I spaced on today being St. Patrick’s day, so good thing I’m sitting at home while wearing almost all red (no red hats for sure though….) So happy coincidence or dare I say lucky that I have a post full of lucky charms items for you today. Either that or I failed to read any of the text on Weird Paul’s post today. Regardless, I ended up down a rabbit hole again. Here’s some wholesome, sugar blasted goodness from Lucky Charms cereal, and a couple of other St. Patrick’s themed leprechaun bonus items as well.
First up is a boatload of bad pictures of a Lucky Charms cereal toy that likely dates to the late 70’s although one old auction claimed 80’s, but they were in the minority. Apparently Lucky the Leprechaun is better at avoiding having a decent photo taken of him than he is at keeping his cereal out of the hands of marauding children. Yes, I did have to look up his name. It took a while to realize there were 3 separate poses as well as 3 colors. Lucky Charms was my jam in grade school, followed closely by Freakies.
One auction described this toy as a “walker” which made me think of those little figures that wobble down an incline. This clearly isn’t one of those, but one auction did picture a bit of string with one end tied to the nose of the skateboard and the other to the leftover square piece that says “magically delicious.” This may be the intended use because both pieces have a hole punched in them.
I’m not sure why Lucky’s foot is attaching the square piece to the skateboard. Maybe the seller couldn’t figure out why the holes were for. This seems less likely to be the desired configuration than the string does.
One last group of a few still on the sprue.
And hey wouldn’t you know it? Googling “Lucky Charms cereal skateboard” turned up a video uploaded circa 2012 by the legendary skate / surf historian and friend of the site Scott Starr. Here’s the relevant stills from the 1978 Lucky Charms commercial in case the video somehow disappears. Video is posted at the end.
All hail Scott Starr R.I.P.
Another thing that turned up was this “Un-Lucky Charms” deck by a YouTube user named North West Decks, who makes his own one-offs. I don’t know why he went through all the work to put the art on the on the top of the deck and not the bottom. Maybe he explains it in the video.
And what else? This Cereal Hot Tub Party deck from Strangelove, part of a 420 themed Easter series released in 2005, featuring artwork by Todd Bratrud.
Once you’re done watching the 1978 TV commercial, you can check out one of the two other Leprechaun-themed posts in the can already. Oh, they’re coming! I’ll make a skateboard and glide away.
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