Favorite kids meal toy for Xennials

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True-Arugula6405@reddit

Awe.. thank you for this! Instant joyful nostalgia.

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TriceratopsJam@reddit

Mine were definitely the fragile vegetable racers

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Puzzleheaded_Cat4127@reddit

These were so funny! My mother still might have one or two and some random accessories

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C_est_la_vie9707@reddit

So my sister and I were fighting like we always did and she went down hard onto one of these and chipped her tailbone. I used to tease her about breaking her butt on a chicken nugget. Ah memories.

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wafair@reddit

Holy crap! There were Halloween ones?!

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I had a TON of them. My Sunday school teacher at the time was a manager a McD's and she would give one for each Bible verse we memorized. Did i get every one I could? I did. Did I really care about the Bible verse? I did not.

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iliumada@reddit

I loved them so much!!

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glorfindelreddit@reddit

I loved the little transformers that were shaped by McDonald’s food.

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dumpyduluth@reddit

my mom has these still along with the nuggets in halloween costumes

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kaest@reddit

I still have a couple of those somewhere. Definitely my favorite McD toy!

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

This one, right here. The dinosaur ones were PEAK, especially the hotcakes container that turned into a pterodactyl!

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ClockNo4810@reddit

It's these for me. Or the Land Before Time puppets from Pizza Hut.

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PvtDeth@reddit

100% I found some on eBay and they weren't that much. I think my kids might like them as much as I did.

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johnvalley86@reddit

Hell yeah! These were my favorite with the fraggle Racers being close runner up

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twentysevennipples@reddit

I still have the french fry one

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ZestycloseSuccess285@reddit

These were amazing!

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Dicky_Penisburg@reddit

Changeables! Definitely my favorite from childhood. They just recently released a new run of them for the first time in over 35 years.

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Prinessbeca@reddit

The new ones suuuuucked.

Some 90s boys grew up on the property we're buying, and when it flooded in 2019 most everything was left behind. We found almost a full set of og changeables that I cleaned up for my kids to play with. (Also, am entire set of the Land Before Time rubber puppets from Pizza Hut. A bit brittle from being outside in the elements, but still, they bring me joy!)

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BVeeDub@reddit

I have two of them on my work desk and they bring me such happiness. I need to get the entire collection.

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hamburgler26@reddit

YES those are amazing. They're doing something similar now and we found some sets of the OG ones on ebay and really want to get them. Some of them are pretty amazing.

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antisocialnetwork77@reddit

Snorks all day

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dadjokes502@reddit (OP)

I never liked the snorks

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antisocialnetwork77@reddit

How dare you, sir.

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Nikkianne617@reddit

Baby Gonzo and baby Kermit are currently my nieces favorite bath toys - and my sea wees 🥰

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2reeEyedG@reddit

This one and rescue rangers. I still have all of what’s in the pic except for piggy

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Efficient-Cut7155@reddit

Core memory for me- 10th birthday, was allowed to get my ears pierced AND eat McDonald’s (a rare treat as a kid), got the Kermit skateboard toy. Good day!

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skywalkerRCP@reddit

I loved that Kermit toy it was my favorite for a long time.

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goosedog79@reddit

That Kermit, minus the skateboard, sits as the mascot to my parents pool to this day. My kids love diving down for it, just like me and my sister 40+ years ago!

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KBO_Winston@reddit

My favs! I still have some on my desk.

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spderweb@reddit

I loved the fraggle rock cars.

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Snow_Crash_Bandicoot@reddit

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wayneluke23@reddit

Forgot all about these , memory remembered

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othertigs@reddit

I loved the muppets when I was little. These toys came out when I was six. We were doing a multi-week drive around the country (starting in California) and managed to get Kermit, the last one I needed, outside of NYC. We were supposed to be meeting friends for a fancy dinner just a little later, but after my parents realized Kermit was the toy, I got a pre-dinner happy meal. Those toys got played with hard on the meandering drive back to CA.

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camptastic_plastic@reddit

These weren’t as cool a most of the ones shared here, but did anyone else love the Bambi toys? I had all of them but Flower. For some reason I just thought these were magical.

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ebola1025@reddit

I still have my Bambi. I had all 4 and played with them for years and years in my dollhouse. I even had an extra Bambi that I played as Faline

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Decent-Unit-5303@reddit

Bambi was so elegant, Flower and Thumper so chubby and cuuuttteeeee....

