Hot Wheels

The first diecast cars distributed at McDonald's for their Happy Meal promotion started in 1983, using the regular Hot Wheels mainline models, which continued up to 1990.

In 1991 McDonald's started designing and distributing their own car premiums for their Happy Meals for the first time in plastic baggies within the Happy Meal box (as opposed to full blisterpack cards). In the early years of the "baggie cars", these cars were usually cheaper plastic-bodied versions of mainline Hot Wheels that were sold at retail at the time of release, but this eventually changed to cars designed specifically for McDonald's Happy Meals by the start of the millenium.

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