Post by brandonthefan01 on May 22, 2018 21:15:54 GMT
“Ronald’s Adventure Machine” (A.K.A. “Ronald and the Adventure Machine”) was an 8 minute McDonald’s animated video made around 1987, and was only available for viewing at McDonald’s restaurants for birthday parties only.
Not much is known about the video, but I think it’s about Ronald and his friends going on this adventure machine built by The Professor, and yeah.
Animation cels from the video exist, and can be viewed here: and here:
There’s also a pencil sketch of Ronald and Grimace from the video: i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/78/3d/cb783dc611b395f68309c270a9b443dd.jpg and an art cel of Ronald McDonald also from the video, too. But unfortunately, I tried getting the link to it, and when I tested it out, it lead to an Error 404 page. So, it’d be best if you look up “Ronald’s Adventure Machine”, and find an image of the art cel of Ronald.
UPDATE: Another cel of the Professor has been found:
Unless I’m mistaken, I recall seeing this video tape in box a McDonald’s that has long since closed down. I want to say it was around 1998?
Regardless, I’ve long thought there was another tape besides the “Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald” and I remember being confused when I saw the box, hopefully this isn’t something else, but the box had various characters standing on an island much like in that first cell. Captain Crook was on the box, and he had a slightly more “Captain Morgan” look to him than most images you see online. I believe a similar design was used on high chairs for several years.