17 Photos You'll Recognize If You Ever Ate At McDonald's In The '80s Or '90s

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17 Photos You'll Recognize If You Ever Ate At McDonald's In The '80s Or '90s

Walking into the Playplace and seeing a Nintendo 64 setup...priceless.

Posted on June 7, 2017, at 8:16 p.m.

Andy Golder
BuzzFeed Staff
There is but one truth in the fast food world, and it is this: Pre-2000s McDonald's was the best McDonald's.
1. You could chill in Burger Jail if you wanted to.

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2. There were little pieces of transforming McDonald's food.

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3. Some of them were dinosaurs!

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4. Even the chairs were on brand.

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5. They gave out Halloween buckets, which were obviously super useful.

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6. You may remember having a dinosaur hand puppet.

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7. Or chilling on a bench with Ronald himself.

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8. Even if you didn't have a Halloween McNugget toy, you probably remember the commercials.

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9. Pretty much every house in America had one of their collectible Garfield mugs.

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10. McDonaldland cookies? Yep.

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11. These Looney Tunes toys with snap-on superhero costumes were cool as heck.

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12. And so were these Tiny Toons flip cars.

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13. Seeing the brand-new Nintendo 64 set up in the restaurant was a beautiful surprise.

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14. The cups were very colorful.

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15. There was the "Mac Tonight" moon man, who was creepy but effective.

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16. You probably really wanted to collect all of the Disney toys that came in fake VHS boxes.

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17. And, of course, there was the styrofoam. So. Much. Styrofoam.

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17 Photos You'll Recognize If You Ever Ate At McDonald's In The '80s Or '90s

 

[Motife43]

Them outdoor playplaces too. Although, some are still around. I saw one down here in Texas a couple weeks ago. That whole McDonalds looked like 1996

 

[NoMorePie]

$1.99 for a happy meal?

 

[Patrick Kane]

mcdonalds cookies

used to love them shyts as a kid

do they still got those joints?

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

$1.99 for a happy meal?

fukking inflation man. 1.99 is the cost of fries now.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

You know parents in the 80s were like when they find out the McDonalds they're pulling into had those playgrounds. Not having to sit and eat with 4 bad ass kids

 

[@OffHalsted]

12. And so were these Tiny Toons flip cars.
Or chilling on a bench with Ronald himself.
4. Even the chairs were on brand.
6. You may remember having a dinosaur hand puppet.

 

[Apollo Kid]

I remember those transformers

 

[Throwbacksample]

This brings back my childhood lol...those halloween buckets were stacked up in our garage...about 20 deep lol

 

[ORDER_66]

Man this nostalgia.... I remember when the big Mac was the biggest burger they had, now shyt is tiny like a white castle burger...

 

[levitate]

2. There were little pieces of transforming McDonald's food.

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Yassssss, I remember these. Was a super wee lad when these came out.

This image just triggered imagery from my childhood that must have been in deep memory.

 

[JAY?]

What ya know about the McDonald's birthday cakes? Them shyts is so good that I make my girl still get it for me on my birthdays now

 

[Princess Coco]

I only remember the cookies.

 

[Maddmike]

Yassssss, I remember these. Was a super wee lad when these came out.

This image just triggered imagery from my childhood that must have been in deep memory.

what do you mean?

 

[Diddly Drogba]