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07/17/2008: X-E’s ‘08 Summer Megaparty: Burger Tyrant.


Bah, this shit’s ridiculous. I’ve been seeing commercials for this Burger King “Club BK” kids’ meal starring Pikachu and Apple Fries for a while now, and it seemed like just the type of neoclassic Happy Meal worth blogging about. I realize that Burger King doesn’t make Happy Meals, but you know what I mean.


I expected the world, but what I got back was this sad, boring bag, with a Pokemon toy haphazardly shoved in with overcooked fries and crown-shaped chicken tenders. They didn’t have Apple Fries in stock, which is kind of unbelievable. If there’s one thing I’d never expect anyone to sell out of, it’s APPLE FRIES.

That isn’t what’s bothering me, though. What really bugs me is the total lack of customized packaging. There’s no “experience” to this.

BACK IN MY DAY, the Happy Meal was as much about its flashy bravado as its toys and cheeseburgers. Was there a single kid in the country who didn’t at least try to keep the house-shaped Happy Meal box in perfect working order throughout their meal, free of folds and fry oil? Hell, a good many of us, myself included, went so far as to take those boxes home with us, working under the idea that we’d keep them forever and ever. We never did, but the fun was in the notion that we could.

Those Happy Meal boxes, with their colorful artwork and random puzzles, were as much a part of the filthy food experience as anything else. When McDonald’s began phasing out the boxes in favor of less-artful bags, I was sad, but at least the bags still had the same gamut of illustrations and puzzles…albeit less colorful ones.

But this?! An unrelated bag lacking any kind of kiddy theme? APPALLED.


To protest, I refuse to acknowledge the neat holographic Prinplup card or the Pokemon-themed card holder it came with. Take that, BK.

In anti-celebration of this disappointing turn of events, I’d like to institute a new survey. In the comments, talk about your favorite Happy Meal toy ever. Yes, the free toys you got from other fine greasy food establishments are totally fine to talk about, too.

On the plus side: If getting pissed about the quality level of a Burger King “Club BK” kids’ meal is the worst thing that happened to me today, I think I’m still in the black.


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Discussion Thread: 263 comments

old school Lego vehicles like race cars and helicopters.

Ghosted by Boingophile @ 07/18/2008 4:01 AM EDT

The best happy meal toy I ever got was hands down a christmas themed colorforms from around 1983. You got a little fold out christmas scene and a page of colorforms, or maybe they were stickers my memory ain’t what it used to be, and you could create your own awesome little christmas scenes. I kept the box from that magical meal for a good 3 weeks before it finally disentagrated.

Ghosted by randomcow @ 07/18/2008 4:10 AM EDT

There was no McDonald’s in my town but I did like the toys from Wendy’s that made me feel like a spy such as the Carmen Sandiego Apple Decoder or other Carmen Sandiego stuff or things that looked like food but doubled as something else.
I swear I had a thing that looked like french fries but opened up into a cellphone or something… I carried it with me everywhere but I don’t know where it came from.
A Johnny Bravo little vinyl folder with a Johnny Bravo club card in it and some stickers… I think it was from Wendy’s and it made me feel like someone important carrying it around.
Also from Wendy’s a piggy bank but it was a brontosaurus and the coins would roll down the neck and into the hole at the end of the back.
Animal from the Muppets dressed as a hockey player from McDonald’s… i think it something that cost extra though… so not a Happy Meal Toy
I liked the cars as well: Fraggle Rock vegetables cars, Woodstock in his purple race car, Luigi on his Cloud, Baby Kermit + skateboard and Miss Piggy in her car… although i think those were handed down from someone else. and Yogi Bear on a seadoo!

Ghosted by gorax @ 07/18/2008 4:25 AM EDT

just got home and am getting ready for bed after a midnight screening of The Dark Knight.. – for a guy that runs a website reviewing things, I’m never one to stand around a lobby pontificating.. – maybe it’s the Buddhist in me, but I enjoy smiling contentedly while walking to my car lost in my own thoughts better.. – guess all i can, or will, say is I think they did a really terrific job.. – hope all of you going this weekend enjoy it..

