The "Stuff that came with your breakfast Cereals" thread

Pigman II

I think Americans call them 'prizes' but I'll just call them 'stuff' cos I don't like the term. What I'm referring to is the free junk toy you'd get with a box of cornflakes or whatever cereal floated your boat when you were a kid.

Here's some I remember....

Corn Flakes
- Willow Tie-in http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kelloggs-Willow-Cereal-Premiums-x-24-MIP-8-diff_W0QQitemZ160103578427QQcategoryZ65251QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
- Black Cauldron Tie-in http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/galleries/cerealtoys/blackcauldron.htm
- Dinosaurs (No pix available but they were cards that depending how you which way you held them would present a pix of a dinosaur or it's modern day equivilant)

Weetabix
- Glow in the Dark Scary Stickers http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WEETABIX-SCARY-STICKER-NO-1-WEREWOLF_W0QQitemZ150107948751QQcategoryZ86693QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
- Bake in the oven characters (No pix, these eh were based around those weird looking weetabix characters eg Skinhead ska neonazi and co. Erm I don't exactly remember the point other than that they got smaller and harder in the oven.)

Frosties
- Bike reflectors http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/kelloggs-frosties-cornflakes-bike-reflectors-80s-1p_W0QQitemZ200095204177QQcategoryZ65251QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

billy the squid

Did cornflakes not give away those bycicle reflectors as well. they were in the shape of the cockrel and had a circle yellow reflecor on them.. they would fit on the spokes of the bycicle wheel.

Rice Krispies once gave away a vynil record. you had to cut it out of the box and put the hole in the middle of it your self.

Tails142

Yeah I remember the vinyl, I think I got Technotronic Trip on This, still have it in the record collection methinks..

Weetos used to do Monsters in My Pocket figures, which had numbers on the bases to decide which one would win in a 'fight'.

I also remember saving up tokens to get a rice krispie personal radio, was circular and blue.

that's all I can think of for now

c - 13

I was gong to say the cornflakes reflectors too ! If I remember correctly Frosties di these after a while too.

Frosties also did little plastic "Boglins" too, came in a variety luminous shades of hard plastic

WindSock

oh sweet sugar coated cereal memories. I remember rice krispies had little plastic submarines that ran on baking soda. Now all they give away are cd-roms and mp whatnots. Bring back plastic toys and bicycle decorations I say!

Ruu_Old

I remember collecting tokens for a set of Kelloggs Cornflake bowls. Had the reflectors for cornflakes also. We were brought up on Weetabix so I'm sure I got something from those.

dabbler2004

I remember rice krispies had little plastic submarines that ran on baking soda.

I remember these too, they were cool and really worked!

I remember little spaceships that you had to assemble (think they were from Rice Krispies), they were a lego type toy and you could mix and match the pieces also. ah the memories

bullets

Pigman II wrote:

- Willow Tie-in
blackcauldron
- Dinosaurs

Weetabix
- Glow in the Dark Scary Stickers
- Bake in the oven characters

Frosties
- Bike reflectors

I always loved the free gifts I never liked when they did things
like animal masks or games where you use the cardboard box for your gift.

The Joy of getting the cornflakes home and instantly rumaging around
looking for the gift and the Joy sometimes of getting more than one
and sometimes 3 gifts by mistake in the one bag.
With the gifts that you sent away for you alway wanted the biggest
box or cornflakes as they gave you the most tokens and then there
was the wait for the post man to come with something with your name on it.
as I kid it was a big deal for an item of post to be yours.

With the Cornflakes the Black Cauldron the Pig Hen Wen was the hardest character to get. I had all of them in all colours apart from the pig I only had a yellow one of her and my mother gave it away to some other kid who was collecting them I nearly went mad.
I bought the DVD of the movie this year just to bring back some memories
as I saw it in the cinema.

By the time the Willow foam stuff came out the gifts had started to
go down hill and get crappy comapred to what they were.
I really hated when they went that way.

The Dinosaur cards that changed were brillliant

Also from Cornflakes they had Tiny model planes and jets almost
like Kinderegg toys but they were still on a plastic sprue. The Concorde
was the hardes one to get.

They also had the baking soda boats/diver/submarine where you put them
in water and the baking powder would react and propel them.

There was some Lego type kits called Tinte(not sure of spelling)
where you collected 8 tokens and gave them 20p for postage.
They were cools.

And I remember when I was about 12/13 thre was a model oilrig you sent off for.

Weetabix glow in the dark stickers were cool. they later did
Casper the friendly ghost when the film came out.

Bake in the oven stuff I only got once where you has a sheet of plastic
and you used colouring pencil to colour a character (Fred Flinstone in my case) you stuck it in the oven and the sheet of plastic shrank got thicker
and turned into a keyring.

