General Mills Retro Cereal Design Review & Giveaway
I grew up eating General Mills Cereals, including Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Lucky Charms, and Trix. I was excited to see the new “Retro” designs on selected varieties of General Mills Cereals. When I opened the package, I had an immediately flashback to my childhood as I checked out the “Retro” designs. I loved them, as I’m sure many adults my age will!
Can you tell the difference between the “Retro” design and the newer designs?
(1) Retro – Honey Pot / Current – Honey Wand
(2) General Mills logo
(3) Honey bees outfit
(4) Cereal bowl
(5) Honey bee’s antennas
(6) Honey bee’s wings
(1) General Mills logo
(2) Cereal bowl
(3) Box background (O’s versus plain yellow)
(4) Number of O’s dotting the i in Cheerios
(5) Heart (for “heart healthy”)
(1) General Mills logo
(2) Cereal bowl
(3) Lucky’s scarf
(4) Toadstool and flowers
(5) Lucky’s rosy cheeks are gone
(6) Hair color from brown to red
(7) Rainbow swirl around “Lucky Charms”
(1) General Mills logo
(2) Letter colors
(3) “toast” logo gone on new package
(4) “new” mascot on new package
(5) New background swirls (not lines)
(1) General Mills logo
(2) Rabbit’s nose from gray to pink
(3) Trix writing has yellow, new shade of green
(4) Rabbit’s eyes/eyebrows
These “Retro” packages will be available at Target stores nationwide from February 14th through March 7th. Target stores will carry five limited-edition General Mills cereal boxes featuring fun “Retro” package designs and premium offers from the 60s and 80s.
We were very happy to work with you last October on our Mr. Men and Big G cereals promotion. We hope you enjoyed it, as did your readers. We wanted to reach out again and share with you another special promotion General Mills is running for a limited time and would love to preview it with you before it goes live.
MY THOUGHTS
I loved the “Retro” package designs. It was definitely fun for me and brought back many childhood memories with General Mills Cereals. The cereals are still great and my kids can enjoy the look of the packages I did growing up.
GIVEAWAY
5 lucky readers will win special prize packages
- 1 of the 5 will win a Grand Prize Package will win an Atari Game Console, as well as 5 “Retro” Designed Packages of Cereal, a Retro-designed T-Shirt, and a $10 Target gift card!!
-4 of the 5 will win a package including the 5 “Retro” Designed Packages of Cereal, a Retro-designed T-Shirt, and a $10 Target gift card.
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I received a package including cereal and a retro-designed t-shirt from General Mills to facilitate this review. All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine.
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maybe six months ago or longer not sure general mills had a promotion going and i won a $25 gift card in one box of cereal and a $10 gift card in another box on the same day it was so exciting..but it was just recently a promotion they did
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It may sound strange but I don’t remember any particular promotions with the cereals we ate as children or those I have given my children. And they have eaten all of the cereals in this posting. We don’t use a lot of cold cereals…mostly Cheerios, Raisin Bran and occasionally Trix when we feel like eating something on the sweet side. I do remember sending away for cereal bowls from an ad I found on a box once but can’t remember if it was a General Mills product.
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I can remember getting prizes out of the cereal boxes but cant recall the exact prizes. I would always go with Mom and pick the cereals with prizes though
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