06/28/2005 Entry: "The Cereal Prize Project: Group 010!"

And the Cereal Prize Project grows to Group 010, bringing our ever-growing count of reviewed-prizes over 40. This lot contains just three -- a Monster In My Pocket super-prize, animal rubdowns that aren't as sexy as they sound, and a Corn Flakes "Mall Discount Card" that granted its wielder one serious little discount on frozen yogurt.

Chestnuts roasted by Yelinna @ 06/28/2005 10:32 PM EST

Rubdowns were the bomb! I never had too many of them, but I remember putting some on my teeth one time!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 06/28/2005 10:52 PM EST

I always managed to somehow screw up my rubdowns. Was never quite able to rub them down properly, I guess...

Chestnuts roasted by eight-bit.com @ 06/28/2005 11:06 PM EST

Matt: You GOT to see this. Ceramic figures of Freddy Kruegger, Jason Voorhies, and Leatherface and their residences (Camp Crystal Lake, etc.)

http://ca.collectiblestoday.com/cgi-bin/select.cgi?2111+1632+/cgi-bin/checkout.cgi%3F2111

I found out about it when I got a my magazine in the mail and saw one of those cards for it. Expensive, but cool.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 06/29/2005 12:01 AM EST

I remember those cereal-monster-in-my-pockets-es. But hey - I LIKED Dick Tracy.

Chestnuts roasted by Road Block @ 06/29/2005 12:14 AM EST

Remember those Coke Cards from a few years ago?

The kids in the commercial didn't even know who the Counting Crows were.

C'mon, who doesn't know who Adam Duritz is? honestly.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 06/29/2005 12:35 AM EST

I loved Monsters in my Pocket man, I had so many of those things... I remember that promotion too, and how much I really wanted some of those special color ones. I really wanted Monster Mountain too, never got one though.

Chestnuts roasted by Black Zarak @ 06/29/2005 12:35 AM EST

I think I carried one of those Mall Discount cards in my wallet for YEARS when I was a kid. Probably because I desperately wanted to use it, but never had, ya know, money (I was luck if I made a 25 cent purchase at KB). That, and my sucky mall didn't have 99% of the stores listed.

Yelinna- Where in Peru are you at?

Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 06/29/2005 12:40 AM EST

Mad Crow--I know how you feel...I hated it as a kid when there was some national promotion for a discount on something, and we didn't actually have a store that the discount applied for.

I also remeber MIMP...Never had any that I recall, though.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 06/29/2005 12:53 AM EST

Wow, killer updates as of late. I think I might actually forgive ya for leaving thatterrible christmas stuff up so long j/k

Chestnuts roasted by Solyhhit @ 06/29/2005 02:15 AM EST

I love that there is a pink monster figurine named "Cockatrice". Almost as much I'd love to have one of those mall discount cards right about now..

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 06/29/2005 02:28 AM EST

E

I have to reiterate that we should be grateful for whatever we get from Matt. If he chooses to use his talents on the new sections, we respect that.

Wow, I feel like Tim Robbins in High Fidelity a little bit. Don't hit me with an air conditioner.

I'd quote some lyrics, but it's 4am and I really should sleep.

You rule Matt, we love ya. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 06/29/2005 03:53 AM EST

I been catching up on this cerial prize project and saw the year 200O penny prize(group#4 prize 17). It should be noted that they came out with a penny and dollar coin combination. I actualy have one of which amazed me since they only made 5,500. I am never that lucky when it comes getting the good prizes. It has been sitting in my junk drawer till I readed the artical. I did a google search to see if is worth any thing(kind hoping for a few bucks). They are actually worth around 150 dollars. Nothing like finding money in a junk drawer. But apparently ,just recently, they discoverd since the usmint pressed these coins before any others they have a diffrent tail design. Now it is a major collectable. I think this is the few time that a Certificate of authenticity on a cereal premium actually means something.

