dinosaur and mammals from henkel, ovomaltine and yoplait

Does anyone know of prehistoric animals from Henkel, Yoplait and Ovomaltine. There were free gifts in the 70s?

another one photo...

A great model

Henkel, - that is a large soap-manufacturer, isn`t it ?

I hope to see more of these

SUSANNE wrote:

A great model

Henkel, - that is a large soap-manufacturer, isn`t it ?

I hope to see more of these

Yes, and the characters were additions to the washing powder ...



Ovomaltine and Yoplait are also big factories...

They all marked with the name of the factory...

Hello - I'm a new member to this site and a long time collector. Although I have collected for over 50 years, there is always something new to learn and in no way an expert, but am happy to share whatever information I acquire with fellow collectors. As soon as I can learn how to post photos I'll contribute those as well. But for those of you interested in the Ovomaltine / Henkel / Yoplait series of Prehistoric Dinosaur and Mammal figures, the following is what I have to offer:
My copy of an original ad for the Ovomaltine (Swiss chocolate drink mix) was dated 1971 with text in French (from a French collector's reference book). What I have in my collection and know to exist are the following 15 figures:
DIPLODOCUS, MOSCHOPS, IGuANODON, TRICERATOPS, ENDOTHIODON, ALLOSAURUS, STEGOSAURUS, DIMETRODON, PROTOCERATOPS, DIPLOCAULUS, PLESIOSAURUS, BALUCHITHERIUM (actually a Woolly Rhinoceros), MAMMOTH (with peg inserted tusks), GLYPTODON, and MEGATHERIUM. I have been told a PTERICHTHYS (armored fish) exists but have never seen one or been able to confirm it exists.
I have seen most of these figures made by 3 companies: Ovomaltine and Henkel (a German laundry detergent) in dark forest green color, and Yoplait (French) in blaze orange. I hope this helps.

Hello, Junglejim

Nice to see you here, and thankyou for contributing

We have a help for inserting pictures here https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t2476-how-to-share-pics-on-sts-the-photobucket-solution , but it has to be re-vised, as Photobucket has changed their layout !!!

Welcome Jim, i am glad that you are here now

Welcome to our jungle Jim, I'm very happy to welcome you here

Welcome Junglejim!
Thanks for all information provided and I hope you enjoy here. Remember you can always send private messages to moderators anytime you have any doubt.
Here in Portugal it was also usual to see some small plastic figures as promotional gifts, I remember some known brands using that strategy.

Yoplait protoceratops




Henkel mammoth and iguanodon


Henkel and Yoplait mammoths for comparison, they were offered with tusks in grapes but now tusks are lost but one of my friends found recently one, with one tusk still chained up with its grape!..

(very soon!)

thank you Andreas! :)

Thanks Caracal for bringing bac and enriching this topic.

arrived yesrterday:






my 3 Henkel:



Mammoth, Glyptodont, Iguanodon

Nice to see that glyptodont premium a little after CollectA announcing their own version. I enjoy these creatures, they are armadillos or closely related. I still have my Schleich model.

Wonderful additions!

Congrats, these are great. I've been looking for the Pterichthys from this line for years!

Silly me CollectA is not releasing a glyptodon!

Roger wrote:

Nice to see that glyptodont premium a little after CollectA announcing their own version. I enjoy these creatures, they are armadillos or closely related. I still have my Schleich model.

.. which I like a lot! :)

Thank you, Bonnie and Halichoeres! :)

What a wonderful monster, that glyptodont

No plant eating for this guy, he must have been the super-villain of his family

Yes it looks realy thrightening! :)

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and with their friends:

Very rare stuff

Congratulations, premium figures were so fun. It was a joy to open these boxes of food and get a figure inside. I only remember it from a single product here with animals, there were other kind of figures like the Olympics of Cola Cao brand. I am not that old either.