#monster cereals

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Franken Berry and Count Chocula cereals - TV ad animation cels (1970s)

[brokehorrorfan]

Readful Things imagines Halloween III's iconic Silver Shamrock masks as a trio of vintage cereal mascots. 11x14 matte prints are $26.99 each.

[gubbins-turtledove]

Cereal dudes all together

[baileyartblog]

fucking. cunt chocula. he has anxiety

[bizarresexyzoom]

Monster Cereal Characters 🍫🍓🫐🍒🍏

[thathalloweenyfeeling]

Monster Cereal 2024

[dollartreemonkey]

Boo Berry 👻🫐🥛

I’m going to make a bunch of stimboards of my favorite characters for fun - first is boo berry!!

[froskii]

BOO BERY AND HIS KITY!!! 🤩

[therobotmonster]

Let's talk about Toys in Cereal

This is a part of several posts of mine that have gotten big, but I figure it's best to address the phenomenon itself in a new post.

If you want to just browse a ton of cool old cereal toys once we're done, go to: www.cratercritters.com. It's a neat site.

Cereal toys are a long-standing American tradition. Some tag-questions asked if they went away because of greed or because of regulations, and that's complicated.

There are food regulations that complicate things. You may have heard that Kinder Eggs are not legal in the US.

This is usually framed as a "fear the stupid American Kids will eat the toy" kind of thing. This is not the case.

The actual regulation that blocks the Kinder Egg is about food safety from bacterial and undisclosed allergen contamination. Inserting a baggie with a toy into that exposes everything in the cereal bag to the outside of the toy package, and that's a no-no in the US market. The rare thing we're more strict about than the EU.

But that doesn't affect cereal toys, because they can get around it by having it in a separate package outside the food bag, between the inner back and the cardboard box. Much easier on the parents to find when you open the box, too.

Kinder has, themselves, addressed the US Kinder Egg problem the same way, with the Kinder Joy.

Splitting the package. into two sections that are individually sealed.

But a big blow to the practice was the end of the Australian R&L Toy Company.

R&L made tons of simple pack-in Premium toys from the 60s through the 80s. They were the primary supplier to Kelloggs, and made everything from simple one-piece figurines to little build-yourself-action-toys.

For instance, these "Wacky Walkers" worked by tying a string to the figure and the weight, then dropping the weight off a table. The figures would hobble forward on their feet, pulled by the weight. Neat-o!

Then there's stuff like these Toolybirds. I'd sell any one of you to the goblin king for a set of these, because I sure can't afford them at $25 apiece or more. I'll probably just make some dinosaur-knockoff version or somesuch to 3d print, eventually.

R&L went out of business in the 80s and its molds were sold to a toy manufacturing company in Mexico that produced their stuff as bag toys for awhile, before everything just faded away.

Meanwhile, the cereal market was forced to contract elsewhere without a devoted company doing essentially just that.

Liscenses came to the rescue. Fun fact, if you wanted toys from most of the Disney Afternoon, your only hope was Kellogg's.

As time went on, you started even getting software in cereal.

Chex gave out a free, PG-version of DOOM for free. Not a couple of demo levels, a whole game, run on the doom engine, with aliens you zap with a spoon.

But as time went on, companies got less and less into the idea of enticing with freebies, and parents started objecting to the marketing of sugar cereals with toy surprises, because given the opportunity, most parents will blame the company for making something the kid wants for their unwillingness to say "No."

The eternal conflict:

Cool thing the kid would enjoy that you might have to put your foot down over because enforcing moderation is a parent's job, verses unobjectionable conformist mush designed to increase your kids' "goodness levels."

I think the banning of cartoon mascots for snacks in certain countries is also ridiculous.

Thing is, any company could bring them back at any time.

The Monster cereals did figurines of their mascots in cosplay in 2021. Of course, they did it as a limited edition bullshit thing where the actual monster cereal mascots were chase figures, but they made them, they could do them at any time if they wanted to.

They could bring the magic back. Nothing is stopping them.

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They brought Boo Berry's old design back!

As a diehard fan of Peter Lorre, I really appreciate Boo Berry for being an original Peter Lorre parody that spoofs a character he actually played, instead of the Looney Tunes cliche or the Igor crap. And for emphasizing his cuteness, instead of making him grotesque.

The modern Casper-like redesign didn't thrill me, and I'm extremely happy to see Boo back to his adorable marshmallow self.

Thank you @selfshipslimecave for this perfect gif!

[b0o-berry]

They gave C!BooBerry a pet cat

in my Boo Berry past life I was a cat, C!Boo having a cat is weird to see xd

[mistressofthemacabresworld]

finally a girl 🖤💚🧟‍♀️

[gubbins-turtledove]

we are living in a cereal world and I am a cereal girl

[zootycutie]

Monster Cereals got its gimmick for the year revealed! They're so cute! Love the flat art style too!

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