Fantastic Plastic (and Rubber)

Cereal premiums, toothpaste premiums, detergent premiums, erasers, and just plain premium toys. These were the colorful, portable bagatelles that brightened my childhood.

I Feel A Fool

I was talking to my brother Yen in Florida yesterday, who has finally broken down and bought some Indiana Jones action figures. He told me something I didn't know, though I'd bought some IJ figures more than a month ago: that in those little cargo boxes were toy treasures, and stickers. If you send in six of these stickers on the form provided, you get an exclusive action figure of the Crystal Skeleton featured in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I scrambled and found two of the boxes (I must have at least two more, somewhere) and found out I had the little golden idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark and a Chinese terra cotta horse. I need to pay more attention.