toys in your cereal

Mickey H · 01-09-2012 11:25PM

Ghandee wrote: »

I got a rampant rabbit in me Fruit loops yesterday!

Possibly caused by a clerical error at the Fruit Loops factory.

gavmcg92 · 01-09-2012 11:32PM

Anyone remember opening a fresh box of Frosties, plunging your dirty hands into the box and rummaging around the flakes to find that little plastic packet? ... Those were the days

The ads were always so dignified. A kid pouring himself a bowl and ... "clink" ... out comes the toy into their bowel. Never what happened in reality!

phasers wrote: »

Anyone remember the Snoopy Toys from McDonalds?

I had them all, my Mam used to go into McDonalds just to buy me a plastic Snoopy. God I wish I kept them, they were freaking awesome.

I remember going up to the counter in McDonalds and asking for a different toy because "I have that one already!"

smash · 02-09-2012 12:45AM

How come in adult serial like start or special k you don't get sex toys?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-09-2012 12:51AM

I always hated cereal, haven't eaten it in years. My parents force fed it to us each morning, bloody mother jabbering on about having to eat a breakfast.

The one thing I do remember getting though was a Jurassic Park wristwatch. You had to collect a certain number of tokens from cornflake boxes and then send them plus a p&p fee to Kellogs.

tan11ie · 02-09-2012 01:09AM

Oh the joys!! the little trucks from kellogs

PizzamanIRL · 02-09-2012 01:20AM

I remember coming home with my mother with the shopping and opening the cereal box straight away, searching for the toy and putting the box in the press until the morning.

Used to love the excitement of seeing the little plastic wrapper sticking out from the top of the cereal, covered in Coco Pops dust.

tan11ie · 02-09-2012 01:23AM

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I remember coming home with my mother with the shopping and opening the cereal box straight away, searching for the toy and putting the box in the press until the morning.

Used to love the excitement of seeing the little plastic wrapper sticking out from the top of the cereal, covered in Coco Pops dust.

I know the little joys we had!!! come to think of it as far as I remember they were always boy toys

although I don't think I was anyway disappointed back then.

Mikeyt086 · 02-09-2012 01:30AM

Premier League pencil toppers in Sugar Puffs. They were absolute business in my class.

The coveted toppers were obviously United, Liverpool and Celtic ones, as if you didn't want them they were like prison currency, but it felt like every single week I got a feckin' Nottingham Forest one, Pierre Van Hooidonk or Steve Stone. Ended up with a Gary Neville one eventually so was happy enough and my Mam could stop buying Sugar Puffs.

Also, Frosties has cool little Power Ranger figurines around the time the Power Ranger Movie was released. Made it my mission to collect them all.

mudabi · 02-09-2012 01:33AM

The land speed record models were cool

mudabi · 02-09-2012 01:34AM

Cant remember if you had to send away for them or not

gobnaitolunacy · 02-09-2012 06:52AM

Still have a Kelloggs van, I remember there was massive demand for them and Kelloggs sent a postcard apologising for the backlog of orders. Pity I lost the card, that would have been something.

There were Kelloggs animals cards too, the ones that if you looked at em one way you'd see the prehistoric animal and looked at tother way you'd see the present day equivalent. I collected the full set and have em, somewhere.

It's a wonder the EU hasn't banned Kinder Eggs, these are actually illegal in the US.

uck51js9zml2yt · 02-09-2012 07:23AM

they used to stick in my teeth.

ctrl-alt-delete · 02-09-2012 09:37AM

Nothing better than being first in line for a fresh box of cereal when you were younger, You'd even give up the choice of having the more illustrious already opened chocolatey cereals to have a go at cereal toy roulette on an unopened box of corn flakes.

You'd choose the biggest bowl available in the hope that it would increase your chances of winning, and keep pouring until the cereal was flowing over the edge of the bowl, gutted when it still hadn't fallen out.

If your other siblings were not around you would shove the hand down and try and find the toy, and then be subjected to a court case when they did arrive down to the sight of you and your trophy toy!

If you were a little more honest you would just try throw them off by lying and telling them you got the toy out of that box hoping they will choose another cereal giving you another chance in the morning!

Always remember the amazement and joy all around if another sibling somehow managed to get a second toy out of the same box!!

They used to cause wars in our house, so I'm not sure if they were banned for fear of choking on a toy or being choked by a sibling rival.

