McDonald’s “Dragon Discovery” TCG Promotion Coming to Austria in 2025, Hope for the U.S.?
The McDonald’s Pokemon TCG promotion now has an official English name — “Dragon Discovery.” It will launch on January 23rd in Austria (and presumably Germany). The cards will be printed in German.
This means it’s still possible the promotion will come to the United States and other countries in 2025, despite it’s obvious “Year of the Dragon” theming. (2025 is the “Year of the Snake,” but I guess Mr. Rayquaza still fits that.)
There was still some hope the promotion would come to the U.S. later this month, but the next set of Happy Meal toys will promote Sonic the Hedgehog 3 instead. It will run from December 17th to January 13th.
If “Dragon Discovery” is also coming to the U.S. in January, we should hear about it in the next three weeks. Stay tuned!
I previously stated a U.S. promotion has run every year since 2011, but in searching through the stories I’ve written over the last 22 years, I found McDonald’s didn’t have U.S. promotions in 2013 and 2020. In 2013, however, they did release a set exclusively in France. Neither situation will occur this time, meaning we’re in new McTerritory.
In July we revealed France would be holding the promotion in December; unusually, we did not hear about a U.S. release in the ensuing months. The promotion launched in France on December 4th.
