Alton Towers Facts

[BigAl]

Charlie and the chocolate factory is based off Roald Dahl 's original book and neither the 1971 or 2005 film adaptations.

and thank god for that,

Couldn't have been any worse if it had, tbh!

 

[DiogoJ42]

Charlie and the chocolate factory is based off Roald Dahl 's original book and neither the 1971 or 2005 film adaptations.

Well, actually, no. The original editions of the book had one very important difference...

...The Oompaloompas were discribed as being black.

However, very soon attitudes changed, and the thought of going to a far away island and capturing "pygmies" with dark skin to work as slaves in your factory became unacceptable. So Dahl re-wrote the book to change a few details. It's ok to have slaves if they are orange, it seems

 

[Ted]

Charlie and the chocolate factory is based off Roald Dahl 's original book and neither the 1971 or 2005 film adaptations.

Well, actually, no. The original editions of the book had one very important difference...

...The Oompaloompas were discribed as being black.

However, very soon attitudes changed, and the thought of going to a far away island and capturing "pygmies" with dark skin to work as slaves in your factory became unacceptable. So Dahl re-wrote the book to change a few details. It's ok to have slaves if they are orange, it seems

Ah never knew that. How's about "Charlie and the chocolate factory is closer to the books then both the film adaptations" then? Sound a bit better? =P

 

[DiogoJ42]

"Closer to the version of the book we all know and love".

 

[Pixie-Ro]

I think in the original draft of the book there were actually 12 children, one of whom was called Herpes Trout!

 

[TheMan]

Alton Towers is made of bricks

 

[badlydrawnkelBel]

Alton Towers is made of bricks

Not it's not....it's made of dreams and held together by magic ;-)

 

[Slugjc]

Charlie and the chocolate factory is based off Roald Dahl 's original book and neither the 1971 or 2005 film adaptations.

and thank god for that,

Couldn't have been any worse if it had, tbh!

at least they didn't do willy wonka as micheal Jackson like the Johnny Depp film, and stuck to the original drawings.

 

[BigAl]

It's still only one of very few positives.

 

[James]

Fun fact I got told today: It took 3000 hours to install The Smiler's track.