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> General Mills LEGO Racers Promotional, free LEGO Racers in every marked box! :D
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ILikePi
post Feb 18 2009, 02:39 AM
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Hey guys, a week or so ago I saw a commercial advertising General Mills cereal with free LEGO Racers in them. I knew I had to get some of that cereal! default_tong.gif
Five types of General Mills cereals have it:
- Cheerios
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch
- Cookie Crisp
- Lucky Charms
- Trix

Although the pieces were made in China, they still feel like high-quality plastic.

I think that this is a promotion only in the US, sorry Europe and other continents.
Ok, on to the pictures! default_classic.gif
I decided to put clickable pictures, since this is my first topic default_classic.gif


Here's the box, with the advertisement.


Here's a close-up of the ad.


Box back.


Here's a close-up of the "Driver Stats".


Close-up of the racers...


You can see that the racer is at the bottom of the cereal default_hmpfbad.gif I had to get my mom to help me push it out without killing the cereal default_tong.gif


Here's the car, wrapped up with all the plastic baggy goodness default_classic.gif


Here's the car compared to a minifig. You can see that I got the blue one.

At this point, I stopped to do my homework, and opened the wrap after I finished as a reward default_tong.gif


Yay! Cinnamon Toast Crunch! default_tong.gif
I think the last time I ate it was like 3 years or so default_laugh2.gif


Yup, it sure is enlarged to show detail default_tong.gif


Here's the sticker sheet. I refuse to call a DSS because LEGO would never put printed parts on a free LEGO set...


The back of the sticker sheet; it tells you where to apply the stickers.


Here's the car without stickers. At this point, I had to get another bowl of cereal default_tong.gif


Here's the bottom of the car. The set number can't be 7190, since that's one of the Millenium Falcon's numbers.


The whole car is two pieces. If you have all six, you can make over 200 combinations (according to the box)!


The top can fit on backwards default_tong.gif



The "build time" was around 5 minutes if you work carefully. Those stickers are hard to put on!



The two sides after stickered.


Front after stickered.


Used up SS.


The pilot is doing a move in The Matrix default_tong.gif


The pilot's getting ready for the annual go-kart race default_tong.gif


Double-decker bus default_tong.gif


And here's a picture of the top part backwards again.

When I was eating dinner a few hours ago, I dropped the car by accident. I then found out that there are three parts to the car, not two! There third part is a 2 x 7 chassis.
Here's a picture:

And a picture of a "hot rod" default_tong.gif :


PART 2:
A week or so ago, I got a box of Trix with the banner on it:



This time, the car is on top of the bag instead of inside the bag.


Yay! Rainbow cereal! default_classic.gif


Close-up of the bagged car. You can see that I got the police car (yay! default_classic.gif ).


One bag taken off...


Close-up on the back of the sticker sheet. This car has a grey chassis.


And the front...

Back views (unstickered)


Here's the fully stickered set. You can see that I messed up the one on the windshield, so I had to put some glue on it...

The racer uses some of the same stickers as the police car in 8152 Speed Chasing:

It also looks similar to it. I bet that it was based on that police car.

More views:
Front-top view
Back-side view
Side view
Front view

Mix-and-match:
Top pieces, Side view
Chassis
Backwards police car
Backwards top pieces

What did I think about these sets? They're great! :)
After all, who doesn't like free LEGO? Probably anti-LEGO people. default_tong.gif
My mom got the cereal on sale for $2.50 instead of $3.50. It's like paying $2.50 for the set! default_classic.gif
These are probably also new molds! default_cry_happy.gif
I'm probably going to get more cereal! I want that got the police car default_laugh_new.gif , but of course I'm not going to get all 6 cars. They're random for every box.
Thanks for reading my first topic! default_classic.gif

Feel free to click any of the pictures to post comments on that certain picture (if you have a Flickr account).

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post Feb 18 2009, 02:43 AM
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Fantastic review.

You really got into detail about the car, and, unlike most reviews, took us step by step through the entire building process. you have certainly helped me make up my mind about this set! Thank you so much!


