Disney parks have many iconic snacks, including Mickey Premium Bars, DOLE Whip swirls, and the infamous turkey legs. One snack also doubles as one of Disney’s most long-lasting in-park souvenirs: the popcorn bucket!

You can pick from many different flavors of the freshly popped snack. This includes the classic butter flavor as well as more adventurous options, like the seasonal Holiday Festive Popcorn and otherworldly Blueberry Almond Popcorn from Pandora.

When it comes to the buckets themselves they’re more than just a vessel for your snack. Disney’s popcorn buckets come in a variety of shapes, from the classic bucket to replicas of Disney characters, rides, and more. Many guests love to collect them and rush to grab the newest design as soon as it is released. These souvenirs become particularly difficult to get your hands on when the latest release is for a specific event, like the 100th Anniversary celebrations.

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While you cannot order Disney popcorn buckets online through a website, you can save time by ordering through an app when you’re at the parks. Disney introduced Mobile Order into their parks as a way to give guests an additional way to skip the line when purchasing food. Instead of waiting in line, you can order and pay through your My Disney Experience App! When ordering through the app you’ll also select an arrival window to return to the food service location to pick up your order. Once you return during that window of time, you can let them know you’ve arrived through the app and they’ll prepare it fresh for you. You’ll get a notification to come and pick it up from the Mobile Order window or counter when it’s ready!

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Mobile Order was initially used just for dining locations to alleviate some of the crowding. However, some particularly challenging popcorn bucket releases eventually led to them incorporating Mobile Ordering into the sales of these items. If you weren’t around for The Saga of The Figment Popcorn Bucket, you missed a chaotic moment in EPCOT history! During the 2022 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts, Disney released a Figment Popcorn Bucket. Figment himself is already a cult favorite, so when word got out that a new popcorn bucket inspired by the purple dragon was coming to the park people went HAM. Despite limiting each individual to a purchase of just two buckets, the wait for this item reached up to six hours, and buckets were being resold online for hundreds of dollars.

The unprecedented popularity of these items led Disney to creating a Mobile Order option for upcoming releases of popcorn buckets, sippers, and other items they believed would have high demand. Even after the Figment Fiasco, we still saw certain designs sell out quickly, including the Mr. Toad Popcorn Bucket, the Sam Eagle Sipper, and the Mickey Balloon Premium Popcorn Bucket.

Never used the app to order before? Mobile Ordering is fairly simple! On your My Disney Experience App you can check the Mobile Order section to find the specific souvenir release you’re looking for.

If there are arrival windows open, you’ll be able to select from the available times.

Once you select a time and checkout, you’ll receive confirmation of your purchase and arrival window. When it’s time to collect your popcorn bucket you’ll head over to the designated pickup area to go and claim it!

Even with the new Mobile Ordering option it can still be a bit of a lottery when it comes to snagging one of these coveted items. If you really have your heart set on a specific collectible be sure to hop on your My Disney Experience App as soon as Mobile Order opens for the day you’ll be in the park for your best chance to grab a return window.

As times change at Disney, it can be confusing trying to navigate the parks. That’s why you can rely on DFB to keep you up to date on all of the construction, closures, and more at Disney World. Stay tuned to our site for more, and check out the video below for more Disney vacation tips!

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What do you think of the Disney popcorn buckets? Do you like to collect them, or is it more of a one-and-done purchase? Comment your thoughts below!

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