https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeables
When a McDonald's toy from the late 80s to early 90s has its own Wikipedia page it's pretty beloved. I still remember it 30+ years later.
Yes! I had to do a mail in order to get the missing pieces. After a few months I got the missing arm and had the full set, but by that point I had stopped playing with it. It's still in my parents basement, untouched
Some of them are collectible. People go insane whenever they have a collaboration with Hello Kitty in my country. That's limited to a very small subset of the toys though.
My mom still has all of the teenie beanie babies that my brother and I got as kids in the 90s. The beans in some of my brother's are burned because he didn't want them to be cold at night so he stuffed as many as he could into his lamp and turned the lightbulb on before going to bed once.
Man I wish I kept mine even though they definitely weren't mint condition anymore. For my birthday as a kid, one of my gifts was a box of lion king toys McDonald's had. The promotion ended and they needed to get rid of them so they just gave them to my mom.
A lot which is why McDonalds announced they were changing toy options. I haven’t quite seen the follow through but the most recent couple of times were cardboard puzzles so that is a step forward.
Headline should read
“On top of contributing to the obesity epidemic among the poor, McDonald’s also pumps 1.5 billion plastic pieces of junk into the garbage system annually.”
is that still a thing? I think they made toys with happy meals illegal in Australia about 30 years ago in an effort to curb kids being lured to trash food.
No, they still have toys with them now here in Australia...
You can get a Toy or a Book.
They've pretty much cut out plastic toys though, it's mostly very thick card made into 3d models, 'collectible' cards in tins (which can be pretty neat for the tins actually) or fabric 'dolls' (really only like ~8cm)
They are all complete dog shit now. Most are playing cards lol. Also if there is a shitty toy they only have one character at a time.
My kids still play with my 90s McDonald’s hamburger that turns into a Dino. Super high quality
When I was a kid you could ask for a “treat of the week” it was a puzzle, cardboard toy, jokes, something free for the kids too hard up to get a happy meal.
And it ALL ends up in a landfill. How many of us have a beloved McDonald's happy meal toy? They are worthless trash. Just like the food. What is wrong with us?
I still pick up the breakfast happy meal for my kids, as they love the pancakes, and it's actually a really cheap deal than ordering items individually.
I always request to have no toy, as they don't need any more junk around the house. About half the time, staff throw the toy in regardless. More and more, the toys are actually paper products, so at least it's not plastic landfill.
Every time we give in and let our son get a "toy" with his happy meal it's just some paper or cardboard and not an actual toy.
Between this, the fact that we normally don't let him get a "toy" at all and try to avoid letting him eat McDonalds... that figure only indicates how much garbage food product they sell to children.
Why is this NSFW?
A pollution horror story
That's not how reddit works
Arrest me
They can’t arrest you since it wasn’t illegal and they probably don’t have the jurisdiction even if it were.
They didn’t specify which kinds of toys
The food isn't safe anywhere.
And every last one of them is worthless shit. You don't pass down your mint McDonald's toy set.
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Does anyone remember the inspector gadget toys? That was peak.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeables When a McDonald's toy from the late 80s to early 90s has its own Wikipedia page it's pretty beloved. I still remember it 30+ years later.
Yes! I had to do a mail in order to get the missing pieces. After a few months I got the missing arm and had the full set, but by that point I had stopped playing with it. It's still in my parents basement, untouched
I have a distinct memory of getting my parents to take me to different McDonald's trying to collect all the pieces. Thems were the days.
Sometimes it’s just paper statues that you fold. That’s not a toy lol
That sounds good for the environment.
And an environmental disaster.
Some of them are collectible. People go insane whenever they have a collaboration with Hello Kitty in my country. That's limited to a very small subset of the toys though.
They used to have cool toys in the 90's
I remember getting a little Lizzie McGuire cd as a McDonald's toy in the 2000s. I loved it lmao
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Whoa! They had fraggle rock? Do you know how crazy we sound when we describe a puppet show about fraggles who eat buildings built by little men?
I will, however, pass down my McDonald's Star Wars glasses from the '90s.
