The 2025 McDonald’s Halloween Boo Buckets Are Back, With Spooky New Faces! McDonald’s is bringing back its beloved Boo Buckets for the 2025 spooky season, and this year’s lineup is a perfect mix of nostalgia and fresh fright. Since their original debut in the 1980s, Boo Buckets have become a …

McDonald’s is back with the 2024 McDonald’s Boo Buckets – Four buckets featuring monsters. Collect white, green, blue, and orange. These Halloween candy-catchers come with matching sticker sheets – although from what I’ve seen, it seems a lot of these are just going out with whatever sticker sheet happens to …

2023 McDonald’s Halloween Buckets! McDonald’s giveth and McDonald’s taketh away. You can’t have the good without the bad. Without the bitter, the sweet won’t taste as sweet. Well, you can take those to the bank, and while you’re there, grab enough cash for a 2023 McDonald’s Halloween Bucket happy meal! …

If you’re here, reading this blog, there’s a good chance you know McBoo. First introduced to me at the tender age of six years old, through the McDonald’s Halloween happy meal buckets, McBoo was the “O” faced jack-o-lantern bucket. McBoo was always my favorite of the three, the other two …

The masses have spoken (loudly, and for years) and McDonald’s finally gave us the vintage style Halloween Happy Meal buckets we’ve been clamoring for. I rather enthusiastically introduce you to the 2022 McDonald’s Halloween Buckets. There are 3 buckets, each with 3 faces.  The first, formerly known as McWitch, is …

Another year of Halloween SHADE thrown by McDonald’s. The 50th anniversary Disney kids meal premiums parade right through Halloween 2021. So much for the 2021 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal toys even being seasonally themed, really. What a bummer. These seem like they’d be aimed toward adults, not kids. There are …

2020 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal is not Halloween at all. Like the rest of 2020, McDonald’s is letting us down hard by offering odd-looking Marvel Studios Heroes toys. No mention or nod to Halloween at all. Thanks McDonald’s. You suck. Instead of McBoo we get McBooShit. Nobody looks like anybody …

McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal for 2019: Another year, another Halloween bust from McDonald’s. At least the Hello Kitty characters are dressed up? Looking for a silver lining here. Eight Pokemon Happy Meal toys to collect: Lapras, Alolan Sandshrew, Alolan Exeggutor, Caterpie, Magmar, Onix. Eight Hello Kitty 45th Anniversary toys to …

And the McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal 2018 toys are… Ew. Last year, at least, McDonald’s attempted to pass off their Happy Meal toys that happened to fall on Halloween as something costume related, they gave away My Little Pony and Transformer masks. But this year, I’m afraid, they aren’t even …

So I guess this is the 2017 McDonald’s Halloween happy meal premium that will run during Halloween. No buckets this year! The 2017 McDonald’s Happy Meal premium isn’t particularly Halloween themed. Instead, the toys given out with the kids meals were figures and masks. They were Transformers, Robots in Disguise, …

Kids in 1987 collected the same pails as those they received in 1986 – the classics! The 1987 McDonald’s Halloween Pails are McBoo, McPunk’n, and McGoblin. There may be experts out there who can tell 1986 from 1987 buckets, although I cannot. Copyrights on subsequent buckets, even way past 1987, …

In the year between McNugget Buddies and Cassette tapes, the 1994 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal had some really cool bucket designs! The three designs introduced for Halloween 1994 were an orange pumpkin with a goofy face and a green lid, a white ghost pail with white lid, and a purple …

Whoa! The 2016 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal is “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” Halloween buckets! These buckets are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original airing of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” It premiered on CBS on October 27, 1966. This Halloween special is a favorite and has …