Where are Ronald McDonald's friends?

Though the character was dropped during the streamlining of the characters in the mid-1980s, he did appear in McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure where he invents a rocketship to take Ronald and his friends to Magical Moon and appeared in M.C. Kids. read more

Ronald McDonald's friends include Hamburglar, Grimace, Mayor McCheese, Birdie the Early Bird, Captain Crook, the Professor, Officer Big Mac and the Fry Kids. They are said to live in an imaginary place called McDonaldland. read more

McDonald's primary mascot, a proud inhabitant of the fantasy world of McDonaldland, Ronald was first created and portrayed by television personality Willard Scott in 1963. Scott (a local radio host who also played Bozo the Clown on WRC-TV in Washington D.C. from 1959 to 1962) performed while using the name “Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown” in three television commercials. read more