Remembering Cereal Box Toys & Prizes From The '70s, '80s, & '90s

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"FREE PRIZE INSIDE!" Those printed words were all we kids of the '70s, '80s, & '90s needed to read to begin begging our parents incessantly to buy us that tasty box of cereal. What wonders awaited us at the bottom of that magnificent treasure container!?
In this video we look back on the days when we just wanted to bury our arms elbow deep into fresh cereal and find that plastic treasure calling out to us. Join us as we reminisce on the cereal premiums of the '70s, '80s, & '90s.
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@bluntedvegas7028 4 месяца назад

The honeycomb license plate for your BMX ...those were good times!!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Those plates were awesome! Made you feel more adult riding your bike around the neighborhood. 😆

@Daehawk 4 месяца назад

I can remember picking my weeks cereal by what toy was in the box haha. Of course I had to like the cereal too.. Also remember when Quaker Oats gave you a glass inside your oatmeal . They stopped using real glass and switched to plastic glasses in the 70s due to safety concerns . My grandma had sets of those glasses. As a kid in the 70s and 80s Pop Tarts used to include a small metal bicycle license plate in the box with stickers to use on it. I still have one my wife made me back in the late 80s . She's gone now but still have my poptart plate hahah.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Oh wow! Now we’re really going to have to Google those plates and glasses.

@maddun1969 4 месяца назад

Freakies cereal had some cool figures back in the mid 70's. Also Captain Crunch had some cool plastic planes in the early 70's.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Too bad Freakies comeback didn’t catch on. It was a fun cereal.

@toddscheler7194 4 месяца назад

A favorite premium from my childhood were the replica license plates (bicycle sized) from all 50 states found in Honeycomb. It was a particular thrill to acquire a new one each week. Part of my childhood died, however, when I accompanied my mom to a flea market where one vendor had a long box filled with them. Took the fun out of collecting them.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

There have been a wealth of comments on those license plates! People really fondly remember them.

@cyclenut 4 месяца назад

I was born in 63, I would pick the box of cereal for the best toy inside or by mail. There were some really cool and fun toys. Also some comic book mail order toys were cool, tool. One of my favorite cereal toy, was by mail. It was from a TV cartoon and around 69 or 70 it was a toy cartoon airplane and had a telescope, flashlight compass and was real fun.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Great cereal premiums. Those mail-away items were typically better stuff that what you might get IN the box.

@tedbrogan1 4 месяца назад

4:57 The way those kids are dancing lol!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

😆 Yeah it’s pretty wacky looking. Ahh, the ‘70s.

@jimmcclements5229 4 месяца назад

I owned a copy of the Famous Ghost Story’s album. I had been wracking my brain trying to think of the name of the album. Thank you for doing this video.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Very glad you enjoyed it! Especially if we can help identify that album.

@Plan9-3127 4 месяца назад

Oh man...The cereal box toy...Talk about some EPIC fights between my sister and I...😂😂😂...I remember the good ol wacky wall crawlers and rings that would always pinch your finger when you put it on. But you wore it all day anyway!... Thank you for another trip down nostalgia lane my friend. It was an awesome time to be a kid!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Our pleasure as always Jason. And yeah… having siblings that you had to share with became even more difficult with just the one cereal box. 😆

@SuperPrefan 4 месяца назад

Wacky wall walkers always got dirt and hair all over them. We used soap and water to clean them and they would last longer. Also remember getting Donkey Kong shoelaces from the cereal. Use to hunt for the Capt crunch treasure.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Yeah those wall walkers were not easy to keep sticky once they got dirty. Really bad if they fell in carpet.

@cowboydiecastracing 4 месяца назад

80’s kid here! Man I so remember the baking soda submarine! I loved that thing as kid! Still think it’s coo! Lol! I so enjoy your channel! I also have a channel and love making videos! Thank you for the great video!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Thank you CDR! We really appreciate it.

