Where have the free kids toys gone?

Modern day youngsters don't want toys they want electronic goods etc. can't say I ever collected kelloggs toys but I did collect hot wheels from McDonalds :p If you give a kid a hot wheels these days they'd get bored after 5 minutes.
Part of me likes that technology is becoming a part of peoples lives earlier but another part of me thinks parents who give their 4 year old an iPad for Christmas are stupid.
 
The Frosties bike reflectors sprung straight to mind as soon as I saw this thread. Other things I remember:

- Cornflakes bike reflectors in the shape of the cockerel
- Monster wrestlers inside Frosties (like “monster in my pocket” if you remember those?)
-Large holograms on the front of Ricicles boxes.
-Wrap around sunglesses in rice crispies
-Mini Frisbees inside Frosties with I believe a special gold frisbee which was rarer.
-Some kind of "The Real Ghostbusters" glow in the dark ghosts inside Shreddies.
-Stickers inside Coco Pops that you stuck to the pages of a book and then when you flicked the book it created an animation.

Can’t believe I was allowed to eat all those sugary cereals!
 
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MookJong said:
The Frosties bike reflectors sprung straight to mind as soon as I saw this thread. Other things I remember:

- Cornflakes bike reflectors in the shape of the cockerel
- Monster wrestlers inside Frosties (like “monster in my pocket” if you remember those?)
-Large holograms on the front of Ricicles boxes.
-Wrap around sunglesses in rice crispies
-Mini Frisbees inside Frosties with I believe a special gold frisbee which was rarer.
-Some kind of "The Real Ghostbusters" glow in the dark ghosts inside Shreddies.
-Stickers inside Coco Pops that you stuck to the pages of a book and then when you flicked the book it created an animation.

Can’t believe I was allowed to eat all those sugary cereals!
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I ate them too and I turned out okay. Sugar!!!!! wooo!!!!!!!!!!
 
Pencil Toppers in Sugar Puffs

Rice Krispies had those stretchy alien things which looked like a jelly you could eat (I think they got pulled after a kid ate one)

Then Rice Krispies had Aliens which didn't do anything, like one was circular with feet all around the edge so it could roll and look like it was running. Another had a big green head etc.

I used to eat cereal like it was going out of fashion just to convince my parents to buy more to get more collectibles!

When GhostBusters 2 was out at the cinemas, Um Bongo fruit drink had little holograms on their cartons too... could never peel them off, had to cut them out.
 
Food safety more than anything. Anything that comes into contact with the food product, the bag the cereal is in, has to be food safe. It'd be too much hassle in this day and age for a company to put a toy in with food.

HACCP.
 
I've got a coco pops crocodile bag sealer thing that's only a few years old, certainly not from my childhood.

That was always the best part about cereal though, and reading the box at length day in day out.
 
Spokeydokeys.... now you're talking! I used to have the glow in the dark ones that didn't really work.

Recently sold the full set of Cornflakes Star Wars Episode I character busts so there appears to be a market for this type of thing!
 
Kinder eggs still come with toys in. I member collecting the tiny terrapins back in the early/mid nineties :D
 
Kids play vidya and iphone now so some cheap plastic toy in a cereal box isn't going to have the impact it once did. You'll get more interest doing the same collect vouchers for free Alton Towers or Cinema ticket over and over again.
 
I wish comics would stop coming with 'free' toys. It makes kids have little interest in the actual comic content itself, instead the focus is on some inevitably awful piece of plastic tat that doesn't work properly.
 
LeeUK said:
Kinder eggs still come with toys in. I member collecting the tiny terrapins back in the early/mid nineties :D
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LOL, I'd imagine sales would slump for Kinder if they took the toys out and sold a hollow egg given that it's pretty much a toy with chocolate to a child. :D
 
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