There’s been plenty of “Cocaine Bear” buzz this week, and now fans can get their paws on an official bobblehead of the drug-addicted animal that’s become a streaming sensation. “Cocaine Bear” is a Universal horror comedy film directed by Elizabeth Banks that is loosely based on a real 1985 incident, when a 175-pound American black bear was found dead of a cocaine overdose in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia, just south of the Tennessee border.
The working theory for the real-life “Cocaine Bear” is that a drug smuggler traveling by plane with 880 pounds of cocaine, and with the Feds hot in pursuit, started throwing some of his stash out of the aircraft. The man, Andrew Thornton, died in a parachuting accident after jumping from the plane with roughly $15 million worth of cocaine strapped to him.
A scene from “Cocaine Bear,” directed by Elizabeth Banks, shows the titular predator taking a powder.
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Banks’ film, which was made in the mid $30 million range, has fun with this premise, imagining the coked-out bear going on a grizzly rampage. It clawed more than $85 million at the worldwide box office, according to Box Office Mojo, and became available for streaming on Peacock last week. Indeed, there’s plenty of appetite for “Cocaine Bear,” as it was among the top 10 most popular movies and TV shows of the past week, according to streaming aggregator Reelgood, as reported by Mashable. And now movie fans and collectors can bag a “Cocaine Bear” bobblehead, which is an officially licensed, limited-edition figure produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. One caveat: the bear is modeled after the actual taxidermied body of the real-life “Cocaine Bear” said to be on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, Kentucky. “Nothing makes a bear’s head bobble more than a bunch of cocaine,” said Griffin VanMeter from Kentucky for Kentucky in a statement.
Here is the official “Cocaine Bear” bobblehead.
National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
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