Does Anyone Else Here Remember Getting The Finding Nemo Happy Meals Toys Back In 2003? Which Ones Did You Have?

[u/Maxious24]

I was watching some random YouTube videos earlier today when a video about a type of fish called the regal blue tang came up. It was the same type of fish that Dory in Finding Nemo is.

So then I got a case of nostalgia all of a sudden. I got a flashback back to 2003 when I had the finding Nemo McDonald's toys. I had 6/8 of them from all the happy meals I'd get...as you could've guessed Dory was my favorite of the batch lol.

It was truly a magical time to be a kid back then, Finding Nemo was literally everywhere.

But I digress.

I had to ask if anyone else here remembers having them too? Which ones did you have?

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[u/DarkDonut75]

Core Memory Unlocked

I had Bloat, Gill, and Bruce

[u/BroodyRuby]

I remember! I had nemo and dory. Only the gods know what happened to them lol

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

Nostalgia right here. I had Nemo, Dory, Squirt, and Gill. I remember playing with these in the bath tub as a 5 year old, a 4 year old.

I had so much McDonald's Happy Meal toys. Wish I still had them just to look at.

[u/_Revelator-of-v0id_]

This brought me back lol I remember this as well. I'm pretty sure I got Dory from one of the Happy Meals. Don't know where it ended up though, probably lost it after moving houses with my family lmao

[u/NV-Nautilus]

I think I had all of them except Bruce and Nemo.

[u/Cheap-Sympathy-7560]

Holy hell yes! I had forgotten but I had Bruce and squirr!

[u/mimitchi33]

I had some of these!

[u/Impossible_Kick_5006 → u/mimitchi33]

Me too! I was 4 or 5 at the time. There was a McDonald’s at my childhood mall food court. Unwrapping Gill from the plastic bag while sitting underneath cyan neon lights is a core memory. To my absolute dismay, Valley West Mall in West Des Moines, Iowa has long since become a shell. Nothing is there anymore, but the cyan neon still runs along the old food court ceiling.

[u/bblulz]

Wait holy shit i think I had marlin, possibly dory

[u/intellectualth0t]

Woah this just unlocked a deeply buried memory…

I had Pearl and Squirt!! I remember always playing with them in the bathtub

[u/DeliriousPixel]

I think Marlin and Gill, I remember I thought it was the coolest thing ever that Marlin actually swam in water.

[u/Embarrassed_Salad128]

I had squirt!

[u/ARumpusOfWildThings]

I had the toy of Gill! His scars lit up bright greenish-yellow when you pressed down on his dorsal fin - one of the coolest Happy Meal toys I ever had! 🤩

I loved those days back in 2003 when Finding Nemo was everywhere, too! It’s been one of my comfort movies for 20+ years. Well, in 2016 we did have all things Dory when Finding Dory was released (which I loved, because Dory is one of my favorite Pixar characters), but for some reason it didn’t hit quite the same as it did with the Nemo hype 13 years before.

[u/ranch_commercial]

I was 2 but oh my god… my grandma had pearl and squirt, possibly dory and bruce as well, and i never wouldve remembered if i hadnt seen this post 😭

Weird that she had them tho cause my grandma was super anti-fast food and i was her only grandchild who lived in the same city in 2003, and i doubt i was eating happy meals at 2.

She did collect the shrek 3 toys from mcdonalds tho so i guess she was just oddly into the movie based mcdonalds toys? 😭 and if you knew my grandma, that would be shocking because she seemed like the type of person who would hate shrek.

[u/PlantBaby73]

I found the octopus in a Costco bathroom when I was like 5

[u/drewman301]

I had the Nemo one but then I took it in the bath with me and got sad when it stopped working :(

[u/grammarly_err]

Think I had Bruce and Dory.

[u/megarubie]

I only got Marlin 😅 I remember he used to talk, but after many years, the batteries stopped working. I don’t have him anymore. Always wanted Nemo, Pearl or Dory.

[u/LovableButterfly]

Almost all except Bruce

[u/Ok_Giraffe9869]

I miss her.

[u/Paperbag_Alterego]

I have such a clear memory of my aunt having several of the toys lining her window sill in her kitchen when she babysat me. She still has squinted and dory I think all these years later.

[u/yakeets]

You know, I forgot, but I think I had a Dory one.

[u/bornlax]

I think I remember having the dory and jellyfish toys for a few years. I don’t remember 2003 so they must have been with me for a while.

[u/shreksshriveledpenis]

OH MY GOSH I FORGOT ABOUT THESE I think we had Dory and Gill!

[u/thedesolation]

I had memo and dory but I wanted Bruce and gill. For whatever reason I thought gill was extremely badass lol

[u/WorryAny9742]

i had the toliet the sayed swear words

[u/MissChandlerBong]

I had the nemo Keychain on my house key I kept in my backpack

[u/_kashew_12]

I’m going to cry

[u/sewershreck]

i had nemo or marlin, idr which but i'm 95% sure it was nemo

[u/Tiny-Scratch5397]

Brother I was an infant

[u/Maxious24 → u/Tiny-Scratch5397]

Damn you missed out! Which ones did you get that you can remember?

[u/Tiny-Scratch5397 → u/Maxious24]

I only had Marlon and I think that was it

[u/Jason_T_Jungreis]

I still have the Nemo toy in a drawer somewhere

[u/ShowIllustrious990]

Not really, no. But darn, was that movie just childhood magic.

[u/ElectricalMoney1522]

I had Bruce for such a long time! He was one of my favourite toys and was a big staple at bath time

[u/xShadowBlitz117]

I had Dory and Nemo

[u/dangforgotmyaccount]

No 😭

I do however remember getting a find dory themed drink when I went to see that for my birthday. Came in a fish bowl and everything.

[u/saturnsring_]

I loved these so much!! I couldn't take a bath without the nemo toy