McDonald’s has really great happy meal toys right now.
Right there–that I’m telling you that–is a problem. I know it’s a problem.
I’m not sure why this got me excited, but, sadly, it did.
When I pulled up to order for my kids and saw the toy was Wizard of Oz (girl toy) and Batman (boy toy) I was perceivably jazzed.
Sure, my kids got all twitchy and chatty in the back seat when they spied the big ad that graced the top of the ordering menu that announced their prize, but I had a real sense of…well…happiness, at the very idea.
I really haven’t a clue why.
The inexplicable joy just got worse and more disturbing when my daughter opened her happy meal to find she had been given Dorothy! Dorothy! I could have cried from the pure triumph I felt that MY daughter got the star character.
We both just looked at it all giddy with delight as she twirled it around. Then she pulled out the clincher…”Mom…(dramatic pause)… I got Toto, too!”
I would have hugged her if we hadn’t both been firmly strapped in our seats. She placed the basket on Dorothy’s stiff, outstretched arm and held it up high for us all to admire.
Another mysterious emotion of motherhood revealed right there in the parking lot of McDonald’s.
Then I remembered, I was so swept-up by the luck of the moment that I forgot about Ben.
Poor Ben.
He pulled out his toy: The Green Goblin. A villain! Not even a sidekick, let alone the star.
He was robbed. Robbed I say!
(I hope she doesn’t come alive at night and run around the house. She looks a disheveled and overwrought. Badly in need of a little powder pat-down.)
ACK! The things you force me to admit!! I have collected happy meal toys – ME, not my kids.
And I collected 3 sets of the 2000 glasses that they sold. That is TWELVE glasses that I bought, so that each kiddo would have one some day. They may not even care but hopefully it won’t be their fine beverage glasses!
Hey, any boy would love getting a Green Goblin! I would love it. How long is that going to be the prize in the Happy Mean? Guess where I’m going for lunch?
Too funny. I have totally felt the joy of a ‘good’ toy versus the ‘rip-off’. Okay so once upon a time we lived in Chicago. Right near the McDonald’s head quarters. And a friend of ours worked for MickyD’s corporate. And every month he gave us 2 of every single toy give away for the month. TWO. Let me tell you that is ALOT of small toys. And it was very generous…but somehow…it took the whole ‘happy meal’ and made sorta a ‘pleasant meal’ out of it. I mean the thrill was gone. The gamble high was lost.
And those toys? Once I covered a giant mirror frame with them. HUNDREDS of them. It was arty. And kitchy. And well HAPPY. So Happy meal to Happy mirror.
I experienced that same “Happy Meal Toy Rush” recently. There were no children in my car. It was ALL ME. It took everything I had not to order one. My daughter was Dorothy in a high school play – I would have never been lucky enough to hit the mother load like your daughter!!! I may have to go back soon and take my chances……….
I think I’m headed to McDonald’s tonight! Wizard of Oz my all time favorite movie!
A sudden urge for chicken nuggets… I’ll probably get “Professor Marvel” (I had to look that up.)
I LOVE the Dorothy toy, even though my kids are too young to know who she is. I might have to take them to McD’s just to get the toys. *shudders*
Why didn’t you go back around and ask to switch your prize? I have…I mean you could have gone all hysterical momma & let them know you only go to McDonald’s for the prize, not for the crummy food and demanded your money back if they didn’t come up with the goods. If you make a big enough fuss, they’ll shove a bag full of Batman treats. Errr maybe they would…I wouldn’t know.
Ok, so it is always about the prize and I order Happy Meals to have the toys at my house for those kids that come over. However, Dorthy has the Triology of Terror look about her that freaks me out.
Send that girl to Emerald City. She needs a tune up. Start with the hair.
OMG! That is the scariest looking Dorothy I have ever SEEN! Just another reason to stay away from Mc Donalds!
That doll is alarming. Keep her away from George.
i have a limited addition Mc donalds madalion for the 25th aniversary and was wondering how much it would be worth