My final @McDonalds buying trip of 2024! Pickups include unreleased Happy Meal containers, an Evil Grimace high chair tray, stained glass artwork, store appearance costumes of Professor & Captain Crook, 60s employee uniforms and THREE Ronald helium tank heads with their outfits! - ThreadSky

consumertc.bsky.social • 57 days ago

My final @McDonalds buying trip of 2024! Pickups include unreleased Happy Meal containers, an Evil Grimace high chair tray, stained glass artwork, store appearance costumes of Professor & Captain Crook, 60s employee uniforms and THREE Ronald helium tank heads with their outfits!

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vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social•57 days ago

That tray with the multiple armed Grimace is really special

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yeah, I'm always after Evil Grimace pieces

vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social•57 days ago

I remember having Diener space creatures but I don't remember where or how we got them. Now I wonder...1980
http://neatocoolville.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-guess-most-of-us-have-our-little.html?m=1

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

The exact same toys were sold at dollar stores for another five or six years, so that's how there's so damn many of them floating around.

2xaught7.bsky.social•57 days ago

Until I clicked I thought this was referencing Astrosniks.

vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social•57 days ago

I love my McDonald's Astrosniks I have all the 1983-1984 McDonald’s Astrosniks

2xaught7.bsky.social•57 days ago

Nice. I have quite a bit that are in a bag in my parents basement. Haven’t seen them in years.

spacemonkeyx.bsky.social•57 days ago

I have the McDonald's versions, the U.S. retail versions, and even some imported from Germany! Love those little guys! https://spacemonkeyx.com/tag/astrosniks/

peteb.bsky.social•57 days ago

I remember those space aliens!!

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Great little toys and the translite sign promoting them is one of the best ones ever made. I've been looking for a second copy to hang up for YEARS, so it felt good to stumble across it.

spacemonkeyx.bsky.social•57 days ago

Such a great haul! I love seeing all your new acquisitions!

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you! This was a crazy year with the wedding and work travel, so to get a nice buying trip under my belt felt pretty good.

slytron.bsky.social•57 days ago

I have to ask .. is that actual 90s salad in those s
hakers 🤣🤣

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Hahaha. It's the countertop display with construction paper as the lettuce.

trianglesally.bsky.social•56 days ago

I miss my little red wind-up Ronald McDonald racecar toy. It's one of the first ones i remember having as a toddler.

jmgoodridge.bsky.social•57 days ago

The Captain and Professor costumes have me twisted.

sapphirek39.bsky.social•56 days ago

Sooo freaking cool!! I'm jealous!!

pfunitedfloyd.bsky.social•57 days ago

Your collection is amazing. All I've got is these fiberglass character things (i think they're concrete forms of some sort)

stitch1993.bsky.social•57 days ago

This is amazing!

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Thank you! I try to bring back hauls like this four times a year. Not easy when you already have so much, but the results are worth the legwork.

stitch1993.bsky.social•57 days ago

I'd love to see a full tour someday

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

I still feel like I'm in the "acquisition phase" of my collection, but at some point, I'll make this happen.

haunteddrivein.bsky.social•57 days ago

As always, freakin’ beautiful spread my friend. Wish I could join you for one of these adventures. I’ll be happy to see your posts about each of these awesome finds.

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

That would be a blast, but I barely have room for the steering wheel by the time I get home. Hahaha.

slamminson.bsky.social•57 days ago

👀 A-B-C-Delicious!

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Ol' eagle-eyes over here spotting the Alpha-Bits. Hahaha.

nouvellestefanie.bsky.social•57 days ago

i am fascinated by the double gulp cup in the mix, both by the shape and the general existence

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

I found that one at an antique mall - definitely the only time I've seen those in the wild.

lagooncartoon.bsky.social•57 days ago

What’s the story on the safari hat?

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Crazy enough - I have no idea. My hunch is that it's a Happy Meal toy from another English-speaking country, as they've done hats regionally in the US and in Australia, but I don't know which promotion that hat is from specifically (hence why I had to just buy it).

lagooncartoon.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yeah I love it! Thanks for the reply. Nice finds!

monitor-ep.bsky.social•57 days ago

Nice collection as always. Got me curious about that Grimace. I have most of the figure/plushies but I do not recognize this one? Looks plastic so could it be a bank?

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

It's a ceramic piggy bank.

sizemo.bsky.social•57 days ago

The sheer nostalgia I felt when I saw the Monopoly cups

consumertc.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yeah, it's tough to pass up those cups with the pieces still in-tact.

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