Take 30 seconds and join the 30Seconds community. Stay-at-home dad of two great kids who make every day an adventure. I used to run a home Welcome to our 30seconds community! Embed Print. Donna John I used to take my kids to McDonald's all the time to play. Most McDonald's in my area still have play areas. My grandson prefers going to Chick-fil-a, but I feel ya on the feeling like you're in a cage. Chuck E.
Indoor playgrounds, more than anything, seem to be in a state of flux. Playgrounds are woefully behind the times when it comes to integrating the more responsive, digital play experiences that kids now expect. And as it turns out, the golden arches might be one step ahead. I think the future is towards things that are more visually rich and compelling, and that do compete with a digital environment. There are myriad opportunities to make indoor playgrounds, simply put, really cool. The playground world has not been innovative in that way.
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A McDonald's PlayPlace with the eyebrow exterior design. History The first PlayPlace with the familiar crawl-tube design with ball pits and slides was introduced in in the USA, with many more being constructed soon after.
Ronald's Playplace sign out in front of an entrance. They can sometimes be seen outside a restaurant or inside McDonald's Playplaces. Hamburglar and a Fry Girl, showing how tall you must be to enter the indoor playground. Shoe bin featuring the rules of "Ronald's Way to Play".
Another shoe bin titled the "Sneaker Keeper", this time showing rules where to put shoes when children are wanting to play. The only reason I still go is to let my 3 year old daughter have some fun. ECking Posted 12 years 9 months ago. Man I just keep remembering things from this article! Those cookies were my favorite when I was little. I can remember pulling up to the drive through window and seeing all of the cookies stacked up by the register.
I loved the small chocolate chip cookie ones. Also, I have no idea why, but our city had a "block party" one time, and Mac Tonight was there playing an actual piano.
Hahah, I don't remember much else about that block party other than Mac tonight. Great article, the best I have read in a long while.
Man, this was a great article. I remember a lot of those items. When I was little, my brother and I both had "fry guy" stocking hats. I distinctly remember playing in the Chief Big Mac jail as well, and those McNugget Happymeal toys were favorites of mine.
So many fond memories. Another fantastic article, in fact I would venture to say that it is easily one of the finest articles that I have ever read on Retrojunk. I was never that big on the food at McDonalds, in fact even as a kid I only liked the McNuggets but just like anyone else I loved the characters, commercials and epically the toys. This was a fantastic trip down memory lane and I thank you very much for it. Ian Posted 12 years 9 months ago. Brava, NLogan, brava! I remember going to the Playplace on numerous occasions especially the good ol' ball pit.
And I've been to one birthday party there, if memory serves me well. Spencer Posted 12 years 9 months ago. Lorna Doone cookies remind me alot of Mcdonalds cookies.
You can buy them at your local market. Boo- I hate McDonald's- at least I do now- loved it as a kid! Creepy looking characters- never went to a playland, and looking at the pics I'm happy I didn't! Thanks for the memories! Great article!
This is a very well done article! Kudos to you! I certainly do have some nostalogia for the old playland equipment. I wish it were the same today.
Now it's just tubes. I also miss seeing the McDonald Land gang. My mom used to buy those cookies for me as a young kid. I remember the McDonald's playland as a kid. I even knew a kid who had a birthday party at one nearly 20 years ago. McDonald's will never be the same again. LuckyHawk Posted 12 years 9 months ago. I had my birthday at McDonalds when i was a kid. It seems having a birthday party at a fast food place has gone the way of the buffalo. They actually still have one of those old apple pie trees at my local swim center.
As a kid i always thought it belonged in a McDonalds playplace AngryGumball Posted 12 years 9 months ago. Wow, was that a trip to the past! I still remember my 5-year old birthday party at the local MCD's. Everyone at the age of 5 in my house had their birthdays held at MCDs Our McD's had an outdoor playground featuring much of what was shown above.
There was an indoor party room with a separate entrance to the plaground. Mainly I remember the burger jail thing because I got stuck above, and felt like I was going to fall out, and getting my friends to all go into the wobbly grimace cage and get that thing going.
We also had the fry kid rockers and I think there may have been a slide. Several years later, it changed. The youngest of our household didn't get the nice outdoor playground though. The slides would give endless shocks as you got stuck in the middle, and I actually recall my brother getting headlice after playing in the structure one evening. Now, as of last year, the McD's has been torn down, and being rebuilt from the ground up.
I wonder what kind of play place they'll get now? The static thing is the reason I hated going down the slide as a kid. Nintendo I have the vehicle design theme from Lego Racers stuck in my head permanently because of that place. And uh, Tigger Movie for N64 was a thing. Just remember the album and like, one platforming part, though. What an article! I'm totally speechless! I wish I was around to experience the McDonald's playground like you did! Definately deserves a big thumbs up!
McDonald's used to be a pretty cool place for a birthday party. I grew up in a really small town. So small that we had no recognizable franchise places of any kind. But McDonald's was was the very first place like that to be built in our town. I remember at the time in the mid's it was like we had had a theme park built in our town. And all the time too. It was THE place to be and suck a neat "outside world" luxury.
Our's actually didn't have a playland, but I definitely remember being at a ton of them at other McDonald's. Those pictures in this article made me laugh. I haven't seen some of those slides, shakers, and jungle gyms in forever. At lot of that whole "McDonaldland" stuff has gone away now. It used to be more geared toward kids like that and I used to love all the characters. I'm kind of a health nut now, and haven't really been in a McDonald's in about 8 or 9 years, but I think they've changed their ways a little in regard to the nutrition of their food.
At least I know they have since I was a kid.
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