C-3PO's
C-3PO's was a brown, rectangular cereal featuring the likeness of the protocol droid C-3PO on the packaging box.[2] It was named by the droid himself.[3]
History
In 15 BBY,[1] the Sith Lord Darth Vader used the Force to levitate and serve his son, Luke Skywalker, a bowl of the cereal after Skywalker expressed a dislike to the scrambled eggs with bacon Vader had prepared. The two Humans had the meal in Skywalker's home in the Lars homestead[2] on the planet Tatooine.[4]
C-3PO and R2-D2 sometimes traveled with boxes of the cereal. Once while under heavy fire on a desert plain, the droids fled into a cave where they shared the cereal with a friendly alien.[3] The droids were later lost in a rocky region and encountered a rock-like alien who fired a blaster at the droids. The alien then asked for food in a language the protocol droid understood. Threepio gave the alien a bowl of C-3PO's cereal, which the alien liked and then demanded more of. Several others of his species then approached the droids looking for cereal as well, alarming C-3PO.[5]
Behind the scenes
C-3PO's appeared in the 2013 children's book Darth Vader and Son, published by Chronicle Books. The book was both written and illustrated by Jeffrey Brown.[2] The cereal is an in-universe version of a real-world cereal that Kellogg's produced in the 1984 alongside a series of live action commercials.[3]
Kellogg's C-3PO's
- "A new force at breakfast."
- ―C-3PO's commercial
Kellogg's released C-3PO's, a "crunchy honey-sweetened oat, wheat & corn" breakfast cereal, in 1984. The "double-O" shaped cereal was sold in a box with C-3PO on the front. Several of the box backs had cut-out character masks, including C-3PO, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Yoda, and a stormtrooper. Another box included Rebel Rocket toys inside, and another included two sticker/trading cards from a ten-card set.[6]
The cereal was advertised with various commercials featuring C-3PO (played by Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 getting into trouble while traveling with boxes of the cereal.[3][5]
Appearances
- Darth Vader and Son
- Kellogg's C-3PO's cereal commercial 1 (First appearance)
- Kellogg's C-3PO's cereal commercial 2
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Darth Vader and Son notes Luke Skywalker's age as four years old. The New Essential Chronology places Luke's birth as 19 BBY, thus placing the events of Darth Vader and Son in 15 BBY.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Darth Vader and Son
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kellogg's C-3PO's cereal commercial 1
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kellogg's C-3PO's cereal commercial 2
- ↑ C-3PO: Tales of the Golden Droid
External links
- 'Star Wars': Remember When C-3PO Had His Own Cereal? (2017-05-22). Yahoo! Entertainment (archived from the original on June 6, 2022)
- C-3PO's. MrBreakfast.com (archived from the original on June 7, 2022)