Here at the Bat-Blog we totally love creativity, in any form. What we're talking about is when Batman Fans, inspired by the character, create fun objects or pieces of art that are Batman-related. It can be any activity like drawing, painting, or even sewing a costume! Check this out! Here is a "Fake" Reproduction of a 1966 BATMAN Kellogg's Cereal Box that they never made. Now, back in the day, this Cereal Company did do a few boxes that promoted the TV Show. But they were always presented as the actual cereal & "Batman Toys" were just a featured premium inside the box or one you had to mail-away for. But this "Fantasy Cereal Box", shown here, really focuses on the character. First off, the design is really incredible. It uses a lot of "Cereal Box" graphic elements that were in use around the 1960's: The diagonal stripes for sure. I like that it has the Kelloggs Cereal & BATMAN TV Series logos together. It also has a great photo of Adam West in costume. Plus, it's kinda cool that they printed it on card-stock & it's sort of like a real box. The person who made this did an extremely awesome job on it!
Before he became a TV-superstar as Batman, Adam West paid his rent by appearing in this TV commercial for Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes Cereal. It's funny how young Adam West looks in this clip & it's also kinda cool to see the old vintage Cereal Box with the early version of Tony The Tiger... "Thhheeeyyy'rreee GREAT!"
In the 1990's it was a great time to be a Batman Toy collector. I mean, you had all the movies going on, and then on TV, you also had the wonderful Animated Series Cartoon. Shown here are a few cool toys & 90's memorabilia pieces picked totally at random. The 1st item is a very RARE 1992 BATMAN RETURNS Ralston Cereal Store Display Sign. Kids would have seen this at the Grocery Store & then start begging Mom, ha! I really like the graphics on this thing. Speaking of the cereal, the next pic shows a few BATMAN RETURNS Cereal Box Premiums that were available FREE inside the boxes! These are 3-D Flicker Bookmarks, meaning, you tilt them & the pictures change from one image to the other. There were 3 of them in the complete set: Catwoman, Batman, and The Penguin. Now the next photo sort of gets away from the movies for a minute. This is a Plush Batman Doll from 1994 ( 16" Tall ) that was tied-into "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" Animated TV Series. I love the old cartoon logo & the packaging is interesting with the "open box" design. Last, but not least, is a RARE 1997 BATMAN AND ROBIN Movie Store Display Sign from Taco Bell. It advertised the contest they had going on their Pepsi Drink products. Well, does any of these items bring back any memories? I know back then I was totally about the cereal, ha ha!
Here are a few Vintage POST Cereal Boxes with cool graphics from the 1989 BATMAN Movie. They were made for the Canadian market & that is why the boxes have both English & French languages on them. They did the promotion on Honey Combs, Sugar Crisp, & Alpha Bits. Also, if you look at the back of the box ( 1st photo, right-side ), then you'll see that the free premiums available inside the box were some "3-Way Action Trading Cards"... AWESOME! Now, I never knew that they made these back then so I hope you're as surprised as I am.
Awhile back I got an e-mail from a Bat-Blog Fan who took a few photos of her favorite Batman Toys. Well, actually they were mostly toys of the Joker, but you get the idea! Her name is Biadza & this is a photo of THE JOKER ( Heath Ledger version ) Cereal Premium Figure in her collection. The pic was kinda BIG so I thought it would make a pretty cool Desktop Wallpaper Background. This is the Free Toy inside THE DARK KNIGHT Cereal Box Promo that Nestle did when the movie was going on. Now the extra cool thing is that she lives in Paris. So, this is the European version of that toy. Like the ones in the USA, there were 4 figures to collect but there they were slightly different. Plus, they made one of The Scarecrow which was not even available here. Thank you Biadza for sending the pics. I plan to post the other ones later so keep an eye out for those. I want to invite other Bat-Blog Readers to share pics of their toy collections too. I always love to see what other people have, ha ha!
In 1977 General Mills offered a special mail-away premium on boxes of Cheerios Cereal called the SUPER HEROES MAGNETIC DART GAME. It came with a Target Game Board ( with a sheet metal backing ) & 4 "Superhero Magnet-Darts". The 4 playing pieces looked like Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Robin. The 4 evil super-villains, featured on the target game board, were the Joker, Penguin, Cheetah, & Lex Luthor. Now, if I did the math correctly I was in the 7th Grade when this cereal box came out & I don't ever remember seeing this. Oh man! I would have mailed away for this, the vintage graphics are really cool, ha ha! Thanks to Doug for sending us the cool photos. By the way, I think the artwork was done by Dick Giordano. Or, at least, it looks like his stock art.
