The popcorn bucket industrial complicated has continued to develop unabated, resulting in all kinds of untamed creations. We have now Mission: Not possible buckets that require keys and Karate Child buckets that you just “chop” to open. However the theme park world has been doing the popcorn bucket factor so lengthy that they’re properly past this. Our popcorn buckets discuss… although that’s not at all times a great factor.
As a part of Disneyland’s seventieth anniversary, the park dropped a brand new popcorn bucket of Mickey Mouse. What units this one aside from all of the others is that it talks, and extra particularly, can reply to you if you discuss to it. I’ll admit, one thing about this speaking popcorn bucket wasn’t sitting proper with me. It felt unusual. It felt mistaken. It felt creepy. I hadn’t been in a position to put my finger on it till I noticed this put up on Twitter, which pointed it out.
Nobody is speaking about how the brand new Mickey seventieth Anniversary popcorn bucket is only a full reskin of the Chucky popcorn bucket from HHN the previous two years. You even should say “Hey Mickey” to activate it, identical to you needed to say “Hey Chucky” for the Chucky popcorn bucket. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/8iBideFEiYCould 13, 2025
For the final two years, Common Locations and Experiences has offered a Chucky popcorn bucket throughout Halloween Horror Nights. The doll bucket additionally talks, in a lot the identical manner that the Mickey bucket does. I’m fairly positive that is the explanation I’ve discovered the Disney bucket unsettling. I’ve been subconsciously involved that Mickey would possibly kill me in my sleep. There is a cause I do not personal the Chucky popcorn bucket both.
It’s exhausting to not see the similarity once they’re standing aspect by aspect like this. The 2 buckets look a lot alike that it’s possible they had been designed by the identical firm. Chucky would possibly even have been the bottom design, merely modified from that to appear to be Mickey Mouse. Many of the studios go to the identical place to get popcorn buckets for his or her movies, and whereas we don’t know the place Common or Disney get their popcorn buckets, it is seemingly all of them are going to the identical suppliers.
Each merchandise are, on the finish of the day, popcorn buckets. So that they’re designed to do nothing extra insidious than give you a snack. While you discuss to one in every of them, it says completely satisfied, enjoyable issues, whereas the opposite threatens to kill you. And each of them are smiling. Since a type of smiles isn’t precisely pleasant, it’s simple for the opposite smile to really feel the identical manner.
Whereas I’ve seen some Disney Parks popcorn buckets I really like, speaking Mickey simply isn’t doing it for me. I’m positive this received’t be the final speaking popcorn bucket from Disney or Common. I hope that as extra are designed, they discover new methods to distinguish them visually, in any other case they may all appear to be Chucky. That’s nice for Halloween, however the remainder of the time, perhaps a special look could be higher.
We’ll have to attend and see if the Chucky bucket returns for Halloween Horror Nights in 2025. If that’s the case, Mickey might have to observe his again.