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498. Flintstones 1994 Garbage (part 1)

(see also Dick Tracy Garbage, 1996 Olympics Garbage, Phantom Menace Garbage, Y2K Garbage)

Back in the day, thirty years ago, usually the movies that came out Memorial Day weekend were still relevant by the time 4th of July came along. I don't remember that happening with 1994's Flintstones. Here is the Box Office for 4th of July, 1994:

Simba driving that bus really took them out. Maybe its just my memories from when I was ten, but I remember the hype for Flintstones was the week the movie came out, and that was it. I stopped hearing that B-52's B.C. 52's song after about a week on the radio.

Ten year old me thought the song was cheesy, but 41 year old me doesn't mind it now. Halle Berry is having the time of her life in the video.

The merchandising for this movie was diligently curated. 'Pretty sure we've all seen that RocDonalds McRib commercial. RocDonalds was part of McDonald's first World wide marketing campaign.1

Australia got the $2 Bedrock Dinner Deal, while Canada had the Barney Rubble bacon double cheese meal. In Malaysia they had dinosaur nuggets!

I have to give it up to Rosie O'Donnell as Betty, that was the role she was born to play, baby.

She showed up for every single McDonalds commercial. Sometimes with an actress that they hired to look almost like Halle Berry's Sharon Stone character. They were getting that McDonalds $$bag$$. Sometimes the same line had to be filmed twice because in Canada, they had plastic movie cups and the in the States we just had paper ones. She was the star of the glasses commercial.

You know what Australia McDonalds had that we didn't? A Barney Rubble pencil sharpener!

We had those clunky cars that went into buildings?

I almost forgot about the t-shirt you could buy at McDonalds!

McDonalds did all this work, spent all this money, did all these promos, and it wasn't enough. Kids weren't impressed. 1 Burger King had a huge Lion King production that won over kids, with some locations reporting that they were selling 220-300 kids meals a day. 2

(part 2)

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the flintstones rocdonalds cup with slight imperfection on rim — clear glass

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Still one of my favorite shirts!  Too bad they don't do promos like this anymore.