Chestnuts roasted by JoseRZ @ 06/29/2005 04:25 AM EST

I remeber loving monster in my pocket, I wanted the toys so bad, but yet again my Mom wouldnt let me just cause Im a girl, sheesh, no TMNT or monster in my pocket Oh well I guess I just just have to cherish my memories of Lady Lovely Locks stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 06/29/2005 08:40 AM EST

Not to be a snob, but I always preferred M.U.S.C.L.E.
Sue me. Great article though. Love that we're getting so many updates. And we're seeing you in here a little more often I've noticed as well. God you must have been preparing for these Kool-Aid and cereal toy sections for your entire life.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 06/29/2005 09:18 AM EST

IHAQ- You weren't allowed to get boy's toys?? Jeez, that's awful! Aside from Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Pony, I LIVED for boy's toys! He-Man especially! Although, I never got into Monsters in My Pocket....I remember them though. Did they ever have a TV show? Speaking of boy toys and monsters with TV shows- Man, 'My Pet Monster' was a wicked show AND boy toy....

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 06/29/2005 09:19 AM EST

What the hell was the other set of small figures (along the same line as muscle and MIMP)??
All I remember from the commercial is it was animated and the figures had a robotic type body with an animal head (I think).
One of the lines from the commercial went "Water beats fire, fire beats earth, earth beats water" or something like that. I believe Air was left out as an element. Anyone remember this crap?

Chestnuts roasted by Drez @ 06/29/2005 09:25 AM EST

I remember those Drez.

Battle Beasts!!!

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/battlebeasts/battlebeasts.html

=)

Chestnuts roasted by bad karma @ 06/29/2005 09:42 AM EST

I stumbled across this site:

http://www.deadmalls.com

I always thought of shopping malls as the pinacle of 80's high culture; this site chronicals the death of many of these places.

Chestnuts roasted by shrubbledoo - ummfoofoo @ 06/29/2005 10:33 AM EST

THATS THEM! On man i've been killing myself trying to remember their name!!
Thanks!!

Chestnuts roasted by Drez @ 06/29/2005 11:18 AM EST

Last time I had a Animal Rubown was when the gorilla escaped from the zoo. I tell you, it was worth giving him $50 afterwards. I had to decline the happy ending though.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/29/2005 11:47 AM EST

That was the dirtiest, filthiest, innuendo-filled article I have ever bared my virtuous eyes to.

"Monster In My Pocket"..."Animal Rubdowns"..."Mail Discount Card".

Well. I. Never. *drops monocle in glass of wine and faints*

I don't know if you could call Monster Mountain a playset, since it's more a display shelf and it doesn't appear to do much, but it looks cool. I bet you could turn it around and call it a crumbly Hershey's Kiss.

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 06/29/2005 12:00 PM EST

Anyone remember the M.I.M.P. Nintendo game? I remember reading about it in Nintendo Power and being totally sold that I had to have it, although I don't remember it as being a terribly good game. Oh well. And Battle Beasts were the coolest; they were the the only toy I can remember that ever rivaled Transformers in terms of my childhood toy lust.

Chestnuts roasted by Red Menace @ 06/29/2005 12:16 PM EST

I think Battle Beasts were an offshoot of TransFormers in Japan. I might not watch CyberTron on CN, but I will get Prime and Megatron as soon as they hit the shelves.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/29/2005 12:53 PM EST

Man, that Mall card brings back memories of the now dead stores of my youth. FOTOMAT!! I remember those little huts in the parking lots of all the grocery stores and strip malls. And RECORD TOWN, wow, that was like the ghetto Record World (and Record World was already pretty crappy -- I was so psyched when a Tower opened at my local mall).

Unfortunately, I can't say I remember an establishment called CORN DOG ON A STICK. A googlevestigation reveals locations in Detroit and Tukwila, Washington. Weird.

