McGoblin

McGoblin is one of the three 1986 McDonald's Halloween Pails, an orange pumpkin-shaped pail with a rigid snap lid distinguished from its siblings only by face design.

The trio launched nationally in 1986 after a limited 1985 regional test market, and returned largely unchanged in 1987 before the promotion skipped 1988. The molded copyright date on the base does not reliably identify which year a given pail was distributed, so collectors identify these by design rather than by date.

McGoblin's face reads as half-circle eyes, a diamond-shaped nose and a zigzag mouth.

Franchise
Halloween Pails
Promotion
McDonald's Happy Meal
Region
United States
Costume
Orange pumpkin-shaped pail with half-circle eyes, a diamond nose and a zig-zag mouth
Commonly missing
matching lid, handle
Released
1986
Material
molded plastic pail with a rigid snap lid
Series
1986 Halloween Pails

How to identify it

Face reads as angry eyes, a large nose and a misshapen mouth in a second source

Orange pumpkin body, as all three 1986 pails were

The molded base date does not identify the distribution year: McDonald's left the 1986 copyright on these pails for over a decade, so attribute by design rather than by date.