THE CEREAL PRIZE PROJECT: GROUP 001
(Cookie Crisp figure, WWF Superstars poster, X-Ray Viewer, Tony the Tiger Secret Message Pens & Jackson 5 Victory Tour Stickers)

#001 – Cookie Crisp “Cop” Figure: (Ralston, Cookie Crisp, ’80s)
Additional Images: Figure sealed in baggie.The Ralston company had some pretty awful luck when it came to things relating to breakfast (documented throughout this very site), but the fact that they gave the world Cookie Crisp compensates for all their failures and atrocities. Though it couldn’t have been further from the truth, we grew up believing 100% that the little, disc-shaped kibbles were indeed actual cookies. If kids think they can eat tiny chocolate chip cookies from breakfast, they’re damn sure gonna.Ralston later swapped marketing campaigns, but Cookie Crisp was originally spoken for by a mustache-covered police officer and his arch-nemesis, a poorly dressed crook who aspired to steal not gold, not money, not cars, but cookies. Both were immortalized as small, PVC-like figures, and that’s the cop up there. He doesn’t stand up under his own power very well, which is a pretty provoking notion considering that his feet take up a combined sixty feet of floor space. Why all the trouble? [more]