Popcorn buckets - how to reuse them?

[Janir]

I love the Disney popcorn. The smell is awesome and we usually get some on each trip.
Never bothered with the buckets but may I be wasting some money on not getting one?

How much are bucket refills of special buckets? Can I buy one one day, and bring it in a day later and get it refilled?
Buy one in one park and bring it to another and get refills there?

 

[Schneewittchen]

During my April trip we bought a bucket in one park and over the course of the rest of the trip got it refilled several times a day. Refills were $2. Kids loved it.

Didn't get a new bucket during this last trip in July. Too hot to eat anything snack-wise except slushies and ice cream.

 

[Schneewittchen]

If I didn't say it clearly, I bought the bucket in one park and used it in all of the parks, no problem. Used it over the course of a 10 day trip.

 

[Janir]

Thanks for the info!
I forgot about being August but I'll still get some popcorn and probably a bucket, and take some back at the end of the day if I can snag some on the way out of a park.

 

[James J]

Some speciality buckets will be restricted to the park you buy them in. For example, we bought an AT-AT one at Hollywood Studios last year and it could only be refilled there.

 

[Orangeanna]

We're passholders and have found that the buckets are good to refill cheap until a new bucket edition is being sold. So if it's a Halloween bucket at the end of that season it will probably only be good until the Christmas he is being sold. Some cast members are nicer than others and will refill older ones.

 

[DryerLintFan]

The popcorn bucket felt like the best purchase we made on our last trip. Refills were less than two dollars and we could get them anywhere in the parks. We'd eat popcorn all day and then get another refill as we headed back to the resort. Bonus the salt helps us in the heat and keeps us drinking water.

 

[larryz]

I reuse my popcorn bucket to soak wood chunks for the barbeque.