Do you remember getting a free toy in your cereal box ?
By Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (8895)
United Kingdom
March 3, 2026 6:17pm CST
So, years ago whenever we had a box of cereal there was always a free toy inside the box.
It was usually made out of plastic, and was usually of quite cheap quality, but it was free and we were children so we were happy !
Does anyone else remember this ?
Do you remember what the toys were ?
Have you still got any of the toys ?
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@DaddyEvil (169860)
• United States
4 Mar
Mom didn't buy cereal very often but, once in a great while, she would and yes, we got a free toy in the box when she did buy some.
Pretty cleaned all that out when she was throwing stuff away before we moved into this small house. I had kept several boxes of "stuff" from both our childhoods.
@Traceyjayne (8895)
• United Kingdom
4 Mar
Those toys might be worth something today
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@DaddyEvil (169860)
• United States
5 Mar
@Traceyjayne True, if Pretty hadn't thrown them away when we were getting ready to move here.
@Traceyjayne (8895)
• United Kingdom
5 Mar
@DaddyEvil oh that’s a shame ….never mind !
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@FourWalls (83882)
• United States
4 Mar
Oh, yes, I remember those days. We’d also occasionally get a record on the back of some of the cereal boxes!

@FourWalls (83882)
• United States
4 Mar
@Traceyjayne — cardboard. You had to cut it out of the box. And yes, it played.
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@Traceyjayne (8895)
• United Kingdom
4 Mar
Was it a proper record or a black plastic one that was thin and floppy…..I remember those !
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@cuttyrish (3046)
• United States
4 Mar
Not a toy, but the cereal here have free cereal boys, sometimes pladtic tumblr etc. It would be nice to see one
@Marilynda1225 (89194)
• United States
4 Mar
I do remember there being a toy in a cereal box but I really don't remember exactly what the toy was.
@LindaOHio (216279)
• United States
4 Mar
I don't remember what the toys were; but I remember getting them.
@valherma00 (1600)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
6 Mar
i tried cereals for the first time in college, when i was 19 or 20 and there were no toys anymore
but i remember some cocoa drink from my childhood and there was always a plastic part of train in there. i adored it.
but i remember some cocoa drink from my childhood and there was always a plastic part of train in there. i adored it. @AmbiePam (114870)
• United States
4 Mar
We always got the “healthy” cereals, and the toys were always in the sugary kid cereals so we rarely got a toy. Now, at our grandmother’s she had the sugary cereal. It’s no wonder she ended up with diabetes with sugar one of her main food groups. So occasionally, my sister and I would get to look for a toy. Most of the time though, the toys were just what we heard about, and not what we got.
@snowy22315 (204333)
• United States
4 Mar
Yeah, about a billion years ago. I have no idea..but I know one time my husband's aunt was on a Rice Krispies kick because the toy that came in them..Wally Wall Walkers were something her cat enjoyed.
@JudyEv (374133)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Mar
I especially remember the ones that you put together. It might be a horse or an elephant with movable legs and they'd wobble down a slope.









