In the ’90s, every movie premiere and cartoon episode wanted to follow you home — not just in memory, but in your lunchbox and on your living-room table. Fast-food tie-ins were tiny, edible extensions of the bigger-than-life worlds on screen: plastic cups that felt like souvenirs, marshmallows shaped like action-figure weapons, neon slushes that stained tongues and stories, and toys you traded like rare baseball cards. They were marketing stunts and childhood rituals rolled into one sticky, glorious mess, the kind of temporary magic that made ordinary afternoons feel like premieres. Here are twenty-five of those wonderfully ridiculous tie-ins that only made total sense in a decade that loved its licensed chaos.
#1: Batman Forever Glass Mugs
Those thick frosted mugs felt like trophies handed out after a Saturday matinee; kids balanced them on coffee tables while reenacting chase scenes, and parents later found them tucked behind boxes in the garage, each one a small fossil of a weekend that smelled faintly of popcorn and ambition.
