Horrible Monster Cards In Cereal?

[Peru]

I'm being driven absolutely spare by a memory I have of a British cereal in the 1980s (probably late 1980s) that had free inside a series of cards (baseball-card-style) featuring pictures of monsters. The memory is so vivid because the pictures were horrible. They were comic-book style, very detailed and airbrushed - and scary enough to bother me as a young kid. I can't remember the cereal - I keep thinking it might have been Shreddies, but that might be a red herring. Casn anyone firm up details on this? I'm surely not alone in remembering!

[Pseudopath]

Both Frosties and Shreddies had a 'Monster in my Pocket' tie-in at some point, although these would usually have been a small plastic figure like this:



However, they may have also included a trading card, which looked like this:



Does that ring any bells?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I can smell them.

[Big Jack McBastard]

'Monster in my Pocket'

Gah, so many missed opportunities to be dirty in retrospect.

[Ginyard]

They're naff.

I remember gentler times. At some point in the early 80s they had Star Wars pictures on the back with transfers inside the packet. According to my mum, my sister ended up defacing an important legal document with tie fighters and a rancor.

[Peru]

Sadly that isn't them. This was just the cards, with a metal-album-cover style overairbrushed detailed drawing. I don't think there were very many cards in the series. It wasn't a big brand like Monsters In My Pocket.

[The Masked Unit]

I remember opening a box of rice crispies during the 80s when they were giving away cards with magic tricks on them, only to find a box full of them along with a handful of cereal. My mum wasn't best pleased but naturally I thought it was the best day ever!

[QDRPHNC]

It was Weetabix! I got Baal and stuck it to my headboard. It was some red airbrushed demon, probably public domain.

Edit: From what I remember, they weren't tied into anything. They just had the picture with the name in simple black type underneath.

[lazyhour]

My God, I had completely forgotten about these, but seeing these tiny lo-res images has given me an almost physical rush of nostalgia.

http://cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2010/01/weetabix-scary-stickers-ad.html

http://cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2008/03/weetabix-free-scary-sticker.html

I now remember the red alien thing and the big ol' spider particularly haunted me as a child.

[Peru]

Oh good grief that's them!!!! Thank you!

[QDRPHNC]

That Baal one is still fucking scary.

Here he is, halfway down the page - http://richardsblah.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/free-inside/

Pretty good too - http://www.reynoldsworld.zoka.cc/WEETBIX.HTM

[Big Jack McBastard]

My new avatar thanks you lazyhour.

[alan nagsworth]

I can smell them.

I shamelessly bought a load of them off eBay a few years back and the first thing I did when I got the envelope open was have a big whiff of the rubbery aroma. No amount of midlife crises and school reunions can replicate that feeling.

[Phil_A]

The Baal one was identical to the cover of the Psygnosis game of the same name! Although given it was Psygnosis it was probably just something Roger Dean knocked out in the seventies.

[VegaLA]

Why is Sarah Jane dressed as Doc 5 in this image? http://richardsblah.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/free-inside/

[El Unicornio, mang]

Pretty good too - http://www.reynoldsworld.zoka.cc/WEETBIX.HTM

I like that page for the bit where it has a pic of some 80s pop star cards, with a space and "NEED BILLY OCEAN" written above it.

[QDRPHNC]

Thanks, Phil_A!

I added a little shadow for flair - doesn't it look like he's in your computer?

[lazyhour]

Aargh!

[Cerys]

That is utterly beautiful.