Funko Pop! Foodies Count Chocula and Frankenberry Cereal

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00:00Uh-oh, there seems to be something scary in my cereal bowl.

00:03Here's your spooky spot on the Funko Pops General Mills Funko Exclusives Count Chocula and Frankenberry.

00:10Your ad icon collection isn't complete without the cereal boxes themselves.

00:39Add the Funko Exclusive Pop Count Chocula and Frankenberry cereal box to your lineup.

00:44I don't really know what's scarier, the mascots or the sugar content.

00:48Just before, of course, we get a closer look at the Funko Cereal Mascots Count Chocula

00:51and Frankenberry, let's take first the ghoulish tape measure and see how tall these stand.

00:56Now they're not quite going to be four inches.

00:58They're just a little less than that.

01:00They're about three and three quarters of an inch in height, or both of them are going

01:03to be about 10 centimeters tall.

01:05Speaking of spooky mascots, maybe not relating to cereal.

01:09Here's what Count Chocula and Frankenberry looks like along with the Spirit Halloween

01:12Flocked Version Trick or Treat Sam.

01:16Speaking also of cereals, we're being as well joined by the Interdimensional Candle who

01:20enjoys cereal and funny enough, ironically enough, his favorite cereal is life.

01:25Looking at these individually, I did actually order these both online.

01:29There is also as well a Boo Berry version of this character.

01:32I only at the time of doing this review, only got my hands though on Count Chocula and Frankenberry.

01:36I don't know why I'm waving my hand.

01:37I'm just so nervous that the candle is still staring at me.

01:40Can you at least look the ... okay, forget about it.

01:43Both the characters look very much similar to one another in a sense that they are basically

01:47the cereal boxes and then the bowls themselves basically are the faces for the characters.

01:52Now the thing I really like about these is the fact that they are based on the original

01:56cereal boxes and even though they have changed the look and the designs of the boxes over

02:00the years, I would say that this is probably the closest thing to the 80s cereal boxes

02:04when I was eating the cereal the most.

02:06Count Chocula, as you can see though, is one that actually does have a little picture of

02:09milk.

02:10Frankenberry does not actually have that and I think when we get Boo Berry, which I still

02:14want to get my hands on, Boo Berry is also very much similar to Frankenberry.

02:18It's just a pair of hands.

02:19So I kind of like right away that they're different from one another that, well, don't

02:22spill that milk, whatever you do.

02:24You can see that at least he does have a little picture of milk.

02:26I like the way that they've actually angled the milk like this, looks like he's ready

02:29to pour off a bowl.

02:30Of course, on the front of the box, we got ourselves Count Chocula looking like he's

02:34about to devour a box of his own, a bowl of his own cereal.

02:37At the top corner, it does say Count Chocula.

02:39I guess the adjacent corner to that, it says General Mills and it says chocolatey cereal

02:43plus marshmallow bits.

02:45The only thing that's a little underwhelming for me is the fact that everything that's

02:48going on that's interesting about this is only on the front.

02:51The moment you start to look at these from the sides and especially on the back, there's

02:55nothing at all.

02:57I feel like at the very least, not that I was expecting, you know, the nutritional facts

03:01because you're never going to find them on any sugary cereals.

03:04But even if they had just put a suggested image on the side, even if it was blurry and

03:08you wouldn't be able to make out what those words would be, if they had only just put

03:12something decaled on the sides and certainly on the back would have been, I think, a prime

03:17opportunity to put like little Easter eggs, references to things that you'd find inside

03:21prizes, little board games, there would always be something interesting on the backs of the

03:25boxes.

03:26Why is it that we're only getting treated to the front?

03:29I mean, obviously, when you're looking at these, when you're putting them on the shelf,

03:33the front thing is the only thing that you'd be really the most concerned with.

03:36But I just think it would be nice if they had put something on the backs of the boxes

03:39as well.

03:40These are fairly substantially durable too.

