favorite happy meal toy - Page 2

kansas13 · #16 10-24-2005, 09:51 PM

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Originally posted by OTW
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.

AOIIsilver · #17 10-24-2005, 10:07 PM

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Originally posted by OTW
I went and bought a Happy Meal yesterday and they actually have those dolls again.

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!
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irishpipes · #18 10-25-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally posted by cutiepatootie
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?

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.)

irishpipes · #19 10-25-2005, 10:30 AM

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.

Honeykiss1974 · #20 10-25-2005, 10:49 AM

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.

Xylochick216 · #21 10-25-2005, 02:26 PM

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

#22 10-25-2005, 03:04 PM

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Originally posted by AOIIsilver
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!
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LOL, this doll was dressed as Minnie Mouse!

sageofages · #23 10-25-2005, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by cutiepatootie
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?

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

hmmmm...better look

dzfan · #24 10-27-2005, 02:42 PM

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

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

AOIIsilver · #25 10-29-2005, 07:21 AM

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Originally posted by OTW
LOL, this doll was dressed as Minnie Mouse!

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!

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ADPiShannan · #26 11-04-2005, 09:32 AM

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.