Yeah that burger did look a bit too big to be in a kid's meal. But now I'm starting to think they slowly just made everything smaller now and are ripping us off.
Back then, Burger King had a "Big Kids Meal" with more food. McDonald's did the exact same thing with their "Mighty Kids Meal". ...Says this 90's kid. 😁
Those were good times. I was there in 1999 at Burger King. I was in Nassau County Long Island, and they never had any issues with the Pokémon stuff. But back in the 90s, Burger King employees were actually nice, and made a fair wage.
I’m 25 and I still live in Nassau County, New York but I’d rather live in either Pennsylvania or Florida than in Long Island because the taxes and real estate prices are too expensive in Long Island and New York State.
@ConstructBreakdown today’s purchasing power is not really a problem as long as the rent doesn’t cost more than half of your paycheck. Ultimately, everyone’s lives are harder because of real estate speculators.
It was a glorious time. Without a doubt, probably the most crazed mania driven franchise phenomena that will ever exist. Nobody could stop talking about it, nobody could stop hearing about it, it was in tv, movies, radio, retail, magazines, posters, video games, food, cards, book stores, the internet, etc. literally everywhere. Nothing in the last century had taken the world by storm quite like Pokémon did.
@@jakecarnez233 Fortnite isn’t on the same level as Pokémon was in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. I’ll admit Fortnite is definitely huge though, so was Minecraft.
I still have some of the old DBZ burger king figures. The ones that came with the light up bases and cards. They're genuinely pretty nice figures for fast food toys. They're probably on the same quality as the real figures being sold at the time but the draw back is they don't have any articulation and they're completely gray for some reason.
This story certainly aged well. Scalpers still rob from fast food when it comes to Pokemon. But man oh man, Pokemon did feel so new, different and weird back then, and I do miss that.
@@MrVariant McDonald's has long been established the de facto provider of kid's meals. Most other fast food dropped them or simply don't advertise enough to be relevant. BK is also seemingly dying
Pokemon as a series and concept or the Pokemon themselves felt new and different? That's the potential blessing and curse of globalization. You become introduced to very foreign art and culture, but eventually, it too, becomes commonplace.
0:43 these companies in the modern-day don't have the dignity to say "no" to money anymore. Just look at what happened with the McDonald's throwback meal. They allowed people to buy that Szechuan sauce in as much a quantity as they wanted! Even if they bought out all of the stock the restraunt had. Then those same people turned around and sold them for 100 bucks a pop on marketplace.
@Tonicshades they didn't even try to hide it either. I went into my local McDonald's the day after the promotion started. They offered me the throwback meal without any sauce and I looked at the manager and said "Oh, so you have the fancy box and you sold all the sauce out the back door?" The look on her face told me everything I needed to know.
I experienced it. Would've been around 8 years old at the time of this news story. My whole life was Pokemon not even exaggerating. Just watched the anime, played Pokemon yellow, played with the toys, and collected and traded the cards all day. Life was good. But now as an adult looking back I see this must have driven parents bonkers. Sorry mom and dad lol
I was just born a little too late in the world. 2000. I've been obsessed with the 2000s and the latter half of the 20th century almost my whole life, and consuming all sorts of old media along the way, but you just can't fully feel the impact of the monumental moments and trends through consuming old media.
I remember begging my mom to take me to our Burger King with the wood panel interior every single day. Entered adulthood obese and big as hell but have since shed the weight and kept it off. I miss the 90s
i like watching old videos it seems people were just more calm and happy and stuff like this show actually had plot instead of social references. i was born in 1995 so aint now way i had a chance to see this.
@@RachelRichards That was the Burger King toys. Some of them were tops, some were water squirters, some had wheels so you could race them or use them to "attack". Some were keychains. Then there were the plush toys like Pikachu and Meowth.
I remember getting Chansey and Poliwrath easily because they were each assigned a different flavor. Strawberry Pop Tarts were supposed to have Charmander but mine didn't. My dad complained to the store and an employee opened the boxes until they found a Charmander 😂 The things some of our parents did for us over this Japanese franchise they never understood..
i didnt know it was a craze, and to be fair the craze probably never hit my small town, they are always way behind the times, they are just catching up to 1995 this year.. but i remember getting one of these toys as a kid, honestly probably one of my earliest memories, i would've just turned 4. i remember i had that blue shell type thing, still not sure what it was or what it did.
