I read this to my kids a few years ago, and while super weird, it's also super racist, in the "Chinese say ching chong, haha" kind of way, and it does it with just about any race, culture, and stereotype you can think of (since they take over a space station and it becomes an international incident).
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What happens when you overdose on age prevention pills?
If you think that is weird, they actually made a sequel movie set about 50 years later set of a train plowing endlessly through a snow covered post apocalypse
My teachers read this to us when I was in elementary school. Don't remember much though, except how I love being read to and how it was the best part of the day.
I remember reading this as a kid but I don't really remember anything other than them swimming through the air in the lack of gravity
The Great Glass Elevator had it all, Space Worms, Space Hotels, and even the Grandparents getting out of bed!
I found it quite scary and can't remember much else about it.
He actually overdoses his grandparents, but that's just the tip of the iceberg
And I made an Ask Lemmy thread based on those very pills, although I'm not sure anybody recognised the reference
It's an interesting thread but the concept is quite generic, even in the book, it's interesting only in how it's developed, so hardly anybody would make the connection
Yeah I wasn't particularly expecting it to get connected either, although I half hoped someone would pipe up lol
And his will prevents anyone from ever making a movie out if it.
Until copyright lapses anyway
Or those enforcing the will stop caring to.
Or those enforcing all copyright cease to have power
Surely his will is neither here nor there once the copyright lapses?
Whichever comes first.
Ah I see, yes, very true.
How about an interactive experience for children?
I imagine his estate has final word.
Pernicious knids!
SCRAM
*Vermicious
The knids were mentioned by name in the Gene Wilder film. I remember noticing that as a kid and asking if they were going to do the great glass elevator next. My parents were confident they would have by then if they were going to, at least as a continuation if that film
We read that one in elementary school! I seem to recall it being really good, but that was like 30 some odd years ago lol
I recall it being a really entertaining story, but it's been such a long time that I don't remember any details
I read it immediately after the Chocolate Factory and like you I can't remember much of anything.
I just remember how they got to space and that's it.
I remember the teacher in grade 2 started to read it to us then bounced on it because it was a lot more complicated than chocolate factory. I never went back to it but I've been curious
The only part I remember is they bump into a government spaceship and Wonka is like, “Let me handle it” and starts to dance and make clicking noises to freak everyone out.
It was actually pretty cool if 10 year old me is to be believed
If 10yr old you thought it was good, it was a success. Children were his target audience