McDonaldland and Taco Bell's Y2K menu turned nostalgia into product lines
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McDonaldland and Taco Bell's Y2K menu turned nostalgia into product lines
Nostalgia is a comfort strategy with box-office proof: two of the highest-grossing movies to date, Barbie and Super Mario Bros, are retro IP. McDonald's revived McDonaldland with collectible merchandise and Taco Bell ran a limited-edition Decades Y2K menu - familiarity engineered as a product, not just an ad theme.
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Euromonitor International, Top Global Consumer Trends 2026 (2025)
Euromonitor International (Ali Angus, Jana Rude et al.)
pp. 10-13, Euromonitor Global Consumer Trends 2026, Comfort Zone applications
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