Restaurant's Bluey Day Causes Upset After It Turns Out to Be a 'Poorly Planned' Event with a 'Dude in PJs'

Customers at a Las Vegas restaurant are outraged after a “Bluey Day” turned into a “disgrace,” according to one attendee.

On Saturday, May 11, patrons flocked to Dirt Dog Las Vegas for an event centered around the popular children’s TV show. It was advertised on the diner’s Facebook page as a day to “celebrate Bluey” with “a marathon of everyone Bluey episodes, visits from “Bluey & Friends” characters, face painting and games.

Customers who brought their children to the event are now using the restaurant’s Facebook discussion page to claim it’s a “scam”.

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Maria Hardly

“This place knows it’s totally wrong for all these kids and moms, dads to show up and it’s some guy in PJs!!!!” wrote one social media user on the event page.

Maria Hardly took her kids to a weekend event and tells PEOPLE it wasn’t what was promised.

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“There was a big crowd and it is very clear that it was about stealing money at the expense of the family’s interests,” she says. “A poorly planned and executed event that left so many children and families disappointed.”

Hardly reveals that “many traveled across town for this event and waited for employees dressed in Amazon’s Bluey Onesies.”

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Maria Hardly

She added: “My kids kept saying, ‘Why is that guy wearing those clothes? Bluey is a girl!’”

Together with a man in overalls, Bluey can be seen playing on the bar’s screens while sparse decor from the play was strung on the walls.

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Maria Hardly

Hardly’s children weren’t the only disappointed visitors. Another user wrote on Facebook: “Blue costume and decorations from Dollar Tree featured on Dirt Dog Las Vegas Rainbow! Thanks for ruining my three year old’s day!”

According to Dirt Dog’s event page, 341 people attended the event. Hardly wrote in her Facebook thread that it was a “fire hazard”, claiming it was “unsafe and overcrowded”.

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Maria Hardly

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Dirt Dog did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Another disappointing event for children was held in Glasgow, Scotland in February. The Willy Wonka-themed event that promised “a day filled with laughter, joy and the irresistible allure of chocolate” was anything but that for attendees.

“Willy’s Chocolate Experience” was described in online ads as “immersive” and promised to “create lasting memories and redefine what it means to step into a world of pure imagination.”

The event, organized by the London-based House of Illuminati, was to feature “wonderful shows” and “surprises at every turn” as part of a “celebration of chocolate in all its wonderful forms”.

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Guests paid £35 (about $45) to attend, according to SWNS and the BBC. Pictures from the event, which quickly went viral, showed what appeared to be a large warehouse with decorations scattered around the room.

Jenny Fogarty, the actress who was hired to play the Oompa Loompa, claimed she received the 15-page script the night before the event, according to SWNS. Her costume was a “sexy” version of an Oompa Loompa, not the kid-friendly version she expected.

Paul Connell, another actor hired for the event, told STV News his “heart sank” when he saw the state of the facility, according to Guard. “I was just sad because I was aware of how many children were going to pass,” he added.

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