The ghost pail had a whole scene on it, the witch was purple, and the pumpkin has a strangely drunken look. There were no pails in 1993, and when they returned in 1994, there was an attempt to “modernize” them with more frenetic designs. She also came with a pointed witch’s hat lid. McWitch was green, with a spider nesting in her hair. The ghost didn’t really look like a ghost: it was the same pumpkin-like shape, but white and with a generic, “ghostly” face. McBoo returned, with a slightly adjusted face, and he came with two new friends: McGhost and McWitch. The 1989 pails were no longer all pumpkins. The pails were on hiatus in 1988, but returned with a complete remodel in 1989. The pumpkin pails were so popular they were reissued the following year. They resembled classic orange pumpkin buckets and came in three styles: McPunk’n, a traditional jack-o-lantern face McBoo, a ghostly face and McGoblin, the “scariest” of the three. The first Halloween pails were released in 1986.
It wasn’t a toy, and they were far too small for actual trick-or-treating, but they were great for storing toys or candy or other goodies, and there was something about them that just screamed Halloween.
One of the most iconic Happy Meals of the 1980s was the Halloween pails. The excitement over the Happy Meal directly correlated to the toy of the month. With me, it was a special treat: if I didn’t fuss at the doctor’s office or if my parents were going out for the evening. Virtually everyone has memories of getting McDonald’s Happy Meals when they were a kid.
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