The offerings during the holiday seasons at fast food restaurants always blew the doors off the typical cheap kiddie toys you could get in a Happy Meal, Kids Club meal and the like. That’s when the fast food chains would partner up with some type of timeless childrens’ property and give us a plush toy that would last a lifetime. If not physically, then certainly in heart and spirit, but then again, I’m speaking for myself. Though I no longer own a Holiday Huggable, I’ve always found comfort in knowing that they exist, I owned one and that my Baby Fozzie was an extremely important piece of my stuffed animal collection!
It’s pretty funny that a stuffed animal from a fast food joint can mean so much to you but that’s what is so wonderful about being a kid. The most simple things can be the greatest things when you’re young and innocent. So what does that say for me when I’m pushing thirty and wish I had my Baby Fozzie back?
The Holiday Huggables were a part of the 1988 holiday season and available with the purchase of any McDonald’s grub (for an additional fee). I want to say they probably cost about $1.99, which I think was the standard fast food plush toy rate, but I certainly didn’t pay for it– so what do I know? I wonder if my parents kept the receipt…
Sadly, in my house a Baby Kermit never slept. Somehow both my sister and I had Fozzie. Hey, I loved Fozzie as much as anyone, but why couldn’t I have a Kermit ?! I seem to recall a friend having Kermit and being very jealous over it all.
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I found the Fozzie one in a thrift store last year (sans hat), and I had the Miss Piggy one when I was a kid, but I have never even seen a Kermit one! They just don’t make promotional stuff like this anymore.
No, ma’am, they don’t. Kids of today really have lost out.
I too know the feeling u are talking about. I had my Christmas stuff in storage & my husband got mixed up on the due date & all of my belongings were sold. I was & still am heartbroken. I had the whole collection & every year my mom wid bring out the collection and put them out with our other Christmas decorations & after Christmas they went back into the Xmas boxes
until the next year. When I moved out I took the collection with me & continued the tradition until this year(2010) when I lost them with all of my other Christmas belongings. I was nine years old in 1988 and I’ll be 32yrs old 2morrow, I had those stuffed animals for 22yrs & even tho they only came out for a short period of time for Christmas, they meant as much to me as the stuffed animals I played with everyday, maybe even more because they came out at Christmas which is a special time in a child’s life & we carry the memories of Christmas as a child throughout our whole life. I just hope whoever has them now love them as much as I did.