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We’re getting genuinely neat Hello Kitty and Sanrio character crossovers from McDonald’s lately. I mean, there was the Yu-Gi-Oh promotion in 2024. They showed up dressed as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2025. 2026 is now the year of Hello Kitty x Godzilla Happy Meal toys, and it turns out this line of McDonald’s features have a lot of personality for their size and quality.
The McDonald’s Happy Meal crossover features many major characters from the Godzilla series unlike the Hello Kitty and Sanrio character event merchandise being sold in stores in Japan. That dressed up an array of mascots, including ones not taking part in this line, as Godzilla over the ages. I think this is a better idea, to be sure. There’s a possibility of matching up individuals based on personality or their roles in the series, with Hello Kitty getting the “starring” role and the occasionally antagonistic Kuromi as Mechagodzilla and Badtz-Maru as Rodan.
So as a quick who’s who, here are the pairings for this promotion:
- Badtz-Maru x Rodan
- Cinnamoroll x Destoroyah
- Chococat x Spacegodzilla
- Hello Kitty x Godzilla
- Keroppi King x Ghidorah
- Kuromi x Mechagodzilla
- My Melody x Mothra
- Pompompurin x Gigan
Again, it makes sense in a few cases. Not only with Hello Kitty, Kuromi, and Badtz-Maru, but with the gentle My Melody as Mothra and science-fiend Chococat as the one tied to outer space.
Now, the general imagery surrounding the Hello Kitty Godzilla Happy Meal on the boxes and displays in McDonald’s is fantastic and does a wonderful job of highlighting the characters. Like the box is adorable. The menacing Hello Kitty on the apple slices looks great. The activities coloring sheet and maze on the official site are good. Even the actual boxes for the toys feature dynamic and detailed poses of the characters.
Considering these are toys with a meal, I think the execution of the various Sanrio characters in the Hello Kitty Godzilla Happy Meal collection are pretty solid. Of course we weren’t going to get anything extremely elaborate like a hand-painted figure. But compared to the TMNT toys I referenced earlier, the design works for each one of them. Each one of those figures in that earlier collection featured between four and five different colors per figure. Here, we’re actually seeing a few more intricate characters like the My Melody Mothra (seven colors) and Pompompurin Gigan or Chococat Spacegodzilla (six colors each). There are situations where it’s a little more precise, such as with the eyelashes and blush on Keroppi King Ghidorah, claws on Hello Kitty Godzilla, and the teeth on Chococat Spacegodzilla. There are also some poses that look a little more active, like stomping Kuromi Mechagodzilla.
The choices even make the figures that are a little less elaborate look good. I’ve gotten two characters so far. The first was Badtz-Maru Rodan, which is one of the less involved toys due to it only featuring four colors. But the eyes are painted really well, to make it stand out, and the mold meant you could really see the division between arms and wings and the concept of scales in a way that looks quite nice. To be honest, it almost makes me tempted to use a black acrylic marker to do a little extra highlighting on Rodan’s nostrils and the scales on the chest to make them “pop” a bit more.
The Hello Kitty Godzilla Happy Meal toys at McDonald’s do a good job of making the Sanrio characters stand out in a fun way. There are some pairings that make sense based on individuals’ personalities. Some of them are extra elaborate in terms of the color choices. But even when you do get a more basic one, the molds used and general design are handled in a way that makes them a fun little novelty too.
The Hello Kitty Godzilla Happy Meal toys are at McDonald’s in the US now.
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