@ctbinary42 4 месяца назад

I'm surprised we are all still alive with all that glow in the dark plastic we had as kids 🤣

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

It’s a wonder we ourselves don’t glow! 😆

@AutisticPhantomOtaku 4 месяца назад

My memory is not as good as it used to be, but I do remember getting a Star Trek light up toy back in the 2000s. I do also remember getting a light up cereal spoon spoon. I don't remember if it was for Star Wars or something else, though. I unfortunately lost the spoon part, so I couldn't use it anymore.😢 Also, while I didn't eat the cereal that this is from myself, I won a glow-in-the-dark Ghostbusters frisbee in a giveaway from Cereal Time here on RU-vid a while ago, which, from what he said, was a mail order prize for Ghostbusters cereal. One other thing: Since you mentioned those little vending machines from the supermarkets you need to do a video regarding them.

@danielkaiser8971 4 месяца назад

Speaking of glow in the dark toys for kids, don't forget the "glow in the dark" silly putty! I once turned off all the lights and felt like a mad scientist sculpting things out of it. I used a flashlight to recharge the glow so I wouldn't have to turn the main light back on.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Pretty sure the silly putty was radioactive. 😆

@user-nw9mz3vu3s 3 месяца назад

I remember vending machines with erasers for 25 cents. I had an eraser collection..i bought them from all over Toys R Us, K-Mart..Dollar Stores, Wolclo And, collecting Stickers..and, i remember Lisa Frank stationary. I didn't have ay of this..i was a little older but, i remember it.. Anyone, remember Friendship pins? They were safety pins with colouered beads and you'd wear them on your 👟 shoes..or give to your friends ❤ 😍 😊

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

Definitely remember those! That is an interesting collection to have... erasers.

@farpointgamingdirect 4 месяца назад

One of the longest running cereal premiums were the Comics Buttons from Kellogg's Pep in the 1940s

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Going WAY back there. But, the manufacturers were willing to get pretty creative with premiums like that. So cool.

@sside8 4 месяца назад

I collected the license plates from the Honeycomb cereal boxes. I even sent off for the whole collection. Still have them!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That’s awesome! So many comments have been on those license plates. Lots of people seem to have fond memories of them.

@PyramidOfBubbles777 4 месяца назад

In my opinion, the coolest cereal box prize has to be the metal bicycle license plates that were in Honeycomb boxes back in the 70's.

@joefaller4525 4 месяца назад

I remember them well. I got the Alaska plate about 55 years ago.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Those seem to be very memorable for a lot of people! Many have mentioned them in the comments.

@tyneishalewis9917 4 месяца назад

In the 2000s, Kellogg's had Scooby Doo and the Toon Tours of Mysteries DVDs in their cereal boxes. The DVDs were so cool, which included full episodes of Cartoon Network shows, music videos, commercials/trailers and more! There was also a Scooby Doo mystery you can solve while finding clues on the DVDs.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That is an awesome cereal premium! Actual physical visual media!

@3DJapan 4 месяца назад

Probably the biggest free prize I got was from a box of TMNT cereal, which came with a turtle shaped cereal bowl attached to the outside.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Those were so cool. Not only a free prize, but one you could use to enjoy the cereal. 😆

@rootssixtysix 3 месяца назад

I still have my complete set of the Cap'n Crunch toys, and yes I did get them out of the cereal box.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

That’s excellent! Guessing not many kids held on to those.

@3DJapan 4 месяца назад

I definitely remember playing with the submarine in bathtub.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

We weren’t hard to entertain, particularly in the tub. 😆

@hhjj5998 4 месяца назад

I enjoyed watching this. In my mid-sixties now. What about the prizes inside of the cracker jacks box. I still enjoy eating cracker jacks and it's now, only the paper square shaped prize that's about nothing. Back then, many of the prizes were plastic or square shape paper prize now and then. I no longer get excited about the prize now that I am older. But I do like the edible candy coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize, that's what you get in cracker jacks. Couldn't resist saying the jingle 😊😊

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Cracker Jack prizes used to be fun. Like you mentioned though… they are little bits of nothing now. Kind of disappointing even as an adult.

