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[trumanshower]

I don' t think such a topic already exist, i'd like to try with you to determinate where all the s1 premiums come from.

-pine green great beast : Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-pine green hydra
-pine green behemoth: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pine green griffin : Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-pine green t-rex
-pine green tengu: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pine green hobgoblin : Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-pine green windigo: Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-pine green spring heeled jack
-pine green invisible man
-pine green skeleton
-pine green hunchback
-cyan great beast: Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-cyan behemoth : Decipher MIMP Board game
-cyan griffin : Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-cyan cyclop
-cyan tengu: Decipher MIMP Board game
-cyan jotun troll
-cyan mad scientist
-cyan winged panther
-cyan mummy
-cyan charon
-orange hydra
-orange werewolf : music cassette Monster Rock / Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-orange t-rex
-orange cockatrice : Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-orange triton: Decipher MIMP Board game
-orange kraken: Decipher MIMP Board game
-orange hobgoblin : music cassette Monster Rock / Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-orange windigo : Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-orange ghoul
-orange the phantom
-pink werewolf: Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-pink cockatrice: Nabisco Frosted Wheat Squares cereals
-pink cyclop
-pink triton: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pink kraken: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pink jotun troll
-pink cerberus: 2S Vulcano set to replace Pink Ganesha
-pink ghost: 2S Vulcano set to replace Pink Herne The Hunter
-pink the beast
-pink witch
-neon lime cerberus: 2S Vulcano set to replace Green Ganesha
-neon lime ghost: 2S Vulcano set to replace Green Herne The Hunter
-gitd cerberus : MIMP Cauldron
-gitd ghost : MIMP Cauldron

-red catoplepas : MIMP monster clash
-red khali
-yellow catoblepas
-yellow khali : MIMP monster clash

I hope there is no mistake !any help to complete this list would be welcome.

Edited by trumanshower, 27 January 2012 - 04:38 AM.

[GormTransMonsters]

I don' t think such a topic already exist, i'd like to try with you to determinate where all the s1 premiums come from.

-pine green great beast: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-pine green hydra
-pine green behemoth: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pine green griffin : Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-pine green t-rex
-pine green tengu: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pine green hobgoblin
-pine green windigo: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-pine green spring heeled jack
-pine green invisible man
-pine green skeleton
-pine green hunchback
-cyan great beast: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-cyan behemoth : Decipher MIMP Board game
-cyan griffin: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-cyan cyclop
-cyan tengu: Decipher MIMP Board game
-cyan jotun troll
-cyan mad scientist
-cyan winged panther
-cyan mummy
-cyan charon
-orange hydra
-orange werewolf: music cassette Monster Rock / Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-orange t-rex
-orange cockatrice: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-orange triton: Decipher MIMP Board game
-orange kraken: Decipher MIMP Board game
-orange hobgoblin: music cassette Monster Rock / Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-orange windigo: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-orange ghoul
-orange the phantom
-pink werewolf: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-pink cockatrice: Nabicso Frosted Whaet Squares cereals
-pink cyclops
-pink triton: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pink kraken: Decipher MIMP Board game
-pink jotun troll
-pink cerberus: 2S Vulcano set to replace Pink Ganesha
-pink ghost: 2S Vulcano set to replace Pink Herne The Hunter
-pink the beast
-pink witch
-neon lime cerberus: 2S Vulcano set to replace Green Ganesha
-neon lime ghost: 2S Vulcano set to replace Green Herne The Hunter
-gitd cerberus : MIMP Cauldron
-gitd ghost : MIMP Cauldron

-red catoplepas : MIMP monster clash
-red khali
-yellow catoblepas
-yellow khali : MIMP monster clash

I hope there is no mistake !any help to complete this list would be welcome.

[BaltanII]

The pine Hobgoblin is also a Nabisco cereal premium.

I wonder if all of the cereal premiums also got reused for the cassette as bonuses? Only ever seen that werewolf pic floating around forever, then the orange Hobgoblin that showed up recently.

[Daxel101uk]

As you mentioned the aforementioned Orange Hydra and the Pine Green T.Rex, you failed to mention the blue Jotun Troll that was sold from a seller on ebay that infrequently show up sellin these three figures as a group or separatly. There is a thread discussing this very point. Where did these come from. I don't think to this day no one is none the wiser. But, the closest idea if I remember rightly that they were possibly to be used as a freebie included with a confection or cereal of some kind or included with a comic.... someone may correct me though.... hope this helps some

Also not in the U.K I think only in U.S

[BaltanII]

He didn't fail to mention it at all; it's on the list under "cyan".

[Daxel101uk]

Fair do's but my point is still valid based on what I mentioned about that they have been discussed before when the seller was flogging them on ebay Baltan

[BaltanII]

Yeah, I was there both times and bought some the first time. Yours is the first I've heard of anybody mentioning a specific promotion behind them. The seller's only vague advice on their origin suggested they were arcade prizes, the kind you'd receive in exchange for tickets. Even if that's the case, I think it's more likely that's not their original source, and perhaps they were leftovers from the "real" promotion, whatever it was. That, or perhaps Matchbox thought marketing MIMP through arcades as well as stores was a viable avenue?

