1980s McDonald's Happy Meal Toys still make me smile 😃 Changeables, McNugget Buddies & more!

[@Our80sLife]

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[@mattmc5069]

I loved the dino changeables they are awesome. As a bonus today their forms represent retro packages from back in the day

[@Our80sLife]

Totally agree, love the retro packaging too! Thanks Matt :)

[@mattmc5069]

@@Our80sLife also I loved the Halloween pails! They glowed in the dark too. On many top 10 worst happy meal toys videos on KZbin the pails sadly are often in those lists for not being a fun "toy". The bucket WAS the toy as we knew it would be holding candy lol

[@richardpyecatering6964]

The changeable toys were awesome

[@Yes_Fantasy_419]

I remember how much I loved getting a Happy Kids Meal just to get the toys :) while I don't eat Mcdonald's anymore I do have so much nostalgia for that stuff. Thank you Abby for sharing your beautiful memories with us. They always make me happy, sad, and cry because your wholesome personality fills me with hope.

[@Our80sLife]

We never eat at McDonald's anymore either, but these little Happy Meal toys are so nostalgic for me. It was always exciting to get them back in the day. Thanks for your kind words. Have a great day!

[@mkidsX5]

Why is my mom so lucky to be born in black and white pictures

[@sharonm.t.2492]

I remember most of these. My niece & nephew were getting their Happy Meals in the 80s. (My twin's kiddoes.)

[@rupertperiwinkle4477]

I was born in the mid '80s, but I remember many of these toys cuz I had older cousins. I really appreciate you playing the commercials as well because it it jogs my memory!

[@Our80sLife]

Cool, thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@amandachase7691]

Happy Meal toys were so much fun! I remember the Halloween pails and playing with the Muppet babies.

[@Our80sLife]

The best!!

[@ThisIsDownstate]

I remember the changeables so well. Maybe they were slightly different in the UK, but I remember I loved the fries one and the milkshake one. When you compare them to the junk free toys you get now, we were really lucky to get toys so cool in a happy meal. Cheers for the video 🎉

[@Our80sLife]

Totally agree!! And I'm glad to know you had these in the UK back in the day too! Thanks for stopping by our channel and watching my video.

[@paultreadaway102]

To be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s

[@GlendaMarie-u3p]

I was born 1980, remember lots of these

[@dustinnunez5077]

I was born 5/5/79

[@unicornmadness6286]

When I was a kid I probably went to McDonald's twice. Each time I got a barbie in my happy meal.🤷🏽‍♀️

[@btetschner]

Awesome video, I can understand why those changeables are so popular too. I remember those Halloween pails! I want those right now! And who can forget the Berenstain Bears! Such great toys, great video.

[@Our80sLife]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 😃 I'm hoping to find some more Halloween pails too!

[@btetschner]

@@Our80sLife They should totally have those as part of the Happy Meal again! Speaking of Halloween...ever hear of the children's book It's Halloween (1980 - Jack Prelutsky)?

[@btetschner]

@@Our80sLife Though this is unofficial (not confirmed by McDonald's), some sources say McDonald's are releasing Halloween pails on October 18th. It would be so cool if they were the ones from the 80's.

[@btetschner]

It is official, the pails are being released on October 18th. They are the ones from 1989, the ones in this video!

[@dianee4043]

I love Happy Meal Toys! And I also love the reminder of the 80’s packaging 😊 I remember getting a plastic baggie type hand puppet at McDonald’s when I was really young lol. I don’t know if that was in a happy meal or maybe if you went to a birthday party there.

[@Our80sLife]

Thanks Diane! I had forgotten about those little hand puppets, but you definitely triggered a memory for me on that one! 😃

[@radioscillator]

This was so much fun to watch! The McNugget buddies were among my favorites and the transformer food too. Still have a box of toys from this amazing decade. 😊 I knew I needed to find a true 80’s kid channel (I’ll be 45 this year) to sort out my nostalgic memories. I would be so interested to see a feature on just the alternate “boxes” used for happy meals - like the Halloween buckets. I still have a vinyl lunch sack and a couple hard plastic hinged lunch box(?) type things as well as a distinct memory of buckets that were a summertime promo that were beach pails with little shovels and things to mold sand! There were thin plastic two-part containers through the 80’s that were spaceships and boats. You had a sticker sheet to add the windows and designs. Do you remember them as well?

