Following the big success of their
puzzle series, the bubble gum brand Big Fun came up with a great idea in 1987 as India hosted the Cricket world Cup. Their campaign with pictures of cricketers inside the wrapper with runs and wickets to collect became an instant hit with school kids. I was probably in my 7th or 8th standard and like most of my classmates was mad about the wrappers. The bubble gum was just hard and awfully sugary but we didn't care. It was the Cricketers who mattered. 100 runs and 10 wickets got us a Dairy. 300 runs and 30 wickets could get other collectibles like Cricket poster, Cricket mini bat, etc.
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| My Bigfun Diary |
I have still got my bigfun diary , a very nostalgic possession! The diary had very interesting titbits on Olympics and Cricket.
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| The Indian cricket team |
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This is great! So glad you have these. Such wonderful happy memories💕
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to have so many mementos of your chldhood! Valerie
ReplyDeleteThese are great for memory keeping
ReplyDeleteWonderful memories there. What a great idea for the wrappers to have the cricket identities there.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful that you kept it!!
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Donna
It's truly wonderful to see how you've carefully preserved those hard-earned Big Fun goodies. I can only imagine the nostalgic journey it must have taken you on, considering the amount of chewing involved in collecting them.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas ~ so creative and a saver for sure ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Such fun - and a wonderful memory trap.
ReplyDeleteAmazing - such memories.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
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It brings back childhood memories that series of prints here of footballers and that we collected with great enthusiasm, we also had a newspaper called TBO of comics and very funny.
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