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I loved Freakies - still have one of the refrigerator magnets. see also: quisp

I loved these! I remember I had a little collection of plastic race cars featuring the characters. They came as prizes in the bottom of the box. Why did they stop marketing cereal with prizes inside?

I also remember the dolphin I got from Cap'n Crunch. You put a baking powder in it & dropped it in water. It would sink, rise to the surface like it was catching a breath of air, then sink back down. It was designed so that with each rise & fall, it swam forward.

I also remember the little globes & got from Cap'n Crunch. One was a blue planet Earth. The other was a glow-in-the-dark moon. They both came with little stands to mount them in.

And I had a couple of miniature greenhouses I got out of Sugar Smacks. They were little transparent domes that came with a little black wafer & some tiny seeds. You put the wafer in the base of the dome, added a few drops of water, then sprinkled the seeds on top.

I think my favorite though was the dinosaur excavator I got from Fruity Pebbles. It was a brontosaurus like the one Fred operated at the quarry. You could pick up pencils & toothpicks with it.