Yeah, it's kind of shocking that there was never a G1 Transformers (or Gobots) cereal back in the 80's. EVERYTHING got a breakfast cereal, and transforming robots were red hot back then!
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Yeah, it's kind of shocking that there was never a G1 Transformers (or Gobots) cereal back in the 80's. EVERYTHING got a breakfast cereal, and transforming robots were red hot back then!
We were robbed
Dammit! We WERE robbed!
Being a frequent listener of the Purple Stuff Podcast (not sure if anyone else here is familiar with it, but they have done several shows on old cereals), I immediately pictured Ralston as the company that would have made it.
The "turn the box into a robot" bit is amazing.
Bot Bots, you missed an opportunity here.
Oh man, that would have been a great deep, DEEP cut! Transform from the unused cereal box into the original "robot mode?" Would have been amazing.
Since I'm currently on my work computer with Solidworks running, I made a quick box shape and mapped the images to the surface, as well as creating the "Robot Mode" of the box. The pictures of the robot mode are just screenshots instead of real renders because the rendering software kept flipping the texture files for some reason, but it still gives a good idea of what the finished product would have looked like.
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Did someone say Transformers cereal?
Years ago I printed that one off on some card stock and made a Fort Max scaled version of the cereal box (scaled so that the box was similar in size to TR Fort Max that a normal cereal box would be to a human, NOT scaled for a robot the size of a small city. Just to be clear.)
Okay, the question "Is that your butt or your face?" has been thrown about a number of times over the years, but never has it been more relevant than...
Hard to say for certain. GI Joe did get a cereal, and it was... not great.
G.I. Joe Action Stars Cereal
G.I. Joe Action Stars Cereal was a themed breakfast cereal from Ralston starting in 1985. All of the box art and promotions for the cereal were themed around G.I. Joe. The character Starduster came from the cereal. He appeared in 3 mini comics, and was a mail-away action figure, available from...
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As I recall they were like plain Kix, but less airy and somehow more bland.
In other words, it had a real military taste.
I didn't know they had been released in any way. Do you have them? Or did you find the pictures online?
The appeal of a G1 breakfast cereal would have had very little to do with the product's quality
Pics were taken by me today. I know these came from Hasbro (like, the company building) around that time (2011-ish). I guess I always assumed some would pop up in international markets. And I always forget the Takara version of the "blue guy" is noticeably different. I guess all that's to say I figured some kind of release would happen that would make these guys not so special/rare.
They were never released.
I'm guessing that those are incredibly rare, then. Basically each is one of only a handful of production samples.
Too bad that Hubcap repaint was never released. That thing is beautiful.
not to pry, but if you don't mind me asking, how'd you end up with them?