Circus Fun
From: General Mills
Introduced in 1986


This cereal was described on the box as a "crispy, sweetened, fruit-flavored cereal with animal shaped marshmallows". The initial cereal pieces were horses, hoops, balls, bears, elephants and lions. Orange tiger marshmallows were later added.

Another box gave this description: "A fun fruit flavored way to start the day! Breakfast is a circus... An exciting parade of colorful marshmallow circus animals, yellow lions, purple horses, blue bears, green elephants... crunch, speckled balls that almost bounce on milk... and red, crunchy hoops."

Company Description: Officially created in 1928, General Mills traces it's history back to the 1860's and the ownership of two flour mills. Since then, the company has become the world's 6th largest food company - marketing to over 100 countries... Read on and see all cereals from General Mills


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Circus Fun Watch Box
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Circus Fun Watch Box

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Uploaded: 11/4/2010

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Circus Fun With Starburst
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Circus Fun With Starburst

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Uploaded: 11/1/2010

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Circus Fun Cereal Box
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Circus Fun Cereal Box

Submitter: jeffrey
Uploaded: 10/10/2010

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Early Circus Fun Cereal Box
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Early Circus Fun Cereal Box

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Uploaded: 10/10/2010

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1986 Circus Fun Cereal Box
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1986 Circus Fun Cereal Box

Submitter: Mr Breakfast
Uploaded: 10/7/2008

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1987 Circus Fun Cereal Box
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1987 Circus Fun Cereal Box

Submitter: Heather_S
Uploaded: 8/17/2008

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Circus Fun Box
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Circus Fun Box

Submitter: leprican_katie
Uploaded: 7/17/2008

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Comments About This Cereal
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Overall Average Rating = 5 (out of 5)

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By ScubaSteve

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

My Daughter and I always ate this cereal. She loved it. Too bad it is no more.

Comment submitted: 5/6/2020 (#25136)



By nightwing

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

Circus Fun Cereal. There are horses, hoops, bears, balls, elephants and lions. It sure was circus fun for breakfast. The marshmallows were my favorite.

Comment submitted: 4/26/2019 (#24119)



By Georgemilkman

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

Best cereal ever. Like Froot Loops mixed with Trix and Lucky Charms marshmallows, but better somehow. Maybe it was the theme. Yeah it was the theme. I love cereals with clown mascots, and this is much better than Kaboom.

Comment submitted: 9/22/2018 (#23510)



By The Ritty

I don't know if I ever even had this lol. But that commercial was ALWAYS on and it was a weird one.

Comment submitted: 1/2/2017 (#21185)



By oldschooljules

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

Best cereal ever! I wish GM would release this again, or just make another cereal that tasted EXACTLY the same!

Comment submitted: 12/3/2016 (#21096)



By Kevin

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

This cereal was AWFUL. For all the hype about it having so many marshmallows, you'd think you'd be getting something really tasty, right? WRONG. The marshmallows were always stale with no taste and the cereal pops had an odd and unappealing flavor. Not surprised this cereal was quickly yanked from the shelves.

Comment submitted: 7/26/2016 (#20618)



By Ann Lions

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

Man, this had the best cereal jingle ever: horses, hoops, balls, bears, elephants... (wait for it...) and lions (weird lion voice)... The Best!

Comment submitted: 7/24/2015 (#19248)



By pupseal

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

This and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cereal were my two favorite cereals ever. I was very upset when this went away so fast The chemists in their lab kitchen had actually made something that was not just a cheap copy of other stuff with these two. The generic clown and poor commercials helped it die quick I think.

Comment submitted: 4/19/2015 (#18920)



Official Member: Team BreakfastBy spami (Team Breakfast Member)

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

I totally forgot about this one... mmm it was good.

Comment submitted: 3/9/2015 (#18702)



By tony6

Cereal Rating (out of 5):

We need to bring this back with a petition. General Mills just brought back French Toast Crunch. So it might work.

Comment submitted: 12/7/2014 (#18125)



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