GOOD QUESTION, WHAT THE FOP HAPPENED TO RONALD MCDONALD?
My old mate Ben Sorenson from the Sunshine Coast reckons plenty of people are reading my blog, I don't know Ben, I think you might be full of chit man lol.
Ben is a radio DJ who has his very own regular nationwide radio program as well as a well received website, Real Country.
He might be lefty, nerdy and eccentric but I think Ben is a good bloke. I thought bugger it
tonight, like the last 50 blogs or so no one is commenting so instead of music or TV I thought I would write an off the wall blog
about one of the biggest lost treasures of them all, Ronald McDonald statues at McDonalds restaurants.
about one of the biggest lost treasures of them all, Ronald McDonald statues at McDonalds restaurants.
Where the hell has the man with the big red shoes vanished to? I am Queensland centric
to some extent, so perhaps this is only a Queensland thing and maybe Ronald McDonald hasn`t been booted out of his restaurant in other states of Australia.
to some extent, so perhaps this is only a Queensland thing and maybe Ronald McDonald hasn`t been booted out of his restaurant in other states of Australia.
C`mon, what is McDonalds without Ronald McDonald and the old fashioned playgrounds of yesteryear?
Someone else brought this to my attention, and coming to think of it, not only is the statue of Ronald McDonald missing from McDonalds restaurants in my neck of the woods but yeah, what ever happened to the McDonalds playgrounds, they have either shrunk in size considerably or vanished all together, depending on the particular McDonalds restaurant in question.
I really do hope this isn`t a case of political correctness catching up with Ronald McDonald and turning an icon into an obsolete untrendy villain, it wouldn`t surprise me if that were the case actually.
Ronald McDonald is a legend, he might have
always just stood there without moving or saying anything but when I was a kid I looked up to the guy actually, sometimes I even asked him for advice on how to pick up women and I would stand on his big red shoes to see if he went ouch but he never did.
McDonalds without Ronald McDonald is like Fleetwood Mac without Mick Fleetwood, it just ain`t on. I hereby do call on the head honchos of McDonalds in Australia to bring back Ronald in all the restaurants, and also while I am at it, I want to say that for goodness sake lets make the playgrounds for the kiddies as big as they use to be.
The few McDonalds restaurants that still have playgrounds have ones as big as sardine cans. It seems ironic that the one thing that the head management of McDonalds in Australia has forgotten about is the one and only Ronald McDonald.
The reason they got rid of Ronald McDonald is because they are changing their image and marketing towards an older crowd. Older crowds, don't like creepy clowns - which is what he was. Also in the states, people think of clowns like him as child molesters, etc.. And in USA they have remodeled all their restaurants to look more like Starbucks instead of sitting inside of a cartoon. The cartoon look was so outdated.
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