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The Crater Critters have been issued all over the world in varying colours, names and even numbers! Generally there were eight figures to collect, though it has long been rumoured that some countries had ten figures, though I have never seen any proof of that in an advert or cereal box back. This picture shows an advert from the back of a UK comic dated March 1970 showing the eight figures issued in the UK cereal Sugar Smacks with the UK names for the characters. |
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In
the UK there were 8 figures to collect in 7 colours...
Other countries had the additional colours Red, Yellow and Royal Blue. |
The
following two pictures are ones acquired electronically showing other cereal
box backs illustrations.
Kellogg's Ricicles (country of origin unknown)...
This
picture is the back of another cereal box, don't know where from - the series
is entitled 'Crater Creatures'
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Many of the R&L / Kellogg's cereal toys were later reproduced in Mexico, and these tend to flood the collecting markets nowadays, particularly on eBay. They are made using new plastics and usually have widely varying colours from the originals, This picture illustrates some of those colours... |
As
previously mentioned, it has long been rumoured that in some countries there
were 10 Crater Critters.
My browsing the web has found the following two pictures which seem to indicate
that the rumours might be true...
Critter No 9
Critter No 10
I have never seen any of these two for real.
