same here, I was a "Quisp" guy, my brother loved "Quake" but I
preferred "Quangaroos" the most, I think they were Orange-y,
but they didn't last too long.
Yes, they were orange-flavored, the only cereal like that I ever saw and liked.
Does anyone remember the race Quisp and Simon the Quangaroo had to see which of their respective cereals was
really better? It was Quake's idea in the first place. Quisp rode a unicycle and Simon rode a soapbox scooter. They were racing cross-country from Long Island, NY to Lompoc, CA (yes, that
is a real place; the Jay Ward cartoons
always used the names of real places in them). There was only
one problem: because they started the race all by themselves so quickly, they forgot their maps and, as a result, ended up wandering aimlessly across the U.S. with both of them having
no idea whatsoever how to get to Lompoc and thus win the race.
As far as I know, Quisp was the one who won the race, but I'm still not sure, as I only saw the first three commercials of the storyline when I was a kid and I
still don't know how it actually ended. I
do know that, soon afterwards, Quangaroos went off the market.
An earlier Quangaroos commercial introduced Orangeania (I think that's how it was spelled) where, according to Quake, if you looked deep into a bowl of Quangaroos, you'd see it. It was a land where everything in it was colored orange and everyone talked in rhyme.