2032 McDonald's Promo #1

[Manta]

Welcome to my second review, which is of an old, and not well known set, one of the 1999 McDonald's promo sets. What inspired me to right this review is seeing how craptacular the new "lego" promotional sets are from McDonald's. I hope you enjoy this set as much as I have.

2032-1 McDonald's Promo Review

The box Bag

What a nice looking package, probably McDonald's best toy ever. I think the bag accurately describes how the set looks, and it shows the nice printed slope, which is always a good thing. This set doesn't come with any minifigures, which isn't unexpected, because it would be expensive to produce a new minifigure hair mold for this guy, plus a new printed head, and torso. That would cost more than what McDonald's is making from a Happy Meal.

Set Information:

Name:McDonald's Promo Set Number 1

Number:2032-1

Year:1999

Theme:Promotional

Pieces:18

Minifigures:0

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My Brickshelf ( When Moderated )

Overall Shot

Here's an overall shot of the set, with a good picture of that amazing printed piece, I would have thought that since this is a promotional set sold with a cheap meal, they would have used stickers, but TLC pleasantly surprises me with a printed piece.

Front Shot

Again, here's a great view of that nice printed piece, which I can't say enough good stuff about. This set also comes with some nice plates, a 2x8, a 2x6, and two 2x4s, all in yellow. It also has two 1x6s, and a 1x8 in red. I think that those would be useful for your average lego builder, for making his/her buildings and vehicles more secure. You'll be able to see more shots of the pieces below.

The Build

This was a pretty fast build, I did it in a minute with instructions, so you probably could too.

The Instructions

The instructions are kind of small in this shot, so it doesn't slow down some people with slower connections. You can view the full size instructions here. The instructions are in 1 page, and they show all of the other available promotional sets, to make sure you come back for more food. It also shows some ways to combine the sets to make "awesome" vehicles. I know if I was a little kid, I'd want that big vehicle to kill the evil lego men.

Parts

This set features a nice amount of plates ( as mentioned earlier ), and sloped pieces, which are always good. 7 different sloped pieces in all, including the awesome printed piece. It also comes with a helicopter blade, and the piece to attach it to your creations. You can easily beef up this small blade with plate pieces, and it will be good for MOCing.

Interesting Pieces

This set doesn't come with that many interesting pieces, but it does come with the above mentioned helicopter pieces, and the cool printed slope. Not much to say here really, I've covered all of it already.

The Printed Piece

I've said so much good about it, and look at it. It's awesome, and a lot better than a cheap sticker.

The Build

The base for this cool coptor, which is made of two 1x6s in red, and two 2x4s in red.

Now we build it up a little bit.

Now it is really starting to look like a helicopter!

Now we just add the finishing touches, the proverbial icing on this cake. You can see how it looks like a helicopter. If this set were released to the public in a different color scheme, such as the City Police color scheme, it would be a pretty decent seller for people who are into miniature models.

The Conclusion

All in all, I think that this set is a nice little set, and arguably the best promotional set TLC has released.

Build: 3/5 The build is a little bit bland and quick, which is understandable because of it's low piece count.

Design:5/5 I think this is a well designed set.

Pieces:4/5 The set features a good selection of pieces, and easily surpassed my expectations for a McDonald's toy.

Overall: 12/15

Oh no! The empire is attacking Ronald McDonald!!!

Too bad they forgot their blasters, Ronald lives to cook burgers another day!

[Zepher]

Nice review. I finally know how i got a Grimace piece... that's been wierding me out for years...

[zero1312]

WOW,.............unexpected.

[Skull-Mark_Ladybug]

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Edited May 17, 2025 by Skull-Mark_Ladybug

[JINZONINGEN73]

Compared to their even more minimalistic Happy Meal sets, like SANTA, these really make me feel good. Yes, the printed faces are all sorts of horridness, but getting something like that DOES want one to go out and get more "real" sets.

I truly wonder if their sales are in fact HURT by the more recent Batman and Bionicle figures you can't build with.

I knew their sad-megablocks attempt with Galidor Happy Meals you could KIND of build with would ruin things for years to come.

[Guss]

in 1999 I ate at macdonald often , but I never saw this kind of sets ... maybe because it didn't came out in France :/

[Manta]

Thanks for the positive responses everyone, and Guss, all you really are missing out on is the cool printed pieces, not like these sets had some super rare pieces.

[Guss]

and anyway I was in my dark age in 1999 so I really missed nothing, but you're right that the other pieces are "basic pieces" that I already have ^^ But I see on the packaging that there is things written in French, maybe I just missed it.

[Manta]

Maybe, you never know. I don't think it would be US exclusive, I think that other nations got these. Anyone care to confirm this?

[Skull-Mark_Ladybug]

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Edited May 17, 2025 by Skull-Mark_Ladybug

[Bundalings]

Huh, I had the Grimace one. It's sad that Lego stopped doing good McD promos... the last, I think, were the Mctoran of 2001... those were good sets.

~Bunda

[Manta]

We got these toys in Canada from Mcdonalds so their not a US exclusive. However they might have been a North American exclusive, the bags probably have french on them because it's used by many Canadians especially by those from Quebec. Although there still is a high probability that Guss just missed them completely .

Probably Guss just missed it, I think it would be international, not NA.