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McDonalds Toys... Anyone else gobsmacked?

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Lilyofthevalley · 14/03/2006 00:05

I was in Toycity on sunday with DH and DD and stumbled across a range on McDonalds toys I'd never seen before:
\link{http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:McDonald%27s%2050-Piece%20Deluxe%20Mealtime%20Set%20:2000661381;_ylt=AhZ.nMx0vQkbVHRyL_ZCwpQzqrsF;_ylu=X3oDMTBvcGNiZ2wwBF9zAzc4NDcwMjQxNgRsdAM0BHNlYwNzcg--?clink=dmss//ctx=sc:736,c:749,mid:69,pid:2000661381,pdid:69,pos:5\here's one}

Sorry if I am over reacting, but I'm pretty outraged by this. Isn't it hard enough to encourage healthy eating habits for our kids without manufacturers coming up with this kind of crap? Anything that makes McDonalds or in fact any mass-produced fast food even more enticing to kids is wrong, surely? I just can't believe this kind of toy is allowed with all the talk of growing child obesity.
Like I said sorry if I'm over reacting, becoming a parent has opened my eyes to a lot of things like this recently!

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TinyGang · 14/03/2006 09:54

Ha Ha! I thought that! Don't worry, I'm sure the opposing view will arrive shortly

SPARKLER1 · 14/03/2006 09:56

and what's wrong with KFC????

Angeliz · 14/03/2006 09:56

TBH, it was more the fact that he'd taken her in a little buggie!

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jambuttie · 14/03/2006 10:15

Last xmas we bought DS1 the Mcdonalds kitchen, it came with toyfood too. He asked for it for months.

His Aunt got him the drivethru too

nutcracker · 14/03/2006 10:16

I think you are over reacting tbh.

misdee · 14/03/2006 10:20

my kids have macdonalds. on friday i think it was, i was in town so early, that we actually went for breakfast there whilst waiting for the bank to open. dd2 surprisingly ate everything (pancakes). for a child on a limited diet which mainly consists of bread and sausages, eating 3 pancakes is amazing. she also had tropicana orange juice.

intergalacticwalrus · 14/03/2006 10:26

Agree with earlier sentiment about toy guns being worse than McDonalds toy thingy. Children are already brainwashed by Ronnie McD's anyway. Can't see how a poxy toy is going to make any difference. When I was a kid I had a toy kitchen in that had toy lard in it (!) but it doesn't mean I cook all my food in lard.

I also had a plastic fruit stall, and I ain't no Pete Beale.

Bozza · 14/03/2006 10:35

Actually going against the run of the thread I don't like those toys and wouldn't buy them. I don't like threads like this - with all the "all things in moderation" and "forbidden fruit" sentiment - as though I am a bad mother because my children (5 and 1) have never been to McDonalds. I don't want to take them. DH doesn't want to take them. If someone else wants to take them - fine. But nobody has offered yet.

Enid · 14/03/2006 10:35

dh would divorce me and ceremonially burn the lot on the bonfire

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Lilyofthevalley · 14/03/2006 10:45

Fair enough, and some really good points about toy guns and Bratz bling bling crap being far worse.
I'm kind of adjusting to parenting and as my dd is only 10 months I was interested to hear the reality of what mums of older kids acctually do and feel about this kind of thing!

I'm not a McDonalds hater, I go there myself sometimes when I'm in a hurry but I'm not a fan of the whole McDonalds empire and their philosophy etc. I read "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser and it opened my eyes! A good read if you're interested in the history of American fast food.
A bad read if you've ever wondered what happens to illegal immergrants to America who dissapper while working in McDonalds abbatoirs....!!!

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getbakainyourjimjams · 14/03/2006 10:45

7up- yes McD's are very good on the food allergy stuff. Always found them v. helpful.

Actually this thread has got me thinking. When I've got some help in over easter I might try a mcd's tripwith ds1 for some chips- ds1 has been given all the PECS cards from school. When's a quiet time during the week (with no waiting though). 11am? Any mcd's regulars know?

Enid · 14/03/2006 10:46

why is bratz bling worse?

