UK Cereal Toys

jonesypeter · June 2016

Hi,

Does anyone in their 40s remember a freebie that was given away with packets of cereal (I think it was Kellogg's Corn Flakes), which was like cassette tape which you ran through you fingers and nails and you heard a voice?

I may be that my memory is clouded as happens, but I'm sure I recall something like this?

Peter

PS - I was so bad as a child, I used to make my mum buy a cereal just for the free gift (that was obviously the idea), then empty the packet into this big saucepan we used for making jams, so I could get the freebie out. Trust me I have apologised many times...

murtceps · June 2016

Something similar to,these?
https://www.talkietapes.com/

JuanF. Ramirez · June 2016

I remember back in the early 80s a friend of mine had something similar from Kelloggs, not a cassette but a little plastic vinyl, the size of a mini-cd, you also ran through your fingers with a nail and heard someone speaking.

morph · June 2016

I used to love my cereal toys. I had one of the scratchy tapes things. it said 'Satan will eat your soul',

These days you just get a little card with an app logon code, which gives you control of a different character, who then implores you to keep buying the cereal but in a different voice. Not the same :(

jonesypeter · June 2016

JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »

I remember back in the early 80s a friend of mine had something similar from Kelloggs, not a cassette but a little plastic vinyl, the size of a mini-cd, you also ran through your fingers with a nail and heard someone speaking.

That may be it. Thank you, though for some reason I have tape in my head, but it was over 30 years ago!

Richey · June 2016

I still remember the Doctor Who stand-up action cards in Weetabix in the 1970s...

Luny · June 2016

Richey wrote: »

I still remember the Doctor Who stand-up action cards in Weetabix in the 1970s...

Oh they were fantastic. I spent hours playing with those. All my favorite characters from the first Tom Baker series. Brilliant.

jonesypeter · June 2016

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331883591257

I wish I could find my tapes on eBay.

Luny · June 2016

jonesypeter wrote: »

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331883591257

I wish I could find my tapes on eBay.

Goodness me, fifty quid, surley not :)
Mine went to the wind / mum was good at throwing out my stuff, I think that is why I'm a hoarder.

I also remember the Star Trek, motion picture ones.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Trek-the-Motion-Picture-Trading-Card-Captain-Kirk-Weetabix-Premium-/322128180755?hash=item4b0055f613:g:zVQAAOSw6wRXAnfW

UK Cereal Toys

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