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Cereal Offers
Topic Started: Sep 19 2016, 09:42 AM (529 Views)
Stangfreak
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Here's a set I sent in several box tops and some cash for many years ago.

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I ran across this one at a swap meet and added it to the collection.

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webestang64
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I did the same thing, I remember going to the store just to buy cereal to get those box tops....LOL
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pjedsel
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So...the question is...how many of you actually ate the cereal? I remember with the old F&F molding plastic cars that came in cereal boxes - I had to eat the cereal before I could have the car - fortunately my grandmother also liked those cereals and helped out a lot. :lol:
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juantoo3
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I ate a LOT of Cheerios growing up.

I've got two complete, nice condition sets of those MBX trucks. I like the Model T, grab all the different versions I can find. I decided the Model A was just TOO MANY variants to try to get...
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toyotageek
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Those are neat!

I never did that particular offer, but I recall doing a few when I was a kid (back in the 60's for me). No idea what they were for though! :blush:
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Hobie-wan
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My mother sent off the offers for those on my behalf after I was past the childhood phase of collecting. :)
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webestang64
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pjedsel
Sep 19 2016, 09:51 PM
So...the question is...how many of you actually ate the cereal?
LOVE me some cereal..... :wub:

Right now I can't get enough cinnamon flavored Life.
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Douglas
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I sent away for my set as well, fortunately you didn't have to buy all the different cereals, and I loved the Frosted Mini Wheats at the time, so it was all good....Think I even saved a cereal box advertising this Matchbox promotion, I'm weird like that. :D

There was also an Eggo one, not cereal, and a different promotion to the 4 cereal ones, but as I recall they sent Eggo ones to people when they ran out of one of the others, not positive about that, but I thought I read it somewhere, don't have a photo handy, but I did find it at a flea market or something sometime later.
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microbuss
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I got the Model A van with Rice Krispies on it
even later found one in a dumpster & still got both!

only one I didn't get is the Toy Delivery one
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*RV*
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The Eggo models were a separate promo. They started giving away the Model T if I remember correctly, but ran out of them so they produced the Model A. Or was it the other way around? :unsure:

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The Toy Delivery model was not from any cereal, but it was part of the 24 piece "Collector's Choice" set. Each one was individually boxed.

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Finally, here's the Rice Krispies truck:

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And yes, I save cereal boxes, too. :rolleyes:

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webestang64
Sep 20 2016, 02:02 PM
pjedsel
Sep 19 2016, 09:51 PM
So...the question is...how many of you actually ate the cereal?
LOVE me some cereal..... :wub:

Right now I can't get enough cinnamon flavored Life.
Had Cinnamon Toast Crunch for supper. :wave:
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b2young
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I used to love Life and Frosted Mini Wheats.....I still "love life"....but lately I'm into Chocolate Chex and Honey Nut Cheerios. Occasionally I find a comic or toy inside boxes of cereal.....I thought that practice ended decades ago, but apparently not so. I don't buy them for the prizes....like Keith, I sometimes eat cereal for supper.....I just get in the mood for that (I don't usually have cereal for breakfast unless it's granola on top of a bowl of yogurt with fresh berries.

I still have a Marx light up fire engine (headlights, which have long since stopped working) that was a mail-in offer from King Vitaman (Quaker)--50¢ each plus two boxtops for 4 different trucks....and I have gathered the Kellogg's and Wheaties plastic fire engine sets that were in boxes back in the 50s-60s....but I never got to keep them as a child.....they were kept at Grandmother's house and I only got to play with them there. Thanks to ebay and flea markets, I have got both sets complete and they're among my favorites.
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