Okay, the McDonald's happy meal toys are often cheesy, but usually keep my kids' attention for the 1/2 hour ride home so we splurge and get all 3 kids a Happy Meal and a toy. Well, last week we ended our trip to town with the usual McDonalds stop. They were excited to see new toys....SHREK toys. We pay for our food, distribute Happy Meals properly and start to enjoy our own lunch when we hear 3 SHREK toys start to BURP! Of course all 3 kids thought this was HILARIOUS, so they continued to push the button that caused SHREK to let out a gigantic BELCH. I tried to ignore it, turn up the radio, and just tune it out, but about 10 minutes down the road I yelled "Stop making SHREK burp! It is driving me crazy!" The quiet lasted about 5 minutes until the curiousity sparked again and so did the BURPS. I found myself questioning the insanity of the person that makes these toys to torture parents. It is obvious that the maker of burping toys does not have any children of their own. Although I would like to strangle the maker and distributer of these toys, they are successful in keeping the attention of kids. I will tell you that the BURPING SHREKS in our house will soon be disappearing one by one.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Who makes these things?
Okay, the McDonald's happy meal toys are often cheesy, but usually keep my kids' attention for the 1/2 hour ride home so we splurge and get all 3 kids a Happy Meal and a toy. Well, last week we ended our trip to town with the usual McDonalds stop. They were excited to see new toys....SHREK toys. We pay for our food, distribute Happy Meals properly and start to enjoy our own lunch when we hear 3 SHREK toys start to BURP! Of course all 3 kids thought this was HILARIOUS, so they continued to push the button that caused SHREK to let out a gigantic BELCH. I tried to ignore it, turn up the radio, and just tune it out, but about 10 minutes down the road I yelled "Stop making SHREK burp! It is driving me crazy!" The quiet lasted about 5 minutes until the curiousity sparked again and so did the BURPS. I found myself questioning the insanity of the person that makes these toys to torture parents. It is obvious that the maker of burping toys does not have any children of their own. Although I would like to strangle the maker and distributer of these toys, they are successful in keeping the attention of kids. I will tell you that the BURPING SHREKS in our house will soon be disappearing one by one.
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Too funny - you and Jenn have the same exact posts today. I'm so glad my kids don't get the happy meals anymore. I think I would have been annoyed too.
At least yours can find their way into a garbage, I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of my burping Courtney. She's always been a tomboy and thought it was funny but now that she's 15, it's not so funny anymore but she keeps doing it. She usually wins the burping contest at parties and she is so proud of that fact. I agree with you, who is the idiot that teaches these kids that it's cool and then makes a toy of it too??!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
We got the burping Shrek toy too. We also got Gingy, the gingerbread man, who says "Not my gumdrop button" and something I have yet to decipher. Gingy's cool. I'm actually hoping to get Puss In Boots. Aren't I bad?
oh my gosh, thanks for the forewarning! andrew just figured out that he can make himself burp...yes folks he's not even two and he has figured out how to make his body erupt with disgusting noises- ON DEMAND! the older kids all giggle hysterically when he does it too, so of course he has no intention of stopping.
i don't know why this would bother you though, if i remember correctly you are quite capable of letting out some pretty loud belches yourself! i am the one who is incapable of burping without puking:-)
This is funny that we posted about the same thing on the same day!! Great minds think alike! Today I took Cooper there AGAIN after his doctor appt. and this time we got the donkey. You pull on its tail (sorry, no farting but that would fit in with Shrek) and he says a few things! Thought you might want to add to the McD toys!
I agree some of them McD's toys are just cheesy. The kids seem to like getting there Happy Meal toys though.
We limit our McD's visits thought.
We go there every once in awhile for a treat.
HA - my son received that one last weekend and well....it seemed to have disappeared. No really - I don't know WHAT happened to it. (wink wink)Really - any toy that makes noise in my opinion was a toy that couldn't possibly have been invented by a parent.
Am I glad we are past this stage. My husband would have loved this toy. I can just see him and Jenna having a blast right now.
Thank you Jesus that I was saved the torture of this toy.
I had no idea what Shrek was saying. I've been trying to figure it out since we got one. We also have the donkey and I don't know what that thing is saying either! Maybe when you reach a certain age, God blesses us with the inability to understand.
We got Puss and Boots and I have no idea what he is saying. A donkey...OH GREAT!! We'll have to visit McDonalds again if Dawson realizes their is a new toy. They often disappear after awhile but they are fun for a short period of time. But I have to agree...WHY ON EARTH does Shrek have to BURP?? I couldn't imagine having THREE of them going off at the same time...in a vehicle...nonetheless!!
Dejavu....didn't I read something like this on someone elses blog?
Hope the MD's here doesn't follow suit. My son doesn't need any encouragement!
Of coarse we have this happening at our house too. Claire, at the ripe ol' age of 2, walks around the house saying "I'm an ogre! I'm on it! Buuup (trying to make the burp sound." (rolling my eyes - fantastic)
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