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After viewing all those cereal box pictures in that little slideshow, the common thread is evident. They are either big name animated films or successful popular movies with big budgets and box office performances... but now imagine if Pulp Fiction, Anchorman, A Clockwork Orange, or Goodfellas had their own cereals, that would be oddly cool... but the problem there is human movie characters don't sell cereals, which is why all the cereal mascots are animals or people covered entirely in costumes.

In a nutshell, cereals based on movies are mocks of real original cereals that are shaped like something in the movie, set to cause hyperactivity in kids... that's all the difference is besides the neat box cover.

For the Top 50 Cereals list, I excluded the movie cereals and most minor variations of cereals, even likable ones like Strawberry Delights Mini-Wheats, Chocolate Chex, and Frosted Cheerios and left it to the big name cereals of regular and common versions that are available on the market. As I checked out the most popular cereals during the long work in progress of composing this list of 50, I noticed the majority if not all have cut out promotional toys inside the cereal bags or proof-of-purchase forms to send in a couple UPCs from the bottom box label for a free toy, with shipping and handling, through the mail.

Personally, my favorite cereal was Peanut Butter Toast Crunch, an alternative form of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but it's been discontinued… so R.I.P. with Berry Burst Cheerios, Waffle Crisp, Fruit Brute, S'mores Grahams, and Ice Cream Cones cereal. After finding that out over a year prior to completion of this list, I began creating a list of top cereals and asking others their favorites so this list won't be biased and will satisfy all. During this phase, every cereal in a big box form was purchased at countless number of times, minus the discontinued ones, limited editions, and generic store brands of course. They then were consumed with milk as it was a long work in progress.

I was working hard one night with seven different cereals in one long sitting.

It took over a half of a year to organize the list after aggregating a list of cold cereals. Evaluated by this connoisseur were flavor, nutritional value, texture, mixture, and color as factors, as well as other people's earlier likings from those who were asked. Cereals were re-purchased and tried again to reevaluate certain ones. I even began experimenting and mixing cereals together too. Sometimes I was eating 4-5 cereals at a time mixing the likes of Lucky Charms and Cheerios, Trix and Froot Loops, Chex and Crispix, and Count Chocula and Chocolate Lucky Charms for comparison studies.

My finished product of homemade Rice Krispie Treats with peanut butter.

Now onto the long awaited list...

TOP 50 AVAILABLE COLD BOXED BREAKFAST CEREALS

18 General Mills cereals (Lucky Charms, Honey Nut Cheerios, Golden Grahams, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Count Chocula, Cocoa Puffs, Reese's Puffs, Cheerios, Cookie Crisp, Trix, French Toast Crunch, Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp, Kix, Total, Berry Berry Kix, Boo Berry, Rice Chex, Franken Berry)
18 Kellogg's cereals (Frosted Flakes, Apple Jacks, Special K, Mini Swirlz Cinnamon Bun, Froot Loops, Corn Pops, Rice Krispies Treats, Smacks, Frosted Mini-Wheats, Smart Start, Mini Swirlz Peanut Butter, Smorz, Cocoa Krispies, Eggo Cereal - Cinnamon Toast, Raisin Bran, Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, Crispix)
8 Post cereals (Fruity Pebbles, Honey Bunches of Oats, Golden Crisp, Cocoa Pebbles, Banana Nut Crunch, Blueberry Morning, Alpha-Bits, Honeycomb)
6 Quaker Oats cereals (Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch, Cap'n Crunch, Cinnamon Life, Cap'n Crunch Crunchberries, Quisp, Life)