Yeah they came out with the BK Big Kids Meal and these pokemon toys around the same time. This was when the first movie came out. The toys used to come in plastic pokeballs and they had to recall them because an infant choked on one.
I could have sworn it also came with a gold colored metal bar in shape of a card. The only one i got was a Poliwrath and I have this nostalgic endorphin hit whenever I see that pokemon.
I was born in 97 and lived near the same BK my entire childhood. I actually have very vivid memories and flashbacks of these kids meal toys from 99. I also remember they had toys from the show Reeces
The bigger may indeed be bigger than what we have today, but every burger is gonna' look big in the hands of a 7 year old. I imagine that same burger would look like a White Castle slider in Shaq's hand.
Billions have to die to get back to this stage though. You also need Christianity in a very high level. You also need a wealthy + creative Asian country to produce it.
@@mattparke4370It will never come back, it happened once, that's it, just like Rome, sure something similar could arise in society, but only by popular demand.
man i remember 1999 like it was yesterday, i was 9 years old, everyone was playing pokemon on the bus with their gameboy colors and trading the cards, it was a great year for videogames and movies with releases such as tony Hawks pro skater, thrasher skate and destroy, legacy of kain soul reaver, Tomb Raider the Last Revelation, Silent Hill, System Shock 2, Syphon Filter, Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, Crash Team Racing and Ape Escape to name a few, we even had movies Like The Mummy, Deep Blue Sea, 007 The World is Not Enough, the Blair Witch Project, Idle Hands, the Bone Collector, Mystery Men, Lake Placid, Office Space and Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. it was a great year to be a kid.
I have great memories of the Burger King Pokemon era. My brother and my best friend and I would always try to convince our parents to go to Burger King often during this to try and collect them all. I think we did get all of them between us. I still have them. They were actually good quality toys, and the food was decent quality too at only about $3 for the meal!
Nah, only adults looking to sell BBs wanted the toys. Pokemon had kids and adult scalpers wanting them. I can still find lots of unopened BB at the thrift store.
Love it. Even recall when you would shake up the bags to season the fries. I tried doing that during summer school because the lunchbags there looked similar & nothing happened lol
I remember winning the local BK Pokémon contest, when I was like 8. I was given movie tickets, VHS, all the toys and gold statues. I remember giving away a lot to people in my neighborhood and such. Wish I had kept them all lol. I even got a letter from Tomy or whoever made the toys
i remember one time as a kid, there was a fast food joint that did the same thing, might’ve been mcdonald’s i don’t remember, they were giving out toys that looked like gameboys, and my dumbass thought it was the actual gameboy and game. had to beg me grandma to take me there and get me one, only to find out it was just a plastic cheap toy. mom and grandma saw my sadness, so not two weeks later they show up with a real gameboy and pokemon yellow
This was peak childhood....had a Nidoking from BK i took everywhere.....had a whole set ok pokeballs i'd clip on b4 school and we would trade em like cards daily....what great memories honestly
Damn that kid's size burger is probably bigger than the regular sized ones are now.
omg thats what ive been saying D:
Yeah that burger did look a bit too big to be in a kid's meal. But now I'm starting to think they slowly just made everything smaller now and are ripping us off.
Back then, Burger King had a "Big Kids Meal" with more food. McDonald's did the exact same thing with their "Mighty Kids Meal".
...Says this 90's kid.
😁
@@joanhill4666 I remember this now.
You should out the time stamp on your comment.
I feel sorry for anyone who wasnt around this time.Pokemon was just on another whole level
It was sooooo good. Just the best times and vibes EVER!!!!
And when anime becoming a bit more mainstream
Had the world in a stranglehold
2020 was like 1% of the craze
Well, I was born a month after 💀
0:55 that pikachu toy is sitting on my desk right now, lol
😭😂💀💀😂😭
I have two of them.
I'm jealous lol.