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 06/29/2005 01:24 PM EST

X-E Battle Beast article: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/524.html

Chestnuts roasted by Chester Copperpot @ 06/29/2005 01:41 PM EST

GALAXY RANGERS Creator to Appear at Comic-Con
Robert Mandell interview
Fan Site
TV Show Intro

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 06/29/2005 03:19 PM EST

I've got a moose in blue armor. Element: fire.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/29/2005 04:34 PM EST

Red Menace: Not only do I remember the MIMP game, but I remember seeing kids play it on Nick Arcade!

It had always gotten decent reviews (not great, jsut decent) so I downloa--obtained it legally, and it's... well, a decent little game. I don't think I would have been too happy if I had bought it when I was younger, though.

Oh man, Nick Arcade. Matt: have you done a Nick Arcade article yet? That would be a pretty sweet article.

Remember those pathetic "videogames" the contestants played that were obviously made for the show? That was always slightly embarrasing to me.

Come to think of it, almost the entire show was like that... but when they had the first real look at Sonic 2, you better BELIEVE I watched.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 06/29/2005 06:08 PM EST

Oh man, check out the description of the Great Beast:

"An swesome, very powerful monster with many POISONOUS HEADS AND WINGS."

That's right, his HEADS were poisonous, and if those didn't get you, his wings would!

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 06/29/2005 06:15 PM EST

Oh man, Nick Arcade. One of those shows I couldn't help but watch, despite the fact that it invaribly led to anger and frustration that any kid could be so bad at a video game. Not to mention the token super-excited over-enthusiastic "hip" young host, clearly the product of a marketing meeting probably remarkably like the "Poochie" meeting from the Simpsons. Lord, don't get me started.

And thats not a bad idea Night, I may have to "legally obtain" a copy of MIMP to play on my "NES", if only for the nostalgia factor.

Chestnuts roasted by Red Menace @ 06/29/2005 06:39 PM EST

I remeber the NES game but don't remember seeing actual toys. Didn't the NES game allow you to choose from Drac and Frankenstein's monster? I believe it was made by Konami. Konami and Capcom were my two favorite game companies back in the day and they still continue to kick ass. I was totally sold on Mega Man and Castlevania. Those games always delivered the best music, graphics, and game play on NES and it still shines through to this day. I guess to ass on to the hobby thread I collect tons of video game music remixes/covers. Most of them consist of Mega Man and Castlevania. www.ocremix.org is a great site to find such musical pieces. Its either that or soulseek for me...

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 06/29/2005 08:40 PM EST

ooooops ass = add. heh, i wish we had the option to edit entries..

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 06/29/2005 08:44 PM EST

I loved MIMP, but my all-time favorite small-toy line is Z-bots.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 06/29/2005 09:55 PM EST

Hey Muppet Baby, (or anyone else)do you remember an episode of Strawberry Shortcake where a girl's tv show where the girls on the show REALLY wanted long hair and then they got their wish and their hair grew? I though it was Strawberry Shortcake, but I've never been able to find out for sure. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Lady Lovelylocks, because they all had long hair all the time (unless it was the first episode?). Anyway it's one of those things that will bug me until I figure it out, like that time in the car on vacation when I spent 5 hours trying to remember the name of the downstairs neighbor in Friends (Mr. Heckles).

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 06/30/2005 12:24 AM EST

Now why would anyone want long hair?

But to prevent a diatribe, I'll instead ask if any remembers those dolls with hair you could pull out and then ratchet back in by pumping their arm?

Chestnuts roasted by Hair Commentator @ 06/30/2005 01:41 AM EST

MIMP and M.U.S.C.L.E. Figures rocked! I can't believe I don't have them anymore. Since they were so cheap (at least the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures were...99 cents for a pack of 5), I pretty much always got a set of em' at Kay Bee toy store. Does anyone remember C.U.T.I.E. figures? They were like M.U.S.C.L.E. figures for girls...they were little rock star figurines. I was partial to all the figures, though...whether they were targeted towards boys or girls!

