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.
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.
Not a chance I was waiting for that toy to fall out naturally, I just scratched and dogged away till I found it, I never knew about the tactic of opening the box upside down, I miss everything about the 80s, I feel so grateful to of been born in 1982!
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.
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!
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 😊😊
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 TH-cam 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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).
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
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.
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 😂😂
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.
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.
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. 😂
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!
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.
In Australia in 1969, Kellogg's Corn Flakes issued a host of Apollo snap together model kits that included the Saturn 5 , The Moon Lander and other Apollo related space items.They were extremely well made and detailed and would not look out of place today as a well made miniatures. Those were the days.
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.
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 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.. :) 😊 👋
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.
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.
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...
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.
@@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.
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!
Coolest were the Post Sugar Crisp Monster Posters and Finger Puppets as shown in the video. I got the Creature poster when I was a kid. Allegedly there is only one known original Sugar Crisp cereal box advertising the monster posters left in the world. Reprint boxes exist as well.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
@@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.
Back in early/mid '90's; during a "Star Wars" resurgence; Fruit Loops offered a: Han Solo (in Stormtrooper outfit); I've got a few of those action figures & STILL CAN'T eat that cereal anymore
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.
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.
@@RetroDaze Even when it was new it had a scratch at the very end. The last two words were supposed to be "shattered pumpkin", but mine said" turd pumpkin, turd pumpkin, turd pumpkin " 😆 I thought it was hilarious then, and I still do!😎
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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
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The honeycomb license plate for your BMX ...those were good times!!
Those plates were awesome! Made you feel more adult riding your bike around the neighborhood. 😆
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.
Too bad Freakies comeback didn’t catch on. It was a fun cereal.
I collected the license plates from the Honeycomb cereal boxes. I even sent off for the whole collection. Still have them!
That’s awesome! So many comments have been on those license plates. Lots of people seem to have fond memories of them.
4:57 The way those kids are dancing lol!
😆 Yeah it’s pretty wacky looking. Ahh, the ‘70s.
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.
Yeah those wall walkers were not easy to keep sticky once they got dirty. Really bad if they fell in carpet.
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.
Very glad you enjoyed it! Especially if we can help identify that album.
Not a chance I was waiting for that toy to fall out naturally, I just scratched and dogged away till I found it, I never knew about the tactic of opening the box upside down, I miss everything about the 80s, I feel so grateful to of been born in 1982!
We are very lucky to have grown up through the ‘80s. The best time! We’ll chock you up as a cereal digger. A list that is long. 😆
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.
Oh wow! Now we’re really going to have to Google those plates and glasses.
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!
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. 😆
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 😊😊
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.
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 TH-cam 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.
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.
There have been a wealth of comments on those license plates! People really fondly remember them.
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!
Thank you CDR! We really appreciate it.
I remember sending away for a Quisp beanie cap with a plastic propeller on top! Seemed like a year before it arrived.
Ha! That “6 to 8 weeks” felt like an eternity to a kid.
Is your name Calvin?
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.
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.
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
Oh right!!! Forgot all about that! The paint didn’t always work that great.
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).
That is very cool that you still have that poster. Definitely frame that.
That. Is. AWESOME!
Don’t forget the captain crunch whistle that happened to output a convenient 2600 Hz 😉
Oh yeah! Now excuse me while I make some free long distance calls.
@@Dorelaxen 😂 I’d forgotten all about that.
That was referenced in the book,"Ready Player One"...
The first thing I thought of.
I do remember playing with an orange wacky wallwalker. It might of came from the froot loops cereal.
You could get them various places, but it was very cool to get one free in a cereal box.
I think I had a green one.
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
@@MalcolmLittle-pw9dz I (Tony G.) had forgotten ALL about those Garfield reflectors! Had one of those!
I'm surprised we are all still alive with all that glow in the dark plastic we had as kids 🤣
It’s a wonder we ourselves don’t glow! 😆
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.
Those were so cool. Not only a free prize, but one you could use to enjoy the cereal. 😆
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.
Oh man… that would have been amazing!!
I would dig it out lol
Like a true Gen-Xer! 😆
I still have my complete set of the Cap'n Crunch toys, and yes I did get them out of the cereal box.
That’s excellent! Guessing not many kids held on to those.
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 😂😂
Yeah and then your mom would be upset because the box was annoying to open and close. 😆
@@RetroDaze yes! 😆
I definitely remember playing with the submarine in bathtub.
