Supersize my Scorchio, please!

[arethinn]

Neopets has plushie toys of various pets out in Happy Meals at McDonald's right now. There are 109 different toys. They have a page with a checklist, encouraging you to try to collect them all. Now, even assuming you got a different toy each time (good luck), you would still have to eat one hundred and nine Happy Meals to get all the toys. Is this "Super Size Me" all over again?

For those not wanting to eat that many hamburgers, you can buy the toys separately, for something like $2 apiece, which sounds like a ridiculous investment to me. enotsola speculates that a complete, unopened set might be able to be sold on eBay someday for more than it was bought for, but still.

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[dreamfall.livejournal.com]

B wants to know where you can buy them separately. *chuckle*

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

Do not underestimate the power of collectors.

"vintage" unopened happy meal toys have been sold on eBay for as much as $150-200. Apiece. A set that large might well fetch thousands from the right buyer.

[commonperson.livejournal.com]

well yeah like you said you can buy them seperatly without buying the happy meal but also they may want you to buy the Ronald McDonald workout tape. (Yes it's coming out for kids *shudder*)

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well yeah like you said you can buy them seperatly without buying the happy meal but also they may want you to buy the Ronald McDonald workout tape. (Yes it's coming out for kids *shudder*)

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[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

> assuming you got a different toy each time (good luck), you would still have to eat one
> hundred and nine Happy Meals to get all the toys. Is this "Super Size Me" all over again?

Actually, there's nothing that says you have to actually eat the Happy Meals. You could just buy the meal, extract the toy, and then throw away the rest. Or give it to someone else, like a random homeless person on the street, who'd probably rather have food than no-food.

That US$2.00 to get the toy without a meal sounds like a reasonable deal, if the price for the meal is as high as I think it is. (I haven't bought a Happy Meal in ages, so I'm really unclear on how much they cost.)

[eyebite.livejournal.com]

Don't throw those away! Some of us actually LIKE mcdonalds food. I can't seem to go a couple of days without a craving from hell for it.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Just from the McDonalds, I thought, although I never tried, so maybe I'm wrong.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Ronald McDonald, or Richard Simmons... which is scarier? I see a certain visual resemblance...

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Or give it to someone else, like a random homeless person on the street, who'd probably rather have food than no-food.

Wow, I honestly never thought of that. Neat idea.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Heheh... I like it sometimes too... but I think the addict-like craving was one of the things in Super Size Me too! Scary stuff.

[commonperson.livejournal.com]

LOL yes, and like the guy from the Supersize Me movie said have you noticed, the clown NEVER eats the food? You never see it go in his mouth!

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Hmm, quite true...!