Since the Cornflake reflectors got mentioned in the spokey dokeys thread, why not.

I can't recall too many at present, what about you guys?

For example: Rice Krispies wrap around shades (3 colours to collect)!

:D

The stand-up cardboard Dr Who characters that were given away with Weetabix is one of my most abiding memories of being a nipper. I absolutely loved them. Everybody at school was collecting them. A marketing masterstroke by Weetabix.

Here's a link so you can see what they looked like.

Dr Who Weetabix

Weetabix did the same thing again a few year slater but the artwork wasn't as good second time around. You can find piccys of the second set on the same site as above. :)

Those D&D Holograms that came in some cereal, can't remember for the life of me what it was now. I was utterly fascinated by them - woooo, 3D!

Used to collect loads of those, haven't really gotten out of the habit...

Stuff I particularly remember were the board games on the back of the packet, and the Black Cauldron figures...

I remember some really cool mini sticker sets you used to get with sugar puffs

but the latest one was only a few years ago where you got a free dome of championship manager 01/02 season, it tan for 2 seasons, TOP freebie :lol:

I remeber getting some Flash Gordon Movie cards from Weetabix in 1980 which were cool, and Weetabix also did a similar thing to the Dr.Who cut-out characters for the launch of the Star Trek movie in 1979 (?) - the brdidge of the Eneterprise made up the back of the box and it kinda stood-up somehow to form a little stage for the cardboard figures. It was great at the time, but I was only 8! ;)

I remember the Doctor Who figures quite well as they were the only reason I would eat Weetabix (foul stuff!!!!). I also remember collecting comics and stickers from Golden Nuggets as well.

However, the best freebies did not come with cereal, but with Curly Wurly bars.
For a while they gave away flying discs that were propelled by a plastic flicker. Absolutely lethal at close range and ended up being banned at my school. I had about 20 of them as I was a bit of a Curly Wurly addict in those days.

I mentioned these on the old RG forum when I was banging on about those pencil top things that were fruit and veg characters. The Curly Wurly spinners were absolute class and although it was just a small bit of plastic you could fire them for miles. They're number 2 in my Top 5 Giveaways (only the plastic spud gun given away free with a comic that I can't remember the name of beats it). :D

lots of little plasticky shite
stickers and assorted cardboard crapness mostly :)

I still have a few Curly Wurly spinners left, they're great for winding up the cats.

I remember the spud gun too. I think it surfaced at various times on Knockout, Whizzer and Chips and Cor! as these were among the comics I used to buy. There was a squirt ring given away with Whizzer and Chips at one point. Had quite a few laughs with that.

Thanks for the excellent posts/links crunchy..quite like
weetabix.I only remember the submarine that sank and
resurfaced,used baking powder(?)cheers peter.

OMG! The old submarine! What a retro toy! Did anyone actually ever get one of these things to work? The ones I had always just kind of rolled over on their side in the bath. What a totally, utterly brilliant, naff toy they were. :lol:

The submarines have found a new lease of life in Christmas crackers. I got one in mine last Christmas and as soon as dinner was over I was off upstairs with the tub of baking powder like a seven year again. The sink was filled and...I can confirm that it still rolled over, fizzed a bit, floated for a while, fizzed and -er- fizzed some more. Naff as I remembered them being :)

A million (Alrighty 80) packs of Quavers, for a teenage Mutant Turtle Watch, which you could get from a pound shop... gubber


TTFN PINKY

Talking of collecting tokens for stuff. Back in the early 90s my local paper ran a promotion where if you collected a coupon from a certain days issue you could take it to their offices and claim a free can of Murphys Stout. Which of course I did and got my free can but the story doesn't end there.

It would seem it wasn't a popular offer and for the next month they printed coupon after coupon which I redeemed for more alcoholic beverages. By the end of the month they were desperately trying to shift the stuff and were giving away four then eight cans at a time to anyone who could be bothered to turn up at the office. Apparently they had about 10,000 cans to shift. As a result I ended up with a fridge full of stout and umpteen cans under the sideboard. I didn't have to buy beer for months. Best coupon offer ever!!!