Ghosted by Review the World @ 07/18/2008 4:44 AM EDT

The Happy Meal toy that sticks out the most to me was the line based on Back to the Future: the animated series, from 1991. I still have a Doc Brown Delorean or two that I saved, as well as a toy Time Train that my brother got from a friend or a cousin. Other than that, I can remember lines based on:

Super Mario World (1991, McDonald’s)
Batman Returns (1992, McDonald’s)
Tiny Toon Adventures (1991, McDonald’s)
Looney Tunes/DC Comics crossover (1993?, McD’s)

Also, in the early/mid-90s McD’s used to have promotions where you’d get movie-related collector cups whenever you super-sized (I remember Batman Returns and Jurassic Park having such promotions). They don’t do that as much anymore, do they? The closest thing to that these days is that Carl’s Jr. cups sometimes advertise movies (Rush Hour 3 and Hellboy II, for example).

Ghosted by Hoverbored @ 07/18/2008 5:03 AM EDT

I’m going to see The Dark Knight it this Sunday. I am really psyched about it. I actually went to see Iron Man tonight. I was going to wait for Iron Man to come to video, but my friend talked me into seeing it. I really didn’t expect much from it, but it was honestly the best Marvel movie I have seen to date. I am sorry I didn’t see it sooner.

Ghosted by Jack @ 07/18/2008 5:05 AM EDT

First, let me show some love for the lesser-known restaurant toys. We can’t forget that Pizza Hut gave us Garfield back-to-school shit, Young Indiana Jones crap, Fievel Goes West cups with hats, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cassette tapes and posters. Also, I seem to have this memory of Denny’s perpetually offering different Flintstones toys.

But man. It would be impossible to determine my favorite Happy Meal/Kids Meal toys. There are so many precious memories. The Looney Tunes with the snap-on superhero costumes. The Lion King figures. The Animaniacs in funny vehicles. The glass Batman Forever mugs. The Simpsons in nature settings (and big dolls). The Batman: The Animated Series figures. The Nightmare before Christmas watches. Any time they ever did a McDonald’s character toy, like the costumed McNuggets or even the food transformers. The Super Mario figures. The 101 Dalmatians figures (and later on, X-mas ornaments). The Hercules plates. The Lost World: Jurassic Park watches. Really, countless others.

Then there are some that have seemingly been in my life forever because of how little I was when I got them. The Alf puppets. The Garfield on a skateboard. And one time my dad got a big plastic Batman cup from the first Tim Burton movie. That one might’ve been from Taco Bell.

Cheers,
Diego

Ghosted by Diego @ 07/18/2008 5:28 AM EDT

Oh, and also, not terribly long ago, I remember my brother coming home with Bruce Timm-style Justice League toys he got at SUBWAY, of all places. It seems so amazing now. These places really don’t try anymore.

Matt, I thought I read somewhere that when the Star Wars: Clone Wars toys hit McDonald’s on August 15th, they would be in Happy Meal boxes. But I’m only like 50% sure of that, so don’t quote me.

When’s the last time they did those boxes?

Cheers,
Diego

Ghosted by Diego @ 07/18/2008 5:32 AM EDT

Sorry for the triple post. Here is the article that suggested the promise of boxes: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/business/media/01adco.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Cheers,
Diego

Ghosted by Diego @ 07/18/2008 5:42 AM EDT

Favorite kids meal toy? Transforming McDonald’s food-hands down….

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 07/18/2008 6:07 AM EDT

And when they made the Happy Meal boxes into those plastic boat shapes that -obviously- could float; those were the shit

now I wanna go to McDonalds

Ghosted by Shaunfu @ 07/18/2008 6:10 AM EDT

BK has always, ALWAYS been inferior to McDonald’s. It’s a rule.

I saw the Dark Knight, and it left me with a funny feeling. I was expecting more, but the rest of the nerd community seems excited and pleased.

Ghosted by mezzanine @ 07/18/2008 6:27 AM EDT

When you guys say Happy Meal boxes, do you mean like those:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3157/2442482988_63b2fd900a.jpg?v=0

http://www.jblog.com.br/media/69/20080211-looneypeq.jpg

Or the ones you mean are something else? These are cardboard, they usually come with art representing the toys given and maybe a puzzle or something like that.

Ghosted by Roddy @ 07/18/2008 6:50 AM EDT

I can’t remember whether this was from BK or McDonalds, but my favorites were the Sonic 3 promotion toys. Sonic and Knuckles were a bit bland, but fun. Robotknik perplexed me (how did he manage to avoid falling off tables?!?!?!). The best was Tails though. I would practice seeing how high I could launch him in the air. Besides the Teeny Beanies, they were the only toys I can remember playing with long after I got them.