[@Our80sLife]

Hi there, and welcome to our channel! I'm glad you're enjoying our content. We love sharing our nostalgic memories! As for those Happy Meal buckets, we actually got one of the new ones this Halloween and were glad to see McDonald's brought them back! I had totally forgotten about the beach pails until you mentioned it, how fun! I don't remember all of the other ones, but now I'll be looking for them whenever I go to estate sales. Anyway, thanks for watching and commenting. All the best, Abby :)

[@kanita0958]

Awww! My first time trying McDonald’s was in 1981. We were visiting from Mexico. I was 4 yrs old and still remember how amazed I was at the happy meal 🤩🥳 we didn’t have McDonald’s until the late 1980s/early 1990s in Mexico so eating at McDonald’s when in the USA was amazing! 💓🙏

[@Our80sLife]

That's so fun! Thanks for stopping by our channel and sharing your special memory.

[@paultreadaway102]

We got our first one in 77 pros and cons being rather late than never as a kid we had my first taste in 83 when it was a novelty the population wasn't crazy coming in the 80s it stopped somehow in 87.

[@flashgibson2798]

The Halloween nuggets are the ones I remember the most 😊

[@Our80sLife]

All of the McNuggets are adorable, especially the Halloween ones! I'm hoping to get some of those to add to my collection... on the hunt!

[@flashgibson2798]

@@Our80sLife this made me on the hunt as well! I’ll definitely let ya know if I find any:)

[@Our80sLife]

@@flashgibson2798 Happy hunting!!

[@gardendormouse6479]

I'm a bit too old to have eaten Happy Meals...however, I put together plenty of them, as a McDonalds employee in 1985. Some people would try to exchange their Happy Meal toys for other toys. I usually tried to satisfy them.

[@Our80sLife]

Nice! What are your favorite or most memorable Happy Meal toys from those days?

[@paultreadaway102]

Vibes atmosphere color are like no other special with all in the 80s

[@luigihorror6455]

Anyone else after finding out McDonald's brought back the McNugget Buddies?

[@allynch13]

Same here! It's funny cuz I was with my 18 yr old daughter at Mickey D's yesterday and saw the McNugget toys and I yelled out "Omg,I used to have those when I was a kid!" My daughter gave me a look like Are you serious Mom? She said she felt sorry for me cuz my toys looked like the "sucked"😮😢 lol I explained to her that they gave me hours of fun 😊

[@Our80sLife]

Oh yes, we're loving the nostalgia!!

[@CallMeConstantine]

Ha! I’m a 1981 born kid and I’m at Mcdonald s now with my kids and I got the adult happy meal with a McNugget toy. I pulled up this video to show them I used to have them.

[@AlaineSuzanne]

Yep! I saw them today and couldn't believe it!!! I had all of them as a kid,even the nugget box you could buy. Does anyone remember that?

[@davidmarshakk38]

I love the toys that you got back in the 80s still got them to this day also got quite a few from the 90s

[@Our80sLife]

Yes! I have no clue what kind of toys they're giving out nowadays, but surely they can't be better than some of the cool toys we got back in the 80s and 90s, right?!

[@theboombody]

I had a pancakes robot and a french fries robot. Just like the ones you show in the video. Even the dinosaur shake robot. Loved them.

[@yanghao8351]

My favorite 1980s Happy Meal was the UFO. The Meal was in the plastic UFO.

[@Our80sLife]

Cool! I don’t remember that one, but it sounds awesome! Going to look it up now. 🛸

[@jonathanmyers2867]

@@Our80sLife 🎵Ba-da-da da-da🎵

[@bigtarheelfan]

A lot of good memories getting a Happy Meal. I never really watched Muppet Babies so much but was really into the actual Muppet Show. Slightly off subject but McDonalds also had Muppet Drinking glasses. I know I had at least some of them and may still have them somewhere.

[@Our80sLife]

Oh yes, the Muppet Show was SO good!! I've seen those drinking glasses at our local antique mall. They're very cute!

[@Hyperbeaner]

I like that they brought back the Halloween buckets last year. I had so many of these. I remember RocDonald's, Super Mario and Mac Tonight toys the most.

[@Our80sLife]

Totally agree! I love those Halloween buckets, especially the vintage ones!

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

Ah, memories. Love your channel.

[@Our80sLife]

Thanks for watching!

[@paultreadaway102]

80s forever

[@Mark.Watson]

Very neat collection. Thanks for sharing.

[@Our80sLife]

Thanks for watching! 😃

[@joeladams5061]

I loved the Muppets babies toys in the happy meals 😢

[@Our80sLife]

They're adorable! Muppet Babies were definitely among my faves!

[@paultreadaway102]

They rock with the Fraggles also and the Burgers like Robots my memories come flooding back

[@paultreadaway102]

I like to harp on too much to say lols 😅😆 gosh wouldn't believe or hard to flawless genius call it what u like the 80s are coming into it's 40s yikes scary tho who would have thought at the time,time flys now it didn't in the 80s i know and im glad it didn't that's what i think

[@geoffingoff]

I'm a 90's baby but I had some Halloween McNugget Buddies and I got an ice cream dino changeable at a garage sale and I thought they were the coolest!

