22 Forgotten Mascots from Fast Food’s Golden Age

Finally, we have Officer Big Mac. In a way, McDonald’s is like a land of its own, and there needs to be someone to enforce the law, especially when the Hamburglar is on the loose. Officer Big Mac was a policeman with a burger for a head, similar to Mayor McCheese. In the ’80s, kids would go to McDonald’s and, in the playground, climb inside his mouth, which had bars inside similar to a jail cell.

In 1985, he was retired. The reason may be due to a lawsuit from Sid and Marty Krofft, who said their character, H.R. Pufnstuf, was too similar to Mayor McCheese. Both had big heads and were town leaders, and there were prior plans for the Kroffts to work on a McDonald’s campaign. However, he has appeared recently as a Funko Pop, so there’s that