With Frosties one of the best offers or free gifts nearly caused work war III
in my neighbour hood growing up with all the mothers/housewives.
They sent sales reps around to all the local neighbour hoods where
they gave a way Colouring Markers that were short and fat and had
tony the tiger shaped rubber heads/caps on them. There was not enough
for everyone so the mothers had to fight to get their darling children a set.

There was also the send away gift of Magic markers where
they changed colours when you wrote over the ink with a magic white pen.

Cant remember which cereal gave away the spokey dokey's for your bike
but I remember getting the old cornflake rooster reflecters.

Madge

Yeah what fun it was rooting in the packet trying to get the little toys and stuff! I remember the reflectors, everyone in town had them!
And there used to be pencil toppers aswell with some kellogs cereals- like of snap or crackle or pops head!
I think Cornflakes had miniature old cars free with the pack at some stage?

I remember every one of these. I remember Cornflakes or Rice Krispies gave away transformers for a while. There were Rice Krispie boxes that transformed into racing cars with Snap, Crackle or Pop driving them.

bullets

There is a gallery of some here
it has very little of the ones we would have
seen in Ireland but has some.

Cant find an image of the Tony the Tiger Fat markers
yet.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/cerealprizeproject/group001/index.php

~B

Max_Damage

I remember back in the early 90's, around the time Jurrasic Park came out, in Weetabix (or maybe it was Cornflakes), there was a load of stickers of dinosaurs and other stuff to collect. I still have a load of them on the door of my fridge!

Weetos yoyos were fairly big at one stage. Frosties had Gladiators holograms on the box for a while too. And someone must have been giving away Monster In My Pockets cos my house was covered in them for a few years. No matter what drawer you rooted about in you'd be sure to find a few.

Gaspode

Weetabix had tokens you collected and then sent off for the 'stuff'. I still have 2 little model trains that I got, models of an Irish train. I also papert a paper village - you got it flat packed and constructed it yourself by folding the buildings together. Thats still in the envelop it come in, I never actually got around to making it. must be 25 yrs or more old now.
I think I have some sort of magpie syndrome, this stuff should have been dumped years ago!

bullets

deswalsh wrote:

papert a paper village - you got it flat packed and constructed it yourself by folding the buildings together. Thats still in the

Ahh just remembered that village made from card stock!
I had a few of them. I cant remember what purpose they served.
Was it background decouration for the Train? or was the theme
something else.

I dont remember the train.

~B

sioda

Baking soda boats and subs greatest cereal toy ever

Got a rice crispie radio once

Kellogs delivery vans and cars

And lets not forget the Rice Krispies wrar around shades!

I still have several Prof. Weeto pencil tops

Dudess

Those things you could cook in the oven to become smaller and thicker were cool. I had a Flintstones one. They didn't really have a purpose - they were just... things. I think my mum might have taken mine and used it as a keyring.

We used to make keyrings out of packets of crisps in the oven. I have a few chicatee and onion rings keyrings lying around somewhere.

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Deleted User wrote:

We used to make keyrings out of packets of crisps in the oven. I have a few chicatee and onion rings keyrings lying around somewhere.

How would one go about carrying out this task?

Yeah, I had the reflectors and the Corn Flakes bowls.

Used to save to get matchbox dinkies off various cereal packets aswell. Old delivery vans and stuff like that.

And Reddy-Brek used to do cool glow-in-the-dark posters that I loved.

Jimoslimos

Madge wrote:

I think Cornflakes had miniature old cars free with the pack at some stage?

Aye, a mini, morris minor, citroen 2CV, and another one I can't remember. I think they also had some vintage delivery trucks as well.

How would one go about carrying out this task?

Just pop the wrapper under the grill or in the oven, I forget which, for a couple of seconds and they shrink down to about the size of a matchbox.

Kolodny

I can vaguely remember getting really flimsy cardboard 3D glasses in (I think) Weetabix boxes when they had the Jaws 3D comic strips on the back on the box years ago. Loads of stuff looked cool with those glasses on.

Dyr

Im presuming that the willow, black cauldron and reflecting dinosaurs were the first cereal promos in ireland? Cos I remember collecting each of them so obviously they had novelty value back then

Anyone remember the black hole promotion with findus crispy pancakes when they were launced?

Or the wagon wheels american football poster promo?

faceman

Those feckin willow toys. I kept getting that bleedin pig!!!

JPA

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And lets not forget the Rice Krispies wrar around shades!

I got 5 (five) of them in the one box once!! Five!! I was so happy. I thought I was Bret Hart. Happy Days!

Mrs. MacGyver

billy the squid wrote:

Did cornflakes not give away those bycicle reflectors as well. they were in the shape of the cockrel and had a circle yellow reflecor on them.. they would fit on the spokes of the bycicle wheel.

Rice Krispies once gave away a vynil record. you had to cut it out of the box and put the hole in the middle of it your self.

Frosties and Cornflakes did the relfectors still have them on my chopper!