The World Of Nostalgic McDonald's Happy Meal Toys! 

Nothing was more hype for me than getting Bionicle toys in my Happy Meals

I destincly remember getting the groudon toy and fed him a chicken nugget

I’m going to say this now. The best McDonalds transformers promotion was for Transformers animated. IT WAS LITERALLY A TRANSFORMER THAT COULD TRANSFORM IN YOUR HAPPY MEAL!

The Angry Birds Star Wars promotion pissed me off so much. Hasbro was making ABSW figures and I thought that Mcdonalds happy meal would make some too, but no. All we got was a dingy little biddy plastic bucket. It was during this moment of heartbreak that I learnt how truly unfair the world was.

I remember the iconic Sponge Out Of Water toys. I feel old.

Wizard of oz dolls are iconic I stand by that

Back in the 2000's, McDonald's toys were even cooler with Disney promotions happening regularly from 1996-2007. Man I had a major good S tier childhood being a late 90's kid

6:45 I remember when I was 6 and got this book from my happy meal, I just cried. But on the bright side, 2 years later I learnt how a garbage disposal worked so I threw my copy of the book into it.

6:19 I'm always surprised that next to no one talks about this goat nowadays despite the fact it was such a big part of McDonald's promotional material in the early 2010s. I saw that commercial literally dozens of times.

Back when happy meal toys weren’t 100% of the time cheap activity books or puzzles or “collectible “ figures weee the only thing it dose is have you push a button for a cheep gimmick.

Happy Meals before the 2020s: THE GOAT

Why can’t McDonald’s make good toys anymore?

You’re like if Scott the Woz and Patmac had a baby together

I feel really nostalgic for almost everyone of these, but the SpongeBob ones will always hold a special place in my heart, because my Grandma was a huge fan of the original SpongeBob back then and she had a couple of these on her window and she’d let me play with them whenever I was with her

Ok now i feel god damn old. I do remember seeing some of these toys in ads but didnt have a single one, because i was already too old to be the target audience

happy meal toys hold a special place in my heart and ive been collecting them recently, i have to thank the channel fastfoodtoyreviews because i always watch a new video of his just to discover a new kids meal set i might want to buy, genuinely so much fun as a hobby and im happy there's been more appreciation for them as of late

The minions are scary because they can survive practikaly anything

0:54 I was so overwhelmed with nostalgia, I shat myself, thank you.

I remember once as a wee lad I went to McDonald’s during their Power rangers samurai promotion, i not only got the red ranger but also his fire smasher in the same box

I remember getting the Mario kart toys right before we went camping and I remember playing it them there and I also remember wearing the hat while playing with them in my house’s hallway

The ones I remember the most were the Minions, Sponge Out of Water, and Ice Age Continental Drift toys Nowadays I actually have a pretty decent collection of Mario Happy Meal Toys (some day I want to have them all) and some of the Pokemon cards along with the entire Sonic 2 set

It's like this video was MADE FOR ME. I grew up with so many of these man

I owned a decent amount of those 2011 Pokemon. I remember going to McDonald's after my birthday that year with a friend. He got Pikachu and I got Tepig. I didn't have anything against Tepig, but I wanted Pikachu. I tried in vain to trade with my friend. My mom ended up running back into McDonald's to trade Tepig for Pikachu. Good times.

literally the other day I found the spectacular Spider-Man green goblin at value village

That wobbuffet one I found randomly abandoned at a target in 2015

Man, the despicable me 2 are the GOAT

The nostalgia in this video is crazy

I had a lot of Disney happy meal toys, like a talking nemo, squishy blob from treasure planet and poseable elastigirl. I also had a lot of Barbie, strawberry shortcake and hello kitty happy meal toys.

17:42 Not me thinking this was an Aquatic Neptune gag 🫠

Bro I remember having the Tepig figure and the 2012 Pikachu, Dewott, and Woobat The Pokémon ones were dope

13:08 I remember asking asking the person at the register to specifically give me Bumblebee for whatever reason, as a little kid. And surprisingly, I got him.

15:42 knowing how big of a fan i am of the minions i remember having the phill jelly whistle toy out of all of this set, i remember not knowing what was the point of that Jerry toy

I remember begging my parents to get the complete Happy meal toys for Pokémon Omega Rubby and Alpha Sapphire, Mario Kart 8 and Minions.

