Get ready to see me wearing elastic-waist sweat pants from now on because I’m going to be buying (and eating) a lot of chocolate.
Nestle recently announced that their Wonka “Exceptionals line” will be participating in a REAL LIFE Golden Ticket contest. Ten grand prize winners “get to bring three friends on a trip around the world with $12,500 in spending money.” First prize winners win a $500 Airline Voucher..not to shabby!
I have considered myself an expert on Wonka’s Golden Tickets ever since 
I played Veruca Salt in the 4th grade musical (I was a little too convincing about being the spoiled brat who wanted a pony), so my question is ‘Why hasn’t Wonka done this before?????’ Might have been the logistics that held the company back in the past but who cares?!
Now here’s a question we DO care about: “Where can you buy Wonka Exceptionals?” The official website fails to provide a “Where to buy” feature and searches on Amazon and Google Shopping came up with zero results. So it turns out that the odds of winning may be more in your favor than actually finding these bars!
If people can actually FIND these bars, I think this promotion/contest will succeed for two reasons:
- There’s a nostalgic feeling around a Golden Ticket. Adults who read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when they were young or watched the older (and better) movie version have a sense of “Oh-my-god-I-can-actually-win-one-of-those-things”
- From what I read, there will be an actual ticket inside the packaging which states what you’ve one. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve screwed the cap off a pop bottle and seen some ambigious code that looks like PP934DVU and thought “Hmm, this is probably related to a contest but logging on to a computer and entering this code for who knows what is just too much work”
Any luck on finding the candybar?