The Figment Popcorn Bucket Saga 

The popcorn in that Figment bucket may have been sugary, but it was nothing compared to how sweet this video is.

I love Figment. And they should have limited it to "ONE" bucket per customer.

Imagine being a little kid excited for Disney, only for your parents to have you wait in a 7 hour line for a fucking popcorn bucket

Seeing a child in the background (around 10:58 ish) actually play with the popcorn bucket and enjoying it was heartwarming amidst all the chaos.

I absolutely love figment, but in the end it’s just a popcorn bucket😭

You’re 100% correct. Living with the Land is easily the best attraction at Epcot - and one of the top 10 best Disney attractions over all.

The popcorn bucket symbolizes the current disney park fan base. Its all about merch and instagram. Disney doesn't have to put anymore effort when guests will bend over backwards for a 5 dollar buckets and year round festivals.

I was at Epcot on Monday and at 9AM I saw multiple people already leaving (annual passholders?) leaving with many! I saw one woman leaving with 8. Due to the limit of 2 per person, people were loading up their kids too. I finally found the stand but it had sold out of the buckets just 20 minutes before getting there. As a fan of the original ride (yep that old), I really wanted this as a piece of memorabilia that belonged to my childhood. It was really a bummer. By the time I left on Friday, the entire stock was out.

I'm also hoping that Disney sees the popularity of Figment and announce a Journey into Imagination update at D23. With Remy being open and Guardians opening later this year, they can afford to close another ride (or two) for some much needed love and attention.

It’s like a microcosm of just about everything wrong with the management of Disney parks

I'm disappointed in Disney for not opening up other locations to sell the Figment popcorn bucket. Making individuals wait for several hours is just abusive in my opinion.

I'd add not just figment- The Dreamfinder too! There's a certain je-ne-sais-quoi to classic Disney (especially EPCOT) in-park rides and attractions. They weren't afraid to make something really niche and novel and the original Imagination ride was absolutely that.

I think resellers are vile and gross. But I also think it's funny when a capitalistic company like Disney Tries to squeeze ever penny out of you, and doesn't like it when AP's resell Merch for a profit.

Pour one out for the people working at the Disney popcorn stands

I feel like the figment bucket may make its way to the Disney store next. It caused so much monetary chaos, that Disney would be silly to not make money off it on a wider scale.

Do it like a fast pass. Want a bucket get a ticket with a time for when to arrive at the buying area. Limit to 1 or 2 per customer.

I waited maybe 15 minutes for a popcorn bucket at DCA over the holidays, and that was pushing it for as long as I’d be willing to wait, no matter how badly I wanted something. The Figment bucket is absolutely adorable, but not really worth wasting half a day in the park in my opinion.

I'm someone who's never even been to WDW, only Disneyland/DCA, and I absolutely adore Figment. I always trade for Figment pins when I can find them, and he's by far my favorite Disney Parks original character. This whole mess with the popcorn buckets really cements how much people love Figment and Journey into Imagination. It really seems like a no-brainer to redo the ride to be closer to the original version. The cost of redoing it would be pocket change compared to the hordes of people coming to the park and buying new merch JUST for Journey Into Imagination. All that said, as a DLR goer rather than WDW, I'd never wait more than an hour and a half in line for literally anything at a park, if I knew I could come back again someday. If it was a once in a lifetime trip, sure, I'd go up to three hours if and only if I had the time in my schedule to do so. I'm so used to doing single rider lines and going places during non-peak times that WDW's lines in general are mind-boggling to me. I'll stick to spending less money at the smaller parks with fewer things to do. However, if Journey Into Imagination comes back...it may just bring me to Orlando. And THAT is the power of Figment.

I was there in MLK and there were people (many of them) walking around with 2, 3, and even 4 figment buckets wrapped around their bodies. It was so gross.

Honest question: what's stopping Disney from simply having a limit on how many you can buy per person on scalp-able items?

