# Favourite Cereal Box Prizes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054 "2002-06-02T23:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mlauzon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@mlauzon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlauzon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054/21 "2011-04-12T16:31:55Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Remember those sticky stretchy hand things? They only worked if they were clean, and they were made out of some sort of plastic, and they worked sort of like a frog’s tongue - you “threw” the one end and could grab stuff (mostly, you know, dust and dog hair) and pull it back to you. I remember those, but the only place I know of that you could get them was in a corner store, etc. > [@Zsofia](#): > > They were those little popple things that you turn inside out, put on a table, and they pop up and reinvert themselves. Never knew they ended up coming in cereal boxes, used to buy them at the corner store all the time, the bigger they were the higher they’d go. ---
**Author:** ![eno801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@eno801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eno801)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054/22 "2011-04-12T16:48:38Z")
the best one besides the already mentioned submarine was the terraniums in 3 or 4 shapes. you could grow little plants! came with seeds and everything ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054/23 "2011-04-12T22:02:29Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Remember those sticky stretchy hand things? They only worked if they were clean, and they were made out of some sort of plastic, and they worked sort of like a frog’s tongue… Me and my brother once got a small toy octopus made out of the same sticky material from a box of cereal. Instead of using it like a frog’s tongue to slap and grab things, you’d throw it high against a smooth wall, and watch it “walk” its way down. It would be sticky enough to cling to the wall (if it was clean), but not sticky enough to stay stuck, so it would gradually move down the wall. This toy would drive our cat BERSERK. She would go into a full-on fury, and stalk around the base of the wall for the octopus to come within reach, so she could MURDER it. (We’d rescue the octopus before she could.) I mean, we’d seen her chase bugs around the house, and jump up walls to catch them, but never with this much vehemence. If it’s possible for a cat to hate another creature, then our cat HATED this toy. (I should probably clarify that we were throwing the toy at the wall because we wanted to play with it, not because we wanted to antagonize our cat. The cat would run into the room anyway as soon as she heard what was going on.) ---
**Author:** ![Pitter\_Patter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90db22/32.png) [@Pitter\_Patter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitter_Patter)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054/24 "2011-04-13T02:31:30Z")
Not sure what cereal it was, but I think Corn Flakes back in the late 60’s. There was a form to send off for a Batman periscope. I loved that thing and wish I still had it, though as an adult, I’d probably get arrested:D ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054/25 "2011-04-14T02:19:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Older cereals had frogmen that worked on the same principal. Yep, an enlarged foot to but the baking soda in. As an earlier poster mentioned, the deed to a square inch of land, I think it was in Alaska. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-cereal-box-prizes/112054.md?page=1)