Our friend Zdravko took some really great photos showing the 2 Batman Cereal Boxes in Bulgaria! Of course this was for the recent THE DARK KNIGHT movie promotion. The 1st picture is an advertisement out of some magazine, very cool! The next 3 photos show the actual cereal boxes with 1 pic showing the back. There were 4 premiums there that are all different than the American ones, especially the Scarecrow figure! Be sure to check out Zdravko's website for other foreign goodies.
A friend to the Bat-Blog, named Andrew, wrote that he was excited to know that The Dark Knight had finally hit France ( he lives near there ) because he saw this ad in a French Newspaper! It shows some of the Batman Action Figures & the Tumbler Batmobile with Bat-Pod...very cool! The next picture is a TDK item from the Philippines that was sent to me by Billy, a friend who lives in my hometown. He won this item on eBay. It's a really neat "Tumbler Batmobile Cereal Bowl with Batman-Shaped Spoon" you can get as a give-away premium in a Nestle KOKO KRUNCH Cereal Box. I'm gonna have to get one of those...the box design is really cool. Thanks guys for sending these wonderful photos, I appreciate that! I want to invite ALL Bat-Blog Readers to do the same, no matter where you live!
Recently at the Bat-Blog we shared the information about there being a set of 4 cereal premium figures of THE DARK KNIGHT ( 2 Batman, 1 Scarecrow, & 1 Joker ) that are "foreign" because they're from Brazil. They're put out by Nestle which is a division of General Mills. OK, just to revamp, General Mills has 4 figures in cereal boxes for the USA & Nestle has 4 figures in Brazil. When you look at the figures on the backs of the cereal boxes, & even in photos, the figures from Brazil look exactly the same except for Scarecrow ( obviously ) & a "Double-Punch" Batman. So, I thought there were only 2 figures that were different. Well, our friend Eric got a set of them recently & ALL FOUR of the foreign ones are different! They are a little bit taller & a lot thicker than the US ones. So, thank you Eric for the information. For the rest of the story, & some amazing photos, please be sure to check out Eric's website. It's called TOYRIFFIC!
A new friend of the Bat-Blog, named "Escoteiro", sent us these amazing photos of some new TDK merchandise from Brazil. Here are some Nestle Cereal Boxes with The Dark Knight promotion. The 1st photo is my favorite because it shows 2 boxes that each have different graphics with 1/2 a face & when you put them together they form a complete picture of Batman's face....very cool! This is the Nestle Crunch cereal & it's prize was a "buy one movie ticket get one free" coupon ( the 2nd photo shows the back of that box ). The 3rd photo is Nestle Estrelitas ( honey-flavored ) with 4 different Batman Disk Launchers, just like the ones given away here in the USA with General Mills' Cheerios. The 4th photo is Nestle Nescau, which looks like chocolate Cocoa Puffs, and it's premiums are the 4 small figures of Batman & The Joker. Now, these are just like the American ones except they have an exclusive Scarecrow figure & one of the Batman figures has "2 arms" double-fist action. The last photo shows what the premiums look like out of the boxes, very cool. I wanna personally thank "Escoteiro" for sending these great pics. I know that it must have taken a lot of time to do them & I really appreciate that. They're wonderful, thank you. Plus, it's so cool that they are from another part of the globe, that's exciting! If there are any other Bat-Blog Readers who have pix like this to share then please send them to us. The Bat-Blog is ALL about sharing information about the toy collecting hobby we all love.
OK, The Bat-Blog has been covering the events with the line of General Mills U.S. Cereal Boxes with THE DARK KNIGHT Batman Movie Promotion but this is something totally new! In countries like Singapore, New Zealand, & the UK (among others) another division of GM, called Nestle, have released 4 new Batman Cereal Boxes that have 4 figures to collect. The interesting thing is that 2 of the figures are totally different than the ones here in the USA! The 2 that are different are a "Double-Punching Batman" & a "Scarecrow"! Here. we have a Batman Figure that has 1 moving arm but there they have a 2-fisted version. Plus, the Scarecrow is totally new. The cereal that they are featured in is Nestle KoKo Krunch & Nestle Honey Stars. The name of the promo is "Bring The Batman Action To Breakfast". Oh man, I really really want these!!
OK, Most Batman Fans in the USA right now know about the DARK KNIGHT Movie Promotion that General Mills is doing with their line of cereal boxes but keeping up with it is sort of crazy! Here's the deal. All of their cereal brands have some sort of Batman prize or premium in the box ( NO "mail-aways" right now ). There are 4 different areas to collect: 3 Mini-Comic Book Booklets, 4 Batman & Joker Figures ( 2 of each character ), 4 Spinning Tops, & 4 Disc-Shooters. The booklets & figures are sort of random & to complete a set is just luck but one neat thing about this promo is that you can get the 4 Spinning Tops just by buying one box of 4 different brands of cereal. In other words 4 cereal boxes each have 1 very specific SPINNING TOP just for that box. The 4 cereals are Fruity Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch ( I really like the flavor of this one, ha ha ), Lucky Charms, & Reese's Puffs. In later posts I will be covering the other premiums so look for those in the future.
