McDonald’s “Dragon Discovery” Pokemon TCG Promotion Launching in the United States This Month!

Say bye-bye to your New Year’s resolutions!

We can now reveal the McDonald’s “Dragon Discovery” promotion will run in the United States from January 21st until February 24th! The promotion launched in France in December and is scheduled for Austria and New Zealand for January.

This year, there will be four Happy Meal boxes featuring Charizard, Dragonite & Pikachu, Rayquaza, and Roaring Moon.

Each Happy Meal will come with a 4-card booster pack containing one holo card. As usual, there are 15 cards in the set. They are all reprints from past sets, but with new McDonald’s numbering.

Seven cards are holo this year. They are printed on the “confetti” holofoil paper used exclusively for McDonald’s promos.

The full set list is as follows:

  • #001: Charizard
  • #002: Pikachu (holo)
  • #003: Miraidon (holo)
  • #004: Jigglypuff
  • #005: Hatenna
  • #006: Dragapult
  • #007: Quagsire
  • #008: Koraidon (holo)
  • #009: Umbreon
  • #010: Hydreigon (holo)
  • #011: Roaring Moon (holo)
  • #012: Dragonite (holo)
  • #013: Eevee
  • #014: Rayquaza
  • #015: Drampa (holo)

The package containing the booster pack also comes with a double-sided poster and stickers. On the reverse side, you attach included stickers to complete the Pokemon. There are several versions available.

My hope is that scalpers will stay away since there's nothing particular interesting here (7 cards with their special holo, but lacking any kind of McD or special logo on the cards). Also Charizard not being a holo but Drampa being one is immensely funny to me.
 
The boxes look nice and it's refreshing that it's not just Pikachu this time. Other than that, it's not too exciting. I guess I miss the actual toys in these Happy Meals. I'm fine if they come with cards but the joy was always getting a cool action figure or something.

The Burger King promotions back in the day..
 
Nothing really special here except for the objectively funniest version of baby moon you can play. The most impact this set could have is an embarassing video on twitter of scalpers swarming a mcdonalds.