Quisp vs Quake Cereal 1969 New and Improved Quake

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Uploaded by on Oct 6, 2010

I like the classic Quake better. Here is a snippet of Quisp vs Quake history which makes brief mention of this from Wikipedia:
"Quisp and a similarly marketed cereal Quake were originally released in 1965 in the United States by The Quaker Oats Company and generally advertised together (during the same commercial) as products competing against each other. The very successful ads were cartoons created by Jay Ward of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame, and used some of the same voices, including Daws Butler as the voice of Quisp (an alien) and William Conrad as the voice of Quake (a miner).

The commercials often asked children to choose which cereal was better and would compete over taste or premiums. The competition reached its peak in 1972, when a series of commercials asked children to vote for which cereal should remain on the shelves. Quake had a makeover in 1969, changing his miner hat for a cowboy hat, but that was not enough. Quisp was the winner and Quake was immediately discontinued. Quake as a cereal was gone, but the character Quake soon reappeared as a sidekick of an orange kangaroo named Simon in an orange-flavored cereal called Quangaroos. In 1976, Quaker Oats ran another contest, this time asking children to choose between Quisp and Quangaroos. Quisp won again and Quangaroos was discontinued."

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  • Quake had buff arms before the transformation and skinny arms after. That's an improvement?

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