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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 14, 2017 21:39:55 GMT
The above are all 1980s cereals created to cash-in on a TV series, video game, film, or such. Not a complete list I presume.
I wasn't alive then, and all of these were short-lived, so I can't vote. However, as someone into retro and such, I thought it might be a fun question.
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Post by SciFive on Aug 14, 2017 21:56:30 GMT
Well, I'd never heard of any of these, but I would have liked Batman Cereal.  |
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Post by rateater on Aug 14, 2017 22:17:21 GMT
always gotta go with the ghostbusters 2 cereal and it's amazing marshmallows. i remember pacman was the round puffs but i don't remember if it had ghosts or not. i remember liking a lot of these.
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Post by Ad○rably Obn○xi○us🐢 on Aug 14, 2017 23:38:16 GMT
always gotta go with the ghostbusters 2 cereal and it's amazing marshmallows. i remember pacman was the round puffs but i don't remember if it had ghosts or not. i remember liking a lot of these. I think the ghosts were marshmallows! I voted smurfberry crunch. My brother was born in '8o so he was the prime market for all of these and like the average 8o's household, we had most of not all of them. I really don't remember many but I do remember ALL had prizes in them...unlike cereal today. |
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Post by SciFive on Aug 17, 2017 10:32:13 GMT
Somewhere I read that the cereal companies really started going wild with cereal ads because they figured out two things:
1. Children were memorizing television jingles. They would see all sorts of television shows and cartoons, but it was the television commercials that caught their eyes (and they memorized the little songs that came with them).
2. When women shopped with children, it was the children who would insist on picking the cereals.
Big dollar signs flashed in corporate eyes!!
They marketed to little kids and it was worth a bundle.
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Post by poelzig on Aug 17, 2017 13:31:12 GMT
always gotta go with the ghostbusters 2 cereal and it's amazing marshmallows. i remember pacman was the round puffs but i don't remember if it had ghosts or not. i remember liking a lot of these. I think the ghosts were marshmallows! I voted smurfberry crunch. My brother was born in '8o so he was the prime market for all of these and like the average 8o's household, we had most of not all of them. I really don't remember many but I do remember ALL had prizes in them...unlike cereal today. I was watching a South Park episode recently and Stan was eating cereal that said Prize Inside on the box. I realized I didn't remember seeing toys being advertised on my nieces cereal boxes when they visited and wondered if I just hadn't noticed. Are there no longer any toys or prizes in kids cereals? That kind of sucks but they do have unlimited cartoons available 24/7 so I guess it's a fair trade off. |
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 18, 2017 1:31:23 GMT
Never tried any of them.
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Post by Ad○rably Obn○xi○us🐢 on Aug 19, 2017 4:31:53 GMT
I think the ghosts were marshmallows! I voted smurfberry crunch. My brother was born in '8o so he was the prime market for all of these and like the average 8o's household, we had most of not all of them. I really don't remember many but I do remember ALL had prizes in them...unlike cereal today. I was watching a South Park episode recently and Stan was eating cereal that said Prize Inside on the box. I realized I didn't remember seeing toys being advertised on my nieces cereal boxes when they visited and wondered if I just hadn't noticed. Are there no longer any toys or prizes in kids cereals? That kind of sucks but they do have unlimited cartoons available 24/7 so I guess it's a fair trade off. No, no toys in any of them anymore. Stopped somewhere in the mid 9o's I believe. |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Sept 2, 2017 8:01:47 GMT
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