Happy Meal Toys: Did You Know?

Posted 3:27 pm, February 4, 2016, by Matthew Otto

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Happy Meals have been around since 1979, but these “toys” made for some of the saddest Happy Meals in McDonald’s history. Did you know they once offered…a stopwatch?! Their goal: a healthier image. The reality: kids used it to see how fast they could eat their chicken nuggets. And this pedometer? Yeah, turns out you gotta walk 6 miles to burn the calories in one Happy Meal.