favorite happy meal toy

#1 10-23-2005, 05:17 PM

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?

KSUViolet06 · #2 10-23-2005, 06:27 PM

*ANY of the Barbie ones.
*The stuffed holiday Muppets (Miss Piggy, Fozzie, or Kermit)- circa 1989.

AOIIsilver · #3 10-23-2005, 06:27 PM

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

kansas13 · #4 10-23-2005, 06:40 PM

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!!

NutBrnHair · #5 10-23-2005, 06:46 PM

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!)

Taualumna · #6 10-23-2005, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by JocelynC
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*The stuffed holiday Muppets (Miss Piggy, Fozzie, or Kermit)- circa 1989.

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

alphaxikt · #7 10-23-2005, 06:59 PM

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

texas*princess · #8 10-23-2005, 07:33 PM

My favs were the teenie beanie babies

carnation · #9 10-23-2005, 07:37 PM

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!

Schmeer · #10 10-23-2005, 07:54 PM

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.

KillarneyRose · #11 10-23-2005, 09:06 PM

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!

CUGreekgirl · #12 10-23-2005, 09:27 PM

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!

Xylochick216 · #13 10-24-2005, 04:23 AM

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.

KDAngel · #14 10-24-2005, 04:32 AM

I always liked the Kid's Meals at Burger King more because they always had the deals with Disney back in the day!

#15 10-24-2005, 03:30 PM

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Originally posted by AOIIsilver
Actually, a recent toy...
Last year's Disney Madame Alexander dolls...

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...?