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While I am indeed way out of the target demographic for this kind of product, I am an avid collector since everyone's got to collect something. These are also cheap and fun to collect depending on the license, and also can be put into large boxes or fall off of shelves without fear of delicate little pieces snapping off. While I shouldn't be that concerned otherwise, I reinstate these are something I'm prone to collect. That is all.
With that out of the way, here's my pet peeve.
I hate when they try to make fast food kid's meals healthier by putting in health based and or educational products instead of toys. I'm not talking about books, they've always had those. Even remember when they even gave out book and tape sets at one point. Anyway, I grabbed one of the new McD's Secret Life of Pet toys, and usually the bottom of the boxes have the next kid's meal promotion on them. There wasn't. So I just checked out the website and found out why they didn't stamp anything on the bottom this time. The next promotion is a freaking fitness watch. Oh sure, that's exactly what kids want to play with. Fitness freaking watches. That's some sort of freaking Subway bullcrap right there. Now, I get the point of kid's meal toy licenses is to get more kids in to buy more of these things so they can play with them on exactly the car ride home, and then leave them there or wind up throwing them out or something not a day later. But at least they had some exciting movie or TV show license on them. Some shows and movies only get a kid's meal license as their toyline. Heck, Catscratched and El Tigre had some (where the heck's my Sanjay and Craig?!)
Now, I remember back in the 90's they tried a Michael Jordan fitness kid's meal, but at least then it was freaking Michael Jordan (you know, the Space Jam guy who does Hanes ads?), and the toys were hilariously bad. A wind up toy stop watch. Really. That was a thing.
While I am indeed way out of the target demographic for this kind of product, I am an avid collector since everyone's got to collect something. These are also cheap and fun to collect depending on the license, and also can be put into large boxes or fall off of shelves without fear of delicate little pieces snapping off. While I shouldn't be that concerned otherwise, I reinstate these are something I'm prone to collect. That is all.
With that out of the way, here's my pet peeve.
I hate when they try to make fast food kid's meals healthier by putting in health based and or educational products instead of toys. I'm not talking about books, they've always had those. Even remember when they even gave out book and tape sets at one point. Anyway, I grabbed one of the new McD's Secret Life of Pet toys, and usually the bottom of the boxes have the next kid's meal promotion on them. There wasn't. So I just checked out the website and found out why they didn't stamp anything on the bottom this time. The next promotion is a freaking fitness watch. Oh sure, that's exactly what kids want to play with. Fitness freaking watches. That's some sort of freaking Subway bullcrap right there. Now, I get the point of kid's meal toy licenses is to get more kids in to buy more of these things so they can play with them on exactly the car ride home, and then leave them there or wind up throwing them out or something not a day later. But at least they had some exciting movie or TV show license on them. Some shows and movies only get a kid's meal license as their toyline. Heck, Catscratched and El Tigre had some (where the heck's my Sanjay and Craig?!)
Now, I remember back in the 90's they tried a Michael Jordan fitness kid's meal, but at least then it was freaking Michael Jordan (you know, the Space Jam guy who does Hanes ads?), and the toys were hilariously bad. A wind up toy stop watch. Really. That was a thing.
