TIL Roald Dahl wrote a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Willy Wonka goes to space, fights aliens, and overdoses Charlie's parents on age rejuvenation pills
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Wikipedia
Pernicious knids!
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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
*Vermicious
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.
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.
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
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
I found it quite scary and can't remember much else about it.
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!
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.
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
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
Snow piercer was a sequel to great glass elevator?
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).
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