Showing posts with label Joker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joker. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2015

Batman comes to McDonald's

So, this month (August, 2015), DC’s Batman has arrived at the clown house. (No, not the RNC, the other clown house.)


With your Happy Meal toy, you can acquire a very cool Batman action figure or mini-car (The “Boy” toy if Batman Unlimited, while the “Girl ” toy is Monster High). 

As usual the Batman toys are actually pretty cool, offering us two Batman figures, a Joker and (my personal favorite DC villain) Solomon Grundy. There are also a pair of Batmobiles, a Jokermobile, and a Joker on a trike. all very cool stuff. 









Each of the toys move in some fashion (instructions and a coupon for some other related toy from the toy store are included, as well as the ability to go online and play a Batman Unlimited game of some sort) are included in the packaging.





All-in-all, a very nice set. We are glad that DC still issues fast-food toys of their characters but we are especially disappointed that Marvel no longer seems to issue toys. this is something that we’ve noticed has occurred ever since Disney has taken over the house that Jack built, and we don't know if it has more to do with Disney attempting to shy away from the “Your food made my kid fat” claim, or that the execs at the top don't think that Happy Meal toys are appropriate their new re-imagined(adult) superheroes.

Whatever the thought process, we certainly hope that they change their minds, as we totally love these superhero toy types. Needless to say, we are still glad the DC hasn't reached that stage as of yet, and look forward to more superhero-based toys in the future.

Monday, October 07, 2013

I'm Batman (McDonald's style)!

Look who is hanging out with Ronald McDonald these days...




You think that Batman knows that Ronald is the first cousin of the Joker?

I'm just sayin'...

Friday, August 27, 2010

Night of the Bat(man)

OK kiddies, as stated, I was able to get out to McDonald’s today and scor the entire set of eight (yep, all eight) Batman toys. So, without further adieu, here are the pics...
Batman

Joker

Aquaman

Plastic Man

Break-away Batmobile


















Black Manta

Green Arrow

Blue Beetle

Batman Family

See, I told you this was cool, eh? Don’t you wish you were me?
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Creatures of the night

OK, not really, but sort of. Just last month McDonald's featured a set of Marvel Hero toys, well, this month they are going the other way as it were and featuring a set of DC superhero toys. Headlined by DC's own dark creature of the night, Batman...


It looks like Green Arrow, Plastic Man, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman are also involved, along with villains, the Joker and Black Manta. Looks like I know where I'm going to for lunch today, eh, droogs?

Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Batman marketing machine (finally) rolls into town

You remember a week or so back when I was talking up The Dark Knight before I had even seen it, and wondering where oh where the Batman food tie-ins were? I mean we all saw the Iron Man and Hulk fast food toys (wait, now that I think of it, where were the Hellboy toys? did anybody see any Hellboy toys?)

Still, I knew from the Bat Blog that there were some Batman food toys in the offing, only I never actually saw any. Well, today that changed. I managed to score a Batman figure from Cheerios. Previously I had managed to acquire a Joker figure, but I was afraid that I was never going to be able to get my hands on a Batman (Not that I’m such a big Batman fan, mind you, I just love those superhero food toys.)

So, you can see by this posting that I did (after searching virtually every store that carries cereal in town) to get my hands on what has to be the last box of Cheerios with a Batman figure in it. Cool, eh?



Not sure that I’m going to work so hard to track down the other two figures, though. I have one of each and that should work for now.

Not all comicbooks are about superheroes:

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