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Originally Posted by J-Chow
IIRC (back in the days when I worked at mcdicks),
There are only so many boxes of happy meal toys each restaurant receives, and depending on the manager at each restaurant, they will release whatever number toy it is for that week until it is out of stock, then they willl move onto the next number.
Once its out of stock, it's done. They don't re-order any more, (and that's when they take out the OLD OLD toys they had stocked up previously that didn't sell). If that was the case, you would keep the OLD toys they gave you, and you could go to another mcdonalds and trade that one in for a despicable me toy.
But..... that was 11 years ago. Don't know about now lol.
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Control of toys is straight through Martin Brouwer... a company in charge of shipping everything to each McDonalds... amount of toys to each restaurant obviously based on volume (i.e you can order like 6 cases, but in reality they give u like 3), while at the same time there are no guarantees that a restaurant will get every single toy every different order (every 5 days). Considering these toys are quite popular I'd actually expect them to be sold out pretty quick and yeah most stock rooms have a couple cases of old toys that get used every now and then. It's not surprising that a store can completely run out of toys... then you get an extra yogurt lol.
I know that Kerrisdale normally has a shitload of old toys..
You guys could probably just call each store and ask what they have in stock... some people even ask to have them saved for them by name...
TLDR;
restaurants have no control over how many toys, what kind of toys they receive, ask when their next Brouwer is then keep adding 5 days for the next delviery