Happy Meal

A  is a kids' meal sold at the American fast food chain,. The Happy Meals usually have a tie-in promotion of a franchise with a toy relating to the promotion. The Happy Meal box is also designed after the thing it is promoting and sometimes includes activities on it. The Mario franchise has had tie-in releases as early as Super Mario Bros. 3.

Super Mario Bros. 3 (February 1990)
The Super Mario Bros. 3 promotion took place in February 1990.

Mario Kart 8 (July 2014)
A line of Mario Kart 8 toys were included in Happy Meal toys in July 2014.

September 2006
The Happy Meal promotion in 2006 was named "Take the Mario Challenge". It was promoted through the Happy Meal official website and via a television commercial.

April-May 2017
Clockwise from top left, the image shows Mario, Yoshi (able to extend and retract his tongue by pressing a button on his saddle), Bowser (plastic fire can be inserted into his mouth and ejected by pressing a button on his back), Peach with a background (Peach spins around as the toy moves), a Red Shell (can be moved similarly to a toy car), Luigi with a yellow Warp Pipe (Luigi can be inserted and ejected from the pipe), Invincible Mario (flicking the switch on the toy's base lights the toy up in a number of colors), and a 1-Up Mushroom (makes the 1-Up sound from Super Mario 3D Land when a switch is flicked)

July-August 2018
This promotion Clockwise from top left, the image shows Yoshi (roulette toy), New Super Mario Bros. U-themed maze toy (has two sides), Mario (toy slot machine), Rubix cube (with miniature cards, one is to rearrange the blocks to match up with the design, which includes a; brick block, a musical note block, a ? block, an empty block, and a purple, green, red, and blue block that features on each of their sides an icon based on Mario characters; purple having a Goomba, a Blooper, a Boo, a Bullet Bill, and Bowser; Blue having a POW Block; Red having Mario, a Toad, Luigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and Peach; and Green having a Mushroom, a Fire Flower, a Yoshi's Egg, a Super Star, and a Koopa Shell), Fire Luigi (comes with a cutout Goomba and Koopa Troopa, where the left arm acts as the firing mechanism to launch a disc representing the fireball), Running Yoshi (Yoshi can be inserted into a launcher and ejected, with a pik representing an egg and fruit acting as stoppers), Super Mario Bros.-themed pointer game (flicking the switch on the toy's base will have a Koopa shell being launched and fall into any of the designated points, with the leftmost bit awarding 10 points, the middle being 50, and the rightmost bit awarding 100 points), and a Mario and Cappy target game (twist Mario around to have him "throw" Cappy onto a target icon depicting Goombas and coins)