Brooklin Disney Dad
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Trying to understand where the popcorn goes inside of Figment? Does the head come off? Do you remove his spine and enter there?
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Casper Gutman
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Quite the opposite. It shows them addicted fans will pour out money for junk themed to rides they demolished a generation ago. Who needs to offer quality when suckers will shell out for memories of quality that has been gone for decades?
Wow. Not user-friendly at all - You'd have to tip this on it's front to fill it up and then also to eat the popcorn from it without either spilling a bunch or just being able to fill it up completely.
MoonRakerSCM
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Saw that photo yesterday of the people walking out with like 6 or 7 Figments. How did they get them???
Disney Analyst
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Honestly, the popcorn bucket craze is just… crazy to me. Who wants to lug around one of those all day… and then what do you do with it after? Just sits on a shelf to be stared at?
No thanks.
No thanks.
Casper Gutman
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As grumpy as all the bucket furor makes me, it should be said that any company that wasn't criminally incompetent at running theme parks would be building a trackless, Mystic Manor-style Imagination ride featuring Dreamfinder and Figment, all tied to a franchise-launching film starring Tom Hanks. Maybe Wes Anderson could direct? More realistically, Disney would want an old hand who will play ball with studio interference - Barry Sonnenfeld could work. Does a humbled Brad Bird want another shot at live action?
Figments Friend
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I just need to say......
I have been a Figment fan for the last forty years.
That's four decades.... so a fan far longer then before it was 'cool' to like the character.
As much as I love this character and what he represents, these 'fat dragon' popcorn buckets do absolutely nothing for me.
Zip.
I really do hope that some of the folks rushing to the Park to buy a bunch of these are not deluded in thinking that by buying lots of Figment merch that we shall see a vast improvement happen at the current Imagination Pavilion.
Won't happen.
All it 'proves' to Disney is that they need to offer more 'limited edition' and 'special event' merchandise.
Nothing more.
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I have been a Figment fan for the last forty years.
That's four decades.... so a fan far longer then before it was 'cool' to like the character.
As much as I love this character and what he represents, these 'fat dragon' popcorn buckets do absolutely nothing for me.
Zip.
I really do hope that some of the folks rushing to the Park to buy a bunch of these are not deluded in thinking that by buying lots of Figment merch that we shall see a vast improvement happen at the current Imagination Pavilion.
Won't happen.
All it 'proves' to Disney is that they need to offer more 'limited edition' and 'special event' merchandise.
Nothing more.
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ppete1975
Well-Known Member
I was originally commenting on people carrying out 20 of them not the two allotted. The ap legalize i thought was using your discount for profit.
ppete1975
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Or monsters inc or small world. Amazing!!
ppete1975
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Showing reciepts would be for stealing. The 2 per person is a purchase thing not an in possession. Neither would be a legal seizure even with return of money. They might be able to ban you. But theres no legal written anywhere that you cant have more than two in your possession, just that you aren’t supposed to be able to buy more than two at a time per person.
i agree that its scummy im just saying there isnt a good way for disney to stop it. Now aps using discount for profit has been done. But cant be done on the same day as purchase. Even if they posted on ebay while in the park.
CntrlFlPete
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The person may or may not have used an AP to enter the park -- not following how anyone could be breaking any rules around their AP?
right, I thought there could be language around using the AP discount but they do not offer any discounts on items such as pop corn buckets.
When my wife and daughter both went to the rest room, I was left sitting there w/ four of them -- I imagine I could be on the interwebs somewhere if someone snapped a picture when I was alone w/ 4 of them -- certainly I must be a reseller -- I do not know why my wife started collecting buckets but I can think of worse habits. We do not sell or buy these things, but she does collect them. We were able to buy four in one transaction as there were three of us at the register when they rung them up -- save for a Starbucks run from my daughter, all three of us stayed in line the whole 2 hours and we talked with folks who generally seemed to be Figment fans.
I still think the funniest part is that they ran out of pop corn so they sold the bucket w/o the pop corn (at least on SAT)
If you don’t have a receipt for it, it’s not yours. If your family of ten got their 2 each and you have all the receipts for 20, you’re good. If you have the other 9 family and friends with you, you’re good. This isn’t about stealing vs possession. It is literally about possession. Disney’s stated policy is you can possess 2 per person per purchase. Prove the purchase. They wouldn’t have to even worry about stopping anyone holding 2 or fewer. Now they likely don’t want to do this because they clearly don’t want to confront people all day. But it would solve the poor guest experience problem that these resellers cause.
DfromATX
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I am just baffled at the frenzy over buying this thing.
What I don't understand is why Bob the Nob doesn't start a specialized collectible marketing group and sell them on eBay themselves. They'd make a lot more money that way, which, as we all know, is Bob's raison d'etre.
Satans Hockey
Active Member
I wish they would bring over the different flavored popcorn! That was my favorite aspect of the popcorn craze over there and made it completely understandable as why to people would wait in line for popcorn lol
John park hopper
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Gotta ask-- Disney is so concerned about the environment you know no plastic bags or straws I sure hope these figment buckets are made of recycled plastic
Diamond Dot
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Doesn't this just show all that is wrong with Disney and it's nothing to do with Disney, but, the guests and people who aren't interested in the parks the way Walt intended, but, the merch. To pay $1000 for a bit of plastic is not illegal, it's daft. A true parks fan would spend that money on a vacation to create memories, but, the Tivans out there collect for investment not pleasure or memories. And those who stand in line for hours to get limited edition merch to flog on Ebay, thanks for buying more than you need preventing a person who is visiting the park next week because they are genuine park fans from getting their Figment.
Disney should do one per person and link the purchase to their ticket/magic band so they cannot get another unless the original purchase is damaged and has to be returned.
Disney should do one per person and link the purchase to their ticket/magic band so they cannot get another unless the original purchase is damaged and has to be returned.