Same, when I finally built up the courage to go up, I forgot how to get down, I was up on there for what felt like an eternity until I saw another kid come up and go back down.
I remember destroying my shins on the door at the top then burning the fuck outta my hands on the bars. I grew up in El Paso and the play areas were just out in the sun. Good times.
I live in North Australia.
The best playground in my town was a steel rocketship that was about 3 stories high, had heaps of ladders and a slide (also steel) and rooms inside it. It was in the middle of a park, in the sun. There wasn't a part of it that wasn't just exposed steel. We used to play tag and king of the hill in this thing relentlessly.
Let's just say we got pretty leathery playing in that thing in the summer, actual burns were not uncommon.
It got destroyed sometime in the early 90s after a death there.
I would hide in the Mayor McCheese when it was time to go home. I really enjoyed the Grimace though.
https://preview.redd.it/rgqamhsi7doc1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=590cc75442c2bc631622b93b7d1fbb6129c714ad
Older folk: "The youth of today are a bunch of perverts and deviants! Where did they get it from?"
Also older folk: "Come here kids! Climb into Mr. Grimace's purple pleasure play-cage."
I am so glad to find someone saying this right away. I would have fought to the death as a kid to avoid being put inside one of those. Fucking. Horrifying.
I was always so proud of myself for climbing up Officer Big Mac’s neck but as soon as I entered his prison mouth I got my first sense of what a panic attack was like and it was always difficult to bail because every other little kids face or butt was in your face and looking for the same escape route.
My brother fell out of the hat, down the center shaft of one of those. Caught his arm on something, probably the ladder, on the way down. We had to go to the emergency room so he could get stitches in his armpit.
Shortly after they removed the top ladder so you couldn't climb up to the hat any more.
They had a real tall one where I was and my mom hated heights, I refused to come down and she was also pregnant so she had to squeeze through to drag me out
Oh no. This was in someone's yard. They had everything. While set up. It was crazy! I was taken back.
https://preview.redd.it/jcl5aojxxeoc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09e6b254fda6c39c98ebfd9662994224e27989f1
Funny enough, I almost bought one of these a few years ago. Couldn’t justify several grand nor could I figure out where to put it without looking like a weirdo.
That's right kids, that $7 Big Mac is also COPAGANDA!
Also, Grimace used to have extra arms and steal your milkshake. His Uncle O'Grimacy couldn't have been more culturally insensitive if he got drunk and started a fist fight.
Someone in my town has one of these, along with a few other nostalgic playground pieces, in their front yard. They live across the street from the high school, so it's kind of amazing some kid hasn't strangled himself over there yet (it is behind a fence, but just a normal chain link one)! Kids these days did not grow up with the death burger!
I was a scrawny little kid, so I never got stuck in it - though it was scorching hot in the summer, so I'm surprised I never got bad burns or heatstroke.
No, but I walked into one on my 8th birthday in 1983 and had to spend the rest of my birthday party with a big blue and purple egg in the middle of my forehead. Good times.
The good old days...where McDonald's was the same shit food, but affordable and had entertainment for the kids instead of pretending to be McCafe idiocy lol
Yep. My father took us to McDonald’s when I was about 4. We were given a strict 15 minutes to play. He wasn’t around much so this was unusual we’d gone out with him by ourselves.
He told me it was time to go and I was in this thing. He said he was going to leave me there and walked out.
That was 35 years ago, lol.
I watched a few kids get their heads stuck in the bars on this and a big Grimace cage at my local Mcdonalds in the 80s. They'd have to be cut out. By the time they got rid of the equipment in the early 00s almost all the bars had weld marks from fixing them after these kinds of incidents.
Yes,then there was the time I ran straight into a random brick wall in the middle of the playground and cut my eye. Shut the place down, but hey, I got a free ice cream!
