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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Pez-travaganza



Purely by accident, I found an extensive assortment of obscure Pez dispensers at MonsterCellar.com including one of the Great Garloo, pictured above.

I was too young to remember the Great Garloo in person, but I do remember some of the other toys designed by Marvin Glass, including Ants in the Pants, Dynamite Shack, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Hands Down, Haunted House, Lite Brite, Odd Ogg, Operation, Mouse Trap, Time Bomb, Tip-It, and Toss Across, among others.

The Great Garloo remote controlled robot toy video, a real hoot just for the 1961 pop culture blast from the past, is available HERE via BoingBoing.

The marketing firms were working on kids even way back then. Some things never change.
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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2008 10:07 AM

    pez dispensers rule.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2008 10:08 AM

    even ugly robot ones :-)

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  3. Jamie DawnJanuary 31, 2008 11:26 AM

    I like the Jetson's Rosie and King Tut ones.
    PEZ candies are goooood!

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  4. UnknownJanuary 31, 2008 11:54 AM

    looks a little strange to me. I haven't even seen a pez in years. My kids are grown but they tried to collect them when they were kids. Usually they just ended up all over the floor, under the beds and every where but where they were supposed to be. Too bad some of them could be money in the bank.

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  5. cubeJanuary 31, 2008 12:09 PM

    j.d.: I used to love Pez candy as a kid, but I don't eat them anymore. I just love the idea of Pez now.

    jill: I sure wish I had kept my old ones. Some of them are worth some bucks.

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  6. cubeJanuary 31, 2008 12:10 PM

    pez: Yes, I did think of you when I ran across this.

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  7. BrookeFebruary 01, 2008 12:24 PM

    My hubby has a Batman Pez dispenser. The rest of us plebes in the family aren't allowed to touch it. :)

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  8. cubeFebruary 01, 2008 1:21 PM

    brooke: Heh heh. My kids just care about the candy.

    I have a bunch of superhero Pez dispensers somewhere - Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, The Hulk, Spidey and others.

    I'm still waiting for the Star Trek collection *sigh*

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  9. Kirk D.February 05, 2008 1:40 PM

    Whoa! Thanks for pointing me to this link. Great stuff there. I've always coveted Garloo (though he's before my time)

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  10. cubeFebruary 05, 2008 3:06 PM

    kirk: Glad to help. Thanks for dropping by.

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