These mario movie toys share illumination's philosophy of being well-designed visually to sell well but lack any bit of substance, it's wild how consistent they are about that
@@timm5362 I feel like the movie will have substance, Bowser seems like an intimidating opposing treat, Mario will go through a predictable but cool character ark, and I feel like they’ll blow our minds in one way or another. But that just me
For anyone confused about the level of marketing this early for the movie (ie: toys, several trailers) it's a result of the movie being delayed but being unable to change the launch of these products.
Honestly, McDonald's toy quality has been in the gutter for a good while now. I have two Pokemon toys, one from Black and White and the other from when ORAS was coming out. The earlier one (Dewott) was made with solid plastic, and is honestly still a cool figure! The second one (Primal Groudon) has kinda flat, hollowed out limbs and is just...worse quality overall. I get that it's cheaper, but I still miss ye olden days
Yeah I got one of those cactus buddy toys from their adult McDonald's happy meal and it felt kinda hollow... I thought it was going to be a stuffed doll or something like that
That’s the point unfortunately. The Mario 3 toys from 1990 were cool since they each had fun play features like a jumping Mario or a jumping Paratroopa
@@trentoninnewjersey It would have been marketing GENIUS if they retooled those toys with the movie aesthetics. I mean, the retro style buckets sold out in the first week where I live because of the nostalgia factor, nostalgic retro style Mario Movie toys would have sold out in two days!
@@Dargonhuman not really..... Those old Mario toys were okay, I have them...... They're just as special as any fast food toy set for the past 20 years....... The only fast food toy set that stands out in my memory were the 1999 Pokemon release, Bionicles and the 2017 hello kitty tea cup set....... There is only so much you can do to a fast food toy........ I think nostalgia is playing in your bias.........
@@trentoninnewjersey not really..... Those old Mario toys were okay, I have them...... They're just as special as any fast food toy set for the past 20 years....... The only fast food toy set that stands out in my memory were the 1999 Pokemon release, Bionicles and the 2017 hello kitty tea cup set....... There is only so much you can do to a fast food toy........ I think nostalgia is playing in your bias.........
@@Dargonhuman maybe..... I don't think many folks give a shit if they did some reissue of a okay Mario bros 3 toy release for expect maybe radical Mario fans and hipsters......... If it was something like if they reissued the 1999 Pokemon BK promotion then yes I see the hype in that.
@@Rediscool9 They used to be kinda cool back in the day when I was a kid. Some even had some extra thing when put together. The one collection I remember very well was some Looney Tunes. It was 4 of them and each were in like a parade vehicle. They had wheels and attached to those wheels the character also did a thing when the wheels spun. At the front and at the end they had little hooks so that you could attach each other to kinda have a full set of parade vehicles going on at the same time. Bugs Bunny didn't have the hook in the front because he was supposed to be in front. This was over 25 years ago btw.
@@AndresLionheart One of my favorite sets was when McDonald’s did a Mario toy line back in 2006 or so. There was a Donkey Kong one that launched these flying discs and my sisters and I would play with it for hours on end laughing our asses off. The Nintendo toys Burger King had in like 2007 or so were great too. Peebs did a video on those ones
Idk if it’s just me getting older and seeing these things for what they really are but I remember fast food toys being so much more exciting and cool when I was a kid.
Because that's pretty much the case. Back then when I was a kid too, they had toys that would even recquire batteries. I remember that they had some Crash Bandicoot toys, where you could play small video games on them. Now it's just a bunch of figures who are all barely creatively made or put barely any effort into them. I mean, a bowser who has a spinning flame? Back then toys like these would have shot those fires.
@@JokukranTheileochyI vaguely remember getting a Patrick with the Krabby Patty car that you can actually turn on and off for it to go and it was the coolest thing to have at that time.
Definitely not just you - someone in another comment compared these "toys" to the Mario 3 toys that McDs made in the 90s and said those actually had fun and interesting play features.
I get happy meals for my nephew a lot and it has been really disappointing to see these toys turn into simple and lazy marketing towards kids instead being at least somewhat functional and entertaining toys like how I remember them being when I was a kid. I know I’m older now and some of that magic is lost with age, but I remember at least being able to do SOMETHING enjoyable with the toys instead of just slowly moving a joint around or whatever else is shown here. It really is sad:(
@@Peebs yeah cause you went down that pipe into super Nintendo world and met Mario , Chris Pratt and Miyamoto and went to the toad bar and drinked beers all night and had a great time and forgot you were recording a video of McDonald's toys.
