Today’s Ottawa Citizen features a about another success story in Canada. Ottawa-based is gearing up to put a smile on the faces of 80 million children across Europe and create 50 new jobs in Ottawa, all thanks to a Happy Meal promotion with McDonald’s restaurants. Fuel will kick off its new Fairies and Dragons franchise with McDonald’s in 40 countries across Europe introducing children to four friendly fairies and four ferocious dragons that come to life on home computer screens. Once the promotion begins in mid-April, Fuel says more than 235,000 CDs containing the creatures will ship to McDonalds across Europe every day. According to Fuel’s Chief Creative Officer Warren Tomlin, Fuel is also in discussions with major broadcasters and toy companies about taking the Fairies and Dragons franchise mainstream.

The characters were all designed in Fuel’s Westboro studios – the same building that was once home to Hinton Animation Studios, the creators of popular ’80s cartoon. McDonalds has told Fuel it will closely monitor the Happy Meal giveaway and consider expanding the promotion to its North American and Japanese stores within 12 months. Not content to rest on its laurels, Fuel is also gearing up to release a new video game website, All Girl Arcade, which will offer puzzles, strategy and action games tailored at girls between seven and 11 years of age.

Greetings from Spain! Hello, this is Jessica Borutski reporting from Barcelona. I was the artistic lead on The Fairies and Dragons campaign we created for McDonald’s. It was the most rewarding and exciting project I have ever worked on, and being able to see it here across the ocean, so far from our studio where it was created, is a great experience! It’s so exciting to be here in this beautiful city! Barcelona has so many amazing things to see!

The first dinner I had was a delicious Cheeseburger Happy Meal complete with a Sunflower happy meal toy! It was so amazing to see the toys finally out and in the hands of cute little Barcelonian kids. I wish I could have brought the entire team with me to experience seeing our work out in the public! In the first McDonald’s I walked into, I immediately spotted a little girl eating a Happy Meal, so I snapped a candid shot of her. (Luckily nobody noticed the strange Canadian woman taking pictures of children eating hamburgers.) It seemed they didnt know the floor decals were meant for the floor because they were on windows everywhere.

Ms Excel 97-2003 Free Download. McDonald’s Fuels Fairies and Dragons. All thanks to a Happy Meal promotion with McDonald. McDonalds has told Fuel it will closely monitor the Happy Meal.

I’ve visited a total of three McDonald’s so far. The first two smaller ones in the Ramblas didn’t have as many Point of Purchase elements. The third McDonald’s by the Sagrada Famillia was larger and had the hanging mobiles of the characters on the mouses. In this display below there was a fairy I don’t remember designing. I guess I will call her Marigold the fifth fairy from Barcelona. Here are my Mom and my little sis enjoying some Happy Meals! My McDonald’s adventures will continue in the morning!

For now I need some sleep. All this walking made me tired, and Im still a little jet-lagged! Goodbye for now!