Lately, General Mills has been doing an awesome job at promoting THE DARK KNIGHT with all their cereal boxes & other products. Well now, they have teamed-up with SUPERVALU to offer a "Hunker Down in Your Very Own Bat-Bunker" Spectacular Sweepstakes! Basically all you do is enter the contest & you have a chance to win a Visa Card with $5000 that you can use to spruce-up your very own personal batcave, sounds pretty good to me! Here's a link to check it out:
With all the excitement over the brand-new General Mills' line of cereal boxes having the special DARK KNIGHT promotions (with Batman, Scarecrow, & Joker premiums inside) I thought I would show this vintage 1980's TV commercial featuring the 1989 BATMAN CEREAL BOX from 19 years ago!
I hope my friend "Shadowbat" doesn't mind but I totally stole these 2 photos from him off a Message Board, ha ha! Sorry Dude, I was just so excited! Here's a set of photos of the new General Mills CHEERIOS Cereal Box with THE DARK KNIGHT Batman Movie tie-in!! Looks like they're giving away 4 FREE "Stunt Figure" cereal premiums. There are 2 Batman figures & 2 of The Joker. Now, the good news is that I totally love Cheerios cereal so it won't go to waste, ha ha! Be sure to click on the photo up above for a larger version. Also, if you, the Bat-Blog Reader, finds out about any more promotions like this please shoot me an e-mail!
Something that most of my readers don't know is that, besides being a HUGE Batman Fan & Collector, I also collect Vintage Cereal Boxes. I guess it's the childhood nostalgia & cool retro-graphics, but I really love them & they are extremely hard-to-find! My main focus are the ones from the 1960's & 1970's. Especially the 70's because that's when I was a little kid. But, I even buy some brand-new ones every now & then. Well, you can imagine my surprise when I opened my e-mail this morning & received not one, but two, amazing photos! A reader named James sent some extremely cool pictures ( front & back ) of the super-rare 1966 Kellogg's Fruit Loops Cereal Box with the Special Offer to get a Batman Periscope cereal premium toy!! This is a very RARE mail-away item. Oh my God!! James, are you trying to torture me?! Ha Ha! Thank you for sending these, I really appreciate that. They're totally amazing & the box is in great shape too. The vintage graphics are insane! It totally cracks me up that it cost only 60 cents, ha ha! I guess I should also mention that it's a very early example of Toucan Sam, the cereal's advertising icon mascot....too freakin' sweet! ( I added the screen-cap showing the premium toy from the original TV Commercial ). If any other readers have ANY Batman photos then please send them in. These vintage cereal box photos are an example of what makes Bat-Blog readers special, their ability to share the joy of collecting. Thanks! Oh yeah, James, I hate you for having this box & not me! ( Ha Ha, Just kidding, I kedd, I kedd! )
As a tie-in to the 1989 Batman Movie Ralston made some Batman Cereal. Yes, they're the same company that makes dog food, ha ha! One of the neatest premiums they made was a Batman Coin Bank that was shrink-wrapped to the box ( see photo ). Also, here's a very cool YouTube video of the TV commercial to enjoy.
Awhile back we posted a Vintage 60's Cereal Box with Batman graphics & decided to post another one today! This is the 1966 Kellogg's Rice Krispies Cereal Box with the BATMAN RING Premium! If you look closely the language is in both English & French, a Canadian box! Click on the small picture up above for a larger, more detailed, photo! Also, be sure to check out the BAT-BLOG ARCHIVES for many more Batman Vintage Items!!
I really love this photo of the Vintage 1960's Kellogg's Frosted Flakes Cereal Box with the1966 Batman Printing Set Offer, it's a Classic! The special offer was for a Mail-Away Premium of the BATMAN PRINTING KIT you could get for 25¢. Yes, you read that right, twenty five cents!! I seriously LOVE the vintage graphics of both Tony The Tiger & the old 60's Batman Logo. This box is shown flat & unused, what cereal box collectors call "Factory Flat". This usually means they were boxes that were unused & left over at the factory. These are really difficult to find this MINT. Some Kellogg's employee in the 1960's must have brought this home because his kids liked Batman! Be sure to click the small picture up above for a larger, more detailed, photo!
