Weird McDonalds Toys and Collectables | Ashens
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Slither! Good ol' Maccy D's. The Golden Arches. McDo. Macca's. And probably plenty of other nicknames I haven't heard of. Yep, it's that place what does the burgers and fries and all that. And by "all that", I mean "occasionally weird toys."
We've got some dragons which probably should have been designed differently, an intriguingly strange modular spaceship set, a scary doll, a Luigi with a very weird expression and some cool but odd Japanese collectables.
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I like how you go from saying you don't need to explain what McDonalds is to smoothly and seamlessly going on to describe what McDonalds is.
He doesn't need to, but does. Truly a modern day hero.
His delivery is bouncy and amazing. Among the best.
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@@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 ?
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Could not stop laughing at the reveal of the Grimace butt plug 😂
And the OG Bad Dragon lmao I'm dying
@@ForeverTraitor
Presumably, unlike the actual bad dragon, this isn't owned and run by actual zoophiles.
@@ar-mur it's okay to be wrong 😁
😂😂😂😂
I definitely wasn't expecting to see two buttplug references in a single Ashens video!
The weirdest McDonald’s toy I recall is the build-your-own Matthew Broderick Inspector Gadget where each “body part” was its own “toy.”
That was an awesome toy.
I was hoping you would stop at "build your own Matthew Broderick"
B.E.N from Treasure Planet was like this too, have that one
I had 1 or 2 pieces of that as a kid. Really wanted the whole thing but no way my parents would take me to McDonalds enough times to get all of them.
Does the Matthew Broderick toy come with its own get out of jail free card?
5:25 “Come on, children, eat your fries. Ronald died for your sins.”
The Passion of the Crumbs
Hi from Tokyo. Personal battery-powered fans are very common here, where the summers get extremely hot and humid. Sometimes they include little inserts that add an insect-repelling smell to the air they blow. This past summer with its record heat saw lots of people using personal fans. (Although I didn't see any fry-shaped ones.) I saw them all the time in the train on the way to work.
From what I hear, it's because there is not enough AC around, so people use personal fans in place of that.
Do you have any idea if there a reason (like central heating not being a thing due to earthquakes)?
@@spiderlily723 AC is inside every building and many homes, it is not outside where you are exposed to 38 degrees of humid death zone. Carrying towels around is quite normal in summer too for the same reasons. Using AC is expensive though so maybe less affluent people prefer the option of opening windows and using a fan.
@@MxMoondoggiethe current trend here is frozen ice pack necklaces, saw them everywhere during summer this year haha
with 40° Celsius everyone would wish having a fan like this
I have hot flashes due to a medical issue and those handheld fans are a godsend for turning the misery level down a bit any time of year
Ashens is proof you don’t need fancy graphics, editing or whatever to be entertaining. He’s proof that less is more.
Most definitely
Absolutely. Then oh the other end there's Brutalmoose who is entertaining through the sheer absurdity of his editing.
yeah, I feel like a lot of channels these days have too much editing to the point where they’re hard to watch
Hooray!
What are you talking about? His couch has been a 3d hologram for years. If that isn't fancy graphics, I dont know what is..
The McDonald's character you don't recognize is Birdie who was introduced to advertise their breakfast offerings.
lol early bird
I’m sure that’s what harvester calls or used to call their dinner deals also unrelated intrusive thought the early bird gets the worm or some such guff
I always call her Wendy in my head even though they obviously wouldn't name her after a competitor.
@@pantheonvideoThe resemblance though is hilarious 😂
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The best toy set they ever had was the one for the Inspector Gadget movie. All the toys were different gadgets that could be put together to make a 12-inch tall Inspector Gadget figure. I still have mine.
And the feet on Grimace’s spacesuit look like they were designed by the same guy who illustrated those odd and disturbing Christmas coloring books with the giant feet.
My family has our Inspector Gadget figure as well.
I have that! And you’ll never see something like this again, since they put little effort into Happy Meal toys today.
