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McDonalds Happy Meal Crocs - Someone explain it to me.

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Runrum · 21/09/2026 10:01

Someone on Facebook had a bunch of McDonalds Happy Meal Crocs they were giving away and there was quite a lot of responses asking for them, or saying they needed a specific one from the set, or being tagged by a friend to check if they needed any.

I don't get it. Why do people want these?

And yes, I do understand people like all sorts of different things and that's perfectly fine. I just genuinely don't understand this one.

What do you do with a load of mini Crocs? They're all right (or left) feet so you can't use them for dolls, etc. I know they have a keyring thing, but they're pretty chunky so can't imagine wanting to carry one around. We had a couple and other than covering everything in the house with those pain in the arse, highly adhesive, tiny stickers - my 4 year old could not work out a way to play with them, before I eventually chucked them.

And from what I've seen, I'm fairly sure it's adults that want them, not really kids. I'm baffled.

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runnerducky · 21/09/2026 11:13

My kids were pretty unimpressed with them. They don’t seem like a very exciting toy for kids, given they come in Happy Meals! We’ve had some decent stuff before, DD1 still plays with a bunch of Pokemon plastic figures we got from a friend who had collected them years ago from McDonalds. But this was a bit of a miss. The cardboard games were shit too, except the Dobble.

Netcurtainnelly · 21/09/2026 11:11

Macdonald's do very well at trying to catch the next generation of customers don't they?

OvernightBloats · 21/09/2026 11:04

Destined to be thrown into landfill. What a load of crap.

SugarMuffins · 21/09/2026 11:02

Well better than the cardboard toys they use to put in there that you had to build. Always going to be someone complaining though.

Runrum · 21/09/2026 11:00

runnerducky · 21/09/2026 10:46

It’s not jibbitz, it’s an actual miniature croc attached to a key ring. Jibbitz would have actually been more useful!

Edited

Ooohhh, they thought I was talking about the charm things. That was very confusing. 😂

They definitely would have made more sense in my mind.

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Bjorkdidit · 21/09/2026 10:56

I assume it's because people want to collect sets of things.

Others might also be hoping that in future they'll make money from them - remember the Natwest pigs, also the Pokemon cards, some of which are now hugely valuable. A friend of DPs sold some original boxed Star Wars toys for thousands, they paid his house deposit.

SorryforyourlossMoveon · 21/09/2026 10:48

Runrum · 21/09/2026 10:43

Do you think that I think that these are real Crocs that people wear?

😅😅😅

runnerducky · 21/09/2026 10:46

UnwillingAdvocate · 21/09/2026 10:06

You do know it’s not actually crocks but the little toys you clip on them?

It’s not jibbitz, it’s an actual miniature croc attached to a key ring. Jibbitz would have actually been more useful!

bookishshyish · 21/09/2026 10:44

Rampant consumerism and end stage capitalism

Runrum · 21/09/2026 10:43

UnwillingAdvocate · 21/09/2026 10:06

You do know it’s not actually crocks but the little toys you clip on them?

Do you think that I think that these are real Crocs that people wear?

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Runrum · 21/09/2026 10:42

thesungodra · 21/09/2026 10:06

The same reason people collect Jellycats or Pokemon cards or any other pointless item, I suppose. Marketing departments know how to tap into people’s deep-rooted psychology, and the average human mind likes collecting stuff!

I kind of get Jelly cats or Pokemon cards, sort of. Not enough to do it myself but ish.

These are literal pieces of plastic tat that serve no purpose.

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Foolish1984 · 21/09/2026 10:29

The same reason people were queued up outside Starbucks last Tuesday morning, wanting the new Snoopy/Starbucks merchandise 🤷🏼‍♀️

NormasArse · 21/09/2026 10:13

UnwillingAdvocate · 21/09/2026 10:06

You do know it’s not actually crocks but the little toys you clip on them?

It’s an actual little croc on a keyring.

dustabsorber · 21/09/2026 10:10

Why collect anything? I got an ad on Mumsnet yesterday from Oxfam for a stamp that they want 125 quid for. I suppose someone somewhere has 125 quid spare for a used postage stamp.

UnwillingAdvocate · 21/09/2026 10:06

You do know it’s not actually crocks but the little toys you clip on them?

thesungodra · 21/09/2026 10:06

The same reason people collect Jellycats or Pokemon cards or any other pointless item, I suppose. Marketing departments know how to tap into people’s deep-rooted psychology, and the average human mind likes collecting stuff!

Thewonderfuldollypartonsbra · 21/09/2026 10:06

Well,if your my colleague,it's because she wants the full set,just to say she's got them

She does this with all the toys and has a fit if she can't get one and is smug if she's got a spare one

I have no idea what she does with them once she's got them

I work there,I don't want to bring the tat home with me after the shift

I think it's partly fomo-it definitely is with her until the next lot come out

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