Back when Mattel did the toys for the 2002 He-Man reboot, McDonald's had the show for their toys that month, and they were simply generic figures. They didn't have much articulation (arms up and down and some could turn their waist) and He-Man's sword was huge, but they were still decent figures overall, especially for kids who couldn't afford the big boy figures. I wish fast food places had more toys like those.
I think the reason the Mario Kart toy has a single wheel at the bottom is to give it a sort of illusion that Mario is drifting like how he does in the trailer. I mean he does kinda turn when you launch him, he turned right around to look at Peebs after he tried to launch him off the other desk.
Cardboard ain't even an excuse for them being as bad as they are there's a lot more you can do with cardboard :( they could at least make proper buildable models than the absolute shit theyve been doing currently. The sonic movie was one of the worst man. Waste of cardboard.
I imagine the reason Mario Kart has a ball instead of actual wheels is because of how they can hide a simpler method of the toy driving around instead of putting in the effort to make actual spinning wheels on the toy. Toad, on the other hand, can’t really do this considering the size of the wheels and the elevation of the kart body. So the expected approach of spinning wheels was done as this cheaper alternative couldn’t be pulled off and hidden well with that toy.
I don't know how to say this but your content and energy hasn't really changed for a number of years. But I think that's the best thing ever as I can actually get reliable good content that brings nostalgia (even though it's new episodes) and comfort at the same time.
I just checked the UK McDonalds website and yes, we also have "Super Mario Bros. Movie" Happy Meal stuff going on right now. But those "toys" are literally cardboard cutout pieces that require assembley. I mean, on an environmental standpoint, I can understand why they'd do that so that when the novelty's gone, they can get recycled so there's less plastic waste around but...I mean, if you design something for the sake of making it a better thing to throw away, what's even the goddamn point? xD McDonalds fell the hell off with stuff for kids since after the 90's, haha.
What I find extremely funny is how all these nostalgia based claims always contradict each other. A bunch of people in the comments caim the 90s were the last decade where they had good toys, other say they were best in the 2000s and only fell of by 2010.... it's almost like wherever your childhood decade was is the one you think is the best.
Mcdonalds toy videos are my favorite! My Mom use to work at Mcdonalds so I spent a lot of time hanging out at the Mcdonalds Play Ground. I use to bring my Gameboy and my Pokemon cards and made a lot of friends there. I was really shy as a kid (still am) but I never felt awkward when I was there! =]
Lumalee luma-BOP welcome to McLuma's Shop! (Seriously though Lumalee is such a specific character it's kind of shocking they're in the movie and also got a toy??)
When I was a kid I loved the toys that were more like statues with limited articulation, but expressive poses with the arms and legs out. I probably would have loved the DK, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser toys because they're more like that. Made it easier to play with them as action figures and gave them more replayability as apposed to toys that have a single gimmick that a child would be bored with in the first ten minutes..
12:32 Did anyone else notice that Luigi's holding the flashlight with a hand that has SIX fingers?? I can't unsee this now... Edit: And neither can you... you're welcome.😁
Its funny how ever since Rosalina debut in Mario Galaxy in 2007 she's been in nearly every Mario game since and now it looks like she'll be in the new Mario Bros Movie because of the Luma toy, yet Waluigi who been around since 2000 has only been in Mario Sports games and thats it.
My daughter really loves her Toad Car. Most likely because of the GIANT wheels but I think it's also because it has some strength to it. A lot of the other Mario Kart toys that you can get from game centers are all softer plastic that easily breaks.
And to think that Europe just gets freakin' cardboard cutouts as "toys"... man, i was born in 1999, and i still remember back in my days that the Happy Meal toys were much better back then, like those electronic LCD games
In the 90s, Bowser’s fire would’ve shot, Luigi’s flashlight would light up, and Peach would be a real spinning top. How is it that if those toys are expensive to make, why make them that good back then if it cost a lot to do them?
