Monday, February 22, 2010

Review & Giveaway: General Mills Retro Cereal Boxes

This giveaway is now closed - winner to be announced shortly!
From February 14 to March 7, Target stores nationwide will carry five limited-edition General Mills cereal boxes featuring fun “Retro” package designs and premium offers from the '60s and '80s.  General Millls was kind enough to send me a cereal gift pack to review.

General Mills is also generously providing five Frugally Blonde readers with their own cereal gift packs, each consisting of five boxes of cereal (one each of the retro packages), a retro t-shirt, and a $10 Target gift card.

One cereal box will be featured here on Frugally Blonde each day Monday through Friday of this week, with a chance to win every day.

Today we're highlighting the retro Cheerios box, which features Rocky and Bullwinkle.  Cheerios was introduced in 1965, the year that "The Sound of Music" was released and the Beatles released "Help!".  Do you remember Rocky and Bullwinkle?  I confess that I'm too young to remember these characters, although I do remember my mom mentioning them.

On the back of the retro Cheerios box, Rocky and Bullwinkle teach you to play Shuffle-O, a version of shuffleboard using cereal boxes!  That sounds simple enough for even my 3 year old to play!  I've never played shuffleboard, but my family did enoy playing board games together when I was growing up.  We've moved on from Chutes and Ladders and Ting a Ling Bingo, but we still play games for hours when we all get together.  I've recently enjoyed starting to introduce my daughter to board games as well.

To enter the giveaway for today cereal prize pack, leave a comment on this post telling us if you remember Rocky and Bullwinkle and how old you are when you first watched them.  Do you have any merchandise of these characters to share with your kids?  Even if you don't remember them, let us know what family fun games you played as a child.

You must do the above to enter.  After your initial entry, you may gain up to 3 additional entries by doing any of the following:
1) Follow Frugally Blonde by rss feed.
2) Follow Frugally Blonde by email
3) Follow Frugally Blonde on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway.

Please leave a separate comment for each entry.  I will pick the winners from each days' contest by random number generator at the end of the week.

I was provided with the above listed cereal gift pack from General Mills in exchange for this review, and the giveaway prizes are provided by General Mills.  I was not compensated in any other way, and the opinions are my own.

76 comments:

  1. I don't remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle but I heard all about them from my dad who loved the show! As for games, Candyland was our favorite...

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  2. Yes! I used to watch it on Saturday mornings it was the first cartoon that came on :) I would get up and wait for them to start! I cannot remember how old I was though (maybe 6 or 7) - it was in the 80's. Wow, what memories that brings back!

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  4. Oh, dear - I don't remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle. But, I also grew up in a home where we didn't have cable, so I might be a little deprived. :) I remember enjoying the game Scrabble.

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  7. I remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle every Sunday when I was around 8 years old. Loved the show!

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  11. I remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle!! I was about 9 when i started watching! it was a great show!

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  12. I began watching Rocky and Bullwinkle when I was about 3 or so .. I never was a collector of their items, I just liked watching their cartoon .. :-)

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  13. Rocky and Bullwinkle was something I only caught once in awhile in re-run, but I always cracked up over Snidely Whiplash and Dudley Do-Right. Snidely was always tying some helpless female to the train tracks and Dudley Do-Right and his goofy horse would ride in and save the day.

    Growing up, our favorite games were Life and probably Sorry! These days, my brother-in-law is always trying to round up a group to play Monopoly!

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  14. I never watched Rocky and Bullwinkle--I don't think I've even really heard of them.

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  15. I remember Rocky & Bullwinkle at least occasionally, but tv was not common at our house!
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  16. I'm a subscriber (email)

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  17. I kindof remember Rocky and Bullwinkle, I used to play the pop game Trouble.

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  19. No, I never watched the show growing up... But I did watch the movie when it came out a few years ago! :-) We loved games in our house. We played card games, Sorry, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Clue, trivia games, and so many more!

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  20. I vaguely remember watching it on tv once in a while. . .I don't have any ROcky and Bullwinkle merchandise to share with my kids.

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  21. I watched Rocky and Bullwinkle! My favorite characters were Boris and Natasha. I don't have any toys or merchandise though.

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  24. I remember them! I watched them when I was probably 9 or something!

