Memory Lane: Freebies in cereals?

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I remember collecting the minstrel figures in Lyons tea too. Can you imagine that today?

Yes can't remember what you got for them though. Maybe a cup?

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Did Coca Cola give away yo yos during the yo yo craze that lit up when you used them or did I imagine it ?

I remember 7up went all out with the yoyos and Fido Dido

This is obscure but does anyone remember around 1994/1995 some cereal (I'm guessing Rice Krispies or Corn Flakes) used to include these stickers of monster-type characters? Most of the sticker was just glossy paper but parts of the character was composed of a suede/furry material (to give it a 3d novelty I suppose).

For about 10 years after we had one of these stuck to our fridge door - by the end the suede-type material had eroded away somehow.

I'd love to see some of these stickers again just to compare them to my memory.

Zaph wrote: »

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.

Something like this?:

http://cerealoffers.com/Kelloggs/Cornflakes/1980s/Airliner_Model_Kit/airliner_model_kit.html

The 3D dinosaurs were epic, had to have them all.

Kitty6277 wrote: »

I remember in the early 2000s getting Jimmy Neutron spoons that you’d fold up in a box of cereal, probably Corn Flakes or Frosties or the like. I had one with Carl on it, I’m pretty sure it’s still at home somewhere!

I remember those, I believe Jimmy himself was the only one I was missing.

Seve OB wrote: »

I still have a few weetabix tapes up in the attic.
Nick kershaw
New kids on the block

There's an old bedside locker in the attic of my parents plastered with pop star stickers from Weetabix, Nick Kershaw being one of them, and the Thompson Twins and Suggs in this pic are also there.




Here's all the stuff from the 80s
http://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Weetabix/1980weetabix.html

Gravelly wrote: »

I remember sending away tokens from something and getting a model gas rig - the one off the coast of Kinsale. Anyone remember what product it was?

I do remember a model gas rig being given away. Unusual sort of thing to give away.

The plastic planes from Kellogs corn flakes I remember well, thay ran that promotion for years and years. The planes and box art were interesting.


Here's one a couple that might twig someones memory. Comic books given away with SugerPuffs and wind up cars that were also crayons from Kellogs.

These were popular in primary school when I was a kid. If you got the dog one you were cool as sh1t.

Not cereals but similar type of toys, a bit better though.

All the Muppet babies you used to get in happy meals. And of course the McDonald's figures themselves. Ronald McDonald, mayor mccheese, hamburglar, there was a purple guy and can't remember the rest.

Way better than the crap my kids get in happy Monday and these days