03:42Funko Pops tend to also have some articulation.

03:44The thing, unfortunately, about these though, is that there really isn't a head.

03:47The head is only really just the bowl of cereal, so you can't really rotate anything to it.

03:52You can't really move the arms.

03:53You can't move, of course, the feet.

03:55I mean, they're basically just stactioned blocks like this.

03:58If you're looking at this and you're comparing it along with Frankenberry, very much similar

04:02sort of things are going on here, except they have sculpted the hands completely different.

04:06They have it painted on.

04:07Did you know Frankenberry had little strawberry fingernails?

04:10Did you know that?

04:11Now you know that.

04:12Of course, the feet are very much different from one another too.

04:14Count Chocolate sticks to browns, so like he's got brown sleeves, even like slightly

04:19lighter brown gloves or hands.

04:21He also has spats on his shoes.

04:23Frankenberry doesn't do anything like that.

04:25He's got basically like pink leggings, and he's also got himself like big red boots,

04:29big clunky boots.

04:30Now with both again, they look like the 80s cereal boxes right away.

04:35I think that was probably the thing that kind of hooked me in on wanting to pick these up.

04:39You know with this channel, I'm not really one that pushes Funko Pops all that much.

04:43I have to be really interested in a Funko Pop.

04:45I can't just willy-nilly go to a store and pick these up, which again, by the way, these

04:48were Funko exclusives.

04:50I actually picked these up, I think, from Retro Festive.

04:53Seems to be like my go-to place every year when I want to get myself like Halloween or

04:56Christmas-themed things.

04:58Of course, with Frankenberry, just putting down Count Chocolate here for a second, Frankenberry

05:02is again devouring his own bowl of cereal.

05:06With his marshmallow bits, they were supposed to, I guess, be Frankenstein heads.

05:10Count Chocolate was probably easier to spot what those things were supposed to be.

05:13They were supposed to be bats, bats.

05:15But Frankenberry, of course, the cereal was always underwhelming.

05:18I mean, let's face facts.

05:19As a kid, we always sort of just picked out the marshmallows, and then we were sort of

05:22stuck with this bland old cereal.

05:24The bland cereal also for Frankenberry was also known for one thing as a kid, and if

05:28you ate the cereal yourself, you would know exactly what that was.

05:31It would basically turn.

05:32When you went to the washroom, it would change certain things, certain colors.

05:36Again, there's a lot more going on in the front.

05:39I guess one thing that's kind of neat is the fact they did take the little flaps, they

05:42put the flaps on the tops of the cereal.

05:43But come on, Funko, you needed to do a little bit more on the sides to sell this for me.

05:47Not as if I already wasn't sold by these.

05:50Just adding a little bit of detail on the sides, I think, could have gone a long way.

05:53And hey, why not?

05:54Why do we have to see a big blank basic box on the back?

05:58They really need to add some extra things on there as well.

06:00Now, again, I'd like to get my hands also on Boo-Berry, really, to be fair, I really

06:04did want to get my hands on Boo-Berry prior to hitting record.

06:07So at least I could have looked at the trilogy of cereal mascots from the Spooky Season.

06:12But alas, I couldn't get my hands on Boo-Berry.

06:14I think Boo-Berry goes online, I want to say, for about $20.

06:17So he isn't going to break the bank at all.

06:19Boo-Berry, I also feel, was also given a cereal mascot on his own.

06:22I don't think the same could be said for Count Chocolate and Franken-Berry.

06:25But for me, ideally, the thing that really, again, lured me into wanting to get these

06:29for somebody that never really likes to collect Funko Pops is the appeal, the charm, that

06:33these look like the old cereal 80s mascot boxes.

06:36Of course, having the arms, of course, on the sides and adding then the pupils, those

06:39familiar dots of black on the front for their eyes.

06:43Adding that to the bowls, I think, was really the neat touch.