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sundancedevil@reddit

I had Thumper and Bambi and I would carry them with me so I could play with them on-the-go.

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Street_Breadfruit382@reddit

No! Not these. The muppet babies plushies they did for Christmas. Mid 80s. Miss piggy was so pretty!

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ebola1025@reddit

I had them all and Miss Piggy had hair, and they were my prized possessions for years. I'm so happy you reminded me of this

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ShowMeYourHappyTrail@reddit

I loved Fraggle Rock so those guys in their little vegetable cars were my favorite.

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MajesticLow@reddit

I had the Miss Piggy in this picture but mine was on its last leg from playing with it 😂

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Due_Addition_587@reddit

The Land Before Time puppets from Pizza Hut. Have seen them mentioned a few times, but let's get a proper look! My mom killed herself to get one of each - I have no idea how she made this magic happen in the days before the internet.

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M0ntgomatron@reddit

All I wanted was a Mr Frosty. Never got one.

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Kryptin206@reddit

Wendy's mix up aliens

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HeckTheCat@reddit

Wendy's still does surprisingly cool toys that aren't promos for a licensed franchise. My kid recently collected the Strange Pet set and they're actually decent quality little figures.

My favourite from them was Felix the Cat though XD the commercial is a nostalgia trip

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deadinsidesince2006@reddit

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Elegant-Aerie-1233@reddit

I had all of these toys. My mom never took me to McDonald’s because she knew it was it was not healthy. But my stepdads mom worked there after she retired because I guess she needed to be busy her entire life or something. Anyway every Sunday we would go to her house for a big Sunday dinner with the whole family (again this lady never stopped) and she would have the McDonald’s toys for me, like the whole set of whatever was out. So I always had all of them.

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hamburger-pimp@reddit

These and the little McNugget guys

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Book-It was a Kid’s Meal, right? I read so many damn books and collected these. They smelled so good, too.

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al_m1101@reddit

I have a core memory of these, but the Eureka's Castle ones.

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dadjokes502@reddit (OP)

I need to find these on eBay. Only Pizza Hut toy I wanted

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

I got this photo from an ebay listing. $35 for the 3 originals and a clone.

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FitCharacter8693@reddit

Cera’

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

TIL

I mean, it totally makes sense. I will say, I haven’t revisited the Don Bluth catelogue of animated “children’s” films.l, in 30 years…out of fear of unboxing repressed childhood trauma. Like how was every movie that he made, so incredibly heart wrenching? Disney never came close.

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FitCharacter8693@reddit

I still have my Ducky !!

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eamus_catuli_@reddit

That’s where they were from! I have a couple of these dinos and didn’t remember them being from Happy Meals but couldn’t think of where they came from.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

They came from Pizza Hut, as a promo for ‘The Land Before Time’. I think you could buy one, in addition to a child pan-size pizza.

During that same time period, the Book-It reading program was at its peak. You’d read so many books, and get a certificate for a free Pan Pizza.

I read a lot as a kid. And the driving motivator was these puppets, as they released. I was addicted to the sweet rubber smell and obsessed with dinosaurs.

Pizza Hut ended up realeasing 8 puppets. 4 for Land Before Time. 4 for Land Before Time 2. The two most traumatic movies to most childhoods.

Aaaaand my parents hated Pizza Hut.

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

I won the whole set of these by entering a coloring contest. They had the sheet I colored up for quite awhile.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

That’s awesome. I would have framed it. I unfortunately had to consume Pizza Hut’s greasy AF pan pizza. But…I read all the Box Car Children books as well. So not a bad trade off.

OMG remember how smoky restaurants were? I just had this olfactory memory, of Pizza Hut in Lansing, MI…cheese, sauce, grease, A&W Rootbeer and stale smoke.

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chadork@reddit

I remember how these tasted. I chewed on so much as a kid.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

They had a distinct flavor. Probably phthalates and carcinogens…but it was the 80’s.

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Squish_Miss@reddit

I swear I'll be 80 and still remember this.

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twentysevennipples@reddit

I brought these to kindergarten for show and tell

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JMurph3313@reddit

I can smell these. I loved these and the Alf puppets so much.

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Dimplefrom-YA@reddit

we were too broke for mcdonald’s.

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Ok_Concentrate4461@reddit

I believe my mom still has some of those. She’s done home daycare for 46 years and for a time she collected so many happy meals toys and just stuck them in a giant under bed box for the kids to play with.