I normally would not moan about people waiting for something in a theme park but 7 hours for a popcorn bucket is just insane. I like how the one that was over a grand didn't even include shipping

Florida native here...went like a year after Epcot opened ( I was like 4or5 years old) and YES, the original journey into imagination was as good as everyone says☹️ the neon 🌈 tunnel also needs to come back it was an amazing experience as a little kid

1. Most of the scalpers probably never even road the original Journey into Imagination. 2. Disney has the technology to limit these items to one per admission per day.

We were in WDW this past December and we watched a lady fill up her stroller (no kid) with WDW maps. She was taking them all while I was behind her trying to get 1 so I could enjoy the park. I looked at her and said "Do you have enough?" She didn't respond and took off. I'm assuming she will profit from them somehow.

Figment pretty much has always been my favorite character. I have fond memories of his little play land which included an area with those nail bed objects you can press your hand/face/etc against to raise them. That said, no character object is worth a massive wait in line to me.

My family is going on the 29th. We were really looking forward to getting a bucket. So glad Disney hyped this up days before for locals, and resellers. It would be terrible for a casual out of state guest to be able to get one with minimal wait, as a fun and nice surprise, like I was able to do with Simba.

I was more than lucky enough to have rode the original Journey Into Imagination many times from my first WDW trip around 1989 up through when I was living in Orlando from 1995 on. In fact, the year it was going to close I went to Epcot and rode JII at least 20 times that day. At one point I was even able to just stay on the ride instead of getting off just to get back on again. On one of the last ride throughs that day a cast member asked my name and before leaving the park that day I was given a certificate with my name that said No. 1 fan and friend of Figment. I still have that certificate framed to this day.

I rode the original rides when I was a kid. I've watched the videos to relive them. This is the one they should have never changed. It was charming and timeless.

Personally, I would only wait that long to buy a popcorn bucket like the light up Tangled one, or the Haunted Mansion one.

I do love Figment, but I would never stand in line for 7 hours to get my hands on a popcorn bucket. I’d probably not wait for more more than 30minutes - maybe up to an hour.

The original Journey into Imagination was AMAZING! Dream Finder and Figment were the best!

As long as Figment comes with that stylish serving of popped corn, people will wait.

I'm so broke I can't even afford to pay attention, but I pray someone sends one of these to this young man. His videos are so good. My parents went to Disneyland the first day it opened. I have a ton of pics to go through from them. Thanks for the great channel. We watch every video ♥️from SO. Calif.

I understand they ran out of the popcorn mid-way through the day, which might account for the wait dropping to two hours. Some people wanted it complete. If Disney wants to eliminate scalpers they need to make this merchandise available online for everyone, especially since there's many who would want one who can't get to Disney.

I'd love a Figment bucket, but I wouldn't wait more than 15 minutes or spend more than $10 on that one. It's a cute design, but it looks cheap, especially compared to some of the other popcorn buckets I've seen. Although, if I look at it head on without my glasses, it kind of looks like Baby Sinclair from Dinosaurs, so that's a nice bonus lol

I’m so lucky that I saw the original ride over and over, I never understood the vague replacements

We were in Disney for 2 weeks celebrating our mom's 50th. We didn't realize the festival was going on, pretty sure we've done that in previous trips. Anyways, it was probably the busiest we have ever seen a Disney park. Absolutely mad house. Now I shall skim through footage to find me walking around the park.

