What was the best prize you got in a cereal box in the 80s or 90s?

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Just-Try-2533@reddit

License plates! I think they were from Honey Comb cereal.

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captain_flak@reddit

One time I got a little token inside a box of Rice Chex that said I had won a VHS copy of The Lion King. Still one of the highlights of my childhood.

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dumpsterfiremktg@reddit

I got a miniature pinball machine from a box of Cracker Jacks. Lunacy!

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Luminaire_Ultima@reddit

ChexQuest . Fantastic, cereal based Doom clone .

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skysmurf@reddit

The wall crawling spiders that stained the walls.

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skysmurf@reddit

Yes thanks I forgot what they were called.

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ewdavid4856@reddit

Remember those stinky ass wall walkers that smelled like straight chemicals -- we were allowed to dig a smelly ass wacky wall walker out of a box of cereal AND WE LOVED IT

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melvinmel@reddit

Wait, it was a spider? I thought it was an octopus!

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GoodyChaos@reddit

Do you guys remember Dr. Fad? He had a sweater covered with them.

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GoodyChaos@reddit

Let's... take a walk on the wacky side

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allthelittlepiglets@reddit

I was so excited to see wacky wall walkers listed here first. Best toy of all!

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Hammerhandle@reddit

I still have the set of General Mills plushies from 1998 unopened. I don't know why I've kept them for so long, but they're holed up in a tote in my basement.

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PlagueDrWily@reddit

One of these Transformers lenticular cards (I think it was Kickback); this one and the wacky wall walkers were probably the most memorable cereal prizes I can recall, the rest were mostly stickers.

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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

I remember really liking these glow in the dark stickers. I think they were monsters? Can’t recall what cereal it was.

I do remember an iron on decal of the honey smacks bear I wanted very badly. I didn’t even like Honey smacks but I asked for it for this prize. I tried to iron it in myself but having never ironed a thing before, it went horribly wrong and I wrecked it.

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elkniodaphs@reddit

Hard to beat Rollercoaster Tycoon.

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NHmountain-man@reddit

The scuba diver that you filled with (baking soda?) And they jetted across the tub

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Eviltwin325@reddit

I was so poor we never had name brand cereals.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

They still tastes goos

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TheoryAggressive8193@reddit

Coco-Roos. They don’t know about that

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FacePalmTheater@reddit

This one was probably my favorite. I had the Mikey one.

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Alarming_Air_6893@reddit

I had my favorite, Donatello!

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Me too!

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Grongebis@reddit

i forgot which one I had. i used it a lot though

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Realistic_Sand921@reddit

7” record of ghostbusters 2 soundtrack

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

True Xennial

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

CHEX QUEST

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Elegant_Maximum@reddit

3 way tie between my Garfield padlocks from Pops, Wacky Wall Walker from Fruit Loops or Pops and my Submarine from Cap’n Crunch

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nuggetbailey@reddit

I had to save 3 or 5 upc codes from i believe lucky charms to send away for a baby pine tree. I was so excited, planted it up north around my parents friends cottage and checked on it each year. I watched it grow for about 20 years ( I was an enthusiast earth keeper as a child) until the property sold and new owners clear cut that entire spot of forest. I'm still sad about it.

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Silver_Draig@reddit

I remember shreddies had star trek tng ships!

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slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit

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SilentReflection101@reddit

Chex Quest. It's still available to play.

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mirob3@reddit

A pog that got me a vision copy of the lion king, from a box of chex.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

This. I may still have the issues, but this is the correct answer

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tweek264@reddit

TMNT cereal bowl that had a built in straw

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Snoo_79157@reddit

The little plastic boson's whistle from Capn Crunch.

The one that, if you blew it into a phone it would let you make long distance calls for free.

They were made famous by a hacker called Whistle...or the Phone Phreaks...can't remember which. I think Whistler could do it without the plastic whistle. He would just pucker up and blow.

The dude got busted in college. At frat parties, he would set everyone up with free calls.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Not in the box exactly, but on the box, UPC codes, where you could send in a bunch and get back a special Star Wars action figure.

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Super_Direction498@reddit

Used to be able to get a job in a cereal box prize

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auspicious-moon@reddit

Slightly different but does anyone remember when Pizza Hut ran a promo where (with purchase) you could choose like 5 songs and they’d send you a custom CD?

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eatsleepdive@reddit

A knifewrench

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MitchMcConnellsJowls@reddit

There was a little plastic Tony the Tiger that you could put in a 2 liter bottle filled with water. When you squeezed the bottle, the Tony sank to the bottom. And when you released it, he rose to the top. Idk why, but that shit mesmerized me

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PhysicsStock2247@reddit

I loved that thing. They’re called Cartesian divers and you’re right, it’s mesmerizing to watch that little tiger bob up and down.

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eatsleepdive@reddit

Look at Mr Wizard over bere

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EricRShelton@reddit

I had completely forgotten about this!

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Ltimbo@reddit

Omg I just said this same think in my own comment.

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Soma2710@reddit

I’m so glad that someone else remembers that. It was my immediate response.

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Taco_El_Paco@reddit

Breakfast

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

I got sugar bear by sending off box tops.

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dbzmah@reddit

food. we were poor

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kramer1980_adm@reddit

The sticky slappy hands from Captain Crunch.

