Happy Meal toy promotion

[GoktimusPrime]

Happy Meal Hot Shot had that cool pull-back friction motor. Cyclonus was one of the weaker of that set though with the fairly average coptor-blade spinning gimmick and awkwardly visible head in alt mode (for a Happy Meal toy this is mediocre - for a Voyager like Energon Ironhide, it's downright disgraceful).

The Armada Happy Meal Autobots could all combine into a gestalt robot while the Decepticons combined into a gestalt vehicle. They both looked kinda odd (the Autobot gestalt bore a vague resemblance to that 'cyclone attack' from Gatchaman), but again - pretty kewl for Happy Meal toys. One cool feature with all the Armada happy meal toys was that they had Mini-Con ports which you can actually attach Mini-Cons to!

Hot Shot and Starscream are my favourites of the Armada meal toys, especially Starscream because of his Jumpstarter gimmick (which actually works better than the G1 Jumpstarters!).

[Pulse]

One cool feature with all the Armada happy meal toys was that they had Mini-Con ports which you can actually attach Mini-Cons to!

Now that's some great cross promotion...

*But Mummy! I NEED to get some more transformers to stick them together!*

[Tommy K]

thanx gok, i wish i had hotshot again

[Kyle]

No you're not. You don't have to buy the crap food, you can just buy the toy for about $2.

Sweet.

[Saintly]

ah.. the incentive of eating more junk

[i_amtrunks]

Sweet, I'll just get my sister to knick them from work for me.

I was working at Maccas during the Armada toy run, and Megatron got banned thanks to Maccas deeming War Machines would upset kiddies (it was right after the Iraq invasion).

Another toy was skipped too, but I cannot remember who (it wasnt Starscream).

[roller]

i saw the Armada McDonalds Megatron in a toy fare, its pretty crap

[iceburn]

i saw the Armada McDonalds Megatron in a toy fare, its pretty crap

i've got him and prime..it's alright for a "kiddy" toy...

[Pulse]

I was working at Maccas during the Armada toy run, and Megatron got banned thanks to Maccas deeming War Machines would upset kiddies (it was right after the Iraq invasion).

This got banned?



They call that a realistic War Machine? Well, it's Macca's were talking about...

[i_amtrunks]

This got banned?



They call that a realistic War Machine? Well, it's Macca's were talking about...

Thats the one, which meant that you couldn't complete the combiner either. I remember alot of parents getting the cranks because they wanted 'the new toy' as their kids already had all the others.

Also remember having a hell of a lot of Smokescreen and Starscream figures left over at the end of the promotion.