Remember when a trip to the ole’ Mickey-D’s sounded more like an adventure than a screw-it-im-not-cooking dinner cop-out?
When you’re a kid, McDonald’s red plastic slide is just as exciting as the greasy fries. Yes, its a sad day when you outgrow the Hamburglar teeter-toter and the appeal of plastic-wrapped Happymeal toys fade. In fact, it seems a little unfair that McDonald stops throwing adventure and gifts my way just because I made my way into the double digits.
Students at the Miami Ad School of Hamburg must also feel slighted because they came up with this brilliant vision for a adult tech playground and a whole new McExperience. Their student project envisions a sort-of global McDonalds Chatroulette, McFriends. The concept golden arches would be outfitted with tablets and computers and free wifi. Users could come log-on to McFriends, and meet fellow fast-food goers around world.
McFriends from Yasmina Boustani on Vimeo.
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I'm sorry to say that there was a year or so that my now 14 year-old son pretty much lived on McNuggets, and his favorite playground was in the McDonalds in Riverside, IL. I was sitting in the playground with him when I came up with the concept of a grownups wing, something high tech, a combination internet cafe and Dave & Busters. It would be integrated into the existing playground so that parents could have fun and still keep an eye on their kids.Â
I was actually embarrassed at myself for thinking this up, so I stopped taking my son to MickeyD's.