McDonald's



McDonald's is a popular fast-food restaurant company seen often with the Sonic the Hedgehog series. When referring to promotional items, they are the opposition to Burger King's Nintendo toylines.

Toys
In 1994, McDonald's promoted the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 by giving away Sonic the Hedgehog toys in their Happy Meals. Four characters were produced: Sonic, Knuckles, Tails and Dr. Robotnik. These were released in the U.S. and in the U.K. Despite being a Sonic 3 promotion, Dr. Robotnik is designed to look like he does in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series. For children under the age of 3, they had an alternative toy which was a yellow ball with a picture of Sonic on it, with the classic "Sonic the Hedgehog Logo". Due to this toy not being advertised, aimed towards 2-year-olds and parents having to specifically ask for it while ordering their food, this Sonic Ball is extremely rare.

Also in 1994, McDonald's had a Happy Meal tenth Anniversary train, which consisted of 15 separate toys from different Happy Meal themes from the past ten years. All the toys were able to connect to one another to create a train. One of these Toys was Sonic themed. It was a pink and purple TV with a Sega Genesis on the top. When the wheels on the toy roll, the picture on the TV switches between a picture of Sonic wearing a party hat, Tails wearing a party hat, and then Dr. Robotnik running and yelling (Dr. Robotnik is once again designed to look like his Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog appearance).

Handheld LCD Games
In May 2003, for the US release of Sonic X and Sonic Adventure DX for the GameCube, McDonald's released a set of handheld games made by Sega:
 * Sonic Speedway
 * Sonic Action Game
 * Knuckles Soccer
 * Tails Sky Patrol
 * Shadow Grinder
 * Aiai Banana Catch

Another set was released in 2004 after the launch of Sonic Heroes featuring every playable character but the Chaotix. These Games had different names and designs depending on the region they were released in.
 * "Sonic the Hedgehog Extreme Boarding"
 * '' Sonic Skateboard"
 * Knuckles Treasure Hunt
 * Knuckles Baseball
 * Tails Sky Adventure
 * Tails Soccer
 * Amy and Rouge Volleyball
 *  Amy and Rouge Tennis
 * Shadow Hockey
 * Shadow Hockey (chrome silver case)
 *  Shadow Basketball
 * Cream Flower Catch
 * Big's Fishing
 * Billy's Giant Egg

Sonic X
A while after Sonic X appeared on US shores, McDonald's gave out toys (that look like the only official Japanese toys for the show with few exceptions) for the series in their children's meals (Happy Meal and Mighty Kids Meal). The Japanese Series 2 also shows Chris and Frances working at a WacDnalds, a famous anime parody of McDonald's.

Trivia

 * Sonic appeared alongside Ronald McDonald and Barbie in a Happy Meal Commercial for the Happy Train. In this Commercial Sonic spoke with an extremely high voice and did not move his mouth.
 * There have also been Sonic Kids meal toys released at other fast food restaurants such as Jack in the Box and Wendy's.