Remember when cereal boxes used to come with cool prizes? Now they seem to be either watches, CDs, or some mail order merchandise. Where have all the cool prizes gone?
I'd love to see the "toy and candy" snacks seen in Japan. You'd get a little plastic figure on one end and a packet of gum or chocolate balls on the other. It made the snack seem more permanent. You could display your figure as a sort of trophy for eating that snack. All forms of licensed kid friendly anime make their way as snacks, or at least rice toppings.
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Anonymous2005-02-02 17:09
have you been to mexico?
you should go. almost everything has some kind of cartoon figure or PPG.
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Anonymous2005-02-02 18:36
As cool as getting toys with your candy is, I don't know how well it'd fly in the US. They can't even sell Kinder Surprises with toys in them there, because kids might choke or something. Feh. I await the day when some dumb kid tries to eat the figurine, chokes, and it all goes to hell.
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Anonymous2005-02-03 19:05
What, Cholera Crunchies come with a little ceramic toilet seat in the box?
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Anonymous2005-02-04 15:25
Chex CD-ROM with Doom clone on it. The holy grail of cereal box prizes.
"have you been to mexico?
you should go. almost everything has some kind of cartoon figure or PPG."
Mexican candies also test very high for arsenic, cyanide and various metals (mmmm... mercury...) Have a nice death Pedro ^_^
Yeah, like >>3 said... We don't get cool toys in the US because our kids are so fucking stupid they'll jam anything into their mouths.
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Anonymous2005-04-04 1:54
In the 80's, there used to be lots of toy prizes in cereal boxes and snack foods such as "Cracker Jacks." I think that when McDonald's and Burger King devloped the idea of putting toys with kids' meals, it became less popular.
Also, who remembers the baseball cards that also came with free bubble gum?? That was the best!
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Anonymous2005-04-06 19:27
I was lucky enough to grow up during the "golden age" of trading cards. Wacky Packages, Dinosaurs Attack!, Toxic High School, reprints of classic card series (Mars Attacks!, Batman, etc...) Too bad the gum was usually so dry and brittle it was like eating a piece of linoleum.
Kids are pretty much boned in the card department nowadays. Granted, the quality of the cards is much nicer. But THREE BUCKS for a pack of trading cards!? WTF!?
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ciel-2005-05-31 22:44
My friend got a pack of gum that had a Full Metal Alchemist card in it. It only had one, though. But seriously though, as >>3 and >>11 said, society's so full of idiots these days that the chances of a law-suit happening is just too high for companies to consider putting toys and stuff with candy. (I mean come on, you don't need a warning label to tell you that your kid might choke if he tries to swallow a toy that's about the size of your thumb)
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Anonymous2005-07-27 21:02
to make sure that all the stupid kids die, i plan on taking over cereal companies and put in a toy called "the gasoline powered sharp thing"
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Anonymous2005-08-04 3:36
Parents got too whiney because their babies kept choking on the small toys.
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Anonymous2005-08-04 11:15
I remember when California Raisins were totally awesome to get in cereal. Then Post made a Zany Raisins knockoff. My childhood was ruined that day. Now I stay in a mental ward.
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Anonymous2005-08-16 0:54
I remember the cereal box toys quite vividly. Nowadays, if they do give you a toy it's so small and cheap that it's no wonder that a kid might break it apart and choke on something. We used to get toys that were pretty decent sized but now they're too cheap to do that so nobody gets a toy since they're too fucking cheap.