This is the most comprehensive researched topic on this car on the internet, it has taken me days and I still haven't found the bottom.
You won't find anything else like this anywhere apart from here, enjoy.
MODEL A (AROUND 2000):
Stargazing Commercial (2000)
Ronald & Me Commercial (2000)
Time Travel Commercial (2001)
MODEL A (2000-NOW):
Construction by Global Entertainment Industries
MODEL A (AROUND 2006):
McKids Adventures: Treasure Hunt with Ronald (2006)
MODEL A (AROUND 2010):
Driving to Work Commercial (2010)
MODEL B (AROUND 2002-2012):
MODEL C (POST 2002):
MODEL D (AROUND 2001):
MODEL E (POST 2010):
UNKNOWN MODEL (AROUND 2010):
I CAN NOT FIND WHETHER THIS ONE IS OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL.
PROTOTYPE MODEL B (2002):
KIDDIE RIDE: LOST IMAGE, HAD A MOTHER PUTTING HER SON IN IT, SHOPPING MAL, BEHIND THE MOTHER IS A LARGE GLASS WINDOW WITH SUNLIGHT STREAMING THROUGH.
PLAY STRUCTURE
(Morgan City, Louisiana):
It is from: MCDONALD'S, MORGAN CITY 3.6 6387 US HIGHWAY 90 EAST, MORGAN CITY, LA 70380, USA
PLAY STRUCTURE
(Albuquerque, New Mexico):
PLAY STRUCTURE
(Dallas Airport, AROUND 2013):
PLAY STRUCTURE
(Greensboro, North Carolina, 2012)
PLAY STRUCTURE
(Allentown, Pennsylvania)
MORE PLAY STRUCTURES:
- San Jose, California, 2023
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Loveland, Colorado or Ohio
- Chicago, Illinois, 2834 N Ashland Ave
- Appleton, Wisconsin, 700 W Northland Ave
- Matthews, North Carolina
MODEL D COLLECTIBLE PLATES (2001):
HAPPY MEAL TOY (1993):
Links: Model A 'Thanksgiving Parade' Wiki: https://macysthanksgiving.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Red_Shoe_Car
Stargazing Advert (2000, Model A): https://youtu.be/YDy44zKa-R0
Ronald and Me 'Unknown' Advert (2000, Model A): https://youtu.be/t-muSz5ZH60
Ronald and Me 'Time Travel' Advert (2000/2001, Model A): https://youtu.be/QY0-A8zfeZo
Prototype (2002, Model B): http://productmobiles.blogspot.com/2011/10/shoe-maker.html?m=1
Model E Production: https://www.chron.com/culture/article/mcdonalds-shoe-car-houston-texas-19964777.php
McKids Adventures: Treasure Hunt with Ronald (2006, Model A, 10:32 onwards): https://youtu.be/1Ba5h4d5wBk
Driving to Work Advert (2010, Model A): https://youtu.be/smW7CFbEHF0
Bloody hell OP, amazing stuff!
This reminds me of the OG internet, in the best way possible... Stumbling across a random geocities website with dozens of cool photos and researched/cited text about some obscure topic that you really don't care about, but can't help getting sucked in by the sheer level of passion evident!
Thanks! All the locations for the play structures has been my most painful research project for quite some time, some of them didn't have locations so I had to scour the uploaders account and find something with a location or something like that then ask Grok to find out where it is.
The same with the dates for different cars, sometimes all I had was a poster or a part of a phone or whatever, then I had to find that poster/ phone and for the posters were they regional or what?
So what I am saying is, it's not passion, it is sheer bloody madness!
^(My most painful research project was for school and took a month of crawling through hundreds of publicly available documents from the US government and the US military, don’t even remember why, just remember the pain).^