@ZMAN_420 4 месяца назад

Thank You for the trip down memory lane! EXCELLENT CONTENT! I do remember the Tony The Tiger that you drop in water. Does anyone remember winning a Super Mario Brothers 3 Cartridge out of a cookie box? Somehow we won, mail winning ticket in and then the game showed up less than a week later. I can't remember what brand the chips were.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Oh man… that would have been amazing!!

@bluetarantulaproductions6179 4 месяца назад

As a kid I used to always watch Star Trek: TNG with my dad and I also enjoyed Shreddies (still do) and I remember getting a small U.S.S. Enterprise toy in a box of Shreddies. I also got a mail in Star Trek: TNG poster with two boxes of Shreddies (plus tax, shipping, handling, etc.) that I still have to this day (planning on getting it framed soon).

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That is very cool that you still have that poster. Definitely frame that.

@almondleslie1410 4 месяца назад

That. Is. AWESOME!

@danielkaiser8971 4 месяца назад

I had completely forgotten about the little plastic bank you pressed open, briefly shown at 10 minutes, 35-38 seconds. I had one of those in elementary school back when everything was purchased with cash and coins could actually buy things. I once had a full dollar's worth of coins in that thing, jingling in my pocket at school waiting to pay for lunch in the school cafeteria. It felt like I had practically a million dollars.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

😆 Absolutely. If you had a stash of coinage in your pocket you felt like a millionaire!

@joefaller4525 4 месяца назад

I used one for my paper route, but it wasn't a free one from cereal. It was store bought.

@TravisGriffith-nt3jn 4 месяца назад

I remember getting Archie's car from a cereal box when I was a little boy it was my favorite toy I took it everywhere

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Ha! That’s awesome. Your parents were probably happy to know you enjoyed it and they didn’t have to pay for it. 😆

@TeamRiptide17 3 месяца назад

The glow in the dark moon globe from Cap'n Crunch was awesome! Took me several tries to get it though. Always seemed to get the earth globe version! Also the Kellogg's Starbot toys were great.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

It’s always a great reminder of how impressive these free prizes were to us when we can recall such fond memories of them. Such great stuff.

@Hillers62 4 месяца назад

I remember the mini license plates for each state...I got Wyoming...

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Sooo many people have been mentioning those plates. We’ll need to revisit this topic again and cover those.

@ThomasDrish 4 месяца назад

I could never wait, my hand was digging in the cereal box looking for that toy as soon as I opened it. 😂 And I could never get the box to close properly after I did, the sides of the box were all puffed out 😂😂

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Yeah and then your mom would be upset because the box was annoying to open and close. 😆

@ThomasDrish 4 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze yes! 😆

@anthonyxavier6300 4 месяца назад

I do remember playing with an orange wacky wallwalker. It might of came from the froot loops cereal.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

You could get them various places, but it was very cool to get one free in a cereal box.

@3DJapan 4 месяца назад

I think I had a green one.

@3Storms 4 месяца назад

I personally think it's insulting with the way cereal makers don't even try to incentivize buying their cereal any more.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Even if they did, it would probably be something non-tangible like a phone app or some such thing. Lame.

@jons.6216 3 месяца назад

Funny family story about a Cheerios mail in offer! My brother wanted a Nerf Ball and asked our older brother to write the letter for him. Smart a** older brother wrote "Dear sir, I demand a Nerf Ball!" My brother got mad, my mom got mad and I don't think he ever actually got the toy! Haha!

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

😆 Typical troublesome brother behavior.

