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Parenting & Family > Mc Donalds, Happy Meals, and Toys
 

Mc Donalds, Happy Meals, and Toys

The temperature being extremely hot yesterday and me not being in the mood to cook we took our kids to Big Mac country, where they had two important items..A/C & a Play land. We got the kids their usual fare, the good old Happy Meal. Well Mc Donalds is running their promotion tie-in with the movie "Kung-Fu Panda". They have character toys enclosed with the Happy Meal, which isn't too bad..they're pretty good toys to get. Well as I examined the latest addition to my my sons already overstocked arsenal of cheap fast food toys I noticed something. The character this week was the main one, the panda..which was a good size toy. In fact it took up nearly 1/3 of the Happy Meal box, when they ran the tie-in with "Shrek the Third" those characters were pretty good too. Somehow though I have the feeling that in about 20 years I'll be seeing these items being sold on ebay for a hefty price. Maybe some people will wonder why I chose this topic to write about..well if your a parent of small kids then this has probably gone through your mind at least once or twice. Besides I needed something to write about and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

posted on June 9, 2008 12:35 PM ()

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It's always interesting to read about how things are when you have kids. We, obviously, don't have any, so it adds to my knowledge base. Hmm, thinking about those bigger toys... I don't really know much about the movies any more. This was a good blog!
comment by sunlight on June 12, 2008 8:10 PM ()
That's an interesting idea! And to think I have thrown tons of these things away from my children and grandchildren's toy boxes.
comment by redimpala on June 9, 2008 9:22 PM ()
I am just glad that my son is old enough to eat regular meals now on the rare occasion that we do fast food. I have boxes of those little plastic toys
comment by ducky on June 9, 2008 5:57 PM ()
yeah..beore you write..yes that should've been "for"
comment by redwolftimes on June 9, 2008 4:33 PM ()
I assume you are goin to keep the toys--in pristine shape of course which means the kids can't play with them--so that eventaully they can sell them and keep you in the nursing home?!
comment by greatmartin on June 9, 2008 2:31 PM ()
I must be very boring.Never enter either one of these places.
Marge is right,we got our toys out of the cereal box.
comment by fredo on June 9, 2008 1:00 PM ()
We used to get our toys out of a cereal box.
comment by nittineedles on June 9, 2008 12:54 PM ()
I took my son to burger king one day, they were SUPPOSED to have Indiana Jones toys. Oh no, he got Homer Simpson. I wanted to throw it at them!
comment by elkhound on June 9, 2008 12:39 PM ()

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