A good toy maybe... but a terrible film 😂
They had a wave of generic monsters called the Stretch Screamers in 2003 that I remember being quite fond of. Spy Kids also had a buildable character that I really liked
@@jimtaylor294 Eh, it had its moments. I’m lenient on it because it feels like it had a lot chopped out for some reason.
Stuart’s really using his “there’s always a happy meal toy in bulk action figures” perk
I worked at McD’s when the Flying Dragons were released & can confirm that we had to remove one of them from sale for… reasons. Obviously though, every crew member took at least one home.
Was it the orange tower
Did they put it on a shelf for display? Or tuck it away in a bedroom drawer 👀
Was it the purple plug?
Those are actually some neat, little figures of the old McDonald's characters. Wasn't expecting them to come out of the space suits. Really adds some play value. Pity about the T-poses, but the paint and the details are still really nice.
I just had the loudest reaction to seeing those dragons, I had pretty much forgotten them but that was legitimately one of my favourite things I ever got in a Happy Meal as a kid! Only had the green dragon, but 7 year old me played with that thing constantly! Always wanted the full set back then, but I guess penis tower would have made that pretty unlikely
Proof that the parents are dirty minded as all hell 😂
Seeing that Ronald threw me for a loop.
I say that because I recognize it from a Bionicle fan series where he was one of the main villains.
I never thought I'd see Ashens review any Tomica products! For those of you who don't know, Tomica is basically the Japanese equivalent of Matchbox and the car at 13:43 is an upscaled, all-plastic version of one of their models, in this case the 2016 Toyota 86. They've actually done several promotions with McDonald's in Japan; while the first few focused on work vehicles, the more recent Happy Meals have also included sports cars such as the Toyota GR Supra, new Nissan Z and even some classic cars like the Toyota 2000GT and Lancia Stratos. Someone must've noticed that these newer promotions were also popular with collectors, as they've started making rare, gold versions of some of the more popular models.
they did release tomica in the UK briefly around 2016 I think it was mainly the trains and a couple of the car playsets like the pizza delivery place and car park but they didn't sell that well and swiftly vanished, I think they were exclusive to 1 shop but I can't recall which.
Tomica also tried to gain a foothold in the USA with the "Pocket Cars" line in the 1980s but they couldn't get it. They are getting more and more popular with US collectors importing them though, but it's still a small market. Just too much competition. @@GreatSageSunWukong
@@GreatSageSunWukong I'm not sure if this was the case in Europe, but they were sold exclusively at Toys 'R' Us stores in North America around 2010 and like the European release, the line was pretty short-lived.
Would be nice to see the old ones. And now im interested in replicating the livery on forza from the toyota, albeit they dont have that one with the facelift in it.
To my knowledge, they've never had a release here in the states, but they're the only company that makes a model of the GR Yaris from what a friend of mine said when he surprised me with one as a gift, as the GR Yaris is my favorite modern car
I've been working on my Japanese reading proficiency lately, and seeing the words "potato clock" on the front of the fries/chips clock thing made struggle worth it! I spit out my coffee! Effing epic! 😂
Their potatoes must be superb quality
Gotta love how Luigi is in his original reverse colours for some reason even in the leaflet yet Mario is correct.
I thought Luigi looked weird but I couldn’t think of why.
Maybe they wanted luigi to stand out even more from mario
Ashens, your random videos have been a huge comfort to me over the years, thank you for all the silly laughs and insanity haha
"While supplies last" is actually the most common parlance for that concept in the U.S. Is it "While stocks last" in the U.K.?
Guess so.
Yep, "While stocks last"
Translation "Hard luck mate, we've run out"
For some inexplicable reason I was OBSESSED with those Madame Alexander toys as a kid. I still have some of them, too.
In addition to the Wizard of Oz, they also had a line of Disney characters.
Fun fact: they are even more terrifying when the eyelid mechanism breaks down from age.
"What's in the box, stripy socks" sounds like some horror movie type shlt 😂
The flying dragons unlocked a deeply buried memory. I loved them as a kid.
Oh man, love that Perfect World reference. If only somebody was selling potions.