Mimikyu · 02-09-2012 10:14AM

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dan1895 · 03-09-2012 09:43AM

mudabi wrote: »

The land speed record models were cool

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LLEDO-KELLOGS-LEGENDS-LAND-SPEED-RECORDS-Diecast-Model-Cars-x-4-/320972936837?_trksid=p4340.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DMRU-220%252BUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D15%26pmod%3D170800116912%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1780246271174863916&_qi=RTM1062689#ht_500wt_1288

Loved these but think i only ever got two

tan11ie · 03-09-2012 09:52AM

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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It's funny looking back at how easily we were pleased

JohnMarston · 03-09-2012 10:15AM

You used to have the toys in packets in the cereal. Presumably someone reached into the cereal, fished out the packet, undid the wrapper, and tried to eat it.

the groutch · 03-09-2012 05:32PM

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Always remember the amazement and joy all around if another sibling somehow managed to get a second toy out of the same box!!

yeah, two-fers were like the Holy Grail of cereal toys.

bluecode · 03-09-2012 05:48PM

I remember little snap together model aeroplanes in cornflakes I think. Nicely detailed. I also remember sending away for a battery powered submarine. It would actually travel underwater too once you adjusted the vanes or whatever they are. I sent away for the land speed record models too. I'm pretty sure they might still be around actually. Also a Kelloggs open top bus.

But one great little snap together kit of a Model T Ford didn't come in a cereal box at all but in a packet of detergent, Daz I think. It was really nicely done. Smelt of soap which was odd.

steddyeddy · 03-09-2012 05:53PM

Who remembers the "monster in your pocket" figures you used to get in cereal? I collected most of them!

Boombastic · 03-09-2012 05:56PM

redcortina wrote: »

ah the memories, opening a new cereal box and the foraging for the toy, ending up with half the cereal on the floor, parents were never too impressed. But I was delighted when I got my hand on it.

Amateurs. Before you open the plastic inside bag, you locate the toy and work it to the top. Open plastic bag and hey presto, you got the toy with no mess.

Lapin · 03-09-2012 06:07PM

Doodoo wrote: »

Also remember saving tokens with weetabix to collect tapes that had probably 2 decent songs and about 10 other crappy ones. Weetabix had 5 (i think) characters that had their own mix tape. Brian and Brains were 2 characters dont remember the rest but one was a girl.

And Bixie was her name......

antonymous · 03-09-2012 06:16PM

Remember loads of these already mentioned, anyone remember the honey nut loop things, where you'd get these glow in the dark balls, think they vibrated too.. Weird.. Glow in the dark vibrating balls.... Let's loop together n all that

Scruffles · 03-09-2012 07:36PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Who remembers the "monster in your pocket" figures you used to get in cereal? I collected most of them!

same here.
mum worked for kellogs as a cleaner and used to get handed large bags full of the toys [either that or she nicked them,as she used to nick stuff like gigantic toilet rolls and cleaning materials from jobs if she believed she wasnt paid enough:pac:], had loads of the monster ones as well as the original puppy ones;had them all collected and lined up on shelves-still have them today and the nearly two year old niece has a thing for them now when she is over at her grand mas/pas.
one day mum came home with dinner plates and bowls that had the kellogs name and the corn flakes cockrel logo on and said she got them with the cereal,it wasnt until years later had found out she robbed them from the cafeteria.
-they still do those collect tokens for bowls though,earlier this year had collected just a few codes with rice crispies; each code had to be entered on the website along with address and that was it,got a free tough plastic frosties bowl,its good for the niece when she is over because its light and easy for her to carry,but also doesnt smash if she drops it.

mum and dad were tight bstards usualy and never wanted to get the bigger sized versions of cereals which usualy had the toys in,the smaller boxes demanded token collection.

xDramaxQueenx · 03-09-2012 08:11PM

nope not in cereal anymore. god forbid a little brat might choke on it.

phasers · 03-09-2012 08:24PM

ah I just remembered the Cartoon Network bobbleheads!

they had Grim, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter and Dee Dee, and a load of others, I brought my doubles into school and put them on top of the blackboard and some scummer robbed them and covered them in tippex and marker :mad:

Ziegfeldgirl27 · 03-09-2012 09:34PM

When I was a child I remember opening a box of coco pops and there was no cereal in it at all, only toys! All the little packets of toys were all joined together still in a big long row. I can see it yet as if it was yesterday!

super_furry · 03-09-2012 09:41PM

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/87-Mint-SELECTION-LATE-80s-EARLY-90s-KELLOGGS-CEREAL-PREMIUMS-/290766766845?pt=UK_Collectables_Advertising_ET&hash=item43b30cc2fd#ht_500wt_1203

Go crazy!

ejmaztec · 03-09-2012 09:46PM

sioda wrote: »

The boats and submarines that you put baking soda in and the surfaced or moved along

The Irish Navy are using them now, thanks to the cuts.

toys in your cereal

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