McDonalds adult Happy Meal toys are selling for up to $300,000 on eBay
When it comes to nostalgia, McDonalds customers sure are lovin it.
The burger chain brought back its Halloween pails on Tuesday, which havent been offered in the U.S. since 2016. The plastic trick-or-treat buckets decorated to look like a ghost, a goblin or a jack-o-lantern (aka McBoo, McGoblin and McPunkn, respectively) quickly began trending among real-time Google searches on Tuesday.
But the appetite for these Halloween buckets is nothing compared to the recent McDonalds MCD, +0.75% collaboration with streetwear company Cactus Plant Flea Market, which dished out a $12-$13 box (better known as the adult Happy Meal) that featured a food combo and a collectible figurine targeted toward the grownups who grew up on Happy Meals.
They sold out quickly, and now some enterprising fast food lovers are hawking the adult Happy Meal toys over online resale sites for thousands of dollars.
So whats the appeal? Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia. Everyone remembers their first Happy Mealas a kid and the cant-sit-still feeling as you dug in to see what was inside, McDonalds wrote in a press release. And now, were reimagining that experience in a whole new way this time, for adults.
The limited-edition Cactus Plant Flea Market Box at McDonalds rolled out on Oct. 3, feeding the inner child of the average customer by offering a choice of a Big Mac or 10-piece chicken nuggets main dish, french fries and a soft drink, as well as one of four toys featuring redesigned McDonalds mascots like the Grimace, the Hamburgler and Birdie, as well as a new Cactus Buddy! figure (yes, the exclamation point is part of his name.)
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