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Why isn't there free toys in cereals anymore..

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    Guill wrote: »
    A Twofor!
    I once got a three-for!!!
    All of them were of the same one, but that didn't matter!

    As far as I remember, it was a Loch Ness Monster plastic figure. Part of the Demons & Ghoulds collection. Anyone else remember them? They were in Frosties and Corn Flakes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭JohnMarston


    As far as I remember, it was a Loch Ness Monster plastic figure. Part of the Demons & Ghoulds collection. Anyone else remember them? They were in Frosties and Corn Flakes.

    Yup i collected them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5


    Should be putting condoms in the boxes for the young kids now having children themselves..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,209 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    Yup i collected them
    We used to swap them in school. I was so jealous of the lads with big families who used fly through cereal! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    I once got a three-for!!!
    All of them were of the same one, but that didn't matter!

    As far as I remember, it was a Loch Ness Monster plastic figure. Part of the Demons & Ghoulds collection. Anyone else remember them? They were in Frosties and Corn Flakes.


    You could send off for the Display case for them too!

    I had 7 or 8 of the gargoyle, loved that one.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    kiddums wrote: »
    Health and F***ing safety sticking their oar in somewhere it wasn't wanted again.

    Oooer Matron.

    It's even worse than Health & Safety - it's down to the evil Marketing overlords.

    They asked a load of parents about what sort of promotions they prefer and the bloody fools said they'd rather get coupons and vouchers aimed at them rather than toys for the kids.

    Crazy fools.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭amacca


    Should be putting condoms in the boxes for the young kids now having children themselves..


    I would have been disappointed with my water balloon.......even if it was ribbed for her pleasure or strawberry flavor


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    I was wondering this myself a while back after good bow(e)l movement.How can the Kellogs brothers sleep at night knowing they're doing a dis service by removing an essential part of childhood to this generation.

    The real trick was after getting the toy,putting the bag back in the box so that it didnt look like it had imploded on itself.That took talent. :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭amacca


    Burky126 wrote: »
    I was wondering this myself a while back after good bow(e)l movement.How can the Kellogs brothers sleep at night knowing they're doing a dis service by removing an essential part of childhood to this generation.

    The real trick was after getting the toy,putting the bag back in the box so that it didnt look like it had imploded on itself.That took talent. :p

    step 1...open box carefully with as little evidence it has been opened as possible, remove bag by slowly sliding out of box

    step 2...carefully examine bag keeping it as close to original rectangular shape as possible

    step 3...locate the side of bag toy is on, disturb as little cereal as possible and slowly move toy to top of bag

    step4...make smallest opening necessary in bag to remove toy and place a small "fcuk you dominic" note in bag

    step 5...reseal bag (use a glue) and replace bag with the sealed end downwards....clase up box as if its never been opened

    step 6...play with toy secretly and await the look of crushing disappointment on little dominics face

    step 7...seek help from a trained professional for doing this at the age of 22


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    I never got those posh cereals. Cornflakes were too ghetto for free toys.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭thecornflake


    Ush1 wrote: »
    I never got those posh cereals. Cornflakes were too ghetto for free toys.

    Yo dog why you all up in my grill ova ghetto stylin ??

    If you want free toys ask Santa not your cereal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭amacca



    If you want free toys ask Santa not your cereal.

    I think you'll find that's "yo cereal fool".....the mask is slipping pretty fly for a white guy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭thecornflake


    amacca wrote: »
    I think you'll find that's "yo cereal fool".....the mask is slipping pretty fly for a white guy

    Im the real shiz ya'll, I ain't no white cornflake im one of those brown burnt ones, I be represen'in dawg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭amacca


    Im the real shiz ya'll, I ain't no white cornflake im one of those brown burnt ones, I be represen'in dawg.

    they be rapin evryone up in here!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,145 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    What about them carboard villages you could get with 8 tokens, along with the old corn flakes vans


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭Noo


    Digging up my back garden last summer and found loads of those pencil topper trolls you got with Wheetos. Jackpot!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭amacca


    niallo27 wrote: »
    What about them carboard villages you could get with 8 tokens, along with the old corn flakes vans

    what about them?........i have the van, sadly the village fell victim to a damp wardrobe a long time ago...only vaguely remember the village or was it a castle or something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,145 ✭✭✭✭niallo27


    amacca wrote: »
    what about them?........i have the van, sadly the village fell victim to a damp wardrobe a long time ago...only vaguely remember the village or was it a castle or something

    I had 4 churchs in mine, good times, good times


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,976 ✭✭✭amacca


    niallo27 wrote: »
    I had 4 churchs in mine, good times, good times

    ultra religious village dwellers need a simple unadorned cereal filled with sunshine and happiness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭M00lers


    I remember being seriously jealous of classmates that had the Weetabix Atlas.:mad:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I guess it's in case someone chokes on one and the cereal manufacturer ends up getting sued.

    Back in the early nineties Kelloggs gave away free flexi-discs (incredibly thin records). They were stuck to the front of the box so you were supposed to cut around the record and leave the cardboard underneath. I only ever got one of these and my father peeled it off the box and gave it to me rather than cutting it out. It wouldn't play. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


    I remember being seriously jealous of classmates that had the Weetabix Atlas.:mad:

    I had one of them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,503 ✭✭✭M00lers


    I had one of them!

    Prick!!;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭patrickbrophy18


    I can vividly remember when I was about 7 years old and getting a box of Weetos with cool curly drinking straws (not too dissimilar to this one here). It's quite amazing how we used to appreciate things that were so simple! Ah yes, those were the days!!!!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    It's a result of a nefarious lobby with militant atheists, the Catholic Church, Fianna Fáil and political correctness gone mad being the main driving forces behind it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Anyone remember back in the late 60's?

    You'd get elaborate little snap together racing car kits and fighter planes etc etc.


    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    My favourite was the speedboats in either Frosties or it might have been Coco Pops, you added baking soda to them and put them in water and the chemicsl reaction made them move, hours of fun for kids. I remember that wss mid 80's the country was like the wild west. I remember shopping with the family in Dunnes one evening and someone had cut the boxes of every box of Frosties to remove the toys, shortly afterwards they included them within the cereal package itself.


  • Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    We still have a Weetabix atlas back at my parents' place. I also have a die-cast toy of a steam engine with the old CIÉ "flying snail" logo on it, I think it was a mail order from a Corn Flakes packet.
    bluewolf wrote: »
    I remember collecting tokens and sending away for toys as well, it was very exciting...

    Yep, I remember we used to tape a 20p coin to the back of a form and post it off in an envelope. "Allow 28 days for delivery" was the norm then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Anyone remember back in the late 60's?

    Dude, you do realise this is AH, right?

    My own personal faves were the Crayola mini stamper markers that were in Weetos for ages.

    There was also a series of really cool handheld games with Frosties for a while, they were a bit like pinball but you filled them with water first. Although you had to send away for them, so I'm not sure if they count...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Anyone remember the plastic yokes that used to attach to the laces of your runners? You'd get bet for having them now.
    Also, why dont coke do the labels anymore?? Used to walk the dog a mile every evening to pull them off bottles in a building site. All for a ****ty watch.


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