After making a post on the Shrek Mcdonald’s Happy Meal toys featuring characters from Shrek 4: Forever After, I found out that there’s a second wave of Shrek action figures coming.

After eating lots of Happy Meal again (the Chicken McNuggets is my favorite), we were able to complete the second set in no time at all.

There are six limited edition toys to collect with different poses and uttered phrases from the first wave. Brogan and Little Wooden Puppet (or Pinocchio) are replaced by Dragon which I think is way cooler.

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The fourth and supposedly final installment in the Shrek film series is scheduled to be released on May 21, 2010 in the Philippines and the US and July 2, 2010 in the UK.

As part of its promotion,  DreamWorks Animation in partnership with McDonald’s are offering Shrek 4: Forever After action figures.

The seven special limited edition toys are available from May 14 to June 10, 2010 with every purchase of a Happy Meal.

Check out the set below which I was able to complete before the movie was even released.

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All of us are very familiar with the contour shape of Coca-Cola’s bottle. The Coca-Cola contour bottle is in fact one of the most recognizable cultural icons in the world.

We might even say, “Wow, Coca-Cola body!” for someone who has a sexy figure.

Here in the Philippines, for a limited period of time this November 2009; Coca-Cola has partnered with fast-food chain McDonald’s to produce a new limited edition contour glasses of six different colors developed from the contour bottle.

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Full-scale diorama representations of famous Marvel Comics covers with a tag line of “Famous covers come to life!” were released in 2006 by Toybiz. Each diorama came packaged with copy of the comic book cover. Series 1 was comprised of Spiderman vs Green Goblin and Fantastic Four vs The Mole Man while Series 2 was comprised of The Thing vs The Incredible Hulk and Everyone vs Galactus.

The Everyone vs Galactus diorama is based on the Fantastic Four #243 comic book titled “Shall Earth Endure?” Galactus, planet-devouring super-being, simultaneously battles a scatter of heroes – Dr. Strange, Iron Man, the Wasp, Captain America and the Fantastic Four.

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In 2006, Toybiz released full-scale diorama representations of famous Marvel Comics covers with a tag line of “Famous covers come to life!”. Each diorama came packaged with copy of the comic book cover. Series 1 was comprised of Spiderman vs Green Goblin and Fantastic Four vs The Mole Man while Series 2 was comprised of The Thing vs The Incredible Hulk and Everyone vs Galactus.

The The Thing vs The Incredible Hulk diorama is based on the Marvel Feature #11 comic book titled “The Thing and The Incredible Hulk”. It was the first solo story Marvel published of the Thing from the Fantastic Four. Kurrgo, Master of Planet X has captured the paralyzed Leader and they agree to settle their dispute with a fight between their chosen champions: Thing and Hulk.

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With a tag line of “Famous covers come to life!”, Toybiz released full-scale diorama representations of famous Marvel Comics covers in 2006. Each diorama came packaged with copy of the comic book cover. Series 1 was comprised of Spiderman vs Green Goblin and Fantastic Four vs The Mole Man while Series 2 was comprised of The Thing vs The Incredible Hulk and Everyone vs Galactus.

The Spiderman vs Green Goblin diorama is based on the Marvels #0 comic book titled “The Battle for Gwen Stacey” which is based on the “The Night Gwen Stacy Died” story arc of the Marvel Comics comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1, #121-122.

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