McDonalds restaurant with playground, Vancouver, c1982?

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McDonalds restaurant with playground, Vancouver, c1982?

So, when I was a kid (say 1982, 1983) I used to go to a McDonalds in Vancouver.

It had a playground based on all the McDonalds characters. For example, that giant purple thing was like a cage that you kinda bounced around in. I think the Hamburglar was a spiral slide. The policeman with the hamburger for the head was something you could climb up inside and look out his head.

Anyone recognize the description? Where was it? Is it still there? It could be anywhere in the general Vancouver area. We lived in Delta at the time.

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

there is that 2 story mcd's at kensington in burnaby

Answer 3

While I can't tell you where the original playground you're speaking of was located; what I can tell you is there is little to no chance that the playground still exists, at least in the form that you remember it.

During the 70s, when the McDonalds characters were released (ie: Hamburgalar, Mayor McCheese, Grimace, etc) they were originally based on a licensing agreement with a third party. The characters were loosely based on said third party's television series. The third party was dismissed without credit and later sued successfully, resulting in a number of the characters from the "McDonald-land" era being retired as part of the outcome. However, the McDonald-land playgrounds did remain throughout the 80s, though were starting to be phased out through the mid-late 90s. Most characters were officially retired in 2007, as McDonalds completely removed the McDonald-land premise from their marketing campaigns, and turned away from marketing directly to children due to the pressure from the health industry.

What I'm essentially getting at is, from the late 80s onwards the McDonald-land theme was essentially getting phased out, and all new restaurants, plus all old ones that were renovated, got new playgrounds which had much less emphasis on the characters themselves and moreso just on having a big playground.

I do feel your pain, however, as I had a McDonalds when I was growing up in Nova Scotia with the same playground as you're describing. So many good times in Mayor McCheese' head :(

For Nostalgia:

Answer 4

thats like me and a swinging bridge...but in my town in australia...