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Post by Halloween King on Jun 9, 2013 0:40:36 GMT -5
These were some of my favorite McDonalds toys that came in the Happy Meal box when I was a kid. It seems to me like today the toys are very cheaply made and very little if any creativity is put into them. Toys are always cheaply made. There were before and will continue to be. That's so far from the truth. Toy's along with everything is now cheaper made. Look no further than Mattel. When I was a kid Hotwheels, made by mattel, were all metal. Some had opening doors and hoods. Now though most are all plastic and you'll almost never find opening parts, not even on Hotwheel's premium lines. But look at Mcdonalds, back in the day a Happy meal came in a box. They had to have run out of boxes before they gave you a bag. Now though they give you a bag. I've ordered happy meals for myself, as someone above stated it's enough for me sometimes, and they always give me a bag. Plus they stick apple slices in there and it's about 4 dollars. To me 4 dollars it too much, and them giving me a bag is inexcusable.
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Post by Halloween King on Jun 9, 2013 0:54:59 GMT -5
These. I had forgoten all about those. I love them. I love anything Halloween, but if it's a toy McNugget that's just pure genius.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Jun 9, 2013 1:09:59 GMT -5
Guys, there's no difference in the quality of toys between now and then. When you were a kid, they made toys out of what you and other kids like. That's what they're doing now. I respectfully disagree. The quality was better then than it is now. Today's are made of really cheap plastic. And the ideas then were better too. The 2 best things of the last 10 years were recently, the Hello Kitty figurines - ended up getting 6 of the 8 for my fiancee, and in 2005, they had the NBA jerseys, which were perfect for WWE figures and I think everyone here who collected got some for their Cena figures haha. My favourite toys were these: Man did I love those toys.
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Post by King Silva on Jun 9, 2013 3:23:20 GMT -5
I used to love the pokemon, beenie babies, digimon, yu-gi-oh, power ranger, etc stuff from my childhood. Good times.
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Post by The Xtreme One on Jun 9, 2013 6:33:32 GMT -5
Sorry the lack of image size, but these were by far my favorite and I still have two complete sets, one opened which I have passed on to my 5 year old, and another set MIB. I started reading this thread and immediately thought: Hmm, I'm gonna google search an image of those sweet Power Ranger toys I loved when I was younger. And then I saw your post. Props. I'm not sure if they were the best ever, but from what I recall, anything I see as better was BK, so yeah, maybe they were.
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Post by Escape The Rules on Jun 9, 2013 7:59:28 GMT -5
My favourite McDonald's toys were from around 2000 when they did Beano characters & then soft Tarzan characters.
They still have Happy Meals in boxes over here btw.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2013 13:45:41 GMT -5
These. That glider was probably my favorite toy as a kid!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 9:38:07 GMT -5
The Australlian McNugget was my favorite. Here is Grimace today. He is on the "Ahmed Johnson Diet".
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Post by johnnyb on Jun 10, 2013 9:53:31 GMT -5
That's so far from the truth. Toy's along with everything is now cheaper made. Look no further than Mattel. When I was a kid Hotwheels, made by mattel, were all metal. Some had opening doors and hoods. Now though most are all plastic and you'll almost never find opening parts, not even on Hotwheel's premium lines.But look at Mcdonalds, back in the day a Happy meal came in a box. They had to have run out of boxes before they gave you a bag. Now though they give you a bag. I've ordered happy meals for myself, as someone above stated it's enough for me sometimes, and they always give me a bag. Plus they stick apple slices in there and it's about 4 dollars. To me 4 dollars it too much, and them giving me a bag is inexcusable. I'm not sure which Hot Wheels you collected, but when I was a kid (25 years ago) they were exactly like they are today. I don't remember any of the standard cars featuring opening doors. And my 4-year-old loves Hot Wheels, and I can tell you that every one we've bought (single cars or 10-packs) have all been completely made of metal. You're romanticizing your childhood.
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Post by Halloween King on Jun 10, 2013 12:32:54 GMT -5
That's so far from the truth. Toy's along with everything is now cheaper made. Look no further than Mattel. When I was a kid Hotwheels, made by mattel, were all metal. Some had opening doors and hoods. Now though most are all plastic and you'll almost never find opening parts, not even on Hotwheel's premium lines.But look at Mcdonalds, back in the day a Happy meal came in a box. They had to have run out of boxes before they gave you a bag. Now though they give you a bag. I've ordered happy meals for myself, as someone above stated it's enough for me sometimes, and they always give me a bag. Plus they stick apple slices in there and it's about 4 dollars. To me 4 dollars it too much, and them giving me a bag is inexcusable. I'm not sure which Hot Wheels you collected, but when I was a kid (25 years ago) they were exactly like they are today. I don't remember any of the standard cars featuring opening doors. And my 4-year-old loves Hot Wheels, and I can tell you that every one we've bought (single cars or 10-packs) have all been completely made of metal. You're romanticizing your childhood. You need to look again. All metal cars are mainly reserved for Mattel's premium lines such as Hotones, Boulevard rides, and so on. Those lines feature all metal castings and rubber tires. The basic line up is a car made up of half plastic half metal. Either the base/chasis is platic and the top os metal (most often the case) or vice versa and the Bottom is metal with the top being plastic. I collect diecast cars so im 100% sure about this. As far as opening parts, again im sure that when I was a kid I had cars with opening hoods or sometimes they had opening doors. I know for a fact I had the Baja Breaker van that had an opening hood. Recently I saw these back in the basic lineup and they had no opening hood. My Baja Breaker was all metal when I was a kid, this new one has a metal body but a platic chasis/bottom. And as far as doors I know for a fact I had a Motor home with opening doors as a kid. My dad bought it for me in the gift shop of the hospital the day my brother was born. The motor home may have been either a MatchBox or a Hotwheels, I cant remember but both Matchbox and Hotwheels are now Mattel and I've never seen a Motor home with opening doors in recent years.
