THE FUSE

Looking back, I feel like kids’ meal toys were my first gacha experience. I begged my mother to drive me to the Burger King a town over when the restaurant was giving out toys for the first Pokémon movie, and opening up my chicken nugget meal to find a toy I didn’t want brought with it a deflating feeling. Some dispiriting traditions are too lucrative to let go of, though, and thus the blind boxes will continue. McDonald’s next set of toys stars the heroes and villains of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and there are some pretty good ones in the bunch, as well as a few I imagine some kid is going to throw at the back of their parent’s head in the car when they open it and it’s not their fave.