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 remember getting Mickey and Minnie mouse little stuffed animals from Golden Grahams (I believe). I collected them like crazy, and I still have them somewhere in my attic!
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I don’t remember any specific prizes from cereal growing up, however, I do fondly remember fighting my brothers to get them first!
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I honestly do not remember any promotions.I remember fighting with my brothers over the prize in the cereal boxes.My favorite prize from a box of cereal was a coloring changing spoon.Thanks!
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I liked the Wheaties promotions. I still have my Pete Rose posters – had to eat a lot of Wheaties to get them.
ummm errrr…a special prize?? No but I remember whenever we got cereal..I think we picked them for the prizes first and we would stick our hands in them and fish until we got the ‘prize’…shoot I still buy Cracker Jacks for that reason..hahaha
Oh wow – my memory is awful. I know that many years ago, we were collecting labels from Honeycomb cereal for something, but I can’t remember what it was. I’m sure we don’t have the THING anymore, but we DO still have unopened, way expired boxes of Honeycomb cereal – LOL
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Honestly, I have no memories of any promotions because my mom wouldn’t buy boxed cereal for me! She was all about oatmeal, lol. So, I really deserve this, right?
I remember finding a neat racing car in a cereal box.
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I won a sled and a color changing spoon!!
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My favorite cereal from childhood I remember was called Moonstones, and they had prizes inside the box of little plastic Moon Buggies that wound up with a rubber band. I used to eat the cereal so often that I had quite a fleet of moon buggies. I’m pretty sure I still have them packed away with other boxes of childhood memorabilia. Thank you for the fun give-away.
I don’t remember any specific prize when I was a kid but there were 5 of us and I remember fighting over it, no matter what it was.
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I remember Quisp cereal with the little alien guy! I loved that cereal. I don’t really remember a prize from a cereal box. There were several brothers and sisters and only one cereal box so lots of strategy would go into play about who would pour the bowl of cereal that contained the prize. Mom wouldn’t let us dig around in the cereal!
I remember getting a color changing spoon and that’s about it.
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I can’t remember which box it was from but the little green house plants and the Monsters Stamps from Count Chocula.
Favorite cereal promotion was when the MN Twins were on the Wheaties box. Still have it.
back in my day cereal didn’t come with prizes
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When my kids were young they were into collecting Weebles that were available in the cereals…they were Disney and we tried to get each one we wanted! They do still have these
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I don’t remember a prize, but I used to love the Cinnamon toast commercials, where they would disprove a scientist, by showing the all the cinnamon on the cereal.
Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter cereal had this little wheel that had suction cups on it. I’d throw it all over the place and loved it because it would stick!! As a kid I’d adhear it to my glasses. Yeah, I was a geek.
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When I was about 10, I won a 35 mm manual camera from a cereal box promotion. So exciting!
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I remember this cool submarine toy prize. You put baking soda in it and it would dive in the water.
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I received an die cast race car from General Mills
My favorite cereal prize was a spy-decoder ring. I lost the ring decades ago.
When I was little I was able to send away for blue shoelaces from a cereal box but I can’t remember the name of the cereal anymore as it hasn’t been made since the 1970′s. I remember being really excited getting them in the mail and replacing my tennis shoe laces as soon as they arrived. Obviously I don’t have them anymore but I still remember them.
I remember getting those cars that you pull back and they race. Don’t remember the promotion and no longer have the cars.
My favorite prize was a Trix button I sent in for that said the rabbit could also eat Trix and they weren’t just for kids! I know that I still have it someplace.
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