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Post by snatch on Jun 10, 2013 21:00:37 GMT -5
I looked forwarded to getting a happy meal esp. during halloween. Hence they come in there own halloween buckets. I don't remember much of the toys. The only ones I remember were the beanie crazy!.. My fav would have to be not McDs, but BK. I member getting a mini size NFL jersey w/ my meal. That was my fav.
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Post by Mofoin' Mizfit on Jun 11, 2013 0:59:05 GMT -5
They did have pretty decent toys back in the day. I remember the mini-beanie baby craze back in the 90s.My grandmother seriously had like every one they gave out in the Happy Meals. Ah, childhood was such a great time with all these awesome toys. Kids today are missing out!
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jun 11, 2013 9:54:40 GMT -5
I'm really showing my age here, but does anyone else remember when Grimace was evil? At one point he had 6 arms & used to steal the shakes & Cokes.
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Post by JC Motors on Jun 13, 2013 10:16:12 GMT -5
I'm really showing my age here, but does anyone else remember when Grimace was evil? At one point he had 6 arms & used to steal the shakes & Cokes. I heard about Evil Grimace even though I was born in 1989. He stole Milk Shakes not cokes
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2013 22:35:52 GMT -5
Yes I miss the glory days of Mcdonalds as well. The characters were the best. The Mcdonaldland playland was AWESOME! Huckleberry toys released a series one of the old time figures that Remco used to make and then ceased production....
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Post by HHH316 on Jun 16, 2013 0:18:10 GMT -5
I loved the toys in happy meals, but as a kid you don't realize how crappy they really are. I know for a fact I still have a Batman & Catwoman figures from a happy meal packed away in storage. I used them in my GI Joe wrestling fed as a kid. They were the perfect size!
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Post by Epic Z on Jun 16, 2013 5:07:05 GMT -5
Toys are always cheaply made. There were before and will continue to be. That's so far from the truth. Toy's along with everything is now cheaper made. Look no further than Mattel. When I was a kid Hotwheels, made by mattel, were all metal. Some had opening doors and hoods. Now though most are all plastic and you'll almost never find opening parts, not even on Hotwheel's premium lines. But look at Mcdonalds, back in the day a Happy meal came in a box. They had to have run out of boxes before they gave you a bag. Now though they give you a bag. I've ordered happy meals for myself, as someone above stated it's enough for me sometimes, and they always give me a bag. Plus they stick apple slices in there and it's about 4 dollars. To me 4 dollars it too much, and them giving me a bag is inexcusable.God forbid they give you your food in a bag.
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Post by Halloween King on Jun 16, 2013 10:59:47 GMT -5
That's so far from the truth. Toy's along with everything is now cheaper made. Look no further than Mattel. When I was a kid Hotwheels, made by mattel, were all metal. Some had opening doors and hoods. Now though most are all plastic and you'll almost never find opening parts, not even on Hotwheel's premium lines. But look at Mcdonalds, back in the day a Happy meal came in a box. They had to have run out of boxes before they gave you a bag. Now though they give you a bag. I've ordered happy meals for myself, as someone above stated it's enough for me sometimes, and they always give me a bag. Plus they stick apple slices in there and it's about 4 dollars. To me 4 dollars it too much, and them giving me a bag is inexcusable.God forbid they give you your food in a bag. I think you missed the point. What I was mean by me being upset at getting a happy meal in a bag is that as a kid I loved the box the Happy meal came in. The box would usually have drawings or puzzles or some thing to keep me entertained when I was a kid. And so when I see that today's happy meals come in a bag it's just horriblle. Just imagine if you wanted to buy a wrestling figure and instead of it being on a nice carding package it just came in the walmart bag. It would be a new figure, so would you be ok with that? You did just get a new figure, should you care that it isnt in it's intended packaging? No you wouldnt be ok with that, you want the carding because it's part of the fun. You get the figure on it's carding and now you can flip it over to look at the back to see what other figures come in the line. Or you can look at the front of the carding to look at a cool drawing style foto of the wrestler the figure represents. Or if you want you can keep the figure unopened on the carding. The same is true of a Happy meal. The box is part of the package. A Happy meal is a burger and fries put into a cool box that comes with a toy. With out the box, to me, it's not a happy meal. It's just a burger and fries in a bag that someone happened to throw a toy into.
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Post by Spear Guy on Jun 16, 2013 11:11:32 GMT -5
They don't use the boxes anymore! Sorry I haven't had McDonalds since 2009.
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Post by bababooey on Jun 16, 2013 20:30:50 GMT -5
The Batman Animated Series happy meal toys were the best. Not the ones in the cars that came out at the same time but the actual 4 inch figures. I usually ended up being disappointed and getting the ones in the cars but two times I lucked out and got Batgirl and Riddler. My cousin was lucky enough to get Batman. Good times mixing those with GI Joes.
Also, in my senior year of high school I took advanced art as an elective. Turned out the teacher often designed happy meal toys. He said the best he ever did were the Simpsons ones.
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