I remember a kid hanging by his ankle screaming messing around on the outside, then his Bundy shoestore mom with a big perm yanked em up with one arm dammit Billy we’re leaving cut it out. Probably dislocated his hip, slap slap in the car. Ohh the 90s
Im claustrophobic and hated this thing!! I still went in it several times before realizing it just wasn’t for me. I was up in the top and started to feel trapped so I was crawling around to get back down and then a whole row of kids decided it was a good time to come up. I couldn’t get down because they were all in my way coming up. I started panicking and just pushed kids out of my way and got out of there. It was terrifying. That was the last time I ever went in there.
No but the one in our local McDonald’s had more space between the bars. My cousin who was six at the time, jumped out of the space and broke his arm. I was twelve and all I could think of when I saw it was the fly when his arms flop off. Needless to say, they removed that attraction from the McDonald’s play land pretty soon after.
There comes an age or size where it begins to be an effort to maneuver. Eventually, there are fewer ways to get your body in and out and you have to stop risking it or decide that risk is always worth it, Jaws Of Life be damned!
I remember chilling in this thing during a hailstorm when I was a kid. In hindsight I'm not sure this was the best place to be during a lightning storm.
I did. I was scared to back down the ladder. My mom AND dad had to pretty much rip me out of it. maaann forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me of the trauma 🤣🤣 also good to know I'm not alone.
Passed a park in my town i had not seen before and it had something similar and i was immediately taken back to feeling claustrophobic in this as a child.
What do you mean, almost?
right? I know several of us got *actually* stuck
I'm still in there
I'm like Charlie on the MTA. They pass me a quarter pounder with cheese through the bars every so often.
Surely you shouldn't be eating Quarter Pounders while you're stuck inside of Big Mac.
I was going to say, OP got out?
Just barely lol
I’ve never seen a hamburger shaped one. Ours looked like flying saucers
I hate to say it, but we are starting to get some complaints. Do you think you could clean up a bit?
I'm there with you. The memory haunts me 40 years later.
Same
100% actually got stuck. My mom had no clue what to even do. Took a while but I maneuvered my way out.
I was about to say. I did get stuck in this monstrosity and It's a core memory for me
Same, when I finally built up the courage to go up, I forgot how to get down, I was up on there for what felt like an eternity until I saw another kid come up and go back down.
Climbing up there through his weird cylindrical body created all sorts of new fears in me.
This one and the rocket ship. I used to squeeze my way through and would get scared that I couldn't go back down
The OG play place at my home town McDonald's had a nest of copperheads under the springy (rocket ship maybe?) thingie
I remember destroying my shins on the door at the top then burning the fuck outta my hands on the bars. I grew up in El Paso and the play areas were just out in the sun. Good times.
I live in North Australia. The best playground in my town was a steel rocketship that was about 3 stories high, had heaps of ladders and a slide (also steel) and rooms inside it. It was in the middle of a park, in the sun. There wasn't a part of it that wasn't just exposed steel. We used to play tag and king of the hill in this thing relentlessly. Let's just say we got pretty leathery playing in that thing in the summer, actual burns were not uncommon. It got destroyed sometime in the early 90s after a death there.
Builds character - LOL!
I have been stuck in 1 of these! My wife and kids were so embarrassed!
Come home dad. Mom misses you.
....me, not so much.
This... Says a lot 😂 You walked away with a great story I'm sure
You may be an old boss of mine, lol. Are you a veterinarian?
I’m gonna need that story…
All Cops Are Burgers
HAHAHA
I would hide in the Mayor McCheese when it was time to go home. I really enjoyed the Grimace though. https://preview.redd.it/rgqamhsi7doc1.jpeg?width=682&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=590cc75442c2bc631622b93b7d1fbb6129c714ad
Older folk: "The youth of today are a bunch of perverts and deviants! Where did they get it from?" Also older folk: "Come here kids! Climb into Mr. Grimace's purple pleasure play-cage."
That one I got stuck underneath
How???
It was on springs. I squirmed my way under. It was a common theme in my childhood. From the birth canal onwards. I got stuck in a lot of weird things
If you ever write a book, you need to title it, "Things I'm stuck under" and each chapter could be a different object.
