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[Andrew Korenchkin]

I don't know why this isn't done anymore, but did you ever get a cool prize in your cereal box? What was the best?

I remember my box of Fruit Loops came with a cool squirt loop thing. And a geniune police badge, of course.

 

[akira28]

wacky wall crawler

 

[NoRéN]

When you grow up poor the cereal is the coolest thing in the cereal box.

 

[KHlover]

Chex Quest
Kellogs Tony and Friends 2 or whatever it was called
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2...I think.

Remember when Cereals came with full PC games? In France they even gave away Beyond Good and Evil.

 

[DeathyBoy]

 

[Chittagong]

The Rice Krispies band and stage

 

[Sinfamy]

I only ate plain generic corn flakes, never got a toy.

 

[MarkMclovin]

Bike wheel reflectors. Football stickers.

 

[Creepy]

It's a shame we don't get toys in cereal anymore.
I imagine it's got something to do with not being allowed to advertise food to children.

I mostly remember rubbery figures of the mascots or looney tunes characters or whatever.

 

[Frimaire]

I think I once got either Roller Coaster or Zoo Tycoon for the PC....

 

[akira28]

those toys were completely cheap crap....the lack of cerealbox toys isn't really that bad.

 

[Gen X]

Pogs was the last thing I remember.

 

[Fancolors]

There was a brief moment around here when Ragnarok Online was included in corn flakes cerial boxes. It was a godsend for everyone with a shitty internet connection.

 

[JaseC]

If video games count, Microsoft AU partnered with Kellogg's to give away unused Age of Empires discs in Nutri-Grain boxes back in 2002. I didn't snag a copy myself as I already owned the Gold Edition, but it's about the only particularly neat thing that comes to mind as far as cereal pack-ins are concerned.

 

[kAmui-]

Those spoons that change colour depending on the temperature were freaking cool when I was a kid. But probably the favourite thing I can remember was the demo for Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. I spent so much time playing that demo and got all I needed from that game just from that!

 

[the anime man]

I think when Revenge of the Sith came out, Kelloggs had lightsaber-styled spoons that would light up. Those were cool.

 

[itwasTuesday]

I think I got a spoon and some rubber dinosaurs. What i hated was when cracker jacks moved from actual toys to rub on tattoos and other nonsense.

 

[Jzero]

Glow in the dark spoon, light saber spoon, etc.

 

[the_batman]

a lion king spoon

 

[Ronabo]

Baking powder submarine

 

[Jimnymebob]

I'm not really sure.
The ones I remember most were:
These animals that came with Weetos.
The Weetos Trolls/Professor Weeto with Troll hair.
Lost World Jurassic Park holographic things, that had a dinosaur frame, and you could move it to make the image move. I think there was a pterodactyl one that was brown, but turned green if you held it tight.
Pocket Dragon figures, which again may have been in Weetos.

 

[Mi goreng]

Age of Empires II CD-Rom from a Nutrigrain box

 

[Nabs]

Does this count? It was technically on the outside, strapped to the cereal box.

One of the best bowls ever.

 

[Funyarinpa]

A miniature version of Taboo. Was the tits.

 

[Blizzard]

The kid-friendly Doom clone Chex Quest was indeed great.

 

[bjork]

I forget if it was cereal or a box of pop-tarts, but I remember getting a little baggy that had two pieces of glass which were each two circles connected with a little piece in the middle. You had to remove part of the box and fold it together, then put the glass pieces on either end, and it made for working binoculars. It didn't look super cool, but I remember liking that it was a little craft project that gave you something beyond a no-articulation toy or whatever.

 

[Tezzeractor]

The kid-friendly Doom clone Chex Quest was indeed great.

Chex Quest
Kellogs Tony and Friends 2 or whatever it was called
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2...I think.

Remember when Cereals came with full PC games? In France they even gave away Beyond Good and Evil.

Ctrl + F "Chex".

 

[Jake.]

a voucher for a free pair of cons basketball shoes in the mid 90s. even though they were one of the cheaper models my parents wouldn't have been able to afford them otherwise.

 

[CadetMahoney]

flinstones chewable morphine

Spoiler

I can't remember anything specific

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

C'mon guys, this thread is all about the pics!

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

Does chex quest count?

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Does chex quest count?

Goddamn right it does.

Back in my day, we didn't get mere toys in our cereal boxes; we got DOOM mods.

 

[redmetal86]

I'm having a hard time remembering what was included with the cereal and what you could get by sending in product codes from a box of cereal. All of the stuff in the latter category is more memorable to me (Rice Krispies watch, Kelloggs mini camera, Darkwing Duck/Goof Troop figures, etc.)

There was this Spider-Man wrist light that came in a box once. I think this was around the time when Spider-Man 2 came out. I also got a disc once that had an episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, although that isn't really a toy.

Baking powder submarine

Was it one of those subs from that Disney Atlantis movie? If so, I have one of those too.

 

[Nostremitus]

Chex Quest

 

[ElzarTheBam]

I distinctly remember getting some of these JP fossils or something very similiar in cereal boxes back around TLW release.

Shit was cool.

 

[Chuckie]

C'mon guys, this thread is all about the pics!

Thanks for that!

As a Yuropean we didn't have any toys in our cereal. So I need the visual references to know what you guys are talking about.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Bicarbonate of Soda - propelled boat, the classic!

 

[Eskiboy]

These cool Space Jam trophy/shield type things. Not sure if you would class them as toys, but i though they were cool at the time.

 

[vacantseas]

Decoder ring!

 

[shira]

The cereal was the prize for me.

 

[biggersmaller]

 

[JordanN]

Ahh. I wanted to post the CD games first.

I still got these games lying around in my basement.

 

[Mr-Joker]

When I was little I was into Captain Scarlet and at the time Kellogg had an offer where if you send in tokens they would post Captain Scarlet toys.

*

Needless to say I was excited when they arrived and I loved them.

*Picture isn't mine, just using it as an example.

I don't know why this isn't done anymore.

Because kids were being encourage to eat healthily thus giving away free toys didn't look good.

It's also why McDonald doesn't have Disney toys with their happy meals, though ironically they partner with Subway which isn't exactly any healthier than McDonald.

 

[888]

The kid-friendly Doom clone Chex Quest was indeed great.

This

 

[OldMan]

Ichrio baseball card

 

[Corrupt]

I loved these as a kid

These cool Space Jam trophy/shield type things. Not sure if you would class them as toys, but i though they were cool at the time.

These were cool as well.

 

[big_z]

Technically not in the box but you got it for sending away a few upc. It's a 1991 analog Kellogg's cornflakes alarm clock that has one button, alarm on/off. The alarm is a rooster sound and very loud. It's 26 years old now and I still use it to this day. It has rarely failed me and when it has it's usually been due to the batteries dying.

 

[Diprosalic]

i just realized that they don't put toys in cornflakes anymore around here.
only buy a box once in a year or so.

now i'm actually not sure if they ever did.

 

[Busty]

C'mon guys, this thread is all about the pics!

This.

Always this.

 

[redmetal86]

Now that I think about it, Kelloggs had a promotion with Disney for these mini bean figures, and I got these two:

(not my hand)