So Cap'n Crunch (the Character) is being retired

[thiosk]

This rumor only started after the Cap'n declared he was full of tony the tiger blood and trix rabbit DNA.

LEAVE CAP'N ALONE! *sob*

 

[Paksenarrion]

I foresee an era of Speak-Easy's where cereal is served discreetly at inflated prices. Also, I'm not that worried about the Cap't. If he's anything like Kirk, he'll just go back in time, save a pair of whales, siphon nuclear energy from his ship's namesake, then go back to the future to prevent his parents from fading away.

It's not actually going away. [http://adage.com/article/news/cap-n-crunch-breathes-easier-talk-demise-untrue/149318/]

It looks like they're going to try and re-brand it so that they don't advertise it to children, but to potheads and man children. Totally not a publicity stunt though.

Real men eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

So...kind of like with cigarettes?

I can't wait to see those ingenious commercials where they pile hundreds of pretend bloated carcasses in front of the Quaker Oats corporate office to prove a point about how cereal kills.

 

[game-lover]

You mean he isn't gone already?

I mean, I can't remember the last time I've seen a Cap'n Crunch commercial. Nowadays, the only ads I've seen are Pebbles cereal (fruity, coco and new cupcake), Trix, Cookie Crisp, Frosted Mini Wheats, Corn Pops and occasionally Lucky Charms, Reese's Puffs and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Either way, it is rather unfortunate.

Why can't they do like General Mills is doing and put whole grain in their cereal? Changes nothing on the outside and so still appealing. Mascots remain the same and everything.

 

[Madara XIII]

He'll *sniff*

He'll always be my cap'n.

*Salutes*

We all have to be brave and go into this world without the Capn's Crunch.....It's going to be a hard journey

NO! I refuse to live in a world where a captain of crunch and all he stands for is taken and made to suffer for a humanity that so despises him!

HE WAS APART OF MY BALANCED BREAKFAST GODAMMIT!

GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!!! He was a part of all our breakfastes!

No longer shall we enjoy the delicious peanut butter! No longer will we get to savor the sweet crunch berries. NO LONGER WILL WE EVER CRUNCH at our breakfast tables!!!

But I know one thing that still crunches. The hearts of millions whom the Cap'n touched through his cereal and by God he'd want us all to remain strong!!

*Hehehe mellow dramatic much?*

it brought a tear to my eye if that means anything

Dammit now you got me tearing up DX

 

[Mcface]

How do you change the character of the cereal, when the cereal it's self is named after the character?