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post Feb 18 2009, 02:44 AM
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I saw this at the grocery store. And I must pick one up! It looks really cool, and I'm sure on brickl;ink in the future those pieces will be worth a bunch. default_thumbup.gif


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post Feb 18 2009, 02:49 AM
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QUOTE (Zepher @ Feb 17 2009, 06:43 PM) *
Fantastic review.

You really got into detail about the car, and, unlike most reviews, took us step by step through the entire building process. you have certainly helped me make up my mind about this set! Thank you so much!

Well, this is my first review, so I decided to make it long default_classic.gif
By the way, there's no "building process". default_tong.gif It comes already assembled.

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post Feb 18 2009, 05:08 AM
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I picked up the exact same cereal just two days ago, but never saw anything like this on the boxes. default_tong.gif


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post Feb 18 2009, 06:12 AM
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Ohwell, makes me miss the old days when cereal box promos were made of actual lego bricks indistinguishable from those in stores.

At least these 'bricks' are compatible. Be interesting if someone figures out a clever way to use them...
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post Feb 18 2009, 06:22 AM
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QUOTE (ILikePi @ Feb 17 2009, 05:39 PM) *
When I was eating dinner a few hours ago, I dropped the car by accident. I then found out that there are three parts to the car, not two! There third part is a 2 x 7 chassis.
Here's a picture:

And a picture of a "hot rod" default_tong.gif :

A new part of the review is now up.


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post Feb 18 2009, 06:38 AM
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Very Clever
Now that chassis has some potential as a more normal car base with some unique wheels.
How thick is it?(get more of a side view perhaps)

There is precedent in the distant past for 4-wide cars with similar 1piece chassis:





P.S. What supermarket did you find these in?

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post Feb 18 2009, 06:42 AM
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The chassis' thickness is in between 2 and 3 plates. I'll post a picture later because it's dark right now, and I have to sleep soon.

EDIT: I saw some Lucky Charms at Walmart, and my mom went to Safeway to get the Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I think my Safeway has CTC and Lucky Charms. So, I would probably go to Safeway.

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post Feb 18 2009, 11:09 PM
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thats awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wish we had those in canada but no one cares about nascar here default_hmpfbad.gif


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post Feb 19 2009, 12:03 AM
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An interesting development to be sure. I'm torn between thinking that these are fairly unattractive, and useless, and on the other hand being pleased to see that they are at least System-compatible. It would have been nice if the McDonalds Batman stuff from last year had been made like this. I didn't bother to get any of those because they weren't System-compatible.

I'd like to see the actual brick-built, mini-sets that we used to see, but I have a feeling that's a thing of the past. If so, lets hope that future LEGO cross-brand promotions at least adhere to the standard of compatibility that we are seeing in this release.

I'll probably pick up one just to see for myself. If only they came in Golden Grahms...


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post Feb 19 2009, 12:57 AM
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I appreciate your enthousiasm but I truly find these just about the ugliest things Lego has ever made. A car in three pieces!
I like that car base, nothing wrong with that, but to have the rest of the car in 2 pieces with an instruction sheet that tells you where to apply the 300 stickers? That's so unlike Lego.
And I'm not saying that because I'm from Europe so we won't have them anyway... they should have used the same promo items that we got with a brand of cookies, those were little 30 part polybags.
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post Feb 19 2009, 03:40 AM
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I hadn't seen this post and only found out about these today when I saw the commercial on TV (while watching Spongebob, hehe). I readied my camera so that when the commercial shows again I can record it. Here's the video for anyone interested - http://smutoys.multiply.com/video/item/21/...cers_Commercial

I'm gonna go see if these are out in stores already, if so I'll grab one.

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post Feb 19 2009, 05:20 AM
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I was thinking about recording it if I saw the commercial again. default_tong.gif
Looks like you did the job for me! :P


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post Feb 19 2009, 12:50 PM
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Thanks for the long and picture-full review!
I like Lego Racers, but I'm not keen on this. A Lego car in three parts is a bit of a cop-out! default_hmpfbad.gif Come on, when I was younger I used to get those Johnny Thunder promo cars which were made of real Lego pieces! Anyway, I do like the chassis, although I'm English so probably wouldn't be able to get one of these. default_sceptic.gif

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