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Fianna9@reddit

I think I was a teen, but I loved when they had the mini beanie babies. And I would go in and buy them on the side

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noonesaidityet@reddit

Changeables and the McNuggets with the different costumes were their best ideas, IMHO.

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digitalgraffiti-ca@reddit

FRAGGLES. I still have the whole set

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twilightswimmer@reddit

I still have my original boo buckets.

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sundancedevil@reddit

I loved the 1988 Oliver & Company finger puppets.

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dadjokes502@reddit (OP)

I love this movie

But I never knew Joey Lawrence was the voice of Oliver

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Beneficial_Guess6410@reddit

I’m surprised nobody has talked about these yet. The best, and most classic IMO.

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freedraw@reddit

Robot Changeables > Dinosaur Changeables.

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dadjokes502@reddit (OP)

I’m on the fence about those.

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MashedPotatoesDick@reddit

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freedraw@reddit

The flocking on these did not hold up at all. If you find the today, even still in the bag, they're all sticky.

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Pessemist_Prime@reddit

Are those the Berenstein Bears or the Bearenstain Bears?

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twentysevennipples@reddit

I used to have gonzo from above ride around in that red wagon

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Holy crap! These were awesome. But then I attempted sticking Papa Bear, into the He-Man Evil Horde Slime Pit, and the slime removed his fur.

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freedraw@reddit

Changeables. It was fun collecting the new ones with my daughter recently.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

If we're talking strictly McDonald's, then it's definitely the original Transformers set.

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TomPalmer1979@reddit

Okay see those I remember! Someone else posted the transformers sets only they were turning into cutesy little dinosaurs and I have zero memory of those.

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BrooklynRobot@reddit

When your world looks kinda weird and you wish that you weren’t there…

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Chemtrails_in_my_VD@reddit

Ducktales or the very first run of Changeables.

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FitCharacter8693@reddit

LAUNCHPAD

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_buffy_summers@reddit

My sisters and I fought over Webby.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

I had Scrooge. And Miss Piggy could swap cars with him.

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FitCharacter8693@reddit

I STILL HAVE MINE. I have the fozzie, Kermit.

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

My faves

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alphacreed1983@reddit

I loved these and only can assume what form of micro plastics they are in the Indian Ocean at this moment

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EBMille4@reddit

Nah, some of them are inside of us! How nostalgic

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no___personality@reddit

Oh my god flashback. Totally forgot about these.

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gloomy-bloom181@reddit

I dream about these

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Mission-Statement-15@reddit

Thisssss!!!!

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Dammit! Can the Fraggles and Muppet Babies cage match for my vote?

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

For real!

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Prinessbeca@reddit

The carrot car might be tied with Gonzo on the trike for my all time most played with.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

I loved Miss Piggie’s car with Gonzo or Uncle Scrooge. The car’s wheels perfectly matched out bannister, so they’d go rolling down that

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Albert_Simon@reddit

Dude, you just unlocked a core memory for me. My two rumblings and I had dozens of these at my grandparents house.

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jugdeesh@reddit

Dance your cares away, worries for another day

Let the music play, down at Fraggle rock ! 🎼

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

Allister - Fraggle Rawk (pop-punk cover, 1999)

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sand_anne@reddit

Omg childhood memory unlocked!! Thank you for this, man I loved these.

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pawogub@reddit

Once busted my chin on a table playing with the radish one. I slipped or something, but ended up getting stitches.

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adam5280@reddit

Yessssssssssss

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RainbowSnapdragons@reddit

My fave is the Delorean from back to the future that, when you run the wheels along the ground fast enough, the little clear plastic box on the back makes sparks (inside the box). For obvious reasons it got recalled. 😂 I had it as a kid and lost it, so I bought one off eBay like 20 years ago. Still have it.

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Tangletoe@reddit

Way underrated reply.

This was the best ever and beats Fraggle Rock toys slightly. The thing shot out sparks! You didn't just see them. Sometimes you could feel them spraying.

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AnElectricalMeatbag@reddit

Tangentially, I still want to 1) know what Nanny's face looked like and 2) want her green and white striped socks.

