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 …
McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: 1992 Halloween Pails
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 …
McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: 1990 Halloween Pails
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 …
McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: 1989 Halloween Pails
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 …
2014 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal Pails
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 …
McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: 1998 Haunted 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:
McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: 1991 McBoo Bags
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).
1986 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: 1985/1986 Halloween Pails
I love the Halloween pails from McDonald’s. Growing up, I had a collection of them, and year after year they were molded 1986 into the bottom. I just had them stacked together, lids going everywhere. I’d take them outside, place them around the front of my house and put a …
1995 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: Figures & Cassettes
Here are the kids’ meal toy premiums for the 1995 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal, 4 different cassette tapes and 4 familiar McDonaldland friends with clip-on Halloween costumes. The 1995 McDonald’s Halloween premiums were not buckets, but rather 4 cassette tapes and 4 McDonaldand figures. The cassette tapes come in a …
McDonald’s Happy Meal Prizes: 1996 McNugget Buddies
Ah the years between Halloween buckets! Here was 1996’s offering of Halloween McNugget buddies. Set of 6 196 McDonald’s Halloween McNugget Buddies
1993 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal: McNugget Buddies
1993 McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal premiums: Not buckets, but Halloween McNugget Buddies! There are six to collect in all, each a unique looking McNugget coming with it’s own costume, that can be mixed and matched. The 1993 McDonald’s Halloween Mcnugget buddies are the first of the Halloween-themed happy meal toys. …
The Scholastic FunFact Book of Ghosts
Here’s a book I read cover to cover MANY times: The Scholastic FunFact Book of Ghosts – Demons and spirits from the world beyond. For a kid, it was less fiction and more like a guidebook of ghouls and apparitions. My brother recently acquired a copy after he asked me …
1999 McDonald’s Halloween Pails
McDonald’s offered two Halloween Pails in 1999 as Happy Meal premiums. Both feature McDonald’s familiar McDonaldland characters, the first is white with a bat “hat” cookie cutter and Ronald McDonald, while the second is orange with a green pumpkin stem, pumpkin-shaped, cookie cutter, and Birdie and Grimace.
Golden Magazine 1965: Three Witches & Halloween Calendar
These 2 high resolution scans from the Halloween 1965 Golden Magazine feature a cute illustrated page of witches and a make your own Halloween/October calender. Neat! Three Witches illustrated by Helen Rebecca Wright
Halloween Special: The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t
Here’s a personal favorite of mine, if not my all time favorite Halloween special. When I had it on VHS it was titled, “The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t”, but was later re-titled, “The Night That Dracula Saved The World”. The original title makes oodles more sense, which you’re aware of …