Every Pokémon Card In McDonald’s “Dragon Discovery” Happy Meal
McDonald's is once again teaming up with the for a new Happy Meal promotion. Large fast food chains like McDonald's often team up with movie studios and toy makers for cross-promotional campaigns. Many of these campaigns involve putting toys inside children's meals like Happy Meals, which serve to introduce the toy (or movie/TV show) to kids while also incentivizing parents to buy the meal for their kids. Because of this, Happy Meals are sometimes the first way that a kid gets introduced to iconic brands.
Later this month, McDonald's will run a newpromotion at participating stores in the US. Although McDonald's skipped this promotion in 2024, Pokémon trading cards have been a nearly annual tradition in Happy Meals. In recent years, McDonald's and The Pokémon Company have found little ways to give kids more than just Pokémon cards in their Happy Meal, with mini-games and other prizes occasionally featured alongside the card.
According to the G news site PokéBeach, the promotion features a «Dragon Discovery» theme and several new items like stickers and posters. Not every Pokémon in the new promotion is a Dragon-type, as popular Pokémon like Pikachu and Charizard also appear in the promotion. Every Happy Meal will contain a promo card pack with four cards, one of which is holofoil. In total, the promotion includes 15 cards, with seven holofoils in the set. The Dragon Discovery promotion will run from January 21st to February 24th.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game will be reprinting Prismatic Evolutions over the next few months in response to shortages of the new card set.
One interesting wrinkle with the promotion at McDonald's is that the set uses a special «confetti pattern» holofoil. This type of holofoil pattern is exclusive to McDonald's promotions, which provides a bit of incentive to collect all the cards. Additionally, this year's Happy Meals also includes new stickers and double-sided posters. Some of the posters come «incomplete,» with stickers that kids use
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