Celebrate Happy Meal Toys: Full List & Photos of McDonald’s Toys for Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary
The Walt Disney Company and McDonald’s have had a strong relationship over the years. Well, more like a rocky romance that’s been a bit hot and cold at times. The two had a multi-decade relationship that began in the 1980s and ran until 2006.
Things really heated up around the turn of the century with a prolific sponsorship deal in Dinoland at Animal Kingdom, as well as McDonald’s French Fries and Chicken McNuggets at snack kiosks all around the parks. Burger Invasion was the first McDonald’s in a Disney theme park when California Adventure opened, and was the culmination of that strong relationship between Disney and McDonald’s.
As McDonald’s came under fire for its unhealthy fare thanks to the Super Size Me “documentary,” that relationship soured fairly quickly. McDonald’s started disappearing from the parks, and Disney disappeared from Happy Meals. Fast-forward to 2018 (and people no longer caring about health, I guess?), when McDonald’s and Disney announced a multi-year alliance (and in fairness, the press release did emphasize health). In the years since, we’ve seen a ton of Happy Meal toys, with the biggest set yet coming in December 2025!
In honor of Disneyland’s 70th Anniversary, McDonald’s has announced that it “Celebrate Happy (Meal Toys)” with 70 different toys in Happy Meals for a limited time. There will be two Disneyland70 toys per Happy Meal, meaning you could eat as few as 35 Happy Meals to collect the full set. At least, if you have insanely good luck; if you’re like me, it’d take 140 meals.
Below is a list & photo first look at all 70 for 70th Disneyland Happy Meal toys. These Disneyland70 Happy Meals toys release starting December 2, 2025:
- Ahsoka
- Anxiety
- Anna
- Ariel
- Asha
- Aurora
- Baymax
- BB-8
- Beast
- Bing Bong
- Black Panther
- Black Widow
- Boba Fett
- Boo
- Chewbacca
- Chip ‘n’ Dale
- Clarabelle
- Classic Sleeping Beauty Castle
- Crush
- Cruella
- Daisy Duck
- Darth Vader
- Donald Duck
- Dory
- Dumbo
- Evil Queen
- Elsa
- Flounder
- Frozone
- Gold Sleeping Beauty Castle
- Goofy
- Green Alien
- Groot
- Hatbox Ghost
- Iron Man
- Jack-Jack
- Judy Hopps
- Kylo Ren
- Lightning McQueen
- Lilo
- Maleficent
- Mater
- Mickey Mouse
- Mike Wazowski
- Miguel
- Minnie Mouse
- Mirabel
- Moana
- Mr. Incredible
- Mufasa
- Nemo
- Nebula
- Nick Wilde
- Okoye
- Olaf
- Pluto
- R2-D2
- Rapunzel
- Rex
- Rey
- Sadness
- Simba
- Sleeping Beauty Castle (Classic)
- Sleeping Beauty Castle (Gold)
- Snow White
- Stitch
- Stormtrooper
- Sulley
- Thanos
- Tiana
- Timon
- Tinker Bell
Here are sneak peek photos of the Disneyland 70th Anniversary McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys:
Our Commentary
Let me preface this with a warning: I have more sharp opinions about this than any adult man should have about free toys found in meals for children. I’m aware of this. But what’s the point of the internet if not for criticizing things, especially those for which you are not the target audience?! Isn’t that what being a very online Disney fan is all about?
Longtime readers of this website (we’re talking those who go back a decade or more ago to the trip report days) might recall that I have a certain fondness for McDonald’s. More than a normal person has for a fast food restaurant.
Actually, I’m a recovering McDonald’s enthusiast. We don’t go a whole lot these days, which is in equal parts because we don’t eat much fast food and because McDonald’s and In-N-Out Burger are comparably priced, and the latter is far superior. But one of my (ulterior) motivations for writing this post might be laying the groundwork for justifying a Very Important Research Trip to the Golden Arches.
As for my McDonald’s enthusiasm, that actually dates back to the early 1990s. Before my Disney obsession, I collected McDonald’s items when I was a kid. Not simply Happy Meal toys and common things that every kid “collected,” but rare stuff you’ve probably never heard of, like original artwork, defunct displays from the stores, and rare tray liners (yes, really).
At one time, I was the youngest-ever member of the McDonald’s Collectors Club, which would meet annually in Chicago or Ohio. I was “friends” with the artists who created the commercials and ads. Unfortunately, as McDonald’s decreased production of interesting items, and as controversy over its food increased, membership plummeted–as did the value of the collectibles (many of which are still in my parents’ basement).
