The days of police badges and lightsaber spoons lurking in boxes are over. Kids now get QR codes. What happened?

There was once a time where cereals came with a variety of freebies -- all adding to the excitement of its sugary goodness.

For example, in 1993, Quaker had to recall over 8 million boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal that included a perilous plastic popping toy. The toy looked like a giant gumball cut in half with the middle ...