cereal box toys

enniscorthy

oh my dearest and most sincere friends i have come to a terrible realisation i have finally noticed why my 2 have stopped eating the cereal years ago........... it hit me today as a huge revelation................ THEY DONT PUT THE LITTLE TOYS IN THE CEREAL BOXES ANY MORE:eek: hey anybody know why :mad:

Biggins

Small parts - safety concerns? Maybe more daft EU laws!

Armin_Tamzarian

Turns out that Snap, Crackle and Pop were operating a paedophile ring in conjunction with Tony the Tiger.

The toys were just there to lure in kids.
Cops shut the whole operation down 2 years ago.

KnifeWRENCH

Because those toys were always ****e anyway,and Kellogs finally realised this?

greyed

Anyone remember the send-away things in Honey nut loops? Big stretchy string ball animal thing. Amazing.

... and not ****e.

citizen_p

they are cheap now adays

i remember when they took little plastic army men out of kindereggs it was on the news

kwestfan08

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Turns out that Snap, Crackle and Pop were operating a paedophile ring in conjunction with Tony the Tiger.

The toys were just there to lure in kids.
Cops shut the whole operation down 2 years ago.

Used to love those free toys, though now knowing they were the lynchpin of a paedophile ring has kinda damped my memories of them .

Sharpshooter

Wasn't this here before, maybe it's a serial thread.

Ruu_Old

Kellogg's bike reflectors for the victory, hehehehehehehohoooooooo

enniscorthy

Ruu wrote: »

Kellogg's bike reflectors for the victory, hehehehehehehohoooooooo

MATE

Four-Percent

enniscorthy wrote: »

MATE

D.E.F.O

spylon

I had a rake of those bicycle reflectors. And the ET stickers in weetabix - another enjoyable series.

Ghost Train

Ruu wrote: »

Kellogg's bike reflectors for the victory, hehehehehehehohoooooooo

I still have my mountain bike mad and speed demon stickers
and some glow in the dark dinosaur footprints

AlmightyCushion

The toys in the kinder eggs were much better.

enniscorthy

Four-Percent wrote: »

D.E.F.O

:mad:

Rsaeire

Anyone remember the following cereal toys/gifts?

- Willow (movie) jigsaw pieces
- Frisbee on the front of Lucky Charms
- mini LPs on Frosties boxes

donmeister

Remember those cool lil Monster Trucks they had in the Corn Flakes? They were savage!

Sharpshooter

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The toys in the kinder eggs were much better.

The ones in the bigger egg that came out at Easter were great, I loved getting the ones that had the soft toy inside.

Jesus Juice

Sharpshooter wrote: »

The ones in the bigger egg that came out at Easter were great, I loved getting the ones that had the soft toy inside.

Ohhh someone was well off!:pac:

Sharpshooter

Jesus Juice wrote: »

Ohhh someone was well off!:pac:

Not the eggs though.;)

jaybee747

Yes i remember the reflectors, the biz they where. I also remember getting some lego space ships,had to send away for them but they weren't Lego,they were the other less popular lego (can't remember the name).

What about the jigsaw of the cockeral, cut into about 7 or 8 shapes, i vaguely recall them.

Loved it when you got 2 toys in the one box, I did get 3 once,think it might've been the reflectors though.


+1 on the Willo

Delta Kilo

The thing i disliked about those toys were the "side-effects" that came with them.

For example; your mother comes home after doing the shopping with a big box of rice-crispies with toy inside. Q your younger sibling racing in from the muddy garden and gouging through all the rice crispies with his grubby, dog-haired covered hands to find said toy....yuck!

On a related note, I really liked the characters with the bouncy heads, although I never figured out their purpose.

rubberneck

i remember in the 80's when you'd get these little plastic boats in the corn flakes that you would fill with the bicarbonate soda and that would propel them around the the water....loadsa bubbles and froth!

and the big one back then was the Kellogs Die Cast Truck or "Dinky" commemorating the anniversary of Kellogs Delivery Vans, got about 3 of them....

Ghost Train

jaybee747 wrote: »

Yes i remember the reflectors, the biz they where. I also remember getting some lego space ships,had to send away for them but they weren't Lego,they were the other less popular lego (can't remember the name).

I had that space station with the landing dock/bay and control tower attached, pretty cool, pity it didnt work with lego

rubberneck wrote: »

i remember in the 80's when you'd get these little plastic boats in the corn flakes that you would fill with the bicarbonate soda and that would propel them around the the water....loadsa bubbles and froth!

and the big one back then was the Kellogs Die Cast Truck or "Dinky" commemorating the anniversary of Kellogs Delivery Vans, got about 3 of them....

