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When I was a kid my brother, four years younger than me, was trusting and sweet, and I took advantage of it to ensure that any cereal prize I wanted, I got – everything else he could have. One day my mother brought home a “new” cereal called “Trix” (ha ha). My brother, only maybe five years old, saw the box and started crying, and said, “I want the Trix! You always get the Trix!” He’d mistaken the name of the cereal for the object inside. We ended up not liking the cereal in any case, but it left me with an hilarious memory.
I remember when Cracker Jacks and Pink Elephant Popcorn had toys in them, too, not just cheap stickers and water-based rub-on tattoos.
While Corn Pops are FTW because they’re so tasty, I think it’s the toy that deserves the win here.
OMG. I love the Wall Walkers. I can almost smell them now. I always thought it was awesome that you could turn it from an octopus into a squid by turning them inside-out. Also when inside-out, if you threw them straight up, they would stick to the ceiling and hang by their noses for several minutes.
Wall walkers are the real win here. Corn pops taste like cardboard. There was an art to tossing the wall walkers to get them to drop down the wall quickly or slowly.
There were also some gooey balls which you could throw against a wall and they would flatten into a splat. Then, they would slowly reforminto a ball and roll off of the wall. Badass.
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Those were so awesome! I hate that you really don’t get prizes in cereal anymore. I love kid’s cereal, but my CornPops, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry have all lacked prizes, which seriously sucks!
And, the last “prize” I got was a tiny plush Goofy. Not that I don’t like goofy, but where’s the fun in that?
Kingdom Hearts.
Silly me, I actually eat cereal for the cereal and not for the prize..
Ah, cereal box toys. for a full rant: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail194.swf
OMG STILL THE BEST CEREAL EVAR!!!
my mum was a cardio nurse, so we rarely EVER got to have sugary cereal. But when we did… cornpops always won hands down.
Blast from the past, all right– the red-haired kid in that commercial was in my third grade class. He had a couple of days off to go film it, and then the teacher showed the video in class and during Parents’ Night. We were all jealous, but he brought back Wacky Wall Walkers to play with so he was quite the hot social property.
I rememebered loving these as a kid.. About a year ago I really needed to start eating breakfast again because my lunch break was often quite late so I picked up a box of this stuff. It was so sweet it was disgusting. I threw most of the box away.. So much for those good memories.
I remember when these were called “Sugar Pops” – before “sugar” became a dirty word.
Then, Sugar Smacks became “Smacks”, Super Sugar Crisp became “Golden Crisp”, Sugar Frosted Flakes became “Frosted Flakes”.
The wacky wall walkers are a real epic fail from my childhood. I remembered being so excited when I saw the commercials and then when I finally got to the bottom of my box to get the wall walker – it didn’t work. I was one of those kids that grew up in a house with textured junk on the walls and the wall walkers would stick to it for maybe two seconds and then fall to the floor and come up covered in carpet fuzz never to stick again.
The only bigger fail for me was when one of the cereal companies offered free astronaut icecream if you sent in your box tops. I was desperately excited because I wanted to be an astronaut like my cousin (well until Challenger but that’s another story). All I can say is “BLEAAAH”. In retrospect I could have eaten the box tops, gotten the same taste, and saved on postage.
but you would have learned nothing, and isn’t that what space travel is all about?
the best Pops commercial though were the ones from the 90s with Hyde from That 70s show when the kids would fake being sick etc because they “gotta have my Pops”. Those were the best of the Pops commercials. There were also ones when kids would fantasize about them in class and then run home to eat them etc but always the commercial ended with “Gotta have my Pops” those were the best of the Pops commercials.
Wacky Wallwalkers… omg. I used to love those things. My friends and I would have races with them. Right up until the day that one of them was put on top of the lamp to help kick start the glow in the dark bit. Let me tell you, when those things MELT, — and believe me they do — it’s the most horrendous stench you’ve ever smelled.
Wacky Wall Walkers were awesome! Although, one time I sent away for them, and they told me they were all out and sent me a bunch of other crap instead. I really wanted the Wacky Wall Walkers.
funny, the video’s been removed, but just reading the words i instantly remembered the smell of wacky wall walkers. and right after that i remembered what they taste like. i had completely forgotten that i chewed on all my toys. another thing my toddler inherited from me i guess…