1984 :: Kellogg's Cornflakes Stickers

Many of you will have heard of or remember the Kellogg's Cornflakes Return of the Jedi Stickers. Many will even remember eagerly opening the single cellophane packet that came in 300g or 500g packages of cornflakes back in 1984 (around the time that Jedi was in the theatres), and sticking the now highly collectible sticker somewhere or on something that no longer exists, whilst checking the backing only to find out that "Darth Vader says 'Try Again'". It was because the stickers were intimately tied into the Return of the Jedi competition that Kelloggs were running at the time, that very few of you will be lucky enough to have in your collection a complete, mint set.

There are twelve small (approximately 56mm along a side), square stickers in this series, each depicting a character from the third released Star Wars movie. Most of the stickers bare the well known favourites, or introduced new, major villains, like crime-lord Jabba the Hutt. A few lesser, but still interesting and worthy, characters slipped into the line-up: blue ortolan Max Rebo, obseqious twi'lek Bib Fortuna, a mon calamari admiral, and a couple of ewoks.

The backing paper, moreoften than not, had a small monochrome image of Darth Vader informing us that we hadn't won any prizes...but it was possible to send the backing, once the sticker was safely and irretrievably adhered to a miscellaneous surface, in to be entered into a random prize draw.

Alas, I personally never saw any of the prize winning stickers.

If you have any spare stickers from this promotion that you are willing to sell, please drop me an email at [email protected].

Related article: Kellogg's Cornflakes competition.
Related article: Kelloggs 'Revenge of the Sith' Promotions.

Matt G
(with thanks to Buzz Bumble
and John Polidore)