User:Ikkad/Sandbox/List of Transformers restaurant promotions

Beast Wars Under-3

Since the beginning, Transformers has been adept at getting plastic garbage into the hands of children. Try as they might to move away, Hasbro knows that there is no tactic quite so effective at this goal as packaging it alongside garbage food.

McDonald's

Generation 1

• St. Louis The Transformers promotion (1985)

In 1985, McDonald's gave away non-transforming, non-poseable figurines of four Mini Vehicle characters, each rendered in six different color variations, in various two-color combinations of red, green, blue, yellow and black. These figures were only available in St. Louis as a test run. The line included:

Brawn Bumblebee Cliffjumper Gears

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Beast Era

Rhino

• North American Beast Wars promotion (1996)

For Beast Wars, McDonald's released four transforming toys, with names very, very accurate to their beast modes. Another toy was sold to the under-3 crowd, as clearly indicated by his name.

Beetle Manta Ray Panther Rhino Under-3

Scorponok

• North American Beast Wars Transmetals promotion (1998)

To coincide with the Transmetals subline and the second season of Beast Wars, McDonald's Happy Meals featured three characters from the show who did not get Transmetal toys in the retail line.

Blackarachnia Dinobot Scorponok

Thrust

• North American Beast Machines promotion (2000)

For Beast Machines, McDonald's put nine different toys into their Happy Meals, representing the characters from the first season.

Blackarachnia Cheetor Jetstorm Megatron Nightscream Optimus Primal Rattrap Tankor Thrust

Unicron Trilogy

Mighty Vehicle

Japanese Hot Shot

• Armada promotion (2002)

With Armada out in 2002, McDonald's released eight toys to represent select characters from the cartoon. The Decepticon toys could combine into the Mighty Vehicle, while the Autobots could combine into a tall... "totem-pole" Mighty Robot. The toys all had 5mm Powerlinx hardpoints and ports, allowing them to interact with Mini-Cons and other compatible figures.

The Japanese release of this set featured a unique mold for Hot Shot.

Cyclonus Demolishor Hot Shot Megatron Optimus Prime Red Alert Smokescreen Starscream

Hallelujah Optimus!

• European Energon promotion (2004)

McDonald's locations in various parts of Europe released four Energon-based Happy Meal toys. These toys were united by a common gimmick of interchangeable light-up "energon cube" accessories.

Ironhide Megatron Optimus Prime Unicron

• Latin American Energon promotion (2005)

Four figures which transformed by the touch of a button.

Demolishor Inferno Megatron Optimus Prime

Animated

Lugnut

• International Animated promotion (2008)

To promote Animated, McDonald's branches throughout the world offered six toys in their Happy Meals.

France opted to add more paint when they released Bumblebee, Megatron, and Optimus, and they also included a mold of their own in Blitzwing.

Bumblebee Lugnut Megatron Optimus Prime Autobot Ratchet Starscream Blitzwing (exclusive to France)

• Brazilian, Mexican and Venezuelan Animated promotion (2008)

McDonald's stores in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela released four Jumpstarter-style pullback toys, all of which were new molds:

Bumblebee Megatron Optimus Prime Starscream

Live-action movie series

• Revenge of the Fallen promotion (2010)

McDonald's stores in America released six figures, three Autobots and three Decepticons:

Blackout Bumblebee Ironhide Megatron Optimus Prime Starscream Bulkhead Breakdown Bumblebee Grimlock Sideswipe}} Fixit}} Clampdown}} Fracture}} Underbite}}

• North American Robots in Disguise promotion (2016)

The 2016 Robots in Disguise set consists of eight toys featuring four characters, one each in robot and in vehicle mode.

Optimus Prime Truck mode - Lifting the back end of the truck reveals a disc launcher. Robot mode - The gun in Optimus's right hand fires a missile resembling the Mini-con Slipstream's face. Bumblebee Car mode - Pressing the Autobot sigil on the hood launches a missile from the car's grill. Robot mode - Squeezing Bumblebee's arms together launch a disc from the figure's back. Thunderhoof Tractor mode - Pressing the button on the back of the tractor launches a missile from the grill. Robot mode - The figure's right arm launches a Mini-con-shaped missile. Steeljaw Truck mode - The truck features a hood-mounted disc launcher. Robot mode - The figure's left arm launches a Mini-con-shaped missile.

• International Robots in Disguise mask promotion (2016)

In a rare bout of role-play fun, McDonald's decided to bring out four kid-size masks of Autobots from Robots in Disguise.

This set of toys saw release in countries that did not receive the other promotion from 2016.

Bumblebee Glow-in-the-Dark Mask Grimlock Transforming Mask Optimus Prime Action Mask Strongarm Vision Mask

• International Robots in Disguise promotion (2017)

The 2017 RID promotion features four Autobot characters, each of whom get a figure and a child-sized mask. The characters include:

Bumblebee Drift Grimlock Optimus Prime Strongarm

• Holiday Express promotion (2017)

For the 2017 holiday season, McDonald's released a set of twelve interlocking train cars based on then-popular franchises. Among them was a carriage representing Robots in Disguise.

Transformers Train Car

Evergreen

• 'Evergreen/Bumblebee promotion (2018)

First released internationally under generic Transformers branding, this set of super-deformed toys based on evergreen designs had unique gimmicks and very cute faces. The North American release wound up being branded as Bumblebee merchandise in time for the film's release.