Omg, I remember back in the 80's or so when they did the McDonalds TRANSFORMERS type toys. I bloody loved them. The chips that changed into a robot. Pure bliss!
Aah yes, I remember those too! I had the chips and the drink robot, I might have gotten the burger too but I'm not sure.
Those will always be the thing I think of when someone says happy meal toy.
Ohhh I had the milkshake one!
I still have a few. the food to dinos were awesome.
@@P747i still have the chips and burger
The bird girl creature and others has been around since the early 70's at least,I recall them as a kid back in the very early 80's being all over the dang place on Sat morning cartoon commercials.
And haven't thought of them for years but seeing you hold that figure made me realize something....for some reason she reminds me of Wendy from that other fast food chain.
Flippin' weird that I never noticed that before.
"Birdy the Early Bird" - was introduced in 1980, as a kid's tie-in to the introduction of the Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwich, to get children eating fast food for every meal like their 'stuck in the rat race' parents.
But yeah, when Ashens said "...braids..." I stopped what I was doing and frowned. I'd never noticed Birdy's (minor and obviously not actionable) similarity to the Wendy's mascot; probably because they both ripped-off Pippy Longstocking to varying extents. :D
@@empath69 Wendy is based on Wendy's founder Dave Thomas's daughter, Wendy.
Yes @@KasumiKenshirou but you can't deny the similarity between the Wendy's mascot and the character of Pippi Longstocking.
I wonder if they have Wendy's in Flippin, Arkansas
The set of McDonalds Toys I remember the most from my childhood were those dinosaurs that were also water-pistols. Endless fun. Parents got around to not liking them.
Moral of the story is that Japan has always had way cooler toys than the rest of the world. Bandai sells mini gundam and evangelion mechas with gum in candy shops and they’re legit quality.
Depends on the type of toy, but 80s/90s USA has always had the best action figures / playsets imo. So many good toys that came from franchises / movies / cartoons etc.
japan laughed itself half to death when it learned of the fleshlight lol
@@shortinosnostalgia goggles are blinding you. 80/90s toys were bendems or low quality plastic
I got a harumi in a bunny suit figurine from a vending machine once, quality item that sits on my window sill.
I remember having a talk from a graphic design 'expert' in school, probably for my media class. He ran a design consultancy and did a bunch of semi-notable logos. Anyway, the ONE thing I remember from the entire talk was what he said his number 1 rule was - Make sure it doesn't look like a penis (along with a slide full of penis shaped logos and products) which to a class of like 13 year olds was hilarious. He also noted to check for anything else that could be considered rude as well, but like - I just don't get how a team of (presumably) adults can look at something they've designed and not see such a recognisable shape.
The second he put the McDonalds rocket/McSpace into frame I just got hit with a wave of nostalgia. I used to have all four of them but lost them after they got submerged in floodwater (Along with other Happy Meal toys I collected as a child) and disposed of without my knowledge :(
Haha, I had that McSpace thing as a kid. I remember when I got a bit older I got obsessed with how they made those miniature for movies and kitbashed it, painted it and then tried to film it explode.
Good times.
Wow. That 2007 cowardly lion is giving off extreme early 80s feelings. 😂
Soviet stop motion animations
Ashen’s thank you for existing this long as a simple UA-camr with a niche subject matter who hasn’t yet turned out to be a scumbag.
Keep it up 👍
Ashens really is one of the few legitimately wholesome personalities on this site
One more week without people discovering his international human organ harvesting and trafficking operation.
I wholeheartedly agree.
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Well everyone does that.
Yet is the key word here
The grimace plug 3:33
I'm so pleased Ashens doesn't use any subliminal messaging in his videos 👁️
Scared the crap out of me.
I think I had an acid flash back from it...
Advertisements *are* subliminal messages, just leaning more towards the "liminal" than subliminal, but still they are subliminal messages.
I haven't seen an ad since 2004 and I'm a better person for it.
Seriously, what kind of person buys something they see in an ad? I think the last time I was dumb enough to want something I saw in an advertisement was probably back in 1999 when I still watched TV. Coincidence? Nope.
