Mcdonald's Halloween Happy Meal buckets return

[y4j1981]

Just wondering for the nostalgia value, anyone playing to pick them up?

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McDonald's Halloween Happy Meal Buckets Returning for Halloween 2022

McDonald's is putting "Happy Halloween" back in the Happy Meal. The fast food chain is reportedly bringing back a nostalgic treat for Halloween 2022: the Halloween Happy Meal pumpkin pails. The buckets — first offered as the classic trio of jack-o-lanterns McPunk'n, McBoo, and McGoblin nationwide in 1986 — are returning for the first time since 2016, according to NightmareNostalgia. The McDonald's Halloween Pails Happy Meal begins October 18 and is available for a limited time through October 31, retro site Nightmare Nostalgia reports, based on information from sources with knowledge of the McDonald's calendar.

ComicBook reached out to McDonald's Corporation for confirmation.

Introduced nationwide in 1986 as the Halloween Pumpkin Happy Meal, the plastic Pumpkin Pails returned in 1987 before undergoing a makeover in 1989 with the addition of a white ghost and a green witch. According to Nightmare Nostalgia, glow-in-the-dark vinyl treat bags, known as "McBoo Bags," replaced the buckets in 1991; in 1992, McPunk'n, McBoo, and McWitch returned with new cookie-cutter lids.

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After a brief hiatus, McDonald's brought back the Halloween Happy Meal in 1996 with new buckets featuring such McDonaldland characters as Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar. More themed designs, including Potato Head, Scooby-Doo, and Minions, covered the buckets sporadically until 2016 when the McDonald's Halloween Happy Meal went on hiatus with the Peanuts-themed pail celebrating It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

McDonald's recently debuted secret menu "hacks" items, tested the classic menu remix Chicken Big Mac, and introduced a limited-time seasonal pastry to its McCafé Bakery lineup. The Cheese Danish, available since September 14, is a throwback to the 1980s and the latest item to return to McDonald's restaurants from years past. Along with the return of the McRib in 2021, the fast-food giant brought back its fan-favorite Szechuan Sauce as an app-exclusive item for a limited time earlier this year.

The McDonald's Halloween Pails Happy Meal is expected to run from October 18-October 31 at participating McDonald's restaurants.

[Paul]

Awesome! I'm glad a new generation of kids will get to have these.

[Fade]

Man, that’s a blast from the past. Pretty sure I have that green one somewhere around the house still.

[bob]

I remember those from when I was a kid

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Buying one of these as an adult just to drink booze out of it to show how much I've matured.

[Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃]

Sept 18, 2022 21:33:07 GMT -5 Jumpin' Jesse Walsh said:

Buying one of these as an adult just to drink booze out of it to show how much I've matured.

You can almost fit two bottles of whiskey or wine in one of them….

….what?

[jimmyjackezekiel]

ah. That takes me back to the good ol' days.

[Limity (BLM)]

If they're doing this, I demand they bring back the Muppet Babies for Christmas.

[James Fabiano]

Dunkin, please bring back the glass pumpkins with the sugar cookies.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Do kids even go legit trick or treating anymore? Around my area appears that has been taken over by churchs holding Fall Festivals and crap like that.

Loved Halloween cause it was the one night a year I got to go out late and no adults around. Would be a pack of 15 of us gone from 6pm until 10pm.

But yea if the local Mcdonalds haas them in I might grab one. Never had one as a kid, cause they are so small. We used Pillowcases as trick or treat candy bags.

[James Fabiano]

They won't go a long way today, but I also miss the McDonald's gift certificates. Complete with "arches" pumpkin sign to put in your window to let people know you had them.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Bring back the old school McDonald's slightly lemony cookies!

Also, the McWraps! Or at least like 1 option on the menu I can lie to myself about being healthy?

[Hassan bin Sober]

Sept 20, 2022 13:40:06 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

Do kids even go legit trick or treating anymore? Around my area appears that has been taken over by churchs holding Fall Festivals and crap like that.

Loved Halloween cause it was the one night a year I got to go out late and no adults around. Would be a pack of 15 of us gone from 6pm until 10pm.

But yea if the local Mcdonalds haas them in I might grab one. Never had one as a kid, cause they are so small. We used Pillowcases as trick or treat candy bags.

My neighborhood thankfully has thriving trick or treating. In fact it's one of the neighborhoods where people drive to in order to take their kids trick or treating. They do it both nights (3oth and 31st). It's awesome.

[BlackoutCreature]

Sept 20, 2022 13:40:06 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

Do kids even go legit trick or treating anymore? Around my area appears that has been taken over by churchs holding Fall Festivals and crap like that.

So as a kid in the 80's I remember the neighborhood I grew up in having a fairly thriving trick or treat scene. In the 90's and 00's though neighborhood trick or treating gave way for kids to go to the Mall to trick or treat, which I thought was horrendous. Who wants to go into a Kay Jewelers in full costume begging for candy? Over the last few years though I've been returning to the old neighborhood to go trick or treating with my niece (my sister lives in my parents old house) and it seems like house-to-house trick or treating has come back to prominence.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Sept 20, 2022 18:42:09 GMT -5 Hassan bin Sober said:

Sept 20, 2022 13:40:06 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

Do kids even go legit trick or treating anymore? Around my area appears that has been taken over by churchs holding Fall Festivals and crap like that.

Loved Halloween cause it was the one night a year I got to go out late and no adults around. Would be a pack of 15 of us gone from 6pm until 10pm.

But yea if the local Mcdonalds haas them in I might grab one. Never had one as a kid, cause they are so small. We used Pillowcases as trick or treat candy bags.

My neighborhood thankfully has thriving trick or treating. In fact it's one of the neighborhoods where people drive to in order to take their kids trick or treating. They do it both nights (3oth and 31st). It's awesome.

Where I live in the past 20 years we have gotten a total of 17 trick or treaters. But I am way out in the middle of nowhere on a dead end road.

In town we would goto a friend's Halloween night help hand out candy. Now this was in a apartment complex with 3 other complex in walking distance. Last year there we got close to 60 trick or treaters.

[James Fabiano]

Today's the day!!!!

And yes I already got the ghost.

[fw91]

Cool, when do we get monopoly back?

[tirtefaa]

Too bad they're rehashes of a later series instead of the original set that were all orange.

It'd be cool if they made a few others though;

Werewolf
Vampire
Mummy
Frankenstein's Monster
Hunchback
Invisible Man

[James Fabiano]

Oct 18, 2022 12:24:54 GMT -5 fw91 said:

Cool, when do we get monopoly back?

I'd ask for the Chinese Restaurant McNuggets, but that campaign doesn't age well...

[Display Name]

Was ready to go grab a couple for the wife, but then I saw that they didn’t come with tops. That killed her interest.