Modern day revival of Town McDonalds Drive-Thru?

[TomRoid]

It'd be great (for me personally anyway) if there was a modern day set of a McDonalds resturaunt. Another real world store set, maybe with a fun McDonalds feel and it could have a play area (like there would be for kids before) and the McDonalds mascots. Fun with McDonalds.

However, since some people even tried to ban Happy Meal toys and the whole child obesity and healthiness thing, corporate tie-ins to fatty foods may be a thing of the past, which would be sad. Disney themselves ended their contract in their of being linked to their fatty foods. Not to mention McDonalds itself related toys have been lesser.

There was a possibly recent plastic food McDonalds toy but wouldn't McDonald's charm with LEGO be swell.

[The Blue Brick]

I don't have the original lego McDonalds set, but I wouldn't mine a new one. I don't go to McDonalds a lot, but haven't they had really simple lego sets in their Happy Meals lately.

Wouldn't that mean they have a license or agreement together. If so, I think a bunch of kids would enjoy McDonalds lego sets.

[Jeff Huntington]

I think the last time LEGO toys (such as they were, they were very simple) were in Happy Meals was 2009.

McDonalds Restaurant came out in 1999. They were really inexpensive, I think US$10 a piece, which is why I have 6. I seem to remember that you got one free if you had a certain size Shop at Home order at the time, but I could be wrong. I still have a couple of them in the box thinking I'd moc them somehow but have never gotten around to it. The set itself is really not that special except for the stickers. Even the crew minifig is a plain white torso with a sticker to look like the uniform.

I'd be surprised if we ever saw corporate branded sets like it again. I remember when Octan first came around when they dropped the Shell license.

Edited April 22, 2012 by Jeff Huntington

[TomRoid]

There was a Toys R Us Shop set.

[cimddwc]

I'd be surprised if we ever saw corporate branded sets like it again. I remember when Octan first came around when they dropped the Shell license.

Well, I agree that a complete line of branded sets, like Shell in the old days, is highly unlikely. But there are more or less singular branded sets recently: the Maersk ship and train, big Volkswagen models, a Toys'R'Us truck (variation of the Lego truck), and airplanes with airline-specific stickers. So why not a City restaurant in a regular and a branded version, too?

If, that is, Lego would nowadays want to promote fast food, seeing it's not the healthiest thing around...

[RaincloudDustbin]

I don't think a new McDonald's set would send out a good message to purchasers.

[TomRoid]

Maybe someone should LEGO CuuSoo it.

[JopieK]

Well, there are at least quite some ideas at brickshelf:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=mcdonalds&stype=dfic

we reproduce the stickers of the old set. About unhealthy food... like always... enjoy but use your common sense and also eat very healthy food instead of fast food and drink water beside a soda at the time.