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Was it only last year that they started trying that thing with the “new” hamburglar? Seems it died pretty quickly, considering the attention it got.
Also Obligitory:
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Did anyone else notice that one of the Ronald changeovers happened around the same time as the death of Nixon? Coincidence? I think not.
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And yes, it’s based off a real place
I say bring back Moonman Mac Tonight
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The puffy nonthreatening Hamburglar was himself an update to the creepy 1970s Hamburglar:
Also the original Grimace had four arms:
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Choose Homer!
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It was because Willard Scott gained weight, and McDonald’s thought a fat Ronald would be the wrong type of advertising.
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Four-armed is forewarned.
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Krusty was originally supposed to be Homer’s alter ego, but the writers abandoned that idea because it was too difficult to pull off.
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That kind of reminds me of when McDonald’s plagiarized Cyriak.
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I think Willard’s weight gain was later. He only played Ronald for two or three years in the sixties.
ETA: Hmmmm… Fast Food Nation backs you up. I stand corrected. Could have sworn he was more svelte back then. Perhaps only comparatively.
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WHOA! That was strange.
The Hamburglar looks like a grown-up Tommy from the Rugrats.
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I remember the pre-McDonaldland marketing; it featured Ronald but none of the extraneous characters.
Ronald, or “a” Ronald, would make appearances at restaurants on this Flying Hamburger, which I think flew with the help of a crane. Might be just imagining it, but adverts (late 60s) showed Ronald zooming around on the thing.
McDonaldland profoundly bugged me out, much as PuffnStuff bugged me out. I was a MAD magazine devotee and primed to distrust marketing. In 4th grade I drew a little comic of the characters following Ronald into a volcano.
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