[@Our80sLife]

Awesome!! The McNugget Buddies are getting quite collectible these days. I rarely find them at estate sales, so I get super pumped when I spot them. They're adorable!

[@FlintandSteelSurvival]

When my grandma passed we found all my mom's old macdonald transformers haha. My mom still has her smurf ones. And i have the same fozzy Muppet baby!!

[@Our80sLife]

That's a great find! I love Smurfs too, of course.

[@JennsRetro]

I think I had the Bernstein Bears! I forgot about those!!

[@Our80sLife]

Sweet! Those ones are cute, and the bears are kind of fuzzy. I love them!

[@Seiferboi]

I have that same witch bucket! I also have the Fraggle Rock carrot car, Oliver, the dino drink, dino McNuggets, dino ice cream cone and the dino hotcakes. I kept all of my original ones, but I did buy another dino McNuggets, because I think my original one is in my toybox in the shed and that shed is difficult to get into with all the growth in the way. I gotta do something about that one day lol!

[@Our80sLife]

Nice collection! I'm hoping to find more of the Halloween buckets at estate sales, but so far the witch is the only one I've seen. The ghost pail glows in the dark, how fun is that?!

[@liveanadventure429]

How does the burger changeable move, he makes a bun for it 😂

[@Our80sLife]

LOL!! 😂

[@bigalcincinnatikidadventur7692]

You have a few of my favorites I see. I did have a few of those Nugget Buddies Transformers, and I did have The Bearenstein Bears, all four Muppet Babbies (a couple of them I had to buy again at the Antique Mall), and also Mac Tonight in his red car (which I had to buy again from the Antique Mall). Definitely brought back more memories for me!!!

[@Our80sLife]

It's funny how we feel the need to buy back objects from our childhood, right?! I was just talking to a lady at an estate sale about that phenomenon... totally relatable!

[@vermontvermont9292]

I still have a bunch of these

[@Our80sLife]

Awesome!!

[@liveanadventure429]

I need the hot cakes changeable one to complete set of 5, great video again keep them coming 👍🏻

[@Our80sLife]

Thanks! Will do!

[@believein1]

Your video made me smile.❤

[@oldglory1999]

Loved the transformer nuggets

[@Bernhard2024]

I loved eating at Mc Donalds in the 80s. But I didn't do that for almost 3 years anymore.

[@Our80sLife]

Same. We really don't eat fast food anymore because it's not healthy.

[@frog24get]

Definitely had some of these when I was a kid! In 1990 I remember mcdonalds had jungle book toys in there happy meals and all I could get was the tiger everytime I went! I really wanted to get them all but just kept getting that stupid tiger! lol

[@Our80sLife]

LOL!! I remember that problem too... they always said "collect them all" then you'd keep getting the same one, sigh. I think my friends and I sometimes worked out a trade, ha! 😂

[@GandalftheWise]

Thank you for this video. Love it. Your really on your way yo 100k

[@Our80sLife]

Thank you!! 😃

[@marshmower]

Most useful kids meal toy I've still got is..... a Sonic bug catcher. But that came in 200X. However I really miss those vinyl toys and their smell. Especially after the Hot fries melded with them. Oh man. What! I forgot long, long, long ago about the changeable. Didn't even know what that was but I had one at least.

[@Our80sLife]

Oh wow, I think I remember our daughter getting one of those Sonic bug catchers too! You're right, that was a great idea for a kids meal toy. It's funny how some of these toys are forgettable while others stay in our memories. I have a few stand-outs as well.

[@marshmower]

@@Our80sLife I still use our bug catcher. Priceless. Lol

[@gingerjerzak1948]

You guys help me realize that my life was not a bad thing if you embrace it deep inside it shows what you can do if you choose it i belive i can stay living with hurt makes me relize that i belong in this world

[@sharonm.t.2492]

Oh your room is lookin great!

[@Our80sLife]

Thanks Sharon 😃

[@sarahreaume6659]

Wow a lot of the happy meal toys back then were really cool oh and by the way Raggedy Ann and Andy were made as happy meal toys in the late 80s/early 90s

[@Our80sLife]

Thank you! 🤗

[@sharonm.t.2492]

Side note: Remember the mini Teenie Beanie Babies in the 90s. I got em all for my kids. It was a quest!

[@Our80sLife]

Oh yes, same here! Our daughter had so many Beanie Babies (thanks to her grandma, lol!) I see those often at estate sales, but the 80's ones are harder to find.

[@jonathanmyers2867]

McDonald's - I'm lovin' it.