I got that derpy meowth loool
Before Pikachu lost the pounds
Can't believe this was almost 30 years ago. Time flies.
Dude chill it just turned 25. You will pass soon
@Aqua.man045 pass soon? What's that mean.
@@TheeRighteousOnee lol
@@TheeRighteousOnee "dude relax you will die in your lates 20s" lmao
@@LBrivet what? I'm in my 30s lol
It's been 25 years, and I still remember how big of a deal Pokemon was.
The video game and the show were truly genius maketing.
Was?
It still is a MEGA franchise
Its still very popular but in the form of Pokemon GO and both physical and the mobile trading card games!
Fuck marketing basically polluting the enivornment
@@PokePetie yeah, largest media franchise in the world.
Those were good times. I was there in 1999 at Burger King. I was in Nassau County Long Island, and they never had any issues with the Pokémon stuff. But back in the 90s, Burger King employees were actually nice, and made a fair wage.
I mean, the 90s weren't heavily inflated back then as supposed to right now
@TechJacket-rz6il Trump ruined everything.
I’m 25 and I still live in Nassau County, New York but I’d rather live in either Pennsylvania or Florida than in Long Island because the taxes and real estate prices are too expensive in Long Island and New York State.
What part of LI?
@ConstructBreakdown today’s purchasing power is not really a problem as long as the rent doesn’t cost more than half of your paycheck. Ultimately, everyone’s lives are harder because of real estate speculators.
It’s weird seeing old news reports in high quality
When morals was much higher
@@mattparke4370It wasn't, just hidden better.
@@mattparke4370 No correlation whatsoever. Stop rage baiting.
1:11 the way she said "Pokemon" there you can tell she's annoyed and has had enough of this damn craze lol.
It was never a craze.Its still pppular today.
@mariogamefreak1 I was 10 back then and it was everywhere from early 98-mid 00.
She probably has kids herself who where bugging her to death about it too
And she said it right too. Give props to her. Most would pronounce as PokeyMan lol
@@Dflowen LOL I was thinking the exact same thing
0:14 I remember seeing that artwork on the cups back in the early 2000s.
The good old days when things sold out because people actually wanted them. Now everything sells out just to end up on eBay for 3x the price.
Um… they literally described people scalping / hoarding for future purposes with attached monetary benefits
Thank you for digging this out of the archives and sharing! Very cool
and now adult collectors can get happy meal toys without the food
It's always been like that
This is true, I bought the hello kitty x yugioh toys without the meals
You just ask them to and they just tell you the price?
@KinghtofZero00 Yeah, there's a button on the A La Carte page on the register that let's you sell the toys individually.
Limit of 10 is crazy
no it isn’t. it’s great and fucks over stupid scalpers like UUUU
@@Max-zv8hmagreed 💯 scalpers like him ruined it causing pokemon vintage toys and cards to skyrocket.
Yo wtf it's @cakehoarder
That pokemon craze in the late 90s to early 2000s was on another level.
It was a glorious time. Without a doubt, probably the most crazed mania driven franchise phenomena that will ever exist. Nobody could stop talking about it, nobody could stop hearing about it, it was in tv, movies, radio, retail, magazines, posters, video games, food, cards, book stores, the internet, etc. literally everywhere. Nothing in the last century had taken the world by storm quite like Pokémon did.
Agreed!!
@@jakecarnez233 Fortnite isn’t on the same level as Pokémon was in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. I’ll admit Fortnite is definitely huge though, so was Minecraft.
Led to a recall due to one of the small Pokéballs suffocating toddlers.
it was more the parents' fault
So much being "for kids only"
@BillyOnTH-cam for kids not babies and toddlers
@@vectoralphaSec You know what, you're right
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 Hey /)
I remember getting a Dragonball Z toy from burger king around the same time too. BK was cool back in the day.
You used to get 2 toys at once! I remember DBZ and Powerpuff Girls being given as a set.
I still have some of the old DBZ burger king figures. The ones that came with the light up bases and cards. They're genuinely pretty nice figures for fast food toys. They're probably on the same quality as the real figures being sold at the time but the draw back is they don't have any articulation and they're completely gray for some reason.
