Just recently we shared some early images of the McDonald's Super Mario Happy Meal toys, which are rolling into the UK on 11th January. In a quirky turn, due to shortages of the current Furby toys, some were given out early - that was the source of our early images.
Now a Nintendo Life regular with access to the toys and marketing materials has passed us a whole lot of images and even the upcoming TV commercial, so we thought we'd bring them all together in one place to give you a closer look. Some of the toys have some basic movements, too, so those are also detailed.
Let's get to it.
TV Commercial
Full Lineup

Waving Mario
A lever prompts a waving action.

Bowser
Bowser comes with two fire breath rods, one is shown in the image; they fire out of his mouth via a button near his 'butt'.

Luigi
Luigi is on wheels and shoots out of a pipe in similar style to Bowser's fire breath.

Princess Peach
Princess Peach is fully static with a lenticular backdrop showing a ? block, then a Super Mushroom from said block.

Yoshi
Yoshi extends his tongue when pressed on the shell.

Koopa Shell
The Koopa Shell is, like Luigi, on wheels. When pulled back it'll drive away like a Hot Wheelz toy.

Piranha Plant
The Piranha Plant raises out of the Warp Pipe via a lever.

Brick Blocks
There are Brick Blocks as a toy, two normal and one question mark. The question mark block has a lever on the back to raise a Star; these can be stacked in multiple ways and multiple toys can be conjoined.

The Happy Meal Box and Colouring Sheet Activities





Let us know which toys you're planning to collect if you're a UK reader, and if you're elsewhere let us know whether you hope to see the same range in your country.
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Son, I haven't had a Happy Meal in years but I think I'm boutta start buying them again (with or without silent judgement from the public...)
When Mario toys come out in MC Donald's I always just by the toy for like 99p.
I've heard of waving from the throne but this is ridiculous.
I'm surprised the Mario on the throne toy wasn't vigorously scrutinised by those employed to protect the brand. That is particularly awful. I'm only buying three of them.
Mario is weird and peach is a bit lazy but yeah, doubt I'll be able to resist these. Especially as I work next door to a McDonald's so walk past allot!
Oh the McHorror!
Mario musical chairs confirmed!!
@Undead_terror what the hell kind of mascot is happy the paper box anyway..... Someone should be ashamed of themselves
To be fair, I've seen worse as far as disposable, low quality fast food toy items go. They must have gone all out and hired the sweatshop factories that actually allow their workers to use the toilet while on duty (no pun intended) for this one.
Ooh...Coloring pages of Mario.
Is Mario waving his hand due to the smell?
I think for the Mario toy it's meant to say: "A lever prompts a flushing action."
I'm curious about the size of those blocks. Looks like it could work well with Amiibo displays.
Hmm....I'll be getting that Koopa Shell for my Daisy amiibo to ride on and ? Block thing for display. Otherwise, they are just 10x worse than amiibos. I wonder if they have all the toys...
Gonna get them all
How many millions and millions of these must they make?
This is cruel to Yoshi.
Why did they choose that block formation for Mario and why does it seem like his butt is positioned lower into the block he sits on? Aha, so that's what a TOILET in the Mushroom Kingdom looks like!
Also, That happy meal box with a face is even creepier in Mario cloths.
Actually, compared to what McDonald's usually has in terms of toys, these aren't too bad. I don't know if it's an effect of getting older or if it's really been happening, but their toys seen to have grown more lame/less inventive over the years.
Now North America needs this range....I might actually visit McDonald's then.
In the description for Bowser they wrote "butt" in inverted commas like it makes it more suitable for kids
@memoryman3 to be fair they are 10x cheaper too
Mario is saying 'help! There's a-no Loo Roll here'
@UK-Nintendo If not more so.
What about America?
Ugh, you can tell by the sheen and ridges just how crappy the plastic is for those things. I think the only genuinely nice thing I've ever gotten from a McDonalds were two of the limited edition Batman Returns movie glass mugs- made in France, no less! They're really solid, much nicer than the typical glass mug. Still in good shape after 20+ years. Imagine that... McDonalds can certainly afford to put out some nicer things once in a while. Too bad they never did anything like that again, as far as I know...
@memoryman3 @UK-Nintendo The quality of the plastic used for amiibo's isn't such a far cry from cheap McDonalds toys. Amiibo's don't use high quality HDPE or PVC... Most of the money paid for each of them covers the cost of the NFC chip, which isn't that expensive... So yeah, Amiibo's are a ripoff.
The only thing worse than these excuses for excuses, is that someone actually thought this was a good idea. There is no Amaterasu; welcome to doge Hell.
@PlywoodStick exactly.
Huh, Peach is fully static? In Japan the toy spins, as shown in their oh so Japan advert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OlqQIURbX4 Also Japan got all 8 of these and 4 more...
@jimmyduckegg good find. I really thought we were gonna get that green 1up mushroom
We won't be getting
Fire luigi
Goomba on the bricks
Star flashing Mario
Green 1up
I think the Yoshi is the best toy of the lot, followed closely by the red shell.
@ZurapiiYohane64
Would that be Iam Hungry?
Looks like Bowser is barfing out a Shy Guy.
I've seen bootlegs that look more like authentic, licensed toy than those actually licensed things.
With luck there will be a second chance to get the Mario & Happy streetpass puzzle.
That living happy meal monstrosity needs to be burned immediately, before it's too late. Otherwise, this will get a G-Major nightmare fuel revision, and then we'll need an exorcist to kill the damn thing...
I really like the Piranha Plant one. It's cute.
I'll collect the set for sure and if there anything like the 1s from a few years back there should be an abundance of them at car boot sales in a few months time
@UK-Nintendo RATS!!! luigi is my favorite character and I love the fire power up. Talk about a bummer for me.
He's not waving, he's reaching for the toilet paper.
Hopefully it's not as bad as in the US. Damn scalpers here clean house when ever there is something of Otaku interest.
...these are OK I guess..I wonder how much it would cost to make a wall of those bricks?..lol..also Mario's hand waves, sure.. but you should see what happens when you pull his finger...
(..I'm States anyway, and like I really needed a reason to go get those awesome fries..)
Skip to the end of the Japanese Happy Meal commercial and you'll see they get a colour changing invincible Mario as well. Super jealous of that one!
https://youtu.be/0OlqQIURbX4
We got the "Sing" (at least I think that's the original name) movie's inspired toys this week, according to my friend. I hope we will get those too though they never offer the toys for longer than one week so I think I'll just ask mom to buy the toys only (I would do it myself, but I'm in a treatment with a progressive cancer so I can't just go freely-neely outside) andd check the quality later. Luckily they aren't that expensive to be not worth buying. I remember we once had similiar Mario toys in McDonald's, but I managed only to get Peach XD (I assume some higher power punished me for not frequenting fast foods and finding out on the last day heh)
Don't have a McDonalds where I live, so ah well
@PlywoodStick

@Slaz OH DEAR GOD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8jihm8_kyg
@PlywoodStick Ronald McSatan: "You know McDonald's Cheeseburgers are so delicious, you almost have to smile! MWHUHAHAHA!"
Alright, I'll burn the thing before the horror unleashes itself.

Too bad its only in the UK, but some of the new toys seem really stupid. A completely static Princess Peach, and a butt-button Bowser? Seriously?
I need to know who would win in a race between the shell and Luigi when pulled back to maximum.
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