In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Bag Samples, McDonald’s contains Pokémon card packs in Happy Meals. That seemed like a great idea! Others thought so too.
Included are four random cards from a 50 card set, Inven reports. The rarest or most valuable cards are, as always, the shiny versions.
Some collectors and YouTubers inevitably erase the cards. Scalpers, not surprisingly, appear nearby.
On the first day the cards are released, the fast food chain seems laissez-faire about the launch. Some McDonald’s apparently present the packets separately, while other places include them at the Happy Meal. Depending on the specific McDonalds, there may be different rules about how much you can buy.
For example, like YouTuber Blazing Pokémon pointed out that the place may have limited stock, and so he bought 20 Happy Meals. In contrast, YouTuber aDrive did not want the food, and just asked for the boxes and the cards. He was limited to 20 at one place, but could order 80 at another place.
Vannie Eats ordered six Happy Meals along with the cards and then filmed a mukbang while devouring the food.
Well to not let that food go to waste. Some, such as the above Blazing Pokémon of Twitter’s JT Valor, who buy in bulk, say they donate the food to those in need. I do hope that others who buy a lot of Happy Meals do the same.
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Not everyone who buys bulk necessarily wants to flip these cards, but the cards end up on eBay. Packs look about $ 5 to $ 10 per doll on the resale market with the more desirable cards, such as the shiny Pikachu, fetching as much as $ 60.
Regular people hoping to get a happy Pokémon meal with the commemorative cards discover that they are already sold out. Suck, sure, but unless there is stricter rules about people buying a lot of Happy Meals, this is likely to happen.