@DMachoMickey 4 месяца назад

First off, I see 2XL on your shelf back there. 🤖 Second, I’m a 53 year old man and if I have coins in my pocket and see one of those “$.25” machines, I’ll always buy something “for my kids”, who are also adults now. 😂

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Hey, somebody’s got to keep the mechanical parts in those machines from freezing up, right?

@BladeStar-uq6xe 4 месяца назад

1960s kid! I ate a lot of cereal I didn't even like just to get the prize in the box!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

You were on the front lines of prize retrieval! 😆 Well done.

@BladeStar-uq6xe 4 месяца назад

Yes, I even remember buying 1 cereal because it had one of those extremely cheap cheap records you could cut off the box because it was 'The Archies' Sugar Sugar! Didn't play worth crap, and I think it only lasted about 5 or 6 times. I also remember getting the Smokey the Bear song from Forest Rangers in like the first or second grade along with a Smokey the Bear Comic Book. Wish I still had those things. About the only things I have left from my childhood are some Army Men and Matchbox cars. But then again, that's about all I ever got for Christmas. I never got Birthday presents because I was unfortunately born on December 27th. I hate my Birthday! I turned 66 and I bought my 'Very First Birthday Cake' last year. And it wasn't very good and I ended up throwing half of it away!

@williamworley6164 4 месяца назад

😊 this episode is filled with so much nostalgia

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Very glad you enjoyed it!

@Shawn666Hellion 4 месяца назад

Some cereals like fruit loops had a picture on the back of the box with color squares you used as a paint by dipping a paint brush in water to activate the paint

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Oh right!!! Forgot all about that! The paint didn’t always work that great.

@rd350h1 4 месяца назад

I remember sending away for a Quisp beanie cap with a plastic propeller on top! Seemed like a year before it arrived.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Ha! That “6 to 8 weeks” felt like an eternity to a kid.

@godofzombi 3 месяца назад

Is your name Calvin?

@steelethescene 4 месяца назад

I liked the terrariums in Super Sugar Crisp!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

They were pretty cool! Unique things to get as a premium.

@cabbitkisser2620 4 месяца назад

when i was a kid in the 80's. i never Relly cared about the cereal. i just wanted the prize inside. my mom got pissed because i didn't eat the cereal. but i did snack on the cereal after awhile.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

You could always dump a little out in the grass or the cats bowl from time to time to give the illusion of eating it. 😄

@MalcolmLittle-pw9dz 12 дней назад

The Garfield bicycle reflectors from the 80’s and the glow in the dark footsteps from the same time. I used to send of fir the Lego man and vehicle in the early 90’s

@RetroDaze 12 дней назад

@@MalcolmLittle-pw9dz I (Tony G.) had forgotten ALL about those Garfield reflectors! Had one of those!

@AshtenPassion 4 месяца назад

So glad I got an ad for this channel a while back ago bc every video u put out just feels so comfy 😭 ad well spent lmao

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That is so awesome!!! Often wonder if some of those promotions ever help any.

@ghw7192 4 месяца назад

Remember when Cracker Jacks had real,prizes?

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Those were better days! 😉

@samusvikerness661 4 месяца назад

Is that you dude? Lol You do it all man. And by all I mean ancient, dusty video games and toys that only us nerds would care about.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

😆 Jon is everywhere doing everything.

@NITE_SHIFTING 4 месяца назад

Cereal related story: I remember walking through a mall in Florida in the 80's with my mom and a woman with a clipboard came up to us and asked if we would like to participate in a "focus group" and try a new cereal and tell them what we thought. So we did and I really don't remember the questionnaire or the taste or even what it was called (if they even told us) BUT I do remember getting a free box of the cereal at the end. I think it was good....? I just remember thinking that it was so cool that I got to try a cereal that wasn't even on the market. To this day I have no idea what it was. 😅

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That would be so cool to try out a cereal not yet on the market.

@myheart4apen 4 месяца назад

The first one I remember is a Sugar Bear bicycle spoke reflector, probably 1975? But the best ones, and I’m surprised you didn’t mention these, were the small metal license plates in Honeycomb cereal!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

We’ve gotten a few comments on those! May need to revisit this topic soon.

