Free stuff in cereal packets - 80s
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Does this even happen nowadays? Used to get some great stuff when I was a kid (80s, mostly). Haven't seen anything for a long time, but it may be I am buying the wrong cereal.
Some I remember:
Weird picture things from films ('The Black Hole' was one iirc) thatn you coloured in and then put in the oven to shrink them? (Shreddies, I think)
A variety of tiny (around 5cm length) vintage aeroplane models.
Spokey Dokeys.
Small plastic flying discs with a little thing to fire them.
Those rubbery half-spheres that you turn inside out, place on a flat surface, then wait for them to pop and jump up.
Spokey dokeys.
And loads more!!
Good times....
Some I remember:
Weird picture things from films ('The Black Hole' was one iirc) thatn you coloured in and then put in the oven to shrink them? (Shreddies, I think)
A variety of tiny (around 5cm length) vintage aeroplane models.
Spokey Dokeys.
Small plastic flying discs with a little thing to fire them.
Those rubbery half-spheres that you turn inside out, place on a flat surface, then wait for them to pop and jump up.
Spokey dokeys.
And loads more!!
Good times....
Just remembered 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books which were available with not many tokens from Weetabix (I think?).
'The Race Forever' being the most 'PH', which I thought I still had somewhere but can't find it. Suspect it went to charity....
Also I have three Rice Krispies racing cars - one is a Lancia Stratos, another a Zakspeed Capri - which my son now has in his car box.
(Will have to take my own photo of those, can't find 'em online anywhere!)
'The Race Forever' being the most 'PH', which I thought I still had somewhere but can't find it. Suspect it went to charity....
Also I have three Rice Krispies racing cars - one is a Lancia Stratos, another a Zakspeed Capri - which my son now has in his car box.
(Will have to take my own photo of those, can't find 'em online anywhere!)
Steamer said:
thismonkeyhere said:
Just remembered 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books which were available with not many tokens from Weetabix (I think?).
'The Race Forever' being the most 'PH', which I thought I still had somewhere but can't find it. Suspect it went to charity....
Also I have three Rice Krispies racing cars - one is a Lancia Stratos, another a Zakspeed Capri - which my son now has in his car box.
(Will have to take my own photo of those, can't find 'em online anywhere!)
Had a few of those - but that was my favorite.'The Race Forever' being the most 'PH', which I thought I still had somewhere but can't find it. Suspect it went to charity....
Also I have three Rice Krispies racing cars - one is a Lancia Stratos, another a Zakspeed Capri - which my son now has in his car box.
(Will have to take my own photo of those, can't find 'em online anywhere!)
I thought the choice of Rally cars was a Saab or the Lancia - one came with a hot female co-pilot.
Saab or Lancia, then LandRover or Toyota for the safari bit iirc. Great book. They were all good, but that one stood out for me. (As an aside, 'Freeway Fighter' is worth a mention for awesome car-related roleplay books.)Puggit said:
Hours spent planning and affixing Superman transfers on to a box of Shreddies: http://collectingsuperman.com/?p=3882
No one mentioned collecting Golliwogs from Robinsons yet? (no, I'm not PC)
No one mentioned collecting Golliwogs from Robinsons yet? (no, I'm not PC)
to both. Had forgotten about those transfers.Wonder where my gollies are?
marky911 said:
In the 80's, probably the first half, you could get very small plastic aeroplane kits. Not like the proper Airfix kits. These were just 5 or 6 plastic pieces, all the same colour, that just clicked together.
Those, I think, are the ones I was referring to in my OP. With Cornflakes? One of them was a Vickers Viscount iirc.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)
http://airfixtributeforum.myfastforum.org/viewtopi...
for pics of the Cornflakes aeroplanes! About half way down the page.
(I think I just overdosed on nostalgia)
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...
Aldos Army said:
Does anybody remember back in the mid 80s there was a cereal where you could cut out the back panel and make "animal head trophies"? Sure I remember cutting out and having various animal heads like a deer on my wall??
That rings a bell.Cut it out, stick Tab A to point B etc, hey presto - animal head. Can't remember the detail.
Good call!
yellowjack said:
As an aside, because it's very much pre-1980s...
These...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1958-Vintage-Kelloggs-Co...
...were apparently given away by Kelloggs in the 1950s. There were a few still kicking around at my grandmother's house in "The toybox under the stairs".
My uncle had painted them when he was a kid, although most of the paint had come away over the years. Two generations of play value from something that fell out when you opened a box of cornflakes! Brilliant!
I had/have some of those! I was born in '73 though, so they must have been bought at a jumble sale or something.These...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1958-Vintage-Kelloggs-Co...
...were apparently given away by Kelloggs in the 1950s. There were a few still kicking around at my grandmother's house in "The toybox under the stairs".
My uncle had painted them when he was a kid, although most of the paint had come away over the years. Two generations of play value from something that fell out when you opened a box of cornflakes! Brilliant!
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