Then he ran over to another machine, a small shiny affair that kept going phut-phut-phut-phut-phut, and every time it went phut, a large green marble dropped out of it into a basket on the floor. At least it looked like a marble.
“Everlasting Gobstoppers!” cried Mr. Wonka proudly. “They’re completely new! I am inventing them for children who are given to very little pocket money. You can put an Everlasting Gobstopper in your mouth and you can suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and suck it and it will never get any smaller!”
“It’s like gum!” cried Violet Beauregarde.
“It is not like gum,” Mr. Wonka said. “Gum is for chewing, and if you tried chewing one of these Gobstoppers here you’d break your teeth off. But they taste terrific! And they change color once a week! And they never get any smaller! They never disappear! NEVER! At least I don’t think they do. There’s one of them being tested this very moment in the Testing Room next door. An Oompa-Loompa is sucking it. He’s been sucking it for very nearly a year now without stopping, and it’s still just as good as ever!”
When I was a kid, I loved Roahl Dahl books. I mean, who didn’t? We recently bought my daughter a bunch of his books, since the only book we already had was Fantastic Mr. Fox
A few years back, when Tim Burton’s revamped Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The packaging is really cute and true to the Wonka spirit, but sadly, the Gobstoppers are nothing like in the book. (obviously) They do “change” color, but I was very disappointed to find that it only changes color once and after that, it’s got a Sweet Tartish kind of middle. I feel like they should have made them bigger, but that’s probably a choking hazard. Still, I’d have thought that even a fictional Willy Wonka would have put more than two colors into these.
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Hi those pictures are adorable but I want to know where did u but those cute square plates. I have an order of konpeito coming in and those plates with the gobstoppers will look dashing.
Hmm, I think I just bought them at some local store here, sorry!
Just so you know, the Wonka Gobstoppers have been available for over 12 years. Well before the Tim Burton film.
They are small and only change color once because they are little jawbreakers not all day gobstoppers. You can buy real all day gobstoppers which are the closest thing to willy wonka’s everlasting gobstoppers at certian shops, but they are really hard to find now. Anyway if you have a real all day gobstopper like the props on the movie, it will take you hours to eat, When I was 12, I couldn’t even fit one into my mouth and just had to lick it until it was small enough.