The Best Cereal Premium

[Wee67]

You know that's what determined which cereal you were going to beg for at the supermarket. I remember perusing the boxes to see which one had the best prize inside. So what do you think was your favorite thing you ever got inside a cereal box?

There was a lot of great stuff, but I'm going to go with the balloon car. They worked and they worked pretty well compared to some of the stuff they were giving away-


For some reason, the later version of these were always a big favorite, too.

[EMCE Hammer]

My mom would never let me have the fun, sugary cereals. If I wanted a prize, my only hope was to find it in Life, Chex, or Cheerios. I do remember the license plates, and those were a hit with me. In my neighborhood, there was a year or two where we all "souped up" or bikes as much as we could. Turn signals, horns, generators, spokes, etc. The license plates fit right in.

[generic]

I had totally forgotten about those license plates! I don't remember many of the specific prizes that I got in cereal boxes, but I do remember having a couple of the license plates. It seems like for a while some of the cereals had little smurf-like figures (Cookie Crisp in particular seems to have had the cop and the cookie crook - I think I fed Cookie Crisp to my dog so that I could finish off a box in one week ). I remember Nestle Quick had M.U.S.C.L.E. figures in the chocolate milk for a while (for those of you who don't remember them, those were strange little pink wrestling figures that were popular around the time of Hulkamania).

[ScottA]

I remember both of those very well. I dare say I still have some of them buried some where.

[HardyGirl]

3 words: CEREAL BOX RECORDS!

These were w/o a doubt the COOLEST prize ever. I still have 2 of them from childhood (Jackson 5 and Sugar Bear). I wish I had my others (Josie, monster sounds), but I have managed to get more of my Archies, as well as Bobby Sherman, and another J5.

[MegoGeek]

This one.

[toys2cool]

I use to be able to pick w/e cereal i wanted usually pops or Apple Jacks

[Megospidey]

1977 Marvel Magnets

[Ranger 3]

What about the real working terrariums!



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[ScottA]

1977 Marvel Magnets

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...velMagnets.jpg

I didn't know those came from cereal. I have all the DC and only Spidey for Marvel.

[Wee67]

1977 Marvel Magnets

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q...velMagnets.jpg

I thought these were gumball machine goods, but I didn't remember.

3 words: CEREAL BOX RECORDS!

I was going to mention these, but I knew you'd have my back on them

[Spawn67]

Anyone remember these?
Count Chocula, Frankenberry & Boo Berry "Cereal Flexis" (General Mills, 1979)

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Scar Stuff

[PNGwynne]

MegoGeek has it right! I wasn't crazy about SugarBear, but boy I loved those monster busts. Very Aurora...

[MegoGeek]

This one is even better..

[PNGwynne]

^OMGosh, I forgot those, I had 'em too! I'm a total Phantom geek & loved those, although as a kid I was kind of scared by his teeth lol.

Was that Basil Golgos art?