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Lilyofthevalley · 14/03/2006 10:53

Sorry, I hate Bratz, it was Barbie and Sindy in my day and they took some stick but Brazt is 100 times worse IMO. My neice is into Bratz and is only 5 and wants to wear belly tops, high heels, mini skirts... I hate it. Children are children and the fads they have shouldn't make them think it's okay to dress like slutty gold diggers.
Sorry. Like I said, I'm new to parenting, I shouldn't judge until I'm faced with it but I hate Bratz and pray my dd will never want them.

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oliveoil · 14/03/2006 11:01

Enid - have you seen the advert? It is some hideous doll thing with loads of rings etc and the voice over is somehting like 'keep off my bling girl' (I prob paraphrase).

Foul.

And the belly dancer one, I forget the words, but they are writing around in crop tops with big eyes (the dolls).

Angeliz · 14/03/2006 11:04

dd got 2 bratz dolls for her Birthday from School freinds and i must admit, even the writing on the back, "c'mon girls for a day of spending at the best boutiques....", it all just seems icky to me!

Angeliz · 14/03/2006 11:05

I haven't confiscated them but they've yet to come out of their boxes.

intergalacticwalrus · 14/03/2006 11:06

Yep Bratz are mingin' (to use a word they'd probably use)

They are encouraging a generation of Lolitas.

oliveoil · 14/03/2006 11:07

lol at my dolls writhing

am sorry, have huge bee in bonnet about these dolls

I am sure they are harmless

wannaBe1974 · 14/03/2006 12:07

Why is it that when someone doesn't agree with something it should be banned? Don't like toy guns? ban them! don't like nasty video games? ban them! don't like the fact that your kids can become obese? ban all fast food, and all toys related to it as well!

Why is it that as a society we seem to be unable to decide what our kids can and can't have and need law to decide it for us instead? Just because a product is advertised, doesn't mean you have to have it, just because there is a mcDonalds up the road, doesn't mean you have to go there for breakfast lunch and dinner and allow your kids to eat as much food as they need to make them clinically obese.

If children are banned from having everything, they will never learn restraint. We've never been to McDonalds but that doesn't mean we'll never go there, we tend to go to pizza hut instead and my DS loves it. There's not much I wouldn't let my DS try, and I actually also don't think that having a toy gun will have a detremental effect on him - kids have been playing with toy guns for centuries, it's only since the world has gone politically correctness mad that they've been seen to be wrong. As for video games, they're all certificated, if a child is given games to play that aren't suitable for his age, the person responsible is the one who has bought the game, not the manufacturer for allowing the game to be there in the first place.

It's time we started taking responsibility for our own kids and stopped shouting that the government to make the decisioins for us.

Enid · 14/03/2006 12:11

I also hate Bratz (although find it hard to get worked up about them as dd2 has a baby one with a bottle on a chain round its neck )

but hate Macdonalds advertising to kids through toys even more

somehow that food pack is worse than chicken little in a baseball IMO

GDG · 14/03/2006 12:25

Oh, you are all much more tolerant than me. I think Macdonalds toys are hideous

Wouldn't have them in my house - my niece has one and we are visiting soon - yikes, hope the boys don't like it. Ooh, I cna feel stress levels rising already - my stomach is in knots at the though of 'fruit shoot' offerings as well....

SOrry, off on a bit of a tangent there

WideWebWitch · 14/03/2006 12:29

I hate Mcdonalds for all the obvious reasons (peddling crap, exploiting workers, taking unemployed environmental activists to court and spying on then while they did so, cutting down rainforests, blah blah) and wouldn't dream of buying this, I saw it too while looknig for a tea set for dd. Gross. I'm not particularly shocked though, there are a lot of shite and horrible toys out there. Ewww at Bratz too, yuk.

Marina · 14/03/2006 12:30

at the Bratz baby with the bottle round its neck and ROFL at Angeliz and the massed ranks of way-too-old little girls in their buggies with their clueless dads
Ds' occasional trips to McDonalds come at a high price, with incessant whingeing/lecturing from me about the vileness of their food, this is not a restaurant, when you are older you can read Fast Food Nation, they pay their staff peanuts ds, can't we go to Costa now pleeeeease? Oh, how sweet it is to have the whinge boot on the other foot for a change.

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Lilyofthevalley · 14/03/2006 12:38

Glad I'm not alone with the Bratz hating.

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