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Burger King and Hello Kitty launch a kids' meal with a gold prize

The Hello Kitty and Friends kids' meal has six blind-box toys and a one-day Golden Claw Machine in Downey with a gold-plated prize; classified, apparently.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBurger King and Hello Kitty launched a kids' meal on October twentieth with six blind-box toys, and one of them is a golden Hello Kitty.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWith me is a source familiar with the matter, speaking from a parking garage. Sir, what can you tell us?

  3. Tobias RennickI'm behind pillar C, and I can only say this once. There's a toy. It's gold.

  4. Tobias RennickPlease don't use my name, because I haven't given you one.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBurger King announced that on October nineteenth, in a release datelined Miami. Is that the leak?

  6. Tobias RennickDatelined Miami. Okay. I'm moving to pillar D. They gave it a dateline so nobody would check Miami.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentQSR Magazine ran the golden toy part. So you and a trade magazine have the same source.

  8. Tobias RennickThen the magazine is compromised. The figurine is in a Golden Claw Machine, in Downey, California, for one day only.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentToday. Eleven a. m. Pacific. That's two p. m. Eastern.

  10. Tobias RennickYou're not supposed to say the time out loud. I'm on pillar E now, and this one has a puddle.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSanrio's Jill Koch said every character gets its own iconic BK crown. Does that sound like a cover story?

  12. Tobias RennickA crown is how they mark the ones they're watching. I'd say more, but my flashlight just died, and that's not a coincidence.

  13. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou're a guy in a garage reading a press release back to me. That's two hundred percent of what you know.

  14. Tobias RennickConfirm nothing. Can you get me in line at the claw machine?

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