The Best Cereal Premium

[kryptosmaster]

Tragicly, my folks wouldn't buy more until I finished the box. Which meant choking back a LOT of those horrid little wheatcakes.


Don C.

LOL!
C'mon. I remember the commercials: "Good, good whole wheat Shredddddies"
Never had them in the U.S. but saw the Canadian commercials.
Another one that I never had was, "Mr. Christie, you make good cookies" and either Zero bar or Aero bar; I forgot which name it was. I think Aero Bar.
Rich

[ctc]

>i remember shreddies having many cool toys

When I was a kid Shreddies had the BEST toys. Tragicly, my folks wouldn't buy more until I finished the box. Which meant choking back a LOT of those horrid little wheatcakes. (With determination I could finish off a whole box in one Saturday morning.)

A close (and more palatable) second was Captain Crunch. I remember going through a few boxes when they had these little haunted house pencil toppers. (We wnated tons of the bat, since we were using them as bad guys to fight Star Wars figures....)

Don C.

Don C.

[spidey68]

i remember shreddies having many cool toys like the hot air balloon,or the double pontoon boat with elastic you would wind up the propeller and put it in the bath and let it go

[MightyMegs]

A snap together model of Fred Flintstone's car in Fruity Pebbles.

[tay666]

For me it was these:

http://theswca.com/index.php?action=...&item_id=41721

http://theswca.com/index.php?action=...&item_id=41691

But I loved all of the Star Wars cereal premiums. Here is a US pictoral checklist:

Cereal Boxes (USA)

You guys and gals must remember this one from the mid-90s when the Star Wars craze was heating up again:

http://theswca.com/index.php?action=...&item_id=41740

I still have the cards, the Han Stormtrooper (in mailing box unopened), and Making of Star Wars video.

I remember loving those gliders when I was a kid. I set up a strings from the top of the basement steps to the bottom and raced them with my sister.

Either I missed it, or that list is missing one cereal premium I remmber vividly as I had it. The Star Wars kite.

[ctc]

>I wished they made some cool cereal toys now but they look boring!

There are some good ones. I got a CD with a ton of old Atari games; arcade AND 2600. THAT was neat! There was a disk of "Jackie Chan Adventures" episodes too, but I missed out on those.

Don C.

[ScottA]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...10-15_9778.jpg

How cool. I've never seen those before. They remind me of the Flintstone pencil holders.

[Ranger 3]

RE: Black Hole pencil holders:

YES!!! Bow before the supreme greatness that is 1979 mega-merchandising!

Combining the best of the late-70s-jump-on-the-Star-Wars-Sci-Fi-bandwagon-while-its-still-hot phenomenon with a practical household/educational application AND breakfast cereal. What better use for .75 ounces of injection molded multi-colored plastic can you think of??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/capitaineb/2009-10-15_9778.jpg

[tomstoyz2]

WOW! That photo of the terrariums brings back a lot of memories, I had some of those! But my favorite premiums had to be anything inside The Freakies. I have all the figures, balloon cars, & some of the magnets. I wish they would bring those characters back!

[palitoy]

[dumbldor]

For me it was these:

http://theswca.com/index.php?action=...&item_id=41721

http://theswca.com/index.php?action=...&item_id=41691

But I loved all of the Star Wars cereal premiums. Here is a US pictoral checklist:

Cereal Boxes (USA)

You guys and gals must remember this one from the mid-90s when the Star Wars craze was heating up again:

http://theswca.com/index.php?action=...&item_id=41740

[4NDR01D]

My favorite cereal premium is a Monster in my Pocket Werewolf figure I got from Shredded Wheat.

I've got several of the shreddies(?) MIMP figures that were offered exclusivley to Canadians. I've seen them sell for between $50 and $100 on ebay. I've even got doubles of some of them. No special attachment to them for me, I woulda sold them long ago if I had a better camera.

[Donkey Hoatie]

We weren't allowed any sugary cereals as a kid, so I was pretty limited as to what toys came in boxes of Cheerios, Wheaties, Kix, Rice Krispies, etc. I do remember, however, a series of 4 smallish posters from Star Wars in boxes of Cheerios. I loved those posters.

[Neutron X]

Thanks! I didn't have a good way to display my Freakie magnets before finding this great display rack. Now I think they would look cool in front.

[Marvelmania]

Sweet Freakies set up! I've got the cars and boats but none of the figures. Seeing how good that looks I need to start picking those up.