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EricRShelton@reddit

C-3P Ohs (spelling?), a licensed Star Wars cereal, had these little 3-piece plastic rockets. You squeezed them together and the air pressure would send the cap flying, but I played and played with that dumb little thing.

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GoldTreasureFinder@reddit

Honeycomb cereal cassette tape: I remember one song for sure, Crocodile Rock by Elton John. I would put the tape in a walkman and get on the recumbent bike and rock out as a kid.

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Ltimbo@reddit

I was strangely fascinated with this Tony The Tiger diver that would sink when you put it in a 2 liter bottle with water and squeeze it.

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FethB@reddit

I didn’t get it straight out of a cereal box, so I suppose it doesn’t count, but I remember using a proof of purchase to send away for a cassette single.

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HangryHangryHedgie@reddit

The color changing Simba cereal spoon.

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slithyknid@reddit

I don’t remember if it was a prize in the box or just the cutout from the box itself- but Ghostbusters cereal had a series of holographic pictures that I adored. My husband says he got a whistle that (unintentionally) let you crack into phones via the tone- might have been Cracker Jacks, not cereal? But I still think this might be the winner lol

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Notredamus1@reddit

Not a cereal box but a chips ahoy package. I won WWF Wrestlemania for NES. I remember it took a long time for it to arrive and the game ended up being terrible.

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Smoky1279@reddit

It's a tie between Rollercoaster Tycoon and Backyard Baseball.

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apolydas1@reddit

Dragon warrior on the NES. Although we got it from sending in upc labels, so maybe not a prize?

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0uchmyballs@reddit

I got Han Solo dressed as a storm trooper after sending in some box tops to General Mills. It took them like a year to mail it to me but I got it.

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Marmom_of_Marman@reddit

California raisins, or a tailspin stamper that was in honey smacks I think.

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water_bottle1776@reddit

Bill and Ted's time machine. In Bill and Ted's Excellent Cereal.

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mpmbullet@reddit

Color changing spoons 🥄 maybe 🤔

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mmm_unprocessed_fish@reddit

I won some baseball cards from Chex. Had to send in for them.

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Jestris@reddit

the little popper rocket things from C-3PO cereal

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jennifer_m13@reddit

Lightsaber spoons that lit up

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Pixie-Moxie@reddit

Immediately what I thought of when I saw the question, too!

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Cinderhazed15@reddit

Oooooh, I loved that!

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Azuras_Star8@reddit

Honeycomb cereal had these suction cup ninja stars stars, like 8 suction cups, and they worked really well.

Captain Crunch had these 6 inch wide half inch tall, flat tops that spun amazingly well.

Captain Crunch once had a tiny working boomerang that I was too stupid to figure out.

All the toys were better than the current McDonald's happy meal toys.

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LilBrutButt@reddit

I assume it was cocoa puffs, but got a pack of chocolates shaped like/packaged like/texture of starburst.

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Relative-Gas-1721@reddit

Robot alien themed bike reflectors that you would clip onto the spokes of your bike wheels. I convinced my mom to buy me some kind of sugar cereal I wasn’t allowed to have to get one. It wasn’t in the box, so she made me write a letter to Kellogg’s explaining the situation. About six months later an envelope appeared in the mailbox with two robot alien bike reflectors along with an apology note.

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aqiwpdhe@reddit

Type two diabetes

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RaptorCheeses@reddit

Dia beetus

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Pat_Hand@reddit

You could get CD rom computer games in cereal in the late 90s. Never got the chex game, that woulda been awesome. But I remember getting yhatzee as a cd rom.

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Kidkrid@reddit

Age of empires!

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Langdon_Algers@reddit

Willow magic tricks

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Disgruntled_marine@reddit

The color changing cereal bowls and spoons.

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staring_strait_ahead@reddit

And you could send away for the Nerds cereal bowl that had that trap door in the middle!

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ahhchooooo@reddit

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

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sheik482@reddit

GI Joe Lifeline

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thewalruscandyman@reddit

Golden Crisp had coins from around the world. That was...actually spectacularly cool.

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corduroy@reddit

Oooh, the Santa bears and cardboard airplane from Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Definitely a core memory for me.

Almost didn't get it because my mom thought it was a scam and her English wasn't great. I ended up having to call (I was like 7 or 8), but they needed a parent at least for the address to mail it and stuff.

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CurtG79@reddit

Mini Star Trek ships from Shreddies.

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Gonna_do_this_again@reddit

Hot Wheels car probably

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No-Cardiologist472@reddit

Only thing I ever remember getting was the chip n dale rubber stamps.

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Shakenbaked@reddit

I got a digital watch out of a box of golden grahams in about 1983 or 84. I remember seeing the commercial on television and my grandma firmly telling me that I would not win and I got it first box!

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mattarchambault@reddit

Never got a great one. Born 81

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C1sko@reddit

The actual cereal to eat.

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arcxjo@reddit

Free long distance

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Grammarhead-Shark@reddit

I recall He-Man puffy stickers being in serial packets I was eating as a wee tike crica 1984-1985 (I want to say I was eating Froot Loops, but it has been a long time).

Every bloody serial box I got Evil Lyn.

Evil Lyn! Evil Lyn! Evil Lyn!

As a pre-schooler I was very frustrated as I wanted He-Man or Okro!

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