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Tragedi Willy Wonka Experience . FOTO/ DAILY
GLASGOW – The cartoon series from the United States, The Simpsons, is often considered a predictor of the future. This happened because every story he adopted was in accordance with what happened in life in the following decades.
Most recently, The Simpsons is thought to have predicted the failure of the Willy Wonka Experience ride. The reason is, the ride in Glasgow, Scotland, had to be closed after a few hours of opening because it was labeled “terrible”.
Dubbed the Willy's Chocolate Experience, the ride advertises a “celebration of sweetness and imagination.” It is inspired by the very popular film Wonka and the Roald Dahl book that inspired it.
The ticket price is 35 pounds sterling or the equivalent of IDR 695,000, promising audio and visual effects, Oompa-Loompa dancing and a chocolate fountain. But, the ride was just a barely decorated warehouse with a handful of plastic candy canes and a small castle.
This is very similar to what is in the series The Simpsons, where the ride created by Homer Simpson is made from things at home. In fact, it is made from used mattresses to form a castle.
According to Newyorkpost, the comedy cartoon series created by Matt Groening in 1993 featured a very similar plot. In the episode entitled “Bart's Inner Child”, Homer Simpson buys a trampoline that he plans to use in a backyard amusement park for children.
Although the fantasy never came true, the Simpsons patriarch did dream about “Homerland,” where visitors paid 50 dollars to ride on a tiny trampoline, a game in a fort made of dirty mattresses.
When Bart's friend Milhouse claims that the latter's attraction “smells funny,” the deluded Homer replies “no, it doesn't.” But the “Simpsons” similarities don't end there.
In another episode from 2002, Homer meets a sad, smoking Oompa-Loompa who looks a lot like his fellow cosplayers at a “Wonka” party gone wrong.
Angry parents began demanding refunds for their families shortly after the show opened in Glasgow, describing it as a “joke” perpetrated by “cowboys”.
The event's organizers, the House of Illuminati, decided to pull the plug just hours after its opening day. Police Scotland also sent officers to the scene after receiving a number of official complaints.
(wbs)