Remember Wonder Bread Prizes?

[tomstoyz2]

I have a few of the Batman Trading Cards & some Battlestar Galactica ones too. They bring back a lot of fond memories. It really made my Sister & I wolf-down the bread because we knew that Mom would have to buy more.

[starsky]

i remember those battlestar galactica cards! i always got the crappy ones tho! i remember the hostess snacks as well. whenever we went grocery shopping, i stayed by the hostess display and literally checked every single one of the boxes to see which one had my favorite players. i finally find the one i want and put it in the shopping cart. when i get home, i ask my mom, where's the hostess, and she says she didnt buy it bec they're not healthy snacks!

[generic]

I think I got some Empire Strikes Back cards out of a bread pack or cereal box or something. They were three cards on a sheet with perforations so that you could tear them apart. Maybe I traded with another kid for the three that I had. Do those sound familiar to anyone? They had a white border.

MUCH more recently, I picked up a few Justice League cards in a cereal box. I think I have Superman, Flash and Martian Manhunter. I can't remember where they came from, but I know I still have them. I'll have to look and see if it says anything on the card itself about the tie-in.

[Meule]

Thanks for the info Hotfoot and Underdog. Being non-American it's sometimes hard to know what you guys are going on about

[kryptosmaster]

I remember always asking for Millbrook bread because it had Snoopy on the package but it must've been a lot more expensive because we didn't get it very often. Also the Caharlie Brown Specials used to always be sponsored by Dolly Madison Zingers and those were hard to find where I lived. I think I had them once or twice growing up and always wanted them whenever a Charlie Brown special aired. Maybe they just didn't have them at the store we shopped at. Not all stores carried all the same stuff back then.
Rich

[Spawn67]

I remember getting "Close Encounters of the third kind" cards in Wonder Bread. I just came across an add for it recently in a old comic book. Ill post it one of these days.

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[jwyblejr]

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

[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.

[toys2cool]

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

[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.