{"id":2714,"date":"2022-09-28T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:01:00","slug":"mcdonalds-is-launching-a-happy-meal-for-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/mcdonalds-is-launching-a-happy-meal-for-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s is Launching a Happy Meal for Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beginning Oct. 3, McDonald&#8217;s will launch a new Happy Meal &#8212; geared toward adults &#8212; as part of a collaboration with streetwear fashion label Cactus Plant Flea Market, according to a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re taking one of the most nostalgic McDonald&#8217;s experiences and repackaging it in a new way that&#8217;s hyper-relevant for our adult fans,&#8221; said\u00a0Tariq Hassan, McDonald&#8217;s\u00a0USA\u00a0Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer. &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just in time for Halloween. <strong>McDonald&#8217;s is saving its freakiest toys for adults<\/strong>. McDonald&#8217;s announced that it partnered with Cactus Plant Flea Market \u2014 a streetwear brand embraced by Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, among other high-profile fans \u2014 to repackage the Happy Meal &#8220;experience&#8221; for an older audience. The result of their collaboration is the Cactus Plant Flea Market Box: a Happy Meal-style offering packaged with one of four bizarre little figurines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cactus-Plant-Flea-Market-x-McDonalds-Box-w-Figurines-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2715\" title=\"\"><figcaption><em>McDonald&#8217;s hopes to repackage the Happy Meal experience for a new generation of customers. (McDonald&#8217;s)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each meal comes with either a Big Mac or 10-piece McNuggets, fries, and a drink. Inside the box, customers will also find one of four figurines \u2014 including Grimace, Hamburglar, and Birdie \u2014 each created in the image of Cactus Buddy, the four-eyed smiley-face mascot for Cactus Plant Flea Market. Cactus Buddy, too, is among the four available figurines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The box has also been designed in the streetwear brand&#8217;s &#8220;signature style,&#8221; according to McDonald&#8217;s, featuring imagery of a four-eyed Grimace visiting a McDonald&#8217;s alongside Cactus Buddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CactusPlantFleaMarketBox.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2716\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Grimace and Cactus Buddy \u2014 the signature mascot for Cactus Plant Flea Market \u2014 are pictured on the side of the Cactus Plant Flea Market meal boxes. (McDonald&#8217;s)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to McDonald&#8217;s, those who purchase a Cactus Plant Flea Box via the McDonald&#8217;s app will be automatically entered into a weekly sweepstake to win exclusive collaboration merchandise, including T-shirts, other apparel, and a piece of furniture called the &#8220;Grimace Chair.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s unclear when the promotion is scheduled to end, but the packaging imagery hints that the boxes won&#8217;t be available for very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning Oct. 3, McDonald&#8217;s will launch a new Happy Meal &#8212; geared toward adults &#8212; as part of a collaboration with streetwear fashion label Cactus Plant Flea Market, according to a press release. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking one of the most nostalgic McDonald&#8217;s experiences and repackaging it in a new way that&#8217;s hyper-relevant for our adult fans,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[416,462,80,109],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","tag-food","tag-happy-meal","tag-mcdonalds","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tridence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}