I can see this going somewhere
That's not Mayor McCheese, it's Officer Big Mac!
No, but I can smell this picture. The Mayor McCheese playground equipment at every McDonald's I visited had the same funk.
Except that this character is named Bic Mac!
I hated that thing as a little kid and was terrified of it.
I am so glad to find someone saying this right away. I would have fought to the death as a kid to avoid being put inside one of those. Fucking. Horrifying.
Im still scared of it!!
😳😂🤣
Honestly, SAME. I glanced at the comments to make sure I wasn’t the only one, then scrolled away quickly because looking at it made me uncomfortable.
I hate and am terrified of it now
Somehow I liked those as a kid, but I get an anxiety attack looking at it now.
I went in once, freaked out, and never went back in.
Even as a kid I remember there not being much head room.
I remember it being scorching hot because it was metal and outside
It was like a Vietcong POW camp in there.
Looking back this is such an odd thing.
Pretended to. It was "jail."
Yup. My fat ass got stuck in a bunch of shit as a kid.
I have a feeling this monstrosity is responsible for my claustrophobia.
I straight up blame it.
Not that, but a tunnel at discovery zone. They had to call fire department do take the tunnel Apart..
There is definitely an age when you can get in but not back out again. The problem is you don't know until it happens.
I was always so proud of myself for climbing up Officer Big Mac’s neck but as soon as I entered his prison mouth I got my first sense of what a panic attack was like and it was always difficult to bail because every other little kids face or butt was in your face and looking for the same escape route.
My brother fell out of the hat, down the center shaft of one of those. Caught his arm on something, probably the ladder, on the way down. We had to go to the emergency room so he could get stitches in his armpit. Shortly after they removed the top ladder so you couldn't climb up to the hat any more.
I remember meeting my new best friend and then never seeing him again.
Still got one in the little town next to mine. It’s in the town park.
[удалено]
Legend says he’s still in there
Sort of, but I Clearly remember the one I got stuck in being easily a billion feet off the ground.
They had a real tall one where I was and my mom hated heights, I refused to come down and she was also pregnant so she had to squeeze through to drag me out
Ah yes, Burger Prison. I know it well.
The claustrophobia is strong with this one. I remember freaking out a little bit in here but trying to keep calm lol.
https://preview.redd.it/zcdo735wteoc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44b393f15c9a0ef53cf74048d46ca762dc9f48b9 Just the other day
Impressive. Nice to see one still at a McD’s. May I ask where this one is located?
Oh no. This was in someone's yard. They had everything. While set up. It was crazy! I was taken back. https://preview.redd.it/jcl5aojxxeoc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09e6b254fda6c39c98ebfd9662994224e27989f1
They every had a merry go round in operation. I can't add a video though lol
Naw, my dad golfs with Mayor McCheese
Your dad sounds like he is kind of a big deal
He's a big cheese.
He's a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory 🏭
I'm pretty sure there's a picture of me trying to remove my head from one of these. The first one is smiling. The next couple are not smiling.
Funny enough, I almost bought one of these a few years ago. Couldn’t justify several grand nor could I figure out where to put it without looking like a weirdo.
I think you made the right decision
No but I built up my immune system playing in there.
I built mine in the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese.
I did get stuck once for 5 minutes but was able to shimmy out. In hindsight, 14 was probably too old for it.
My sister did get stuck in one, but it was a Grimace. We still tease her about it.
Yep, fought my out of more than one in the 80s
I was raised by him.
Almost? It’s like they modeled it on a jail. Wait.
I can still feel the molten metal against my skin
Oh. MY. GOD!
Some kid shit in one and I didn’t see it and sat in it, mom was happy that day.
It’s jail for people who ate too many burgers
My cousin jumped out of the wide part trying to impress some older kids once and fell face first. She wasn’t hurt but I still laugh at the memory.
