30 Strange Happy Meal Toys 1980s Kids Begged For (That Made No Sense)

Saturday around noon in 1986, the whole car smelled like french fries, and the red Happy Meal box on the seat had a handle like a tiny lunch pail. The burger was only the cover story, because the toy rattling at the bottom of the bag was the reason for the whole trip. These are thirty of the strangest toys the Happy Meal handed out in the 1980s, the ones every kid begged for, and how little sense most of them made once the bag was open. In this video: ✓ McNugget Buddies in costume ✓ Burgers that turned into robots ✓ The moon in sunglasses ✓ Halloween pails as dinner boxes ✓ Fraggles in vegetable cars ✓ The toothbrush Happy Meal ✓ Water toys from The Little Mermaid ✓ The circus that started it all Nobody remembers the meal. Ask anyone who grew up with a red box on the seat what they ate and they shrug, but ask what was in the bag and they can describe the color. So which one rode home in your lap? Tell us what it was, and what it was supposed to be, because somewhere another kid got the very same one and has wondered for forty years whether it was only them. The bag was closed, and a closed bag held more than anything inside it ever did. HappyMeal #1980s #McDonalds #VintageToys