To be irritated that McDonald's have brought back plastic toys.

[IrritatedEarthling]

I've looked on their website and they say they mix "fossil fuel materials" with used cooking oil to make durable toys that your kids can pass down to their kids.

This Minecraft toy is identical in style to the toys they used to make and I cannot see us keeping it safe for the day I become a grandmother.

My kids actually requested a book, but that request is universally ignored in all McDonald's. Why?!

In france they give you a beautiful hardback book, really nice quality.

Other moans while I'm here: why do they universally ignore my request for the grilled chicken wrap. The receipt says grilled, the box says grilled. The chicken inside however is fried.

Why do they make the tea ten minutes before the rest of the meal, so that the tea is stewed.

Why Why Why!

My teenage son was exactly the same!!

We went today and my kids were both really pleased with their Minecraft toys. They spent ages sticking the stickers on to make their own block world.
I thought they were really thoughtful toys.

I once went to McDonald's after a devastating argument with a hideous boyfriend and was in floods of tears. I was 23. The girl behind the counter gave me a super cute Mr Happy figure. One of my most treasures possessions that reminds me how lucky I am. So....I'm a bit biased!

I am torn because the ethical part of me says the plastic toys are bad.

But the rest of me says the paper toys and books were shit, my kids didn’t care for them, they just got instantly chucked. But they have McDonalds Pokemon toys from years ago we acquired from a friend that are played with all the time, and DD2 has been playing with her Minecraft dog all week.

so yes it’s probably bad but I think pretty much every kid will prefer it.

I don't think you like McDonald's to be honest.

Don’t worry, they make it disgusting in the UK, genuinely tastes like dish water 🤮

I don’t like the plastic toys either. They aren’t the kind of thing you would normally want to keep for long so there’s a high chance of them ending up in land fill.

Sometimes I feel sad for my kids that they'll never experience the joy of the plastic gems that accompanied 90s Happy Meals. The wind-up fries, the transforming burger, the lurid Ronald McDonald figure... They were great. An environmental catastrophe maybe but a real joy. Everything my DC have received has been a pale imitation.

The paper/cardboard stuff is rubbish but I take it away and keep it for boring car trips where it might spark a bit of interest.

Why, why, why ... are you going to McDonald's?!

I'm more concerned on what their restaurants do to the environment than their food tbh

If I was wanting to eat somewhere with green credentials I'd pick somewhere which bothers to give its customers plates and cutlery when eating in, and does not therefore unnecessarily generate thousands of tons of single use packaging. Plastic toys seems neither here nor there compared with that. If if were up to me I'd make illegal to give you throwaway packaging when you eat in somewhere.

You sound like a real hoot…

Because people enjoy eating there?

I think it’s better to have toys they keep and play with (mine will definitely keep the Minecraft ones) rather than a load of cardboard rubbish.

I’ve still got McDonald toys from the 80s. What sort of monster would take a toy away from a child?

Ffs…

I don't go to Mc Donald's. Revolting food.

I'm more irritated by the "adult Happy Meals" shtick - imo they are opening up an option for older kids, who have aged out of Happy Meals, by marketing adult portions of food with a toy.

I still like a McD's breakfast once in a while but will go out of my way to choose somewhere else to eat as a family if we want a quick/easy cafe type meal.

Hopefully the toys are just the start and they bring back some recycled plastic straws as well! The world went bonkers a few years ago with replacing everything with paper alternatives and I feel like we are finally starting to return to common sense.

I know plastic doesn’t degrade as easily as paper, but surely producing a plastic toy that has the ability to played for decades is more planet friendly than producing thousands of paper toys that literally go in the bin along with all the other rubbish before you leave McDonald’s. This just ends up in landfill immediately.

Again... Why? Sorry! I'm being silly and I know lots of people do enjoy it. I just find it hard to understand why anyone would (I hate everything about it) but we're all different and that's a good thing.

@LillyPJ it's cheap, quick, has tables and seats and mostly tastes ok.

It's also rubbish food though! I'd rather do without. But - as I said - I know lots of people like it.

We're absolutely thrilled to have the plastic toys back. They have already been played with far more than the flimsy cardboard "toys" they've supplied in recent years. Really great quality items.

What's so rubbish about it?
Yes it's fast food but it's just food.

Don’t go to McDonald’s it’s really that simple, you can’t expect top notch from fast food