Chestnuts roasted by Marzipan @ 06/30/2005 08:38 AM EST

Ooooh, Monster in My Pocket Monster Mountain! I remember that!!!!!! That mall discount card was cool--and yes, I remember seeing commercials for new CDs saying that they were available at all major music stores...which also
includes "Coconuts."

Completely off subject--does anyone remember the old Teddy Ruxpin cartoon? I was wondering if there was an actual live-action guy in a giant Teddy Ruxpin suit that introduced the cartoon? I've heard mixed replies about this one, but I figured I could get it confirmed on here.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 06/30/2005 10:27 AM EST

Oh yeah, my little sister had some CUTIEs. They usually ended up in the bath since they were all plastic and immune to water damage. You just had to make sure they didn't end up in uncomfortable places. Lucky for me, that was about the time I transitioned to showers.

Chestnuts roasted by Lori @ 06/30/2005 11:35 AM EST

Army Sister had one those dolls with growing hair. She never had a good record with fancy dolls and their action features. Cut the hair, crank the arm, and presto! The poor thing had a hole in its head. Same kind of thing with Baby That-A-Way. THUMP, THUMP, BONK! "Why did you let your doll tumble down the stairs?" "It wanted to go That-A-Way!" Baby Alive? She chewed on pencils, sticks, whatever could activate the motor. And the "food" powder you mix to feed her only, I repeat, only smelled like apricots. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 06/30/2005 11:52 AM EST

Marzipan
There are a few articles about/mentioning C.U.T.I.E.S. in the x-entertainment archives. I actually was looking through some random past articles the other day and heard about them for the first time.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 06/30/2005 12:04 PM EST

The only other place I heard of Monsters In My Pocket was on this commercial on this really old Dragonball video.I was too obsessed with Ninja Turtles at the time to give a crap about anything else.

Chestnuts roasted by Suren @ 06/30/2005 04:48 PM EST

Gozer,

Thanks for the info...I'll definitely have to search the archives for C.U.T.I.E.s info!

Lori,
Even though you transitioned to showers when C.U.T.I.E.s were around, it'd still suck to step on em' if your little sister left them in the tub. Damn! Those would not feel good under the feet! I'd go from calling them CUTIES to CURSES! Haha

Chestnuts roasted by Marzipan @ 06/30/2005 06:18 PM EST

I've got a Monster in my Pant...er, Pocket.

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 06/30/2005 08:40 PM EST

WTF testing Matt is the comments not working? WTF testing!

Chestnuts roasted by WTF @ 06/30/2005 11:25 PM EST

Muppet Baby
Yeah, I think my mom thought boys toys were too violent and it was only a passing fad with me, but as I remind her every chance I get it was not. Thats alright, when my baby is born in September Im gonna make sure they always get the toys they want boy or girl!
Im already living through my child and its not even born, I love it!!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 06/30/2005 11:26 PM EST

Yes IHAQ, it sure is fun, but you have to learn to block out your wife rolling her eyes when you come out of the toy aisles with loads of toys in your arms.

Semper Fi,
Erik Majorwitz

Chestnuts roasted by EMajorwitz @ 07/01/2005 05:03 AM EST

Happy birthday to me. 30. Perhaps today, finally, I can find a Darth Tater.

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 07/01/2005 09:10 AM EST

Happy Birthday, jhnnywalkr!! Good luck on your spud search.

IHAQ- Nice! I am glad you (and Erik) will be living the good life vicariously through your kids.....I wish I had a good reason to buy more toys!

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/01/2005 09:45 AM EST

Hooray for jhnnywalkr!! Change out of your USAgent duds, put on your Big Boy pants, and go out and have a great birthday! Mention my name and get free blank stares from the public!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/01/2005 11:57 AM EST

I remember back in 5th grade all the kids at school said if you leave the MIMP's out in the sun, they got squishy. I was so amazed by this, but slowly realized everything gets squishy in the sun. I was a dumb kid apparently.

