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In Glasgow, Scotland, things weren’t as advertised when it came to the “Willy Wonka Experience.” In advertisements, event organizer House of Illuminati created a magical AI-created world filled with “lollipop forests, jellybean waterfalls, flying horses, giant mushrooms,…and a place where chocolate dreams become reality.” That reality, sadly, came in the form of a “gutted factory” with “dirty windows, an exposed air conditioning system, a couple of plastic candy canes, and other rented props strewn about on bare concrete floors.” Then, you add to the mix a mess of “struggling actors” trying to recite lines from scripts they’d only received the day before…and trying to interact with props they were told would be there but weren’t. Needless to say, this wasn’t what was promised in exchange for the $45 entry fee. On the first day of the event, police were called, all 850 paying customers received full refunds, and all other events were canceled for the rest of the run of the “experience.”
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