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Post by Vermin King on Jul 10, 2015 17:41:46 GMT -9
Nostalgia time ... probably more for UK members than me, but definitely a trip down memory lane.
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I really wish they had better scans. Some of these would be fun. I still might do the Animal Heads collections
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Post by squirmydad on Jul 10, 2015 18:41:02 GMT -9
Have you ever come across the line of Cap'n Crunch cereal box ships from about '74 or '75?
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Post by aaron on Jul 10, 2015 18:57:39 GMT -9
you mean this one?
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Post by squirmydad on Jul 10, 2015 21:16:42 GMT -9
There was a time when they offered cut out ships for both the Cap'n and the Cinnamon Pirate. I used to have naval battles on the kitchen table with them as a child.
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Post by alloydog on Jul 10, 2015 22:57:30 GMT -9
Nostalgia time ... probably more for UK members than me, but definitely a trip down memory lane.
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The Doctor Who ones I remember and were exactly what I had in mind when I did my cybermen. If there was Weetabix with the Dr Who promo, I'd nag my mum to buy them, even if we had the cereal at home. I'd have the box chopped up with in about 10 minutes of getting home! The Star Trek Motion Picture ones are the last ones I remember doing. Though, I only made the Enterprise and Klingon cruiser. Since those scans aren't too bad, time a for a nostalgia trip... However, I don't remember these ones:
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Post by aaron on Jul 11, 2015 4:14:15 GMT -9
There was a time when they offered cut out ships for both the Cap'n and the Cinnamon Pirate. I used to have naval battles on the kitchen table with them as a child.
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 11, 2015 4:26:47 GMT -9
It looks like I'm not the only one who fondly remembers these things. One thing I noticed is the 'Cereal Tin' offers. I think you get the tin so you can empty the cereal and get to cutting as soon as you can. There were a lot of Star Trek things on there, including the ships
My favorite was the Honey Comb cowboys and Indians with the cut-out fort and wagons. I'd like to see the wagons again and see how they were put together.
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Post by squirmydad on Jul 11, 2015 6:57:53 GMT -9
There was a time when they offered cut out ships for both the Cap'n and the Cinnamon Pirate. I used to have naval battles on the kitchen table with them as a child. Cool! It's the cinnamon pirate, I'm going to go print this out right now.
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Post by ignatious on Jul 11, 2015 8:56:35 GMT -9
When I was a kid my family lived on a sailboat for a few years. We saved cereal boxes (among other things) to make our toys out of. My brother and I had two books one was Schoolastic's paper fun and the other was Schoolastic's paper planes (I think, though it has been over thirty years). I also remember making an ATAT from cut up cereal boxes and toilet paper tubes with paper fasteners (for movable legs). Building my own toys then probably has a lot to do with why I enjoy building them now. I know this isn't quite the same thing, but it made me feel nostalgic anyway.
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Post by aaron on Jul 11, 2015 9:38:56 GMT -9
When I was a kid my family lived on a sailboat for a few years. We saved cereal boxes (among other things) to make our toys out of. My brother and I had two books one was Schoolastic's paper fun and the other was Schoolastic's paper planes (I think, though it has been over thirty years). I also remember making an ATAT from cut up cereal boxes and toilet paper tubes with paper fasteners (for movable legs). Building my own toys then probably has a lot to do with why I enjoy building them now. I know this isn't quite the same thing, but it made me feel nostalgic anyway. you lived on a sail boat !! I'm SOOOOO jelious !! LOL I want to live on a boat but my wife is a land lover for sure sooo I stay sea side, make day trips but I always come back to shore
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Post by squirmydad on Jul 11, 2015 10:15:53 GMT -9
Arr matey! A good day of piracy starts with a healthy breakfast!
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Post by Vermin King on Jul 11, 2015 13:19:06 GMT -9
Did you print that on Letter-sized paper? Looks good
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Post by squirmydad on Jul 11, 2015 13:53:36 GMT -9
Did you print that on Letter-sized paper? Looks good I blew it up to fit a Silhouette's cutting area (about 7.5x10) then decided it would be cheating to use an automated cutter and used scissors instead.
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Post by aaron on Jul 11, 2015 14:14:13 GMT -9
Looks great! I can't seem to find the Guppy anywhere?
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Post by alloydog on Jul 13, 2015 6:57:12 GMT -9
I gave the USS Weetabix another bash (after, what, 35 years...). It was a fiddly as I remember it, but this time it went together better, which considering how wibbly-wobbly this one is, explains why I burnt the last one: set fire to it and threw it out of my bedroom window to watch it spiral down in flames trailing smoke ( two years before they did it Wrath of Khan*** Correction: Search for Spock!.): Giant space moggy off the port side Cap'n! Our older cat, Maisa came to investigate what was going on next to her bed (which is on my desk between the PC and the printer.) (For some unknown reason, my phone's camera has started taking blurry pics - the last time I used it, it was crystal clear-ish)
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Post by alloydog on Aug 3, 2015 9:29:32 GMT -9
I gave the USS Weetabix another bash (after, what, 35 years...). It was a fiddly as I remember it, but this time it went together better, which considering how wibbly-wobbly this one is, explains why I burnt the last one: set fire to it and threw it out of my bedroom window to watch it spiral down in flames trailing smoke ( two years before they did it Wrath of Khan*** Correction: Search for Spock!.): "My God, Bones... what have I done?" With the help of my kids...
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Post by Vermin King on Aug 3, 2015 11:21:53 GMT -9
My son used to be a cook at the Red Baron Bar & Grill in Cole Camp, Missouri. So I had to make him a triplane. Just before the Cole Camp Fair, he was let go (as was the head cook and half of the servers). When he asked me if it was okay to burn his Red Baron model on the steps of the bar during the fair, I said 'sure'. It was absolutely hilarious. Even the chief of police was laughing.
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