McDonald’s had Super Mario Bros. Movie toys in their Happy Meals in January, which is kind of weird since the actual movie doesn’t come out until April.  At any rate, I got a few of them, so let’s take a look!

Here’s a bigger picture of the Happy Meal box.  It’s nice to see they still put these in boxes with the arch handles like they did when I was a kid.

Here’s a picture of the sign out by the drive thru that showed all the toys.  I wish I could’ve gotten them all, but that’s pretty hard to do.

And here are the toys I got.  I’m glad I at least got Toad in the monster truck and Luigi, since those are my favorite Mario characters.

Toad just rolls.  Luigi just snaps back around when you twist him.  He’s holding a flashlight, but it doesn’t light up or anything.  I think that would’ve been cooler.  Bowser’s looking a little chunky and I’m disappointed they didn’t bother finishing painting his green spiked shell.  He’s supposed to shoot the fire breath projectile out of his mouth, but I can’t figure out how to do it.  The blue star guy just twirls around when you move a dial on the bottom. The blue star guy has caused a lot of speculation because he looks like a character from Mario Galaxy, but they haven’t announced any Galaxy characters, like Rosalina, in the voice cast yet.

And those are the Mario Movie Happy Meal toys!  Again, I think it’s weird they had these out in January even though the movie doesn’t come until April.  I have a feeling it has to do with McDonald’s saying they’re stopping making plastic Happy Meal toys this year.  I guess that’s good for the environment, but that also means future Happy Meal toys are gonna suck!

So am I excited for the Mario movie?  Well, I do think there are better Nintendo franchises I’d rather see in a movie.  Heck, I think Luigi’s Mansion would make for a better movie than a generic Mario Bros. one.  But I’ll definitely see this movie in theaters anyway.  I’m not too thrilled with some of the voice cast, like Chris Pratt as Mario.  But then, I also don’t think Charles Martinet’s high pitched voice could carry a whole movie either.  The Mario voice I was most used to was Capt. Lou Albano.  But I won’t complain about it any more because I will say that this new movie looks a HECK of a lot better than the last Mario movie we got.  You know, the live action one?  I’m used to seeing bad movies and MST3K is my number one favorite show, but I couldn’t sit through five minutes of that live action one.  Blech.  Kids today don’t know how good they have it now!  Anyway, that’s all for now!  Later!  –Cary

Tags: Movies with Children