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OT: Who Remembers Cereal Boxes With Cut-Out Records?

I don't ever remember seeing those growing up in the UK but we did have story books with records inside and music 'fanzines' with floppy records pressed out of a thin film of plastic.

I also remember as a kid having several 'Loony Tunes' LPs that came with a mirrored device that looked like the centre of a carousel which sat on the record player spindle above the record. As the record rotated cartoon characters printed on the label would 'dance' in the mirror image.
 
Don't remember how well they played, but I remember them. My Dad had a pretty high end stereo back then, and us kids knew better than to mess with the turntable and reel to reel much.
 
Yeah, we had the rotary thingy too!! :) And records that you had to press out of plastified carton and would ruin your pick-up needle.
 
I don't think it was from a cereal box, but I had something with the moon landing recordings on it.
Wore the poor thing out playing it over and over.
I remember my Dad complaining about the cost of the pick-up needles... :icon_lol:
 
Yep, I remember those. And some that came inside the cereal boxes. And I remember saving the wrappers from Bazooka Joe chewing gum and sending in for spy rings and T-shirts.

And the greatest disappointment of my entire life...never being allowed to order the Sea Monkeys from the back of the comic books. Most of my personality disorders stem from being denied the life-enriching experience of watching a tankful of Sea Monkeys.

OBIO
 
All I remember getting in my cereal boxes were cheap plastic toys and trinkets....which generally tasted better than the actual cereal itself.
 
Yep!

Sometimes they didnt work. Other times, the cardboard warped and when you put it on the record player, it hopped the needle.

Every now and then though, you had a great record. Ingenious thinking for back in the day...
 
count me in. I had them too but they never played well. How about the scuba divers that went up and down with baking soda?
 
norab said:
count me in. I had them too but they never played well. How about the scuba divers that went up and down with baking soda?
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I didn't have the scuba divers, but my Dad had a fishing lure that used baking soda. It worked in that the lure would go up and down...but he never caught a fish on it. I ended up with it as a bath tub toy...with the hooks removed of course.

OBIO
 
Dain Arns said:
I don't think it was from a cereal box, but I had something with the moon landing recordings on it.
Wore the poor thing out playing it over and over.
I remember my Dad complaining about the cost of the pick-up needles... :icon_lol:
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I had a few of those records, and as I recall a couple were pretty warped, my grandfather held one over a pot of boiling water for a bit then set it between 2 books, the thing came out flat as a pancake and worked great - if memory serves it was The Monkeys...

Oh and Dain, I had a cardboard backed recording of the moon landing, which came from National Geographic, and I wore mine out to, really wish I had it now, that would be really "KWEL".
 
gigabyte said:
...Oh and Dain, I had a cardboard backed recording of the moon landing, which came from National Geographic, and I wore mine out to, really wish I had it now, that would be really "KWEL".
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You're right!
After you mentioned National Geographic, I remembered my grandfather used to get that, and he gave it to me because I had so much interest in the space program growing up.
That was a great memory to have back, thanks! :wavey:
 
Not a cereal box "giveaway" but anybody remember the little wind up van which when placed on a record drove around the groove playing the tune? Coolio! :wiggle:
 
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