@farpointgamingdirect 4 месяца назад

I had "The Miser's Gold" and "The Hitchhiker" from Honeycomb; I wasn't able to get "Sleepy Hollow"

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Nice! You don’t still have them do you?

@jesseperez1727 4 месяца назад

My favorite Winnie-the-Pooh spoon buddy

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That’s awesome. Anything Pooh was instantly fun.

@jsnsk101 4 месяца назад

In the uk, there were collector cards in every box of tea, you could send off for a book to put them in.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

What did the cards feature?

@user-pi9gd1jd8k 4 месяца назад

I would dig it out lol

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Like a true Gen-Xer! 😆

@zaphodthenth 4 месяца назад

There are three i distinctly remember. Captain Crunch had " Exploding ship" toys, which used a latching mechanism and a rubber band to hold the two parts of the ship together; and hitting the side of the ship would trigger the latch and make it "Explode". Quisp and Quake offered " Space rings" of which one held a tiny piece of a genuine meteorite: But while I bought a lot of boxes, i never got that ring. There were also a "Nintendo" cereal that had "Game Posters" of various different video games - think board game version of them- with foldable paper dice and the game pieces for use with the games. There was a mail away option to get a free game poster, and i sent for them. I did use them for a time. Ohhh.... For a time I was buying Captain Crunch because they had miniature greenhouses and mini- globes inside them. However, I haven't seen any prizes or prize offers in boxes for decades now: On rare occasions there are movie tie ins like Star wars lightsaber pens, or Star Trek the motion picture USBs, or kids book tie in books. The most I've seen are websites for games.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Yeah nowadays if there is any kind of “prize”, it is digital in nature.

@jasongodwin1319 2 месяца назад

This was a time when I would choose my cereal based on the prize rather than the brand. I guess it didn't have a place in ths particular video but let's not forget Cracker Jacks also had prizes. One of the prizes in certain boxes or othher prducts was my fave. Temporary tattoos!

@RetroDaze 2 месяца назад

Temporary tattoos have had some staying power as prizes! Probably because they are so cheap and easy to make. Plus the popularity of tattoos in general has only grown over the years.

@EricGranata 4 месяца назад

Don’t forget the captain crunch whistle that happened to output a convenient 2600 Hz 😉

@Dorelaxen 4 месяца назад

Oh yeah! Now excuse me while I make some free long distance calls.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

@@Dorelaxen 😂 I’d forgotten all about that.

@caronstout354 4 месяца назад

That was referenced in the book,"Ready Player One"...

@3DJapan 4 месяца назад

The first thing I thought of.

@barb-jm7990 4 месяца назад

I didn't notice when I was a child, but most of those prizes were geared toward boys. I see that later they did have Barbie and some other girly prizes.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Probably depended on what the cereal theme was. Batman, TMNT, Ghostbusters, Nintendo… those were going to cater mostly to boys even though plenty of girls liked those things as well.

@Dorelaxen 4 месяца назад

Spooky Jiggling Pirates. Cool band name. Dibs!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

I want front row tickets.

@docdeth904 4 месяца назад

Lots of toys... I think my favorites were from Quisp or Quake, with figures and mini comics. I had a Gyro trail blazer until my house burned down 2 years ago...

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Aww man. Sorry to hear that. Tried finding a replacement on Ebay or somewhere?

@docdeth904 4 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze I tried... got sticker shock... It wouldn't be the same though.

@smith1958b 4 месяца назад

I recall Quisp and Quake had these two mail-in toys. Quisp had a beanie cap with a propeller on it, and Quake had a miner's helmet (plastic of course). I think the miner's helmet had a light on it. I wanted one so bad. Never got one.

