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McDonald’s Halloween Happy Meal pails with McDonaldland scenes (1999)

Year
1999 Community consensus
Restaurant
McDonald's
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The pails came back after five years as a pair of orange and white buckets printed with McDonaldland characters in Halloween scenes instead of faces. Each lid had a cookie cutter.

Details

Holiday
Halloween
Archive type
Restaurant Promotion
Packaging
Pail used as the Happy Meal container; the orange pail had a pumpkin cookie cutter and the white pail a bat cookie cutter.
Country
US

Promotion details

Restaurant
McDonald's
When
October 1999 (U.S.)
Country
United States
Promotion type
Kids' meal toy
Known set size
2
Documented here
2 pieces
Data quality
Collector consensus: Collector references agree; no primary source yet.

The set

U.S. set (2)

Packaging & bags

Pail used as the Happy Meal container; the orange pail had a pumpkin cookie cutter and the white pail a bat cookie cutter.

Research notes

Tasting Table describes the handles as pumpkin-shaped (orange) and bat-shaped (white); not corroborated elsewhere.

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Sources & verification

Community Identified
  • Celebrating The Wonderful History Of McDonald's Halloween Buckets Collector Reference Supports: Test in Boston and New York, October 11-31, 1985. Reference only: cited, never auto-verified. View source
  • A Look Back At McDonald's Halloween Boo Buckets Through The Years Press Release / Official Announcement Supports: Test run in 1985 before the 1986 nationwide rollout. View source
  • A Brief History of McDonald's Halloween Buckets Press Release / Official Announcement Supports: 1986 original release; McPunk'n, McBoo and McGoblin face descriptions. View source
  • McDonald's Halloween Happy Meal 1999 Halloween Pails Collector Reference Supports: Two pails: white with Ronald and a bat cookie cutter, orange with Birdie and Grimace and a pumpkin cookie cutter. Reference only: cited, never auto-verified. View source

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