can i get a kid's meal
i don't see no kids the happiest part of a happy meal is supposed to be the toy
but sometimes mickey d's misses the mark so let's check out the top 15 saddest mcdonald's happy meal
toys ever ronald mcdonald sunnies i hope your day's fantabulous with smiles at least this big
the ronald mcdonald sunglasses were yellow rimmed on the bottom with a horrifying ronald mcdonald
poking out at the top ronald's expression is animated as a clown's tends to be except his
red mouth looks more like it's oozing with some sort of a red sauce than strategically placed
red makeup makes ronald's arms extend across the top of the glasses with an expression that says
hey i'm coming for you and the concern is that's exactly what he will do this toy was a sad
moment for mcdonald's marketing team but more so a terrifying moment for happy meal eaters everywhere
mick gendered spiderman toys superheroes gotta do what a superhero's gotta do whoa spiderman you see
in 2014 for the release of the amazing spider-man 2 mickey d's made a promise that they could not
keep they said they would release unisex toys but then when the toys were actually unveiled
they were clearly intended for separate sexes the clearly for boys set had a spider-man action
figure a tin of trading cards a spider-man themed car and the list goes on meanwhile the female
version of the toys were pink and purple versus the male color palette of blue and red and
included a spidey themed purse headbands heart-filled stickers and bracelets too
have a nice day this fail was a sad attempt on mcdonald's part to be inclusive but instead they
just drew the same lines between the genders that have existed for centuries e.t oh no
i'll be right here while e.t was busy phoning home mcdonald's was busy coming up with ways
to capitalize on the famous fictional aliens box office success mcdonald's decided to make
a small poster as a happy meal toy couldn't mcds have done better than a small poster for the wall
this is an academy award-winning alien you're dealing with there were four different
versions of the e.t poster all displaying different scenes with the title character
so while kids were a little miffed about receiving a poster over an actual toy in their happy meals
they were even more po'd over the fact that the quality of the posters weren't even good
not only that but it gets worse the posters were wrinkled due to being
seriously folded and just like your food they were greasy from being in the happy meal box
sounds like a fail of epic proportions if you ask us hello kitty whistle hey hey zip it hello kitty
hello kitty is an icon in her own right the animated character's 40th anniversary rolled out
in 2014. and you know what the golden arches were thinking hello golden opportunity so super cute
mickey d's then went about adding hello kitty figurines with their happy meals but these were
no ordinary figurines no no these had a whistle inside except within the whistle inside were
apparently even tinier parts that proved in two instances to be a choking hazard well luckily
the parents of the two children who had choked on the mickey d's toy complained and mcdonald's
listened expeditiously they recalled 2.3 million of the toys instantly mcdonald's hq doesn't mess
around when it comes to their customers safety and well-being the american idol sorta mp3 player
mp3 players used to be all the rage especially in the early 2000s and what else was all the
rage during that time why american idol well as always mcdonald's saw an opportunity to piggyback
on that success american idol was peaking in ratings around 2007 while simultaneously so
were mp3 players so mcdonald's decided that logically a happy meal toy that incorporated
both of these things was a surefire path to happy meal success what the bloody hell was
that well it was a surefire way to annoy parents nationwide that's for sure the toy only played one
song and it wasn't fantasia or kelly clarkson singing a cover song no it was the interlude
music played between commercials on american idol so if it wasn't the kids who were left
unhappy upon finding this toy inside their happy meal it was the poor parents who were subjected
to a form of audio torture if the child liked the toy be like mike stop it get some help back
in michael jordan's prime everybody wanted to be like mike and mcdonald's knew this all too
well and so mickey d's decided to put out some michael jordan themed sports toys in the early
1990s at the peak of number 23's popularity and the fitness trend sweeping the nation mcdonald's
thought that releasing mj themed sports toys would encourage kids to be more active and play outdoors
however it would appear that the golden arches was wrong there were eight different toys that you
could find in this set except only the frisbee and stopwatch actually came with michael jordan's face
on them who's michael jordan the rest a basketball inflatable soccer ball football baseball jump rope
and water bottle all looked like they could have been from anywhere it also didn't help that most
of these items weren't exactly the most functional so on top of being off-brand the toys weren't even
fun to play with all in all a sad affair literally a hundred and one dalmatians the puppy is done
1996 saw the release of the live-action version of 101 dalmatians and with it came
literally 101 dalmatians from mcdonald's the happy meal toys perfectly fit the film and that
the fast food chain created 101 different adorable doggy figurines to be found in happy meal boxes
except there was one major flaw with this design acquiring a full set i am not a happy meal right
now you see many people like to try and get the whole set of happy meal toys but acquiring all 101
of these bad boys is kind of like trying to find 101 needles in a haystack turns out though some
people actually managed to collect all 101. and so if you thought this happy meal toy was more of a
win than a fail you can now potentially purchase all of cruella deville's nemesis for hundreds of
dollars online one of the rarest happy meal toy collections in existence foul mouthed minions
when the minions hit the scene in 2010 with the release of despicable me it seems as though the
whole world fell in love with the cute little yellow creatures and then five years later with
the release of the minions film mcdonald's decided to give their customers a piece of
these cute little fellas to take home behold the minions toys courtesy of your happy meal
