2025 Boo Buckets Added to Collection

So it took a bit of going from McDonald's to McDonald's, but I managed to get all five of the new Boo Buckets. Somehow, even with getting a duplicate 6th bucket, I ended up with only two of the three sticker sheets, but I can't choke down another Happy Meal to save my life. So here are all teh Halloween buckets I gathered this year:

And the 2025 Dunkin Munchkin Bucket is...

Absolutely gorgeous!

The Commodification of Boo Buckets

Scrolling through Tumblr one day, I found this:

And fell in love. I found them on Etsy and immediately ordered them. That search also lead me to MULTIPLE sellers offering 3-D printed miniature versions of Boo Buckets. NGL, I love the idea of folks other than Giant McCorporation making money off this IP. So I got a few of those aswelltooalso:

And then I started to see really unusual versions, like this adorable monstrosity:

And yes, that one is winging its way to me also. Already, there are non-Mickey D buckets for sale in 2025, these from Tim Horton's and Burger King:

Dunkin Donuts has one coming out later this week. What a time to be alive!

Boo Bucket Update: 2015 Minions

I somehow missed the 2015 Boo Buckets -- likely because by then they had strayed so far from the original designs that I was tired of them. It didn't take me long to go back to that well, of course. So this year, I caught up on those missing pails, Once again, McDonald's went with sticker sheets instead of lids; but this time, each bucket had two sheets of stickers! (Yay?) And again, the bucket graphic printing had that annoying tendency to not line up with the handle placement, making them difficult to view (or photograph) easily.

A Cool Boo Bucket Ebay Find

I found on eBay these 1986 McBoo buckets with the M-Style handles like the 1990 McWitch I found on eBay a few years ago. I still maintain this was a golden marketing opportunity that McDonald's skipped out on. These delight me! Interestingly, these also had this sticker on them:

So apparently, someone tried using one of these as a hat, necessitating the sticker!

Just a Lil Boo Bucket Update

I have no idea if McDonald's will offer Boo Bucket Happy Meals this year, but in July the toys were called Lil McDonalds and included #8, a little Boo Bucket reminiscent of one of the originals. I had to have it! And do:

2024 McDonald's (and Others) Halloween Buckets

McDonald's put out four more Halloween buckets and I snatched them all up for the collection. They are... fine. "Monster" faces, the "golden arches" handles used in recent years and the sticker sheet "lids" that I still hate.

But more companies have been getting in the Halloween bucket game. Dunkin Donuts have done them as munchkin holders for the past 2 years. These are good-sized and could actually be used to hold a kid's candy haul. Rival Tim Horton's did the same, although their version is smaller and... taller. Both companies opted for glow-in-the-dark plastics, which adds a fun tough.

In other news, still with Tim/Lokii. Still loving life.