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Christina Warren collects T-shirts, mugs and other items from companies that promised huge changes, but failed to deliver — often in spectacular ways.

A class-action settlement will award 277 ticket holders more than $7,000 each, pending a judge's approval in May. The final sum could be reduced depending on ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

Netflix and Hulu each released documentaries last week on how the 2017 Fyre Festival went so wrong. If you've watched either documentary, Morning Edition would like to hear from you.

In 2017, the Fyre Music Festival was billed as an exclusive event in the Bahamas. The reality was very different. Director Chris Smith tells the behind-the-scenes story in a new Netflix documentary.

For up to $75 a ticket, the New York City Pizza Festival promised a slice-filled celebration in one of America's great meccas of pizza-making. It didn't exactly pan out as advertised.

Billy McFarland has been accused of bilking at least two people who invested $1.2 million in the festival.

FORM Arcosanti — a festival organized by the band Hundred Waters and held for the past four years at an eco-friendly desert town — is the opposite of Fyre Festival in almost every way imaginable.

Admitting they were "unable to realize our dream on the first try," festival organizers are giving attendees the option to forgo a refund and instead receive VIP passes to Fyre Fest 2018.

Tickets cost thousands for what organizers were calling "the cultural event of the decade." But when visitors arrived on Grand Exuma, they found a tent city without enough power, security, or food.