We weren’t hard to entertain, particularly in the tub. 😆
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.
That is an awesome cereal premium! Actual physical visual media!
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.
I remember them well. I got the Alaska plate about 55 years ago.
Those seem to be very memorable for a lot of people! Many have mentioned them in the comments.
I remember the mini license plates for each state...I got Wyoming...
Sooo many people have been mentioning those plates. We’ll need to revisit this topic again and cover those.
I liked the terrariums in Super Sugar Crisp!
They were pretty cool! Unique things to get as a premium.
My favorite was the Turtles bowl. I used that all the way into my 20s before it finally fell apart!
They were very cool freebies! Which one did you have?
That's amazing! The one I had lasted maybe a year or 2 & found out I didn't like marshmallows in cereal
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.
Great cereal premiums. Those mail-away items were typically better stuff that what you might get IN the box.
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. 😂
Hey, somebody’s got to keep the mechanical parts in those machines from freezing up, right?
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!
😆 Typical troublesome brother behavior.
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.
Wow! I’m actually surprised there would even be ONE!
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.
@@Carnivorousplantyum Those were great! Had several of them.
I had all four of those when I was a kid! Three of them were Basil Gogos reproductions.
In Australia in 1969, Kellogg's Corn Flakes issued a host of Apollo snap together model kits that included the Saturn 5 , The Moon Lander and other Apollo related space items.They were extremely well made and detailed and would not look out of place today as a well made miniatures.
Those were the days.
Man, that would have been an awesome premium to get with a box of cereal!
One of the longest running cereal premiums were the Comics Buttons from Kellogg's Pep in the 1940s
Going WAY back there. But, the manufacturers were willing to get pretty creative with premiums like that. So cool.
😊 this episode is filled with so much nostalgia
Very glad you enjoyed it!
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.
😆 Absolutely. If you had a stash of coinage in your pocket you felt like a millionaire!
I used one for my paper route, but it wasn't a free one from cereal. It was store bought.
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 ❤ 😍 😊
Definitely remember those! That is an interesting collection to have... erasers.
I want to add: remember the Honey 🍯 comb 🐝 Bike plates? Those were popular
We've had numerous comments on those bike plates! People must really have fond memories of them.
@@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.. :) 😊 👋
The cereal box records made me remember those two-sided square ones in books.
Yes! Had a few of those as well.
@@RetroDaze Do you remember the Burger Chef ones?
No! But we are huge Burger Chef lovers. I myself (producer Tony) have a Burger Chef translite with the Super Chef on it.
@@RetroDaze nice !
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.
That’s awesome that you still have the cowboys and Indians game.
Remember when Cracker Jacks had real,prizes?
Those were better days! 😉
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.
Pretty sure the silly putty was radioactive. 😆
I had "The Miser's Gold" and "The Hitchhiker" from Honeycomb; I wasn't able to get "Sleepy Hollow"
Nice! You don’t still have them do you?
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
That is so awesome!!! Often wonder if some of those promotions ever help any.
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
Ha! That’s awesome. Your parents were probably happy to know you enjoyed it and they didn’t have to pay for it. 😆
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.
😆 Jon is everywhere doing everything.
Spooky Jiggling Pirates. Cool band name. Dibs!
I want front row tickets.
In the uk, there were collector cards in every box of tea, you could send off for a book to put them in.
What did the cards feature?
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...
Aww man. Sorry to hear that. Tried finding a replacement on Ebay or somewhere?
@@RetroDaze I tried... got sticker shock... It wouldn't be the same though.
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.
@@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.
@@docdeth904Ahh… yeah the aftermarket tends to have that effect.
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!
We’ve gotten a few comments on those! May need to revisit this topic soon.
Coolest were the Post Sugar Crisp Monster Posters and Finger Puppets as shown in the video. I got the Creature poster when I was a kid. Allegedly there is only one known original Sugar Crisp cereal box advertising the monster posters left in the world. Reprint boxes exist as well.
Imagine owning a print flat of that one!
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.
Not heard of Frosties.
@@RetroDaze The one with Tony the Tiger!
Ohhh! Frosted Flakes!
@@RetroDaze Yeah, sorry man I forgot They're called differnet in the States and the UK. They're Frosties in Belgium.
That makes sense.
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.
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. 😄
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!
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.
I remember the Army Men plastics of Marx one could find in cereals.
