Disastrous family seasonal attractions and the never to be forgotten Lapland New Forest Theme Park

[Orang Utan]

I can also imagine IP lawsuits from the film makers and whoever markets the chocolate bars

 

[cupid_stunt]

I can also imagine IP lawsuits from the film makers and whoever markets the chocolate bars

They have that covered, allegedly, no Wonka was involved.

 

[NoXion]

The AI art was so laughably inept that they might have a believable defence in that respect, but I'm not a legal eagle for a massive media empire.

As for the ordinary punters who paid money to get in, how many of them knew what they were getting into?

 

[Cloo]

I do think, spoilsport as it would be, these events need to have a trading standards person go round 24 hours before the opening of an 'immersive experience' and if the site is still very obviously a warehouse, car park, toxic waste dump etc, it's not an 'immersive experience' and it doesn't get to open

 

[Dom Traynor]

Karen Gillan has already said she’s keen to be cast in it.

I'd be quite keen to see her as the Oompa Loompa tbh

 

[danny la rouge]

They have that covered, allegedly, no Wonka was involved.

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Yup, the estate and the mega corporation in question can consider themselves duly foiled.

 

[Cloo]

Yup, the estate and the mega corporation in question can consider themselves duly foiled.

The phrase, I believe, is 'Passing off' - making it look extraordinarily close to something licensed. Of course a lot of products do sail very close to this and get away with it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I do think, spoilsport as it would be, these events need to have a trading standards person go round 24 hours before the opening of an 'immersive experience' and if the site is still very obviously a warehouse, car park, toxic waste dump etc, it's not an 'immersive experience' and it doesn't get to open

How about Ha! Ha! Ha! It's The Chiropteran Vigilante Axis Chemicals Showdown Experience?

 

[pinkmonkey]

The phrase, I believe, is 'Passing off' - making it look extraordinarily close to something licensed. Of course a lot of products do sail very close to this and get away with it.

This, would Joe Public be confused and assume it's Willy Wonka? In this case, yes, of course they would.

 

[Cloo]

This, would Joe Public be confused and assume it's Willy Wonka? In this case, yes, of course they would.

I guess a lot of people still don't understand that anything that sounds a bit like a property, but isn't using the proper name, is going to be bullshit.

I also suspect a lot of people who booked this might not even have seen the awful AI-made website. If it was on local event listings pages they might have just 'Ooh, fun kids thing with chocolates, let's book that' and clicked via the listing.

 

[Silas Loom]

Yup, the estate and the mega corporation in question can consider themselves duly foiled.

A pun which should have left everyone rapt!

 

[Silas Loom]

I can also imagine IP lawsuits from the film makers and whoever markets the chocolate bars

So the fantasist behind all this probably doesn’t have legal liability insurance, or indeed a pot to piss in, which means he is hardly worth suing. Obviously, the IP owner would need assurances that he will never do this again, but that’s a given now.

But if I owned rights to a franchise based on a very popular but short and actually rather mean-spirited book, plus a shit sequel, I would welcome additions to the canon with open arms. And the Unknown is what the Wonkaverse needed all along. There is so much to be done with an evil chocolate maker who slinks between walls. Origin trilogies. Video game spin-offs. Duvet sets. A jukebox musical, on ice, with a bottomless brunch.

That’s the deal they will do, if they are smart. Absolute rights to the experience and all the scripts.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror film

A villain devised for the catastrophic Willy’s Chocolate Experience, who makes sweets and lives in walls, is to become the subject of a new horror movie

www.theguardian.com

Its over, its no longer funny

 

[editor]

Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror film

A villain devised for the catastrophic Willy’s Chocolate Experience, who makes sweets and lives in walls, is to become the subject of a new horror movie

www.theguardian.com

Its over, its no longer funny

Oh, I don't know. I quite like the idea of a film featuring The Unknown.

Loved this description, btw:

An AI-generated ad misled attendees into thinking they were forking out £35 for an “immersive experience” based on Paul King’s smash hit origin story starring Timothée Chalamet. Instead, they were ushered into a barely decorated warehouse some likened to a meth den, sparsely populated by vaguely costumed actors who quickly left, en masse.

Children were entitled to two jelly beans and a quarter of a cup of lemonade. The police were called and the event shut after half a day.

 

[T & P]

Will this be the first ever film main character conceived not by a human but by AI?

 

[TopCat]

The event was clearly not as advertised. How is that not fraud? Because it provided lols on the internets? Come on now.

Red bull gives you wings

Coke is life

 

[Orang Utan]

They have that covered, allegedly, no Wonka was involved.

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I think they were forced to put that up after being caught not acknowledging this, and that there will still be repercussions

 

[Orang Utan]

Donald Rumsfeld is reportedly consulting his lawyers, so we may also have seen the last of The Unknown.

 

[hitmouse]

Coull strikes me as more of a deluded fantasist and possible narcissist, rather than a straight up psychopath scammer/businessman.

I'm just relieved he doesn't have a cousin who runs a pub that Grant Shapps drinks in, I could easily imagine the tories giving him a £10 billion contract to do covid tests for HS2 or something.

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm just relieved he doesn't have a cousin who runs a pub that Grant Shapps drinks in, I could easily imagine the tories giving him a £10 billion contract to do covid tests for HS2 or something.

If only he’d been to Eton. He’d be PM by now.

 

[Voley]

Donald Rumsfled is reportedly consulting his lawyers, so we may also have seen the last of The Unknown.

You've just had me digging that quote out again.

 

[A380]

I do think, spoilsport as it would be, these events need to have a trading standards person go round 24 hours before the opening of an 'immersive experience' and if the site is still very obviously a warehouse, car park, toxic waste dump etc, it's not an 'immersive experience' and it doesn't get to open

That would bugger my ‘ big escape from a warehouse into the car park’ immersive experience. You monster.

 

[Orang Utan]

That would my ‘ big escape from a warehouse into the car park’ immersive experience. You monster.

I’m sure it’s perfectly possible to have an immersive experience in a toxic waste dump.

 

[danny la rouge]

You've just had me digging that quote out again.

It made sense and was a perfectly valid point. I know people were baffled, but he was correct in his explanation of the point.

 

[Serge Forward]

I’m sure it’s perfectly possible to have an immersive experience in a toxic waste dump.

Or a silage tank.

 

[Voley]

It made sense and was a perfectly valid point. I know people were baffled, but he was correct in his explanation of the point.

True, funnily enough when I read it back, it does make sense. He could've done with working on his repetition though. I think I had to read it twice. Very slowly.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m sure it’s perfectly possible to have an immersive experience in a toxic waste dump.

The RoboCop Experience

 

[A380]

The RoboCop Experience
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‘Dead or alive you are coming to only get three jelly beans and a quarter of a glass of lime aid…’

 

[Orang Utan]

‘Dead or alive you are coming to only get three jelly beans and a quarter of a glass of lime aid…’

OOMPAHS LEAVE!

 

[Orang Utan]

(wouldn’t a Muppets RoboCop/RoboFrog be ace?)