We also drew wall scrolls of made up MIMPs (in their pyramid collection setup). I remember my fav was "Gunner", but again I was dumb and totally ripped off the first boss in Wolfenstein 3D.

Chestnuts roasted by Skimmer @ 07/01/2005 02:17 PM EST

Have a happy National Holiday, every1

Chestnuts roasted by AlphaCentaurian @ 07/01/2005 08:12 PM EST

Anyone else think that the wife on American dad isn't pretty? I mean cartoon wives are suppose to be hot, lois, marge, jetson wife, wilma, betty. a lot of the other wives on the simpsons were hot too come to think of it.
also whatever happened to the blonde on married with children?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 07/01/2005 08:43 PM EST

happy b-day, jhnnywalker! hope it's a good one!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 07/01/2005 08:48 PM EST

hey, what's with all these suggestive ads by Mickey D's? Like the one up there ^^ "Are you Mac enough?" are you man enough? for what, your inner bun not to slide away from your meat?

anyways...it's almost Saturday night?

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 07/01/2005 10:33 PM EST

jetson wife=jane the prettiest
but why are cartoon men usually so unattractive; fred, barney, george jetson AND the american dad

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/01/2005 10:57 PM EST

classic sitcom formula...hot wife: ugly, fat ( although hilarious) husband......i rest my case

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 07/02/2005 03:41 AM EST

phunqsauce: Yes, Capcom and Konami continue to make great games and kick ass, in that order.

I'm a Castlevania freak. The announcement of a Castlevania game can seriously influence a console decision for me.

And after the PHENOMINAL Resident Evil 4, Capcom has be in its grasp once again.

Oh man, I'm seriously not looking forward to this upcoming console generation... $450 + for each console?

I've kind of outgrown the need to have a new system/game as soon as it's out (unless it's from one of my favorite game series). I think I may end up being even MORE behind the rest of the gaming world if the prices take a while to drop.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 07/02/2005 07:52 AM EST

My first post: hello
I vaguely remember my brother having some MIMP stuff we probably still have the lunch box around the house some were.

jhnnywalkr you can buy a Darth Tater online from here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00061I4U6/immaculate-books/002-6833405-3032034.

Chestnuts roasted by Emi_Chan @ 07/02/2005 11:14 AM EST

SOmebody told me that the new Nintendo Revolution system will give you the option of downloading NES and SNES games for FREE!!! That could be a major selling point for someone like me....but I'm very aprehensive about buying new systems...the last console i bought was an SNES and that was after it went below 100 bucks. Well, actually scratch that....I bought a Dreamcast but way after it came out and it turned out to be a good investment. The Dreamcast is a highly underrated system. What also kicks ass is the fact you can run emulators on the DC.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 07/02/2005 11:55 AM EST

I don't think they are going to offer the downloads for free. I think I heard that they will be "selling" them for certain time periods, or permanently, depending on how much you pay. Something like that.

I don't need any new systems. Pointless, since the only games I want to play are going on 15-20 years old!

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 07/02/2005 01:19 PM EST

I would imagine that there are going to be some free downloads, but definatley not all of them...

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/02/2005 03:12 PM EST

There was a joke on Family Guy where they described Peter and Lois as a "Fat obnoxious loudmouth inexplicably married to a hot redhead," and they show a file photo of Fred and Wilma. And why couldn't Betty and Barney conceive? Was Barney's reach a little short?

Chestnuts roasted by let's put this way, kingklash could have a hot cartoon wife @ 07/02/2005 03:53 PM EST

Hey Matt? Ya gots something to fix.

In the Cereal article, two of the image links for Monster in my Pocket go to the same picture. Whatever the "Scary Ad" is, it's not showing up.

If it's been pointed out here already, I missed it. Sue me. >_>

Chestnuts roasted by The ORIGINAL Paul @ 07/02/2005 04:07 PM EST

Thanks Paul, I'll fix that today.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/02/2005 04:21 PM EST