McDonald's Detective Conan Happy Meal

Well well, what do you know. The day I post this blog, it's already a day too late. The Detective Conan toy offer has already lapsed.

Anyways, the Detective Conan Toys are actually puzzles and games. There are six to choose from. The nice thing about these is that they are packaged to look like books, so you can actually make them stand next to each other or stack them up like books. Open one up and you get to solve the mystery therein. So in effect, you get to be Detective Conan (from the anime series) for a moment.



Detective Conan Happy Meal
Available at all McDonald's restaurants up to July 21, 2008

Eight (6) premiums to collect!
1. Mystery of Reflection
2. Challenges from Conan
3. Twisted Lens Mystery
4. Secret in the Mirror
5. Detective Boys' Mission
6. Shadows of the Truth

Available Happy Meals:
- 5pc McNuggets Happy Meal, P99
- 1pc Chicken McDo Happy Meal, P94
- McSpaghetti Happy Meal, P78
- Burger McDo Happy Meal, P68


We bought two Happy Meals to get puzzles 3 and 5 (below).
Mine was the Twisted Lens mystery (colored yellow). There are a couple of cards in it with a gray background. You get a see-through bit of plastic that you slide over the cards and rotate tentatively until you see figures emerge from the gray area! That was a nice bit of puzzle; we actually did not get it the first time.

Anyways... I like displaying things and the Conan collection is not exactly display material. Puzzle 5 was a nice innovation for inquiring minds, and surely the other toys are too. But it's something that gets forgotten after a while. At least, the plastic book case can still be recycled to contain other things.

Jollibee's Inu Yasha Anime Collection

Jollibee has come up with action figures from the anime series Inu Yasha. Well, I have watched only a couple of episodes of Inu Yasha so I'm not familiar with the series but I know enough of my anime to see nicely-executed figures from the run-of-the-mill ones.

These figures double as fun school items: Inu Yasha has a memo pad in it, Sesshomaru is a stamper, Kagome is a pen cologne (cologne not included), Kikyo is an ultra lip shine (don't know if the lip shine marterial is included though).

First off, I do appreciate the fact that the faces were painstakingly machine-painted on. But for me, the figures do not stand out. They are rather stiff, considering that Inu Yasha is an action-fantasy series. But I guess it's a fun series to collect if you're a kid, since it's not just a figure to display.

KFC's The Dark Knight

The second BatMan film to star Christian Bale will hit the theaters real soon, and expectations are high. This film will likewise be memorable because this is the last screen appearance of Heath Ledger, who plays BatMan's nemesis the Joker.

KFC has come up with promotional products for the upcoming movie. Its Bucket Meal, for example, comes with BatMan-themed bucket and four tumblers.

The Chuckie meal is also available with BatMan items. There are three to choose from: a Rubik's cube, a watch, and a frisbee. Jo-Lo is not fond of watches, and he has a rubik's cube already, so I got the frisbee instead. The frisbee is quite light and will surely find it difficult to fly on a windy day. Nevertheless, the toy looks nice and the BatMan sticker on it looks real cool.

Jollibee's Kids Next Door Spinners

Jollibee Kids Meal currently features toys from the Cartoon Network series Kinds Next Door. These are spinners, and there are three kinds in all. One's a watch, another is a yoyo, and the third one... I don't know yet. Anyway, I wanted to know what this third something was, so when we ordered merienda at the office, I requested for the toy that wasn't the watch (Jo-Lo doesn't like watches that much) and not the yoyo. Guess what... they sent me the yoyo.

So here it is, one of the featured toys. It looks quite sturdily built, and like other yoyos, it comes with a string (duh). So what's different with this spinner? It comes with spikes that becomes visible when spun and retracts when the yoyo returns to your hand! Cool, huh?


Well, I have only watched a couple of episodes of Kids Next Door but it's a nice adventure series. And for sure this set of toys will entice more viewership.

More Kung Fu Panda madness!

We can't seem to get enough of Kung Fu Panda! We watched the movie for a second time last night, and here are the other Happy Meal Toys I have acquired for the past couple of weeks!

Tai Lung does a mean flip, while Master Shifu walks hurriedly along.

Master Viper can twist about, though with some difficulty, and Master Monkey twirls his baton like an expert marjorette!

It's Master Mantis with killer arm slash action!

Sadly though, I don't think I can complete the set because Master Tigress is out of stock in many stores, and I don't like Master Crane because it can't stand on its own.

McDonald's Kung Fu Panda Happy Meal

In celebration of the upcoming movie Kung Fu Panda, McDonald's is offering character toys from June 3 to July 7, 2008. There are 8 characters to collect:
1. Master Crane
2. Master Mantis
3. Master Monkey
4. Master Tigress
5. Master Shifu
6. Po
7. Tai Lung
8. Master Viper

When we heard of this news, we bought ourselves a Happy Meal for the toy. I got Po, the panda who is also the main character for the movie and voiced by Jack Black. As a display figure, Po is nice. It is textured and the painting is vivid and nicely executed. As for the gimmick, it is similar with the Finding Nemos where there is an on/off switch and a push of the button will create a sound from the movie. This figure is a nice display item.

Sadly, we cannot say the same with the one my friend bought. The Master Crane could stand on its own two feet. Or are we doing it the wrong way? Some buttons at the back simply lets its wings do karate chops. We're thinking of buying the other figures though, even if we haven't watched the movie yet because they look nice. At least, for those that can stand.

McDonald's Squiggly Toys

When I see a nicely-made set of kids meal toys, I endeavour to buy the entire set. Like this one from McDonalds. They're like those squiggly (for lack of a better term) things that you put on your car's dashboard that wiggles as the car moves. Although my set did not end up at a dashboard but nicely displayed at our living room in Baguio.