[@christoperswinehart7504]

the changeables i need them

[@Our80sLife]

Aren't they fun?! I've gotten pretty good at spotting them in toy bins at estate sales.

[@christoperswinehart7504]

@@Our80sLife yes

[@liveanadventure429]

I never knew about the egg McMuffin 😱

[@Our80sLife]

It's super cute!

[@jamescole250]

I too remeber Fraggle Rock and it was a great show.

[@Our80sLife]

Totally!! Jim Henson shows were always the best!

[@joanshute3384]

Good morning Abby! Oh I Love McDonald's toys. I have a lot of them. I also like the Barbie one.i have a big black trash bag full of them. I have lots of those Halloween buckets. Thank you for the memories. Hope all is well by you. Say hi to Keith. So until next time God Bless you and Keith and have a Blessed day and stay safe my dear and Special Friends. 👍💚🙂

[@sharonm.t.2492]

Are they the actual 80s era buckets, as shown in this video?!

[@joanshute3384]

@@sharonm.t.2492 yes they areSharon.

[@Our80sLife]

Hey Joan, nice to hear from you! We hope you are doing well. That's neat that you still have those old-school Halloween buckets. I think they're gaining popularity lately, and I hardly ever see them available at estate sales. 😃

[@sharonm.t.2492]

@@joanshute3384 AWESOME!

[@sarahshulman2086]

I had McDonald’s as a special treat as a kid. I also go to in-n-out burger sometimes

[@Our80sLife]

Nice. I've actually never tried In-n-out burgers, am I missing out?!

[@sarahshulman2086]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Our80sLifeno I don’t think so.

[@gingerjerzak1948]

I remember when i went to mc donalds it was about 2014 thats when they had my little pony they also had gen3 i have some gen3 McDonald's ponys my fave one is minty gen 3 was around my time in the 2000s nice collection

[@Our80sLife]

Nice! I'm sure you were super into those My Little Ponies, great prize! I have no idea what kinds of toys are in Happy Meals these days, haven't bought one in years.

[@gingerjerzak1948]

@@Our80sLife it was about last year i have gotten some gen 3 McDonald's ponys actally i became a pony fan in 2016 and loved them ever sence i was really young when gen3 came out

[@rupertperiwinkle4477]

Have you transformed your entire house into the '80s?

[@Our80sLife]

Not yet. #goals 😂

[@gingerjerzak1948]

Got my laptop fixed its still very slow tonight is sloppy Joe's for dinner

[@Our80sLife]

Sounds like a good day! We ❤️Sloppy Joe’s 😋

[@gingerjerzak1948]

@@Our80sLife currently watching orange Julius vlog im having a good day

[@jaredwjackson]

Hey! I love your videos, especially this one I'm not only an '80s kid, but lost much of my eye sight from a juvenile brain tumor in 1992. So many of my visual memories are from my Happy Meal toys of back then. Thankfully, I've been blessed with utilizing my memories of those toys to help me now to illustrate my children's books I write. Anyway, I have some of the toys you mentioned you were searching for. Let me know if you all would be interested in possibly trading or buying them. Yes, I have Miss Piggy. Thanks!

[@rupertperiwinkle4477]

Curious, but why does McDonald's not offer toys like these in their Happy Meals anymore? Does McDonald's still give toys with their Happy Meals

[@Our80sLife]

I was wondering that myself... our daughter is all grown-up, so it's been ages since we've purchased a Happy Meal. I think they do still have toys, but I'm not sure what they're offering these days.

[@rupertperiwinkle4477]

@@Our80sLife Thanks, Our 80s Life! The nostalgia is a wonderful feels ☺

[@GlendaMarie-u3p]

Toys but the quality is nothing like the 80s....and they aren't nearly as fun!!!

[@veemontana718]

are you selling any of these??

[@brianmurphy7809]

Do you remember back in the 80's I don't remember the had california rasins in happy meals and then they had smurfs at one point in happy meals.do you have from they started in around 1997 i think teenie beanie babys i got some that ain't opened I knew a manager of Mcdonalds back in dad he use tell me what was come in happy meals and he told me the toys that was new come out there week always released on Sundays because cause people always came to eat after Sunday School and Sunday evenings after people got out of church at night he said that was there real busy days of Church people always come to eat and socialize back then with other people inside and a lot of people would eat inside more on Sundays....lol

[@Our80sLife]

Cool! Thanks for stopping by our channel and sharing your memories Brian!

[@dustinnunez5077]

What about the wind up McDonald toys

[@Our80sLife]

Oh yes, those are fun too! They might be a bit harder to find nowadays since they have mechanical parts so many of them probably broke from being played with.

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