I once eat loads of packets of Shreddies (which I don't like), so I could get the Ghostbusters transfers. I still have them. The transfers, not the shreddies :D

I always hated that, the way cereal manufacturers would just dump their plastic rubbish in amongst the suger puffs or whatever it was. In any other instance it would be considered a foreign body and you would be able to sue them for it!

Anyway, Kelloggs gave away some free plastic flexidiscs glued to the front of Frosties packets at some point back in the early 90s. I remember I got the Thunderbirds theme remixed to sound truly appalling and some equally crappy rap thing. Didn't much like Frosties though, preferred Crunchy Nut Cornflakes myself.

If there was a league of naffness I reckon the stuff given away with breakfast cereals is a few points clear of the stuff out of Lucky Bags, is safe from relegation because the crap out of christmas crackers is rooted to the bottom, but unfortunately has no chance of catching the freebies on the front of the comics we used to read. :blink:

Oh,wow nice one Kaptain Von,any left?that has to be one of the best
giveaways!back to submarines,my one sank,came halfway back
and yes fizzed a bit,naff but fun.bring back that helicopter
thing I say.cheers peter.

My boat worked, but it was tripe. Having said boat I realise it was a boat and not a submarine, although that rings bells...

I collected tokens for a replica Kellogs van for some kind of centenary back in the v. early 80's. It's still around somewhere.
Being a child and not realising it's value I stuffed real cereal through it's back windows for it to deliver. Which is also still in there.
These things never happen in the Ebay generation...
Still, better to actually enjoy your stuff instead of treating it like glass.

Other things... Lightsabers. A very recent one but one of the best gifts for a long time imho. And probably already worth money to strange collectors.

Argh! I can't remember stuff. And there's been loads!

My Dad works in Kelloggs, which means we get packs of cereals for cheap. When we were growing up, me and my brother would fight over who got the suprise inside the boxes, and then my Mum would say that we had to finish the other cereals before we could open the new ones.

The best thing though was the Kelloggs "goody packs". Every year employees would get a box with an assortment of toys and stuff that they had left over from the token collect offers on the cereals. This again caused many fights with my brother as to who got what, unless my Dad was lucky enough to get 2 :D

Edit:

Redundant post so deleted.
Feel free to imagine it was something witty, funny and interesting that stirred your heart and lifted your mind to a level of good cheer the like of which you've never experienced before. :D

I did,its working,what wonderful dreams you have!your thinking
of Jaime Murray,or is that just me?cheers peter.

Can't remember what cereal it was, but it was a couple of years ago, you collected various coloured Halloween Bike Spoke Lights....I think there was about 6 of them in total....

Anyone remember?

Spikey B)

hell yeah , ive still got my gb logo on a glass

Well, Kelloggs ran a Star Wars stickers promo. And after much pleading and begging my mom bought 6 different boxes of cereals for us. 1 month later all the opened, stale and pretty much untouched cereal was thrown out. Needless to say - that was the last time mom bought cereal for us based on a prize inside.

Does anyone remember the Dalton gang? - plastic cowboys all alike apart from their height.

It wasn't just cereal that used to give away the goodies. Petrol stations had some fantastic freebies back in the 70s. Shell had two collections of "coins" (cars and the history of flight) and a superb range of 3d World Wildlife fund cards.

how has everyone completely forgotten the most simple but brilliant cereal toy ever?

It was the rubber dome thingy that look strangely sexual, that you used to turn inside out put on the dining room table and wait for it to pop up. Used to get them in weetos. Well done professor weeto, you've done it again you awesome scientist/ chocolate giver.

The fight was so fierce for that rubber thingy my sister threw a calculator at my eye and it bled.

one of the cereals ran a series of Black Cauldron plastic figures.
I always wanted henwen the pig but always got the old guy with his arms folded after about 6 of him I gave up.