This story certainly aged well. Scalpers still rob from fast food when it comes to Pokemon. But man oh man, Pokemon did feel so new, different and weird back then, and I do miss that.
Wonder why they usually do stuff with McDonald's nowadays. But yeah the more things change, the more they stay the same.
@@MrVariant McDonald's has long been established the de facto provider of kid's meals. Most other fast food dropped them or simply don't advertise enough to be relevant. BK is also seemingly dying
@@knuclear200x yeah I feel it's all they have
Pokemon as a series and concept or the Pokemon themselves felt new and different? That's the potential blessing and curse of globalization. You become introduced to very foreign art and culture, but eventually, it too, becomes commonplace.
@@Professor_Utonium_ the answer is yes
I remember living through this, was quite a time to be alive.
🎶We all live...in the Pokemon world...🎶
🎶Pokemon! I wanna be the greatest master of them all! The greatest master!🎶
@joanhill4666 Yeah...yeah...🤦♂️
I remember this time. Some Burger Kings actually did let you purchase the toys separately, thats why there was always a shortage.
You're so old the news is running re-runs.
0:43 these companies in the modern-day don't have the dignity to say "no" to money anymore. Just look at what happened with the McDonald's throwback meal. They allowed people to buy that Szechuan sauce in as much a quantity as they wanted! Even if they bought out all of the stock the restraunt had. Then those same people turned around and sold them for 100 bucks a pop on marketplace.
Now they sit on eBay, festering in mold.
@Tonicshades they didn't even try to hide it either. I went into my local McDonald's the day after the promotion started. They offered me the throwback meal without any sauce and I looked at the manager and said
"Oh, so you have the fancy box and you sold all the sauce out the back door?"
The look on her face told me everything I needed to know.
@@thejayman1886 Exactly, it's weird.
I remember the Pokemon craze at Burger King in 1999 as well.
That kids burger is more real and bigger than my 14 dollar whopper meal!
There's something really comforting ans special about these archive videos... good old times...😊
Man, I wish I was around to experience Pokemania back then.
Not exactly the same but when Pokemon Go released the manic energy was similar.
Same, i was born a tad late. January 2000
I experienced it. Would've been around 8 years old at the time of this news story. My whole life was Pokemon not even exaggerating. Just watched the anime, played Pokemon yellow, played with the toys, and collected and traded the cards all day. Life was good. But now as an adult looking back I see this must have driven parents bonkers. Sorry mom and dad lol
Heh, I still have all the og cards in plastic I treated them like gold when I was a kid. Still have my Charizard all snug and clean.
@@seer6961not even close.
kids today will never know how cool burger king was back then.
2024 Burger King is awful. Dirty stores, rude employees, and mediocre food. Even back in like 2004 I remember they were run much better.
Yes, I miss the Burger King Kids
A better time period.
I was just born a little too late in the world. 2000. I've been obsessed with the 2000s and the latter half of the 20th century almost my whole life, and consuming all sorts of old media along the way, but you just can't fully feel the impact of the monumental moments and trends through consuming old media.
Nobody knew Covid was coming in this era. Life changed and it is not the same.
"not in the business of Pokemon" Lady EVERYONE was in the business of Pokemon at that time whether they admitted it or not... such a magical time
Kids of the 90s were the best
Nobody knew Covid was coming in this era. Life changed and it is not the same.
Back when kids used to have fun & fond memories at BK or McD's.😊
Now they're just tasteless, overpriced and soulless corpo places. 😢
Right, currently Burger King's putting Fritos chips in a regular burger & calling out Mexican.
Pokémon rules the world when it came out. It’s still popular today, but it is nowhere close to how it was back then. It was everywhere
Anyone remember the pokeballs filled with the gold metal card from BK?
I was getting dressed until I saw 1999😂😂
I remember begging my mom to take me to our Burger King with the wood panel interior every single day. Entered adulthood obese and big as hell but have since shed the weight and kept it off. I miss the 90s
Back in the day that’s when they found out that The Pokeballs in the kids meals Were a choking hazard And They Recalled them
i like watching old videos it seems people were just more calm and happy and stuff like this show actually had plot instead of social references. i was born in 1995 so aint now way i had a chance to see this.
