{"id":15149,"date":"2016-06-21T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2016-06-18T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T18:47:09","slug":"skylanders-superchargers-and-powerpuff-girls-toys-in-mcdonalds-happy-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/21\/skylanders-superchargers-and-powerpuff-girls-toys-in-mcdonalds-happy-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylanders Superchargers (and PowerPuff Girls) Toys in McDonald&#8217;s Happy Meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">This month, Skylanders Superchargers (and PowerPuff Girls) toys are in McDonald\u2019s Happy Meals.\u00a0 Since Skylanders is a pretty big deal here at GamerDad, I figured I\u2019d post a bit about it.\u00a0 Click for more pictures and info!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Looks like all the Skylanders toys in this set are based on the newest game: Skylanders: Superchargers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/skylanders-superchargers-super-special\/\"><strong>check out my review here<\/strong><\/a>).\u00a0 Vehicles were the main focus in this title, so all the toys here are just rolling cars and such.\u00a0 The toy I got was some fire dinosaur guy.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry, there are too many Skylanders for me to remember all the names!\u00a0 The Skylanders toys are in the \u2018boy\u2019 category, while the girls get PowerPuff Girls.\u00a0 Although I\u2019m a guy and I think PowerPuff Girls are awesome.\u00a0 Unfortunately for the girls, I think the boys got the better deal here.\u00a0 Included with the Skylanders car is a set of stickers, some of which you can put on the car as decals.\u00a0 You also get a Battlecast card that you can scan into the new Skylanders Battlecast card game on mobile devices (I\u2019ll have a review of that up shortly).\u00a0 And finally you get a token that tells you that you can scan your toy in some McDonald\u2019s app for a free game.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t tried that out.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s a picture of everything I got in the Skylanders Happy Meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/happy1-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY1.jpg\" alt=\"HAPPY1\" width=\"500\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY1-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">I think I probably got one of the worst PowerPuff toys, as it\u2019s just a hair clip with some mangled rainbow hair attached to it.\u00a0 And a token for a game in that app as well.\u00a0 I\u2019ll give it to some little girl who will enjoy it.\u00a0 The other toys look like three different figures of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, a Buttercup shaped mask, and a figure of Mojo Jojo (Aw, man, I would\u2019ve loved to have gotten that one, oh well!).\u00a0 I loved the old PowerPuff Girls cartoon.\u00a0 There\u2019s a new reboot of it on Cartoon Network now, hence why the toys were made, I\u2019m sure.\u00a0 I don\u2019t like the new one as much as the older cartoon, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as bad as everyone on the internet says it is.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a picture of the Happy Meal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/happy2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15147\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY2.jpg\" alt=\"HAPPY2\" width=\"500\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY2-119x150.jpg 119w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/HAPPY2-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">I think it\u2019s interesting that they still use the classic-shaped Happy Meal boxes like I got when I was a kid.\u00a0 But there isn\u2019t a trace of Ronald McDonald anywhere.\u00a0 Which is sad in a way, since I remember all those trippy McDonaldland commercials when I was little. Kids today will never know characters like the Hamburglar and the Fry Guys.\u00a0 Oh well, it was a different time.\u00a0 The back of the new Happy Meal box does still advertise the Ronald McDonald House charity, which is cool they still do that at least.\u00a0 Next month\u2019s Happy Meal toys are based on the new movie: The Secret Life of Pets.\u00a0 I probably won\u2019t get any of those, but the movie does look cute.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, Skylanders Superchargers (and PowerPuff Girls) toys are in McDonald\u2019s Happy Meals.\u00a0 Since Skylanders is a pretty big deal here at GamerDad, I figured I\u2019d post a bit about it.\u00a0 Click for more pictures and info! Looks like all the Skylanders toys in this set are based on the newest game: Skylanders: Superchargers (check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15151,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions\/15151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}