The items that were once going to help pay for my college tuition became virtually worthless. If you’ve ever wondered why this blog is so poorly-written, you can thank Morgan Spurlock. That man robbed me of an education, and is indirectly to blame for this blog being unleashed on the world. But I digress.
All of that should either establish my bona fides as a McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Scholar and/or explain why I care so much about something so trivial. (But in my defense, don’t we all? Isn’t that precisely what we’re doing here?!)
In my expert opinion, these toys suck.
It’s not just that the Disneyland 70th Anniversary McDonald’s Happy Meal toys suck. It’s that they aren’t even toys in the first place. They are collectible minifigures masquerading as toys. They’re aimed at Disney Adults and/or McDonald’s Adults. Yet they’re made of plastic. Sold at a fast food restaurant. In meals for children.
I could get past the bland designs and done-to-death “cutesy” Funko eyes if these were at least toys you could play with. But they aren’t. You can’t do any action or engage in any scenarios such as combat or…I don’t really know what else toys might do. (It was always combat for me.)
They’re not posable and they can’t really do anything. They are very clearly meant for display. I don’t know how to explain their appearance than that they aren’t aimed at kids at all–or at least not for kids who like to be imaginative and play–but rather, are actually for adults who want to display them.
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I don’t think so. We have a young daughter, and she likes to play with toys. Especially toys that offer a bit of interactivity and the ability to engage with her other toys. This would probably be passable to her, primarily because she loves many of these Disney characters and can turn just about anything into a toy. But even for kids with vivid imaginations, some toys are more conducive to plays and inventive scenarios than others. And these aren’t the conducive-to-play kind.
I also don’t quite get why this matters one way or another to adults who collect Happy Meal Toys. But then again, I don’t really understand why adults favor certain types of toys over others. As an adult collector, I am in touch with this audience, and nevertheless don’t get the appeal of popcorn buckets or myriad other things.
My view is that, if you’re going to collect something, you should meet the product where it is. For example, if I were a thirtysomething who got into collecting something called “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys,” I would expect the inherent qualities said product to be: 1) toys; 2) included with fast food kids meals. The name kind of says it all!
It’s probably not worth having a strong opinion on this. Or any opinion. After all, Happy Meal toys come and go, and maybe the next release will be better. The “problem” is that this has happened before, on multiple occasions!
McDonald’s did a huge Happy Meal toy campaign for Disney100 a few years ago, and it was almost in the exact same template. Prior to that, they did Walt Disney World’s 50th Anniversary, and the first wave was strikingly similar. In their defense, the second wave of those toys was actually pretty good.
Ultimately, I just want to an excuse to go to McDonald’s and get fun toys for my daughter while indulging in fast food that’s unhealthy (but not as unhealthy as the hatchet job documentary made by my nemesis). I want her to be able to play with the kind of cool toys that us children of the 1990s had. Is that really too much to ask?!
I guess so. In which case, we’ll keep going to In-N-Out where they are happy to serve us better burgers along with free stickers and hats. For the superior McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys, including some great World Showcase ones, we’ll brave the basement at my parents’ house.
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Your Thoughts
Will you be trying to collect all 70 of the Disneyland 70th Anniversary McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys? Would you consider these collectible minifigures meant for display, or actual toys for play? Do you agree or disagree with our assessment? Any questions? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!
I didn’t see Supersize Me, but I figure any kind of fast food is okay in moderation, & supersizing meals isn’t moderation, so no kidding it would make you fat & unhealthy. If I didn’t just read on Wikipedia that Spurlock died of an “unspecified” cancer, I might think it had something to do when he purposefully kept overeating just for the sake of Very Important Research. I go to McDonald’s irregularly, usually for a pack of 10 Chicken McNuggets with 2 different kinds of sauces & no fries.
I’m just disappointed none of the toy lines past or present that you showed photos of included Iago. I saw Genie & even Abu in one of them. How come that little fleabag monkey gets a toy & not the bird?! (read that question in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice)
As a proud individualist & nonconformist, I’m into a lot of things once thought more for kids, like cartoons & of course, I’m a Disney Adult. But I would feel self-conscious about ordering a kids’ meal, though I’d be tempted if everything on the adult menu seemed too filled with onions for my onion-hating tastes.
You might want to read more about Spurlock. There’s a lot more to his story that undermines the credibility of Super Size Me.
This isn’t to say that fast food is good for you. Obviously, it is not. You had it right at the first sentence. 🙂
The world has changed a lot in the last 20-30 years, particularly in what is considered “adult” behavior. Adults play video games (or phone app games) constantly, get super into Halloween, drink sugary-sweet cocktail drinks that look and taste like soda pop, watch cartoons, collect things like baseball cards and Funko pops, cosplay, and travel in droves to places like Disney World, to enjoy attractions built with kids in mind, but without any accompanying children.