@@Boogie_the_catYou haven't been outside or on 99% of the internet since 2004? 😰
Do you need help? Where are they keeping you!!!?
@@Boogie_the_catI've only ever been inspired to go and see a film by getting a trailer before a video on UA-cam once. So it CAN work, but not that often. It's never worked with an advert.
Damn, that Luigi is a blast from the past! I got that toy the very first time I got to go to McDonlds.
Anyone else pause to see that weird image at 9:38!
1:28 If Se7en was a kid's movie.
That's Birdie the Early Bird.
8:44 Over in the corner, Mario's being sucked up in a tornado, and Ashens has turned away in a gesture that says "Well this isn't my problem. So I'm not going to look."
13:02 A piece of broccoli?
I feel like the fan would be a lot better if it had some sort of scented oil in it so that it made your house smell like McDonald's fries.
Working headlights will always be cool to me. My vacuum cleaner has headlights and it brings me joy.
A Hoover with Headlights, for After Dark Cleaning! 😤😏
Or to make it look even more sinister when the dog encounters it. 😊
The Ronald in the spaceship looks like a magician is about to chop him in half 😂😂
Mwahahaha 😈
Does anyone remember the Snoopy toys? I always thought they were some of the best Happy Meal toys McDonald's ever did
Based on the boxes I would assume that these only came out in Japan. Japan have their hands in a lot of pies. They can get stuff made from anyone just for them.
The fan one makes sense for Japan. They have lots of fans and gimic fans because of the humidity. If that released in America it would've probably became a French fry shredder lol
it probably would have stayed a fan.
10:34 Justin Kuritzkes my beloved
They should've made the fan smell like french fries, that would've been awesome.
So glad we are getting so much Ashens content lately!
14:12 As is tradition, Ashens tastes every toy to check if they are indeed plastic or not
I honestly played with some of my McDonald's toys more than ones I had bought at the store! They were quality back in the day!
love seeing this from ashens, he makes his own spin on things like toy reviews, but actually makes them funny and worth watching and its good i grew up watching him from 2006 to now (i started around 2013
Kills me that Ashens thought grimace was a naughty shape - and somehow didn’t notice the whole rocket is 8=>
I thought he was going to joke about it looking like a giant, Johnson.
@@rayphoenix7296 Nah, it looks more like a giant… WOODY! WOODY HARRELSON!
That yellow duck-like creature was called 'Birdie'. I think it was a new character added in the 90's.
Early Bird was introduced in the early 80’s. She is the mascot for the breakfast menu.
Wokedonalds
I remember a Happy Meal collection where you assembled a Mickey Mouse figure (too big to be called a figurine) out of smaller toys, like that spaceship. There was another set like that, and I used to have a two-sided maze with a metal marble inside. Another Disney merch was a collection of plushies with hollow arms - you would put a finger and the thumb inside to move the arms. I had Daisy, and I travelled with her.
there's a build an inspector gadget too.
THIS. I have this assembled to this day!
I collected them all too.
That Japanese clock sweeping action of the second hand is very nice
I love that ashens can pursue projects like the film.
It is very much deserved and I hope it turns out to be everything you wanted it to be.
THERE'D BETTER BE BLOOPERS
Grew up in the 90s. I miss the Halloween buckets. Also, the Super Mario and / or the camping toys....you had all of those... you were God in 3rd grade
I actually went to McDonald's with my mom recently and they still make the Halloween buckets.
They are smaller than I remember though, but I'm not sure if they are actually smaller or I was smaller back then.
@@ChooChooMcBoogie64yup, their current run of toys is the return of trick or treat buckets
I used to have those charlie brown halloween buckets from like 2015
We didn't get a McDonald's anywhere near my home town until I was a teenager, so Happy Meals weren't something we had as kids. I guess I missed out. The closest McDonald's was a 2 or 3 hour drive away.
In saying that, my parents cooked at home and didn't continuously waste money on fast food, so we probably wouldn't go there much even if we did have a McDonald's nearby.
@@applegal3058Thanks for sharing.
