McDonald’s adult Happy Meal toys sell for thousands on eBay
Yahoo Finance Live anchors discuss the secondhand market for McDonald's adult Happy Meal toys and the buzz generated by the fast food chain.
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JULIE HYMAN: Anyway, if you were lucky enough to have an adult Happy Meal from McDonald's, you may have a big payday in your future. The toys that came inside the meal are now selling on eBay for thousands, with one listed as high as $300,000. If you want to buy one yourself, don't worry. There are plenty on the website still selling for 10 or 20 bucks. The whole set could run you up to $70. The fry smell, it comes with it for free. You ever notice that? Like, the stuff--
BRAD SMITH: Oh, yeah.
JULIE HYMAN: --in the Happy Meal, like, retains that fry smell.
BRIAN SOZZI: Do you know how much it makes my day to see you talking about this $300,000--
JULIE HYMAN: About the Happy Meal? [INAUDIBLE]
BRIAN SOZZI: --adult Happy Meal toy set? No, I shopped at McDonald's. Look, they came out with these toys. It drove some buzz. It looks like they drove some traffic. Also out with the Halloween pails, which I know our 3:00 to 5:00 team previewed, plastic pail. Big innovation right there from McDonald's. Very excited about it.
JULIE HYMAN: It's not an innovation. It's retro. They've had them before.
BRIAN SOZZI: I know. I used to have one as a kid.
JULIE HYMAN: So that's not innovation.
BRIAN SOZZI: I always wanted to use a pillow case. My mom would not let me. I'd use this dumb pail, but there they are on the screen.
JULIE HYMAN: The pails are awesome. You wanted to use them--
BRIAN SOZZI: The cool kids wanted-- all the cool kids used pillowcases. Pillowcases were cool.
JULIE HYMAN: What was it like in Philly?
BRAD SMITH: I mean, I don't even remember getting [INAUDIBLE] Happy Meals--
[BUZZER]
--quite honestly. We didn't--
JULIE HYMAN: No, but on Halloween, what'd you use?
BRAD SMITH: Oh, I didn't go Halloween trick-or-treating growing up.
JULIE HYMAN: Oh, wow. We got to talk about this offline, OK.