EDIT: Found the seller's quote in the thread from the second round of sales!

I asked the seller if they knew the source of the figures? If they were in single packs,
boardgame or from cereal.

This is their reply (the irony is that they mention my website):

"From what I found out, and I had to do a lot of research, these monsters were re-releases
of the series 1 monsters, they were called premium monsters - here's one source
http://www.monsterco.../1-premium.html So, they are series 1 monsters in series
2 colors. I did some more research and found out that they're not the cereal box prize monsters,
and I'm not sure if they were offered in a single pack. It's a little confusing because this site
http://monsterinmypo...m/wiki/Series_1 lists these colors as premium colors that
came with the board game, but when I looked at the board game pieces, these monsters weren't
there. I got these from a guy who used to own an arcade on the jersey shore. He said that he
would give them away as prizes, so who knows if there were a seperate series of monsters for
situations like that. I really don't know, but I hope that this answers your question. =) "

Edited by BaltanII, 24 January 2012 - 07:47 PM.

[PimpNugget]

Brain fart...................................................

Edited by PimpNugget, 24 January 2012 - 09:02 PM.

[trumanshower]

thanks for your help guys !! i've updated the list.

[Daxel101uk]

Think they should staple this thread. Mint list Truman

[dielaughing]

Wouldnt the pine hobgoblin have some from one of the US cereals too? I got mine from the states in a lot where there both board game figures and also an orange cockatrice and i think an orange hobgoblin

[DKRULEZ]

Question from a Peruvian collector.
I want to change my Cyan Behemoth,MIMP neon(normal) might get.

[Daxel101uk]

Which is the more uncommon behemoth? Pine Green or Cyan?

[GormTransMonsters]

Which is the more uncommon behemoth? Pine Green or Cyan?

The colour that come with Pink Kraken and Orange Triton is the rarest as that group is rarer than the other one...
But unfortunately now I don't remember which one is...

Edited by GormTransMonsters, 26 January 2012 - 04:06 PM.

[BaltanII]

Wouldnt the pine hobgoblin have some from one of the US cereals too?

The pine Hobgoblin is also a Nabisco cereal premium.

Yes. For some reason, trumanshower hasn't updated the pine Hobgoblin entry. Great Beast, Griffin, Windigo, Hobgoblin, Werewolf, and Cockatrice were all S1 Nabisco premiums, two different colors for each.

[trumanshower]

List updated with the pine green hobgoblin.

Edited by trumanshower, 27 January 2012 - 01:43 AM.

[GormTransMonsters]

List updated with the pine green hobgoblin.

Well done man,
But why you wrote NabiCSo when instead is NabiSCo??? ahahahah!!
Just for fun

[trumanshower]

it's just a miskate LOL

[GormTransMonsters]

it's just a miskate LOL

Oh man,
you correct them all?!?!!... AHAHAH That's great you did such annoying operation...

[Aikola]

Just to note that the cerberus and ghost were only exchanged in the UK, im pretty sure every figure after the beast was a uk premium too.

[nostalgicsmiler]

This will not help much (at all) but I am pretty sure pink The Beast came in UK cereal. When I rediscovered my stash of MIMPS I had 3 of them (one of which had been disfigured though!!). I didn't have many duplicate colours apart from this one and certainly not 3, so makes me think this must have come from some form of promotion where I got them free, and cereal would have been the way I got them.

Frosties or Rice Crispies are my guess as they are what I mainly had back then, but I know you don't want guesses just cold hard fact! This has got me interested so I will see if there is anything online.

[trumanshower]

thanks for the infos, each guess could be a good way to search ! I'm really surprise we don't know the origin of certain easy-to-find figures like pine green hunchback , skeleton and spring healed jack, orange ghoul, cyan mad scientist and mummy etc...

In france i'm 99% sure no premiums S1 were available, the very few i've found in flea markets (orange hobgoblin, pine green windigo and t-rex, cyan cyclop) probably came from foreign countries.

[Aikola]

This will not help much (at all) but I am pretty sure pink The Beast came in UK cereal. When I rediscovered my stash of MIMPS I had 3 of them (one of which had been disfigured though!!). I didn't have many duplicate colours apart from this one and certainly not 3, so makes me think this must have come from some form of promotion where I got them free, and cereal would have been the way I got them.

Frosties or Rice Crispies are my guess as they are what I mainly had back then, but I know you don't want guesses just cold hard fact! This has got me interested so I will see if there is anything online.

Yeah im pretty sure they came from Kelloggs cereal however im not certain and surprisingly ive never seen a sealed one, i know there is a picture on the web somewhere ill ask my friend brojo

[trumanshower]

I've once seen a Miel Pops Kellogg's box with a free MIMP inside, but i think it's for common S1 MIMP.

[Aikola]

Yeah ive got a NG Hunchback sealed in a kelloggs packet.