McDonald's:
Mcdonald's Happy Meal Fingerboards (2000)
One of the leading knock-off Tech Decks was a company simply called Fingerboard. They did a Summer 2000 Happy Meal Toy tie-in. The Television Ad was pretty wholesome. Ironically, these copycat Tech Deck toys were so fun that they made people go out to the stores and buy actual Tech Decks.
You'll see these more often than most Tech Deck Knock Off brands in G1 or Skate Crew lots.
Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huck Jam Happy Meal Playsets (2004)
McDonald's Happy Meal Star Wars The Clone Wars Fingerboards (2010)
These are not Tech Decks either, the "Fingerboard" line from the 2000 Happy Meals above had gone under by this point, so maybe McDonalds had toy designers make this in-house? It had an ad too.
McDonald's Happy Meal Young Justice Fingerboards (2012)
These are also not Tech Decks, but DC Comics would license their characters to the official Tech Deck boards in 2014.
Burger King
X-Stunt Sport Sets (2001)
Burger King released X-Stunt bikes, boards, and other extreme sports toys in 2001.
Rocket Power figures (2002)
Sonic
Sonic released a few different series of happy skateboarding kids from 2004-2008. These figures copied the magnetic feet and boards gimmick popularized by Tech Deck Dudes.
These are a lot happier and more wholesome than Tech Deck Dudes.
They even copied the dudes' G3 bendy arms gimmick in their 2005 or 2006 wave.
Taco Bell
X-Games Toys and PC Games (2002)
X-Games created fingerboards under Mattel-made boards with random designs.
The toy line came with tools and extra wheels like actual Tech Decks, but the tool was in the shape of the X-Games logo.
This cheaper line was launched in the mid-late 2000s and even had a Taco Bell toy line.
Tech Deck Dudes (2008)
Taco Bell is the ONLY fast-food chain to do a tie-in with Tech Deck, making clash cubes and cut-outs of the dudes.
These new cube pieces matched the colors of the Taco Bell logo instead of the line's original green/yellow/blue/red; they were lime green/lemon yellow/pink/purple.
Many of the dude's outfits and hair colors changed from their original/main variant to their Toys R Us 6-pack or Zoods variant. Perhaps the original variant designs were lost?
Weird-Ohs (2010)
Weird-Ohs came back in 2008, copying the Tech Deck Dude formula. These once Hot Rod driving characters now had magnetic feet, rode magnetic skateboards, and came with a pack of 5 cards. Sound familiar? That's exactly how G2-G3 Tech Deck Dudes came.
Taco Bell sold more traditional fingerboards with sticker packs in 2010 based on the line.
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