Pokemon & McDonalds collab fail.

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/topic. Above video is a random Youtuber showing they Toy & Pokemon cards included in the new Happy Meal.
Turns out you can't buy the happy meal toys separately in Japan, unlike the rest of the civilized world. So scalpers/resellers, some of them foreigners from China & other countries bought the meals and threw away the food. It's not the first time it happened for McD. Resellers also cause problems by buying up limited edition anime/manga merch and certain luxury goods.

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essential-japan.com

Resellers cause chaos at McDonald's Japan over new Chiikawa 'Happy Meal' toys

Reports have emerged of resellers and scalpers targeting branches of McDonald's Japan to get their hands on the highly sought-after Chiikawa character toys currently available with Happy Meals. These resellers are reportedly purchasing large quantities of Happy Meals, often far exceeding what a...
essential-japan.com essential-japan.com
(Similar event from may this year)
 
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Reminds me of the Beanie Baby McDonalds days, you'd walk in and there would be happy meals on basically all of the tables inside free for anyone who wanted them, psychos would buy whatever the limit was and just take the toys.
 
McDonald's doesn't exactly make the best food, but in Japan I found it above average.
Much better than the ones in the U.S.

Edit: So, it's a shame to see all that food wasted. Kind of pisses me off as we're already having problems within our supply chain where I live.
 
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They don't fucking care at all, you're already paid those greedy fuckers, as long as get paid they won't care what you have done to the food
 
The Cockatrice said:
Humanity fail, not the companies. The obssesion with these cards is the most retarded thing ever. Some adults need to be jailed for life.
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At any given time theres always some dumb shit that goes on that prays on dumbassery to make a buck. And Pokemons are one of those things. I bet most people dont even play the game. It's basically the same kind of people collecting baseball cards for life, but instead are collecting anime cartoon characters. Funko collecting is similar, so were Beanie Babies when they were the rage.

A couple years ago, there was that crazy Stanley water bottle fad. At first when I heard people talking about it at work, I thought they were talking about the toolmaker Stanley and thought it was weird a bunch of female coworkers would be talking about tools.

Then they're like, it's a new water bottle that's $50 and are going ape shit getting them. wtf

That fad sure ended fast. I use a water bottle too when I occasionally work out. It's a free one I got from work. And if that one breaks, I got another one from work.
 
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They did a Pokemon - Maccy Ds Happy Meal in the UK for a couple of months this year and there were no big issues. Maybe it is to do with the number of cards/rarity.

Pokemon cards are selling out everywhere, but that's apparently because crypto bros see it as a more worthwhile currency than crypto so they are buying them all up where they can (according to the bloke in the gaming store my boy goes to). It's GPUs all over again.
 
It's not a fail, though? Both McDonald's and The Pokemon Company got to sell their products.
I wouldn't eat that shit either.
 
I'm sure Mcdonald's had a meeting at one point to basically ask,
Can we just sell the toy without the meals.

Imagine how much money they would have saved in not wasting produce.

Also pokemon fans are fucking nutters.
You've created a money system on the rarity of a bit of cardbored based on what colours are on it.
It's like a successful bitcoin system.
 
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*Fast Food Burgers
-Five Guys
-Sonic
-Wendy's
-Arby's
-Jack in the Box
-Checkers

Burger "King" and McDonald's burgers are the lowest of the low. Although, I'll still eat a MC Biscuit or Breakfast Burrito and hash brown every blue moon.
 
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JimmyRustler said:
Way too many. It boggles my mind how full our McDonalds parking lot here always is when I drive to the gym. One would think people by now know it's pure trash they eat there…
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It's hilarious.
If you take any McDonalds burger component out and taste it, e.g. the patty, the bun, the "cheese" you see that the meat doesn't taste like meat, the bread doesn't taste like bread, the cheese not like cheese etc.
It's ridiculously processed junk in a soft easy to chew package that basically only tastes of sugar, salt and fat but not of any real food, it' horrendous.
 
The_hunter said:
A similar event happened at the Louvre when they were giving away Van Gough pikachu cards.
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That looked like a funny shit post. But it's true, they stopped giving out the promo-cards because of scalpers chaos.



Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum

In 2023, the Van Gogh Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary. To mark this milestone, the museum launched an official collaboration with Pokémon inspired by the shared link with Japanese art and culture.
www.vangoghmuseum.nl www.vangoghmuseum.nl
 
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Loomy said:
For having a hobby? lol. What kind of dystopia do you want to live in?
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Scalping is a hobby?

Because that's the cause of this. Scalpers buying up all the Pokémon cards, on in this case the Happy Meals for the cards, just to sell them for profit. This is the reason kids can't get hold of Pokémon cards, and why stores have to keep the cards locked away.

And look at the wasted food. Sure, McDonald's won't give a shit because they got their money, but we can't deny that it's wrong to waste food and throw it away for a Pokémon card.

I don't think these people deserve jail for this, but it is really pathetic behaviour that should be called out and discouraged.
 
I think the pokemon thing is dumb and it is extra lame for people to be throwing away food like this.
But McDonalds also handled this pretty bad. Why is there no limit? You can say McDonalds is happy because they are making money either way, but there are a finite number of cards, so really they'd be making the same money either way if they just set a limit of like 2 per person or something.
 
Well, that's pretty common in Japan actually, both not being able to buy individual items (if it's random, it's random) and to leave heaps of trash discarding stuff while looking for something that's random. When the AKB48 idol group was at its peak people bought over a million CDs to vote for their favorite member (one CD = one vote) ending literally with hundreds of thousands of discarded CDs.

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Also, there are foreigners who only want determined Pokémon cards so they leave all the ones they don't want at their Airbnb.

 
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