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petrov32@reddit

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Appropriate-Diver301@reddit

Idk but looking at these gave me just that little bit of happiness I needed today

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clutzycook@reddit

These were the first happy meal toys I ever got. My mom took me and my 3 younger siblings (I think the youngest was just a few months old) to Sears for pictures. She bribed us older ones with a happy meal in exchange for cooperative behavior. She must have been totally stressed out with dragging four little kids around to have done that because it had never even been an option in any of our previous visits to MCD.

Anyway, I got Miss Piggy that time. And I think we also ended up with Kermit at a later date.

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SpaceBowie2008@reddit

When McDonalds had their food be transformers. That is legend.

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Hiryu-GodHand@reddit

This came out when I was in my late, late teens, but the Rugrats watches from BK

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

This. Right here. The holy grail of kids meal toys, from Wendy’s in 1990. Somehow I convinced my parents to ask them to sell us the whole set, since we lived about 2hrs away from the nearest Wendy’s at the time. These things were the sickest, they all opened up to hold your Micro Machines cars which I had a ton of.

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Specific-Library-312@reddit

I had that Baby Gonzo for years!!! So that's how I got that thing...

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tracefact@reddit

California Raisins!

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Rshields_388@reddit

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Pleasant-Reading3634@reddit

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TrustInRoy@reddit

Those were from Hardees

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rangeghost@reddit

The post says "Kids Meal" toys, not specifically only Happy Meals.

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TrustInRoy@reddit

I know. I'm adding context bc I remember getting them.

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tracefact@reddit

Ok.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

There it is. I was gonna be mad if I had to do it myself. The only thing close would be the Chipmunks glasses, but those weren't toys. I've still got a bunch of these guys rolling around my possessions, though. They survive moves. They survive fires, floods. My California Raisin rocking an electric guitar pointed at the ground will outlive me.

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Eziekiel23_20@reddit

Ha. I think I have the set around here somewhere…

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General-Ad6459@reddit

No clue why, but this was what first came to my mind.

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E-2theRescue@reddit

Hah, that's funny! I just read about this abandoned island that has a McDonald's with these toys still advertised at the drive-thru.

https://www.abandonedspaces.com/public/abandoned-mcdonalds-alaska.html

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LongballG@reddit

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findingfriends2025@reddit

Holy flashback.

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Khurzan1439@reddit

The Lego happy meal toys!

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AdditionalMustard@reddit

The hype for this game was so real...

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

I still have these somewhere.

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kevinraisinbran@reddit

My kids still play with the goomba that I kept!

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stinkyf00@reddit

I was desperate for these toys.

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suppamoopy@reddit

wow id forgooten this one

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chadork@reddit

So real! You could fly! Best we got before was floating as Peach on Doki Doki Bros 2.

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_buffy_summers@reddit

I remember getting a cloth toy that could either be flipped inside out or have a 'hood' pulled over its head, to become a different animal. I think mine was a black cat that turned into a duck. I wanted to find a picture, but I can't even remember what they're called, and Google AI is a piece of shit.

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broken-biscuits177@reddit

The McDonalds Barbies!!! I collected so many of them and you could see through the years, the quality of the toy getting better to then getting worse (cheaply made). Still loved them though!

More recently, their Hello Kitty toys and watches from 2008 and 2015!!

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addiepie2@reddit

These were soooo dope !!! Watching Muppet Babies after school is a fond memory for me!! 🤍

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PutNameHere123@reddit

For me it was the back to school lunch boxes from 1987. I started off Kindergarten in style lol Though, I used it as a crayon box.

As an adult it was the 2008 Sanrio watches!

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Squish_Miss@reddit

I had Kermit on the skateboard ☺️

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drimmie@reddit

I still have all of those!

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Al-ex-Bee@reddit

These are GOAT!

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80s_angel@reddit

I still have my Miss Piggy but my favorite is that line of food transformers.

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SurviveDaddy@reddit

Stompers

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tavikravenfrost@reddit

Man, I forgot about these. I know that I had blue truck in the top middle and red van in the bottom right, but I feel like I also has the red truck in the middle left.

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NoBot-RussiaBad@reddit

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keencleangleam@reddit

Memory unlocked!

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lakatos_intolerant@reddit

I remember all these and especially played with Gonzo.

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Otherwise-Dog-9217@reddit

mixed up monsters. corkle was my favorite.

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shadowlarx@reddit

It takes me back…

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theSantiagoDog@reddit

Wow, this really took me back. I loved these figurines.

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Dear-Discussion2841@reddit

Ok, does anyone else remember the Chicken McNugget characters with little Halloween costumes you could change around? I'm pretty sure we had a Dracula, Frankenstein, and a mummy at the very least...