Ghosted by TAC @ 07/18/2008 7:06 AM EDT

Matt,

I e-mailed the link to this blog to Burger king investor relations. And if anyone clicks the link on my entry here, it will go to that investor page (if you want to also e-mail them). My first job ever was at Burger King, and I have some odd loyalty to the company. I worked there back in the day the FIRST time the Star Wars glasses came out, if you know what I mean.

If the Burger King peeps e-mail me back, I’ll let you know…

Alex

Ghosted by Alexander @ 07/18/2008 7:30 AM EDT

When the Disney animated Hercules movie came out, my sister and I decided that we would collect all the Happy Meal toys. We didn’t love the movie in particular; we just liked the toys. We kept those awesome boxes as long as we possibly could too, because they actually had punch-out sections to form doors for a little house.

Also, we were really into Beanie Babies, so we ended up getting our grandma to help us collect every one of those miniature versions that McDonalds came out with. They became the heart-shaped-tagless children of our bigger Beanies, much to the dismay of our collector’s value-oriented mother.

Ghosted by Toffeecake @ 07/18/2008 7:45 AM EDT

Oh yeah, does anyone remember that cat and dog mascot team from the Taco Bell kid’s meals? Those made awesome toys; I remember getting a small playhouse with one meal. It reminded me of those Polly Pockets that I loved so much, but a little more simplistic. It seemed like a real bargain, as far as kid’s meal toys go.

Ghosted by Toffeecake @ 07/18/2008 7:48 AM EDT

Alf puppets from Burger King. Gremlins 7″ records from Hardee’s.

Ghosted by Geoff @ 07/18/2008 7:59 AM EDT

I would have much preferred a brown paper bag. Eight year old kids knew The Burger King Kids Club was not cool.

I liked the pull-back plastic cars with McDonald’s characters driving them. I remember Birdie had a pink car. This was in the late 80s, and I think Mayor McCheese had one.

Ghosted by ATD @ 07/18/2008 8:28 AM EDT

Matt,

My apologies; this is the 3rd time I tried to post. must be doing something whacked. Anyway, I e-mailed the link to this page to Burger King Investor Relations. My first ever job was at BK, and I have an odd loyalty. By the way, here’s their link: http://investor.bk.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=87140&p=irol-inforeq

Ghosted by Alexander @ 07/18/2008 8:29 AM EDT

Without a doubt, those transformer foodstuffs that Macdonald’s came out with in the late 80’s where miniature fries, burgers, milkshakes et all turned into tiny robots. I thought those were the coolest things ever. I still to this day contemplate buying them all off of eBay.

Runner up is the Fraggle toys they offered for a short time that had the little muppets riding around in vegetable cars. Red was in a radish, Gobo was in a carrot, Moki was in an eggplant, and Boober and Wembley were in a pickle. Those were super cute.

Ghosted by Kendra @ 07/18/2008 8:32 AM EDT

I have a HUGE collection of Happy Meal toys bagged up in my attic. I’ve been lamenting this sad turn in Kids Meals/Happy Meals for a long time. Were there any of you who, like me, actually TRIED to take the box apart, then reassemble it to “make your own Bambi/Batman Returns/Super Mario Bros. playset” as it advertised on the bottom of the box? I felt like I was building my own ramshackle Eternia.

Let’s see…fav McDonald’s Happy Meals were probably those Food Changeables, their version of Transformers that transformed into your favorite McDonald’s food instead of vehicles. I collected all three series, even when they ran out of ideas and made them change to dinosaurs instead of robots. That’s also one where the almighty Happy Meal box was crucial, because it set up your Changeables’ special powers and bios. Without the box, how could you know that Fry Force was able to generate a force field around himself?

As far as franchises, I dug the Super Mario 3 and Batman Returns the most, and I ended up trying to collect every Star Wars kids meal toy since Taco Bell’s Special Edition toys.

Does anyone remember Dairy Queen’s “Rock-a-Doodle” figurines? There was no Dairy Queen here in south Louisiana at the time, and I was pissed when I found out I missed the boat on that one.

Ghosted by Jeremy Whatsisface @ 07/18/2008 8:36 AM EDT

All this talk about old McD’s toys makes me want to go through my parent’s attic! I know I have some of the transformer toys up there.

Ghosted by gingela5 @ 07/18/2008 8:40 AM EDT

How about McDino Changeables?

