Hey what gives!?.....I have checked several stores in my area and no Count Chocula! no Frankebberry, no Booberry! ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!

Have you seen it on the shelves where you are? I may need extra pills for this one :freak:

contact General Mills (http://consumercontacts.generalmills.com/ConsolidatedContact.aspx?page=http://www.generalmills.com/corporate) and let us know what they say.

Or check their handy "product locator (http://consumercontacts.generalmills.com/CrunchProdAvailability/ProductAvailability.aspx?m=10)". It tells me to go to Walmart (the horror...)

I know....I just did the same thing....WALMART!!!! the HORROR! the HORROR!

I'm glad my cravings are more easily satisfied....

I'm not asking for God to talk to my boss about a raise or for Aurora Models to suddenly say "Were back! and with all the old kits and NEW STUFF!"

All I want is my fraking Count Chocula!

I called my local Walmart, asked for the grocery and was put on hold .....hung up when I was called for dinner......They probably have it.....oh well I don't go there often...I can take not speaking a word of the many languages and the screaming brats just long enough to grab a few boxes and GO!

I know....I just did the same thing....WALMART!!!! the HORROR! the HORROR!
Fits into the holiday, also at the checkout!

I can take not speaking a word of the many languages and the screaming brats just long enough to grab a few boxes and GO!

Where is your sense of adventure! ;)

Dude....I'm married with two girls 9 and 11 and watch Battlestar every week....thats all the adventure I can handle! :p Thus the need for my Count Chocula....Hersheys kissables and candy corn are not enough....close but not the same.

I get all 3 at WalMart every month, though our regular WalMart doesn't usually have anything but Count Chocula the Super WalMart does have them all. In fact I just had a bowl of BooBerry for breakfast today.

Fluke,
Do you have a Shoprite in your area. They have all three there. In fact as soon as you walk in the store they are by the candy..

Take Care
Ynblood

Saw Chocula in a Super Target here in FL.

We have a Count Chocula and a Frankenberry Halloween costume at my store.....Halloween Express in Kennesaw, GA.

We have Count Chocula at all 3 local grocery stores year round here.
Then about a month and a half ago they all got Boo Berry and Frankenberry for the holiday season :)

Sorry you can't find any, but I have been gobbeling yummy marshmallowy goodness for weeks now.

After the traditional visit to see the Great Pumpkin at the farm near where I grew up I might have time to stop by Walmart later tonight.

I don't eat cereal. I celebrate the season by wearing my Ben Cooper Batman mask to all functions beginning the week before Halloween. Makes it difficult to eat lunch and I sweat a lot, but my employees find me intimidating.

I celebrate the season by wearing my Ben Cooper Batman mask.

Ben Cooper! Anybody remember the Ben Cooper's with the "moving mouths"? Shades of Clutch Cargo.

My local Albertson's has had all 3 monster cereals for at least two weeks now. No need to frequent Wal-Greed.

Ben Cooper! Anybody remember the Ben Cooper's with the "moving mouths"? Shades of Clutch Cargo.

No! Do tell!

Ben Cooper! Anybody remember the Ben Cooper's with the "moving mouths"? Shades of Clutch Cargo.Yep! Dressed as Dick Tracy one year, had a cool little black snub-nosed .38 squirt gun and everything.

For those who don't know, Ben Cooper was a company that made Halloween Costumes for children; the company existed in one form or another from the late 50's until the late 90's. The costumes they created were generally characters taken from television, movie, comic, or cartoons, and they consisted of a poorly painted vacuform mask with a thin elastic band stapled to it (allegedly to hold it onto your head, but it never quite worked out that way) and a "coverall" type vinyl costume that was garishly painted with the TV show's/movie's/comic's/cartoon's logo all over it and was highly flammable. Examples can be found here, if you're really that bored:

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2003/costumes/

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2003/costumes/

Cool site! As a relatively older father of a second grader, it's amazing to me how much Halloween has changed since my childhood. The costumes and merchandising are a thousand times cooler - but the night itself is a sad little ghost compared to what it once was.

...Clutch Cargo...
Sorry to digress, but that is a COOL name!

Cool site! As a relatively older father of a second grader, it's amazing to me how much Halloween has changed since my childhood. The costumes and merchandising are a thousand times cooler - but the night itself is a sad little ghost compared to what it once was.
[WARNING: The following contains sarcasm, a substance known to the State of California to cause irritation in humans.]

Well, I can see the importance of celebrating suffering and death in healthy and socially responsible ways... :drunk:

No! Do tell!

I just remember one year (1965?) they were offering the same type of mask with a "moving mouth" option, meaning the lower part of the mask was a kind of hinged separate piece that would very primitively "go up and down" in a manner that was actually more South Park-ian than Clutch Cargo-ian.

And don't forget to "walk like Frankenstein" when you got your Ben Cooper Frankenstein costume on! This meant of course, wide shambling strides with arms outstretched in front, eyes lidded. (LIke the Aurora model)

One year, I think I was about 5, my mom gave me a paper grocery bag to hold all the treats I would acquire that evening. We lived in a big old-fashioned apartment complex that covered several acres of real estate and me and my little friends rang every single doorbell on that warm Halloween night. We had collected a damned good haul by the time we hit the last apartment in the complex. Apparently, the old couple who lived there had just run out of candy, but not wanting to disappoint us trick-or-treaters had raided their own freezer and so were handing out orange popsicles instead. I tossed the popsicle into my bag and we started the long trek back to our own apartments through the warm October dark. Upon arrival, I rushed into the light of our apartment kitchen to proudly show Mom and Dad my impressive haul, looked down into the bag - and saw the white rubber toes of my P.F. Flyers looking back up at me through a soggy, dripping orange hole in the bottom of my bag - which suddenly felt much lighter now. There were still a couple of pieces of slimy orange candy stuck to the bottom of the bag, but all the rest was gone. A scream of pure horror emanated from beneath my Ben Cooper Sylvester the Cat mask. The horror! ... the horror!

