DCAU Merch: "B:TAS" Happy Meal boxes (1993) and "Batman Forever" mugs from McDonald's!

[about_faces]

While I'm older and wiser enough to know that McDonald's is shit that will kill me, I still have a great deal of fondness for the Happy Meal toys I had collected over the years as a kid growing up in the 90's. Of course, when it comes to which line of tie-in toys were my favorites, you can probably guess:

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[psychopathicus]

Yeah, that's one of the more insidious things about those places - they do give away such cool little trinkets. Personally, I loathe fast food and always have - I got a nasty case of food poisoning from a Burger King burger once - but I do remember being very envious when I'd go over to a friend's house and they'd have all those nifty plastic doodads lying around.
Nice artwork, I agree, but hoo boy, are those terrible puzzles. I'm not exactly what you'd call a stickler for such things, but when I can figure something out in literally ten seconds or less, then it's too freakin' easy. I know these are intended for kids, but come on. I don't know if you ever read Cricket Magazine when you were younger, but I had a subscription for years, and every single month they featured puzzles that were harder than that - and this was a publication whose target audience began at roughly the third grade! How stupid did McDonalds think we were?
My own little B:tAS-nostalgia buzz has to come from the action figures. I wasn't into the show then, you understand, but I'd go out shopping with my Mom and keep running into these very nice toys with what I could tell even then was quite a distinctive look. Some of them would stick around the aisles for months before they were sold, and I kept thinking that next time, I'd bring some of my allowance money and snap one up (I particularly wanted the Creeper figure, which I still think is a very cool little figure), but inevitably they sold out before I could do it. Phooey. Oh well, one of these days when I have money and some time to search...
So how was your Christmas, man? Any nifty presents come your way?