Panda-mania at McDonald’s!

Panda and fast food toy lovers are in heaven right now!

From June 6th til July 3rd, 2008 “Kung Fu Panda” toys are at McDonald’s. There are 8 action characters to collect. I’ve already got my paws on Po and Master Shifu and they are absolutely kick-ass!

The overall design is excellent. I love the attention to detail. Kudos to McDonald’s! This is one of their better sets that I’ve seen in a while. 

Po is huge. He’s a big toy. But then again, he is a giant panda. Po has a switch on his back that if you turn on and twist his arm, he’ll make kung fu noises – quite startling I might add since it scared my nephew. I wonder if that’s Jack Black’s voice. 

What’s cooler than Po’s “Waa Haa!!!” noises is Master ShiFu’s crazy footwork. Wind him up and he shuffles and hustles like he just drank a gallon of red bull or something. Love it!!! By the way, doesn’t Master ShiFu remind you of Splinter? For those who have no clue who that is, look up “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” on wikipedia.org and then you can go back to watching “Hannah Montana”.

As for me, I’m going to try to go to the movies and see “Kung Fu Panda.” 

Here are the other six characters to collect:

 

 

 

Dinosaurs at Taco Bell

Trust me, it’s not as exciting as the title suggests.  Taco Bell is currently giving away dinosaur toys with their kids meal. There a 4 to collect.  I’m sure some kids will love it, but this is pretty much a snoozefest for me.  I know it’s not as easy as I make it sound, but Taco Bell really needs to hook up with some big name company to pump some life into their kids meal toy offerings a la Burger King working with Nickelodeon.  Their chalupas are good though…

No Pitch Problems Here

This is so cool!  From now until May 8, you can go to your local McDonald’s and pick up a super-cool American Idol toy, as well as vote for your favorite idol toy here.  Inspired by the hit show, McDonald’s has 8 cute American Idol-ish character toys (each representing a music genre) for us to collect.  Each toy plays a song from his or her music genre. 

( Disco Dave )

( Rockin’ Riley )

( Soulful Selma )

( Country Clay )

( Lil Hip Hop )

( Punky Pete )

( New Wave Nigel )

( Hippie Harmony )

As of this post, Rockin’ Riley is in the lead and is set to become the next American Idol toy!!!  It’s definitely the hair!

As for me, I’m voting for Ms. Hippie Harmony and that’s only because she looks like the girl from Little Twin Stars.

I Found Spongebob!

I was on eBay the other day and I came across a listing for a giant-sized blowup Spongebob Squarepants going for $999.00!!!  The price isn’t the crazy part. 

The person who posted the listing goes on to say that this enormous Spongebob was taken from a Burger King restaurant when he/she was told by his/her manager to take it out to the back with the trash and decided to instead save it.  As I read this, I remembered that a bunch of these Spongebob balloons were stolen from several Burger Kings in 2004. 

Yup, I was right!  I found the following article and I just couldn’t help but wonder if I found one of the stolen Spongebob balloons.  Hmm, I may have a future in investigations or something… 

Hall of Fame Inductee # 1

There are a gazillion fast food toys out there and yet, some toys seem to stand out more than others.  These toys will be honored (as they should be) in the I Love Fast Food Toys Hall of Fame which I have created today to offer a place for these extraordinary toys a place to shine.

I’m excited (’cause I’m a dork and a half) to announce that the first set of toys to be inducted into the I Love Fast Food Toys Hall of Fame are the…

(drum roll)

…Super Looney Tunes Toys from Mcdonald’s (released in 1991)!!!

From ordinary to super, Bugs Bunny becomes Super Bugs, Petunia Pig becomes Wonder Pig, Taz becomes Taz Flash and Daffy Duck becomes Bat-Duck!

So freakin’ cool!  So Hall of Fame worthy!!!