That would be a cool prize!
From the rainbow brite cereal had to get it in the mail a poster.
Nice! Still have that anywhere?
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.
Yeah nowadays if there is any kind of “prize”, it is digital in nature.
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.
😅
That would be so cool to try out a cereal not yet on the market.
My favorite Winnie-the-Pooh spoon buddy
That’s awesome. Anything Pooh was instantly fun.
1st I thought when I saw the heading was the sticky octopi. They were in many different cereals in the 80s.
They were pretty pervasive in those days. Good, cheaply made fun.
@@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.
@@travisanderson8305 yep!! 😂
I personally think it's insulting with the way cereal makers don't even try to incentivize buying their cereal any more.
Even if they did, it would probably be something non-tangible like a phone app or some such thing. Lame.
Does anybody remember the Trix colour Changing spoon..& the Garfield plastic "🔒 locks? They came in different colors..
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.
The one I had was likely purple that turned pink. It didn't last too long as I recall
1960s kid! I ate a lot of cereal I didn't even like just to get the prize in the box!
You were on the front lines of prize retrieval! 😆 Well done.
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!
Some of the mail-in's required receipts, some didnt.
Some required special UPC codes that would only be printed for a certain promotion.
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.
@@puffthecatpuff8931 Probably didn’t stop us from trying anyway. 😆
@@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.
The Nintendo cereal was legendary
Yes! Which side though?
Back in early/mid '90's; during a "Star Wars" resurgence; Fruit Loops offered a: Han Solo (in Stormtrooper outfit); I've got a few of those action figures & STILL CAN'T eat that cereal anymore
How often did we get full-fledged action figures as part of a food purchase! Almost never.
@@RetroDaze Actually had to mail in certificates from the boxes
That was pretty standard for the better quality stuff.
Shreddies had the best toys
Like which ones?
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.
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.
Mine was a glow in the dark trapeze artist.
Oh yeah! Holy cow… that had been long forgotten.
I had the Tony, the tiger!
Very cool! Still have it?
@@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
@@williamworley6164That’s awesome!
I still have The Legend of Sleepy Hollow record. I don't know if it still plays, but I just couldn't put in file 13.
That’s awesome! You should test it out sometime to see if it still works!
@@RetroDaze Even when it was new it had a scratch at the very end. The last two words were supposed to be "shattered pumpkin", but mine said" turd pumpkin, turd pumpkin, turd pumpkin " 😆 I thought it was hilarious then, and I still do!😎
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...
Very cool. Those things didn’t tend to last long unless you were really careful with them.
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.
@@smith1958b😂They didn’t call him Doobee Bear for nothing.
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
Leave it to the little brat thieves to ruin it for everyone.
Maybe it's just selective memory but I feel like for a while all cereal had prizes in them.
It WAS pretty pervasive for a time during our childhoods. Probably not too far from the truth!
I'm from cereal eating 60s...toys
Any favorites?
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.
A swimming Fred Flintstone in Pepples
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.
@@smith1958b That does sound cool.
Nice.
Glow in the dark iron on patches
Right! They were great.
Saved box tops a couple of times, sent them in but never received the “prize”. 😢
That sucks. False advertising!
I cant find the famous ghost Stories book
Even on EBay? Betting it’s pretty rare.
@@RetroDaze I'll look
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
That’s a unique idea! It was always fun when the cereal makers turned the box into part of the prize. 🏆
@@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
I got the Archie car and an Archies record
Awesome! Don’t still have them do you?
No
The Batman cereal didn't taste anything like Cap'n Crunch to me.
Perhaps it only had that coarse texture.
I agree, it was really good though! I remember being surprised that a movie tie in cereal would be so good.
The ones that are part of the box seem to be the only 9ne around now.....and sooo boring
Unfortunately so. They are usually just a code for some digital good.
Nah, I'm a digger.
Nothing wrong with that!
Ralston cereals were made by Parina dog food company probably why they didn’t taste any good
@@RobertStanton-7440 😆 Perhaps you’re right.
Crunchy Corn Bran was good tho
Hey I just remembered another prize you could get in Captin Crunch 🥣 cereal..it was a blue squirter toy..shaped like "Captain Crunch
That does seem familiar. Time to image hunt this on Google!
@@RetroDaze it's a small all-blue Figuer of Captin Crunch, with a tiny hole at top..you put it under water 💦 to fill it.. :) 👋