Yet at the same time, Shrek! also remains rife with elements borrowed from other less traditional fantasy films, softly resounding with themes and elements from classic films such as “The Princess Bride” and “The Never Ending Story.” But truthfully, this is more of a compliment than a criticism, for Shrek! is a beast all its own, cleverly written and practically oozing wit and cynicism while somehow at the same time remaining charming, laughable, and loveable. In a way Shrek! is almost an amalgam of cookie cutter fairytales thrown into a blender and twisted up and turned inside out, to create something totally and completely different. And so, with the help of his new and somewhat annoying donkey pal, Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Shrek sets off to clean out his swamp and ends up saving the world. When the diminutive Lord Farquaad rounds up all the fairytale creatures in the kingdom and dumps them in Shrek’s swamp, this surely green Ogre is faced with a serious squatter problem, which can only be solved by a little bit of princess rescuing, heroic, un-ogre like behavior. Awesome.Shrek! stars Fat Bastard, er I mean Mike Meyers as the voice of Shrek, an ungainly Ogre with a serious fear of crowds.
HAPPY MEAL SHREK GAME CODE
Though the toys weren’t anything super spectacular (that is to say they weren’t actual LEGO, much like past sets that actually were) they were still cool and each offered an exclusive code you could use in the game itself. Mcdonald’s, if nothing else, is pretty smart that way and for a lot of years they’ve geeked out big time and stuffed their Happy Meals with Marvel and DC characters for both movie, TV, and video game tie-ins. Of course you have the classic Superman and Batman toys that hit both directly promoting their respective cartoons:Īnd then you have the Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes 8-Character set that came out a few years ago featuring Superboy, Brainiac, Bouncing Boy, Timber Wolf, and Lightning Lad among others:įinally, we have my very favorite recent comic Video Game tie-in of all time: Batman LEGO. For a fast food joint primarily geared toward kids, it’s hard to go wrong when incorporating Superheroes into children’s meal packs.
Now DC has had its fair share of McDonald’s Happy Meal toys, too. Anyway, here they are including the newest Spectacular Spider-Man ad as well. What was especially queer about both sets was the need to put many of the heroes in some type of vehicle. The former features such famous faces as Wolverine, Hulk, Invisible Woman, and Storm, whereas the latter focused on characters from Spidey’s toon: Doc Oc, Scorpion, Venom and such.
HAPPY MEAL SHREK GAME SERIES
One of the first waves was the Marvel Superheroes line and the Spider-Man Animated Series from FOX that both hit Mickey Dees somewhere in the mid-to-late 90’s.
Classy.įor a fast food joint primarily geared toward kids, it’s hard to go wrong when incorporating Superheroes into children’s meal packs. My personal favorite was the ice cream cone girl robot. They were called ‘Changeables’ and you basically got one of every type of menu item that could turn into a ‘robot’. Well, be that as it may, McD’s did it, and did it really well with its line of transforming food. It would outwardly appear difficult to somehow incorporate Transformers into a restaurant theme when you are, well, a restaurant.
And as it seems, the same site that loves the buckets loves the buddies!įinally, the last of the really cool McDonald’s exclusives comes as something of a bizarre little amalgam of sorts. This theme carried over into various holidays as well and even when filler toys were needed down the line. Back when the little chicken fritters were really coming into their own, McDonald’s released a large set of little McNugget people complete with interchangeable clothes and little accessories. Oh, and while you’re reminiscing, check out this website for the entire series!Īnother of the more popular and famous Company Sponsored toys was the McNugget Buddies series. I actually still have a ghost one somewhere in our storage disaster filled with rubber eyeballs. Of course I speak of the Ghost, Jack O’ Lantern, and Witch pails. Said buckets were available for many years around Halloween since each was to be used as a Trick Or Treating candy collection vessel. One of the most remembered and popular McDonald’s ‘toys’ wasn’t really a toy at all, but the bucket in which your meal arrived.
HAPPY MEAL SHREK GAME MOVIE
Often, when their isn’t a movie to plug or some new popular entertainment flavor of the month to promote, McD’s will take it upon themselves to create a Happy Meal toy really worth checking out.