This promotion spoiling a still unseen character that's apparently important enough to get its own toy is pretty funny, all thanks to the movie being delayed.
I would get the toad one for my kids, if I had kids. It's all because cars *with wheels* are much better than an arm spinning. Something that I think kids would actually do with these, is play with them like action figures. You have no idea what kids are capable of with their imagination.
the mario cart toy is actually a big brain idea....executed wrong. i think they wanted it to go in all directions so you can mimic drift from the games and movie.
Idk... you can tell how cheap they feel through the camera. Thin, non-detailed, blobby paint, and the plastic sounds from just him holding it. You can tell they were designed to avoid lawsuits and overall fun.
@Seth blevins So you’re mad just because they’re promoting their fucking movie? The film was originally going to come out in December so that’s why the Happy Meal toys came out in December. You people really are desperate to bitch about things you know that?
@sethblevins8044you do realize the movie was supposed to release on December 2022 and they already scheduled the Mario Movie McDonald’s toys before they delayed the movie
you do realize the movie was supposed to release on December 2022 and they already scheduled the Mario Movie McDonald’s toys before they delayed the movie
@Seth blevins As the other person said, McDonald's can't change their toy line up as those are planned and in production months before the promotion happens and it just happens that the movie got delayed so the promotion doesn't match up with the release
The only reason I can think of for Mario’s Kart not having actually wheels is because they were trying to emulate when the wheels go side ways and the karts hover in the game. If that’s the case, it was still very poorly done though
The kart still has the normal wheels on the toy and I don't think they would do that anyway since the kart in the movie had the normal wheels (there may be a point where the wheels turn sideways in the movie outside of the trailers, however, like how we haven't seen Lumalee in any trailers yet). Interestingly enough, there were Mario Kart 8 toys (of which I have) that emulate the wheels going sideways much better since they put wheels at the bottom and actually properly roll.
@@matthewberry2144 That doesn't matter. Mario karts could drift/powerslide long before hover wheels was a thing, and we do see it drift in the trailer without hover wheels. (does the hop that initiates a powerslide right before the title screen in the second trailer)
@@sinteleon Um... I never said that it couldn't drift without hover wheels? I was just saying the toy doesn't have the hover wheels and it didn't have it shown in the movie either
They feel a bit like Kinder Surprise toys. Those are usually just figurines or collectibles, which makes them still relevant to kids, just not as toys.
As someone that works at mcd's at the moment(and am upset about casting famous actors as voice actors instead of, you'know, Voice. Actors. but oh well i fkin guess)I'm very excited to see what this video has instore edit: ...fast food toys are just getting sadder and sadder -_-
I'd say at the very least it's still cool that the US side of McDonald's are still producing toys for their Happy Meals. Over here in the UK, we just got a bunch of cardboard model kits instead.
I think the reason why the toys are so lazy is because the toys were leaked before they even came out with the first trailer to the movie and McDonald's rushed them into production.
My niece got the pipe one in her happy meal, and showed me because she knows I like Nintendo. My first thought was wow, this is lazy. I can't to see what Peebs has to say about these.
Man me and my brother have been watching since you did the Wind waker glitches and he stopped watching you but me never have ever stopped watching your dumb silliness I love u Peebs and happy new years
You're Amazing! I've been watching your RU-vid channel (s) since I started highschool that was like 4 years ago. Thanks for shaping the way I look at video games
They could have provided stickers for the cars and loosened these wheel gimmicks a bit. Still your getting these for the characters and they look recognizable.
I was in mcds today in the uk and the toys were super Mario movie but they were all cardboard cut outs which seems to be the norm for mcds toys these days
If I were the maker of the McDonald's toys: I would sell the company some NES game watches for customers to play on the go, such as Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, and Wrecking Crew.
Sooooo... We have: Peach - She spins DK - Spins his arm Mario Kart - Spins Luigi - Does half a spin Luma - Spins slowly Bowser - Spins his fire Toad Kart - Could spin, if you make him And Mario in a pipe AMAZING!!!
I think the reason for the Kart Mario one having the ball-bearing instead of wheels is to make it easier to have him drift, like he did in the trailer.
I'd guess the mario mart has the track-ball for that signature mario kart drifting action, where plastic wheels would just lock it into forward movement
