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A superhero’s open mouth. A wearable baby carrier. A vampire’s sarcophagus. Moviegoers are putting their hands in weird places to get their popcorn. If you’ve been to a theater in the past year, you’ve noticed your favorite snack doesn’t just come in disposable bags anymore. Most films now get a specially designed and shockingly expensive receptacle that holds popcorn and can then be displayed on a shelf at home.
There’s a Daily Planet newspaper box for “Superman,” a vault opened by a special key for the latest “Mission: Impossible,” and a breakable board bucket top for “Karate Kid: Legends”
Each one typically costs between $25 and $50, though one tied to the next Marvel movie will push the limit to $80. The competition to stand out from the crowd is intense. Major chains now regularly sell their own exclusive popcorn buckets for the same film.
For this week’s “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” Cinemark is offering a tyrannosaurus rex head, Regal has a dinosaur embryo incubator, and AMC audiences can eat their popcorn out of a T-Rex’s footprint. Who’s responsible for this madness? The credit–or blame–goes to “Dune.”
Not a thing I've ever witnessed here! $80 is steep but who knows popcorns are going secondary to the bucket! Did you anytime take part in the madness?
I'd rather have 80,000 sats
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Surely, surely.
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People are willing to spend this on popcorn but unwilling to invest in bitcoin. What a world.
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First 80 dollar games now 80 dollar popcorn? What's with everything going up to 80 dollars this year
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