Sunday, January 22, 2012

McDonald's STAR TREK (1979) Kid's Meal - Klingon Ad


A while back, I posted a commercial for the McDonald's "Kid's Meal" fast food promotion that the famous burger chain did in conjunction with 1979's Star Trek - The Motion Picture. Here's another commercial for that same promotion - featuring a Klingon "dad!" 

Apparently, these were the very first McDonald's "Happy Meals"...

9 comments:

  1. Thanks for that. I remember getting one of those Happy Meals at the time (and seeing the movie). The box had a picture on one end of the transporter malfunction where the crew members shrink and disappear - scary stuff. IIRC, the box in those days was the "toy" - nothing extra included.

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  2. I think these indeed are the first McDonald's Happy Meals (although predated by Burger Chef's Fun Meals, which eventually all came to have goofy monster-movie themes), but I also vaguely recall a circus-animal themed Happy Meal that came out around the same period.

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  3. I remember these all too well. Before my parents took me to see Star Trek-The Motion Picture, we stopped at a local McDonald's and they purchased me one of these cool Happy meals. This brings back a lot of wonderful memories. 1979 was definitely a great year for science fiction.

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  4. I see now from the commercial in your older post I was wrong about there being no prize. From the comments it was an iron-on (more ephemeral than a plastic toy).

    Is that Shatner doing the Klingon commercial voice-over? Or just someone who sounds like him to me?

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  5. Franklin's comment about Burger Chef's Fun Meal predating the McDonald's Happy Meal is absolutely correct. Adding to that fact, in 1978 Burger Chef offered a variety of Star Wars-themed Fun Meals, beating McDonald's to the punch on the whole big sci-fi movie tie-in promotional thing, too.

    Awesome commercial, btw!

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  6. I also had the box with the artwork depicting the transporter malfunction. As a kid, I was shocked by the comic and the fact that people died in the transporter. And the prize was a few iron-on images. I promptly had my mom put them on my Star Trek Underoos. LOL

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  7. did this come with a viewfinder? I remember getting a happy meal back in the late 70s and it came with a star trek viewfinder. I wish I still had it. It would probably be worth a fortune

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  8. I think the announcer in the commercial is Gary Owens (Laugh-In...Space Ghost...Blue Falcon...etc.)

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  9. I have one of these still, minus the toy it came with sadly!

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