The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is coming out in April, and naturally it’s getting novelty popcorn buckets like every other movie in theaters these days. It looks like Nintendo and Illumination are leaning hard into Yoshi for marketing for the animated sequel, so they’re making a popcorn bucket of the egg-pooping dinosaur for folks to buy. And my guy looks like he is zooted out of his goddamn mind.
Images of the popcorn bucket started circulating today ahead of any official announcement. You can see Yoshi holding one of his trademark eggs, but he also is giving the kind of thousand-yard stare usually reserved for people who ate an entire bowl of brownies without realizing they’re loaded with pot. He’s staring into the Super Mario Galaxy and holding onto that egg like it’s grounding him to reality. It’s currently rumored that this container will be available at AMC, Cinemark, and Regal theaters, but we’re still waiting on an official announcement.
https://x.com/VHSDVDBLURAY4K/status/2022328389491950016?s=20https://x.com/mariominiondude/status/2022316686284673425?s=20
None of the angles we’ve seen thus far make it clear where the popcorn is supposed to go, but novelty popcorn buckets have long stopped caring about function in favor of form. Just look at all the nonsense they put out for Wicked: For Good.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is coming to theaters on April 1, and Illumination says that all the animation for the film is complete. We still don’t know who’s voicing Yoshi in the sequel, but he sounds pretty much as cute as you’d expect him to in the trailers. Other newcomers include Brie Larson as Rosalina and Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr. Birdo appeared in one of the more recent trailers as well, but we haven’t heard her speak yet.