The popcorn bucket industrial complex has continued to grow unabated, leading to all sorts of wild creations. We have Mission: Impossible buckets that require keys and Karate Kid buckets that you “chop” to open. But the theme park world has been doing the popcorn bucket thing so long that they’re well beyond this. Our popcorn buckets talk... though that’s not always a good thing.
As part of Disneyland’s 70th anniversary, the park dropped a new popcorn bucket of Mickey Mouse. What sets this one apart from all the others is that it talks, and more specifically, can respond to you when you talk to it. I’ll admit, something about this talking popcorn bucket wasn’t sitting right with me. It felt strange. It felt wrong. It felt creepy. I hadn’t been able to put my finger on it until I saw this post on Twitter, which pointed it out.