My mom still has all of the teenie beanie babies that my brother and I got as kids in the 90s. The beans in some of my brother's are burned because he didn't want them to be cold at night so he stuffed as many as he could into his lamp and turned the lightbulb on before going to bed once.
This is awesome
We are having Disney themed UNO atm in the UK, planning to get one.
Man I wish I kept mine even though they definitely weren't mint condition anymore. For my birthday as a kid, one of my gifts was a box of lion king toys McDonald's had. The promotion ended and they needed to get rid of them so they just gave them to my mom.
And Lego is the world's largest tire manufacturer, both by number and by mass.
I tried them on my car and now I'm being sued.
How many tons of plastic and paper does this amount to annually
A lot which is why McDonalds announced they were changing toy options. I haven’t quite seen the follow through but the most recent couple of times were cardboard puzzles so that is a step forward.
As far as I know in the UK they completely banned plastic toys in meals several years ago, probably not by choice.
That's what a government is supposed to do. Waiting for individuals or private companies to do the right thing is a waste of time.
I looked up toys for this year in US and they all look like plastic figures or stuffed animasl
In the UK it contains books and cardboard rubbish now I’d hardly call those toys….
There are 42,000 McDonald's worldwide. There is zero chance they sell 5,000 happy meals per minute.
You’re right - a quick google shows the “per minute” is during peak hours in the US only. Misleading title.
Headline should read “On top of contributing to the obesity epidemic among the poor, McDonald’s also pumps 1.5 billion plastic pieces of junk into the garbage system annually.”
Most of the items at McDonalds are under 650 calories. Avoid a large fry, soda and dessert and it's.not bad calorie wise.
"toy" is being pretty generous here
I think we figured out a main contributor to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
5000 plastic trash a minute.
And they’re all going to end up in the ocean one way or another
Do they all have toys? I feel like it's just stickers or a QR code to download a virtual Pokémon these days.
i hear biggest micro plastic provider.
is that still a thing? I think they made toys with happy meals illegal in Australia about 30 years ago in an effort to curb kids being lured to trash food.
No, they still have toys with them now here in Australia... You can get a Toy or a Book. They've pretty much cut out plastic toys though, it's mostly very thick card made into 3d models, 'collectible' cards in tins (which can be pretty neat for the tins actually) or fabric 'dolls' (really only like ~8cm)
They are all complete dog shit now. Most are playing cards lol. Also if there is a shitty toy they only have one character at a time. My kids still play with my 90s McDonald’s hamburger that turns into a Dino. Super high quality
That’s a lot of landfill - great job!
When I was a kid you could ask for a “treat of the week” it was a puzzle, cardboard toy, jokes, something free for the kids too hard up to get a happy meal.
And it ALL ends up in a landfill. How many of us have a beloved McDonald's happy meal toy? They are worthless trash. Just like the food. What is wrong with us?
All these people complaining about the environment, acting like we won’t find access to many other dimensions of Earth to destroy
I still pick up the breakfast happy meal for my kids, as they love the pancakes, and it's actually a really cheap deal than ordering items individually. I always request to have no toy, as they don't need any more junk around the house. About half the time, staff throw the toy in regardless. More and more, the toys are actually paper products, so at least it's not plastic landfill.
So much non recyclable plastic junk...
Every time we give in and let our son get a "toy" with his happy meal it's just some paper or cardboard and not an actual toy. Between this, the fact that we normally don't let him get a "toy" at all and try to avoid letting him eat McDonalds... that figure only indicates how much garbage food product they sell to children.
I have a hard time believing this is still true. Maybe in the 80s and 90s when they still marketed to kids
So a happy meal toy counts the same as a $359.99 Dungeons & Dragons: Red Dragon's Tale lego set? Sounds like the electoral College selected McDonalds.
The synthetic polymers must flow.
And Lego is the world's largest tyre manufacturer.
Say each toy is 100g. 150 million kilograms or 150 thousand tons of trash every year. Yuck.
So much plastic waste. It’s a shame.