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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

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[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!

[–] scottwood@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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).^

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 1 month ago

Amazing research

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Great post, thx for sauces too.

Maybe you missed this one:

[–] scottwood@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Um, am I missing something or are you calling Trump a clown?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not that I'm not, but my intention was more to point out the car (I now changed the image so it doesn't show Trump) - you know, how the McD is a big USA export, brand, & meme (patriotically) associated with that country, so the McD cars must be presidential/regal in some way.

Idk, it's not a high level joke, just a stereotype about USA.

[–] scottwood@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That explains it, I'm British and it flew over my head.