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I remember watching a live-action TV show around the late 90's or early 00's. It centered around four main characters: a boy, a girl, a blue guy who might have been furry and a robot (I think). They would travel through different dimensions (I specifically remember the word dimensions being used). I think the premise was that the boy was looking for his dad(?).

I think I watched this show on the family channel so it may have aired on Disney in the US. I also distinctly remember there being a line of McDonald's toys based on the show where you could mix and match the parts from the different characters (possibly an ability that the boy had).

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  • I forgot to mention that it was a live action series. Thanks for trying though!
    – Connor Smith
    Commented Jun 25, 2016 at 18:33
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    You might want to have a hunt through my checklist here to see if there's anything else you can think of regarding the characters, names, situations, etc; meta.scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
    – Valorum
    Commented Jun 25, 2016 at 18:54

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I found your answer. Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension. It's covered in What early-2000s show about dimension hopping has a character who can swap limbs? on this site. Nick's special ability allows him to exchange his limbs with other beings, an ability which works properly a very small percentage of the time and his father is missing.

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It did indeed run on ABC Family, and there were licensed Lego toys (Lego partially funded it) which were offered in McDonalds Happy Meals:

The show nearly bankrupted Lego at the time, in part because it used a lot of concepts that were ahead of their time like promotion through an Alternate Reality Game, embedded white noise sound effects that triggered the toys, and extensive CGI (hamstrung by a low budget).

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  • Well, if it's not this, then the makers of this need to sue the hell out of whatever he's describing.
    – Valorum
    Commented Jun 25, 2016 at 19:43
  • Which, admittedly, does happen from time to time. :) By the way, thank you for editing my other answer, but I deleted it because Galidor was so obviously the actual answer.
    – FuzzyBoots
    Commented Jun 25, 2016 at 19:44
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    I voted to undelete it. It's a reasonable match and it might help future searchers looking for something similar, but not the same...
    – Valorum
    Commented Jun 25, 2016 at 19:45
  • I guess that is true.
    – FuzzyBoots
    Commented Jun 25, 2016 at 19:46
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    Oh my god; I have all but one of these lego figures. Never had any clue what they were from.
    – Wyatt Ward
    Commented Jun 26, 2016 at 0:12
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The time frame and a boy traveling through multiple dimensions automatically made me think of Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! but that was a boy, a girl, a old professor, and a warrior, pursued by a man in power armor, and I don't think they did any McDonald's toys. Still, I figure it's worth proffering as a guess.

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