About Popcorn Peaks (3 Peaks)
The Popcorn Peaks can be seen from land but hold so much more inside them
When Oinky heads to ‘Mount Snore’ with Kid Ding he sees 3 Peaks from the top of the mountain, which he thinks look like popcorns, so he names them the Popcorn Peaks. The Peaks are just the tip of the iceberg as each has a series of underwater cave systems that seem to link to each other, and which can only be accessed by one hidden entrance on Slowth, which Oinky finds by his keen sense of popcorn (the Peaks have an abundance of popcorn and dark chocolate remnants inside).
Popcorn Peaks Backstory:
Not a great deal is known about how the Popcorn Peaks formed, although it was at the time of ‘The Event’ when the island of Bair sunk and some say this was the last ‘peaks’ of Bair still showing, yet it seems like the peaks are separated from Bair, which is now found as Mave Reef underwater…
We do learn that the rich resources inside the Peaks were a mix of natural Bearlago minerals (spilled into the sea from old Bearillo’s wasteland) and part of an old, secret treasure burial by the Old Bairs who tried to ensure Dr. Grizz couldn’t get his hands on their goods.
Many years later and many of the Old Bairs are no longer around, and those that are can’t remember too much about the secret passages of the Popcorn Peaks, and it wasn’t until a small bear with a particularly keen sense of popcorn happened to find a long lost and hidden entrance to the Peaks cave system.
We learn that Pensa was in fact part of the cave system planning, as he had been asked to create a secret place to store ‘bear dreams’ by Padeski years ago. This was a security measure against more and more Beariminals roaming the Bearlago’s (thought to be Dr. Grizz’s growing posse of henchmen), and is something which Padeski never lets Dr. Grizz know about.
Popcorn Peaks Facts:
- The Popcorn Peaks is also known as ‘The Popcorn Trail’, ‘3 Peaks’, and even ‘Threaks’.
- Each Peak has an underground cave system that links up together, and each cave has a unique feature and puzzle to get through to the next cave. The first cave has a particular deep echo and hollow chocolate walls (which the bears later need Deep and Doomy for to work out an important clue), the second one has a pungent smell that is hard to wash off (and means the bears have to keep going to the nearest Emochine after and start over and over in a constant loop), and the third one is full of popcorn (which only Oinky gets to as he refuses to shower as he senses popcorn ahead), but which requires a ‘popcoin’ treasure hunt (seemingly designed with future Oinky in mind) to find a key and hidden entrance to the end of the cave system.
Bassventures – The Popcorn Peaks Hunt:
The Popcorn Peaks are hard to get to, very hard, and so if you do find your way through the caves and up to the peaks this happy rewarding song is waiting for you.
Bassventures – Where To Go?:
The Popcorn Peaks are only accessible throw Slowth and so the same slow to fast music is quite popular in this region too. This song plays as bears try to work out where to go in the caves.
NOTE: Audio quality is compressed for web loading purposes so bass may sound grainy or fuzzy (especially on mobile devices). However, the Bassventures album is in full quality.