Post by Belchic on Jul 24, 2016 12:42:14 GMT -5
Some of you might remember in the Commercials topic when I created a commercial for 101 Dalmatians Cereal if it had one. Well, I've always been fascinated with cereal commercials, and I've seen a lot of videos on the YouTube channel: Cereal Time TV. From watching that, I learned that there were a lot of short-lived cereals in the 80's and 90's based on TV shows, video games, characters, just about anything that was popular. So with that in mind, I decided if my 101D cereal was real, this is probably how the episode on Cereal Time TV would have went:
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What's up, cereal heads? Today, we are going to be talking about 101 Dalmatians Cereal.
101 Dalmatians started out as a novel written by Dodie Smith in 1956. The story is about a Dalmatian named Pongo who with his wife has a litter of puppies. The puppies get stolen by Cruella De Vil, who wants to turn them into a fur coat. Pongo and his wife venture out to rescue their puppies and return them home only to adopt more puppies giving the family's Dalmatian count to 101.
In 1961, an animated film adaptation was made by Walt Disney Pictures starring Rod Taylor as the voice of Pongo and Betty Lou Gerson as the voice of Cruella. This is the most recognizable adaptation of the story.
In 1996, Disney made a live action remake of the film starring Glen Close as Cruella De Vil.
The live action film was successful enough to spin off a Saturday morning cartoon, which premiered on ABC the following year. The series took place after the events of the movie. The Dalmatians are living on a farm. The show primarily focused on three Dalmatian pups: Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig along with a chicken named Spot having adventures on the farm and trying to stop Cruella's schemes.
About a month after the series premiered, Ralston released a cereal based on the show as a tie-in to its release. The commercial went something like this.
*plays commercial*
Now this was kind of a unique cereal. It featured corn cereal pieces shaped like dogs that were sugar-coated, and there were also mini marshmallows shaped like Dalmatian spots. The marshmallows were black with a dark chocolate flavor.
On the back of the box, they had a little comic based on the show. Some of them had mazes and other types of word games.
On the front of the box, you can see there's a prize in this box. It's a little keychain plush of one of the four main pups. These were only given out for a limited time. Let's open up the box.
*opens the box, pulls out the keychain*
What do you know? It's Cadpig, the most popular pup on the show. I have no use for this, so I'm going to give this away to a lucky viewer. Details are in the description.
Ok, now it's time for the moment you've all been waiting for. I'm pouring this into a bowl.
*pours the cereal into a bowl*
So here's what a bowl of this cereal looks like. As you can see, the marshmallows have seen better days as they look a little shriveled up.
*sniffs* It smells terrible, but for cereals this old, that's something you've got to expect. Needless to say, I'm not going to try this stuff.
Ralston kept this cereal going for about a year before officially pulling it from the shelves in the fall of 1998. During the summer before it was pulled from the shelves, they had a sweepstakes where you can send in and win a trip for four to Walt Disney World. This was mainly a promo for the ABC Sound Studio, which just opened that year but no longer exists today.
That's all the time we have for now. Thanks for watching. Until next time...stay crunchy.
*imitating Cadpig* Farewell. Dematerialize in peace.
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What's up, cereal heads? Today, we are going to be talking about 101 Dalmatians Cereal.
101 Dalmatians started out as a novel written by Dodie Smith in 1956. The story is about a Dalmatian named Pongo who with his wife has a litter of puppies. The puppies get stolen by Cruella De Vil, who wants to turn them into a fur coat. Pongo and his wife venture out to rescue their puppies and return them home only to adopt more puppies giving the family's Dalmatian count to 101.
In 1961, an animated film adaptation was made by Walt Disney Pictures starring Rod Taylor as the voice of Pongo and Betty Lou Gerson as the voice of Cruella. This is the most recognizable adaptation of the story.
In 1996, Disney made a live action remake of the film starring Glen Close as Cruella De Vil.
The live action film was successful enough to spin off a Saturday morning cartoon, which premiered on ABC the following year. The series took place after the events of the movie. The Dalmatians are living on a farm. The show primarily focused on three Dalmatian pups: Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig along with a chicken named Spot having adventures on the farm and trying to stop Cruella's schemes.
About a month after the series premiered, Ralston released a cereal based on the show as a tie-in to its release. The commercial went something like this.
*plays commercial*
Now this was kind of a unique cereal. It featured corn cereal pieces shaped like dogs that were sugar-coated, and there were also mini marshmallows shaped like Dalmatian spots. The marshmallows were black with a dark chocolate flavor.
On the back of the box, they had a little comic based on the show. Some of them had mazes and other types of word games.
On the front of the box, you can see there's a prize in this box. It's a little keychain plush of one of the four main pups. These were only given out for a limited time. Let's open up the box.
*opens the box, pulls out the keychain*
What do you know? It's Cadpig, the most popular pup on the show. I have no use for this, so I'm going to give this away to a lucky viewer. Details are in the description.
Ok, now it's time for the moment you've all been waiting for. I'm pouring this into a bowl.
*pours the cereal into a bowl*
So here's what a bowl of this cereal looks like. As you can see, the marshmallows have seen better days as they look a little shriveled up.
*sniffs* It smells terrible, but for cereals this old, that's something you've got to expect. Needless to say, I'm not going to try this stuff.
Ralston kept this cereal going for about a year before officially pulling it from the shelves in the fall of 1998. During the summer before it was pulled from the shelves, they had a sweepstakes where you can send in and win a trip for four to Walt Disney World. This was mainly a promo for the ABC Sound Studio, which just opened that year but no longer exists today.
That's all the time we have for now. Thanks for watching. Until next time...stay crunchy.
*imitating Cadpig* Farewell. Dematerialize in peace.
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Those of you who haven't seen his channel, I recommend checking it out.