Bumblebee/Bumblebee (robot mode) Bumblebee/Bumblebee (vehicle mode) Grimlock/Grimlock Megatron/Megatron Optimus Prime/Optimus Prime Shockwave/ Starscream/Starscream Windblade/Windblade

Cyberverse

• International Cyberverse promotion (2019)

Promoting the Power of the Spark subline imprint of [[Transformers: Cyberverse (toyline}|Cyberverse]], these eight figures each came with a small vehicle that split apart to become armor or weapons. These parts all shared a 4mm peg system that allowed them to be shared between any of the robot figures.

Bumblebee Grimlock Jetfire Megatron Optimus Prime Prowl Shockwave Starscream

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Optimus Prime Color Reveal Squirter

• All-Star Water (2019)

Celebrating TakaraTomy various toy brands, McDonald's Japan released a set of seven translucent water toys. Transformers is, of course, represented.

Optimus Prime Color Reveal Squirter

Red Rooster

Rattrap

• Beast Machines promotion (2001)

Australian chain Red Rooster opted to release four of the McDonald's pieces for their version of the promotion. Each of the four toys was available in four decos: the toy's original colors, and three versions using the plastic colors of each of the other toys in the set. All translucent plastic from the Happy Meal release was replaced with opaque plastic.

Jetstorm Megatron Rattrap Tankor

Frenzy

• Transformers promotion (2007)

Red Rooster released five toys to coincide with the movie, with varying degrees of transformation.

Bumblebee Frenzy Megatron Optimus Prime Starscream

• Revenge of the Fallen Red Rooster promotion (2009)

2009 saw more Red Rooster Transformer toys released in Australia.

Optimus Prime Bumblebee dogtags puzzle cube grip-ball target

Burger King

• Cybertron promotion (2005)

For Cybertron, Burger King churned out four toys.

Jetfire Megatron Optimus Prime Red Alert

Optimus Prime

• Transformers promotion (2007)

Burger King's Movie tie-in consisted of a set of eight different non-transforming toys, each with its own gimmick.

Blackout Bumblebee Ironhide Megatron Optimus Prime Ratchet Scorponok Starscream

Devastator

• Revenge of the Fallen promotion (2009)

Burger King had a new set of toys released to coincide with the live-action sequel.

Arcee Bumblebee Devastator Megatron Optimus Prime with Jetfire Ravage Soundwave The Fallen

• Dark of the Moon promotion (2011)

In 2011, Burger King released eight super-deformed figures based on characters appearing in Dark of the Moon. The figures' bodies could be tucked away within their oversized heads.

• 2019 Cyberverse promotion

Jollibee

"Robot Blasters" Jetfire.

• 2007 Cybertron promotion

Philippine chain Jollibee released a set of four transforming toys in its home country under the "Robot Blasters" name, each including a display stand for their robot modes that were also intended to go on top of fast food cups. Their sculpts were based on the Legends of Cybertron figures, with reduced joints.

Jetfire Megatron Optimus Prime Vector Prime

• 2007 Transformers promotion

To coincide with the 2007 live-action movie, Jollibee released four toys each with their own cop topper stand. As with Jollibee's Cybertron set, these toys were modeled after Legends class figures, though this time hewing closer to the original sculpts. Bumblebee notably features original sculpting, vaguely resembling the 2008 concept Camaro rather than emulating the 1976 Chevrolet Camaro of the Legends toy.

Barricade Bumblebee Megatron Optimus Prime

Megatron

• 2009 Beast Machines Jollibee promotion

Released an inexplicable nine years after the show aired, Jollibee's Beast Machines toys included cube-like display stands with little niches to hold pencils with. These toys were based heavily on the characters' figures from the Beast Machines toyline.

Cheetor Megatron [Optimus Primal (BW)/toys

• 2009 Revenge of the Fallen promotion

Jollibee's Revenge of the Fallen toys included three modified Legends figures and one neutered Cyber Slammer! Their stands acted as vehicle mode launchers.

Bumblebee Ironhide Optimus Prime Starscream

Other

Dairy Queen

• 1994 Dairy Queen Generation 2 promotion

In conjunction with Generation 2, Dairy Queen gave away a non-transforming non-posable Optimus Prime figure with its "Kids' Pick-Nick Meals". It came with stickers kids can apply onto the toy that have nothing to do with Optimus Prime.

Optimus Prime

Rally's/Checkers

If you look into its eyes, it'll steal your soul. (Rhinox)

• 2000 North American Hasbro Toys Checkers/Rally's promotion

At the tail end of Beast Wars proper, American chain Checkers and its regional variant Rally's offered four toys based on various Hasbro properties. Rhinox was the ugliest.

Rhinox

KFC

• Southeast Asian Revenge of the Fallen promotion (2009)

A wave of 4 Kentucky Fried Chicken / KFC toys was released in Malaysia and Singapore for Revenge of the Fallen.

Bumblebee Ironhide Optimus Prime Starscream

Wendy's

• 2019 Cyberverse/Evergreen Wendy's promotion

Super-deformed interpretations of the evergreen designs, these toys were available with Wendy's Kids Meals. Each non-transformable figure came unassembled in a bag, which contained a plastic torso with cardboard legs, arms, and interchangeable faces.

Bumblebee Megatron Optimus Prime Soundwave with Laserbeak Starscream Windblade

References

Category:Fast food exclusives Category:Lists

• condense international variations, note such variations