Remember Wonder Bread Prizes?

[HardyGirl]

I have Wonder Bread in the house and I can't help but wish for the 70s when they had prizes in those bread bags. Flat prizes like cards adn stickers, but it as fun to collect them. I had some of these Disney pennant stickers and Hanna-Barbera magic trick cards:

Wonder Bread Trading Card Scooby Doo Pennant Stkrs NR - eBay (item 350278936861 end time Nov-23-09 17:59:07 PST)

And I got most of my Wacky packages cards from Wonder Bread:

WACKY PACKAGES WONDER BREAD (15) RARE NM-MT!!!! WOW!!!! - eBay (item 160377851823 end time Nov-19-09 20:01:15 PST)

I had some DC comic cards:

Batman Joker & Cat Woman Trading Cards Wonder Bread? - eBay (item 140359754999 end time Nov-20-09 18:56:17 PST)

And Battlestar Galatica cards:

Battlestar Galactica 1978 Wonder Bread Set (36) - eBay (item 330375587024 end time Nov-15-09 17:02:12 PST)

I also had Star Wars cards, Disney drinking glass stickers (dishwasher safe!), Hanna Barbera cloth stickers, and Disney license plate stickers.

Ah...those were the days. Wonder bread just seemed to taste better when you knew there was a prize at the bottom of the bag.

Any memories? Comments?

[jwyblejr]

Those and the baseball cards you use to get from Post cereal.

[toysrus]

Awesome

Awesome times! Why cant they do that today?

[Meule]

Dumb question, but what's Wonder bread?

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Wonderbread

A company (I think they are a part of Hostess now) that makes sandwich bread. The red, blue and yellow dots have been a distinctive logo for them for years.

I used to have a ton of the Disney Robin Hood Stickers on the door to my room as a kid.
I have some of the Battlestar ones now.

[Hotfoot]

Dumb question, but what's Wonder bread?

Wonder Bread History - Invention of Wonder Bread

[HardyGirl]

Wonder Bread History - Invention of Wonder Bread

Interesting how they didn't mention that in the 70s they put prizes in the bread bags.

[toys2cool]

in the 80's they had the mail in Wonder Bread He-man, still the most expensive one out there

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Any time you talk about prizes I think of 70's/80's Shreddies. Most noxious cereal on Earth, but always with the best prizes.

This kinda makes me think of two things:

-I'm surprised you don't see MORE prizes or tie-ins these days. I know a few small press comic companies have printed up 3D paper models of robots, spaceships, etc. It'd be easy to put these on a package.

-Back in the day (around 1980) there was a series of cards and 3D cutout puzzles on the back of Voortman brand snacks. It was a sci-fi space war story, and I've never been able to find ANY info on it anywhere.

Don C.

[jwyblejr]

I also miss the cards you use to get on the bottom of boxes of Hostess snacks.

[70's-toy-fan]

I remember

Me and my brother used to make holes in the bread plastic to see which star wars card was there because they always put them upside down under the white labeling so you could not see them well.After a while we got sick of getting C-3PO and luke all the time.

[Hotfoot]

Kinda lame but here are some new trading card/food tie ins




I think the Happy Meal Toys and other Kids Meal prises have replaced what we had as kids. The Happymeals just celebrated their 30th year.

[Earth 2 Chris]

We were a Butternut Bread family. They always had Peanuts stickers in their bags, so that was cool.

On a related note, my son FINALLY got his Star Trek Captain Kirk T-shirt in the mail this week. He had sent in UPC from Cheez-It boxes. In their defense, they did send a notice saying our order would be delayed. Cool shirt!



Chris

[Earth 2 Chris]

We were a Butternut Bread family. They always had Peanuts stickers in their bags, so that was cool.

On a related note, my son FINALLY got his Star Trek Captain Kirk T-shirt in the mail this week. He had sent in UPC from Cheez-It boxes. In their defense, they did send a notice saying our order would be delayed. Cool shirt!



Chris

[wayne foundation 07]

Sure rub it in that you ate name brand bread All I remeber was the bread that came it the white and black bag.I guess it all tastes the same covered in PB&J