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!!!

McDonald’s and Disney Still Friends

Even though McDonald’s and Disney announced that they were ending their long-running Happy Meal partnership in 2006 (for more details read this), McDonald’s current Happy Meal promotion proves that they obviously kept each other’s phone numbers. 

Until the 10th of April, Disney Princess and Pirates of the Caribbean toys are available at McDonald’s.

Disney stated in 2006 that despite their contract ending with McDonald’s, they “look forward to a more flexible, non-exclusive relationship” where they will work with them every now and then. Let’s hope more often than not. 

Current Promotions (Issue One)

Some noteworthy promotions currently going on at fast food places:

Fans of Spongebob Squarepants can thank Burger King once more for releasing another awesome set of Spongebob Squarepants toys.  These Wild West themed Spongebob toys are being issued by Burger King to promote the new Spongebob movie “Pest of the West” airing on Nickelodeon on April 11, 2008.  Collect all 8!

If you head on over to Hardee’s, you can get your hands on four fun “Bee Movie” toys.  These toys are to promote the “Bee Movie” being released on DVD.

Of course, if you want your toys to come with that all-important interactive factor, look no further than your local Sonic.  Sonic currently has a set of toys called Bionics – neat gadgets.  Collect all five!