Ghosted by meepy @ 07/18/2008 8:42 AM EDT

I may be going way old school with this, but I remember Happy Meals that came in a plastic bucket, and the toys were beach/sandbox tools like shovels, rakes, etc. Pretty neat idea.

I was always psyched when Legos came as the toy. I don’t know why McDonald’s didn’t give out Lego toys more often – as little plastic blocks, they’ve got to be ridiculously cheap to produce, but kids go friggin’ apeshit over them.

Ghosted by tanta07 @ 07/18/2008 8:44 AM EDT

I loved the stomper happy meal when I was a kid. Of course it wasn’t a full sized battery powered stomper. But it still was a nice “hot wheel sized” stomper. I remember saving the box for awhile. It served as a nice little garage.

Ghosted by Greg @ 07/18/2008 8:48 AM EDT

I still have a Richard Scarry figure that I think was a McDonald’s happy meal toy. ? It’s a pig (Mr. Frumble) driving a pickle car. Mr. Frumble was calamity-prone but you’d think the pickle car would turn his luck around for the better. Shows how much I know about pickle cars I guess. Maybe it was pickled in bullshot…

Ghosted by Faith @ 07/18/2008 9:26 AM EDT

Of course the SMB 3 toys, even though I had a defective Koopa-Paratroopa. Pisses me off to this day. Also of course, the Hotwheels cars.

Anyway, I remember getting a figurine of that bear mascot from A&W, thinking it was a cookie, and taking a bite out of it. Luckily I realized it wasn’t edible before I swallowed the thing’s foot.

Other things were Warner Bros. toys in the Adventure Meal at Arby’s (which, yes, I called Happy Meal). McD’s also had Tiny Toons stuff I believe, and probably Batman at some point. OOH, and the Inspector Gadget figures from BK.

One time I got a fire helmet from White Castle. That thing was moderately cool.

I wanted to get The Simpsons figures at BK in 2001, but only got Bart in a skeleton costume.

Last year McDonald’s had the TMNT figures, Donatello and his spinning bo was a good stress reliever. McD’s also had the Sonic toys a couple years ago too.

Ghosted by Paul O @ 07/18/2008 9:26 AM EDT

Oh yeah, and the Carmen Sandiego stuff from Wendy’s.

Ghosted by Paul O @ 07/18/2008 9:28 AM EDT

Okay, reading the other comments, the cars came out in 1984, were called “Fast Macs,” and it was Big Mac, chief of police, that I was thinking of, with the white and blue car. http://www.bearstuffs.com/ product.detail.php?id=1584972

I had Garfield and Kermit on skateboards, the Gremlins records, McBoos, McPails, and a bunch of California Raisins from Hardees.

I stopped getting toys in the early nineties, but I did pay my nephew $2 for a Pikachu from BK in 1999. It came in one of those “biggest toy recall in history” PokeBalls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZH6YKmtQV8

Ghosted by ATD @ 07/18/2008 9:37 AM EDT

Don’t remember what place they were from, but it was these flip cars from Tiny Toons. The detail on them was fantastic – and I had the whole set, which was rare. I think these are up in my parent’s attic somewhere, actually.

I also remember going crazy for the Snow White toys from McDonalds and trying to collect them all, but I don’t remember why. They weren’t all that spectacular.

The original Toy Story toys were great too.

AND…the Garfield cups from McDonalds. One of these days I’m going to buy a set off eBay. My family had them growing up but all but one has broken. They were my favorite cups to drink milk out of.

Ghosted by Mary @ 07/18/2008 9:41 AM EDT

Fraggles in go-karts you pull back and they zoom off in grandiose style. The source, however, I do not recall.

Fraggles rule.

Ghosted by tylor @ 07/18/2008 9:42 AM EDT

Ok apparently everyone else loves them too and they’re from McD. I had the carrot!

Ghosted by tylor @ 07/18/2008 9:43 AM EDT

I’ve had many a favorite Happy Meal toys. My top two sets:

The Tiny Toons cars that flipped to reveal a second car! Captain Planet and Chip n Dale did it too I believe.
I loved the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2nK8cie2ds

Best use of meal box was the Sonic the Hedgehog set, with little ramps to fold out and launch characters over, up and through. :)

Ghosted by Barry @ 07/18/2008 9:45 AM EDT

Sorry to double post, but THESE are my true faves:
http://hustlerofculture.typepad.com/me_we/images/mcdsega.jpg
The Sonic handhelds!!! Racing and soccer were the best.