I unironically LOVE Living w the land, man.All my family and friends really don't care for it all that much, but something about it really just scratches that Epcot itch for me. I love looking around the various scenes (before you go to the greenhouses) and just trying to find some new detail that I've not noticed before. Maybe that's something in the yard of the farmhouse scene, or a few antique-looking lanterns scattered throughout; all of the smaller stuff is just so interesting to me. Where did they get that [insert LWtL prop here]? Where did that antique plow start its life? How did this object end up living out its days being seen by thousands of people every day in a Disney ride? I just love that stuff and LWtL is chock full of it. Then, of course the greenhouses are awesome too. Idk, I just feel like I have a special connection with that ride. On another note, and it's kinda scary that I even have to say this, but hopefully it sticks around and is able to make it through the current Disney leadership. It embodies Epcot for me personally, and the thought of it going away in favor of making some new cheap IP ride (as is the case for a ton of rides at this point) is heartbreaking. When LWtL dies, Epcot dies. It would no longer be the park it was meant to be, it would just become another catch-all park with a bunch of rides that don't fit together, make no sense, and are clear cash grabs. Please, just keep Epcot alive. Ok ok, yes, you can make Hollywood Studios into another catch-all for IP attractions that don't fit any theme anymore, but PLEASE don't hurt my dearest, Epcot. Keep Epcot Epcot. It deserves to be treated with respect.

This is the best thing ever! A family friend of ours is the one who made MULTIPLE of the biggest popcorn buckets/sippers (including this figment)! Seeing one of my favorite RU-vidrs create a whole video on this is amazing!!!💜🧡💜

Actually alotof the original epcot was fantastic...but I do wish for more countries, India, Greece, Africa, and Australia, Samoa

@6:28, when the word "resellers" appears, a sound of pigs should play.

You have to wonder how many people actually use their figment buckets after buying them

I waited in line for 7 and a half hours at Disneyland for the first edition hatbox ghost tiki mug. But main reason was because they only had one register out of 4 working!

The entire “mess” part of it boils down to scammers scamming scammers. Everyone freaking out to get in on a market that is… made from imagination. Maybe there’s a more efficient way to say that?

Yes I'm old enough to have ridden all 3...and see the rainbow light tunnel.....I miss the original pavilion...it was the best

I was there for the festival media event on the 18th, and I have never seen more Figment fever! Those little magnet shoulder Figments were EVERYWHERE. People in full Figment get-up carrying Figment plush and showing off their popcorn buckets, vloggers talking about it every few feet… Plus Kerry Butler had one when I saw her for the Disney Broadway show lol. And props to Jeremy The Tea bringing props for his Figment bucket photoshoot.

Holy cow. I read about this but had no idea. Just seeing the line is shocking. Excellent Video as always Offhand Disney!

I worked at the original Journey Into Imagination 30 years ago & it makes me happy seeing the crazy love you show to Figment. Thankyou

Bring back the dream-finder! My mom loved that ride as a kid! And at 3:36 Figment is doing the thumb like the Hitchhiking ghosts over at HM

To think within those 7 hours you could have done a DYI project with your kids to make your own popcorn bucket and went to the movies or the theme park to show it off.

I felt so bad for figment fans, popcorn bucket fans, even the people who just wanted one cause they liked it

Out here doing gods work, thank you so much for this vid.

You know there are hundreds, if not thousands of those buckets, in existance right? They are just sitting inside a few containers boiling under the sun somewhere near a USA shipping container terminal.

You have to think “what is my time worth”

Only waited 30 minutes for ours on Monday thankfully. They also sold out that day so it was a risk waiting that long for a limited edition item. Theres a limit per sale, but if people waited in line again they’d sell them two more per person in the party. Wish there was more to go around, we just wanted one.

Journey into imagination is a little bit like our Disneyland Paris Original Space Mountain - Even if the ride is still running, we want to have our moon back

I remember when a Disney employee convinced my stupid ex to buy one of the Heidi Klum limited edition ears to sell them on eBay for $1000. They literally sat in my closet for months 😂 I feel like this resealing thing is against the spirit of Disney and the parks.

"Resellers" Read "assholes"

Perfect laugh just when I needed it. Thank you.

I have never been to WDW. I'm a California girl who loves Disneyland, and wants to go to WDW with her husband someday. But I know I would have loved Journey Into Imagination as a kid, and I'm nostalgic for something I've never experienced. Ever since I learned about the ride a few years ago, I've loved it and hope they bring it back for me to ride someday. I wouldn't wait 7 hours in line for a popcorn bucket though. I am a pin collector and wouldn't even do it for a pin hence why I was upset that getting pins at the El Capitan Theatre started going in the direction of people having to camp out over night to get an LE pin.

