Funko Pop is making throwback McNugget Buddies for Halloween

McNugget figurines from Funko Pop
GameStop

If you were a McDonald’s Happy Meal consumer in the late ’80s or early ’90s, chances are you have memories of playing with McNugget Buddies toys.

They were included in Happy Meals year-round and came with costumes you could rearrange. There was a firefighter and police officer, along with a cowboy, a scuba diver and more. The McNugget Buddies often also appeared at Halloween, complete with spooky costumes that turned them into monsters or a three-eyed octopus.

Now, McDonald’s and Funko Pop have teamed up to give us a bit of a throwback with new Halloween McNugget figurines including a ghost, mummy, witch and vampire. While all four are available for pre-order on GameStop’s website, the vampire and mummy are also on Amazon.

Amazon

MORE: McDonald’s is launching Squishmallow Happy Meals

Priced at $12.99 each, the McNugget Funko Pops are expected to ship Sept. 10 from Amazon and Sept. 18 from GameStop, so you’ll have them in plenty of time for Halloween. You can also get a slight discount if you’re part of the GameStop Pro program.

Want to take a trip down memory lane? No problem — check out this commercial from when they were the McDonald’s Happy Meal toy for October 1996:

This is the second nostalgic Halloween item we’ve gotten from McDonald’s in recent years. The fast-food chain brought back its classic Happy Meal Boo Buckets for a limited time last October.

The Boo Buckets were in restaurants for less than two weeks in 2022. They were inspired by McBoo, McPunk’n and McGoblin, the original Halloween trio that graced the buckets when they first came out in 1986. While those original buckets were only orange, the new ones were also available in white and green.

Each character also came in three different expressions. So, if you were industrious enough, you could get nine different pails in all. McDonald’s has not said if the buckets will be returning again this year, but they didn’t make the announcement until early October last year, so be on the lookout.

McDonald's Halloween Happy Meal Boo Buckets
McDonald's

You can also find a handful of non-Halloween McNugget Buddies Funko Pops on Amazon, including a cowboy, rockstar, tennis player and drummer.

Do you remember the McNugget Buddies or original Boo Buckets?

Food, Holiday & Seasonal, News
, , , ,

Related posts

writing in journal
Why you should make tomorrow's to-do list before you go to bed
5 kids smile at the camera with their heads together
This is the rarest hair and eye color combination
Boats anchor at the sand bar in Torch Lake
This lake in Michigan seriously looks like the Caribbean Sea
A spray bottle sits in front of a plant.
These DIY all natural pesticides will keep bugs out of your house

About the Author
Kaitlin Gates
Kaitlin is a freelance multimedia journalist with a degree in journalism and psychology. Along with Simplemost, she also writes for Don't Waste Your Money, where she loves finding great deals to help people save money. Visit Scripps News to see more of Kaitlin's work.

From our partners