06:46Are they the most, like, they're a little underwhelming in the sense that they don't

06:49have any posability.

06:50I guess it would really be the hardest thing.

06:52I guess they probably could have put something on the legs where you'd be able to rotate

06:55the cereal boxes.

06:56You know, again, for what they are, something that I probably will only put out during the

06:59Hallows season, I think they're kind of fun.

07:03And I'm glad that I actually got the chance to pick these up.

07:06Foolish of me to make the assumption that Funko never went further down the rabbit hole

07:09when it came to milking the cereal mascots during the Spooky Season.

07:12Of course they did.

07:13Funko's all about that.

07:15It dawned on me as I was wrapping up this review, of course, they did outside the realm

07:18of doing, of course, the cereal mascots literally as cereal boxes, as seen in this spooky video.

07:23They, of course, did do the Boo-Berry.

07:25I would have liked to have gotten my hands on the Boo-Berry, so at least I could have

07:27looked at the three of the cereal mascots I had as a kid.

07:30Of course, outside of that, Funko did release Funko Pops account, Chocula, Franken-Berry

07:35and Boo-Berry.

07:36They've released as well Funko Blocks, which I don't think they make blocks much anymore.

07:40They did basically think of it as a Funko Pop that's been run over by a car, completely

07:43flat.

07:45A few years ago here during the Spooky Spot Season, we looked at Franken-Berry, Boo-Berry

07:48and Count Chocula in those.

07:50And as well, some of my favorite things are the Funko Vinyl, that's V-Y-N-L, which looked

07:56to me more like Rankin-Bass characters from cartoons.

07:59They did release a two-pack of Count Chocula and Franken-Berry.

08:02They also released the much more rare Fruity Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brutes.

08:05I'd love to get my hands on those.

08:07I know that will set me back a pretty penny, but rest assured, sooner rather than later,

08:11I'll be getting my hands on those two packs of vinyl.

08:14Nostalgia overload when it comes to cereal mascots during October.

08:18I never really liked Count Chocula as a kid.

08:20I still don't like Count Chocula as an adult.

08:23Chocolate cereal was never a big thing for me.

08:25I certainly did like, though, Boo-Berry.

08:27Boo-Berry for the times that I had as a kid.

08:29Maybe I was lucky enough to have it once or twice over two years.

08:32And then after that, Boo-Berry, strangely here in Canada, just seemed to disappear.

08:36Usually my go-to then was always Franken-Berry.

08:39Yes, it was always a horrific sight to go use the bathroom as a kid later on, but Franken-Berry

08:44was always it for me.

08:46We never were lucky enough to have Fruity Yummy Mummy, Fruit Brute or any of those characters

08:49after the fact.

08:50It was always really just Count Chocula and Franken-Berry that were the ones that were

08:53on the cereal aisles.

08:56Certainly as a video question for you guys is, what was your favorite cereal mascot during

08:59Halloween?

09:00Was it Franken-Berry?

09:01Was it Count Chocula?

09:02Or maybe some of the latter characters, Fruity Yummy Mummy, Fruit Brute?

09:05There's even a newer character, can't remember her name.

09:07She's now starting to show up, actually all the cereals have showed up now here in Walmarts

09:11in Canada.

09:12I'm very tempted to kind of start picking up some of these, but I know the cereal isn't

09:15really the greatest.

09:16It's full of sugar and all the other scary things.

09:20Let me know down below in the comment section, what your favorite cereal mascot was for Halloween.

09:24And if you've lucky enough, then picking up any of these cereal mascots.

09:27Also as well, if you guys did enjoy this video, do a solid, throw it a like.

09:30You guys want to stick around for more, so bye.

09:34So even though we are wrapping up things right now for General Mills, there will be more

09:38spooky videos coming your way during the month of Spontober.

09:41So hit the subscribe, turn on that bell, and keep your ghoulish peepers peeled to this channel.

09:45As always, thanks for watching.

09:47See you guys next time.

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