[buzlightyear]

The free gifts you used to get in Cornflakes etc.. like bike reflectors and dinosaurs and all kinds of other plastic toys. The excitment of opening a new box of cornflakes so you could stick your hand through (mashing up all the flakes as you went) the cereal to find that plastic wrapping.

I guess they stopped because of health and safety, to many idiots eating them

[KhalJimbo]

Originally Posted by buzlightyear

The free gifts you used to get in Cornflakes etc.. like bike reflectors and dinosaurs and all kinds of other plastic toys. The excitment of opening a new box of cornflakes so you could stick your hand through (mashing up all the flakes as you went) the cereal to find that plastic wrapping.

I guess they stopped because of health and safety, to many idiots eating them

Exactly, silly nannies in that building along the river thames

[Iccz]

It's all about codes to text to a number or enter on a website now. Kellogg's have recently been doing codes in larger boxes of cereal which you get points for, and what do points make... prizes!

Home page of Kelloggs Rewards - member of coinks loyalty network

I've got enough for 2 free boxes of cereal at the moment, much better than a little plastic toy!

[Dancook]

Originally Posted by Iccz

Kellogg's have recently been doing codes in larger boxes of cereal which you get points for

I bought two large Fruit and Fibre boxes, I needed three boxes to get a 4th box free. Unfortunately next time I went they changed the offer.

.. bah

[nheather]

You still get the odd thing now and then, but I agree that they are not very common. The other disappointment is that on the rare occasion that there is something they package it between the box and the cereal bag - ruins the excitment of trying to find the sought-after plastic tat in amongst the rice krispies.

Having said that - just picked up an excellent deal at Tesco's yesterday. Sugar Puffs half price, each box has a voucher (you just need 2) and then you can send off for a cuddly Honey Monster for £4. I know they are getting £4 out of you, but he looks pretty good on the packet.

Cheers,

Nigel

[Kebabhead]

Health & Safety

They were crap

[Rorifett]

Totally, bring back one-colour bicarbonate of soda toys!

Not that we were ever really priveleged enough to get Kellogs on a regular basis but on the odd occasion we got the good stuff I was a happy nipper

[Iccz]

Originally Posted by Dancook

I bought two large Fruit and Fibre boxes, I needed three boxes to get a 4th box free. Unfortunately next time I went they changed the offer.

.. bah

I think I might have a spare box kicking about at home, if I don't have enough for another free box i'll PM you over the code

Originally Posted by nheather

You still get the odd thing now and then, but I agree that they are not very common. The other disappointment is that on the rare occasion that there is something they package it between the box and the cereal bag - ruins the excitment of trying to find the sought-after plastic tat in amongst the rice krispies.

Having said that - just picked up an excellent deal at Tesco's yesterday. Sugar Puffs half price, each box has a voucher (you just need 2) and then you can send off for a cuddly Honey Monster for £4. I know they are getting £4 out of you, but he looks pretty good on the packet.

Cheers,

Nigel

Andrex did that a while back, I made sure I got the little stuffed Andrex puppy, was only a couple of quid + the tokens, I think it was worth it.

[Dancook]

Originally Posted by Iccz

I think I might have a spare box kicking about at home, if I don't have enough for another free box i'll PM you over the code

Thanks, but I think we've thrown out the codes now it was a few weeks ago.

[mda1974]

Best freebie in a packet of cerial were these. Think they came with Weatos.

[Leej]

I think it was cereals that I had codes from for getting DVDs for a pound from play.

[Ned Senior]

I have a box full of those insert toys and dvd cases etc... 22 years of being a dad sorted that for me... am hoping to become a millionaire pensioner by selling them in the future on ebay or its' then equivalent

[Decadence]

The best Kellogs promotion was the ones for the little plastic planes...think it was around 1986 or something?

[buzlightyear]

Originally Posted by Decadence

The best Kellogs promotion was the ones for the little plastic planes...think it was around 1986 or something?

The Spitfires and Hurricanes, battle of Britain maybe, I still have both.

[Decadence]

I think there was a concorde in there too.

[PoochJD]

Hi,

Ahh the days, of freebies in cereal boxes, and the pester-power of an eager 6 year old, for mum and dad to buy X branded cereal because of the gold that lay inside. Those genuinely were the days! How I miss them so.

The probable reason that most of the companies don't run the "freebies" anymore, is probably down to money! If they can persuade kids to collect tokens and/or send off money instead, then why give something for nowt with the boxes of cereal?

Sadly, the days of trying to ease the free toy, sticker, or gift from the inside of the cereal pocket, from wherever it lay buried, and moving it to the top of the wrapper, so that you could then open up the wrapper, have breakfast, AND gain the toy, are long, long gone.


Pooch

[radioian]

Weetabix did Doctor Who figure cards in the 70s, I was always plauging Mum to buy the double box as it had more cards in it!

[nheather]

Weetabix did Doctor Who figure cards in the 70s, I was always plauging Mum to buy the double box as it had more cards in it!

Here you go

Cuttings Archive: Other Cuttings - Miscellaneous: 1970's Part 2

Cheers,

Nigel