Rare Transformers Cereal Box

[Gregg]

up on Ebay now - Thanks! Gregg

it would have been huge and very sought after and expensive box if it were released, we can only hope planet q buys it so we can get laser copies of it from him.

[DustinCropsBoy]

Originally Posted by korollocke

it would have been huge and very sought after and expensive box if it were released

So if it made it to market and bazillions of them were made - you think it would be "worth more"? That doesn't make sense to me.

Do you think this because it would have "fond memories" factor?

nearly every cereal box we or you have collected were produced and had lots and lots on stores all over but a few boxes of them made it, going by your logic produced cereal is essentially pointless because they were mass produced, bummer... but i and any cereal box collecter likes them anyway and doesn't seem bothered by the concept of massproduction. transformers were huge in the eighties! several transformers go for big bucks and they made lots of them, go figure. lots of jets cereal was made but the boxes rock and get high a price as lots of other mass produced cereal boxes from the last few decades! they made boat loads of dakins and talkers you know. though i doubt any cereal was made in those mega numbers you mention (whats a bazzilion?), never heard of it before, enough of this foolishness already. have fun would you???

[opiecrunch]

Robb wouldn't need to win the box for us to get reproductions of it. Whoever wins it will more than likely share a laser with him for his archives and then for him to share with others at a fraction.

thats why i mentioned him he has lots of cool repros for a fair price. that jazz offer on the box ended up on cookie crisp, it's worth 150.00 to most transformers collectors (the toy,not the box.), ofcourse the holy grail is a dairy queen optimis prime, much harder to find then the pepsi optimus prime.

[DustinCropsBoy]

Originally Posted by korollocke

have fun would you???

Dude, what is your problem???????? This is so far off the mark, I don't even get where you came up w/ any reason to think I'm not having "fun" w/ all this.

Originally Posted by korollocke

it would have been huge and very sought after and expensive box if it were released

I simply asked what your reason for thinking if the box had been mass produced it would be worth more and be more sought after than the unique and rare, almost one-of-a-kind item that it is now.

To me, something that only has a few items ever in existence automatically should be worth more than if it was mass produced.

And for the record - a bazillion is about 100 gazillion.

i made that remark because the character got into old slang, no disrespect to you. again most of the most valueable items were orginally massproduced( action comics #1,marx playsets, redline hotwheels,ect...) but due to the ravages of time a few exist and due to interest from varied sources they are valueable today and possibly in the future as well.(items that crashed would be say beanie babies, major matt mason, still wanted but not as high end as it was.)don't you mean a bazillion is a a gagillion multiplied times 10, your hypothetical math stinks on ice...100 million doesn't eqaul a billion does it? the biggest expressed number and yes it was physically written ata univeristy by a professor is a googgle plex, this may have changed though so don't qoute me on that as your prone to do, this quisp/qauke thing is somewhat entertaining.

[grickily]

I have a few thoughts on value and rarity.

Original art is always the most valuable, a reproduction print is always worth less.

A rare toy prototype is almost always worth more then an actual produced version of the toy. In the world of comics this i sometimes skewed when collectors become obsessed with condition and a book can be more valuable then a single page but this is a paradigm special to the world of comics collecting.

Generally in cereal boxes the most expensive ones are the ones were produced for the shortest period time and thus are the rarest not the ones that were most plentifully produced.

The second major factor is desirability, the Beatles Honies boxes are amongst the most valuable because there are so many Beatles collectors. Fruit Brute is the most desirable monster box because it is the rarest. Boo Berry is the second most valuable because it is the second rarest. Etc.

Cocoa Freakies was a test market box and it is by far the most valuable, the more common boxes are much less valuable. So initial production numbers lead to the boxes being common and less valuable.

In the end desirability and rarity are the major factors in determining value. I may have the rarest Corn Flakes box in the world but most collectors could care less. But if I had the rarest Freakies you can bet it would be worth a fortune.

[Gregg]

ok, this is what I know about the box .... my friend Judy, who is about to retire from Ralston (after 30 plus years!!!) said this box never made it 2 production / any store shelves. Ralston decided not 2 go ahead with the Transformers thing because they thought the "fad" was cooling off?! I'll try 2 get more details etc. Regardless, a pretty cool box ... I love how OP is shooting at the cereal (smile)! I'll make a copy of the box before I send it off etc. Robb also has a copy, and will probally make a sweet repro?!