Freakies Cereal

[saildog]

I forgot all about this, but upon seeing the commercial on YouTube, I remembered how the adverts worked their charms on me and I bugged the heck out of my Mom to get this stuff.

For years, it was a matter of legend in my family about how I wanted this certain-cereal-nobody-could-remember (until now) and pestered and whined until Mom gave in and got it for me. First bowl was the last and the rest of the product was unceremoniously tossed several weeks later. From then on, I was reminded how I was suckered to buy an inferior product by clever advertising and I had to stick with the tried-and-true favorites.

YouTube - FREAKIES Cereal Commercial 1973

Anyone else remember this stuff? Did any kid like it or was it a let-down for you all, as well?

[toys2cool]

never heard of it,but those little freakie toys are bad

[saildog]

never heard of it,but those little freakie toys are bad

Yeah, the toys were pretty cool. I got one from the cereal and traded something for another one. Saw them around school quite a bit initially, but I don't think anyone ate enough of that junk to collect them all!

[z3zep]

I liked Freakies! They tasted just like Quisp to me.

And I begged my mom and she finally gave in and I got the whole freakies set of figures via mail order.

I still have them

[monkey tennis]

We never had them over here...
I wouldn't let my kids eat it...
Looks like they'd be on a sugar rush for days.

[Man of Action]

Snorkle Dork,,I was raised on these!!Had all the free give aways, and some of the mail aways...cool

[saildog]

Oh, wow!!! Glad to see there were some fans of the toys because they were indeed cool and I remember them well, even if I couldn't recall the name.

z3zep, I am glad you still have them!

Man of Action, I honestly don't remember what the cereal tasted like. I think I was about 4 when it came out and I roundly rejected it, though (apparently)! Don't know if it was the taste that I didn't like, though. I'm a tactile person and that was defined early in my life, so it could have been a texture thing. Maybe it didn't hold up well in milk?

[megocrazy]

I still have the magnets on the fridge at my mothers house. The green guy and the orange guy. I think the blue one too. I think I have some of the plastic solid colored figures too, and I think I remember a car with a squeeze bulb that you shot across the table.

[Marvelmania]

They had some cool premiums! I have the squeeze bulb cars and boats! Wish I had the solid figures like megocrazy mentioned. The cereal wasn't bad either.

[grayhank]

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[YoungOnce]

Oh gosh... I remember that. I had the whole set as a kid but I have no idea what happened to them. Can't remember what the cereal tasted like.

[HardyGirl]

I never tried it, but I loved the ads. Wasn't there a fruit flavored version too?

*Edit* GrayHank just answered that question. Guess I have to learn to read ALL of the replies before answering myself!

[toys2cool]

Yeah, the toys were pretty cool. I got one from the cereal and traded something for another one. Saw them around school quite a bit initially, but I don't think anyone ate enough of that junk to collect them all!

I wonder how hard are they to find now

[saildog]

I wonder how hard are they to find now

Looks as if it can be found, my friend. However, it looks like a small collection of the figures might wind up going for a decent price when it is all said and done.

FREAKIES Cereal premium - complete set of 7 HTF!! - eBay (item 320259644968 end time Jun-10-08 16:06:49 PDT)

Might be worth watching.

Some of the other stuff might go pretty cheap, though.

All matching items for sale.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Not a great fan of cereals....unless they have good toys ...then I force feed them to my kids so I can complete the set