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TeutonJon78@reddit

McNugget Buddies. There was a lot of different ones, not just Halloween.

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dadjokes502@reddit (OP)

Yes I do they were cool

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

I had all these Muppet Babies ones. And some that were the food containers that were transformers(ish).

McDonald’s used to be magical. I don’t know what it is now.

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queenquirk@reddit

I'm getting a bit sidetracked, because I guess I can't say that this is my *favorite*, but this is the one I remember the most. Why? Because it appeared in a dream as a herald of a monster and I felt uneasy around it after that. It still randomly pops into my head.

Just had to get that off my chest. For such an innocent little toy, it appeared in one of the worst nightmares I ever had, to the point where I remember it 30+ years later.

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fermentedradical@reddit

Yaaaas Muppet Baby toys

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mhyquel@reddit

Not the best, but one of the weirdest were the Mac Tonight toys

https://i.etsystatic.com/16539467/r/il/e92286/7415609240/il_794xN.7415609240_b67t.jpg

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Tumblenugget@reddit

These muppet babies... and the Loony Toons that were superheroes ..the outfits were a front and back snap together shell.. Taz was The Flash I think

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MetaVulture@reddit

McDs Lego

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iliumada@reddit

I definitely bought a bunch of happy meals to get this one!!

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poofandmook@reddit

Jfc core memory unlocked

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iliumada@reddit

Same! This whole thread is like an acid trip.

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RalphMacchio404@reddit

I have these sitting in my room, next to me

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OperationLazy213@reddit

https://i.etsystatic.com/7939995/r/il/cc24de/2876793889/il_fullxfull.2876793889_suc8.jpg

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yellowduckcraft@reddit

The Halloween nuggets. Nuggets in costume

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Queasy_Dig_8294@reddit

My children are currently enjoying miss piggy and her car. Many a Bluey toy have also hijacked her car.

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RWD-by-the-Sea@reddit

Only ones I remember were the Apollo 13 pogs, slammers, and rocket from I think...Hardees?

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partmachine623@reddit

Yes a millions times. My cousin called me when he finally got Kermit.

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AeonFluxIncapacitaor@reddit

Gonzo and Kermit could roll like motherfuckers across some tile.

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ZestycloseSuccess285@reddit

Little mermaid bathtub toys especially ariel & flounder & california raisins from Hardee’s (i think) .

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comidamagica@reddit

I loved the little pink car baby miss piggy came in!

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obiwindukin@reddit

I never got fozzy lol I loved those toys

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BornTry5923@reddit

Awww, I had these! I think I even had Animal. Yayayaya

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old_qwfwq@reddit

Back flipping goomba from the super Mario toys in the 90s. Nothing has ever compared.

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TinyDogGuy@reddit

Is it weird, that I can distinctly smell all of these pictures?

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iambarrelrider@reddit

Tonka trucks.

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maggie320@reddit

I swear I remember getting a Barbie record. It sounded awful and was the flimsiest plastic, but Google has no information about this.

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bigpoppa973@reddit

Garfield! But, the muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, and Duck Tales were all up there as well.

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LackadaisicalAF@reddit

Still have mine

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Skitzafranik@reddit

Yup!! Had these and played the hell out of them!! I loved switching them around!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽💯💯

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Possible-Tip-2914@reddit

I vaguely remember these

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megan00m@reddit

The Muppet Babies are the only one I collected! Thanks for posting this! Loved seeing them!

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J-littletree@reddit

The fraggle rock ones were sweet too

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

The girl next door and I would play with these together. We made little shoebox houses for them.

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creepygurl83@reddit

I had all of these!

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LAffaire-est-Ketchup@reddit

I still have those!!

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Spirited-Gold117@reddit

Astrosniks were my favorite. I even sent off for the spaceship.

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CPAMama2025@reddit

I'm pretty sure I made my dad drive all over the suburbs looking for these.

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hamburgler26@reddit

I have this full set! My mom saved them and sent them to us and my kid enjoys them now. I want to say the Happy Meal box could be turned into some kind of basic playset for them as well, although that may have been another one.

For some reason the Muppet Babies in particular were a favorite and we mad sure to find them all.

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dadjokes502@reddit (OP)

I remember they had him show up at McDonalds restaurants he was so different for a restaurant mascot.

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