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by Igglyboo 3856 days ago
Does McDonalds do monopoly anymore? I noticed the article is from 2014 but this year they've been doing a similar promotion but centered around the NFL.
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In the United States it's typically in September or October, in 2015 it was apparently replaced with the Minions Sweepstakes promotion.
I'm in the US and I haven't seen any Minions Sweepstakes promotions, just NFL stuff for the past few months.
IIRC, the Minions promotion was in August or September. I don't usually eat fast food, but was in a huge push at work for a major migration, and just needed something "quick". I know I created an account for it, but it was so low-security for me I didn't enter it into KeePass, so can't even tell for sure when it took place.
We definitely had Minions but it was a lot more scaled back.
Haha, "Minions" and "scaled back" in the same sentence. They infected dozens of brands, in the US at least. See https://medium.com/@hassanisms/the-minions-marketing-team-co... for some links and a satirical take on opportunities they missed.
They did it this year in Australia.
... Where we've also lost the Flurry out of our McFlurry's
And Germany! I'm on my third Big 'n' Tasty this week! :D

They also have shrimp and a really good cherry pie thing that also come with pieces...

And NZ
And Canada