I admit that when I was a kid I based my cereal purchasing decisions based on the toy that came free in the box. Sometimes the cereal that I liked the best had no free toy! Just some puzzle game printed on the back of the box! I’m not going to buy your cereal for a word search puzzle. You need to dazzle me with something a little more exciting. One of my favorite cereal memories was when Cap’n Crunch came with a free window sticker of one of their characters. It was one of those “Collect all 8 designs!” kind of promotions. There was some sort of packaging error with my box and I got all 8 design plus a few duplicates. It was very exciting.
I was the same way with just about everything when i was a kid.
I remember when i was 7 i begged my dad to get me some shoes with laces – despite the fact that i didnt know how to tie my shoes – cause they came with a toy.It was not a wise purchase.
@ The Man:
I used to collect the Cap n’ Crunch figures that came in the boxes too. They had one of the Captain himself and then all the Soggies. Does anyone remember the Soggies? They were the Captain’s nemesis and had some kind of water cannon on them with a backpack and they could make anything they shot with it all soggy, but if you ate the cereal at them it would counter it and they couldn’t defeat it.
Why does biff never smile even when the rare good things happen to him?
@patrick:
in this case at least it’s because, OK, awesome, rocket, But he REALLY DOESN’T LIKE THE CEREAL!
Sorry for shouting
on a completely unrelated note, why do we bother commenting on comics this old?
I remember getting a one-sided record on a box of cereal, once. I had to eat the all cereal before my mom would let me cut the box to play the thing. I was too young to really appreciate the song, and it was by some British group called the Beetles.
God, I wish I still had that piece of cardboard!
That’s as close to a smile as I’ve ever seen Biff…