Die-cast models

Apologies for not posting my reply until now – consumption of alcohol yesterday afternoon saw me not getting out of my pit until about 11am this morning 😉

Yeah I remember the Cornflakes thing, and I think it was for the Battle of Britain 50th – strangely enough I never got the appropriate number of tokens, although I’m sure my aunty must have done and sent me the Spit (funny what comes back to you after a night out!) – I must have swapped that for something else at a later date (fool!)

I actually remember some of the kids round my way having either the Hurricane or the Spitfire, and I wasn’t allowed to play with them ‘cos I didn’t have one like their’s! (I had one, about 1/72 scale, painted green, with retractable undercarriage – so ner!! :p)

I’m also fairly confident it was Corn Flakes. I had a couple kicking about somewhere but I think I gave them to my cousin’s kids (mine weren’t interested.. furry, tail, leg at each corner).
Haven’t seen them for years, (planes not cats), but I’m pretty sure it did say Tonka on the box.

Daz,

I remember the cornflakes BoB promo well.

As a 12 year old at the time i so wanted those planes, but you had to buy about 3 tonnes of corn flakes! and as a 12 year old i hated cornflakes with a passion (v boring!) any way rather than buy the 12 boxes required and throw away the cornflakes, mum insisted that she wouldn’t buy another box until we had eaten the others!… so… that year i must have made about 3000 choclate covered cornflake cakes, my mates took the pi55 as whilst they were out playing football i was making cakes!!!!!

any who got my planes in the end!!!!!

I’ll go with Mark V on this. I remember them in a promotion from some kind of brekkie cereal. I’m almost certain it was Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Anyway, as Mark V said, you had to collect the tokens and there were cut out hangars and Nissen huts on the back of the packets so that you could make your own airfield. The quality wasn’t too bad for what was essentially a freebie and if it got a few kids interested in finding out more about the Battle of Britain it was well worth it.

I seem to recall seeing loads of these on stalls at airshows. I think they were quite cheap. Nothing for Corgi to worry about!

Daz,

They look like the ones that were given away by, I think, Corn Flakes in about 1990 to celebrate the BofB anniversary! It was one of those offers where you had to collect tokens rather than have a Hurricane fall in to your bowl of milk.

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