31 days of Halloween: Day 9 - Monster Cereals

I remember driving my parents CRAZY when I got one of these!

 I remember seeing one of these commercials one day and thinking to myself (at the age of 7) why can't Franken Berry, Count Chocula and Boo Berry stop the fighting, join forces and create a new cereal.
General Mills MUST have been reading my mind because a year later they came out with Fruit Brute!

Monster Cereals Are Back (sort of)

Visiting the grocery shelves I was delighted (and horror-fied) to see my childhood friends FRANKEN BERRY, COUNT CHOCULA and BOO-BERRY back on the store shelves in time for the Halloween season. Naturally everything has to be "redesigned" and "new". Now I don't expect to see the original packaging as I remember (though with all of the retro revivals among grocery items it would be possible) but I didn't expect to see this:

 Mrs. Atomic mentioned the new design, Franken-Berry now looks like a baby. I gotta agree!

Boo-Berry even looks WORSE! He looks...well like...some sort of blob thing instead of a ghost.

Chocula is the least ruined (he still looks like a baby. Okay maybe a 1 year-old with his first tooth)

Here's the classics as we remember them:

And here's a couple for extra credit. Fruit Brute was VERY limited (only lasted about a year) however I've seen original empty boxes sell on E-Bay for over $1,000!!

Yummy Mummy came out in the 80's but didn't last long either.

Here's one last Halloween treat.