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  27. I watched Rocky & Bullwinkle when I was around 5 or 6. I loved trying to talk like Natasha with her Russian accent.
    Thanks for the chance to win!
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  30. i do remember the cartoon. we even had a rocky and bullwinkle arcade nearby that my orthodontist always had their patient christmas party at

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  31. I remember watching Rocky & Bullwinkle - I had forgotten about them!! I was probably around 10 years old when I started watching them. I don't have any merchandise to share with my kids though. We played UNO.....ALOT, when we were kids! Thanks for the chance!
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  34. I follow you on twitter (dkad23) and tweeted.
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  35. I never watched Rocky and Bullwinkle.

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  36. I don't remember Rocky and Bullwinkle. I liked to play Twister as a kid.

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  37. I was little when watching this I'm only 38 and have young kids We still find these show on cable show eie@nctc.com I facebook twit and email I love this

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  38. WOOHOO! This is my first day trying something like this.

    I'm old...so I was a small child when I first started watching Rocky and Bullwinkle. I never owned anything with the characters though. I do remember living in CA and they had a Chuck E Cheese type pizza place called Bullwinkles. They did watershows too! VERY cool. We had my daughter's 3rd birthday there in 1985. She HATED the Bullwinkle character but took a picture with him anyway. lol
    Right now my son is using my Google account so...that's the signature. hehe

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  39. Yes, I watched Rocky & Bullwinkle--recently acutally--it was on Saturday mornings and my kids were able to watch it. Not sure how much they liked it, but I did!!

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  40. I remember them, but it was definitely in reruns. My father was a huge fan the first time around. :)

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  42. I remember watching reruns of the show, I was possibly 8 or so

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  44. I follow you and tweeted.

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  45. I never watched the show. Games we played... I remember Sorry, Yatzee (sp?), and UNO.

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  46. I watched it, but in syndication. ;)
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  47. Rocky and Bulwinkle were Saturday morning staples in our house as a kid. I just loved Rocky the squirrel. Wow... flashback to the early 70's. lol I love playing games with my two little ones we are just getting into chutes 'n ladders and candyland. so much fun.

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  48. Yes I remember them and watching the show and them diving into the water tank. I suppose 6 or something a10small@hotmail.com

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  49. The closest I know about Rocky and Bullwinkle would be from Joey off Full House. So, I dont' have any merchandise to share with my children but as a child I loved pretend play...Teacher, Doctor or Chef. We also had family board game night a lot! Loved those memories!

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  50. I think I remember Rocky and Bullwinkle - I know that I have seen it on tv sometime. Also, they are the "mascots" to The Family Fun Center close by. I have a friend with guinea pigs named Rocky and Bullwinkle. They are so cute. As a child, we used to play a lot of hide and seek in the dark outside. We also played kick the can, kickball, and tag.

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  51. I loved rocky and bullwinkle as a kid! Cartoons sure have changed!
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  52. I totally remember Rocky and Bullwinkle and that mean lady who was always trying to get them. Now I am a Phineas & Ferb fan :)

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  53. I don't remember them but I loved playing Twister!

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  55. I absolutley remember Rocky and Bullwinkle! I even remember the " Fractured Fairy Tales " that played in between the R+B episodes! I was born in 1961 *Gosh* so I grew up with those guys. I remember their theme song and how silly and sterotyped that Boris and Natasha were!I remember it all and also some of the other corney yet cute cartoons out at that time!
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  57. Wow, memories! I must have been about 4 when I started watching rocky and Bullwinkle. My kids have 2 stuffed dolls of the characters. I laways loved playing Clue.

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  60. I would imagine I was about 4 years old when I first saw Rocky and Bullwinkle. When I was a kid we played jacks and made mud pies a lot!

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  61. i vaguely remember Rocky & Bullwinkle. I think they were a little before my time and I just caught a few episodes. I don't think I "got" the humor, but clearly remember Rocky's voice.

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  62. i can remember watching Rocky & Bullwinkle just vaugely - don't remember watching regularly or anything i must have been very small

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  65. Yes, I do remember Rocky & Bullwinkle and watching them growing up. Thanks for the chance.

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  67. I never cared for rocky and bull winkle.

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