I had the bracelet’s from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 happy meal as a kid. Honestly I regret getting rid of them.

I was so hyped when McDonald’s would drop the Spy Gear happy meal toys

Patmac's voice is sounding a little nerdier than usual

This is what we all wanted when we went to McDonald's as kids

Fun fact: the Pokémon B/W promotion in mexico had other Pokémon unlike the promotion in other countries, there was pikachu, snivy, oshawott, tepig, woobat, axew, emolga and dwebble!

Oh you're probably too young to remember the original Bionicle promotion. Back when the happy meals had real Lego pieces

You’re clearly a 2010’s kid because the 2000’s toys blow 90% of these out of the water, the incredibles line alone clears most of these

Bro we gotta boycot bulbasquirtle for not including the 2004 Russian sonic disk tops

I HAD THAT MINION WITH THE FART GUN, HE WAS MY FAVORITE TOY EVER.

When I was a kid I never cared for the food, I only wanted to toy.

The Hello Kitty houses, Hello Kitty Birthday, and Strawberry Shortcake McDonald's toys are so nostolgiac. I remember playing with the Hello Kitty ones all the time, and I can vividly remember the scent of the Strawberry Shortcake toys.

This video made me feel old. I don’t remember the Amazing Spider-Man 2 toys, but I remember the Burger King Spider-Man 3 toys. McDonald’s had the Legion of Superheroes and TMNT that year.

We still have one the the Lego movie cups at my grandmas, I get a nostalgia blast every-time I see it

11:42 I miss the old SML with Junior happy meal series

Don’t forget the one minion toy for the minion movie where it was a caveman and sounded like it was dropping f bombs or whatever 😭

Some of my favorites where the power rangers samurai & tmnt 2012 toys

I actually had the mk8 mario hat and I wore it so much to the point where it broke 8 years later

Does anyone remember the McDonald’s monster toy set?? I just remembered that there was one monster that look like a round water tank thing that had a floating brain, I just remember that you push a button and the brain would float around the water

The two Happy Meal toy lines I remember the most fondly are the Hotwheels and Bakugan lines.

i found that mario kart 8 hat visor toy on the ground in a park once. i took it home and cleaned it, glad i wasn't whatever kid that lost it.

15:31 I also used to have some of these. Specifically the fart gun one.

The thumbnail alone triggered so much nostalgia for me 💀

getting bakugan in my happymeal made my childhood. also some of those sets you showed at the end throws me off cuz there is at least 1 toy that wasn’t accessible to us, like it was exclusive to other countries

I do remember my sister and I having the thing, captain America, human torch and silver surfer McDonald’s toys back then.

I love the Human Torch and Spider-Man toys. I still have them, the Spider-Man magnet is such an awesome idea!

I grew up with some of these. I even had some of the minion toys. One of the other toys I had was the smurfs movie ones from the 2011 and 2013 set. I still have a few of them to this day.

Really great video dude, this brought me back down memory lane.

When TASM2 was new I had the Spider-Man Car there was also a tie-in game for TASM2 on PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, and more.

icb the jungle book 2 sets didn't get brought up! you could build them as is or connect the walls and bridges with other sets, i remember having a bag full of different wall pieces from various sets. kept me occupied for HOURS as a kid :') snapping them together and making houses out of them is peak nostalgia for me!

The transformers animated happy meal toys were goated, I had optimus back then and I played with him so much

Damn I remember seeing the goat eating commercials from McDonald’s and remembering getting the Mario kart 8 happy meal toys like the Mario cap and the peach bike toy, good times

The Groudon One, the Minion ones, the Skylander ones, the Power Ranger ones, the fucking Icarly ones, I have so much nostalgia for old McDonalds toys.

Special mention to fastfoodtoyreviews he is the best fast food toy review

15:55 I used to have Mr. Krabs, Sandy, SpongeBob lifting, twisted SpongeBob, and Karate SpongeBob.

I don't see a single nostalgic toy in this video. But I also haven't got a kid's meal since those Pokemon toys at Burger King.

