| 08.25.2013 – The Despicable Me 2 minions featured as the Happy Meal toy between June-July 2013 has stirred a lot of interest that in some regions caused long lines just to complete the versions that came out. The US release was kept secret until the rest of the ones released first in the Asian region got sold out. The ones came out in the US is a combination of the ones that came out in Australia and the Asian region with two new minions introduced only for that country which made it a unique line up. |
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Happy Meal Spotlight: DM2 US Minions!
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Happy Meal Spotlight: Smurfs 2!
| 08.14.2013 – It’s been almost a month since the release of the Happy Meal featuring the characters from Smurfs 2 was released and some of them are still available in selected McDonald’s store in the Philippines. They even held a special #ToyPhotography contest for you to be able to win a Sony Cybershot digital camera. The US release came out last July 1, 2013 and it’s not the same as how Despicable Me 2’s minions have ruled the toy meal world. |
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Happy Meal 2013: It's the Smurfs 2!
| 07.24.2013 – The unprecedented success of the Happy Meal brand for McDonald’s has been followed by other fast food restaurants. The aftermath of the Despicable Me 2 featuring the beloved minions has caused the marketing to bring the next one –- Smurfs ! The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) has been around long before merchandise marketing was born for collectibles as it first appeared in a Belgian comic and television show. Smurfs first appeared in comics on October 23, 1958 by Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford). |
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Happy Meal 2013: Despicable Me 2 US Release!
07.03.2013 – The movie comes out in the US in less than 24 hours and there was no details of what the minions that will come out but thanks to those who followed the updates regarding the releases in some parts of the world.
In the Philippines prior to the movie’s release it was sold out and no word on a restock as previously reported during the premier last Saturday that they have 1.2 million units allotted for the whole duration of the promotions. Read more »
In the Philippines prior to the movie’s release it was sold out and no word on a restock as previously reported during the premier last Saturday that they have 1.2 million units allotted for the whole duration of the promotions. Read more »
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Happy Meal 2013: Despicable Me 2 Goes Global!
| 06.27.2013 – The Happy Meal toys that was supposed to be for the month of July 2013 in the Philippines is getting sold out. The film has not been shown yet but the toys previously sighted are getting sold out too notably Dave & Stuart interactive minions.The popularity of the minions solidified as the current favorite group of creatures after Smurfs that put them in the cult status. Speaking of the Happy Meal toys previously confirmed to be a total of fifteen minions were discovered to be more than that combined with nine from Philippines and six from Australia. Reports now that McDonald’s released for their Happy Meal all over the world totaled to SEVENTEEN minions which was discovered in parts of South America having two more not available in other foreign markets. |
Monday, June 24, 2013
Happy Meal 2013: Despicable Me 2 Minions!
| 06.24.2013 – Remember the days during the time when Happy Meal came out with the 101 and 102 Dalmatians during the late 1990s where everyone got caught up with its popularity to collect more than 102 dogs. McDonald’s these days still brings good quality toys but they can only have in selected regions. In the previous stories told about such releases like the Megamind toys stands out that you can’t have them released in all regions. This could be a similar thing with the popular Despicable Me 2 minions which has been selling like hot cakes. McDonald’s Philippines had started selling the minions last June 21st and you have to collect ALL NINE versions. |
Friday, May 17, 2013
Happy Meal May 2013: VooV McDo Truck & Sports Car!
| 05.17.2013 – McDonald’s Happy Meal latest offering in the Philippines in selected parts of Asia is Hello Kitty and Bandai’s VooV. Everyone already knows the famous kitty but not VooV a collection of vehicles that turns into another vehicle. VooV as Bandai’s “transformation” concept of cars, trucks and other kinds of vehicles which has been around since 2010. It’s just that nobody took notice of the product that it was sold for clearance in the Philippines. |
Monday, February 25, 2013
Happy Meal March 2013: SpongeBob Olympics!
| 02.25.2013 – This March 2013 McDonald’s Happy Meal in the Philippines is SpongeBob SquarePants which features eight characters with four others that has Mr Krabs, Sandy, Patrick Star and Squidward in Olympics themes. Originally it was released in North America sometime prior to the Olympics with sixteen character designs that also featured others from the cartoon series. Evidently the Asian release gets only a selected few. |
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Happy Meal Spotlight: Rise of the Guardians!
| 12.05.2012 – The Happy Meal for December 2012 revealed the promotion featuring Rise of the Guardians the film shown for the Holidays based from William Joyce’s The Guardians of Childhood book series and The Man in the Moon short film with ReelFX. The toys consist of six characters based from the animated feature though it would be great if Santa Claus was not trapped inside a Snow Globe. The promotion started late November where the interest has not picked up yet. |
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