r/interestingasfuck • u/Charming_History7423 • 11d ago

/r/all McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

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u/No-Improvement-8205 11d ago

In regards to the quality of toys, a big part of it is also that the EU pretty much banned plastic toys in happy meals (it have to be sustainable, and all that)

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u/7thFleetTraveller 11d ago

There are many EU laws which I'm glad about, but this is not one of them. Probably because of the nostalgia when I think about my own childhood. I still remember going to the cinema for the very first time, watching The Lion King and then going to McDonalds and getting a toy from the movie. Felt so wholesome for little me. But it was also more special back then, as it wasn't something my parents could affort every week.

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u/chunkysmalls42098 11d ago

"I'd rather kids everywhere get a poor quality plastic toy that certainly ends up in the garbage in under 5 years. Something about the nostalgia of being wasteful"

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u/RoboDae 11d ago

Yeah, I remember being a little kid begging my mom for the happy meal. I also remember never playing with most of those toys and just throwing them out pretty quickly because the quality sucked.

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u/CrusaderZero6 9d ago

The quality peaked with the transforming food items and steadily went downhill afterward.