Hello Woodsy,
Since you are posting at a prodigious rate I'll send some 'silly' items I'm coming across now that I have time to go through all those cartons in our garage.
In the same box as some Japanese sweets in a round tin from the 70's was this item from the 90's.
The 'pop' had gone sticky and I had to clean his cape but here's the Animated Batman in the form of a motorised gobstopper turner.
I don't know how lazy kids were in the 90's that they couldn't rotate the stick but obviously one manufacturer catered for them.
Regards,
Terranova47
USA
Most interesting. This type of motorised lolly is still available, mainly featuring various film, TV, cartoon, and comic book characters. There must be people out there with vast collections.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think confectionary could be a collectable area Paul. In the UK sweet cigarette cards and tea cards were massive in the Sixties when I was a kid. I later discovered that Pez is hugely popular with American collectors and entire books are devoted to Pez.
DeleteNZ did not have tea cards (there were coupons that could be saved, and sent in for a small refund). Greggs jelly packets contained bird cards - NZ Land Birds, Seabirds, Birds of the World. Various breakfast cereals had cards or plastic toys, and some had cut-outs on the packets. I do remember that one brand of toothpaste had UFO stickers in the 1970s, but that was very unusual. Much later, MacDonald's and other fast food chains, introduced toys with their children's meals. Sometimes there were separate toy lines for boys and girls. Generally, NZ never had the huge range of give-aways with various products or mail-aways that existed in Britain and America. I guess the NZ market was just too small. A pity, many of the toys you grew up with look amazing. I do have a small book on PEZ somewhere. Now there is Kinder Surprise and similar products, although I have not bought any for ages.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the monster heads are in your PEZ book like the creature from the black lagoon Paul?
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