Rent your DVDs at Micky D's

Ruu_Old · 23-09-2005 4:17pm #1

Just wondering if any of these are popping up in Ireland.
You can now rent your dvds at mcdonalds for $1, i havent seen any of the machines but there are adverts and billboards for them everywhere.

scuba steve · 23-09-2005 4:57pm

Im guessing your talking about America that you see the ad's??

segadreamcast · 23-09-2005 5:38pm

Er, this was going on in New York McDonalds in August 2004...hardly breaking news?

Nothing in McDonalds' here (well, I don't visit them but...nothing I've heard). However there are similar DVD vending machines at Esso garages... particularly Esso on Glasnevin Avenue.

Guy:Incognito · 23-09-2005 6:23pm

The Texaco on the tallaght by-pass has ahd one of the machines for about a year.

Ruu_Old · 23-09-2005 6:25pm

just the first ive seen of the ads is all.

Endurance Man · 23-09-2005 7:06pm

Macdonalds are floundering and they are trying to dig themselves out the hole

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Lord Oz · 23-09-2005 7:15pm

I can see the lawsuits, "The disc cut my jaw!".

Ruu_Old · 23-09-2005 7:33pm

"this disc made me obese" or "this disc burned my hand when i took it out of my dvd player"

garred · 23-09-2005 8:09pm

Wonder if they have Supersize Me in their stock

TerrorFirmer · 23-09-2005 8:54pm

garred wrote:

Wonder if they have Supersize Me in their stock

bwhahahahaha....

I mean how does this thing work. How does it verify who you are, how does it vend the movies? I can't imagine its like a typical beverage vending machine...

....someone explain the whole thing? Never head of it before to be honest

Ruu_Old · 23-09-2005 9:03pm

Heres an old story from it, click here

Cianos · 24-09-2005 1:31am

Whats the bets they wont stock any films that are 15's+

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 24-09-2005 5:10am

Yep, there's nothing like eating a bigmac while watching a porno.

robinph · 24-09-2005 9:40am

Ruu wrote:

Heres an old story from it, click here

105 McDonalds in Denver!!!

That is a lot of BigMacs for only half a million people, and I presume they have a few burgerkings etc around as well.

Sparky · 24-09-2005 10:30am

and while your renting Bambis greatest adventures, why not get yourself a big mac for $1.50, to order aswell press yes.

please note the yes button will increase in size over the next coming weeks to acccomadate big fingers, due to our amazing big mac and dvd offers.

projectmayhem · 24-09-2005 12:41pm

there some dvd-dispenser thing in ballymun apparently. i've been told you require a credit card to use. it was a test to see if they can take off (not sure why ballymun was the test region tbh).. so i'm assuming some company plans on having these machines around the place

Gazza22 · 24-09-2005 1:15pm

projectmayhem wrote:

there some dvd-dispenser thing in ballymun apparently. i've been told you require a credit card to use. it was a test to see if they can take off (not sure why ballymun was the test region tbh).. so i'm assuming some company plans on having these machines around the place

Vandalism test?
Maybe the idea is that if the machine can survive Ballymun, it can survive anywhere

RobertFoster · 24-09-2005 2:04pm

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Yep, there's nothing like eating a bigmac while watching a porno.

bigmac would make a great porno name. His special sauce is in high demand.

Pigman II · 24-09-2005 2:58pm

Looks like a winner to me! But just one thing since McDonalds is supposedly a 'family' enviornment will these just dvds just 'edited/censored' versions of the films?

As the disk has to be returned to a McD store the cynic in me reckons this is just a total stunt to get people making more visits to McD's in order to buy their food.

Which reminds me, whatever happened with those self-destroying disks that were all the talk a couple of years ago? They'd have been ideal for this purpose - not that McDonalds would agree.

Rent your DVDs at Micky D's

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