With Mario's recent release in Apple's Apps Store last December, it seems the iconic plumber and his friends are returning to McDonald's UK soon. It has been a while since kids, and kids at heart, were able to play with Mario while chowing down on their happy meals.
Super Mario is coming to McDonald's Happy Meals this week. From Jan. 11 until Feb. 7, McDonald's UK customers will be able to collect a series of new toys. One customer got ahead and tweeted his own Super Mario toy.
@nintendolife picked up an early Mario Happy Meal toy today, here's what else to look out for: pic.twitter.com/gyw3a3a8ZO
— John Galley (@johngalleyuk) January 6, 2017
According to GameSpot, Yoshi and Mario toys will be available on Jan. 11. One the second week, the Red Shell and Princess Peach will be up for grabs, while on week 3 Bowser and Super Star and Blocks will hit McDonald's shelves. Lastly, on week 4, Luigi and Piranha Plant will complete the series of Super Mario toys.
The Super Mario promotion comes at the heels of Nintendo Life's announcement late last year. They reported that Super Mario toys will be coming back to UK McDonald's Happy Meals, and true enough, the January campaign will begin tomorrow. They also uploaded a promotional video accompanying the lineup of toys to be released.
Although the partnership between McDonald's and Nintendo and releasing Super Mario toys is not but exciting, the iconic plumber's toys may have stirred a bit of talks from netizens as Mario looks like he is sitting on brown bricks that resembled that of toilet bowl. Not that this might cause disturbance to customers who will be having their Happy Meals while staring at the Super Mario toy.
The Happy Meal boxes will be decorated with special Super Mario artwork and each Happy Meal comes with an activity card for each child. If they fold the card in different ways, they will be able to see different Super Mario characters.
This is the third year that Nintendo has partnered with McDonald's in bringing Super Mario toys along with the Happy Meals. It was 2014 when the toys first appeared alongside Happy Meals. McDonald's placed "Mario Kart 8" toys in the Happy Meals.
If you are in the UK, you are in luck and better head out to the nearest McDonald's outlet and start collecting your Super Mario toys starting Jan. 11.
