
The Elevator then returns to the Chocolate Factory. Wonka drops the Elevator back to Earth, which saves the humans but destroys all the Knids. Wonka drives the Elevator closer to the shuttle, and Grandpa Joe connects the two with a steel cord. One Knid had tried to do the same to the Elevator, but the Elevator is thankfully Knid-proof. The Knids follow the Capsule into space and begin to dive-bomb it. The Knids eat many of them, but some-including the three famous astronauts, Shuckworth, Shanks, and Showler-escape. They have tried to destroy Earth before, but they can’t get past the atmosphere.Īfter Wonka’s group leaves, a group of workers for the Hotel arrives in the Commuter Capsule.

He shoots them away from the Hotel as fast as possible he explains that the monsters are Vermicious Knids and want to consume all of the humans they can. Wonka panics and orders everyone back into the Glass Elevator. While this is happening, the hotel elevators open and five large, terrifying alien creatures rearrange themselves to spell the word SCRAM. now believes Wonka to be an alien from Mars, and invites him to the White House. They address Wonka by radio, and Wonka confuses them by spouting nonsense words.

They will be the first humans to set foot in the completed building.īack on Earth, members of the United States government watch as the Elevator docks with the hotel, and they worry that it contains terrorists or aliens. The Elevator circles the Earth until Wonka decides to link it up to the Space Hotel, a new attraction commissioned by the United States government. This causes the Elevator to gain too much speed and rocket into orbit, stranding the entire group in outer space. At the last moment, Grandma Josephine has a panic attack and draws Wonka away from the controls. Now in the Great Glass Elevator, Wonka explains that they must go up before they can go down, meaning they need to gather enough momentum to crash through the roof of the factory. The grandparents, except for Grandpa Joe, refuse to get out of their bed, and Wonka is left with no choice but to take the entire bed with him. Wonka explains the situation and asks the family to come with him. They crash straight through the roof of Charlie’s house, shocking his parents and grandparents. They decide to go to Charlie’s home, to tell his family the news.

Wonka has just offered his factory to Charlie. In Chocolate Factory, Wonka and Charlie are in a giant glass elevator, rocketing through the sky. The story begins just after the conclusion of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