We never got Happy Meals as kids. In fact, my dad boycotted McDonald's from the 70s til about late 2000s. Why? He went to one and asked to have his breakfast sandwich a certain way and the lady at the register was completely rude to him. We only went to Wendy's after that.

The Neopets plushies are what I remember most. Collected so many of those

I have the full set of Despicable Me 2 toys and it took me almost a decade to complete it and display with all the other minions stuff I have in my collection.

I remember the pails, but the thing is I got a Plants Vs Zombies one from Burger King.

I remember those tmnt 2012 season 4 figures where they went to space, I also remember them having very simple play features, like their hands spinning their weapons in the hands

Funny enough I still have the lego movie 3d Batman cup to this day

Honestly surprised at no mention of Bionicle

I have that SAME connection to that Omega ruby and alpha saphiree set. I remember every sunday a young Ike would ask the cashier "Do You Guys Have The Blue One" [Wobuffet] and could never get my hands on one

I'm currently eating McDonald's while watching this

Holy shit someone else remembers those Madame Amberly dolls. I don't know why, but as a kid I found something endlessly fascinating about them. I guess just because their was no other toys that looked quite like them. My parents were endlessly creeped out by them and found it odd that I asked for those over the lego batman toys, but they really were an interesting remnant of my childhood.

Mcdonalds toys just being books or cardboard pieces you put together now is actually depressing to see

16:00 this made me remember i was really little when these were being distributed so i could be misremembering, but one time i was in a mcdonalds that was far away or smth and i really wanted one of the sandy toys, so the cashier pulled out the toy bin and searched for one i think i was a drooling child but looking back on it... feel a lil bad

Tbh, I never understood Toadette's inclusion, like I would've preferred Wario or any other character but her.

This was such a nostalgia trip 😢

I remember sonic heroes McDonald’s toys from 2004 20 years ago was different

Before a fire, I had all the Cars Happy Meal toys

In Australia 2000's, the girls toy was a pixel chix toy. Which was a mini video game (think tomagotchi) and I still think about it to this day

I Remember The SpongeBob Lost In Time Toys Where SpongeBob Was In Various Time Periods In Costume To Fit The Time Periods

I still have my Spectacular Spider-Man suction cup toy and Venom water squirter

The realistic spider toy creeped me out when I was a child

I was thinking of not watching this, but I’m glad I did some of these especially at the end. I totally forgot and it takes me back.

I remember I had the Astro boy toy of him flying and as a kid I would hold it up while riding the escalator at the mall pretending he was flying.

I really miss the old kids meal toys, they used to be really awesome back then but now there just lame or just a cardboard, But hey cool video!

I remember getting those Star Wars tops with a different launcher for each. They were all from episode 1.

This is interesting for me as an example of a generational gap, but only slightly. The only toys in this video I got were some of those Clone Wars bobble head ship things. It’s not case of me being a decade older than you and not recognizing anything, but just being a few years older to where my experience was only slightly different. For example, you mention the ad campaign for Amazing Spider-Man 2, but the campaign that’s memorable for me is Spider-Man 3 (Raimi trilogy). I swear, the symbiote suit was inescapable. Only difference is Burger King was a big rival with toys back then, so the Spider-Man 3 stuff was there instead of McDonalds. I also remember Transformers 2 toys at BK very fondly. The other themes I remember from McDonald’s the most are Incredibles, TMNT 2007, Surf’s Up, Flushed Away, Bionicle, and a few others from that time period. Sorry for the essay, but this video is just interesting to me as an insight into the mind of someone only slightly younger than me. And again having an experience with these toys that’s completely different to mine, but also very similar.

Take a shot every time iconic is said

Those plastic cups are legendary to me. I still have some of the lego batman ones

man nowadays we are lucky if we get plastic figurines instead of boxes with a print or cardboard cutouts

I’m getting a tsunami of nostalgia right now. Thank you, random sonic oc (If you get the reference, you get a 🍪)

i tried to figure out how yoda was able to move that disc 3 years in total until my mom explained it to me. This is the first thing I think of when I think of Happy Meal Toys

The lego Batman the video game toys are insane i wish I had those since I grew up playing the game but not having any of the figures until now that is I just bought the og Batman last week

6:30 and the book campaign was even bigger in europe and is still going to this day with the books sometimes being inside a happy meal along with the toy