X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4885,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4885,public X-Google-Thread: f7789,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf7789,public X-Google-Thread: 111256,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111256,public X-Google-Thread: 1046a1,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1046a1,public X-Google-Thread: f71cc,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf71cc,public X-Google-Thread: 10bf94,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10bf94,public X-Google-Thread: 10f9f0,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f9f0,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,85b2da23ab298ac1,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-04 01:25:43 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!paris.ics.uci.edu!news.claremont.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!erehwon.caltech.edu!jittlov From: jittlov@erehwon.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.sf.fandom,alt.fandom.cons,rec.arts.animation,alt.ascii-art,rec.collecting,alt.cult-movies Subject: Mr. Spock Box appearing at ComiCon! Followup-To: alt.fan.mike-jittlov Date: 4 Aug 1994 08:14:30 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 150 Message-ID: <31q816$ann@gap.cco.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: erehwon.caltech.edu Summary: No, I did not save the contents :p Keywords: Jittlov,StarTrek,Spock,Kellogg,bizarre Xref: bga.com alt.fan.mike-jittlov:2110 rec.arts.comics.misc:34923 rec.arts.startrek.misc:14308 rec.arts.sf.fandom:2160 alt.fandom.cons:1370 rec.arts.animation:5836 alt.ascii-art:10858 rec.collecting:6380 alt.cult-movies:19346 >From Mt. Email, Altitude 1307': >>when I found the entire Star Trek Bridge set dumped at UCLA in >>1970, and then became one of the few owners of the original >>Kellogg's Sugar Smacks box with Mr. Spock on the front. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is apocryphal, it's never exiisted, and you can't prove it. Yesss-I-can ;} -- because I'll be bringing it with me to ComiCon 94! Believe It Or Not, I'm holding said cereal box (swaddled in a giant Zip-Loc) in my hands _right now_! Enough emailers and Trekkers have asked about this legend...so it is being gently pressed against my Commodore 1084S screen, letting its natural radiation field do the rest (...hey, this is a _great_ way to warm your fingers...). Hit *Reverse*, and voila! [Pardon the "Dark Spock" effect] ################################################################### True Story: In the Summer of `69, I hitchhiked across Europe for three months. Just before my return flight from Gatwick, I bought several boxes of Kellogg's Sugar Smacks in a small London grocery. It wasn't (necessarily) because I knew what Caledonian Airlines' in-flight meals would be...but that the United Kingdom sold cereal boxes I had never before seen -- and never would again. STAR TREK's Mr. Spock was featured on the front of these boxes, holding a phaser that looked more like a toy squirt-gun/camera. The back featured pictures of five collector buttons, with art work on par with Spock's picture (surpassed by ASCII-art below). It also had the Enterprise flying with its saucer upside-down. And all sides were covered with information that plumbed new depths of wry British humour. 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"THE STAR TREK PHASER PISTOL - The phaser does anything from tranquillising a victim to disintegrating steel...SUGAR SMACKS works on the same energy principle, too." [..uh-huhhhh..] Further Proof (with b&w photo) is on the cover (with article) in the #8 issue (1992) of FLAKE Magazine (people actually collect this stuff), "A friend of Leonard Nimoy recently slapped down $1000 for one of these boxes as a birthday present for his pal. He says Nimoy hadn't known it existed." :@ Whoa!! Looking at the FLAKE magazine picture...the box looks _different_, with NASA stickers...and with a 1970 copyright..! *I* HAVE THE FIRST PRINTING! I HAVE THE NUMBER ONE First Printing CEREAL BOX!!! In MINT CONDITION!! -- Heyyyy, if somebody paid $1000, three years ago, for one box with the _second_ printing..!) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ The Super-Valuable *Mister Spock Cereal Box* will be at ComiCon 94, wherever you see Mr. Jittlov closely surrounded by Brinkes Guards. (Bet you didn't know Brinke Stevens was more than just a Scream Queen, Writer and Marine Biologist;) __________________________________________ ___._`.*.'_._ ________ Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc . . + * .o o.* `.`. +. Hollywood, CA 90026-2714 ' * . ' ' |\^/| `. * . * jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (: May All Your \V/ Good Dreams <& alt.fan.mike-jittlov> and Fine Wishes /_\ Come True:) =============================================== _/ \_ =========== Yes! It's an actual newsgroup (68,000 subscribers worldwide), haven to hyper-creative mega-crossposting -- plus the historic & happening "SAVE THE WIZARD MOVIE!!" Postcard Campaign! Tune in and lurk on!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ewhac@shell.portal.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) recalls [while celebrating his Big 3-0 Bash in cool Marin County!]: >Mike brought said artifact with him to BayCon last year, which I >last year, which I saw_with_my_very_own_eyes. Unbelievably cheesy >piece of 60's-style marketing (rather like the Flintstones movie - a >comparison which I'm sure will prove to be unfairly denigrating to >the cereal box). "I think the best proof of intelligent life on other worlds is that they haven't actually tried to contact us." -- Calvin & Hobbs