these minions spoke three choice phrases including hahaha and parallel bouquet except some parents
began to report that these minions were not solely speaking the three phrases but rather some pretty
colorful ones as well in fact some parents recall hearing specific expletives repeated by the toys
for everyone to hear including the children the parents complained to mcdonald's who didn't
find any issue with the minions toys and told the parents that they had in fact heard wrong
brushing your teeth with ronald well somebody gets into the happy meal
in the 1980s mickey d's decided they would take oral healthcare under their golden arches and
dispense toothbrushes with toothpaste to children in their happy meals so unless your kid was a
future dentist or orthodontist in the making the chances are that little mikey or melissa
might not have been too keen on receiving a toothbrush with toothpaste as a toy
even if ronald mcdonald's confusingly smiling face was on some of the brushes
still this idea was outdated before it was even released the funny thing is mcdonald's did this
a multiple times throughout the 80s sheesh if the disappointed looks on children's faces
wasn't enough the first time around what made them keep doing it one has to wonder
halloween pail a happy meal toy reminds people of a sweeter time a simpler time
halloween is a great opportunity for creating a holiday special children love halloween for
a kid it's one of the most celebrated days of the year and we don't blame them so explain to us how
mcdonald's got this one so wrong in an effort to sink outside the box literally mcdonald's went so
far that they forgot the original intention of the whole happy meal thing and forgot the very
object that makes kids so happy the toy instead mickey d's offered kids a halloween themed pail
decorated with witches carved pumpkins and ghosts to enjoy the pails acted in the place
of the traditional smiling red happy meal boxes which usually contains the food and the toy
what that kind of lunch bag let down has got to hit hard when you receive a happy meal
only to have it be missing all of the happy stepits i got your happy meal so picture a fitbit
but for your kid fitbits are these wristbands that tell you everything from the number of steps you
take in a day to your heart rate it's an adult technology meant for keeping track of fitness
goals well kids do not really have a need for this kind of device especially when they were
indulging in a meal at a fast food restaurant but that didn't stop mcdonald's from throwing a step
counter called a step it into happy meals in 2016. the product however was recalled after 70 people
reported that the device burnt and blistered their skin you burned all the food the shape
the drum ouch 29 million of these were recalled and those who had received the defective toy were
able to trade it in for something else entirely this one seems like it was a pretty bad idea from
just about the first step worthless mini beanie babies i can treat myself to a happy meal beanie
babies caused such a frenzy as collectibles in the 1990s so you know mcdonald's had to get in on
the action introducing teeny beanie babies between 1997 and 2000 mcdonald's is said to have dispensed
over a hundred million of these miniature stuffed toys despite the fact that people would literally
fight over these toys at mcdonald's locations when they were hot like the sauce it's spicy nowadays
these miniature versions of the collectibles are said to be worth practically nothing the thing
about beanie babies is that some rare ones are worth tons of money today while those like the
mini ones sold at mcdonald's were devalued because of the sheer number of people acquiring them back
in the day so if you held on to your teeny beanie babies all of these years you can loosen your grip
they may be cute but they're unfortunately pretty much worthless camp mcdonaldland
can i get a hamburger every now and then mcdonald's tries to get kids active and outdoors
it may appear to be against brand marketing but it is still something the golden arches likes to do
and so in that same spirit in 1989 mickey d's released camping themed toys with mcdonald
land characters decorating all of the camping gear i say isn't it the mcdonald's happy meal
guys what are you doing this gear came in your happy meal and they were pretty cheaply made
so you got pretty much nowhere with them the toys were supposed to prepare the kids to embark upon a
journey to the fictional mcdonald land the camping toys included utensils a collapsible cup a mess
kit and a canteen as well since none of these toys actually worked due to the poor level of quality
these camp mcdonald land toys were definitely one of the saddest mcdonald happy meal toys ever
the mighty ducks man this is sad news indeed for duck fans it's the mighty ducks man well if the
sight of the mighty ducks man doesn't bring you as much happiness as say a superhero action figure
you're totally not alone the successful 1992 film the mighty ducks was all about hockey and
mickey d's decided to release a mighty duck's pucks in happy meals to accompany that success
except the thing is unless a child plays hockey what were they going to do with a puck and even
then if they were to play real hockey with these poorly made pucks the ducks on the top of the puck
would go soaring into the abyss while the actual puck would do its thing in the end a hockey puck
without a duck is just a puck let's have some fun and if you're not playing hockey with it then what
are you going to do look at it a fail for all the mick wrist wallet ten dollars per person
the price of a happy meal this one was highly confusing but we'll do our best to explain
as it was one of the og happy meal toys from back in the late 1970s the mc wrist wallet resembled
a wristwatch except in the place of a clock it had a tiny compartment for either a secret note
crumpled up really tiny or possibly a quarter dime nickel or a penny but probably not all at
the same time ronald mcdonald's face was also on the outside of these confusing non-time-telling
watches that did absolutely nothing so all in all a sad sad state of happy meal affairs we got you
one of those happy meals you got a happy meal we have zero idea what mcdonald's was thinking
with this one the only excuse is that they were fairly new to the whole toy game check
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