Ashens pretending not what comes in a happy meal when he in fact is the only reason they likely still exist is adorable
I can't get Eli out of my head screaming "IT'S A MODULAR ART TOY"
Love the subtle flicker of the evil eye thing at 9:38 ...I assume teasing the horror movie you're working on?
The colours on the GT86 toy are actually the retro Toyota Racing colours from the 80's and 70's mainly used in the US. But people started using them again recently as they look pretty neat. I guess they also match up with the McDonalds colour scheme too
Hooray! A saturday ashens video to listen to at work!
Living in Japan, chips / french fries feel like they're almost as a luxury snack here. At festivals, you always get several stalls literally just selling plain Macdonalds-style chips for the equivalent of £3-5 a portion and I've even seen semi-permanent looking stalls in shopping centres exclusively selling them. It's weird.
There are also chip/fry stalls in U.S. malls. Called "Potato Corner".
Like we do in the US with random Asian or Mexican food?
@@GuestZer0 sounds like an area where all the slow kids hang out in
21:22 minutes of pure crapiness… love it
You were right, that is from the US and is a SMB3 toy. There were 4, came in a bag with a little fold out for each one. The other is Raccoon Mario which was a suction cup/spring/plate thing so it would jump. Luigi you got there is a friction pull back toy. Then there was this goomba that pivoted forward onto a tiny suction cup and when it released it did a backflip and would land(usually) on its feet again. The last was a koopa paratroopa which had a long thin hose with a flat air bladder on the end and you'd pump the thing and it would make the toys feet move causing it to walk. I had them in the day, took a couple years locally (about 5-7 years ago) got all 4 at the flea market again intentionally avoiding ebay scalpers. :)
"What's in the box, stripey socks!?" Is what I would ask every day Ashens was doing those blind crate videos. The socks were I presume lucky charms. ...Clearly they didn't work.
I wasn't allowed McDonald's as a kid. I lost my McDonald's virginity at 22... I didn't realise you get a toy in a happy meal.
before i actually read the sentence i caught the word virginity and thought you lost your virginity at a mcdonalds
@@billygoatguy3960 Tbf where I'm from that would hardly be surprising 😅
what about Burger King or KFC?
@@durtvanharlow616 Nope. Especially not KFC. My mum's dad got food poisoning from it. I wasn't allowed anything with gelatin in it either.
Tbf all three of them were disappointing. I was allowed pizza, though 😊
3:14 "...haven't you seen Event Horizon!?"
Hahah, the quintessential 90's kids movie smack bang in the middle of this demographic.
definitely digging the Tomica GR86! heck the whole Japanese line is kinda neat.
There were so many of those cool build em up toys, the ones I remember were the treasure planet map and the jimmy neutron rocket. McDonald's also once gave you Lego in their happy meals from the 80's with little helicopters and boats to the 90's with mc racers Lego sets
This brought back some fab memories. I miss the McDonald mascots. I miss when McDonald’s had play areas inside!
So your child could maneuver their way through the tunnels full of spilled food, beverage and vomit to reach the very top then refuse to come back out because they know you can't reach them.
@@tncorgi92 that was a problem for my parents, not me 😏😂
Thinking back to those toys, they were neat concepts and of surprising quality when you think about it.
Deep cut Perfect World ref there!
It's weird hearing him saying "chips" & "fries" interchangeably.
They're not quite the same thing. In the UK, we use fries to mean the same thing as they do in the US, those thin things McDonalds do. Chips are quite a bit thicker, and generally softer if you're buying fish 'n chips.
I only went to McDonalds once in my entire life, around 2007 or 2008, when I was about 10 years old, with the toy being a CD with a dragon game. I vividly remember it, because all the packaging was stylised after the elements (the ice dragon came in a blue box with icicles, the fire dragon in red with flames, etc)
As soon as I saw the dragons I immediately knew where that was going. My neighbour worked in McDonald's and I definitely remember her telling my mum about that rumour.
The fry fan makes sense to me, it makes you cold and my local McD's always serves their fries ice cold and rubbery.