Anyone remember the figures that you could get from certain pop-tart boxes? There was a Charmander, a Poliwrath, and a Chansey.
I do! I got them all. If I recall, they had a soft spinny thing on the bottom of each toy.
@@RachelRichards That was the Burger King toys. Some of them were tops, some were water squirters, some had wheels so you could race them or use them to "attack". Some were keychains. Then there were the plush toys like Pikachu and Meowth.
I remember getting Chansey and Poliwrath easily because they were each assigned a different flavor. Strawberry Pop Tarts were supposed to have Charmander but mine didn't. My dad complained to the store and an employee opened the boxes until they found a Charmander 😂 The things some of our parents did for us over this Japanese franchise they never understood..
When the burgers were larger and cheaper than todays fake food😢😢😢
Can't believe it's been 25 years!
“pokey mon” lol
Pokie mans
Better than "Poke Man"
I think it's actually supposed to be pawkey mon
But Pokemon sounds cuter
I assure you, this is literally how every person both young and old pronounced it in America at the time.
I still have a bunch of old burger king pokemon cards
The cheap cardboard ones that were just snapshots of scenes from the movie.
speaking of pokemon, so sad to see thrashed pokemon cards, why couldnt they just put the cards in a hard plastic sleave and save some unopen packs
Wow People were normal in 1999 😮
See the size of that burger? that's normal, we've all been slow boiled.
Back during the crown nugget era
I feel bad for the kids nowadays missing out.
I worked at the Seneca Falls location during this time. It was CRAZY.
I'm from Rochester NY 😊
Really digging that retro style interior.
i didnt know it was a craze, and to be fair the craze probably never hit my small town, they are always way behind the times, they are just catching up to 1995 this year.. but i remember getting one of these toys as a kid, honestly probably one of my earliest memories, i would've just turned 4. i remember i had that blue shell type thing, still not sure what it was or what it did.
Right, that blue shell thing is a mystery to me too, I even commented it long before scrolling down this far.
I wish I still had the gold plated Pokémon cards I got from Burger King from back when I was in 6th grade, I bet those are now collectors items
Yesterday's Kids, Tomorrow's Professional Traders.
Love retro Pokemon posters and ads
Lol I was 6 at this time. Pokemon was definitely huge. Good times. Country was definitely more United at this time.
The 90s toys were actual toys. None of that cardboard shit Burger King and McDonald’s put in their happy meals nowadays.
I feel the same way when McDonald's by giving up the Pokemon cards they are sold out everywhere hopefully they come back
Was all about the toys. Got a box of them in the attic somewhere but was quite the collector back then.
Careful, silverfish consume paper.
Still got my gold plated poliwrath somehwere, what a time to be alive.
Yeah they came out with the BK Big Kids Meal and these pokemon toys around the same time. This was when the first movie came out. The toys used to come in plastic pokeballs and they had to recall them because an infant choked on one.
I could have sworn it also came with a gold colored metal bar in shape of a card. The only one i got was a Poliwrath and I have this nostalgic endorphin hit whenever I see that pokemon.
@@mironricardo Yes! There were gold plated trading cards you could get for a premium.
0:57
@mironricardo
Burger King would be smart to bring this promotion back…
The before times, before a attack on Titan, before COVID-19, before the 2008 Panic, before Al-Qaeda
Still happening today but with McDonalds, scalpers buying up everything
I remember this so well. They ended the program, and then brought it back briefly again. I kept getting the same stuffed Gyarados.
0:08 That Meowth is how I feel right now
Calm before the storm of the szechaun sauce riots.
That Meowth is cursed
I was born in 97 and lived near the same BK my entire childhood. I actually have very vivid memories and flashbacks of these kids meal toys from 99. I also remember they had toys from the show Reeces
Good times😊
I remember these, such fun times. BK also tastes way better back then too
It always tasted like flame broiled dookie to me
1:03 Was that really the size of a Big Kid’s meal burger!? That’s the size of a modern whopper!
