favorite happy meal toy
 

Ok all these 70 and 80s memory lane trips are to getting me :) ....it got me researching favorite toys of the past and one i have searched endlessly for i cannot find.. it was a McDonald Happy meal toy in the 70s.....i was in kindegarten or 1st grade it was 1974 and it was a plastic wrist band , looked like a watch, but you flip the lid and you put your coins in there.....i used it for school lunches when i was eating at the cafetria....... CANNOT find it even on ebay anywhere :(

anyhow.....what was your fav happy meal toy?

Actually, a recent toy...
Last year's Disney Madame Alexander dolls...

My favorite McDondald's game was the 70's and 80's Olympics game. You scratched off a team and a medal; if the USA won that event, you got a prize. You would go to the store each week for the postings on a big cardboard cutout. Mr. Silver thinks this game was too variable for a major company to offer....

Good thread!
Silver

I always loved the Teenie Beanie Babies!! In high school I would buy all of these Happy Meals just to get them. Who knew years later I would marry someone who works for McDonalds and have Happy Meal Toys coming out of my ears. Including all those Teenie Beannie Babies!!

Love the thread!
 

My favorite was in 2003 for the 100 years of Walt Disney. One hundred characters were produced in colorful plastic "statues" standing on a base with the name of the character and the year of the film.

I've collected around 90 of them. (Thank ya eBay!)

I LOOOOVED the stuffed muppets too!! I also liked the Muppet Babies action figures (circa '88 or so)

Stuffed muppets were good... Was mildly obsessed with the first batch of "Teenie Beanie Babies" when I was a freshman in h.s.

My favs were the teenie beanie babies :)

Definitely the Teenie Beanies, I spent a good deal of time trying to get a Teenie Beanie to match a regular-sized one that each of our children had. Thought I'd lose my mind until I was finally able to get a little goldfish for Baby Berry!

ohhhhhh, i liked the teanie beanies! stuffed muppits - good memory! those are seriously old school. what do they have out now? chicken little stuff - which looks like it's going to be super cute, btw :) as i've said many a-time before, i heart zach braff.

I'm liking the Madame Alexanders Mickey-D's is presently offering. So far I have the hopscotch girl, the soccer girl and the equestrienne girl.

I'm not kidding; I like Happy Meals as much as the next guy! :)

McDonalds' (at least i think it was McD's) had Pound Puppies and Pound Kitty stuffed animals in the Happy meals one year. Also, I remember when around Halloween time, instead of your happy meal coming in a box, it would come in a plastic bucket that was decorated as either a ghost or pumpkin and you could use it to trick or treat with.

Happy meals were so much cooler in the 80s and early 90s!

I remember the transformer thingys that looked like McDonald's food but turned into dinosaurs or robots or something. I loved them for some reason! I also loved the Mario 3 toys with the jumping turtles and the flipping Goomba.

I went and bought a Happy Meal yesterday and they actually have those dolls again.

As for the Teenie Beanie Babies, I lucked out both times they had em because my cousin worked for McDonalds' at the time and she ended up buying both sets for me in full so I didn't have to keep on going back and buying and eating!

I wonder how much they're all worth now...?

Not much...we have a ton of them and we're going to sell them on ebay, but they are going for nothing so we decided to wait.

OTW, they have Madame Alexander dolls but not Disney ones. All of the Madame Alexander dolls were dressed as cute Disney characters or as Mouseketeers. Too, cute!
Silver

Re: favorite happy meal toy
 

The Happy Meal debuted in June 1979, so that must have been from another restaurant. (I had to check because I was thinking that we didn't have Happy Meals when I was a little kid, and I was born in 1969.)

Here is what you were looking for, I think...

"McDonald's thought the boxes would be the must-have item. The first Happy Meals came in boxes that -- when combined -- formed a circus train. The toys inside included a stencil, puzzle book, wrist wallet, top and erasers. They learned kids wanted the toys, not the boxes."

That was June 1979.


ETA: My favorite was the Halloween buckets that the meal came in. There was a green one that looked like Frankenstein's head, an orange pumpkin, and a glow-in-the-dark ghost.

Also, this Happy Meal website said that McDonald's is the largest toy distributor in the world.

I love their Halloween pails too. Definitely their teeny beenies and the Barbie toys!

Oh yeah, I also LOVED their Disney princess accessories that they offered last year (a tiara, a mirror, etc.). I wanted that magic wand so bad but never could get my hands on it. :(

Oooh, the Halloween pails were great. So were the gardening things that came with real seeds, like the terrerium and gardening tools. I had my own little garden that summer :)

LOL, this doll was dressed as Minnie Mouse!

Re: favorite happy meal toy
 

You know...I *think* I have one of those in my kids "fastfood" toys bin....

hmmmm...better look

Loved the barbies ones where they had the plastic hard dolls -- those were so cool

Must have been left-over from last year. They all sold out in a snap down here.

OOOHHH...I had forgotten about the Halloween pails. They were wonderful.

Does anyone remember the Barbie snowglobe that was advertised but pulled for some reason? I waited weeks to get that toy!

Also, I really loved the "Babe" movie toys.

I wish they would have American Girl dolls/toys!

Silver

I have this collections of toys that were the McDonalds characters, but in disguise.

Like a happy meal that transforms into ronald mcdonald or fries that change into a character. I know I have those up in my attic, but I remember how much I loved playing with them as a kid.