Disneyland 40th Anniversary Happy Meal Toys

By: Nick

As Disneyland celebrates it's 60th Anniversary today, I thought we'd look back at a truly excellent set of Happy Meals Toys released by Disney and McDonald's back in 1995, celebrating Disneyland's 40th.

This set is a viewer set, like a mono viewmaster, featuring Disneyland park attractions.


These first two were for totally different attractions than what I'd assumed they were. Here we have Peter Pan. This must represent Peter Pan's flight, right? Nope



It is actually for Fantasmic.



The next one, I thought must have been from a parade, but it is actually from a dinner show called Aladdin's Oasis, that ran during two summers and on selected weekend days during other seasons.


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This last one is pretty easy to guess. Mickey is riding Space Mountain.





Happy Anniversary Disneyland!

Flea Market Finds: Bambi McDonalds Happy Meal Set

I picked this Bambi McDonalds Happy Meal Set up at the Columbus Flea Market in New Jersey for $2! They were released in 1988.

Friend Owl

 

I've always wondered why Friend Owl never had a proper name like the other woodland creatures. Unless Friend is his first name.

Thumper has some paint wear.

Flower. All the toys were pretty dirty, and even though I gave them a bath, there are some spots that won't come clean. But for being 25 years old, they are still in decent shape.

Bambi is being shy.

Here he comes. Do you think he knows he has a butterfly on his tail?

And there he goes.

For more posts about other Bambi items in my collection, you can search our archives to the right.

Flea Market Finds: Disney PVC Figures

At the Flea market, it's not unusual to see plastic buckets of PVC and McDonald's Happy Meal toys out on tables. To be honest, I often make a half hearted run through some of them, if I bother at all.
But what is very uncommon is to see a PVC Figment figure on top! These are very collectible, and even though I already had this Figment which was out for all the world to see, and he is one of the more common figures, my heart jumped with the anticipation of finding more!

And I did find another Figment! Although I have this one as well, this one is in better condition than the one I actually bought from Epcot back in the early '90s!

 

Sadly, there were no more Figments, but I did find 3 more great figures. 

I love this Seven Dwarfs figure, and have no idea at all what year or where it is from.

 

Then there is this great little Mickey.

I have no idea what the number "722" indicates, and again, have no idea where and when it is from.

Lastly, my wife came up as I was looking through the figures, and immediately spotted this Winnie the Pooh.

Interestingly, he also has a number, "711", on him.

He fits in beautifully with the rest of her Pooh collection.

It's great finds like these for $1 each that bring us back to the flea market week after week!