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McDonald's Launches Stranger Things Happy Meal, QR Game

4/27/2026

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McDonald’s launches a Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Happy Meal in Canada on April 28, with U.S. sales on May 5.
Each meal contains a box, a toy (one of 12), and a QR code for a game.
Scanning the QR code enrolls customers in the Hawkins Investigators Club to battle monsters.
The promotion runs through August and will expand to countries, after a Netflix tie-in that offered a Demon Hunters menu.

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Story summary

McDonald’s launches a Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Happy Meal in Canada on April 28, with U.S. sales on May 5.
Each meal contains a box, a toy (one of 12), and a QR code for a game.
Scanning the QR code enrolls customers in the Hawkins Investigators Club to battle monsters.
The promotion runs through August and will expand to countries, after a Netflix tie-in that offered a Demon Hunters menu.