In America, key chains are popular (at least they were when I lived there. Are they still popular there?).
Key chains aren’t popular at all in Japan. Here, 携帯電話ストラプ (cell-phone straps) are very popular.
I wrote a post about “Samurai cell-phone straps” and another post about “Snoopy cell-phone straps”.
I had meant to write about the cell-phone straps that McDonalds in Japan began offering last July but I didn’t get around to it until now.
Unfortunately, if you want one of these straps it’s too late now. The campaign has recently ended.
I thought the straps were a good idea and they were fairly popular. They looked just like McDonalds burgers, fries, coffee and apple pie…but they’re too big, in my opinion.
I wouldn’t put one on my phone. I have a strap on my phone but it’s nothing like these.
To get one of these “McDonalds Food Straps“, you had to order a large size value meal set and a strap would be included with the set…during the campaign period.
Would you put one of these on your cell-phone? Do you already have one? Which one do you like best? Does McDonalds offer things like this in your country?
Tokyo Five 
SO I BOUGHT ONLY THE COFFEE AND MY CLASSMATES HAVE THE BIG MAC AND THE FRENCH FRIES (ONES OUT OF STOCK) BECAUSE WE HAVE NO TWO OTHER BURGERS AND THE APPLE PIE AND WE CHOOSE WHAT WE CAN BUY INSTEAD OF GETTING THE MEAL YOU SAID INSTEAD PAY PHP 39.0
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Is McDonald’s popular in your country?
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pretty much 🙂
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this is the last month
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I see. Are you going to collect the other ones too?
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the others are out of stock
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i have the coffee one 😀
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They haven’t been offered in Japan for a year or so. When did you get it?
Did you get it in Japan?
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In the Philippines yesterday! 🙂 ❤
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Is McDonalds in the Philippines offering Japanese phone straps now?
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We’ve got lots in Australia but mostly are the china cheep ones that like break two days after you use it but the hong kong ones are pretty like the ones on the pictures abouve with like soup noodle bowls, abolone, prawns anything you want
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Since 1997 Hong Kong has been a part of China. So I guess “made in Hong Kong” is the same as “made in China”.
Aren’t there Japanese phone straps available in Australia? And do people in Australia put straps on their cell-phones?
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Key Chains are fairly popular, but I see so manuy asians at my school with these straps on their phones, but they all are Winnie the Pooh, and for future reference, I live in an area with around 75% of tyhe ppopulation as soem sort of asian, and more than half of that is Korean. But all I have to go under the freeway (you may call it something else, it is basically a highway) to get to a population of a lot of Hispanic people. Anyways, these cell phone straps are popular with ym asian friends and asian people who aren’t my friends.
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>they all are Winnie the Pooh
Disney cell-phone straps are popular with girls in Japan also. But there are many, many other types too. Mine, for example, is a skull.
Do you have a strap on your cell-phone? (Do you use a cell-phone?)
At what age does the average child in America get their first cell-phone?
In Japan, I’d say it’s junior high age…but I didn’t let my kids have a phone until they started high school.
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I have a strap, but it isn’t on my phone, it is on my DS, it is a mushroom from Super Mario Bros. I don’t really use my cell phone, I don’t have a texting plan and I really just use it to call my parents to pick me up from football (soccer is what Americans call it but I think football is better) practices and stuff. I got my first cell phone last year (beginning of high school) but I remember some kids having them in elementary school and I really never wanted one, I got it because borrowing other people’s phones was annoying.
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>I have a strap
So, they sell cell-phone straps in America?
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Yeah, but mainly in asian stores that have a lot of imports, I have been in some of those, and sometimes fast-ffod restaurants in heavily populated “asian” areas like where I live may have them. the only one that seems to aimed towards the general public is the New Super Mario Bros. screem cloth.
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Are Japanese cell-phone straps expensive in America?
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I think they are only like a dollar last time I looked at the displays, maybe in 50 cents for the ones in stores
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>I think they are only like a dollar last time I looked at the displays, maybe in 50 cents for the ones in stores
If they only cost US$1 or less, then they’re probably not Japanese phone straps.
Japanese phones straps are quality made…and priced accordingly.
They cost about ¥600 – ¥1,000 (US$7-$11) in Japan…outside of Japan, they’d be priced even higher due to import costs, I’d imagine.
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oh, well then I guess they aren’t made inJapan, but the machine that dispenses them and stuff are all in some asian language.
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>I guess they aren’t made in Japan…in some asian language.
Made in China, I bet.
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most likely, but they are mostly in Korean stores I think so I don’t know, all I know is that nothing on the boxes or anyting has English. Except maybe the brand like Winnie the Pooh or something
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