Update: Today's the day! McDonald's Pokémon Happy Meals have started to appear in restaurants across the UK today, although we've been informed that stock is "extremely limited".
Remember, sales of the included toys will be restricted (so no, pesky scalpers, you may as well not bother trying). Good luck getting your hands on one if you're trying, and be safe.
Original Article (Wed 14th Apr, 2021 14:55 BST): There aren't many things in life that can beat the good old video games and food combo, so you'll hopefully be pleased to hear that Pokémon Happy Meals are soon returning to McDonald's restaurants in the UK.
Special Pokémon Happy Meals appeared across restaurants in the US earlier this year – you might remember that scalpers tried to hoover up the lot of them to sell off the included 25th-anniversary Pokémon cards – and we've been tipped off that a similar promotion is heading to the UK on May 19th.
Our anonymous McDonald's reporter, who previously shared a sneak peek at the 2018 Super Mario toys, says that the Pokémon meals will be launching once the current SpongeBob promotion (running from today up until 18th May) is over:
The goodies included for those of us in the UK haven't been confirmed just yet, but it would make sense for the same 25th-anniversary promotion to make its way across the pond. Previous Pokémon Happy Meals have also included collectable figures.
Will you be heading to McDonald's to pick up a Pokémon Happy Meal? Don't talk with your mouth full in the comments below.
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Great, now man-babies who are failures in life and have never been loved by another person other than their mother can scalp them and sell them on eBay for hundreds of dollars.
Yes, I'm still bitter about the PS5.
If it's like what America recently got, it was a magnetic picture frame and a coloring page, along with card(s). I think. I didn't actually look it up and just looked at the toy display in passing.
Say it with me now, HERE COMES THE SCALPERS!
@Snatcher
HERE COMES THE SCALPERS!
They don't do toys anymore, do they? At least not with plastic. So they won't be anything like the old ones they did. Would they just do exclusive trading cards?
Pikachu, coming soon! (Not as a food, though... That would be horrific.) @KateGray I think he might be calling you out
@FroZtedFlakerZz and that's a fact!
@jump Corona-chu or Pika-19?
Oh dear lord, that is such boring, uninteresting graphic design. Just Pikachu on a red background and also the text is unaligned.
@Noid
You're complaining about something on the folding tab of a happy meal box.
@RupeeClock I sure am.
@ObeseChihuahua2 actually that is why they are bringing them back. There is to be no way to tell from one printing to the other, thereby flooding the market and making the scalpers lose their shirts and causing ALL of the released cards to be worth almost nothing.
(Insert McDonald’s food isn’t real food joke here)
@Bearzilla823 Oh, well good. Hit those degenerates where it hurts, then.
Spare the rod and spoil the child (the child in this case being the Happy Meals).
@BirdBoy16 : Facts are no laughing matter.
@Silly_G if you say so
@jump What type of Pokémon is "coivd" (sic)?
@Bizaster I guess not
Great news. Been waiting patiently for this. I need the holo Pikachu for my collection and glad I didnt pay eBay prices...£40-£50 for that card. Hope I don't have to buy 25 happy meals to get the card I want.
Meh, don't have a McDonalds on my island, the nearest chain brand we have is a Costa
This article hasn't clarified what's actually being offered in the Happy Meal boxes.
https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/latest/happy-meal.html
It's a pack of 4 trading cards, including one holographic card.
The Happy Meal box itself also looks like Pikachu, and plus it also has "either stickers, a trading card box or frame".
I managed to get one yesterday (well for my boy 😊) and was surprised the Pokémon cards were in there.
wasn't this restaurant that one that make people get fat and die from cancer?
i went today there was a guy asking every 2 seconds if the cards where in the happy meal boxes :/
Bill Gates has engineered those french fries in the happy meal. So that you will not live very long. Not sure if the short happiness from the pikachu toy is worth it.
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