Thursday, January 7, 2010

CEREAL BOX PRIZES and LAUREL AND HARDY

I found this stuff cheap in a box at the Louisville flea market last weekend.

Here are some Laurel and Hardy rubber figures about 2 inches tall. They're made of pretty hard rubber so I don't think they're erasers.



This is a random hodge-podge of weird stuff.

The 2 guys on the top are little aliens or robots. What are these things? Does anybody know? They still had the plastic wrappers. One was opened so I could look at it better. Normally I don't care about keeping things in wrappers but since these things have made it this long with them, I might as well keep them like that.

The orange thing on the lower left is a Freakies cereal prize. The thing on the lower right is a cave woman. I don't know what she comes from. Does anyone know who she is?


9 comments:

  1. Ahh the Freakies! My pal Bookman187 gave me a couple of the Freaky magnets that came as prize inside their cereal box (this was back in 1975), and I up and lose them. Dang.
    You've inspired me to go to the Flea Market (or whatever our equivalent is here) REAL SOOON. I want me some Laruel& Hardys

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  2. The cavewoman comes from Kellog's Coco Krispies in the 1960s. Back then the Coco Krispies mascot was a caveman named Ogg. He had a wife (your mystery toy there) named Kell. Get it? I remember having these figures when I was a kid.

    Here's some pics of the CK box:
    http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/tic412.jpg
    http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/tic413.jpg

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  3. Jeez, the Laurel and Hardys are twisted and pained looking! Their postures, expressions, all suggest profound discomfort or unhappiness - particularily the Laurel one, staring up at the heavens, obviously cursing the gods that made him. -- Mykal

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  4. wow interesting find! good sleuthing bob!

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  5. Hehe! Thanks everyone for your comments! And thanks Bob for the info. Now I know it's worth keeping.

    I looked at the backs of those Laurel and Hardy figures and they say "(C) 1983 L.H.P.C. Hong Kong."

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  6. Man I LOVE non articulated figures like these. (I have a blog loosely dedicated to them) I love the Laurel and Hardy figures!! Any idea if a product was related to the premiums?

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  7. I love them too. I don't know anything about them. I wish I did. Maybe the next time I go to this flea market I can ask the lady who was selling them. She's pretty knowledgeable.

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  8. Hi there the two figures on the top are from the funny fringies given as cereal box premium toys in the 70´s they´re from R&L Australia

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  9. Thanks buddy, for the info!

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