McDonald’s will bring back Halloween Pails on Oct. 18
McDonald’s will be serving Happy Meals in Halloween Pails beginning Oct. 18, the fast food giant announced on Thursday, Oct. 6.The containers, also called Halloween Buckets, were launched in the 1980s but discontinued in 2016.“We heard you loud and clear … if spooky SZN doesn’t include McDonald’s Halloween Pails, then you don’t want it,” McDonald’s said in a news release.
The pails will feature three characters introduced in 1986: McBoo, McPunk’n and McGoblin. They will come in orange, white or light green with jack-o-lantern faces on the sides. The pails are made of plastic and recyclable, according to the company. In 2021, it announced an initiative to make sustainable Happy Meal toys out of renewable or recycled materials, aiming for a 90% reduction of fossil fuel-based plastic.
But a lot of the original buckets never made it to landfills. Earlier designs have become collector items. On eBay, the online auction, some 1986 buckets have bids in the $20-$30 range. McDonald’s news release included tips from TikTok on how to repurpose Halloween Pails as fashion accessories, planters or musical instruments. It said content from influencers such as
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