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McDonald's Pokémon 30th anniversary Happy Meal leaks: 15 toys, two cards per toy and November dates
McDonald's next Pokémon Happy Meal has leaked, Dexerto reports. Images posted by several users on X show 15 toys designed as miniature Happy Meal boxes, each one dressed up as a different Pokémon, along with special packaging and a promotional sheet with details about the cards. According to that sheet, every toy comes with two Pokémon trading cards, and the promotion runs from 10 November to 14 December 2026. Nobody has seen the full card list yet. Earlier reports talked about a 15-card set. Neither McDonald's nor The Pokémon Company has confirmed any of it.
Weedle made the cut
Here's the lineup: Pikachu, Eevee, Umbreon, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Weedle, Torchic, Sobble, Espurr, Munchlax, Minccino, Sprigatito, Piplup and Rowlet. The apple slices get their own Pokémon packaging too, with Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Charmander and Eevee on it.
Kanto starters for a 30th birthday. Fair enough, nobody's surprised. Umbreon will be the one kids fight over at the counter. But Weedle? Whoever pushed for Weedle deserves a raise. A little Weedle box on the shelf, next to a binder of cards worth a hundred times more, is our idea of good decor.
Two cards with every toy
For anyone trying to finish the set, this is the bit that counts. If the card list really is 15, getting two per Happy Meal gets you there quicker. You'll also drown in duplicates. A family that buys five or six meals over the month is going to have spares, and spares from fast-food promos have a habit of turning up on Cardmarket very quickly.
From what we've seen selling cards ourselves, the first listings tend to be priced on hype and come down once more people have stock. So we wouldn't pay first-week prices for a single Happy Meal card unless you genuinely can't wait. The exception would be a card that turns out to be a variant, or harder to get than the rest. We won't know that until the list is out.
Where Squirtle, Sprigatito and Munchlax sit today
A Happy Meal card won't trouble the chase cards from a main set. Still, it helps to know what these Pokémon already go for. These are Cardmarket prices we track at PriceSpot:
- Squirtle (Miscellaneous Cards & Products, 007/165) is at 88.89 €, barely moved from 88.23 € a week ago.
- Sprigatito (SV02: Paldea Evolved, 196/193) has slipped to 19.10 € from 21.82 € seven days ago.
- Munchlax (Diamond and Pearl, 33/130) sits at 3.74 €, up from 3.20 €.
Squirtle has hardly budged. Sprigatito lost almost three euros in a week, which isn't much money but is the biggest swing of the three. And Munchlax, which a few of us have a soft spot for, still costs less than a coffee in that old Diamond and Pearl printing. If the promo gets people looking at any of these, cheap older cards are where we'd watch first. Our weekly report on cards rising and falling will show it through November.
Sleeves in the glovebox
We'll buy a few Happy Meals, mostly for the toys if we're honest. Umbreon and Weedle are going on the desk. For the cards, we'd rather swap duplicates with friends than buy singles at launch.
Keep the cards away from the apple slices and the sauce. Sounds obvious until you open a Happy Meal in the back seat of a car. A few penny sleeves in your pocket and you're sorted. And be wary of anyone online selling the "full set" before 10 November, when nobody even knows what's in it. Popular promos always attract fakes and dodgy listings. Our guide on how to tell if a Pokémon card is fake covers the basics.
Leaked, not confirmed
The dates, the toys and the two-card detail all come from leaked promo material, and there's still no card list. We'll update this when McDonald's or The Pokémon Company says something official. Got old McDonald's promos sitting in a drawer? You can look up how much your Pokémon cards are worth while you wait.
So what are yours worth?
Stories like this always send us back to the binder. If you want to know what you've got, PriceSpot lets you scan your cards for free, one after another, and see what they sell for on Cardmarket in each card's language. Every Monday we also publish the cards rising and falling most, if you like keeping an eye on the market.
News source: Dexerto
