Great. I just spent $45 getting the complete set of McDino Changeables and Super Looney Tunes McDonald's Happy Meal toys (my favorite McD's toys).

Thanks, Tomopop. Thanks.

Poor Kris... Everyone got Snorlax eventually, no worries.

THAT HEADER IMAGE. I used to have like 10,000 of those stupid ice cream cone Changeables!!

I have a whole set of the Disney glasses... And we have a bunch of Loony Toons ones as well, but those are ones my parents collected.

As for the shitty food thing, I feel like McDonalds does a good job offering healthy options like "apple dippers" and milk instead of fries and a soda. McD's does their part, I think, and it should be up to the parents to parent their kids.

I had a bunch of those Dalmations, too. I didn't have all of them but... I had like,10 of them, and a few doubles.

I also had the Power Rangers toys from the movies... It was the hardest thing trying to get the different ones. My parents drove around Myrtle Beach in South Carolina going between McDonalds trying to find the last two, THE FAVORITES OF ME AND MY BROTHER, the Pink and Blue Rangers.

Good memories, man.

I wished I still had those McDino Changeables, but we moved so many time that they got lost. What sucks the most is that I almost had the complete collection.

IMO Transforming food was the best toys ever from McD. As for the food, the grilled chicken sandwich is great!

I agree that the apple snacks and other options at some of the fast food places are a gallant attempt. Apple sauce is tasty and some places offer other types of alternatives. I can't help but feel that kids are gonna want the greasy, gross food most of the time, though. Heh!

In the end, it's pretty much case-by-case and being intelligent as the person eating the food or as the parents guiding children to what they feel is healthy eating.

Yay! A winner is me!

I have to agree with Tubbs that the Revoletch Sengokus are kinda bad… I was really excited about them when I first saw the designs and stuff but the Revoltech line does do a horrible job on the heads half the time. Still kinda like the Revoltech ones, but meh. That said, the dolls there don't appeal to me at all and the fact it was female molds explains a lot.

The Robotnik is reallly neat but the rest of that Sonic toys list is meh. The teenie beanie babies set was meh. It should be noted that for bathtub toys the Little Mermaid stuff was kinda made for it. Loved the little Flouder one that squirted water. Long John Silvers also did a ton of these. LJS was the shit, man. Seriously miss having those around. Kinda wondering how a small child would realize that food is awful for them...

I never liked Wendy's food or toys (although there were exceptions. Just not food exceptions). One of the underappreciated FF joints is Hardees, though, which had a bunch of really cool stuff in addition to great food (including a Monster Rancher line, iirc).

McDonald's sucks because they charge more for their toys when bought separately, although you can get cheap Happy Meals on Tuesday nights which is kinda decent. BK is cool because they only charge like 75 cents for them. I still have some of the DBZ toys but didn't like them as much; was kinda silly because nobody really wanted the bronze or gold rather than norm colors. The BK constructable Iron Man figure was like 5", plus their Owls figures were pretty big. The R2 was packed with Leia, if you're talking about the Taco Bell promotion >_>

Don't remember buckets?! They just did buckets LAST YEAR >_< As for the watch comments, they did a great Jurassic Park series which was of decent quality.

The point Kristina kinda glosses over in terms of the whole "Why do Happy Meals exist?" is the fact that children should receive smaller portions of the food as well >_> Plus there's no difference between marketing toys to kids and toys with food to kids in terms of the tantrum argument.

Props to Pedro for remembering that Pizza Hutt used to have toys!! Was totally going to mention that myself. I know I kinda wanted to go to it for X-Men comics & stuff. Plus they had Monster in My Pocket stuff exclusive figures. I still have some of the tin Digimon cards. Stop mocking Taco Bell =x I love the food even after not going for the toys. Plus the indigestion thing kinda wears off once you get used to the food.

lol @ the parent involvement with kids meal toys. Heh at the Little Mermaid stuff; I also saw the Little Mermaid quite a few times in theaters >_> I did like the movie, though. Kinda wonder if I'm wimpier for having seen it so many times.

How many times do people forget the name of Mighty Max? Seems like every podcast it comes up like it.

I appreciate keeping the podcast length down, although I wish you'd get to the big subject faster =x (and possibly not gloss over the question segment so much!). Also, what was up with the odd sounds during the podcast? Did you forget to turn off the sound on aim? Oo

And Jesus Christ at all the fast food hate!