Current Events > McDonalds in the 80s vs McDonalds today.Happy joyful vs. Soulless corp dronage

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WingsOfGood
10/02/23 9:47:16 AM
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voldothegr8
10/02/23 9:48:16 AM
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That tree is nightmare inducing

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Damn_Underscore
10/02/23 9:49:47 AM
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Bottom one looks like Chipotle

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GeraldDarko
10/02/23 9:50:05 AM
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Hate to break it to you, but McDonalds was souls and corporate, even back then.


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WingsOfGood
10/02/23 9:50:40 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
That tree is nightmare inducing

Excuse me. Happy and JOYFUL!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/1/AAefUOAAE5F1.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/2/AAefUOAAE5F2.jpg

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ai123
10/02/23 9:50:58 AM
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A mural of a clown kicking a donkey in the head, a nightmare fuel tree, and more brown plastic than should ever be legal in an interior setting.

I think I'll go with robot IKEA.

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Metal_Gear_Raxis
10/02/23 9:51:28 AM
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The new internal design for McDonalds is legitimately terrible.

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Turbam
10/02/23 9:52:37 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/5/AANKsdAAE5F5.jpg

I'll take new McDonald's

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_____Cait
10/02/23 9:52:43 AM
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I actually think they do the soulless thing, to get people to start waxing nostalgic for ten years, then bring it back to mass success.

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ChocoboMogALT
10/02/23 9:52:45 AM
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https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*ippQpvw2XvPAPcrgUWNyGQ.png

https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/new-ai-research-shows-that-our-world-is-becoming-more-boring-less-colorful.html

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WingsOfGood
10/02/23 9:53:32 AM
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ai123 posted...
A mural of a clown kicking a donkey in the head, a nightmare fuel tree, and more brown plastic than should ever be legal in an interior setting.

I think I'll go with robot IKEA.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/8/AAefUOAAE5F8.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/9/AAefUOAAE5F9.jpg

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supervaan
10/02/23 9:56:18 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Excuse me. Happy and JOYFUL!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/1/AAefUOAAE5F1.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/2/AAefUOAAE5F2.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/3/AAefUOAAE5F3.jpg
anyone looking at these pictures and expecting a slenderman-type monster chilling in the background? Doesn't even have to look like slenderman, just doing his weird gimmick .

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WingsOfGood
10/02/23 9:58:08 AM
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supervaan posted...
anyone looking at these pictures and expecting a slenderman-type monster chilling in the background? Doesn't even have to look like slenderman, just doing his weird gimmick .


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/2/AAefUOAAE5GA.jpg
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GeraldDarko
10/02/23 9:58:14 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Excuse me. Happy and JOYFUL!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/1/AAefUOAAE5F1.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/2/AAefUOAAE5F2.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/3/AAefUOAAE5F3.jpg

You're posting play areas and comparing it to a plain lobby to complain it's corporate and soulless at one of the icon of American corporations. What is this topic?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/3/AAeowgAAE5GB.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/4/AAeowgAAE5GC.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/5/AAeowgAAE5GD.jpg

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ai123
10/02/23 9:58:31 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/8/AAefUOAAE5F8.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/9/AAefUOAAE5F9.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/0/AAefUOAAE5F-.jpg
I mean, it's not even bright and colourful, it's just dingy and brown.

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Tom_Joad
10/02/23 10:03:01 AM
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Le Miserobble Robble
https://youtu.be/FN0pFs3kzPE


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Goldice
10/02/23 10:08:23 AM
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_____Cait posted...
I actually think they do the soulless thing, to get people to start waxing nostalgic for ten years, then bring it back to mass success.

Doubtful, since they're not alone in reimagining their logos/internal areas to be minimalistic, soulless and kitschless

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GranAures
10/02/23 10:14:48 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/3/AAefUOAAE5F3.jpg
Ronald was normalizing the school to prison pipeline well ahead of schedule.

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MARlO
10/02/23 10:15:23 AM
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ChocoboMogALT posted...
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*ippQpvw2XvPAPcrgUWNyGQ.png
We didnt even have color photos in the 1800s

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LeoRavus
10/02/23 10:17:22 AM
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Society has determined that advertising and catering to kids is bad when it comes to things like this. Plus modern kids have been raised to be pussified and incapable of playing on things like jungle gyms, and if they get a boo boo the parents automatically want to sue

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brestugo
10/02/23 10:29:24 AM
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Just yesterday I was telling someone that people used to hold kids birthday parties at McDonalds. It was not fully believed.

That "today" pic in the OP looks downright industrial, so I guess I can see why.

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mercurydude
10/02/23 10:31:49 AM
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We have footage also. What stands out to me is that they have what looks to be living houseplants everywhere, and just that can really liven a place up.

The second video is filmed by kids, so of course that camera is getting jerked all over the place... but it's funny because at the end of it the mom is trying really hard to convince them to watch Bill and Ted because they seem to think it's gonna be lame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZ1mUjnMVg

https://youtu.be/vGLBATCIwAw?t=320

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C_Pain
10/02/23 10:33:22 AM
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I honestly think clean modern design is underrated. I definitely get why people are fond for the themed McDonald's but were not kids anymore.

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LeoRavus
10/02/23 10:34:01 AM
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brestugo posted...
Just yesterday I was telling someone that people used to hold kids birthday parties at McDonalds. It was not fully believed.

That "today" pic in the OP looks downright industrial, so I guess I can see why.

I went to B-day parties there and had one myself.

It was hit or miss if Ronald came out. He did at mine and one kid started screaming. Then other kids screamed and cried. That's the only memory I have of it.

