{"id":2871,"date":"2001-01-05T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-05T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/01\/05\/new-mcdonalds-hello-kitty-dolls-but-no-stampedes\/"},"modified":"2001-01-05T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-05T14:52:00","slug":"new-mcdonalds-hello-kitty-dolls-but-no-stampedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/new-mcdonalds-hello-kitty-dolls-but-no-stampedes\/","title":{"rendered":"New McDonald&#8217;s Hello Kitty Dolls, But No Stampedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Japanese icon Hello Kitty and McDonald&#8217;s restaurants in Singapore made headlines when customer demand for &#8220;Happy Meal&#8221; Hello Kitty dolls dressed in wedding gowns caused small scale riots.  The 119 McDonald&#8217;s restaurants in Singapore have just launched the 2001 series of wedding gown Hello Kitty toys to early morning crowds, but no stampedes.  Apparently demand for this year&#8217;s toys isn&#8217;t what it was last year, but McDonald&#8217;s is taking no chances, raising the per person limit of dolls to 4 per person per visit and hiring extra security guards to maintain the crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/world\/DailyNews\/kitty010104.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article provided by <a href=\"mailto:earthcurrent@hotmail.com\">Darren A. Bills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Japanese icon Hello Kitty and McDonald&#8217;s restaurants in Singapore made headlines when customer demand for &#8220;Happy Meal&#8221; Hello Kitty dolls dressed in wedding gowns caused small scale riots. The 119 McDonald&#8217;s restaurants in Singapore have just launched the 2001 series of wedding gown Hello Kitty toys to early morning crowds, but no stampedes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}