Free stuff in cereal packets - 80s

[northwest monkey]

redtwin said:

Not quite the same thing, but there are some halfway decent toys in McD kids meals these days. Just got one (no, not for me) last week that had a sound activated Minion in it. Proper winds the dog up when it responds to her barks.

My son has a couple of these & they are fking annoying

[Quhet]

aka_kerrly said:

Quhet said:

Very exciting seeing the Railton Special in the old Birmingham Museum of Science and Industry not long afterwards, what a brilliant museum that was....

ff topic:
It still is.

Not a patch on how it was before it moved to Millennium Point though

[DBSV8]

remember these from late 70s

indian busts




these cereal packs ,sooty and sweep


puffa puffa rice was fantastic as was sugar stars

[Steamer]

Who ever did those illustrations was on Puffa Puffa Rice or Sugar Smack by the looks of it!

[nigelpugh7]

DBSV8 said:

remember these from late 70s

indian busts

Pretty sure we had those Indian head busts too. And lots of them as well, I am sure we had lots of duplicates too!

I wonder where they are now?

[tleefox]

Not strictly the same but along the same vein.

A mate of mine won a boys first mountain bike in a pack of cereal when we were kids. It was bright green and had a funny plastic discy type thing over the spokes on the back wheel, which I seem to remember was another trend of the time.

I was sooooooo jealous!

[Sargeant Orange]

Kids these days will never know

[dudleybloke]

Those little plastic boats that you filled with baking soda.

[Hard-Drive]

Silver Smudger said:

Still have one of these after about 30 years - Wasn't in the box, but only took 2 or 3 boxes to get enough tokens

Blimey! Had one of those, and this too...



I also remember Ghostbusters transfers, Sugar Puffs sticker sets, and a vintage car on the outside of weetabix packets where you had to cut the cardboard out and glue it together...

[gazzarose]

I used to love the sticker sets from Frosties. My commodore 64 ended up covered in then. They'reeeeee GREAT!

[Steamer]

Talking about stickers - I seem to remember this lot adorning my wardrobe doors

[fatboy69]

aka_kerrly said:

Eric Mc said:

I got these free from Kellogs through a 1993 promotion -

I have a set of those, didn't remember those were courtesy of Kelloggs to!

I also have those. They live in the original packaging!!!!

[Funk]

Oakey said:

justanother5tar said:

soad said:

Fanks.

What do they do? Clip onto the spokes? Is that it?

If you can't be arsed to read the packet you don't deserve something that spins and tumbles with brilliant colour and sound!

Forgot how annoying these sounded!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNAvyylK5Wo

[Ganglandboss]

Steamer said:

asking £14 on ebay

Also had the Frosties Jeep.

But this was my favorite (okay it wasnt in a cereal box)

Still got mine!

[DoctorX]

wildcat45 said:

Why remembers Tudor Crisps butterfly badges? Painted enamel badges of Red Admirals and the like.

Flutter-byes? Don't remember them being enamel, some sort of velvety material. They were great. Tudor had Wear-em Scare-em badges too which were nowhere near as good.

[DoctorX]

Silver Smudger said:

Still have one of these after about 30 years - Wasn't in the box, but only took 2 or 3 boxes to get enough tokens

And if you didn't collect the tokens you could cut and fold the Weetabix box into a half-arsed version.

[Disastrous]

This has reminded me of a family holiday in what must have been late 80's. Driving around France, junior me discovered Elf petrol stations (I think?) were giving vouchers that you could exchange for one of several classic Renault F1 cars.

Poor dad was sent MILES out our way to ensure he only filled up with them the entire trip. I remember near Carnac we couldn't find one and had to use another brand, the tantrum last hours. They were ace though.

[wildcat45]

DoctorX said:

And if you didn't collect the tokens you could cut and fold the Weetabix box into a half-arsed version.

It was something to do while you waited days and days for the postman to arrive.

[thismonkeyhere]

Hard-Drive said:

Silver Smudger said:

Still have one of these after about 30 years - Wasn't in the box, but only took 2 or 3 boxes to get enough tokens

Blimey! Had one of those, and this too...



I also remember Ghostbusters transfers, Sugar Puffs sticker sets, and a vintage car on the outside of weetabix packets where you had to cut the cardboard out and glue it together...

I have three vans and two racing cars stowed away somewhere, all mint. Shame they're not worth anything. Guess they'll just stay stowed away and mint....

[yellowjack]

thismonkeyhere said:

SEE HERE:

http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewtopi...

for pics of the Cornflakes aeroplanes! About half way down the page.

(I think I just overdosed on nostalgia)

I went nuts for these 'Classic Airliner' mini-kits. All sorts of neighbours, friends, and relatives were roped into chomping their way through as much cereal as they could stomach to try to ensure I got them all.

I ended up with all of the kits, but not so sure about all of the colours. That didn't matter so much anyway. Out came the Airfix paints, and, as close as you can get at such small scale, they were all liveried up in as accurate a paint job as possible, based on photos in my uncle's aviation books collection. BEA, BOAC, BA, Air France, several US carriers. Then I got hold of a large (2ft x 4ft) piece of cardboard, and drew an airfield onto it. A mix of felt-tips and poster paint had the grass green, the runways black, and the apron was left 'natural' as the card was sort of concrete coloured. The whole thing was covered with the little aeroplanes, it even had some blue paint at the edge, to resemble water for the flying boats. Then came airport buildings - control tower, hanger, terminal building made from empty cereal boxes. All achieved with guidance from my uncle who was a keen scale modeller (as was I).

The 'pièce de résistance' was when I'd run out of ideas for civil liveries, and started converting the new arrivals to military liveries. With the aid of some model filler the Comet became a Nimrod. Short Sunderland squadron codes were diligently researched. The Vikings got RAF livery. Then ETPS livery. Then I even tried to recreate "G-AJPH" - shaping two RR Nene jet engines from filler.

Too much nostalgia? Probably. But in this modern age they probably wouldn't have existed. They were not 'selling' anything. Not promoting anything. Just a carrot, dangled to get you to buy more of their cereal. If they did a similar promotion now, they'd come pre-printed with airline liveries to spoil the fun (and because very few kids have model paints any more). I got so much fun out that one 'promotion'. Far more than just playing with the 'toys' - the learning from the book based research, the patience to paint the 'planes, the skills needed to produce a cardboard, three-dimensional model of a building. I'm not knocking the console games and internet generation, but boy, do they miss out on loads of good stuff that we had as kids.