Changeables

McDino Changeables

Eight McDonald's foods that convert into dinosaurs.

Brand
Changeables
Region
United States
Wave
Third programme
Set size
8
Packaging
Toys were packed with printed transformation instructions.

The third Changeables programme swapped robots for dinosaurs, and it produced the cleanest roster of the three: all eight names appear identically across every source checked, with no spelling variance at all. Big Mac-O-Saurus Rex, Fry-Ceratops, Happy Meal-O-Don, Hot Cakes-O-Dactyl, McDino Cone, McNuggets-O-Saurus, Quarter Pounder with Cheese-O-Saur and Tri-Shake-Atops.

The conversions are more elaborate than the robot waves, which is presumably why these shipped with printed instructions.

8 releases

Identification notes

The wave year is genuinely contested. McDonald's states the programme was 1990; collector sources date the promotion to late May and June 1991 and report a 1990 mold marking. That pattern exactly parallels the 1989 wave, whose figures carry a 1988 mold date, so both years are recorded rather than one being chosen. Under-3 items reported for this wave are a Bronto Cheeseburger plus a Small Fry-Ceratops in yellow-arch and red-arch variants; sources say two under-3 toys while itemising three, consistent if the arch colours count as one toy with a variant.