One thing I love about Happy Meal
toys is that they’re relatively cheaper than most official merchandise toys out
there in the market. Where else can you get official movie toys/action figures
for a mere RM3 (that’s just under USD1 folks!) right here in Malaysia. Over the
past few years, Mcdonald’s had given us some of the coolest Happy Meal toys
I’ve seen in my adult collecting life. Among my favourite ones were those cool
looking JLA Animated series character cases (I think I might have blogged about
it too some time back) which looked absolutely great when displayed together on
my display shelf.
A few weekends ago my wife
spotted these cool Penguins of Madagascar (PoM) Happy Meal toys at the
McDonald’s we were having lunch at. It kinda bummed me out to know that these
were in fact already out for some time so I was prepared to suck in the fact
that we might not even get all 8 designs. I managed to get 6 out of the 8 PoM
toys and it thrilled our son nevertheless. These look great for budget toys and
one would’ve expected such quality coming from McDonald’s (I even heard that
they even performed tests to see if these toys passed their stringent list of
QC checklist, which is great really...think of the safety of those young kids
man!).
Anyway, when it comes to getting
toys/action figures for our son, I only have one rule. I get to photograph them
first before the little man gets to do whatever he wants with them (usually
newly acquired toys/figures get thrown almost immediately into his imaginary
battle between good and evil...)!
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