I remember when when my cars were delivered early one morning and being excited, good times, think I was sent a few of them maybe because it was at the end of the offer

Joey the lips

cause we all buy the cheap aldi lidl tesco cereal for 2 euro a box. Your lucky you actully get the cereal in them. The genius that though of selling cereal by weight and not volume must be loaded now. my box is always empty before I start ( So is the moths:eek:)

Anyway the cars from frosties and cornflakes used to be little matchbox cars. They were great.... They are a long way away.

All the cereal companies try do no is convince you to eat them for breakfeast dinear and tea.

Ponster

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Wasn't this here before, maybe it's a serial thread.

lol

You're right though

mc nuggets

Rsaeire wrote: »

- mini LPs on Frosties boxes

What LPs came with boxes of Frosties?

Armin_Tamzarian

jaybee747 wrote: »

I also remember getting some lego space ships,had to send away for them but they weren't Lego,they were the other less popular lego

Oh dear, you must mean Brix (shudders).
Getting that crap for Christmas was almost as bad as the time I asked for Transformers and got Gobots.

Abi

I hated it when you had to send away for something, think it took about 21 days to be posted out to you. There I'd be stalking the letter box like a tool for days.. and for what? A writing set or something stupid like that.


Fcuk me.. I was one sad kid

Armin_Tamzarian

Abigayle wrote: »

I hated it when you had to send away for something, think it took about 21 days to be posted out to you. There I'd be stalking the letter box like a tool for days.. and for what? A writing set or something stupid like that.

There was this one time I collected all the tokens and sent away for the life size Coco monkey off Coco-Pops.
I waited and waited for months but then he eventually arrived.
It was worth the wait, oh me and Coco had the best of times, we used to go everywhere together.

joey54

God I remember the days of getting cereals just so I could get the toys! Sometimes I would even hate the cereal but desperately wanted the cheap plastic toy! The things we did as children!

IvySlayer

joey54 wrote: »

God I remember the days of getting cereals just so I could get the toys! Sometimes I would even hate the cereal but desperately wanted the cheap plastic toy! The things we did as children!

I used to dig through the box to get the toy. And pour it on the table, nick it, and put it all back in :pac:

phasers

it's to stop luring kids to eat sugary cereal or some bullsh*t. cereal toys were crap anyway, although once I got brilliant little bobble head things


does anybody remember the snoopy toys from happy meals a good few years ago? They were proper sized toys of snoopy in different costumes. those were savage, I used to go into McDonalds just to buy them, no food.

Abi

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

There was this one time I collected all the tokens and sent away for the life size Coco monkey off Coco-Pops.
I waited and waited for months but then he eventually arrived.
It was worth the wait, oh me and Coco had the best of times, we used to go everywhere together.

We were never allowed to have Coco Pops or Frosties or anything like that, because "they'd rot your teeth". Cornflakes, Rice Krispies and Weetabix was all we could have Sweets and crisps were a no-no too.

Jesus no wonder I was excited about a fcuking writing set :S

Armin_Tamzarian

Abigayle wrote: »

We were never allowed to have Coco Pops or Frosties or anything like that, because "they'd rot your teeth". Cornflakes, Rice Krispies and Weetabix was all we could have Sweets and crisps were a no-no too.

Jesus no wonder I was excited about a fcuking writing set :S

We were the same.
My "rich" uncle used to eat the Coco-Pops and give me the tokens, yeah he really lived life in the fast lane.

Did you ever know any of those super-rich kids who used to get those Kelloggs multi-pack things, with the 8 different minature cereals?
Now when you were 6 that was the definition of living large.

Abi

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Did you ever know any of those super-rich kids who used to get those Kelloggs multi-pack things, with the 8 different minature cereals?Now when you were 6 that was the definition of living large.

Yeah, they still do them afaik. And Nestle have their own version (all gack) now too. The old pair could afford them alright, but you'd have to see it to believe it.. Even our birthday parties consisted of fruit platters, little blocks of cheese on sticks and shit. Where everyone else had fizzy drinks, we were given orange, apple and multivitamin drinks :rolleyes:

But I got used to it I suppose, I never have any crap in the house. Although the fruit juices have turned to wine and beer

enniscorthy

donmeister wrote: »

Remember those cool lil Monster Trucks they had in the Corn Flakes? They were savage!

defo mate why else would any1 eat such a horrible cereal heheheahaha

Greenmachine

Ruu wrote: »

Kellogg's bike reflectors for the victory, hehehehehehehohoooooooo

Omg yeah people kept thieving them off each other.

useful_contacts

enniscorthy wrote: »

oh my dearest and most sincere friends i have come to a terrible realisation i have finally noticed why my 2 have stopped eating the cereal years ago........... it hit me today as a huge revelation................ THEY DONT PUT THE LITTLE TOYS IN THE CEREAL BOXES ANY MORE:eek: hey anybody know why :mad:

Remember finding the tacky kellogs corn flakes bike reflectors- had about 5 of them on my bike and though i was jesus:)

whenever i found one would be the topic of discussion in my class for the day cos i wouldnt shut up about it:D

m e m o r i e s:)

chopperbyrne

Now that is freakily coincidental. Only made a post on another forum about the glow in the dark Casper stickers about an hour ago and then see this here.

