The hunt starts today, and it starts in Canada. This is a follow up to our October 22 report and our October 27 update, and almost everything that was still a store level report in those stories is now settled. Pokémon officially announced the promotion on October 29, the full card list is public, the seven foil cards are named, and the first country window opens this morning. What follows is only what is new.
Canada opens today and the calendar is now country by country
PokeBeach says that after speaking to multiple stores it can place the Canada run from Tuesday November 3 to Monday December 7. Australia follows from Thursday November 5 to Wednesday December 9, and the United States runs from Tuesday November 10 to Monday December 14. The official Pokémon announcement gives months rather than exact days, and it puts Australia and Canada and Fiji and France and New Zealand and Spain and the United States in November, a long list of European and Gulf countries in December, Latin America and Italy in January 2027, and Ireland and the United Kingdom last in February 2027. Treat the exact end dates as reported rather than promised, because Pokémon itself says only that the meals run for a limited time while supplies last.
What a meal holds, now in official words
The Pokémon Company confirms that each Happy Meal includes two Pokémon Trading Card Game cards, and that there are 15 total cards to discover including seven foil cards. The meal boxes themselves feature Pikachu or Umbreon or Torchic. The toys are miniature Happy Meal boxes shaped around single Pokémon, and PokeBeach adds that each toy carries an extendable keyring so it can clip to a backpack. PokeBeach also notes that this is the first time since 2018 that Happy Meals include plastic Pokémon toys. One regional exception is official. The miniature box toys will not be available in Quebec, and fans there receive a Pokémon sticker and a booster pack containing four Pokémon cards instead.
All 15 cards, and the seven foils
The set carries M26 numbering and runs to 15 cards. In set order the cards are Decidueye and Chandelure and Palafin and Pikachu and Mimikyu and Lucario and Hawlucha and Tyranitar and Absol and Zoroark and Metagross and Jirachi and Eevee and Snorlax and Wooloo. The seven foil cards are Chandelure and Palafin and Pikachu and Mimikyu and Lucario and Tyranitar and Jirachi. Card Atlas read the names straight off the card images Pokémon published, and Collectibles News published the same 15 names and the same seven foils from the official announcement, so the list now rests on the official page rather than on leaks. The cards are reprints from older sets carrying McDonald's set numbering, as PokeBeach reports, and that matters for value. The chase here is the foil treatment and the M26 stamp, not brand new artwork.
The toys arrive three at a time
The newest detail in the November 3 update from PokeBeach is the toy rotation. Some countries, if not all of them, will release only three toy designs per week, so finishing the toy set takes repeat visits across the whole run. The reported weekly order starts with Squirtle and Piplup and Rowlet, then Bulbasaur and Eevee and Espurr, then Umbreon and Torchic and Sobble, then Charmander and Minccino and Sprigatito, and it ends with Weedle and Pikachu and Munchlax. The full toy lineup is Bulbasaur and Charmander and Squirtle and Weedle and Pikachu and Eevee and Umbreon and Torchic and Piplup and Munchlax and Minccino and Espurr and Rowlet and Sobble and Sprigatito. PokeBeach adds two format notes worth knowing before you go. The cards sit loose inside the cardboard toy box this year rather than inside a booster pack, and a few countries including Norway join Quebec in receiving four card booster packs in place of the plastic toy.
One warning from last week still stands
If a card list circulating online shows Bulbasaur or Charmander or Squirtle as cards, it is the wrong list. As we reported on October 30, the first official post showed cards stamped M27 from next year's set before the post was deleted and corrected. Those three Pokémon are toys this year, not cards. The M26 list above is the one to collect against.
What this means for collectors
Our take is that the two collections barely overlap, and that is what makes this run harder than it looks. Only Pikachu and Eevee appear on both the toy list and the card list, so a collector chasing both sets is really chasing 28 different pieces through one meal at a time. Two cards per meal means even perfect luck needs at least eight meals for the card set alone, and the weekly toy rotation means no single week can finish the toys no matter how many meals someone buys. The loose card format raises a condition point too. Cards that ride loose in a box beside a toy will pick up edge wear more easily than cards from a sealed pack, so the foil copies that survive in clean condition are the ones to sleeve first and watch later. None of that is a price prediction. It is the shape of the supply, and it is visible on day one.
What to watch next
Watch Canada this week for the first real world reports on stock, because the first country in line usually shows whether restaurants set purchase limits. Neither McDonald's nor Pokémon has announced a purchase limit in the material we opened, so any cap will appear at restaurant level first. Watch Australia on November 5 and the United States on November 10 for the same reason. And watch the singles market once the first foil Pikachu and foil Mimikyu copies surface, because those two names carry the demand in almost every McDonald's set and this one should be no different.