You Can Now Get Pokémon Cards With Happy Meals at McDonald's Canada
By Thomas Kenzaki
April 26, 2021For those of you who follow Pokémon news, you’ve probably heard that McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. gave away Pokémon cards with Happy Meals back in February. It’s now our turn and you’ll finally be able to get your hands on these at McDonald's locations across Canada.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Pokémon and what better way to celebrate than by partnering with McDonald’s to give away their popular cards in Happy Meals!
In each Happy Meal you’ll receive a never-before offered McDonald's booster pack of Pokémon TCG (Trading Card Game) cards. The full set features 25 cards, however there are also 25 special holographic versions of the cards which brings the grand total to 50 cards.
Each pack includes 4 Pokémon TCG cards so you’ll have to open a lot of packs if you want to collect the entire set. In addition to the cards, you’ll also get a very cool Pikachu Happy Meal box and one toy (Pokémon stickers, card frame, or a card case).
The US release was ridiculously popular, with reports of fans buying up all the card packs they could get their hands on. If you’re serious about collecting the full set, I highly recommend going out early to find them.
Will you be trying to catch the entire collection of 25th anniversary Pokémon TCG cards at McDonald's? Let us know in the comments below.
39 Comments
Where did you hear this anyway?
I know a guy who has collected this Pokemon stuff for many years, is there actually a market for this? He even dresses like the characters sometimes... pretty strange when you are an adult.
O'Pee'Chee was Topps Canadian card, with French and English on it. They usually don't fare well in pricing compared to other makers. I guess the system is prejudiced. Might be the same way if Canadian McDonalds have bilingual cards.
Sort of creates an artificially lopsided market when you think about it. Instead of going to kids who might keep them/rip them/wipe their noses with them, resellers were hoarding them in mint condition to sell. I'm guessing the bottom might fall out for some of the value on these if there are a large amount on the market in mint condition.
https://youtu.be/ZRXs92pw8uo
Around $20 a pack.
Well since Xbox and PS5 availability is so hit and miss, resellers need to find other things to subsidize their incomes and feed the fam.
Scalpers don’t always get the wins too, you just need to know where to look.
Not too late to start collecting it now and invest. I do think the grown men wearing costumes and such is weird but collecting/investing is not.
Unfortunately, no Pokemon cards. They are giving Spongebob toys
No info if cards are going to be in French (worthless) or in English
I just hope there is enough to go around. Just want to be able to get pokemon happy meals for the kids with a pack of cards for them to play and collect
My daughter loves Pokemon but I can't see her getting one lol. She's more into the video games but also has a binder of cards.
It's weird, she trades them with friends to collect the ones she wants, like I used to do with hockey cards as a kid. Kids these days, so dumb and immature. She should be hoarding them to resell in pristine condition to an adult, like all the other adults do. I should just disown her now before she gets any older.
I just tossed out a pile. My kids are "almost" over them.
5 mins of play then flung in corner.
We sell individual toys without happy meals for like $2.25 I think so it’s quite cheap for the profit you could make.
If I have a Gretzky rookie, it will always hold more value than a Pokemon McDonald's card, and not because it's a Gretzky. The situation that makes the Gretzky valuable is scarcity. Scarcity has different values such as the condition and if it is signed and verified in the case of some items.
Even signatures aren't foolproof, most sports celebs get their merchandise signed by a machine and they just deem it Authentic , but even now some collectors are seeing that to be bullshit. If Wayne didn't sign it, but a machine did in proxy, is it really signed by Wayne?
Anyway, those Gretzky cards are valuable because kids played with them and treated them as collectibles rather than a valuable commodity. So there are less of them in the wild, in decent condition, to be found.
These McDonald's cards, as a 'collectible', are a short term fabricated desire trumped up by speculators. It's a false-bottomed market, no real value beyond the short term. Think of it like this, if all these collectors keep 90% of the product in pristine condition, how will the value climb in the long run? 10 years from now, you'll have a minority trying to pass it as a valuable item with no legitimate takers. It happens all the time even today, just look for older collectibles on Kijiji for a good laugh.
These cards are a Beanie Baby or an NFT, not a Mona Lisa or Gretzky rookie. Somebody will pay a ton today, which only helps the vultures. Please let the kids wipe their butts on as many of these as possible, so the few in good condition might actually be worth something in 10 years. Let the 'collectors' cry, they aren't real collectors anyway, just morons or shysters.
Lel if you're pushed to suicide that easily then you shouldn't be scalping kids toys, you should be seeing a **** doctor.