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This book opens with Wonka flying the Elevator really high, with the intention that they will then shoot straight down through the roof of the chocolate factory. However, Grandma Josephine accidentally causes them to fly into space, where they end up in orbit around the Earth.
You'll probably be unsurprised to hear that this book was a lot less popular than the original ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. It was never made into a film adaptation, since Dahl hated ''[[Willy Wonka
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Or in this case the U.S. government.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: In the Space Hotel.
* [[Chew Toy]]: Georgina.
* [[Defictionalization]]: Robert Bigelow of Budget Suites of America is now{{when}} working on a space hotel (and actually has two small prototypes already in orbit, so it's not just a pipe dream). No word on whether he's worried about "Mr Hilton" sabotaging it, though.
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Inverted. When the Elevator gets "too high", it spontaneously starts orbiting the Earth.
* [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]: The Vermicious Knids.
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