The popcorn bucket craze was at its peak, now it seems, in 2024, when Dune: Part 2 Unleashed his viral sandworm, prompting moviegoers to stick their hands inside a suspicious hole to grab the buttery stuff inside. A work taken out of context because of its design ended up as a Saturday night Live sketch.
This year, things may have reached extreme levels with snackage packages for the studio’s major releases. The year started with a bucket decorated with stars thunderbolt* (aka The New Avengers) and a Red Guardian helmet, which was extremely ineffective. We’ve designed helmets to death at this point, and nothing beats Wolverine deadpool and wolverine Bucket Head, except maybe Deadpool. Marvel Studios also released from lightning*A bucket that looks like the team’s getaway car, and we asked ourselves, “What’s all this for?” Especially considering there’s no iconoclastic character in the movie that we’d want a concession stand merchant in the first place.
thankfully, once Fantastic Four: First Steps And superman Cinemas exploded, things became entertaining again for a while. fantastic four Really made some choices with the Ginormous Galactus Head Popcorn Bucket. In all honesty, that thing was a trophy. Then there was also a Herbie three-in-one bucket that brought the Richards family’s trusty robot to life to serve food and drinks.
DC superman Opted for more fun event movie souvenir fare with possibly the most practical of the popcorn bucket options – a tin Daily Planet newspaper rack that you could open – something you might have seen in the days of print media – with a Superman story on the front and popcorn within.
The treat stand’s huge amount of memorabilia including drinking cups, straws, toys and other items was most memorable. By the end of the summer, if you went to a theater, it was overwhelming. There was even a system for re-release of films jaws And back to the futurewe love jaws However, the mouth bucket; It has so many uses and it may have held Thanksgiving napkins during last week’s holiday.
Speaking of holidays, theme parks have really established themselves as innovators with their own clever kernel carrier specialties. The release coincides with Disneyland’s 70th anniversary, with robotic Mickey Mouse defeating Herbie with an animatronic bucket punch, and celebrating it as his year-long holiday. There was also an epic season of Force Death Star light-up spherical popcorn orbs that attracted even those of us who thought we were finished collecting.
Halloween Horror Nights even had its own showstopper, a popcorn bucket in the shape of Santa Art the Clown awesome 3Which worked for Halloween and is still perfect for the upcoming winter holidays at Universal Studios Park.
Still, when you’re already paying admission to see the movie, the bombardment of enticing and entertaining junk can feel like a financially worthless punch. Dune: Part Two would have to be on a good level for the bucket to tempt us these days, not to mention being inspired in a way that suits the film’s marketing. Wicked This was toned down for its sequel and Disney came up with some clever alternatives zootopia 2The Gary D snake-wrapped one looks great and does its intended job (holding popcorn),
We’re still watching for some big movies from late 2025 to see whether concession stand toy stores will make a solid final argument in favor of their continued existence. five nights at freddy’s The 2 tie-ins really make it feel like we’re going to enter a Freddy Fazbear gift shop for special items. But still, some of those designs seem less like edible fun and more like action figures with extra plastic added to the popcorn. (Although we’re really excited for the hingeless Freddy Fazbear mask bucket that you can wear with your face torn off.)
And of course, there’s the next one Avatar Movies; Like dunes, fire and ashes We need to find our own amazing mythology that we’re hoping will capture that same inspired energy. We’re begging them to do something with Na’vi Tales that will make fans and the internet happy… for reasonsSo far it’s just a banshee basket, but our hope remains that the holidays will provide us with one last weird (popcorn) stand,
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