Happy Meal Toys

I've discovered a wonderous thing in recent months. You ever go to McDonald's, order one of the value meals, and find yourself choking down the last of the fries because there were just too many of them? Maybe you just threw them out. Maybe you tried to take them home and eat them later. Or maybe you just chow right through them, which is also okay.

Me? I find that most of those meals contain entirely too much food, fully explaining the reason we're all getting rounder (and that's not even super-sizing). I'll admit that there are times I'm hungry enough to get a huge meal, but on a normal day, I'd rather not.

Then, they started having Transformers toys in the Happy Meals to promote the new Animated Series, so I figured I'd get those double cheeseburger Mighty Kids Meals, so I could get the toys. Sometimes, I got just the meal, and sometimes I'd pay the extra $1 and get a second double cheeseburger, but I started then, and I've been getting them ever since.

Well, the reason I've continued is because they went from Transformers toys to Star Wars toys, and being the fan I am, I had to see about getting all those bobble heads. In the end, I only ended up with nine of them. The Princesses actually have two that I don't, but I'm not going to sntach them up. I got some and Optimus brought some in, too.

Well, then they went from Star Wars to having Lego Batman toys to promote the Lego Batman game (which I've rave about, I'm sure). Well, I got the first toy, and discovered to my delight, that each toy contained a code for the game to unlock something. Then, I further found out that even the same toys contained different codes. Well, I was hooked. I now have a full set, and Optimus Prime, who is just a Batman fan in general (don't get him started on Dark Knight; he loves it), has been helping in getting the whole set and getting codes.

So at this point, having discovered a decent amount of food in a double cheeseburger and small fries, I've decided to stick with it once they go to Barbie and Hot Wheels, which is next. A double Quarter Pounder is good, but add in the fries, and you've got a huge meal. Yes, I can eat it, but I also want to live long enough to see some great grandchildren, so I'm cutting back.

Besides, how can you go wrong with a collection like this (note the full set of Batman toys...):