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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Celebrating science with McDonald’s Peanuts NASA Happy Meal launch

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2127 days ago
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Chil­dren and fam­i­lies ex­pe­ri­enced the won­der of sci­ence at Mc­Don­ald’s Hap­py Fam­i­ly event last Sat­ur­day with ex­cit­ing space-themed ac­tiv­i­ties.

Guests were thrilled by the se­ries of in­ter­ac­tive games and ex­er­cis­es at the Cipri­ani Boule­vard restau­rant, which an­i­mat­ed their in­ter­est in the mar­vels of space and tech­nol­o­gy.

The ac­tiv­i­ties, which were held in col­lab­o­ra­tion with NI­HERST, in­tro­duced guests to fan­tas­tic new ways of learn­ing about space with at­trac­tions such as a so­lar scope to ob­serve the sun, a star ex­press draw­ing game to test knowl­edge about our galaxy, and a Con­stel­la­tion Quest game which had guests im­mersed in learn­ing and re-cre­at­ing the con­stel­la­tions.

Young­sters were al­so de­light­ed to par­tic­i­pate in face paint­ing and space-themed craft-mak­ing.

The event was in ho­n­our of the new Hap­py Meal toy col­lec­tion fea­tur­ing Peanuts, in part­ner­ship with NASA—US Na­tion­al Aero­nau­tics and Space Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The col­lec­tion cel­e­brates the fas­ci­nat­ing role of the beloved Snoopy char­ac­ter in land­mark space mis­sions, as NASA com­mem­o­rates the 50th an­niver­sary of the moon land­ing.

The Apol­lo 10 lu­nar mod­ule was chris­tened “Snoopy,” which suc­cess­ful­ly ex­plored and iden­ti­fied po­ten­tial land­ing space for the Apol­lo 11 mis­sion, which trans­port­ed the first as­tro­nauts that walked over the Moon. Char­lie Brown al­so got in the ac­tion, lend­ing his name to Apol­lo 10’s com­mand mod­ule.

“It is a plea­sure to pro­vide an ex­pe­ri­ence for chil­dren and fam­i­lies to learn through play,” said Kali­fa Dun­can, Mar­ket Su­per­vi­sor, Ar­cos Do­ra­dos Trinidad Ltd.

“We look for­ward to our Peanuts NASA Hap­py Meal col­lec­tion pro­vid­ing many mean­ing­ful mo­ments of fun and knowl­edge-shar­ing for fam­i­lies in Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

The new Hap­py Meal con­tains a mix of books and toys, with fun facts about space mis­sions brought by NASA it­self; and is an ini­tia­tive to spur chil­dren’s ex­cite­ment in the fields of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy, En­gi­neer­ing, and Math­e­mat­ics (STEM).

Col­lectibles in the Hap­py Meal

1) Snoopy’s Con­stel­la­tion Quest

2) Snoopy to the Moon

3) Snoopy Blasts Off

04) Snoopy the Mars Rover

* &emp­mar­gin;The books are part of the Hap­py Meal Read­ers book pro­gramme. Mc­Don­ald’s us­es its Scale for Good
to cel­e­brate the joy of read­ing and of­fers books
as an op­tion for Hap­py Meal cus­tomers.
To date, Mc­Don­ald’s and its fran­chisees have dis­trib­uted close to 450 mil­lion books
glob­al­ly through Hap­py Meal Read­ers.

Toys with NASA fact card

5) Rock­et Pro­peller

6) Space Bug­gy

7) Dance Mover

8) Take-Off Launch­er


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