Spooned & Spotted: Honey Nut Cheerios Star Wars Boxes

IMG_0132Are you a Star Wars fan looking to Chew-bacca a sweet spoonful of honey glazed cereal?

Well then General Mills has just the limited edition box for you!

I spotted this cool new Honey Nut Cheerios box at Meijer recently. The cereal inside is the same Honey Nut Cheerios that everyone knows and loves, but seeing Buzz the Bee in full Darth Vader garb is enough to play a persuasive Jedi Mind Trick on any passing consumer. You’ll have bought 3 boxes of it and walked out of the store faster than you can say “wait a minute, I came here looking for droids!”

Alongside Star Wars cereal, these Cheerios will be the perfect couch co-pilot as you marathon all 6 Star Wars movies in anticipation of this December’s Episode VII

But this box doesn’t stop with gorgeous artwork. No, these Cheerios revive the nearly dead cereal tradition of including a prize inside, as each box contains one of 6 different “droid viewers” that lets you see View-Master-esque images. Here’s hoping this sparks a renewed interest in cereal prizes; if the Jedi can come back from near extinction, so can plastic premiums.

Will there be more Star Wars cereals and boxes between now and December? My midichlorian count isn’t high enough to know.

I can only hope that my dream of “Wookie Crisp” becomes a reality.

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  1. Aaaalright… i’m not a huge fan of such promotions, ’cause it’s mostly just some redesign and nothing really new (in flavor or shape), but this box art is amazing and funny, i like it! 🙂

    And:
    OMG!!! PRIZES OR GOODIES/FREEBIES/GIMMICKS IN CEREAL BOXES!

    Man… since i’m somehow in adulthood and more focussed on the taste i totally forgot about that…
    When i was young the cereals came almost always with a toy or something similar inside. They really need to do it more often!
    (btw is a “prize” in a cereal box allowed in the US? I’m just asking ’cause iirc Kinder Suprise isn’t beaucause the candy comes with a toy inside; or was it the happy meal and fast food? oO)

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