{"id":98867,"date":"2026-01-28T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98867\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:40:06","slug":"nostalgia-mcdonalds-bringing-back-popular-1980s-happy-meal-toys-business-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/98867\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia: McDonald&#8217;s bringing back popular 1980&#8217;s Happy Meal toys | Business News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a wave of requests on social media, McDonald&#8217;s is leaning into nostalgia and bringing back a fan-favorite Happy Meal from the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The chain is reviving its &#8220;Changeables&#8221; toys &#8212; menu items that double as transformable figures, similar to Transformers.<\/p>\n<p>The toys can shift from burgers and fries into things like dinosaurs or robots.<\/p>\n<p>Changeables first debuted back in 1987, and this time there are 16 updated versions available.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s says the throwback toys are only available for a limited time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a wave of requests on social media, McDonald&#8217;s is leaning into nostalgia and bringing back a fan-favorite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,48321,26759],"class_list":["post-98867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-happy-meal","tag-mcdonald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}