To hate the new Macdonalds DIY toys

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We have macdonalds infrequently and it’s almost always because we are very late from some special visit (e.g visiting a long distance grandparent), we’re unwell or we have a deadline at work and had to work late. In other words the need for something speedy outweighs the normal healthy eating.

They now have these cardboard toys that definitely require a grown up level (or certainly neurotypical 7plus) level of fine motor control to put together AND fall apart every few minutes so constantly need ‘fixing’.

I know I’m a terrible person because this is so much better for the planet than plastic toys and you’ll all tell me we shouldnt ever go to macdonalds anyway but does anyone else mourn the days of simple macdonalds toys your kids could just play with whilst you nurse a migraine on the sofa?

My kid preferred the little mini beanie babies. Or any mini soft toy. The cardboard things are rubbish. Not age appropriate at all

@TeenMinusTests

I can never remember which way to spell it. Then I remember they sell Big Macs, so presume it is MacDonalds.

Why is it a Big Mac and not a Big Mc?

Of course you do.

YANBU! We only ever get MCDonalds generally when we drive down to visit my parents, so we hadn't been for a while. Last time was some little plastic toy crap that DD was quite happy playing with for 30 mins or so in the car. But this time I opened the box in the car to give to DD and quickly closed it again as there's no way she was having what seemed like 300 tiny paper parts loose in the car! We got one on the way back too and this time opted for the 'book', which weirdly was dinosaur Top Trump cards, which she was delighted by and spent a good hour looking at in the car.

Oh and I remember the beanies. I'm sure they did a round of those when I was at school, as all my friends and I were collecting them!

@3Britnee Yes I do. Why not? It's fine logic, apart from it being wrong.

Because McDonald's, along with coca-cola, are probably the two biggest and most recognised brands in the western world

Your faux unfamiliarity is ridiculous and no one believes it.

Salty chips? You do know you can order them without salt right? Just ask at counter or customise on self service machine.
Always order chips without salt, as then you usually get a fresh batch cooked, as the ones sitting around are already salted. Chips always hot then also.

This my friends was my discovery last year when every other place in the world closed, and I was 8 months pregnant at start of lockdown. Cravings of crappy chips and strawberry milkshake kindly delivered through drive through to my fat self in car. Bon appetite

@Kitchendilemmas

It's McDonald's in Scotland too, funnily enough...

Think it's pretty obvious that the OP was referring to the fact that 'Mc' is a contraction of 'Mac' - and that Mac is more common as a prefix in Scotland than Mc.

I’ve always asked for a book but never get one, always get the crappy cardboard ‘toy’. Just gets recycled with the rest of it, never attempt to assemble it.

@3Britnee

Because McDonald's, along with coca-cola, are probably the two biggest and most recognised brands in the western world

Absolutely. And I recognise the brand/the golden arches.

But we don't have one in my small town, I tend not to watch ads closely, and it happens to be something I have a bit of a blind spot over (like faces). There are two ways to spell the name, one is the brand the other isn't. The OP didn't know how to spell it either. I similarly have trouble spelling the shoe shop Clarks/Clarkes correctly.

I'm sure she did know how to spell it correctly, but chose not to, to reinforce the fact that she never goes there, seeing how the majority of her post was telling us that she doesn't go there. While posting about how annoyed she is about toys from a place she rarely goes to.

It's tired and ridiculous.

Your faux unfamiliarity is ridiculous and no one believes it.

I believe it because I had to check it on Saturday. I've eaten there a hundred times but I don't think I've had reason to type it.

My children always loved the plastic crap. The best ever was the stuff they brought out for lego movie 2. Autistic DS was obsessed with those . Mine are always devastated when they get a book

I miss the plastic crap. I could put up with soggy straws and leaky ice-cream if they just kept that toy, they don't even do beanie babies any more. Some of our Maccies toys have lasted years. The books need to be younger as ime kids of the age range they are aimed at don't order Happy meals anymore. How am I supposed to zone out with.my coffee if I'm getting pestered to assemble some cardboard crap toy

I'm all for good choices for the environment, honestly, but my son doesn't even look at the books or cardboard toys and they go straight into the recycling which seems like a complete waste of production. At least the few plastic/non-recyclable toys he had before they changed he made use of and are still in his toy box of random crap.