@joefaller4525 4 месяца назад

@@smith1958b I wanted to propeller beanie and the hard hat with the light. I never had much spending money as a kid so it didn't happen, but I sure thought about it a lot.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

@@docdeth904Ahh… yeah the aftermarket tends to have that effect.

@user-nw9mz3vu3s 3 месяца назад

I want to add: remember the Honey 🍯 comb 🐝 Bike plates? Those were popular

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

We've had numerous comments on those bike plates! People must really have fond memories of them.

@user-nw9mz3vu3s 3 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze Hey, I just remembered..do you remember the Trix colour changing spoon..& I remember (you had to send away for this..) in Kraft singles slices 🧀 You could get a "Plush" little Beanie Baby of the Dairy Fairy 🐮 cow..she was really cute. And, they made one of Lucky 🍀 from Lucky Charms..I wrote to Kraft to bring back the Dairy Fairy..but, they didn't say much. Thanks for the reply.. :) 😊 👋

@joefaller4525 4 месяца назад

I saved box tops to get a Cowboys and Indian game that played like the game, Battleship from Honeycomb. I still have it. WE also got the Archies song, Sugar, Sugar. Another prize I liked was a mini aircraft carrier, that you put together and attach rubber bands inside so you actually could launch small jets from the flat top.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That’s awesome that you still have the cowboys and Indians game.

@greatesttoysevermade3693 4 месяца назад

I currently have the full set of Super Sugar Crisp Glow In The Dark Monster posters, I had the Creature from the Black Lagoon poster as a child. Allegedly there is only one known intact surviving original SSC monster poster cereal box.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Wow! I’m actually surprised there would even be ONE!

@Carnivorousplantyum 4 месяца назад

I loved my baking soda submarine as a kid. Another favorite was the cars that were powered by a pull strip with teeth on it.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

@@Carnivorousplantyum Those were great! Had several of them.

@user-fu6bi1jv4g 4 месяца назад

I had all four of those when I was a kid! Three of them were Basil Gogos reproductions.

@serveaux 3 месяца назад

My favorite was the Turtles bowl. I used that all the way into my 20s before it finally fell apart!

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

They were very cool freebies! Which one did you have?

@alftanner866 Месяц назад

That's amazing! The one I had lasted maybe a year or 2 & found out I didn't like marshmallows in cereal

@kaydog2450 4 месяца назад

Never really had the specially marked boxes of cereal that had prizes in them growing up they discontinued that sort of thing here in Australia in the early 2000’s and im pretty sure late 90’s as well due to kids opening the cereal boxes and stealing the prizes and leaving the opened boxes of cereal on the shelves for the workers to throw out

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Leave it to the little brat thieves to ruin it for everyone.

@godofzombi 3 месяца назад

My fave Cereal prize was a Monsters in my pocket orange Golem from a pack of Frosties. And back then you could only get Kellogs over in Belgium.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

Not heard of Frosties.

@godofzombi 3 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze The one with Tony the Tiger!

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

Ohhh! Frosted Flakes!

@godofzombi 3 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze Yeah, sorry man I forgot They're called differnet in the States and the UK. They're Frosties in Belgium.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

That makes sense.

@travisanderson8305 4 месяца назад

1st I thought when I saw the heading was the sticky octopi. They were in many different cereals in the 80s.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

They were pretty pervasive in those days. Good, cheaply made fun.

@travisanderson8305 4 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze Well for 2 or 3 minutes until they were completely covered in hair and other little things so it wouldn't stick anymore. Hilarious. Thanks for the nostalgia. The sub was great too.

@bettyboopsie9836 3 месяца назад

@@travisanderson8305 yep!! 😂

@Hoovie9596 4 месяца назад

Shreddies had the best toys

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Like which ones?

@user-pi9gd1jd8k 4 месяца назад

From the rainbow brite cereal had to get it in the mail a poster.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Nice! Still have that anywhere?

@barbaracurtis3801 4 месяца назад

Mine was a glow in the dark trapeze artist.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Oh yeah! Holy cow… that had been long forgotten.

