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[Ismene]

Oh, wow, how cool! Is that why her hands don't turn (one piece for both hand and arm)? I wish Happy Meals came with Playmobil when I was a kid.

[basilsdad]

In the early '80s McDonalds Restaurants in the USA did a promotion where they gave some Playmobil figures away with their children's meals. It caused quite a bit of a fuss as the figures were not deemed suitable for kids under 3 and, as a result, were withdrawn soon afterwards.

This is the way I got hooked on Playmobil!  As a new teacher, I bought so many Happy Meals and took the figures to school for the kids to play with.  It was down the slippery slope from there!      

[Rhalius]

Probably a good thing clickies arent in happy meals anymore, saves many adult collectors the weird looks they might get when ordering a happy meal for themselves. 

Besides, we can find our little friends in plenty of toystores, and I don't trust clickies enough to be put in a closed cartboard box with my food. You might just find nothing but a fat clicky that smells of fries and hamburger when you open the box. 

[tahra]

Thanks for the link Sylvia!

Probably a good thing clickies arent in happy meals anymore, saves many adult collectors the weird looks they might get when ordering a happy meal for themselves. 

You really shouldn't worry about that... Some people just don't know how to have fun. Their bad.

[Wolf Knight]

Probably a good thing clickies arent in happy meals anymore, saves many adult collectors the weird looks they might get when ordering a happy meal for themselves. 

I beg to differ! And I agree with tahra!!! I love the look at the faces of the people behind the counter when they ask ''Is it for a buy of a girl?'' and I reply ''Its for me, so I'd like to have the boy klicky please''   

[tahra]

I beg to differ! And I agree with tahra!!! I love the look at the faces of the people behind the counter when they ask ''Is it for a buy of a girl?'' and I reply ''Its for me, so I'd like to have the boy klicky please''   

Oh, no... I usually get different degrees of MAD.. Last time we went to TRU, we had like 200 euros vouchers from the 50% the month before.... Bought about 209 euros of playmobil... And the woman at the counter asked the stupid question: for how many children is this... "Just us." (was with my sister). Worse than assuming it's to wrap, is assuming it's for a boy. With that one, I FREAK. "Does HE have this one?" "Yes, WE do."

[Rasputin]

i do not get those types of responses and sometimes, in the name of humor, wish I did. The clerks usually just try to get me out of their stores as fast as possible before I start to ask questions about wheeling and dealing. The other day I just got a web order mailed to me and at the same time a sale voucher. I went to the store, returned everything, re-bought everything, used the voucher and got more playmobil. I did not even have the boxes with me, and the clerk knew I was not about to go get them or if I even had them. Lets just say my wife NEVER wants to go shopping with me.

I have plenty of excuses to get Happy-meal's but even if they came with playmobil I do not think I would support McJunkfood.

[basilsdad]

Probably a good thing clickies arent in happy meals anymore, saves many adult collectors the weird looks they might get when ordering a happy meal for themselves. 

And all those calories . . . 

[bonniebeth]

Probably a good thing clickies arent in happy meals anymore, saves many adult collectors the weird looks they might get when ordering a happy meal for themselves. 

An awful lot of adults I know, including myself, sometimes order happy meals just because it's a more reasonable amount of food. I never get a strange look. I didn't even get looked at funny when Chris and I went to Sonic and ordered all 15 different kinds of stuffed zoo animals they were selling.

[Ismene]

I figure they are used to strange people. I once ordered a sundae with a cone on top. Took awhile to explain that I didn't want a separate ice cream in a cone, I just wanted a cone on my sundae.