{"id":45492,"date":"2026-04-18T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45492"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:13:41","slug":"how-us50-popcorn-buckets-have-become-the-newest-collecting-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45492","title":{"rendered":"How US$50 popcorn buckets have become the newest collecting craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/17\/321e0df9-c359-4e0f-9fd5-05f337d4c755_4660f4cb.jpg?itok=3O1yrMFQ&amp;v=1776393327\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Standing in her kitchen, Nicole Fontanez let out a gasp as she cut open a cardboard box, revealing a plastic figure of Yoshi, Mario\u2019s dinosaur-like friend from the popular Nintendo games. The bulky toy was holding a hollow, polka-dotted egg.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fontanez, 31, and her husband, Brian Fontanez, 36, were filming their reactions as they unveiled the newest addition to their novelty popcorn bucket collection for their YouTube channel, \u201cOur Guilty Collections\u201d, where they chat about films and memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt almost looks like a toy, like something you\u2019d get [at a] Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us,\u201d she says in the video.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is definitely a display piece,\u201d her husband adds. \u201cThere\u2019s no popcorn going into the egg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At a time when cinemas are struggling to sell tickets, US exhibitors are betting on increasingly elaborate popcorn buckets like the US$50 Yoshi container to capitalise on millennial nostalgia, drum up excitement for films and ultimately increase profits.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The popcorn bucket business across the country was in high gear in the run-up to the recent release of <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/em><\/span>. In addition to Yoshi, cinemas are selling US$45 star-shaped Luma buckets, which light up and come in several colours. There are also US$8 mini Bowser cauldrons that can hold five to 11 kernels of popcorn. The US$8 cauldron set a Guinness World Record for the smallest commercially available popcorn container.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3350258\/how-us50-popcorn-buckets-have-become-newest-collecting-craze?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in her kitchen, Nicole Fontanez let out a gasp as she cut open a cardboard box, revealing a plastic figure of Yoshi, Mario\u2019s dinosaur-like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17216,10879,12724,1883,6314,20838],"class_list":["post-45492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-buckets","tag-collecting","tag-craze","tag-newest","tag-popcorn","tag-us50","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}