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 …
1997 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal Prizes Jungle Book Nerds Candy Dispensers. Here’s a weird and kind of anti-climactic Halloween Happy Meal premium: Disney’s Jungle Book (the 1967 animated feature was coming out on VHS 30 years after its theatrical release) candy dispensers. The toys came with a little box of …
The 1968 Ben Cooper Costumes catalog is called “Spook Town”. The Ben Cooper company manufactured Halloween costumes from the 1930’s through the 1980’s in the USA. For a time, Ben Cooper was one of the top 3 costume makers in the country, alongside Collegeville and the H. Halpern Company. The …
Whoa, the Dollar Tree Halloween 2015 catalog came out late this year. About two months later, to be precise. But whatever, here are some of the awesome goodies you can get for a buck this Halloween! Glow in the dark is right up my alley! The wooden signs will actually …
The 2015 Halloween season ushers in another year of General Mills monster cereals. The 2015 General Mills Monster Cereals bring you Boo Berry, Count Chocula, and Frankberry. The box features “We’re Alive!” in yellow font with lightning behind it. On the back, you can experience interactive features if you download …
I was wrong!! Isn’t that fantastic to hear?Getting ahead of myself. In a post almost a month ago, I speculated that the Halloween premiums in the McDonald’s happy meals for 2015 were going to be the Hotel Transylvania 2 toys. My niece got the toys today and they’re doing 2 …
Eye candy time! A 1958 – 1959 Beistle Company Halloween Catalog! Can you imagine seeing the display at 200 Fifth Avenue? Page one of the 1958-1959 Beistle Halloween Catalog: No. 1503 Dan-Dee Hallowe’en Decorating Kit! A wide variety of attractive Halloween decorations, specially selected to satisfy most window trimmers needs. …
I was trolling some local Euclid (Cleveland) newspaper archives for something unrelated to Halloween, but the Halloween Gods were smiling upon me as always, and gave me some nice eye candy PLUS Bayshore adverts! Everyone is coming to Smith’s Annual Hallowe’en Party, Thursday, October 28, 1965. Smith’s was a restaurant …
This year General Mills is showing up some love with making 3 of their five monster cereals readily available all over. You can get fresh boxes of Frankenberry, Count Chocula and Boo Berry to enjoy while you relive the glory years, back when you were better at handling your …
The McDonald’s Halloween buckets are back for Halloween 1992! Your McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal came in one of these three buckets: A green witch, a white ghost, or an orange jack o’ lantern. The lids featured functional cookie cutters. The cookie cutter shapes were a cat, a ghost, and a …
1989 saw the addition of McWitch and McGhost. 1990 switched to a happier pumpkin face, and the witch’s eyes are open and the ghost now has white pupils. The buckets for 1990 were “neon”, which means they were a bit brighter and the coolest thing, the ghost actually glowed in …
Here’s the translight from McDonald’s, featuring the 1989 Halloween Happy Meal Buckets. This is the first year a character other than a pumpkin was featured. Neat! It’s McGoblin, McGhost, and McWitch! McGoblin is an orange pumpkin, McWitch a green witch with a jack o lantern grin and black hair, and …
As usual, here’s your first look at the 2014 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal prize! They are released at Halloween and they are buckets, but… The Book of Life… 2 buckets total. Both white with Book of Life illustrated scenes. One white sugar skull handle, the other orange.80’s kids and Halloween …
1998’s McDonald’s Happy Meal theme was Ronald and Pals Haunted Halloween. 1998 McDonald’s Haunted Halloween Ronald and Pals Haunted Halloween came with candy to fill the toy up with. I don’t know how good an idea that is. There were six toys in all:
In 1991 McDonald’s nodded to our favorite orange pumpkin McBoo by naming their Halloween Happy Meal premiums that year after him – three vinyl, glow-in-the-dark plastic bags. What’s kind of funny is there aren’t any pumpkins! There’s a witch (green bag), Franken-kid (orange bag) and a ghost (purple bag).