Zorro, that is very sad story. (sniff)

Pillow-cases, m'boy, pillow-cases.

That is a sad story...I got a rock!

GOOD NEWS!! The little miss came home tonight with one box! TWO BOXES! THREE BOXES!! of Count Chocula!!! Mwahahaha!!!!!!!
http://mattpreskenis.com/blog/uploaded_images/count-732896.jpg

i had a gf in the 80's who got addicted to count chocula cereal.... no lie.. all of a sudden she started eating the stuff all day long.... and just blimped out. before chocula she had an incredible figure (if youve ever seen photos of casandra "elvira" peterson nude, then you know what her bod looked like. nearly identical build and proportions.) and she piled on probably 30 lbs all on count chocula.
(just to add insult to injury, that happened during the period that the cereal was using a pic of lugosi as dracula on the box (which might have had something to do with it), and i never thought to save those now highly collectable boxes)

anyway if your store doesnt carry it, one of 2 things is going on. one is whatever deal GF struck with the grocery chain you patronize. try another chain store. here in detroit we have 2 major grocery store chains, kroeger and farmer jack, and the differences in the national brands that each store stocks is really suprising. no dopubt that some of these differences are caused because the sales rep for brand X struck a better deal than the rep for brand Z with one store or the other. the other thing that might be going on is that the other customers that shop at your store simply arent buying the monster cereals, and the store dropped them. go up the road a mile or two and you'll probably find them. (its an interesting study in demographics, and leads to some equally interesting "chicken or the egg" questions)

Wow....sorry to hear about that....I dig the stuff but I'm not addicted....at least I don't think so.

a quick note about ben cooper costumes. their main rival was collegevile costumes (who also manufatured flags). both companies made kids costumes only, no adult stuff. in the late 80's collegeville bought cooper. at about the same time colegeville merged with (or aquired) imagineering inc. another halloween company who made cool pressed foam appliance sets, fake blood, makeup, etc., as well as a few adult costumes. in the early to mid 90's collegeville-imaginering was bought by rubies costume co., who started phasing out the name until it diappeared entirely a couple of years ago.
some of the old ben coopper and collegevile plastic masks are stil available from rubies

hey guys
here is a place that you can get those cereals and more all year round!!!!!!
they even have quisp and king vitaman. there is twenty dollar minimum though
grape pop-tarts too. hope this helps you guys that need that sugar fix!
The Hard To Find Grocer (http://www.hometownfavorites.com/shop/candy_cat_js.asp?c=24)
you also order quisp and king vitaman direct from quaker
Buy hard to find Quaker products in the Quaker Online Store (http://www.quakeroats.com/qfb_OurBrands/BuyOnline.cfm)
hope this helps you guys that need that sugar fix!

i do see it arond here. i could pick it up and send for the cost

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For those who don't know, Ben Cooper was a company that made Halloween Costumes for children; the company existed in one form or another from the late 50's until the late 90's. The costumes they created were generally characters taken from television, movie, comic, or cartoons, and they consisted of a poorly painted vacuform mask with a thin elastic band stapled to it (allegedly to hold it onto your head, but it never quite worked out that way) and a "coverall" type vinyl costume that was garishly painted with the TV show's/movie's/comic's/cartoon's logo all over it and was highly flammable.

I can never hear the words Ben Cooper without thinking of Irwin Mainway, at least not since one memorable late nite TV moment in the seventies:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77dconsumerprobe.phtml

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/pics/77dconsumerprobe3.jpg

Quisp is a very fond memory from childhood. I can still taste it. I knew you could order it from their website, but the price is a bit steep. I ate King Vitamin cereal as a kid but have no memory of the taste. Of course, Count Chocula and Frankenberry rule. I always had the Count and my sister had Frankie.

king vitaman was a bit bland, not as sweet as quisp but i love it.

I can never hear the words Ben Cooper without thinking of Irwin Mainway, at least not since one memorable late nite TV moment in the seventies...
LOL! One of SNL's best series of skits. I still remember the "bag of broken glass pieces", from Mainway's toy line.

hey guys
here is a place that you can get those cereals and more all year round!!!!!!
they even have quisp and king vitaman. there is twenty dollar minimum though
grape pop-tarts too. hope this helps you guys that need that sugar fix!
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Unfortunately, they don't have Capt. Crunch with Crunchberries, or Space Food Sticks.

Unfortunately, they don't have Capt. Crunch with Crunchberries, or Space Food Sticks.

You can't get Crunchberry?
Dang!
Guess I have it a lot better than I thought.
That stuff is in every store in the area, as well as peanutbutter Crunch.
And a lot of other listed on that website.

You can't get Crunchberry? Dang!...
Maybe they have it in the local store; just not on that website. Well, that's how much I go to the cereal section, these days. :drunk:

BTW, is there any actual cereal, in these various glucose products?