The Video Game Soda Machine Project
Obsessively Cataloging Video Game "Pop" Culture
This soda machine is part of a stealth segment in The Fairly OddParents: Breakin’ Da Rules for the GameCube. As Timmy Turner sneaks through the halls of his school, Mr. Crocker pops out of lockers, air vents, and even this vending machine to catch him.
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Gerald takes a break from saving the neighborhood to check out this trio of soda machines in Hey Arnold!: The Movie for Game Boy Advance!
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Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, takes a break to inspect this Purple Flurp vending machine in Attack of the Twonkies for the GameCube!
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The Jimmy Neutron wiki describes Purple Flurp as a “presumably grape” soft drink “known to cause extreme belching and burping.” Belching and burping? That’s potent stuff!
In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: Jet Fusion for the GameCube, Purple Flurp machines are scattered throughout the game and serve as save points.
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One of the first puzzles in The Amazing World of Gumball: Darwin Rescue, a 2022 point-and-click browser adventure based on the Cartoon Network series, has players retrieve a drink from this vending machine for Penny, the shapeshifting fairy.
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Gumball encounters this vending machine in the middle of a cemetery while on a turn-based quest to recover his family’s stolen stuff in The Amazing World of Gumball: Fellowship of the Things! The machine dispenses healing potions, and as long-time visitors to the Video Game Soda Machine Project already know, potions are fantasy sodas.
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Sully had to infiltrate Fear Tech’s campus armed with a toilet paper launcher in Disney Infinity 1.0’s Monsters University playset to find this vending machine. Along with a variety of scary snacks, it also dispenses cans of Blort and Primordial Ooze.
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Disney Dreamlight Valley’s “Eye on the Prize” quest has players gather red and blue sodas from these vending machines in the Monsters, Inc. Realm. [Source]
There’s also an out-of-service soda machine stocked with green sodas. Collecting all three colors unlocks Mike Wazowski. [Source]
I’m watching you, Wazowski…
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Whoa, check it out, Beavis! Uh-huh-huh.
High school sucks, but these drink and snack machines in the hallway kick ass!
These minimalist vending machines pop up in Beavis & Butt-Head for the Sega Game Gear.
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Beavis picks his nose in front of a soda pop machine in a November 1998 prototype of Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood, an unreleased game for the PlayStation 1! Also known as Beavis and Butt-Head in Hollywood, the game was previewed at E3 in 1998 and showed up in various gaming magazines before disappearing like Daria Morgendorffer after she transferred to Lawndale High School.
What I played of the leaked build was pretty janky and incomplete, but at least the development team took care of the important stuff first. Namely, implementing a soda machine.
You can read more about Beavis and Butt-Head Do Hollywood at the Hidden Palace and the Lost Media Wiki.
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