Ghosted by Barry @ 07/18/2008 9:51 AM EDT

From McDonald’s I loved the tranformers that went from a McDonald’s food item to a creature, especially the burger that turned into a dinosaur I believe. The Barbie minis were real cool too.

But the BEST toy I ever got was from Wendy’s circa 1990ish at Halloween (back when kids still trick or treated at night!) and it was a play-doh extruder about the size of a pez dispenser with Frankenstein or other Halloween creatures for the head and it came with a mini tub of glow in the dark play-doh. I got it on Halloween night and was so jazzed it made waiting for it to get dark bearable.

Ghosted by Jessica @ 07/18/2008 10:07 AM EDT

My favorite happy meal toy was teeny little tins of Play-doh. This was right before we moved, so I remember it being in 1984 or 1985. Second place of course goes to dress-up-able Chicken McNugget, 3rd prize to Transformer Happy Meal foods.

I always loved the boxes as a kid, but to be honest, I kind of prefer the bags now, only because I frequently still get happy meals for lunch (the perfect lunch sized portion of McDonalds food that doesn’t make you feel ill) and the only McDonalds near my office is in the mall, so it doesn’t have a drive-through and I if I have to walk all the way back through the mall and then back to my office carrying a happy meal box I feel kind of like a loser. At least with a bag I can shove it in my purse.

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 07/18/2008 10:33 AM EDT

I’ve also remembered the McDonald’s McNuggets trick or treat dress up toys! I know these well, as when I was a kid I received three in a Happy Meal by mistake. Triple score! Unfortunately it was because the window guy was mentally challenged, and not just luck.

Ghosted by Barry @ 07/18/2008 10:41 AM EDT

I used to have all the McDonald’s transformable characters. I mostly had the fry guys and the Chicken McNuggets because those were the most common. I had a couble of the Big Mac box ones too. They may still be somewhere in my mom’s house, but I’m not about to embark on the mission to find them.

I also remember rubber McNuggets that you could ‘dress up’ with little articles of rubber clothing. I mostly remember the tennis playing McNugget that came with a headband…he rocked that headband. I miss the old toys.

Ghosted by DC @ 07/18/2008 10:42 AM EDT

I had forgotten, but as a kid, I was totally obsessed with the California Raisins figures from Hardees. I had dozens of the damn things. I must have been eating Hardees three meals a day for months. That explains the adult onset diabetes…

Ghosted by tanta07 @ 07/18/2008 10:49 AM EDT

The first set of Animaiacs toys from McDonald’s was my first complete collection of Happy Meal toys, so when I was little, they were kind of special to me. The Slappy and Skippy motorcycle toy was my favourite. Slappy was rad.
As a hug animal nut, I was also super into the Animal Kingdom toys they had to commemmorate the opening of the park. Other favourite sets were the 101/102 Dalmatians, and the 100 years of Disney or whatever. I liked the fact that you didn’t know what toy you’d get. With so many toys in those sets, I dunno if the chances of getting doubles were that high. I never got any doubles.

Ghosted by Nina @ 07/18/2008 10:58 AM EDT

Oh, I also loved the Babar toys that Arby’s in the US used to have! Until I was about 6, fast food joints in Canada and the US didn’t carry the same toys, or Canadians got “abridged” sets, by which I mean we got the same set minus a few toys. I don’t think that Arby’s in Canada ever had Babar toys.
Those Disney/Epcot toys at McDonald’s were great, as well. I was always bitter about the fact that the Canadian mountie Dale was only in Canada, whereas the US got Moroccan Dale. We had both versions here, though.
Yeah, I was sort of raised on fast food. Never eat the stuff now, though.

Ghosted by Nina @ 07/18/2008 11:06 AM EDT

I remember getting an Alf record that was kind of made out of paper that you had to wiegh down with pennies.

The fry guys and california rasin figures were always good. In more recent times the star wars promos were cool back when episode one still seemed like a great idea.

Ghosted by Fox @ 07/18/2008 11:08 AM EDT

Matt

Funny you should mention the hell that Staten Island BK’s are, because at the same time you were posting this, my Son and his wife were waiting a literal hour for their order at a SIBK with no other customers on line (it caused them to miss the midnight Batman showing, not a happy moment). You’re right though our BK’s suck and are expensive too! Even Manhatten BK’s charge less for food then ours.