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Lukey_Bug
10/02/23 10:34:43 AM
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WingsOfGood posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/8/AAefUOAAE5F8.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/9/AAefUOAAE5F9.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/0/AAefUOAAE5F-.jpg

Is Ronald praying to a seashell in that middle picture? Lol

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Frosted_Midna
10/02/23 10:35:35 AM
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I wanna go back in the past!

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GeraldDarko
10/02/23 10:37:24 AM
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Frosted_Midna posted...
I wanna go back in the past!
Yep. Total nostalgia goggles, but it's TC, so he has to make it a good vs evil thing.

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Questionmarktarius
10/02/23 10:38:51 AM
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McDonalds grew up with us, I guess.
Kids have phones now, and aren't interested in climbing up the Big Mac jail guy that always smells like pee.
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brestugo
10/02/23 10:38:55 AM
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ai123 posted...
I mean, it's not even bright and colourful, it's just dingy and brown.

I think that's just the lighting in the pic.

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Questionmarktarius
10/02/23 10:40:12 AM
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brestugo posted...
I think that's just the lighting in the pic.
The photo is probably 40 or 50 years old, and likely degraded over time.
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brestugo
10/02/23 10:44:47 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
The photo is probably 40 or 50 years old, and likely degraded over time.

Yeah, either way those places weren't dark or dingy by any stretch. There was a lot of yellow and orange, the latter of which probably appears brown in the pic.

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GeraldDarko
10/02/23 10:47:34 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
The photo is probably 40 or 50 years old, and likely degraded over time.
Also, that muted yellow, brown, green, orange color pallet was really popular back then.

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brestugo
10/02/23 10:51:09 AM
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GeraldDarko posted...
Also, that muted yellow, brown, green, orange color pallet was really popular back then.

Last Burger King I went to (~3 years ago) still had it.

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Southernfatman
10/02/23 10:51:33 AM
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Our original (as far back as I go at least) two McDonald's in my town were unique. One of the south side had a little sitting area full of McDonalds legos and such and had a similar kind of vibe in one of those pictures though it was different. It had fiberglass statues of the various McDonald's characters.

The other in the middle of town was full of Elvis memorabilia since it's his hometown. Tons of it on the walls and in the counter and there was even a glass wall divider thing with an etched drawing of Elvis' face. Both are gone now.

I miss the old Wendy's with the rounded glass part that jutted out of the front too.

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Guide
10/02/23 10:52:36 AM
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I would love an adult McD's playground. Climbing up one of those massive tube slides would be a great workout.

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R_Jackal
10/02/23 10:57:40 AM
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Been studies on this, literally everything is becoming grey/white/black or more neutral. Being colorful is bad, apparently.
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GrandConjuraton
10/02/23 10:58:59 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
That tree is nightmare inducing


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bioshockjack
10/02/23 10:59:26 AM
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LeoRavus posted...
Society has determined that advertising and catering to kids is bad when it comes to things like this. Plus modern kids have been raised to be pussified and incapable of playing on things like jungle gyms, and if they get a boo boo the parents automatically want to sue

Sir, this is a McDonalds.

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ChocoboMogALT
10/02/23 11:00:23 AM
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MARlO posted...
We didnt even have color photos in the 1800s
They took pictures of products from those periods and analyzed them.

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Questionmarktarius
10/02/23 11:01:35 AM
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bioshockjack posted...
Sir, this is a McDonalds.
...and the McLawyers have stated that the Grimace spring-cage thing is a bad idea because liability.
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Agonized_rufous
10/02/23 11:03:18 AM
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I miss when even the soulless corporations had some quirkiness or personality

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Touch
10/02/23 11:03:31 AM
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Did y'all not watch The Founder? Dude literally was corporate and stole the shit out of McDonalds from its namesake. It's been scummy since the beginning, even if it did have a colorful coat of paint on it

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Purple_Cheetah
10/02/23 11:10:31 AM
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I feel it should be the new modern look, but put that fucking tree in the corner, so that it can watch you while you eat.
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Questionmarktarius
10/02/23 11:12:24 AM
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Purple_Cheetah posted...
I feel it should be the new modern look, but put that fucking tree in the corner, so that it can watch you while you eat.
Bolt that kiosk nobody likes to the back of it.
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brestugo
10/02/23 11:17:21 AM
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LeoRavus posted...
I went to B-day parties there and had one myself.


Went to a few as a kid. One kid always had his at McDonalds & was probably popular because of it. Never had one myself because my B-day is always a few days before or after Thanksgiving (or right on it).

I know of at least one adult who threw her party at a McDonalds because she was in the same boat (Xmas birthday). Might have been 2010 or so.

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The_Wheelman1
10/02/23 11:33:09 AM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/2/AACOMZAAE5G8.jpg

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tripleh213
10/02/23 11:44:23 AM
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The_Wheelman1 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/2/AACOMZAAE5G8.jpg
This fr

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Damn_Underscore
10/02/23 11:47:20 AM
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The_Wheelman1 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/2/AACOMZAAE5G8.jpg

Ironically this is just the outside

If you want to know the truth you need to look inside..

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Purple_Cheetah
10/02/23 11:47:50 AM
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This topic reminded me of the one mcdonalds. It had a table with a hole and net, and a small duplo type peg system so you could play with duplo blocks and build a wall for your food.

Damn, that's a great idea... minus the grossness of handling them in a public food place. Probably why I haven't seen it ever else.
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kingdrake2
10/02/23 11:48:17 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
McDonalds grew up with us


this.

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