McDonald's and The Pokémon Company have today announced another crossover event that sees a limited range of Trading Cards appearing in Happy Meals across the United States until late February.
Starting today, fans in the US can pick up a four-card Pokémon TCG booster and sticker activity sheet with every Happy Meal, and if you order via the McDonald's app, you'll bag 24 pack hourglasses and 12 wonder hourglasses for Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket too.
Like previous events, the McDonald's booster packs have a limited range of cards available in them. The full collection is listed on the McDonald's website, but we'll be kind and share it with you below too:
- Charizard
- Pikachu
- Miraidon
- Jigglypuff
- Hatenna
- Dragapult
- Quagsire
- Koraidon
- Umbreon
- Hydreigon
- Roaring Moon
- Dragonite
- Eevee
- Rayquaza
- Drampa
This Happy Meal event appears to be locked to the US for the time being, with UK customers still receiving the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 tie-in.
Some previous McDonald's x Pokémon crossovers have been, uhh, less-than-pleasant experiences, with scalpers buying up all the toys and McDonald's UK even limiting Happy Meal toy purchases. What we're saying is, if you've got your heart set on nabbing one of these packs, please remember that other people might want one too.
Will you be picking up a Pokémon Happy Meal in the coming weeks? Let us know in the comments.
[source pokemon.com, via x.com]
Comments 13
F**k these scalpers ☠️
Fingers crossed most of those interested will be able to get these cards instead of scalpers!
Pokemon fans be like: I'll get 27 Happy Meals, please.
Side note: I just saw that the author is a Prequels fan, and all I gotta say is. . .
HELLO THERE
Well
I already know where this is going.
@traceman Happens every time Mcdonalds does Pokemon cards. They get expensive right away on the market but a year or so later they are very cheap. You can pick up complete sets of the last 3 or times mcdonalds has done it for very cheap online. With the cost of many happy meals to get all the cards, its probably best to buy them as a set some time next year
@Yaycandy you can buy the toys separately, for about 1,50 or so
Scalper no scalping is prime material right there. Swiper approves. 👍
Went today at noon. Got two Happy Meals for my kids. Came in Pokemon boxes, knew they would be excited… got home… had Just Dance toys inside
I was delighted when the granddaughter pulled out a pack of Pokemon cards and stickers from her Happy Meal yesterday. We assumed it would be Sonic 3 toys still
Anybody remember Pokemon toys at Burger King back in '99? At least here in the US, the toys originally came in cheap plastic pokeballs, but then a toddler suffocated on one and they were then packaged in regular plastic baggies. Then there were the golden collector's cards featuring Pikachu, Mewtwo, Charizard, Togepi, and others.
Pre-internet (for most of us), pre-scalping (as far as I know) – simpler times.
Even though I still love the idea of collecting these cards, there's just way too many for me to start now. (Yes, I would want them all, if I ever were to begin collecting.) The scalper situation just makes it even less enticing for me to go for it.
The art on Pokémon cards is always super nice though.
Company that intensively processes dead animals into crappy food teams up with company which peddles a fiction involving obsessively imprisoning and collecting animals.
Anyway, I think they should both go all in and genetically engineer these creatures into existence solely for the sake of novel meat products. A “Pikachew” meal could be on the cards!
It's too bad there's no Mewtwo, Alakazam, Lucario, Groudon, or Scizor in the pack cause I would totally buy a happy meal just to have one of those.
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