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Memory Lane: Freebies in cereals?

  • 27-11-2018 09:06PM
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,956 ✭✭✭✭


    Any AHers fondly recall the cheapy plastic freebies that nearly all cereal packs had back when I were a young lad in the 1980s? Things like airplane collections, little games, and other knick knacks?

    I had my mum scourged getting me this or that cereal because of some "free gift" inside. She would give out that I only wanted the cereal for the freebie and that half the time I wouldn't finish the cereal. :pac::o

    Sometimes, there were some excellent offers what you collected tokens and posted off for - like the Kelloggs matchbox vans from the 1930s and other goodies...

    Any memories? Do share!!


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  • #2
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,779 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Or collect the tokens and send off for those cool Kelloggs mini cars.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #3
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Submarines and boats that were baking powder powered.


  • #4
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    Kellogs Corn Flakes bicycle reflectors. It was a contest amongst the local children to see who could put the most on their bicycles.


  • #5
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Ipso wrote: »
    Submarines and boats that were baking powder powered.

    They were really cool.

    Loved the Kellogg aircraft though the concord was always a prize find
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  • #6
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,643 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I remember the Willow, Black Cauldron & Jaws freebies...
    https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/other/cereal-prizes/43169/movies-and-their-cereal-free-gifts

    1988-Cornflakes-Willow-Figures.jpg

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I remember I "sent away" for a rice krispie bowl and spoon, was so excited when it arrived. Also received record singles from rice krispies, the one that stands out was "give it up" by kc and the sunshine band, I was 5


  • #8
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    This would have been in the 70s, there were these little aeroplanes that came on a rectangular plastic frame. You detached all the parts from the frame and slotted them into each other to make things like a Spitfire or a Messerschmitt Me109. There were possibly some commercial planes too, but couldn't tell you which ones. Can't remember what they were in, but I'm guessing Kellogg's Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies because that's what we usually had when I was a kid.


  • #9
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Still a couple of those free with tokens Kellogg's branded cereal bowls from the late 80's in my mothers house

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  • #10
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Were common enough well in to the 2000’s. I remember cool little Finding Nemo wind-up fish in Coco Pops.


  • #11
    saintsaltynuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,147 ✭✭✭saintsaltynuts


    The Weetabix Scary Stickers.1986.


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  • #12
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Weetabix had a large chart of the Solar System in the late 60s. Fantastic quality and great graphics. I know a young boy who got one at the time, was so taken with it that he started reading about space, and went on to be an astrophysicist today.


  • #13
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    Some of them are still out there,

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5196413/What-toy-1958-Sugar-Puffs-packet-tells-us.html


  • #14
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    I remember the plastic toys and the vintage Kellogs dinkies.

    Cheap marketing ploys were all the rage back in the '80's.

    Maxoll garages used to have a loyalty scheme that you could collect points and choose gifts.


  • #15
    JazzJaquzzi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭JazzJaquzzi


    Loved the reflective bike spokie dokies. The cereal would lose its flavour after you found the prize.

    Had a bag of Kinder Egg constructions too. Back in the day when people didn't eat washing tablets, and we were trusted with such things.


  • #16
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Walt Disney drinking glasses from Burgerland anyone? (1980)


  • #17
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I remember the plastic toys and the vintage Kellogs dinkies.

    Cheap marketing ploys were all the rage back in the '80's.

    Maxoll garages used to have a loyalty scheme that you could collect points and choose gifts.


    I got a football the time of the Mexico World Cup in maxol.had a Mouse on it wearing a sombrero hat.wish I still had it today.bog toe billy booted it over the crossbar and it met its end under the back wheels of a yoplait truck. I remember it vividly.sad time


  • #18
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Early 90's, Frosties, Monster in my Pocket.

    Everyone in school went mental for them.

    Never had any because my Ma wouldn't buy Frosties.


  • #19
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Reminiscing about that cheap tat will be a cold comfort when our oceans are overrun with plastic and we're ****ting out our own guts from eating and drinking that poison.


  • #20
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Reminiscing about that cheap tat will be a cold comfort when our oceans are overrun with plastic and we're ****ting out our own guts from eating and drinking that poison.

    Let us have our moment.


  • #21
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Ah lads stop it.. The memories ... bike reflectors the planes.. The cars .. but most of all reading the box. I knew more about what was in cornflakes that the lads making them.
    vitamin b12 riboflavin ....don't have a clue what it was but they all had it..


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  • #22
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    43EE62D500000578-4854850-In_1986_Tony_the_Tiger_fans_could_send_off_for_one_of_three_wate-a-5_1504680530944.jpg


  • #23
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Reckless Abandonment wrote: »
    Ah lads stop it.. The memories ... bike reflectors the planes.. The cars .. but most of all reading the box. I knew more about what was in cornflakes that the lads making them.
    vitamin b12 riboflavin ....don't have a clue what it was but they all had it..

    LOL! So I wasn't the only kid who read the box cover to cover whilst munching on my frosties.


  • #24
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    LOL! So I wasn't the only kid who read the box cover to cover whilst munching on my frosties.

    Literacy levels were at record highs
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  • #25
    Charmeleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Charmeleon


    The words that struck so much dread into the hearts of 7 year olds everywhere: ‘Please allow 28 days for delivery’


  • #26
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Those mixed packs of cereal though.
    No way would one little bag be enough, we used mix them.

    Oh, anyone else have tea in their cereal? My parents were poor, maybe a way of saving the milk. It was lovely in the winter though.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,286 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Any AHers fondly recall the cheapy plastic freebies that nearly all cereal packs had back when I were a young lad in the 1980s? Things like airplane collections, little games, and other knick knacks?

    I had my mum scourged getting me this or that cereal because of some "free gift" inside. She would give out that I only wanted the cereal for the freebie and that half the time I wouldn't finish the cereal. :pac::o

    Sometimes, there were some excellent offers what you collected tokens and posted off for - like the Kelloggs matchbox vans from the 1930s and other goodies...

    Any memories? Do share!!

    Great simpler days :) The cars i remember well and you had cardboard buildings with them from what i remember?

    These were my personal favourite though around the same time as Italia 90

    93a56aa7b4291afc941fb3cd9e5d5cc3.jpg


  • #28
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I remember I "sent away" for a rice krispie bowl and spoon, was so excited when it arrived. Also received record singles from rice krispies, the one that stands out was "give it up" by kc and the sunshine band, I was 5

    Remember waiting ages for those records, and when they eventually came the feckin record player was broke. Think club tropicana and total eclipse of the heart were 2 more of the songs featured.


  • #29
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 13,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    https://youtu.be/EVX00qr6l_w


  • #30
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,324 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Free Electric Picnic tickets with your Weetabix. :):D

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #31
    DBB
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 9,836 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    Charmeleon wrote: »
    The words that struck so much dread into the hearts of 7 year olds everywhere: ‘Please allow 28 days for delivery’

    Or worse again... "Not available in the Republic of Ireland" :o


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