What Do Your Uh, Oompa Loompa Workers Do When They're Not Working Son?

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Is it Still going?

Was anyone else lucky enough to catch this magnificent stream with me? ☺️

I wanna go on this lil field trip wtf?

*poke*

Oh...we're doing the poking thing again? 😅

I thought I explained before? No touchy.

Hold on, is this Cocoa Bean? Because I noticed they're the only one that loves to poke and ask random kind of nonsensical questions. And by process of elimination, I'm a strong 90% sure it's you.

If not, then whoops. Heh...

Just to clean me brain up because I definitely lost the red string:

What did happen for ppl to assume u and tis lady dating

They think we're dating because we chat and cook together often, but it's really not that big of a deal. The teasing will die down eventually.

Did you plan for all the kids to get hurt in ur factory.

The Oompa Loompa songs were a bit too detailed.

I’m on to you sir!

No, I didn't, life just has a funny way of serving karma. They wouldn't listen to my warnings so they paid the consequences. My Oompa Loompas are very talented at improvising songs, they're quite intelligent and creative. Seriously, those snot-nosed brats weren't harmed, merely altered. Ha.

I'm sorry for our little fight earlier. This new herbal tea I'm drinking has me acting strange. Emphasis on herbal. I think Alice spiked it

All is forgiven. And since we're apologizing, I'm sorry for telling Edward that you're a no good gap tooth tea-drinking scallywag. Heh.

I'm not sorry for my comments about Alice, though. I stand by them, and now you see what I mean for yourself. She's clearly got you tripping off the herbs. What is it this time? Opium Poppy? Tsk tsk.

Good morning, early birds! And if you're not an early bird then that must make you a night owl. Either way, good morning and good afternoon and evening to all!

I wanna show you guys some behind the scenes things around the factory, one of my personal favorite festive rooms!

Let's take a peek inside the Winter Wonderland room, shall we? This is where myself and the Oompa Loompas have our winter parties and Secret Santa giveaways!

~WINTER WONDERLAND~

This beautiful area completely changes in decor every month with transformations in amazing landscaping, water features, suspended decor from the ceiling and awe-inspiring scenes throughout. But during the holiday season is when I believe it becomes the most gorgeous. With the large glass dome atop the area, you get fantastic scenery sightings inside during the day and the area is provided with wonderful lighting for nighttime viewing as well. Because we all know that nighttime is when everything beautiful sparkles. ✨

This 8 foot long train travels around the huge Christmas tree and is surrounded by hundreds of multi-colored Poinsettias. In one of the train cars, a digital camera faces forward and can see what the train sees as it travels around the track on a nearby television monitor! One of my trusty tech Oompa Loompas thought the camera would be a magnificent addition and I couldn't agree more! Isn't that genius?

Every month, you'll have a different theme from huge flower pots and fields of daisies during the spring to an amazing Asian theme during the Chinese New Year. Any time you are fortunate enough to stop by the factory, should Covid ever go away, you will be astounded at the beauty and creativity of this unique attraction! Let's not forget the beautiful rocking horse to the left, that does indeed work! Also, this is one of our tallest Christmas trees in the factory, although it may not look tall on camera, it's actually standing close to 24 feet! That's like six Oompa Loompas stacked on top of each other, ha.

These are leafless white Christmas trees, added decor to balance out the color scheme. We were going for a snowy and colorfully-bright Santa's Workshop North Pole theme. Though half of the Oompa Loompas wanted the theme to be Polar Express, with nothing but faux snow made from powdered sugar, elves and trains everywhere. But who knows? Maybe this year we'll vote again on themes or infuse the two!

This cute Polar bear is a remote controlled animatronic that was designed specifically for the Oompa Loompas to ride around the factory on. One of their most adorable ideas to date, in my opinion.

And what would a factory be without reindeer? This is a favorite statue of mine, it was a Rudolph model but unfortunately the glowing red nose had to be removed due to overheating, which started a small fire.

Oversized ornaments for an oversized tree, nothing more.

Ah, the Nutcracker! Yes, I almost forgot. This design was requested by Santa himself (yes, Santa is real, do NOT debate me) as he and Mrs. Clause love to visit the factory during Christmas time and feast with us. It's a joyous time, really. And we make sure to put it out for them every year.

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And that, people, brings us to the end of our little virtual tour! Unless I forgot something? Nope, I don't think I did. I hope you enjoyed! I must say, this has to be one of the most fun and cozy places in the factory, mostly because we spend so much time changing and decorating it throughout the year! And Christmas happens to be my favorite time of the year. Should I ever open my factory to the public again it's definitely one of the rooms I'll include in the next tour! Maybe I'll even do a Christmas tour and show off all the beautiful decorations in the factory.

But til then, see ya on the flip side!

- Willy Wonka 🍫

How old were you here and where/why/when was this taken? 😍😍😍

You know what? Here you really remind me of those 80s hippie guys from major bands, I love the hair lol

I think I was anywhere from 30 to 32 when that picture was taken, just a few years after the grand opening of my factory. It was taken at Huckleberry, an old photo framing store where you pay to have your picture taken in front of a backdrop and framed, just before I went on holiday to Nigeria (one of the wealthiest and most beautiful African countries, by the way) to celebrate a monetary sales increase in the new release of chocolate bars. And, of course, I was invited by hospitable locals to see the Calabar Carnival festival. To be completely honest, I hadn't planned on growing my hair to that length, I was just more dedicated to my work to care to cut it at the time. That is called "Wolfing", my dear. I cut it soon after. Semi annual haircut and all that jazz.