The fan was distressingly loud for such a little thing but imagine if it somehow scented the air to match the packaging.
Omfg those dragons gave me mega nostalgia!! 🤯I had that chinese ish styled one with the green base!! The memory flooded back as soon as I saw it!! So weird 😂
Holy shit same! I think I had the yellow one. I had no idea where they came from!
I had the blue one with the naughty rock shape 😂 and the Chinese dragon
3:41 “EEEEEEE! Is-a me, Hamburglario!”
the Toyota is a GR86, i believe. made to continue the legacy of the legendary AE86 corolla, the 86 means drifter after the original which was just a really good corolla.
They're a real fan of McDonald's Fries in japan
I see what you did there.
5:17 Don't you mean McCrucified™?
I have been absolutely obsessed with the Madame Alexander McDonald's toys since they came out. Just found a bag of them at a garage sail after searching for several years, so seeing one in the thumbnail shocked me lol. There was a flying monkey one that every kid would bring to school, and we would have giant battles during recess.
Tbh i think they were just some of the rare ones that weren't complete junk.
None of the Japanese on the Manhattan Chips toy mentions the design or inspiration. It does however list battery requirements. The back of the box has a warning about keeping it away from babies because of small parts, and a warning that it could poke someone in the eye. After that it's details on the product, battery requirements (2 AA batteries), and the warranty info.
Loving the Japanese toys, Japan just mange to make things so much cooler then any other country!
That Toyota 86 is a model of the Toyota GT86 that came out in 2012 not sure why in 2017 Mc D's had a model of it but I love that they did 😄
That particular 86 model was a collaboration with Tomica, a Japanese company that makes 1/64 scale diecast cars. The McDonald's/Tomica promotions tend to focus on new or popular Tomica releases, which likely explains why the 86 was released, due to the popularity of the standard Tomica model.
That's a facelifted 86
The fries nightlight looks like its made from raw spaghetti 😂
I thought the same thing 😂😂😂😂
11:10 core memory unlocked. I had two of these and completely forgot they existed.
“She’s been to space, that’s more than I’ve done” 😂 4:09
Ashens needs to do a Kinder Egg toys special..... just to make the Americans jealous of the awesome little toys like Tiny Terrapins and small bronze roman figures!
He's done a bunch of those... and we weren't impressed
I miss the 'bronze' soldier figures from Kinder. I had plenty of them when I was a child. I occasionally still buy Kinder eggs but the surprise toys nowadays are crap and those want you to install a mobile phone game so you can play some minigames with the crappy character you just found.
I'm stunned that he doesn't recognize Birdie.
Same here. Maybe she was US only.
4:16 "She's been into space, it's more than I've done"
@@daerth4423 Birdie definitely made it to Japan, where she appears to have been especially popular.
...the "I'm lovin' it" jingle is recent? Isn't it like 20 years old?
Lucky Bags are typically a New Years thing in Japan, the summer Lucky Bag is a fairly recent creation.
That "Manhattan skyline as chips" would do for the Turner Prize.
I'm sure this channel has the _second_ most famous couch on the internet. The first would be found on other sites in videos regarding "casting" if you catch my drift.
They probably taste better than a McDonalds.
Great video as always, Ashens! 😁
Excellent video, great assortment. Always entertaining!
They were odd tbh
I remember the Madame Alexander Wizard of Oz toys being a big deal when they were released, my mom was trying to collect them but we kept getting dupes of Dorothy and Wicked Witch
I love the old characters
I remember those dragons! Best thing they ever did was some batman bike accessories from the 90s. You had the jokers head that squeaked in place of a bell, and some batman wing mirrors, fantastic
I like how Ashens talks about the I'm Lovin It slogan as though it's not been around for 20+ years
Hahaha!!!!! Grimace reveal!!!!! As Yakko Warner would say, "Good night, everybody!!!!!"
The writing on the alarm clock box says "potato clock" 😂 Because it wakes you up potato clock!
I was really expecting to see the old McDonalds themed transformer toys from the 80's. I still got the drink and fries transformers somewhere.