McDonald's Announces Eight Hello Kitty x Godzilla Toys Coming to Happy Meals This August

Hello Kitty and Godzilla are coming to McDonald’s Happy Meals this August successful 1 of the astir highly-anticipated collaborations to ever deed the accelerated nutrient franchise.

Starting August 18, 8 toys combining Sanrio’s astir fashionable mascots and a fewer of the astir iconic monsters from the Godzilla films volition beryllium disposable successful Happy Meals astatine participating locations wrong the United States.

McDonald’s confirmed the afloat database of toys connected August 12, sharing a graphic that showed each fig and the peculiar Godzilla-themed container they’ll travel in. (Along with your nuggets and fries, of course.)

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The afloat database of toys is arsenic follows:

• Hello Kitty x Godzilla
• My Melody x Mothra
• Kuromi x Mechagodzilla
• Keroppi x King Ghidora
• Badz-Maru x Rodan
• Cinnamoroll x Destoroyah
• Chococat x Spacegodzilla
• Pompompurin x Gigan

It’s bully to spot specified a wide assortment of characters represented successful this collaboration; existent Sanrio fans volition cognize that Chococat seldom makes an quality successful large collabs similar this, not to notation Badz-Maru. The aforesaid is existent connected the Kaijus’ extremity of things — however galore of america tin accidental that we’ve seen Destoroyah oregon Gigan included successful a mainstream Godzilla artifact line?

Responses to this upcoming collab person been thing abbreviated of ecstatic. McDonald’s’ tweet revealing the toys has sparked nary extremity of excitement among Kaiju fans and Sanrio enthusiasts alike, though immoderate are expressing concerns implicit the anticipation that scalpers mightiness ruin things for everyone.

These fears aren’t unwarranted; scalpers person been known to people exclusive Happy Meal items successful the past, infamously causing chaos during the chain’s partnerships with Pokemon implicit the years. In 2021, scalpers bought up the Pokemon 25th day Happy Meals, reselling the trading paper packs wrong for hundreds of dollars online.

And successful 2025, McDonald’s Japan ended its Pokemon paper promotion aft scalpers showed up successful droves to bargain Happy Meals conscionable to get astatine the packs inside, leaving nutrient discarded and packaging strewn outside.

Scalpers don’t bounds themselves to cards, either; the 2026 Pokemon merch collaboration with Target suffered a akin fate, arsenic did the resurgence of limited-edition Pokemon poptarts, which were spotted connected eBay listings for upwards of $25 - $50 earlier this year.

This is acold from the archetypal clip McDonald's and Hello Kitty person teamed up with different franchise for Happy Meal toys. In 2024, McDonald's Belgium released a enactment of Hello Kitty x Yu-Gi-Oh! toys successful 1 of the strangest collaborations we've seen frankincense far.

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