As for Mc-Favorites I have three, all from the early 80’s, but they’re not Happy Meal toys.

1) “The Great Muppet Caper” Collectible Glasses. They were kept at my Grandmother’s house, it was a very fond memory that lasted well into adulthood.

2) Atari Scratch’n'Win contest. Cross promotion with fast food was still new back then, so this seemed so cool.

3) Flying Saucer Happy Meals – (The container itself was a flying saucer frisbee. They were totally awesome!) I remember sitting in the car with my dad at the Grant City train station, with the smell of Mc-Dinner filling the car, waiting for mom to get home and playing with this space-ship.

As for the cardboard containers they still make them, but seem to only keep them in supply for the first week and only for major promotions. My daughter got one for “Kung Fu Panda” and it was so cool looking I pondered saving it for a time, but the parent in me won out and I tossed in the recycle bin after a week.

As for finding them locally, I would recommend the Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonald’s in Midland Beach. I believe it’s the Island’s oldest McDonald’s and they always seem to have the boxed Happy Meal’s and other promo’s in good supply at least for the first week or so.

Ghosted by Shawn @ 07/18/2008 11:09 AM EDT

FIREBALL ISLAND!!! Not to derail everyone, but Totally Rad Show did a review/playthrough of Fireball Island, and I thought you’d be interested. Click my name to go to the video. It starts around 20 minutes in…

Ghosted by Dr Sketch @ 07/18/2008 11:19 AM EDT

By far my favorite McDonald’s Happy meal was the line of Dukes of Hazard Happy Meal boxes. There was a jeep, Boss Hogg’s car and of course, the General Lee. These were plastic molded “boxes” that came with stickers to apply on them. I don’t know why exactly, but these rocked my world!!

Ghosted by Brownloaf @ 07/18/2008 11:19 AM EDT

I was also HUGE fan of the Looney Tunes/Superheroes toys. Daffy was Batman, Bugs was Superman, Tazmanian Devil was Flash, Petunia Pig was Wonder Woman.

I also loved the Batman animated character cars/vehicles. There was Batman, Robin, Two-Face, Catwoman, Joker, and maybe Batgirl.

I also had the changeables and pails.

I also was into the California Raisons (I even dressed as one for Halloween and I still think they did the best version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ever) so I had some of the Hardees figures.

None of the restaurants seem to target kids anymore, probably due to the whole obesity epidemic. I couldn’t tell you what toys the restaurants currently have. Plus they seem to have gotten generic. I was never into the Hot Wheels/Barbie promotions McDonalds frequently does.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 07/18/2008 11:20 AM EDT

ATD has a point. Maybe you got the non-descript bag because you got a Big Kids Meal, and big kids don’t want the world to know they’re eating kids meals.

My favorite food toy ever wasn’t from a kids meal. I’m too young to remember exactly how it worked, but Domino’s had a toy car promotion. I seem to remember them sticking a form to the box or something. Anyway, it was a perfect little 80’s-style Matchbox hatchback with a Domino’s sign on top and logos on the doors. Inside, there was even a little pizza oven on the front seat. I still cherish it. That bad boy’s metal too, so it’ll last a while.

I had a Birdie mirror I kept forever, and I remember that the Bambi toys were the only ones we actually worked on collecting the whole set (not sure why…) I also had a pail from the 1984 Olympics promotion that I kept until most of the design had worn off. I don’t know why getting your meal in a pail is so exciting, but it is.

I have to give a shout out to the DQ kids meals that always came with a free cone token attached to the box. When you were done eating, you punched out the token, took it to the register, and got a kids cone. Of course, if you didn’t dine in, you could always keep the token for a later visit. I still talk about that to this day.

Ghosted by Lori @ 07/18/2008 11:33 AM EDT

My favorite McDonald’s Happy Meals as a child were the beach pails they would release during the summer. It was so exciting because they would always correspond with our upcoming beach trip to SC.
In my early 20s, I collected all the teeny Beanie Babies.

Ghosted by Sarah @ 07/18/2008 11:37 AM EDT

I went pretty psycho over the Happy Meals that were boats. Even though I remember consistently getting the Ferryboat. Never did get the racing boat.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/81007407_9ae4b944e7.jpg?v=0
I also remember Army’s giving out Mr.Men characters. I think i still have Mr. Bump somewhere.

Ghosted by Bill @ 07/18/2008 11:38 AM EDT

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