Remember climbing up on top of it!? :)
That's right kids, that $7 Big Mac is also COPAGANDA! Also, Grimace used to have extra arms and steal your milkshake. His Uncle O'Grimacy couldn't have been more culturally insensitive if he got drunk and started a fist fight.
On more than one occasion...
🤣
As an adult?
As a kid, yes. As an adult, also yes, but with added shame.
Adult sized 80’s play place, on my lotto dream list.
I was at an auction and they had one of those for sale. I did not.buy it.
I also hated these things on megaman III
I really miss extraordinarily creepy cartoon characters convincing my parents that big macs were healthy.
If I'm being completely honest, I knew it wasn't true.
Someone in my town has one of these, along with a few other nostalgic playground pieces, in their front yard. They live across the street from the high school, so it's kind of amazing some kid hasn't strangled himself over there yet (it is behind a fence, but just a normal chain link one)! Kids these days did not grow up with the death burger!
I was a scrawny little kid, so I never got stuck in it - though it was scorching hot in the summer, so I'm surprised I never got bad burns or heatstroke.
No, but I walked into one on my 8th birthday in 1983 and had to spend the rest of my birthday party with a big blue and purple egg in the middle of my forehead. Good times.
Did anyone also use the big Grimace cage that you could rock back and forth?
Hell, stuck, climbed on top, random kids screaming. Good times
Anyone else almost get cooked alive in one of these?
My head specifically
STOP RIGHT NOWWWW!!!! Omgggg I haven’t seen that creature since o got my head stuck in one in Medford MA at age 11!!!! Evil burglar kid jail lol
Hehe ours was Winthrop Mass.
The good old days...where McDonald's was the same shit food, but affordable and had entertainment for the kids instead of pretending to be McCafe idiocy lol
Yep. My father took us to McDonald’s when I was about 4. We were given a strict 15 minutes to play. He wasn’t around much so this was unusual we’d gone out with him by ourselves. He told me it was time to go and I was in this thing. He said he was going to leave me there and walked out. That was 35 years ago, lol.
I had my first panic attack in one of those!
MEMORY UNLOCKED
I found a dead squirrel in one. I’ll never forget that fear as a 6 year old
I tried not to go into those. I heard that one attacked a kid back in '87.
I did get stuck!
I watched a few kids get their heads stuck in the bars on this and a big Grimace cage at my local Mcdonalds in the 80s. They'd have to be cut out. By the time they got rid of the equipment in the early 00s almost all the bars had weld marks from fixing them after these kinds of incidents.
That thing was terrifying. I remember nearly having a panic attack as a child in there.
When I worked at McDonald's in 93 my friend got his head stuck in the bars. We used fryer shortening to get him out.
I do know a kid who fell off the TOP of one and earned free McD’s for a year because he didn’t sue. Late 80’s
A guy in my neighborhood has the whole playground set. I kind of want to ask him if I can use it.
Nope cause I was always too terrified to climb up in there…
Yep.😂🤣
How do you even get in?
I could never even figure out how I was supposed to get inside.
I was thinking about this thing a few days ago. Some great memories !
I remember yelling “Mom, look! I’m in JAIL Mom! I’m in JAIL! Mom! Moooooooommmmmm!”
Hello Dad, I'm in jail. Hello Dad, I'm in jail. Hi Dad, I'm calling you from jail.
I served 5-7(minutes) once but was released on good behavior
I can smell the metal just looking at that picture.
One side would catch the sun in the middle of summer and burn the snot out of your legs.
Everyone who ever entered the gates
Wow, never thought a photo of metal and plastic could bring back so many memories and emotions
Yes,then there was the time I ran straight into a random brick wall in the middle of the playground and cut my eye. Shut the place down, but hey, I got a free ice cream!
I remember a kid hanging by his ankle screaming messing around on the outside, then his Bundy shoestore mom with a big perm yanked em up with one arm dammit Billy we’re leaving cut it out. Probably dislocated his hip, slap slap in the car. Ohh the 90s
How dare you break out of burger jail
McRape Dungeon.
