Chucky Got His Own Fanta—Here’s What the Creepy Soda Tastes Like

We’ve talked about it long enough. Fanta Chucky’s Punch is finally on shelves. The nice people over at Fanta sent over a can for me to review (alongside the entire relabeled lineup), so I’m cracking into it today to see if it quells the dark passenger inside. That candy-flavored soda from the other guys is child’s play—let’s try a soda with some edge.

New Fanta Flavor!

Fanta Chucky’s Punch Review

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Pros: To quote the doll on the label, this Fanta and I will be friends ‘til the end. While the generic “Punch Flavored Soda” callout on the label felt aggressively vague, it definitely has a solid lightly-sour berry punch flavor. Maybe they took inspiration from the movies being unable to decide whether they were comedies or horrors—hence, a not-quite-sour not-quite-sweet soda! This addition to the Fanta lineup would make Charles Lee Ray proud. (Is that a good thing? He is a murderer after all.)

Cons: I would have liked to see a little more sour in this soda. Halloween is the only appropriate time to launch a candy-esque sour soda, and this just feels like a missed opportunity. Limited edition sodas are like slasher movies: They may not be for everyone, but if you do it right, the diehard audience will eat it up.

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Rating:

8/10

Sporks

Where can I pick up Chucky’s Punch for myself?

Everywhere. Seriously, for a Fanta spinoff, this has some very good distribution. I didn’t see a single checkout lane Coke fridge at Walmart that wasn’t stocked with a few bottles of this new Fanta flavor—not to mention the 12-packs clogging their own island outside the soda aisle. You shouldn’t have any trouble finding this soda. Appropriately for the theme, this soda is going to find you.

Is it a little weird that Coca-Cola gave a slasher villain his own soda?

I mean, Anakin Skywalker was slapped onto every Coca-Cola bottle for a few months and he killed an entire classroom of kids in Revenge of the Sith. Bizarrely, Chucky may be our most forward-thinking pop culture murderer. In a recent TV series, he even referenced his child from an earlier film as being genderfluid and said having a problem with that would be monstrous. Don Mancini, the openly gay creator of the whole Chucky universe to-date, has incorporated LGBTQ+ themes into the franchise since day one; score one for representation.