Common Items Most People Don’t Know Are Valuable

44. Happy Meal Toys

Happy Meal Toys have been a fixture of children’s lives and a source of much joy or resentment if you didn’t get the one you wanted for decades. While many of the McDonald’s happy meals toys were so widely mass-produced that they have little value, a handful of less popular or limited time toys are now quite collectible, especially if they are in excellent condition. As with most toy collectibles, to fetch the truly premium price, the toy needs to be in the original packaging, which in the case of most Happy Meal toys is the original plastic bag.

Unfortunately for Beanie Babies collectors, the Happy Meal Beanie Babies have retained about as much value as the rest of the Beanie Babies, which is to say almost none. However, a 1990s Inspector Gadget Happy Meal toy could net you a couple of hundred dollars. Similarly, a set of squeezie Mr. Potatohead rubber toys that could easily double as bath time toys could also get a few hundred dollars. The rarest of happy meal toys have been known to sell for over $500, so if you ever find a vintage Happy Meal toy in the original bag, it’s worth picking up.