:34:32 PM
#173:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aff2d809.png
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/831c6317.jpg

These characters need to keep existing somewhere. I need to see Willy McDuff & the Wonkidoodles foil the dastardly Unknown in their effort to acquire the Anti-Graffiti Gobstopper.

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Quorthon109
02/29/24 12:35:35 PM
#174:


https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2024/02/27/willys_chocolate_experience.pdf

^Here's the entire script btw

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hockeybabe89
02/29/24 12:42:17 PM
#175:


CRON posted...
What the fuck were the victims of this scam expecting? Ignoring the fact that all of the promotional material was badly-generated AI (with typos everywhere) did they really expect production values exceeding the actual movie despite the scammers going out of their way to not explicitly give the event the same branding?
I don't think anyone was literally expecting this to be literal fantasy come to life, but 1 jelly bean and an empty warehouse might be considered slightly fraudulent.

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Trepan
02/29/24 1:01:05 PM
#176:


Did they add a ballpit tho?
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UnholyMudcrab
02/29/24 1:05:43 PM
#177:


kirbymuncher posted...
considering the actors involved were not even sure they were gonna get paid, I suspect the cost was essentially 0

I think the AI part of it is getting some weird emphasis, probably because there's just a lot of general anti-AI sentiment around nowadays. It's not like having the advertisement posters made by a human would have helped the event itself be any better
The thing that gets me about the posters is that they did absolutely zero touch-up work on them. Like, it would have taken them literally two minutes in Photoshop (or hell, even MS Paint) to fix the fucked up text, but they didn't even want to put that small amount of effort in.

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Alles-Losen
02/29/24 1:23:36 PM
#178:


Quorthon109 posted...

These characters need to keep existing somewhere. I need to see Willy McDuff & the Wonkidoodles foil the dastardly Unknown in their effort to acquire the Anti-Graffiti Gobstopper.


They actually just added The Unknown to Dead By Daylight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhBRf2zGoGE

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Hornezz
02/29/24 1:32:19 PM
#180:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0af12661.jpg

This is hitting Sims 4 too apparently

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Baha05
02/29/24 1:32:56 PM
#181:


I want a pin for the Unknown peeking from behind the mirror

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kirbymuncher
02/29/24 2:05:47 PM
#182:


UnholyMudcrab posted...
The thing that gets me about the posters is that they did absolutely zero touch-up work on them. Like, it would have taken them literally two minutes in Photoshop (or hell, even MS Paint) to fix the fucked up text, but they didn't even want to put that small amount of effort in.
The more I think about it the funnier the whole thing is. There was essentially no effort put in at any point.
  • the advertisements are poorly made AI images that they didn't even bother to touch up, and judging by the text may have not even bothered to look at
  • the interior design is nothing like either the advertisement art or the actual appearance of willy wonka's factory in media
  • the script and plot doesn't make sense and references parts of the environment that don't even exist
  • there's no souvenirs or merch other than an extremely sad amount of food. like did they buy a single 5 cent pack of jellybeans or something??
  • the costumes were awful and the actors were maybe not even paid
  • the whole thing was priced highish even for a real proper event
basically no part of it wasn't a disaster

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Kradek
02/29/24 6:34:41 PM
#183:


CRON posted...
What the fuck were the victims of this scam expecting? Ignoring the fact that all of the promotional material was badly-generated AI (with typos everywhere) did they really expect production values exceeding the actual movie despite the scammers going out of their way to not explicitly give the event the same branding?

Wasn't expecting someone to defend this travesty lol.

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Alles-Losen
02/29/24 6:59:07 PM
#184:


https://imgur.com/a/clDirIY

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Quorthon109
02/29/24 11:10:01 PM
#185:


https://streamable.com/v0novl

^Here's what the sad oompa loompa actually looks like. Along with this video, she also has a 3-part explanation on her TikTok going into detail about the whole thing. Just gonna provide the links for those because I'm too lazy to convert them.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341095772735212832
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341097336438803745
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341100162028195105

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YellowSUV
02/29/24 11:17:55 PM
#186:


The Unknown just gets funnier each time I think about it.