@puffthecatpuff8931 3 месяца назад

Some of the mail-in's required receipts, some didnt. Some required special UPC codes that would only be printed for a certain promotion.

@puffthecatpuff8931 3 месяца назад

So, if a kid, definitely not me, thought that they could just save all UPC codes, and wait for a promotion, no, the cereal companies got smart.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

@@puffthecatpuff8931 Probably didn’t stop us from trying anyway. 😆

@puffthecatpuff8931 2 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze I never tried to send older barcodes; some of them had the promo printed above the barcode, so "Disney figure promo, etc". Some also required a receipt of purchase.

@larsfladmark2482 3 месяца назад

Maybe it's just selective memory but I feel like for a while all cereal had prizes in them.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

It WAS pretty pervasive for a time during our childhoods. Probably not too far from the truth!

@Hillers62 4 месяца назад

At 4:48 ...I had a Jackson 5 record of ABC from the back of a cereal box, but I don't remember the cereal...

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Very cool. Those things didn’t tend to last long unless you were really careful with them.

@smith1958b 4 месяца назад

I had the record of the fictional rock band "The Sugar Bears." It had a drawing of the group: Sugar Bear, Honey Bear, Shoobee Bear and Doobee Bear. What was strange was the expression on Doobee Bear's face. He looked like he had smoked plenty of Doobies.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

@@smith1958b😂They didn’t call him Doobee Bear for nothing.

@user-nw9mz3vu3s 3 месяца назад

Does anybody remember the Trix colour Changing spoon..& the Garfield plastic "🔒 locks? They came in different colors..

@godofzombi 3 месяца назад

I think Kellogs also did teh colorchanging spoon. My mom didn't wanna let me use it, because she was worried about the chemicals in the plastic.

@alftanner866 Месяц назад

The one I had was likely purple that turned pink. It didn't last too long as I recall

@williamworley6164 4 месяца назад

I had the Tony, the tiger!

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Very cool! Still have it?

@williamworley6164 4 месяца назад

@@RetroDaze probably somewhere. I have a toy box in The basement filled with a bunch of '80s toys. Including some of the original Ninja turtles

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

@@williamworley6164That’s awesome!

@carausiuscaesar5672 3 месяца назад

I remember the Army Men plastics of Marx one could find in cereals.

@RetroDaze 3 месяца назад

That would be a cool prize!

@jamesarnold2399 4 месяца назад

Glow in the dark iron on patches

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Right! They were great.

@laurachristianson1688 4 месяца назад

Saved box tops a couple of times, sent them in but never received the “prize”. 😢

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

That sucks. False advertising!

@alftanner866 Месяц назад

Not really a toy but I removed the back of a Wheaties box of a Michael jordan pop up hoop where shot flat papered spheres at it. I kept it up to middle school from a young age

@RetroDaze Месяц назад

That’s a unique idea! It was always fun when the cereal makers turned the box into part of the prize. 🏆

@alftanner866 Месяц назад

@@RetroDaze Yep. Better than cutting the back of the box for your trading cards. Wheaties seem to have good prizes since they didn't do them often like mini posters & calendars

@michaelkibble740 4 месяца назад

A swimming Fred Flintstone in Pepples

@smith1958b 4 месяца назад

The coolest toy I got was from Chex cereal. It was a small plastic aircraft carrier that had a small rubber band mechanism used to launch a fighter jet.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

@@smith1958b That does sound cool.

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Nice.

@theresaporter9133 4 месяца назад

I'm from cereal eating 60s...toys

@RetroDaze 4 месяца назад

Any favorites?

@smith1958b 4 месяца назад

I remember Corn Flakes gave a 3-D baseball card. That was about 1969. I recall a boy in my 5th grade class bought a box of Corn Flakes and dumped out all the flakes just to get a card. A box of flakes was about .25 cents at that time.