The bigger may indeed be bigger than what we have today, but every burger is gonna' look big in the hands of a 7 year old. I imagine that same burger would look like a White Castle slider in Shaq's hand.
the world of fast food was magical before Supersize Me
One of the biggest toy promotions (if not THE biggest) a fast food restaurant has ever seen.
This era WILL return. It happened once, and it will happen again.
Billions have to die to get back to this stage though. You also need Christianity in a very high level. You also need a wealthy + creative Asian country to produce it.
@@mattparke4370It will never come back, it happened once, that's it, just like Rome, sure something similar could arise in society, but only by popular demand.
I remember those cups man it’s crazy how it backs a bunch of feelings from my time as a kid
Those gold plated pokemon cards in the poke balls from Burger King is and will always be the greatest promo in fast food
And its still going strong to this day
man i remember 1999 like it was yesterday, i was 9 years old, everyone was playing pokemon on the bus with their gameboy colors and trading the cards, it was a great year for videogames and movies with releases such as tony Hawks pro skater, thrasher skate and destroy, legacy of kain soul reaver, Tomb Raider the Last Revelation, Silent Hill, System Shock 2, Syphon Filter, Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, Crash Team Racing and Ape Escape to name a few, we even had movies Like The Mummy, Deep Blue Sea, 007 The World is Not Enough, the Blair Witch Project, Idle Hands, the Bone Collector, Mystery Men, Lake Placid, Office Space and Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace. it was a great year to be a kid.
Cant beat the 1998-2008 era. The years close to it are fairly close(1996-1997 and 2009-2010).
I have great memories of the Burger King Pokemon era. My brother and my best friend and I would always try to convince our parents to go to Burger King often during this to try and collect them all. I think we did get all of them between us. I still have them. They were actually good quality toys, and the food was decent quality too at only about $3 for the meal!
this is back when they still had white employees and made somewhat decent food lol
I still have a whole tote full of those toys that came in the plastic pokeball, along with all of the gold-plated cards. Good times!
My left ear enjoyed this.
I remember getting those gold cards inside the pokeballs and then throwing them all out like 8 years later because it felt childish to hang onto then
Thats nothing compared to when mcdonald's was slangin beanie babies with the kid meals
Nah, only adults looking to sell BBs wanted the toys. Pokemon had kids and adult scalpers wanting them. I can still find lots of unopened BB at the thrift store.
Pokemon was 100X more potent than the beanie babies
I assure you, nothing can top the pokemon craze back then.
I remember during this era my mom was yelling that pokemon was just a fad and everyone would be over it one day... that aged poorly
Memory unlocked 😮
Anyone who wasn't 7-10 in 1999 simply can not understand what Pokémon was like in this period. In consumed everything like nothing before or since.
Love it. Even recall when you would shake up the bags to season the fries. I tried doing that during summer school because the lunchbags there looked similar & nothing happened lol
I remember winning the local BK Pokémon contest, when I was like 8. I was given movie tickets, VHS, all the toys and gold statues. I remember giving away a lot to people in my neighborhood and such. Wish I had kept them all lol. I even got a letter from Tomy or whoever made the toys
i remember one time as a kid, there was a fast food joint that did the same thing, might’ve been mcdonald’s i don’t remember, they were giving out toys that looked like gameboys, and my dumbass thought it was the actual gameboy and game. had to beg me grandma to take me there and get me one, only to find out it was just a plastic cheap toy. mom and grandma saw my sadness, so not two weeks later they show up with a real gameboy and pokemon yellow
I was 13 I think that’s the best age when this took the world over… Man I feel old
57 toys? Jeez.
I had the Pikachu the employees were losing their shit when I pulled it out of the pokeball 😂
I was there. I remember bugging my mom to take me to Burger King for these toys, even though the food wasn't great. Ah I miss that time.
The stereo background noise with the mono microphone lmao
This was peak childhood....had a Nidoking from BK i took everywhere.....had a whole set ok pokeballs i'd clip on b4 school and we would trade em like cards daily....what great memories honestly
Am i too late to get this
Gotta catch 'em all! Pokémon!
What a time to be alive, back before the War on Terror ruined everything.
25 years....man 😅 I remember my first overgrowth starter deck my first tiger electronic pokedex ..the Charizard plate I got I miss those days