Thank God, They Didn’t Make Sonic 3‘s Popcorn Bucket Sexy Enough

The twelvemonth 2024 has seen 1 of the weirdest arms races successful the movie manufacture escalate successful the signifier of the popcorn bucket wars. But arsenic we’ve seen coffins, AR-enhanced arenas, and much go the go-to-trend of theatre chains, let’s not hide the crushed for the bucket season: each this started retired due to the fact that a Dune popcorn bucket looked a little excessively sexy for its ain good. Imitators came and went, but by and large, the uncomfortable popcorn bucket intersexual hostility has strayed distant from what made the viral infinitesimal successful the archetypal place. And honestly? Thank deity we got to that constituent before Sonic 3 came out, due to the fact that I’m definite nary of america would’ve been prepared.

Yes, present arsenic inevitable arsenic the announcement of a tie-in Funko Pop line, this week, disconnected of the backmost of a caller trailer AMC and Regal revealed their latest summation to the popcorn bucket canon for the merchandise of Sonic 3 this month, and we tin each respire a suspiration of relief. The notably horny Sonic fandom volition person to spell retired of their mode to sexualize what is, thankfully, conscionable Sonic’s elephantine caput but with the apical portion opened up and his brains scooped out. He’s astir arsenic heady bare arsenic movie Sonic often is, truthful it’s thematically appropriate!

Movie nighttime conscionable got adjacent much hedge-tastic 🌀💥

Get acceptable to level up your postulation with the #SonicMovie3 merch! From the Light-Up Cup and Sonic Popcorn Container to the Lenticular Cups with exclusive toppers and tin, brushed plushes, Funko Pops, and a lukewarm Fleece Blanket, the… pic.twitter.com/uzviuGjHot

— Regal (@RegalMovies) November 25, 2024

Sure, it’s a small boring—we could’ve had thing amusive similar Eggman’s elephantine robot from the 2nd movie, thing Shadow related, oregon hell, adjacent conscionable slap a golden Sonic ringing arsenic the trim of the bucket similar you’re opening a portal to buttery, kerneled glory. Wait, no, that past 1 would definitely person been excessively lewd. But again, possibly it’s amended to beryllium harmless and atrocious with the Sonic fandom that this bucket treads the enactment betwixt impractical absurdity and thing that could get instantly rule-34’d. Again: I’m definite idiosyncratic volition inactive try, but they’re going to person to enactment the effort successful this time.

Sonic 3 is beauteous overmuch the past movie of the twelvemonth that volition partake successful the popcorn bucket arms contention earlier we presumably continually get to scope adjacent much absurd, and occasionally perchance lewd, heights successful 2025 arsenic theatre chains proceed to chase worth add-ons beyond a movie summons itself. Where does head-empty Sonic fertile connected your ain bucket list? Let america cognize successful the comments.

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