Monster Cereal Box Premiums – The 1980’s: A Totally Tubular Decade of Crunchy-Sweet Fun: Monster Cereal Box Premiums, #2

By Jonathon Jones

A child of the 80's? Or perhaps just a big fan of the monster cereals? Whatever the case may be, this is the book for you! Chock full of retro sugary goodness, this guidebook is a continuation in the series which started with the 70's. It will make any fan long for the days when cereal was more than just cereal. It was also FUN!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathon Jones
• Release date: Jun 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393745204

Jonathon Jones

Born and raised in a small town in central Illinois, Jonathon Jones has spent most of his life involved in academic pursuits.   He received a Bachelor's degree in Art History at the University of South Florida. In addition, he also received a Master's degree in Library Science at that same University. He is also a member of the Society for Collegiate Scholars as well as the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Some of his many research projects have involved nutrition, philosophy, art, antiques, history, and human relations. His personal interests are movies, trivia games, visiting historic sites, and museums. For many years of his life he has been an avid researcher and collector of antiques and collectibles, and since 2000 has been a seller as well, primarily via online auction sites such as Ebay. He has also collaborated with and sent textual and visual submissions (Using his alternate name--Jonathon Jones is a pen name) to Ted Hake, writer of the Hake's Character Collectibles Guides, and some of his former collection pieces have been pictured within the pages of those books. His most recent dream is to write informative manuals as well as short stories via the E-book format, and with the love and support of his family and friends, he hopes this dream will become a reality. He currently resides in Florida near his family, whom he would like to thank wholeheartedly for giving him the hope and inspiration that he needs to make all of his dreams come true.

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Monster Cereal Box Premiums – The 1980’s: A Totally Tubular Decade of Crunchy-Sweet Fun

By

Jonathon Jones

Dedication

For Shauna, Logan, and Laurel

Copyright

Copyright 2019 by Jonathon Jones

Disclaimer

  General Mills, Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, Fruit Brute, Yummy Mummy, Lucky Charms, Trix, and any other General Mills brands mentioned in the pages of this E-book are all owned, with copyright rights reserved, by the General Mills Corporation.

  This book is solely based on past items that are no longer produced and, in turn, represent historical pop culture artifacts that deserve to be documented.  It is, in no way, shape or form, meant to be an advertisement or to show favor for or against the current production of General Mills cereals and/or their potential prizes or giveaways.

Credits

  Some, but not all images and information were provided by the following organizations and people.  Without their wonderfully gracious help, the contents of this book would have been severely incomplete.

Kevin Meisner, Dave McKroffterson, Robert Berry, Gregg Koenig, Dan Goodsell, Guy Himber, Jim Rash, Tim Krajewski, various Facebook collector pages, and of course completed auctions from various third party auction sites.

Editor’s Note

  What’s in a name?  That all depends on who you ask.  Throughout the pages of this book you will see the referenced names of Franken Berry and Boo Berry spelled with obvious gaps between their namesakes.  Why, when it would be so much easier to just combine the two name parts?  The reason is simple.  Because in most cases that’s how it looks on the earliest of cereal boxes.  For Franken Berry, you would see a strawberry between Frank and Berry, and for Boo Berry you would see blueberries between Boo and Berry.  Both of these visual devices indicated some kind of gap.

  As time went on, some box backs and panels would put an asterisk between the names, or even a hyphen, or spaced out with nothing in between.  Every now and then you would also see the names put together, but rarely.  Whatever the case may be, it stands to reason that, for the most part of the early history of these boxes, the names were supposed to be separated somehow.  Since I obviously can’t place a strawberry or blueberries between standard text parts, that’s why the names of Franken Berry and Boo Berry will be separated with spaces in between them.

Table of Contents

Monster Cereal Box Premiums – The 1980’s: A Totally Tubular Decade of Crunchy-Sweet Fun

Dedication

Copyright

Disclaimer

Credits

Editor’s Note

The Totally Tubular 80’s

1980 Big G Character Cut-outs

1980 Fun-Time Colouring Strips (Canadian)

1980 Stuffed Toy Offer (Canadian)

1980-1981 Monster Pals

1981 Great Game Giveaway Big G Card Sets

1981 How to be a Good Monster Coloring Book

1981 Monster Mansion

1981 Spooky Speedsters

1981-82 Folder Full of Fun

1981-82 Watch ‘N Play Watchman Giveaway Contest Cards

1982 Big G Showtime Sweepstakes

1982 Cartoon Character Stick-Ons (Canadian)

1982 Cartoon Character Quartz Watch Offer (Canadian)

1982 Money Machine Game

1982-83 Monster Catch Mitts Set

1982 Puppet Theatre

1982-1983 School Supplies and Magnets - Store Bought

4-Piece Set

Magnets

Mini Collection

Notebooks

Pencil Pouches

Pencil Top Erasers (With Extra Erasers)

Planners

School Bags

Sharpeners

1983 Big G Characters Colouring Book (Canadian)

1983 Monster Memo Board

1983 and 1985-1987 Monster Stampos

1983 Pumpkin Carving Contest

1984 Monster Bath Time Fun Kit

1984-85  Scratch 'n Sniff Stickers

1985-1986 Coloring and Activity Books (Safety-McGruff the Crime Dog)

1985-1986 Halloween Bag

1987 - 1990s Google Eyes Cut-Out

1987 Magic Secrets Video

1987 Magic Show Magic Tricks Folders (Misc) and Box Back

1987 Monster Glow-in-the-Dark T-Shirts

1987 Mystery Drawing Disk

1987 - 1990 Spooky Shape Makers

1987-89 Spooky Trail Notebook Cover

1988 Collegeville Halloween Costumes

1988 Colouring Book Offer (Canadian)

1987-1988