For all your FREAKIES fans out there...

[HardyGirl]

Although I never ate the cereal, I loved these commercials. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be77gKd55q4

[shellhead]

WOW, thanks HardyGirl !!
I loved the Freakies ! The cereal was only so-so but I asked my mom for it all the time, so I could get the cool little rubber Freakies toys inside .

[HardyGirl]

Anytime! I remember singing those silly jingles while jumping on the couch! (much to the annoyance of my mom!)

Hey c'mon you guys! Aren't there any other Freakies fans out there?

[david_b]

My best friend Mike and I used them excessively for Trek-like adventures, having built lots of sophisticated thin card-board ships for them.. (this was around '75/'76 time frame..).

Both of us built 'huge' starships, took graphics from the ATM Trek box covers for viewscreens, plastic parts for landing gear, bridge chairs, etc.. This was a few years before the Kenner Star Wars figures came. They came out quite polished, actually.

Mike wasn't into Mego, and ships (and shuttlecrafts..) were much easier to make for the Freakie-scale anyways.. I believe we both had at least two full sets of figures each, typically mailing away for them, and had them represent the characteristics of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc..

We had a few years of GREAT creativity creating starships with sickbays, engineering sections, slanted Jefferies Tubes (with toilet paper tubes..), you name it. Once the SW figures came out, we simply made cardboard ships for them, which were cooler in design and not as huge as the plastic ships Kenner had. Both recreating landspeeders, plus making new designs..

Many years later, I once again re-honed my ship making skills to make a huge runabout shuttlecraft for my young niece and nephew's Voyager figures, with a cockpit, sickbay, etc.., making paper color copies of the Playmates shuttlecraft instrument panels They were pretty excited.

david_b

[huedell]

I am 38 years old---that cereal is kinda "before my time"---
still "so close" that I have shadows of it in my memories from
who know what point of my childhood they began (maybe TV commercials
I saw as a 1-5 year old?)
The whole character thing in the commercial would have grabbed me hook,
line and sinker back in the day (I loved all the character stuff...especially Capn Crunch and his many pals)...thanks for posting HardyGirl.

[megocrazy]

Just brought home three Freakies magnets that were still being used on my Mom's refrigerator. They now adorn my computer desk.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I like the elephant Freakie.

[david_b]

Just brought home three Freakies magnets that were still being used on my Mom's refrigerator. They now adorn my computer desk.

I had them too..!! They should still be in my basement....

..somewhere..

[MIB41]

I've been trying to recollect the plastic character cars that use to come with the cereal too. Hard to find and sometimes the prices are silly.

[Remco Monster]

Love the Freakies.

Thanks for posting this. I have seen most of the commercials, but those are amazing quality.


Snorkledorf is my favorite.....