A Happy Ending

January has been a rough month for me personally, however this blog has been thriving this month I am happy to report. It's taken awhile, but hopefully this blog will only go up from here.

So, I have my coffee ready and hoping to end the month on a HAPPY note.

*takes a sip*

The problem with posting almost every day and not having a lot of funds is that I am running out of posts in my drafts.

I didn't have a lot of options to end this month on and figured it was time to use up one of my posts that's been sitting in drafts for more than a month.

So, I introduce you a happy ending, no not one of those you dirty minds, an adult Happy Meal ending to the month.

In December, McDonald's brought out a sequel to their very popular Adult Happy Meal they released in 2022. This time instead of the Cactus Plante Flea Market, they have brought in Kerwin Frost (I have no idea who that was until Googled), to help assist in this years design.

Instead of the throwback McDonald's characters of last years, I pulled a Grimace I still have, this time they brought back the McNugget buddies to redesign them.

When you order the meal, you can choose between a Big Mac or 10-piece nugget, get fries and the toy of course which is the reason why I bought the meal.

You whip open the box to see this. Then you eat the food before it gets cold because the only thing worse than eating cold McDonald's food is drinking cold coffee.

And like when I pull an insert in a card pack, I saved the toy for last to see....

Three pieces to put together. Fortunately, it doesn't require rocket science to build like some of their toys do occasionally. I can't handle that.

 

I pulled the Don Bernice who according to McDonald's website is an "experienced fashion designer who creates all the outfits for the Buddies in Frost Way". To me it's either Don King or my preschool teacher who I am leaning more towards it being. That has got to be Mrs. B who had me take a nap when I didn't want to. I can recognize that face she made.

And before you say this is a card blog, why post about McDonald's toys....

 

I present you the Don Bernice rookie card.

Got you there, didn't I?

It's a pretty cool collectible I plan to hold onto. I hope they come back with another Adult Happy Meal next year. I really dig this idea and nostalgia.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I just wanted to take a minute out to thank those of you who come by and read this blog when I post and for making this the best month on Cards Over Coffee. I hope you guys enjoy the hard work and time that I put into the blog and every post.

Hope you come ready with a fresh cup for the next post.

Have a great Wednesday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Happy Meal Again

*just came back from running an errand from town but had to grab some lunch on the way back, quick stop, McD's. short on cash equals one thing, a Happy Meal*

*checks out box to see what toy is hiding and reads Pokemon pack included, sweet*

*takes a sip of coffee which was drink of choice to go with the Happy Meal, gets ready for new post*

Back again for the second year in a row is the McDonald's Pokemon Happy Meal promotion. Last year McDonald's helped celebrate 25 years of Pokemon by including packs of cards in their Happy Meals and it has returned.

The only difference this year is that the promotion isn't celebrating another year and there is a smaller 15 card checklist instead of the 50 from last year but still all the fun.

I am not a Pokemon collector myself so I am not going to buy 20 Happy Meals to collect the set, but finding cards with food regardless is a win. You can tell I am not a collector of them when I can't pronounce half of the names.

The limited-time Happy Meal promotion started on September 12, 2023, and will run until October 16 so plenty of time for you to grab a meal and open a pack.

*takes another sip, McDonalds coffee definitely isn't great as it is very watered down. hope the meal is better*

*continues on with watered down coffee and today's post*

I thought I would begin by showing off the box first before I dig into the pack.

I won't bother showing the food, mostly because I finished it before I had a chance to take pictures and I am sure you have seen the food before.

But, what about the pack, well, box that the pack and other fun surprises comes within.

Inside of the box, comes,

A sticker and a cardboard spinner toy for the Pokémon Match Battle game. 

  

And the pack of cards. The cards are inserted at random with each pack of four cards containing one with the McDonald's holofoil pattern. 

  

My pack actually lacked the parallel. Disappointing since I wanted to see one.

Oh well.

In the end, I got some lunch, some cards and some coffee.

 

and it left me feeling like this.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I would love to see McDonald's expand more on this, let's get some sport card Happy Meals. Maybe one for each sports season. Get kids more into the hobby and less flippers/money hungry people. Just more people who are hungry for collecting...and some for nuggies.

Hope you have a great Friday!

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Happy Meal

*takes a sip of cup number 3 this morning and already had breakfast. Time to kick it into high gear to try and get the latest Cards Over Coffee post going*

The Card Pandemic as I sometimes refer to it as, has reached new crazy heights in the hobby. With the craze of everything retail selling out, both sports and Pokemon cards, the flippers have found a new outlet....McDonalds.

No they aren't buying double cheeseburgers or short printed McDonald's Ice Cream sundaes (as the joke always goes their machines are always broken) to sell, they are buying Happy Meals. You know, that treat you had as a kid that you now probably buy your own kids is now being bought up by flippers.

Why? Well, this year McDonald's is helping celebrate 25 Years Of Pokemon by inserting 4 card Pokemon packs in their Happy Meals as the toy this time around and flippers are buying up all of the packs. I assume they are buying them as extra toys, and not a bunch of meals, which you are allowed to do but some McDonalds across the country are running low. Not only running low, but from pictures I have seen on Twitter they are even limiting the amount of Happy Meals bought by a family and not allowing people to buy extra toys on the side as well so they won't run out.

I think this is a tad ridiculous and that flippers have gone off the deep end at this point. When you see the phrase "save some for the kids" it literally is meant in this case.

*takes a sip of frustration of what the the hobby has turned into*

I don't know a lot about Pokemon myself, but was curious about what these entitled and wanted to show it off to you guys as well in case you haven't seen them.

So I ordered a meal.

 

Let's start with the outside of the box. Full on Pokemon.

Side of the box as well. Notice the Pikachu head with the 25 inside of it representing the 25 years of Pokemon logo.

In the middle, the goods. And a package of Pokemon. I went McNuggets and two fries sides here.

 

This is what holds the Pokemon pack inside of the Happy Meal.

You open it up to see the pack tucked inside.

The pack I pulled out to open and found it interesting that the packaging of it was more like a paper substance than foil. 

*takes a sip, begins to rip. Literally you can rip it because it was easy to open with the paper-type wrapper*

Like I said, I don't know much about Pokemon other than Pikachu and that's only by name.

Each pack comes with 4 cards and one of those foil cards will be a holo card.

First card, Torchic. Note the 25 Pokemon logo on the card.

Chikorita

Pikachu

And my holo card is a Chikorita

The entire run of the set is 25 cards and 25 matching holos that make up a 50 card set. Guess it makes sense to have two 25 card reproduction sets for a 25 year anniversary.

*takes a sip before closing*

My final review, the food was good, the fries were actually on point this time being crispy and not mushy like they can be at my local Mc D's. I replaced the soda with a shake because I gave up soda years ago and they are a cause for kidney stones. Oh, you wanted to hear about the cards. Yeah, those were cool to.

I have said this for years, but I would love to see an adult Happy Meal. Imagine one this year and it comes with 4 card packs of 70th anniversary Topps baseball cards? Yes! Sign me up.

Of course things like that comes with the risk of flippers. You darn flippers are everywhere! You can clean off retail shelves, but please leave the Happy Meals alone both adult and kid versions.