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Meet Mike Fountaine - the owner of the world’s largest collection of McDonald’s memorabilia.

The 60-year-old has spent almost half a century amassing a record-breaking haul of everything to do with the world-famous restaurant.

Nine rooms of Mike’s home have been given over to his 75,000 piece-strong collection, displayed on two MILES of shelving.

The mammoth undertaking encompasses 11,700 McDonald’s lapel pins and almost every happy meal toy ever made in the US.

Mike’s career with McDonald’s began at age 15 in 1968, where he started off working the grill in the same month the Big Mac was introduced.

A year later he began his collection with a lapel pin given to him for one year's service.

Now 46 years later Mike runs two restaurants of his own and has been awarded some of the highest accolades the restaurant has to offer.

And his collection is still growing - at an estimated 100 new pieces each month.

Mike said: “This collection means everything to me, it is my life’s work.

“Thousands and thousands of hours have been spent assembling this collection and taking pride to display it extremely nicely.

“I’m very proud to be a part of the McDonald’s family.

"We have a saying here when you love the business that you have 'ketchup in your veins’, which I certainly do."

Mike's astounding labour of love has been meticulously catalogued and put on display in his home in Pennsylvania, US.

My collection is quite extensive.  Nothing like his but still...I gots lotsa happy meal toys!

My collection is quite extensive.  Nothing like his but still...I gots lotsa happy meal toys!

Cool. I still have a few of the happy meal toys that I received between 1989 and 1991.

I wonder if he collected all the Big Macs?

I am probably going to piss her off but this is my sister's collection. Not the complete collection and not all of those are McDonald's toys but a lot of them are. There are also Burger King toys and others.

My apology that the pics are a bit blurry.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/aandcsattic/128_zps65bd6b67.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/aandcsattic/127_zps2344a002.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/aandcsattic/126_zpsce657f17.jpg



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I am probably going to piss her off but this is my sister's collection. Not the complete collection and not all of those are McDonald's toys but a lot of them are. There are also Burger King toys and others.

My apology that the pics are a bit blurry.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/aandcsattic/128_zps65bd6b67.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/aandcsattic/127_zps2344a002.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r92/aandcsattic/126_zpsce657f17.jpg



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Wow, that's huge!  :o

That's an awesome collection

She used to keep them in her bedroom. One time when her daughter was bringing home a boyfriend for the first time, she asked her daughter, "Should I ask him if he wants to come into my bedroom to see my toys?" My niece looked at her with TERROR in her eyes and said, "DON'T YOU DARE!!!!!" She didn't-but still laughed about it-and so did we. 



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How did the boyfriend react?



Howard, please read my post again.



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