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Quorthon109
02/29/24 11:25:29 PM
#187:


I'm loving all of the art

https://twitter.com/Joughbro/status/1763246361267306936
https://twitter.com/drawckie/status/1762929731631235201
https://twitter.com/lolballs247/status/1763001219499327959
https://twitter.com/Cannibalteeth/status/1763331595916947809

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b8427c10.jpg
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SiO4
02/29/24 11:39:25 PM
#188:


Quorthon109 posted...
https://streamable.com/v0novl

^Here's what the sad oompa loompa actually looks like. Along with this video, she also has a 3-part explanation on her TikTok going into detail about the whole thing. Just gonna provide the links for those because I'm too lazy to convert them.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341095772735212832
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341097336438803745
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341100162028195105


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqeYKf8tdsU

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Baha05
03/01/24 1:44:28 AM
#189:


Omg those pictures

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Ser_Jaker
03/01/24 5:02:36 AM
#190:


Is it just me or is the set genuinely terrifying?

I'm getting some serious liminal space horror vibes from this. It's legitimately something out of a bad fever dream.

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Golden_Key33
03/01/24 6:39:09 AM
#191:


Quorthon109 posted...
https://streamable.com/v0novl

^Here's what the sad oompa loompa actually looks like. Along with this video, she also has a 3-part explanation on her TikTok going into detail about the whole thing. Just gonna provide the links for those because I'm too lazy to convert them.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341095772735212832
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341097336438803745
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7341100162028195105
Is that definitely her and not the second Oompa Loompa? Not sure why she'd lie about it, but the other looks younger and a bit more like her imo.

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YellowSUV
03/01/24 9:11:13 AM
#192:


Ser_Jaker posted...
Is it just me or is the set genuinely terrifying?

I'm getting some serious liminal space horror vibes from this. It's legitimately something out of a bad fever dream.

The Unknown knew the claustrophobic Tunnel of Terror was no longer scary so he went the other way and made the factory too open.

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Quorthon109
03/01/24 9:21:27 AM
#193:


Golden_Key33 posted...
Is that definitely her and not the second Oompa Loompa? Not sure why she'd lie about it, but the other looks younger and a bit more like her imo.

They were on Good Morning Britain today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF5b6lZzR5c

Though there was a woman claiming to be The Unknown that got a good amount of views before being proven false, glad I didn't link that one.

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Demyx
03/01/24 9:29:19 AM
#194:


Hayame_Zero posted...
I've been laughing at this all morning

The website:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/176e7f18.jpg

The actuality:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/41770d9d.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c4c96a9f.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6b2e201f.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bc095135.jpg

When the hookup don't look like their profile picture lol

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Golden_Key33
03/01/24 9:56:52 AM
#195:


Quorthon109 posted...
They were on Good Morning Britain today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF5b6lZzR5c

Though there was a woman claiming to be The Unknown that got a good amount of views before being proven false, glad I didn't link that one.
Oh cool, they found the other one. Thanks!

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pegusus123456
03/02/24 3:19:32 AM
#196:


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TomClark
03/02/24 8:16:59 AM
#197:


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Quorthon109
03/02/24 11:39:25 AM
#198:


Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-do
Here is your refund, please do not sue

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/30eef1c5.png

It just ends with "Sincerely". Also people pointed out the American spelling of "organization" and are thinking this was written by AI as well. I never heard of the part about this supposedly being used to fund a wedding, either. 850 transactions is crazy though when you figure there were multiple tickets purchased in probably almost every one of them.

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Quorthon109
03/02/24 12:00:15 PM
#199:


The Unknown has made themselves known on TikTok and she's a young girl
https://www.tiktok.com/@felicia.wishes

She doesn't offer a ton of insight, though. There's a picture of her with other cast members floating around that tells me this is really her, but she hasn't revealed her face on her own yet so I'm not gonna post it

More art!
https://twitter.com/grillhou5e/status/1763455736816734502
https://twitter.com/BenjaminTobitt/status/1763713819044347916
https://twitter.com/ftzanisa/status/1763942958175527038

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2f511d27.jpg
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Maverick_Reznor
03/02/24 12:04:48 PM
#200:


This is such a wildly bizarre story.

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