What's the first Happy Meal toy you remember?

[Mego Milk]

I won two tickets to see Star Trek the Motion Picture in a Happy Meal.

true story.

[Bo8a_Fett]

In England I was past the age of wanting happy meals by the time McDonalds started dominating the high streets....( I was a Wimpy guy myself), so didn't get many. Once I started collecting and had kids of my own however I would occasionally get the meals(if they wouldn't allow me to buy them seperately) or drag the kids down to the nearest if there were toys they wanted.
Can't remember which one was my first but usually try and do the ones that interest me.

[darkmonkeygod]

Oh yeah, I loved the characters - I had, and to some degree still have, many of the early happy meal items. Glasses, hand puppets, tic-tac-toe games, cars, erasers, all of the McDonaldland characters. Then the licensed stuff: Star Trek TMP is the first I remember, and the Happy Meals are the first place I remember getting the Denier figures as well. Incredible marketing. Wish I had one of those giant Grimace "shake the cage" play structures in the back yard now!

[Action Martin]

My family rarely, if ever, went to McDonald's. We were a Burger King family. Heck, BK always had cool souvenier glasses. I recall going to the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, NY in 1980, give or take, and getting a Star Trek: The Motion Picture Happy Meal. Inside was an oversized toy plastic ring with, if I recall correctly, the uniform insignia on it. It flipped open and you could store small flat things in it like a piece of paper, a couple of coins, a salt packet, etc. That was my first and last Happy Meal.

To this day I still recall the joke on the Happy Meal box.
"How do aliens get on the Enterprise?"
"They just Klingon."

[toys2cool]

I also remember the Muppet babies and the Oliver and Company being really popular in the 80's

[Kevin Mayle]

Finally, here's a terrific link with someone's childhood pics AND his own drawings of them!!!

http://kevin-mayle.livejournal.com/70053.html

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...nmayle/mc7.jpg

Thanks for the interest in my pics!

[FastDog40]

Hello all............I have over 400 happy meal toys.from 1989 to 2000.If anybody would be interested.e-mail me with a offer.These are bagged.

[Bizarro Amy]

The first Happy Meal toy I remember getting were Go-Bots. They were even cheaper and lamer than the actual toy line, if that's possible. I also recall getting little Barbies and My Little Ponies.

[toys2cool]

My family rarely, if ever, went to McDonald's. We were a Burger King family. Heck, BK always had cool souvenier glasses. I recall going to the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, NY in 1980, give or take, and getting a Star Trek: The Motion Picture Happy Meal. Inside was an oversized toy plastic ring with, if I recall correctly, the uniform insignia on it. It flipped open and you could store small flat things in it like a piece of paper, a couple of coins, a salt packet, etc. That was my first and last Happy Meal.

To this day I still recall the joke on the Happy Meal box.
"How do aliens get on the Enterprise?"
"They just Klingon."

My family just went to which ever had the best toys at the time

[werewolfz]

I really don't remember my mom or dad purchasing me happy meals. I remember that I loved Big Macs...and that's all I would order.

That would be me also

But as an adult, I just don't like them anymore.

[kryptosmaster]

I was thinking the other day of the first time I saw Happy Meal toys from McDonalds. My parents rarely ever took me there, so I was insanely jealous and desperate to have them. The ones I first remember were a set of 4 rubber eraser type figures of space aliens. I've been looking for pictures of them online, but no luck.

I wish there was a Mego Museum for everything.

Anyone know the alien erasers I'm talking about and do you remember when Happy Meals first came along?

The first Happy Meal toys that I recall were also these rubber "erasers" or whatever they were supposed to be used for but I don't remember them being aliens. For some reason I believe they were McDonaldland characters like Mayor McCheese for example? I remember they felt really cool to bite on. LOL
Needless to say I don't have any of them left.

Rich

[PNGwynne]

Star Trek: TMP toys, including a cheesy wrist communicator which I absolutely loved. 5th grade, & going to McD's was a big treat.

[megoscott]

Here you go --

http://www.superactionnews.com/images/spaceraidersweb.jpg

Pic taken from the following: http://lightyearstoyesteryear.blogsp...appy-meal.html

Mine are in storage. I say that about my toys far too often...

In the Happy Meal they were called Space Raiders. They were made by Diener Industries - you can usually find them on eBay pretty cheaply by searching Diener. Here's a lot of 20 for $10 that went unsold: http://cgi.ebay.com/McDONALDS-DIENER...QQcmdZViewItem

Finally, here's a terrific link with someone's childhood pics AND his own drawings of them!!!

http://kevin-mayle.livejournal.com/70053.html

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...nmayle/mc7.jpg

I'm not sure I saw this the first time, and I started this thread! These are exactly what I was talking about. Very cool to see them again!

[jwyblejr]

The first Happy Meal toy I remember getting were Go-Bots. They were even cheaper and lamer than the actual toy line, if that's possible. I also recall getting little Barbies and My Little Ponies.

I thought the Go-Bots were from Wendy's? Could be wrong.