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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Tell me in a comment a special memory you have of a favorite cereal promotion or a special prize you won from a promotion. Do you still have the prize?
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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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I am a bit weirded out by admitting this but, I actually cut out the record off the back of the Honeycomb box back in the late sixties and played it. The song ? “Sugar, Sugar” by the Archies.
I also went in search of the “Specially marked box” of Freakies back in the early 70′s that had the “Freakmobile” inside. I was a little Freak and rather proud of it. Still am.
However, Quisp was my favorite cereal for quite awhile. I always felt a special connection with the E.T on the front of the box.
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Wow–those vintage boxes do bring back the memories!! One of my favorites was when Mary Lou Retton was on the Wheaties box. I loved watching her in the Olympics and remember eating my bowl of cereal and looking at her picture on the front–wishing I could do gymnastics like she did!!
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I don’t remember what cereal it was, but I got some kind of foreign coin…I think I still have it somewhere….it was special to me, now I wonder what the promotion really was all about it! Back then I just cared that I got money (I think I was 4, so that was my first money…I didn’t care if I couldn’t spend it)!
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I can’t remember any prizes I got growing up.
I never was able to get the prizes growing up, I had a sister and brother who always got to them first. I remember what a treat it was having sugar cereal at my grandparents house since my parents wouldn’t let us have it at home. Loved Lucky Charms.
I remember buying the Wheaties football cereal boxes (and then throwing them out)
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