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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Year: 1978

Set: Kellogg's 3-D Super Stars (Rate)

“ This would have been a great card without the fake signature. I saw some of these Kellogg's 3-D cards in person for the first time a few weeks ago, and they are really cool. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ As a kid, ate many boxes of cereal to get some of these.Now I work in Battle Creek, home of Kellogg's, and can smell the cereal being toasted every day.Cards cracked if you didn't handle them carefully. Tom Terrific was a great one! ” -Kaline6

“ Tom Terrific. One of the greats. The only Met player to have his number retired. A very dark day in Mets history when Seaver was traded. The next 3 seasons the Mets finished last. Attendance dropped to less than 10,000 in a stadium that held 57,000. At least the two men responsible were fired. I never cared for the '78 Kellogg's design. The too much ribbon getting in the way. ” -C2Cigars

“ Did these come is cereal boxes? If they did, I would have bought a lot of cereal! ” -carthage44

“ The best thing about these Kellogg's cards was the semi-transparent paper pouches they came in. I guess you could still be surprised once you'd choked down enough corn flakes to be able to dig it out of the cereal box... ” -dilemma19

“ Not impressed with the 3D but anything given away to a kid in a box of cereal is pretty cool. Back in the 50s and 60s when I was a kid, they did this quite often......and no one ate the giveaway. Can't do that today, somebody is afraid a kid might eat a plastic figure or 3D card. I say "bottoms up"! ” -NJdevils

“ I ate an awful lot of Corn Flakes as a kid to get enough proofs-of-purchase to get these sets each year. I love these sets to this day...Corn Flakes, not so much... ” -cckeith

“ Love me some Kellogg's 3-D cards. Prefer earlier 70s but later 70s are just as good. ” -captkirk42

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sandyrusty

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Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:44 AM

I love these cards from 1970 thru 1983. Odd balls in the card collecting hobby that were all decent products. I hope one day to have all of the sets.

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Bruno

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Check my Profile page to see my 2023 Goals and my Lists of sets near completion (5 cards or less) or sets getting close (less than 100 cards missing and 75% complete).

https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/B/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=25745&C=0

sandyrusty

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Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:45 AM

Oh, and I do still eat Corn Flakes. Unfortunately, there are rarely baseball-related prizes any more. Maybe Kaline6 can talk to the company and get them to restart these giveaways.

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Bruno

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Check my Profile page to see my 2023 Goals and my Lists of sets near completion (5 cards or less) or sets getting close (less than 100 cards missing and 75% complete).

https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/B/ID/0/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=25745&C=0

Kaline6

Posts: 748
Joined: Nov 2014

Thursday, December 3, 2015 1:57 PM
I doubt they would listen to me. As a kid my cereal consumption really went up when there were good premiums in them. Ahhh the good ole days! ------------------------------- "He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched that one go by." - Ernie Harwell

NJDevils

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Joined: Sep 2010

Thursday, December 3, 2015 2:30 PM
The only "healthy" cereal I ate as a kid was Post Raisin Bran in order to get the cards. They stopped the cards, I went back to Sugar Pops, which are now called Corn Pops. Edited on: Dec 3, 2015 - 2:31PM

Doc Floyd

Posts: 483
Joined: Sep 2014

Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:17 PM
Why even buy cereal with no prize? Rarely get anything these days, much less cards. Destroyed all the ones I had as a kid, had to see what gave them that 3-D effect. ------------------------------- "I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter." - Crash Davis

NSEndo

Posts: 62
Joined: Sep 2015

Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:50 PM

Card? - Meh.

Player? - He's on my all-time top-10 list. Unfortunately, all of those years living in New England gave him Lyme Disease, and he's suffering with it. That's why he doesn't do baseball-related things anymore. I would like to see him at Jeter's HOF induction, since I think he'll beat Tom's vote record.

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Peace and cards,

David

Building up baseball sets slowly but, well, slowly.

Residence in New England has no bearing on my favorite teams, players, or how I pronounce "card."

Forgave my dad for putting his '52 Mantle in his bike spokes, but not my brother for plastering his room with my Star Wars stickers.

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