I have been buying all my daughters friends a box of Quisp to try. Since they stopped making Freakies, this cereal was bumped up on list to #2. This seems to be a favored cereal for a good reason. Tastes like a buttery version of Cap'n Crunch. Our ShopRite sells it and I decided to check it out. I remember having Quangaroos back in the day, but I don't ever recall eating Quisp. Will have to mark it on my calendar next year. Happy belated National Cereal Day (March 7). I would recommend the Red White and Blue Crunch Berries. Glad to see Quaker cross promoting Quisp.
Great to see Quisp on the back of the Red, White and Blue Crunch Berries Captain Crunch box. Enjoy a bowl or two of your favorite cereal. Other known premiums in original Quisp cereal included a 2-in-1 fun bowl, a Quisp bank, cloth dolls, mini-comics, a circus acrobat toy, a tiny flying saucer, a foam frisbee, various rings, a Quazy Moon Mobile and assorted pins and iron-ons.Ĭlick here to see all cereals from Quaker. A 1968 Quisp Space Quaft Cereal Box sold for $600 and a Quisp Red Smoke Gun premium sold for $310. Recently, a 1969 Quisp Beanie cereal premium sold for $1,025 in an internet auction. Since its demise and rebirth as an "internet cereal", Quisp memorabilia has become a particularly hot commodity among cereal collectors. It is available today, but almost exclusively via orders on the internet. It was re-introduced in the mid-80's for a short time. Quisp cereal began disappearing from grocery stores in the late 1970's. Quisp easily defeated it's new challenger in both cartoon races and sales. Like it's predecessor, Quangaroos was pitted against Quisp in ads. The Quake character reemerged for a short time playing second banana to Simon the Quangaroo in ads for Quake's Orange Quangaroos cereal. Quisp won by a wide margin and, true to their word, Quaker discontinued Quake cereal. The loser would be banished from grocery store shelves. Quaker ran print ads and television commercials asking consumers to vote on their favorite cereal/character. But in the earlier 1970's, the stakes were raised. Earlier ads, in which the cereals were promoted together, often challenged kids to choose which cereal was better.
In 1972, the final battle between Quisp and Quake began. The usual commercial scenario had the two characters competing against each other for screen time and bickering over which cereal was best or provided the best premium.Īt the height of the the cereals' popularity, Quisp and Quake took in 1.6% of the entire breakfast cereal market - almost equivalent to what Cap'n Crunch gets today. Quisp and Quake were almost always promoted together. Despite efforts to make the Quake character less daunting, kid's still overwhelming choose Quisp.
In 1969, the Quake character was made thinner and swapped his miner's helmet for an Australian cowboy hat. The mascot was a muscular, cape-wearing, miner's helmet-sporting momma's boy with a deep booming voice. Quake featured a charter named Quake who was also created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott. While the flavors of the two cereals were basically identical, Quisp was a far more popular cereal. Ads for the Quake referred to the cereal pieces as "wheelies". Introduced the same year, Quake was another crunchy cereal with pieces shaped like gears. The counterpart cereal to Quisp was Quake. In 1964, they gave them Quisp.įor more about Quisp the character, check out this profile from Topher's Castle. In 1963, Ward and Scott delivered Cap'n Crunch. Jay Ward and Bill Scott, the creators of Rocky & Bullwinkle were asked by Quaker to create characters which cereal brands could be built upon. the cereal or the mascot? In the case of Quisp, the mascot came first. He was most often drawn wearing a green space suit with a large capital "Q" emblazoned on the front. Quisp the character is a pink alien with a propeller protruding from the top of his head. Quisp has become iconic in the cereal world thanks to its namesake mascot. The cereal tasted remarkably similar to another Quaker cereal, Cap'n Crunch. for QUAZY energy." The "crunchy corn cereal" pieces were often called "saucer-shaped" but more realistically resembled flattened or deflated round cereal pieces such as Kix. Initial boxes of Quisp referred to the cereal as "the vitamin powered sugary cereal. Quisp and its partner cereal Quake were introduced by Quaker Oats in 1965. In 2008, the cereal was sold in limited quantities at Dollar General stores in select areas. In the mid-90's, the cereal emerged yet again as the first "internet cereal" - available for online purchase only. It reappeared briefly in the mid-80's and disappeared once more. After a popular run, the cereal was removed from shelves in the mid-70's.
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