It may surprise some younger readers that most of these things would have violated societal norms regarding adult behavior until very recently, a trend starting around the late 1990s? I don’t have a strong opinion on this trend (I’m Gen X, just leave us in peace.). And I’m not judging anyone (look at me, posting regularly on a Disney parks blog myself) but it’s an observable fact.
When I was growing up in the 1980s/1990s, the concept of an adult ordering a Happy Meal for themselves would have been a “no-no” in most circles. Would a McDonald’s even allow you do so if you weren’t with a kid? Probably, but many would have answered “no” if asked. But now, doing that wouldn’t really be frowned upon (perhaps some would look at it as mildly awkward/embarrassing at worst?). And adults do it all the time — especially with app-based ordering, delivery services, industrial-strength drive-thrus, who’s checking or cares if you are ordering that thing for a kid?
That said, I agree with Tom that Happy Meals should include kids’ toys that are fun/interesting to play with (if they include toys at all). But the point of this promotion is to lure Disney adults to McDonalds to buy Happy Meals and whatever else they might add to their orders. That’s it, full stop.
Oh for sure. I remember it being really awesome as a kid if we could convince anyone’s dad to sit down and play a video game with us. They enjoyed it, but rarely did so because it was quite obviously kids’ stuff. Now, plenty of adults play video games and engage in all sorts of so-called kids’ stuff–myself included, so no judgment!
Here was actually a book predicting all of this as a result of electronic entertainment way back in the mid-1980s: https://amzn.to/4rndpmz
Regardless, I think if you’re going to engage with entertainment or products made for children, you should accept that those things are, in fact, made for children. By all means, collect toys from Happy Meals. But let them at least be toys!
Tom, the average of a gamer now is 40+, so basically the majority of adults between standard games to candy crush, video games are something the majority of adults and people do now. It’s hard to believe, but shows just how old all the Gen Xers and millennials have gotten.
Yeah, agree these are not a fun toy. Look at the Runaway Railway train toys they did not all that long ago. Those were actually really cute little toys for kids who love the parks and / or Disney. I actually skip Happy Meals and get my son regular meals (I get the Diet Coke and half the fries) for this exact reason, because I don’t want a piece of plastic headed straight for the trash.
I remember watching Super Size Me in school. It turned everyone off of mcdonalds for about a week, but then everyone went back to eating it like usual. Probably one of the worst documentaries ever made.
Thanks for the great article. I was planning on going to McDonald’s to collect these toys, but they’re really more like little knick knacks that my kids wouldn’t be able to play with and I envision them sitting in a Goodwill bucket in the not too distant future. We’ll probably get 1 or 2, but that’s all. My favorite McDonald’s / Disney giveaway were the drinking glasses they had in 2000. I went to all the McDonald’s around Santa Monica/ Venice area to make sure I got all the different glasses 🙂 I still have them!
Any idea if they will also be in Canada? They suck as toys but you know.. my daughter would still absolutely love them.
I remember trying to find all 101 Dalmatians and feeling up packages to see what dog was in it. Carolyn loves that movie and I wanted to get them all for her. Naturally she wanted me to NOT EAT at McDonalds. She studied nutrition at College and was into eating healthy. Sound familiar?
One of the McDonalds let me have the giant promo poster, picturing them all, to help me in my search.
I love McDonald’s and I was excited to see you title of new Happy Meal toys coming out, but I have to agree with you in saying “these ‘toys’ suck”. Thank you for showing the pictures. I was already planning my visits until I got to pictures. What a disappointment.
I agree. These look like they totally suck! As someone who got all of the WDW 50th, I will not be going for the first one of these “toys”. They look poor as a collection and totally bad as a “toy”.
Thanks for the info!
I am so glad to find a fellow McDonald’s Enthusiast! I have spent all major events of my life at McDonald’s (21st birthday, 18th birthday, 40th birthday, Last meal as a single man before getting married to name a few). I go to the McDonalds in any foreign country I visit if it’s logistically feasible. Eaten it for every major holiday throughout the years.
I truly appreciate the McDonald’s plug. McDonald’s gets a bad rap lots of times, but they do a ton for communities and have one of the best nonprofits in any major company in the Ronald McDonald House. They also have some of the most consistently safest prepared food of any restaurant. I have friends that are food and restaurant inspectors and they say they are about as consistent and safe as it gets for as large of an operation they have. Long live McDonalds!