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 Posted - May 02 2021 : 3:47:43 PM
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Must be from early fifties
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Posted - May 02 2021 : 5:01:35 PM
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| Fabulous.
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Posted - May 02 2021 : 7:54:34 PM
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That is cool! Would look great beside a Kelloggs covered hopper. 
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Posted - May 05 2021 : 08:42:12 AM
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quote: Strange that Kellogg's did something like this, but very cool! Love that photo of the NYC Hudson on the back cover. 
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Posted - May 05 2021 : 7:26:29 PM
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I can remember in the 1970s seeing offers on Kellogg's cereal boxes for trains you could get for box tops plus a fairly low price. I don't know why a breakfast cereal company was so deep into trains, but they were.
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Posted - May 05 2021 : 10:22:44 PM
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| I remember buying a Dinky Sabb from a cereal box offer, seems like it was Post cereal. And getting "Go Cars" attatched to the top nof several bars of Zest soap! I have some of the Go cars!
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Posted - May 05 2021 : 10:36:05 PM
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| The Kellogg’s 1975 Bicentennial Tony the Tiger train set is what cemented me into the world of model railroading. An AHM C-424 and about 8 freight cars and a book of card stock buildings to cut out and assemble- man I was in childhood heaven. Somewhere I have a photo from that Christmas morning. I’ll have to post it when I find it.
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Posted - May 06 2021 : 12:27:12 AM
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quote:The Kellogg’s 1975 Bicentennial Tony the Tiger train set is what cemented me into the world of model railroading. An AHM C-424 and about 8 freight cars and a book of card stock buildings to cut out and assemble- man I was in childhood heaven. Somewhere I have a photo from that Christmas morning. I’ll have to post it when I find it.
Originally posted by el rojo grande - May 05 2021 : 10:36:05 PM
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well I do have both those KFF boxcars, the 2 Tyco did & the AHM one
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Posted - July 27 2021 : 1:10:02 PM
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I got an AHM Kellogg’s set in 1978 for a mail-in coupon, two box tops, and 20 bucks! A Santa Fe GP18, Frosted Flakes boxcar, Eggo reefer, Kellogg’s Center Flow, Norfolk Southern gon, General American tanker, and a Santa Fe end-cupola caboose. Also signs and telephone poles, a 36” x 63” oval of track, and four punch-out card stock buildings like El Rojo Grande mentioned, including a card stock set of Burma Shave signs! I still have everything but the buildings, including the Burma Shave signs, since my 11-year-old self actually wanted to keep them for my future permanent layout (which is, sadly, still in the future). That GP18 was better than every other loco (all Tyco) I had had up to that point. Twice the set for half the price!
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Posted - July 27 2021 : 1:33:09 PM
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| Neat story Gmoney. Actually last year at a flea market there was a seller with the complete in box set of the Kellogg's Bicentennial set. They were asking for $100 but I decided to pass. The box looked a lot smaller than I remembered it in 1975!
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Posted - July 27 2021 : 3:33:17 PM
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| General Mills had a contest to name characters for cocoa pops (article in CTT mag) Prizes were MANY A Lionel train layout etc Since I can not find out the three kids names and since Sonny The CouKoo Bird is still the mascot he was created shortly after the names must NOT have been that great
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Posted - July 27 2021 : 6:37:58 PM
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quote:…The box looked a lot smaller than I remembered it in 1975!
Originally posted by el rojo grande - July 27 2021 : 1:33:09 PM
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It always seems to work that way, doesn’t it!  Are you regretting not getting the Bicentennial set yet? You know, the time to buy it is when you see it!
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Posted - July 27 2021 : 6:39:35 PM
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quote:General Mills had a contest to name characters for cocoa pops (article in CTT mag) Prizes were MANY A Lionel train layout etc Since I can not find out the three kids names and since Sonny The CouKoo Bird is still the mascot he was created shortly after the names must NOT have been that great
Originally posted by thesiding - July 27 2021 : 3:33:17 PM
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Sonny is the only mascot I’ve ever known.
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Posted - January 28 2022 : 12:52:37 AM
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Any one interested? Be going on e bay soon with other items
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