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Three Impressive Slot Machine Based on the Original Willy Wonka Movie
Gene Wilder is the star of the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie from 1971. He now appears in three impressive live casino slots as Willy Wonka. You’ll find the Oompa Loompas, Charlie, Grandpa Jo and Veruca Salt on the reels too.
All of the Willy Wonka slot machines have some shared elements. Each one has a unique setup, different bonus games and its own version of the special effects. Add to this the potential for a huge progressive jackpot – and you’ll see why these are popular games. There are some legacy games and free online slots with similar themes.
This page covers the following titles, all from slot maker Scientific Games:
- Willy Wonka: Pure Imagination
- Willy Wonka: World of Wonka
- Willy Wonka: The Wonkavator
Game Basics: How the Willy Wonka Slots Work
These games all have impressive cabinets. The ‘Pure Imagination’ slot has a lower screen which slopes towards the player, with a narrow upper screen towering above. The two newer games have screens which curve around the player, giving you an immersive feel. These are too wide for the reels in the base game. You’ll get surreal graphics of the chocolate factory in full flow, or a landscape of candy instead. Both Wonkavator and World of Wonka have big upper screens and double-sized seats.
Reels are bigger than usual, using a 5×5 or 5×6 setup. What they do share are the symbols. The highest paying ones are purple. These show Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka). Some of them have the word ‘jackpot’ above.
Other high paying symbols are characters from the movie. These are Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Veruca Salt and Sam. Sweets make up the lower paying symbols.
Each time you spin one of the symbols at random will dominate the reels. It is possible to have every reel covered in the same symbol for big wins on some spins.
The Oompa Loompa’s appear in the base game as wild symbols. These can cover entire reels on some spins. The final symbols are for triggering the bonuses. In ‘Pure Imagination’ they are golden egg symbols, in the other they are distinctive multi-colored ‘spiked’ candies.
Willy Wonka Slots: The Oompa Loompa Random Bonuses
All 3 titles have random bonuses, which see the Oompa Loompas come into play. You’ll hear a distinctive song, where the Chocolate Factory workers sing while the bonuses take place.
Here is how it works in each slot:
- Pure Imagination: Oompa Loompa’s stretch the reels upwards, adding many more rows. They then pour sacks of sugar down one or more reels, making them completely wild.
- World of Wonka: First, Oompa Loompas stretch the reels sideways, adding between 1 and 3 reels on each side. They then use ropes to add extra rows. Finally, wilds roll across the reels in big groups, stopping to cover multiple reels.
- The Wonkavator: This is another vertical bonus, with the screen getting stretched high above the usual reels. Next Oompa Loompa’s slide down, with arrows deciding whether the area above or below them turns wild.
You can get an extra random multiplier on top of your win to end the bonus.
Other Bonus Games on the Scientific Games Willy Wonka Slots
Each game has free spins bonuses, which work in different ways. For example, the World of Wonka sees giant symbols, held between cogs and machines (representing the factory). There are also picks games.
These include a chocolate river game, where you can choose your risk level – with the bigger prizes coming with an increased chance of your bonus ending.
The new Wonkavator has a picks game where you have to stop the characters disappearing up a wind-tunnel. Pure Imagination has you picking bubbles for cash prizes and multipliers.
There are plenty of different features, which combined with the random Oompa Loompa bonuses will keep you entertained.
At the end of each feature you get another shot at winning. One or more chocolate bars will appear. These open, and what you are hoping to find is a golden ticket. This can get you a big cash prize, or even the huge progressive jackpot.
Where Can You Play the Willy Wonka Slots in the USA?
These are live casino slots and are among the most popular on the casino floor. While there have been mobile slot app games created with similar themes, the big screen special effects mean that it would be difficult to bring these exact titles online.
If you live in a state with legal US online casinos, there are plenty of Scientific Games slot titles at online casinos to choose from as alternatives.
An Immersive Experience: The Willy Wonka Slots
These games will certainly catch your eye when you spot them on the casino floor. It is only when you sit down to play that the full experience of surreal graphics and sounds becomes apparent. There is a dreamy ambient tinkling, plops and bubble pops all around you – and the steely stare of Gene Wilder in his famous top hat.
When the Oompa Loompa random bonuses start, they come with a song which can easily get stuck in your head. The special effects of wilds and growing reels are amazing, and the big win potential is always there.
Add to this fresh bonus games for each of the three titles, including a ‘Wonka Winko’ pinball-like way to choose one, and things get even more entertaining. There are two ways of winning a huge progressive jackpot. You can get the symbols lined up on the extra-large reels – or uncover one via a ‘Golden Ticket’ at the end of your feature.
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Willy Wonka is a master of invention and a chocolate-making genius. His factory is full of weird and wonderful machines making scrumptious and surprising sweets.
He has a waterfall to mix chocolate and a Great Gum Machine covered in hundreds of glass tubes that whizz and splash. He even has a room to make warming-candy that's ‘like the engine room of a gigantic old-fashioned ship’. There are humming turbines, huge pistons, wheels and pipes, dials and boilers. Just imagine the sounds they must make!
But, just like Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka is always searching for new ideas. And he thinks YOU can help…
Above: a section of an early draft of the book.
Family challenge
Don your top hats, grab your canes and enter the Inventing Room! Can you make a new machine for Willy Wonka’s factory?
Tools you might need
- Recycled junk modelling materials. You could try boxes, pots, lids, bottles, tubes… the more interesting the better. (But make sure they’re clean. Willy Wonka doesn’t want a machine gunked up with old yoghurt and smelling of banana skins!)
- Scissors
- Building materials like glue or tape. You could also try elastic bands, string or paper fasteners.
Instructions
- Decide what your factory machine will do. What kinds of sweets will it make? Will they be a brand new kind you’ve just come up with or another way of making one of Willy Wonka’s special sweets?
- Gather together your tools and get inventing! Investigate putting your recycled bits and bobs together in different ways before you decide on your final machine and stick it together.
- Unveil your new Wonka machine to family and friends. Wow them with your creative invention!
Extra, extra!
- Make it move! Can you make any moving parts for your factory machine? Try adding something that turns, something that moves in and out, and something that opens and closes.
- Decorate it. Paint, colour or collage your machine to make it extraordinary. Willy Wonka likes his factory to be bright and mischievous!
- Make some warming-candy. Find something small and round, like a marble, bead or grape. Imagine it is a piece of warming-candy. Can you make a machine that your warming-candy will travel through and pop out at the end?
- Set up your own factory. Willy Wonka’s factory is jam-packed with inventions. Create a few more machines of you own then lead a tour around your factory, just like Willy Wonka. But don’t turn anyone into a blueberry.
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