I don’t know why but the way you say popcorn bucket is so satisfying

Thank you young Vladimir Schmitz! It never ceases to amaze me that watching one of your reports is actually way more fun than a weekend in Las Vegas!

I was covering the festival for ClownfishTV and waited roughly an hour in line to get the bucket at 10:30. This was on the day that they sold out: 1/17. The line never got to the length we saw on the first day. When cast members put out the sign saying the Figment bucket was no longer available, they were still unboxing more, but the line had collapsed to about a 30-minute wait.

I would buy Dallin's Disney World 50th anniversary poster.

I love all your videos but as a huge Figment fan I really appreciate this one! I did get to ride the original and I was able to get a picture with Dreamfinder and Figment back in the early ‘90s. What we have not done is visit durring the Arts Festival which I would love to do sometime.

Scalping has gone completely out of control the last few years. It drives me insane companies don’t do more about it.

What a positive and fantastic outlook young man!

As an action figure collector, I share the Disney collector hatred for scalpers.

Yes! My family absolutely loved Living with the Land when we went back in November, we rode it 3 times I believe (lol) and loved it at night with their Christmas lights! Definitely a must do if you visit.

This reminds me of Japanese overall selling policies/techniques, which are also done in theme parks (including Tokyo Disneyland & Disney Sea). New products/lines/events and popular limited sales almost always have a "Only 1 article per person" policy (or x limited amount, depending on the product). This, of course, includes new or super popular popcorn buckets. They actually take a lot of measures when there's a hint that a lot of people are going to be lining up, even scheduling entry to a shop fast pass style like you would a ride. While they might do it to have a wider availability and crowd control, I think it wouldn't be a bad first countermeasure to resellers as well

This is the only Disney popcorn bucket that became so popular so fast that it garnered attention from local Orlando news and was on tv

Not only do they need to bring back DreamFinder, but they also need to bring back the original upstairs ImageWorks, and maybe the Kodak True Colors song too

This reminds me of the limited time Nezuko popcorn boxes here at Universal Japan. I waited in line for almost an hour and they sold out everyday 2 hours after park opening and people are reselling them for 100+

2:40 "Even during the dark years..." We are still in the dark years.

Offhand Disney: "I had no idea I was sitting on $50!" Me, seeing all the bends in the poster: "What, like, literally?"

*Yes, i've been waiting all day for this video : )*

You and Dan need ME as a third co-host because I'm an OLD, and I actually have been on all these now extinct attractions like Journey into Imagination. It really kind of kills me when I watch Foolish Mortals and both of you are talking about extinct attractions or abandoned effects on attractions that I actually remember, and you're both sitting there saying, that would have been cool to see...it WAS cool to see and I can tell you about it!

The fact that people would go to Walt Disney World just to wait 7 hours for a popcorn bucket honestly disgusts me.

i feel bad for those cast members at that stand

It looks like his jaws or head should open but it doesn't and it drives me mad.

I love figment, and I wore my figment hat proudly to the parks every day from 1/2-16 (someone would say, "I love your hat", about once every hour). Leading up to the 14th, and especially after, cast members kept asking me if I was going to get or had gotten the popcorn bucket. I just told them that I did not know what to do with that bucket (I have a normal $12 bucket). I do buy cute figment clothing, plush, or art, but I am baffled by that bucket, the crazy demand for it, and how much the Disney cast was pushing it.

This popcorn bucket is something that can be 3d printed easily. Also, I keep hearing rumors that Disney wants to re-theme Journey into Imagination to a movie like Inside-Out. Instead of re-theming the ride to a movie why not make a movie themed to the ride like POTC?

