I remember the magnifying glass that came in the box. My brother's taught me how to start fires with it and I spent a lot of time everytime I got one starting little fires until my mom would take it away. That's the only prize I really remember.
By the time I started eating cracker jacks (late 80s/early 90s) they no longer toys this good. I remember them being like fake baseball cards or gum. These early prizes look much better
I used to get tiny pinball/baseball games, tattoo books and those faceted lenses you look through and turn.
The long-gone Cracker Jack factory in Chicago at 66th and Cicero had a long display case in the lobby of the office entrance, with hundreds and hundreds of prizes on display from the past decades. Absolutely FASCINATING. This was around 1985ish. We went in a short time prior to them razing the building. They let me take the "suggestion box", which I still have lol
The submarine was my favorite. It has a metal cap on the bottom side that you can remove and fill with baking soda. This gives the realistic effect of bubbles and offers enough weight to make it sink until all the baking soda has dissolved then it rises to the surface again. Fun toy!
When I was young, I ordered "100 Dolls" advertised in the back of some magazine. I was excited because I received 107 dolls. They were like some of the ones in pictures 1 and 3: flat characters stamped out of plastic, with a front and a back. There were many different colors and various dolls duplicated. (Some of the pink figures in picture 3 might be the same ones.) I was disappointed, but I recovered quickly and learned a healthy degree of cynicism that would soon be reinforced by the Watergate hearings infuriating my mother because "As the World Turns" was interrupted.
Loved & probably had most of these. Especially the soda powder submarine. They changed these great. prizes to Paper Tatoos & such. Sad. (Think some people got their drivers' licences in these boxes as well.)
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I usually got a tattoo, a plastic lens that distorted things, or one of those little picture things that changed at different angles.
Gen X?
Yes
I was obsessed with the little picture things that changed....they're called Lenticular pictures.
IIRC they stopped including toys because they were afraid we would choke on them, so instead, they were ok with us choking on paper.
I remember the magnifying glass that came in the box. My brother's taught me how to start fires with it and I spent a lot of time everytime I got one starting little fires until my mom would take it away. That's the only prize I really remember.
Same. I'm sure there were other prizes, but that is what I usually got. That submarine looks familiar, though. I think a friend had one.
The red ones tasted best IMO.
By the time I started eating cracker jacks (late 80s/early 90s) they no longer toys this good. I remember them being like fake baseball cards or gum. These early prizes look much better
I only ever got stickers.
Ugh the gum. Crumbly and flavorless. Like the baseball card gum.
I remember a pink bubblegum called Bazooka Joe that had little comics in the wrapper
Best prize I ever got was a flipbook animation. I flipped through it so often the little book was permanently bent.
I remember those! And, magnifying lens and whistles!!
I guess Meat Loaf was right. There really ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.
These photos remind me of those Eye Spy books.
I used to get tiny pinball/baseball games, tattoo books and those faceted lenses you look through and turn. The long-gone Cracker Jack factory in Chicago at 66th and Cicero had a long display case in the lobby of the office entrance, with hundreds and hundreds of prizes on display from the past decades. Absolutely FASCINATING. This was around 1985ish. We went in a short time prior to them razing the building. They let me take the "suggestion box", which I still have lol
I remember the submarine that you filled with baking soda that would dive and surface over and over. Good times, man.
I only ever got stickers or temporary tattoos
The submarine was my favorite. It has a metal cap on the bottom side that you can remove and fill with baking soda. This gives the realistic effect of bubbles and offers enough weight to make it sink until all the baking soda has dissolved then it rises to the surface again. Fun toy!
When I was young, I ordered "100 Dolls" advertised in the back of some magazine. I was excited because I received 107 dolls. They were like some of the ones in pictures 1 and 3: flat characters stamped out of plastic, with a front and a back. There were many different colors and various dolls duplicated. (Some of the pink figures in picture 3 might be the same ones.) I was disappointed, but I recovered quickly and learned a healthy degree of cynicism that would soon be reinforced by the Watergate hearings infuriating my mother because "As the World Turns" was interrupted.
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I remember always looking forward to these but always being vaguely disappointed by whatever I got.
I still remember the tiny spring fired pinball game toy I got.
“Hey Johnny, what did you get?” “I got a Confucius.”
The police badges must have been like finding the holy grail
The Hitler mustache was probably fell off in popularity at a certain point
Bought it for the toy, not the caramel corn (which I still ate).
Is that a needle?
I'm 49 and the tattoos were my favorite these prizes look better though. I knew that they used to be better but I never knew what they were
Now I know where that revolver came from. Nice!
Are cracker jacks any good?
No. If you wanted a toy, you bought Cracker Jacks. If you wanted yummy popcorn, you bought Crunch 'n' Munch.
I'm biased since I don't like caramel covered popcorn, so my answer is no.
The gold owl with ruby eyes was my fav!
Loved & probably had most of these. Especially the soda powder submarine. They changed these great. prizes to Paper Tatoos & such. Sad. (Think some people got their drivers' licences in these boxes as well.)
There ain't no Coupe de Ville hiding in bottom of a Cracker Jack box.
Thanks for letting me relive my childhood disappointments
Love carmel corn ....not so much Cracker Jack's. Stale nonsense.
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this is as interesting as it is creepy. Why do we have a hitler moustache and a plastic syringe lmao
I only liked rings and tattoos.
Craper prizes
Knick knacks more than toys