The toys in the box tended to be crap, except the Monsters In My Pocket in Frosties, but the save up tokens and send away for stuff were always good quality.

Still have a Rice Crispies bowl. Used it this evening too.

lgoring21

they wer great alright...remeber callin kellogs once when i was a child cause i got no toy in the ox they sent me out the whole series of them...was delighted...do they still make pencil toppers?? i remeber one cereal always had pencil toppers....maybe even troll ones??

The Big Red Button

Abigayle wrote: »

Even our birthday parties consisted of fruit platters, little blocks of cheese on sticks and shit. Where everyone else had fizzy drinks, we were given orange, apple and multivitamin drinks :rolleyes:

We may have grown up in the same house! My mother's birthday party speciality was an orange, with lots of cocktail sticks stuck into it, and on each cocktail stick was a cheese cube, a mandarin segment, and an apple slice. No wonder I was never one of the cool kids

xOxSinéadxOx

IvySlayer wrote: »

I used to dig through the box to get the toy. And pour it on the table, nick it, and put it all back in :pac:

same. well first I'd shove my big dirty snotty kid hand in a rummage around and if I couldn't get it then I'd pour it out on the table.

my uncle's girlfriend made a crazy modern art thing with ****ing millions* of them, it was so cool!

*slight exaggeration

In All Fairness

Does anyone remember the little helicopters with the serrated ripcord to propel them ? They were top-notch. Can't remember the cereal. And the stickers that showed two different pictures depending which way you tilted them that came with Redi-Brek; that was like CGI for it's time,always wanted some of them but it was a time of porridge (a cheaper tastier and more nutritious alternative but sadly devoid of anything to interest a 6 year old.)

pablomakaveli

phasers wrote: »

it's to stop luring kids to eat sugary cereal or some bullsh*t. cereal toys were crap anyway, although once I got brilliant little bobble head things


does anybody remember the snoopy toys from happy meals a good few years ago? They were proper sized toys of snoopy in different costumes. those were savage, I used to go into McDonalds just to buy them, no food.

I remember those. I had a few of them. McDonalds use to have some good toys with the happy meal every now and again.

The best toys i remember from the cereals were the monster in my pocket ones. Another favourite was when i got a cards that contiained meteor fragments from the Golden Nuggets cereal.

I've loads of cereal box toys in my attic, from Looney Toons, Animaniacs and various other figures, transformers, matchbox, markers, stickers, holograms, watches and god knows what else :pac:

Who remembers these:

ballybay_eh

I remember they used to give "Monsters in my Pocket" away in Kellogg's cereals. They were deadly.

That's the only thing I don't like about Crunchy Nut Cornflakes ('cause I'm too old to eat Frosties now). They don't have any free toys. I mean, who's going to be disappointed about getting a toy? Only the most miserable of b*stard surely/

Adyx

Anyone remember the cassettes you sent away for from Kelloggs Start I think it was. There was about four songs on them. The only song I remember was one from The Bangles (Manic Monday afair). I still have the tape somewhere actually.

Gummy Panda

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

There was this one time I collected all the tokens and sent away for the life size Coco monkey off Coco-Pops.
I waited and waited for months but then he eventually arrived.
It was worth the wait, oh me and Coco had the best of times, we used to go everywhere together.

I had Coco too!!!

Gummy Panda

Abigayle wrote: »

Yeah, they still do them afaik. And Nestle have their own version (all gack) now too. The old pair could afford them alright, but you'd have to see it to believe it.. Even our birthday parties consisted of fruit platters, little blocks of cheese on sticks and shit. Where everyone else had fizzy drinks, we were given orange, apple and multivitamin drinks :rolleyes:

But I got used to it I suppose, I never have any crap in the house. Although the fruit juices have turned to wine and beer

Mental note: avoid abi's gaff. there is never any cake there

enniscorthy

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Now that is freakily coincidental. Only made a post on another forum about the glow in the dark Casper stickers about an hour ago and then see this here.

The toys in the box tended to be crap, except the Monsters In My Pocket in Frosties, but the save up tokens and send away for stuff were always good quality.

Still have a Rice Crispies bowl. Used it this evening too.

oh hey listen mate dont get me started on glow in the dark casper stickers heeheheheehehahahahaahah my eldest still has 1 on her wall after all these years tried to paint the room a few months ago she threw a strop at 18 years of age over a sticker:mad: heheheheheheheheh