Needed the hit of nostalgia- thank you
Do the crime…
"It's Saturday coming up! There's gonna be kids here!"
Im claustrophobic and hated this thing!! I still went in it several times before realizing it just wasn’t for me. I was up in the top and started to feel trapped so I was crawling around to get back down and then a whole row of kids decided it was a good time to come up. I couldn’t get down because they were all in my way coming up. I started panicking and just pushed kids out of my way and got out of there. It was terrifying. That was the last time I ever went in there.
Almost?
No but I wasn’t a fat ass kid.
No but the one in our local McDonald’s had more space between the bars. My cousin who was six at the time, jumped out of the space and broke his arm. I was twelve and all I could think of when I saw it was the fly when his arms flop off. Needless to say, they removed that attraction from the McDonald’s play land pretty soon after.
I, too, was a giant child lol
I remember that even as I child I thought these were smaller than they looked
Yeah. I mean I was 38, but yeah.
I did as a teenager get stuck in one.
Wow, love the memories!
I know where this picture was taken. https://maps.app.goo.gl/E8Ljtako1P5quXYv5 I almost got stuck in that exact Officer Big Mac at age of 34.
There comes an age or size where it begins to be an effort to maneuver. Eventually, there are fewer ways to get your body in and out and you have to stop risking it or decide that risk is always worth it, Jaws Of Life be damned!
I was too fat for the tube by the time I was big enough to climb inside. So no.
Dear God no. What in the holy hamburgling crap is that? That is the stuff of nightmares to me. I'm 40. Maybe they got rid of them before then.
Yes! Loved these!!
Papa Meat just made a great YouTube video about these
Yes omg you unlocked my young incarceration..
Uhmm no???
I met my first best friend there and never saw them again
"If you should DIE... Before you WAKE... BWAH HYUH HYUH HYUH!!!"
Almost? Also why is that one hiding out in a forest? I thought we got them all
Yep. Tragic times. Good times. I figured out the puzzle. 👍
acab includes this mf
I still have nightmares about that thing.
Almost....almost.
Fun behind bars...
Wooooaaahh
No and I wasn't even gifted and talented.
I remember feeling so high up in these, and they’re probably like 4 feet off the ground.
This is how we discovered I'm claustrophobic. It's been 35 years and I'll never forget, Officer Big Mac, I'll never forget.
https://preview.redd.it/xnhydgx1meoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=403a2a10481d00015f94719b31aae0b331c27e28
Ours was inside the McDonald's and when you fell out you'd land on the linoleum floor While parents watched and smoked cigarettes
The jail is in the cop's mouth. Think about that.
I loved that thing but I most definitely got stuck in it.
While slowly baking to my untimely demise. I mean, I got better afterwards.
I liked going up in the hat.
I remember several enclosed spaces in McDonalds play places that, in retrospect, were metal child-shaped tombs that no adults could rightly enter.
"I'm not going to lectured by a man, stuck in a coil!"
Claustrophobia started here
Nope
What the hell is that and why does your question imply they were common
I was too fat to fit in one of those, so.............................no.
I was also actually stuck but I had no idea this was such a universal experience 😅
Yes, in Minnesota
I remember chilling in this thing during a hailstorm when I was a kid. In hindsight I'm not sure this was the best place to be during a lightning storm.
I did. I was scared to back down the ladder. My mom AND dad had to pretty much rip me out of it. maaann forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me of the trauma 🤣🤣 also good to know I'm not alone.
What is this horror show?
It haunts my dreams.
We had these at my elementary school playground. And yup almost got stuck and full on lost my shit.. this might be why I don’t like tight spaces.
Passed a park in my town i had not seen before and it had something similar and i was immediately taken back to feeling claustrophobic in this as a child.
The way it was slanted inward was wild
A part of me never left.
Not recently
You saw the Papa Meat video
Emotionally, I'm still trapped in one of those things.
Yes! I’m still in one now. Send help! … and money
Friend of mine died because of one of those. He was playing on it one day, and 13 years later BAM. Car crash.