THE doomed Willy Wonka Experience has spawned a huge range of souvenirs for sale.
‘Fans’ of the Glasgow event – so bad that it went viral across the world – can buy a whole host of merchandise.
The disastrous event was made infamous after images circulated of a miserable looking Oompa Loompa and a freaky new character called ‘The Unknown’.
Bemused ticket holders were offered a half-cup of lemonade and a small ration of jelly beans upon arrival.
Greeting cards, bags, badges, mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, stickers, bookmarks and even cross stitch patterns are now being punted on the Etsy online marketplace.
A number of birthday and Mother’s Day cards are available for under £4 featuring soured-faced Oompa Loompa actor Kirsty Paterson, 30.
One states: “I’ve booked us a special experience for your birthday.” Another reads: “Happy Mother’s Day. Thanks for not taking me to the Willy’s chocolate experience.”
A “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” hoodie costing £45 shows Kirsty’s Oompa Loompa and “The Unknown” masked character clutching a half glass of lemonade beside two jelly babies.
A £14 t-shirt has “I survived the Willy Wonka experience” emblazoned on the front.
Others feature colourful “Wonka Glasgow” montages of Kirsty in her ‘science lab’ and “The Unknown” character clutching his mirror.
The bizarre figure – which doesn’t feature in any Willy Wonka books or movies – has also been recreated on stickers, mugs and badges.
And a bookmark reads, “What is that? It’s The Unknown.”
The now-iconic image of forlorn Kirsty has even been turned into a cross-stitch pattern.
Hundreds of people paid up to £35 a ticket for the Willy Wonka Experience that proved to be massive let-down after visitors said it was “little more than an abandoned, empty warehouse”.
Promised a magical experience for their children, parents walked into the sparsely decorated hall with puzzled performers and a few props.
Fuming parents called police and the event was cancelled within hours.
Kirsty later said: “I feel really bad that they’ve not had refunds, it’s just been awful.”
Billy Coull, 35, boss of event organiser House of Illuminati, said he was “truly sorry” for the “disappointment and frustration” and promised to refund all 850 tickets sold.