My cousin used to work the ride as a student. He just passed in fall from covid and left 2 little boys. Figment was his favorite so when our family heard there would be a figment bucket we told the boys and they got excited. Not thinking at all that it would be an issue we told them we could get one for each of them so when they went to Disney next time it felt like a part of Dad was with them. Cut to a few days later and Disney is hyping up this bucket like no ones business. We knew then it was going to be a problem. I called a friend who was going day 2 of FOTA and asked her to do her best. Then day one had “7 hour” lines and I told her forget it. She was awesome and waited only 1 hour (still 55 mins too long for a bucket!) on day two and was able to get one and said she would try again for another later on in the festival if she could. She said a lot of it was hype. Disney knew what they were doing 100%. Its a damn popcorn bucket. They hyped it online to create the buzz and it went viral. People wanted it b/c its exclusive. Had they just put it out at all the snack kiosks, one special line and not made such a huge deal about it then that 7 hour wait would not have happened. They will do anything right now to have you waste your standby time and get you to buy Genie+ in order to experience rides and attractions. It used to be the only people who even got fun popcorn buckets were kids who threw tantrums for them on the popcorn line. Now its adults throwing tantrums for them. Its bull. My friend who waited is an angel for trying to make two grieving boys happy. They’ll be grateful to share their bucket. Hope the resellers and collectors have fun with their dust magnets.

Yay! Club left-handed! Nice drawing haha

Okay the figment art is so goof

I was fortunate to ride the original version and rode the ride every chance I got. I've been waiting over half my life for an Imagination revamp, and the letdown of D23 Expo 2019 just crushed me. It hasn't helped that a friend of mine told me that they'll most likely create a new ride before even touching Journey Into Imagination. It does help to see so many people genuinely get excited over this popcorn bucket because they love the character. I think I will just continue to foolishly hope they'll announce the revamp soon.

So I just came back from a Disney World trip, and whenever I told people I was a Figment fan (I even wore Figment Mickey mouse ears one day and a Figment T-Shirt on another) people would always ask, "Did you get the popcorn bucket?" I don't own the bucket, but I do own an almost 3 foot long sleeping Figment plushie. He's very soft!

I met a lady that day who flew down from some northern state to get a bucket just because her nephew really loves figment, kinda crazy, but kinda heartwarming at the same time

I saw the original on my honeymoon and have been an avid fan ever since. I don't mind the current version but still miss Dreamfinder. What I'd like to see is a new version of it based on the comics. It gives a solid nod to the original ride, adds to the story without feeling too dated, and opens up more possibilities and ways they can expand on his story. And it gets rid of the whole scientist gag that's outlived it's usefulness that really didn't age well.

Thank god someone made a video about this this

Found myself twice in the first 5 minutes of the video. To me it was worth the wait since I just got my bucket, soup, and poptart then left. Yes it was cold, drama filled, and kind of annoying to be questioned by passers by but look I had time to spare, I didn’t really care.

I super agree with you! I am very lucky that I did get to ride the ORIGINAL Journey many times and I’m so thankful. It would certainly help Bob’s rep if he did give us more Figment!

I work for Bath and Body Works and we have problems with resellers too! One time we had a couple come in and spend over $5,000 on product and it took us AN HOUR to scan and pack all of it. I have a theory (just my personal theory, not related to the company at all) that resellers are trying to prey on the international market and use that as an excuse for the high prices. Someone in France who really wants that popcorn bucket can go online and find it but the resellers are going to argue “oh well shipping fees and international costs” to justify the exorbitant price tag when really a lot of it is their own greed. It’s so sad!

My Figment tattoo gives me all the Figment satisfaction I need. No 7 hour wait needed.

Wait my husband and I saw you take that picture with Tony Baxter in Disneyland and asked you who it was! We recognized him but couldn’t place it and you seemed so excited about meeting him. It was great.

One little spark of inspiration, huh?

I wish so much you could have experienced the original ride. I was 8 when we went the second day Epcot was open. It blew my little mind. And the awesome play center above was equally crazy. They’ve destroyed so much man.

I’m on board with this proposal

I waited 20-30 minutes to get mine and it was worth it

I’m going to the festival today. Hopefully I can get my hands on that Figment spork