Showing posts with label Cereal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cereal. Show all posts

Monday, 25 June 2012

The Wonderful World of Cereal - Shoot Animals With Weetabix!

This is from 1966. Two years before the Rhino, the Lion, the Crocodile, the Leopard and the Tiger were wiped from the face of the earth. (According to my research the animals you see now on television and on on holiday or at the zoo are generally students from local schools in costume.)

Right several questions are raised by this advert, could somebody sue Weetabix for causing children to want to destroy the animals of the African Savannah?

Secondly, I was always disappointed when I had to send off for stuff, why couldn't they put this in the packet in bits?

Thirdly, how did they "jump into the air"? And do animals do that when you shoot them in real life? Could somebody go and shoot a rhino and report back to me? It doesn't seem very realistic.

And finally I am slightly concerned by the term "crack hunter".


Does anybody still have this game? Please take a picture and send it to me. Or send me the game, I'm not fussy.

Saturday, 9 June 2012

The Wonderful World of Cereal - Strange Gifts from Ready Brek



I loved Ready Brek, we didn't have it very often because it was a luxury so we had to make do with Mum's home-made porridge or Weetabix. 

This is from 1975 - Cereal's often operate promotions for films or book releases, but this opens a window on a much more innocent time...

I wonder who got excited about this? I would have done. Definitely.





Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Adventures in Cereal Packets - Doctor Who - Found Objects: Whotabix


Following on from the A-team and Colin Baker Golden Wonder comic strips let's go back further to Weetabix.
Check out this and more shared by Dolly Dolly on Found Objects.

Click below...

Found Objects: Whotabix

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Adventures in Cereal Packets - Part 1 - The A-Team

Now I don't know what this came free with, the crow should give me a clue but it doesn't (it isn't Kia-Ora).
Anyway enjoy the first part of the strip, to build up a a real sense of tension with the story I will be publishing it a page at a time...