u/Cold_Ad655

Bim Your Head. Bim Your head..

Where did these come from?

Apologies if this isn't the place to post this, as I do know \*what\* these are, but I have no idea where they came from, or when, or how they were distributed. I'm hoping someone \*anyone\* will have more information since I've been sitting with these for over a decade with absolutely zero answers.

A little background. Roughly 15 years ago on eBay, I saw two listings for Crunchberry plushies; Jerry Berry and Chuck Berry. I placed them in my watch list and after several months, I eventually bought them.

Both plushies were about 8 inches in diameter and appear to be filled with your standard synthetic polyester fiberfill. The manufacturer appears to be "Art's Toy" based out of Easton, Pennsylvania, although assembled in Korea.

Despite looking all over, I could not find any information about these. I don't know if they were mail aways for the cereal, or if they were promotional items given away to someone, or if it was something that was created and given away by the Quaker company internally \*or\* if these were prototypes that were never used. I messaged the seller, and he didn't know and didn't provide any details about how he acquired them.

I scanned over hundreds of vintage boxes of cereal to see if there was anything listed, but found nothing. I don't know the exact timeline as far as when the crunchberry characters were used, but I believe it was from roughly 1988 to 1994.

One thing I did assume though was that there was probably a third plush, which would have been a girl. I don't know why I assumed this, but it just "made sense" if they made two boys, they'd have a girl. In fact there may have been more made, I just never found them.

After about 10 years of waiting, I found a listing for Sherry Berry on eBay and immediately bought it. Again, the seller didn't have any answers. I have reached out to Quaker who had no knowledge, and Art's Toy seems to no longer exist, with little information provided online.

So what are these exactly as far as how they were released?

Not Pictured: Hanoi Elaine

And God will wipe away every crumb from their mouths. 'Revelation 7:17

These are a few pictures from the Lego Maniacs magazine from when I was a child.

I absolutely was envious of some of the designs "kids" would send in of their creations, especially since they usually were a full 3 dimensional in depth model.

"Ed Boxer's Lego Castle" on the right was something I had wished for years that Lego would do something similar, even though back then I was fully aware that it would've cost thousands of dollars, but I kept that dream alive.

Fast forward to 2006, when I hadn't bought a Lego set in nearly a decade, I see Cafe Corner and it draws me back in. Then just a few years ago, they released Lion Knights Castle, which was a nearly 30 year dream come true.

But I'll always wonder what happened to Edward Jones and his amazing castle? I had never seen anything like that in my life up until that point.

I wish this sicko got talked about more often...

"Next time, don't give my seat away, Jock..."

Dude was *real* angry with that last response and resorted to calling me Donald Trump. 🤣

https://vimeo.com/86014703

I'm just a little baby..