With Weronica on the first Norwegian PEZ gathering...

We are happy to share with you Weronica’s experiences from the first Norwegian PEZ gathering.

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Congrats to Kjersti, Thor and their family, as they did a wonderful job to bring PEZ collectors together on their gathering.

  
so here ere we go...

 



 

Wednesday night I'm so exited, have packed my bags with PEZ and some other stuff. Feeling ready for Norway! We went early to the bed, because we (my daughter Micaela and me) needed to get up very early in the morning to catch our plane.

 

Thursday...hello Norway
Of course we were on time and got our plane in Arlanda, but had to change in Oslo. At the airport in Haugesund Thor picked us up. At the hotel we met Kjersti, Ivan, Ron and the two youngest children of Kjersti and Thor, Tommy and Alice.

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After hugs and some talks we went all together out for a trip, with cars to an old copper mine in Visnes. Unfortunately it was closed but it was really nice to see and the the view around it. We found a small Statue of Liberty and we learned the true story about the big one in US. All copper used for the Statue of Liberty in US is actually coming from Norway.

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After the visit at the copper mine we stoped at a giant candy store and actually find some PEZ, yeah. Afterwards we visted a small town called Skudenshavn with some really old small houses. We walked around for a while and decided to have dinner at a restaurant. After the dinner we went back to the hotel and talked more about PEZ and some more PEZ.
 

 

Friday..ready for the Vikings..raining morning, after breakfast we all walked to a shopping centre near the hotel. After that Kjersti and Thor took us on a bus ride to a very old Viking area in Avalosnes. It stopped raining but it was very windy.
We had a guide who showed us a very old church, an authentic Viking area and a Viking museum. Lots of walk in great nature and it felt very special to walk at such an historical land.

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Then after the Viking tour we all went to Kjersti and Thor's place for a super dinner. They live at the most beautiful place ever, what a view from their house, wow, wow or as Ron said “ If I lived here I would sit on this armchair with a binoculars and just look at the nature all day long”. And of course we got a chance to take a look at their PEZ room. I got speechless I can only say wow, wow, wow. One of the best PEZ room I have ever seen. Really looking so lovely, lots of PEZ great displayed in showcases.

After that great dinner, really yummy dessert and a lot of nice PEZ talk, Thor took Ivan, Micaela and me to an even greater place, called Fjaera. Never seen anything like this. It was one of the coolest waterfalls we have ever seen and the nature around it was outstanding. We just stood there, our mouth opened, and just couldn’t find any words.

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Saturday...the PEZ gathering...woke up, had the breakfast with nice company by Ron and Ivan. Then we got to the room of the gathering and settled up our tables. I always enjoy it to see what nice PEZ stuff the others have. The goodie bag was also great; Kjersti and Thor did a great work with it. The day went really fast by, very busy selling, trading and buying.

After lunch there was a lot of games for both, children and adults with a lots of great prices. In the afternoon it was time for the highlight of the day, the Bingo! Tons of fun and super great prices. I was lucky to win twice and my daughter ones, yeah. The day ended with a super cake made by Kjersti and Thors daughter Mona (the Queen of cake), super good looking and very delicious too.

After the gathereing  all of us were very tired, but happy and feeling great and satisfied. We went for a nice dinner to a restaurant near by the hotel. Surprisingly it started to rain a whole lot but it also had a good thing because the restaurant gave us free rain ponchos.

Kjersti and Thor have been great hosts and they managed to arrange a very great gathering. This was the first one ever in Norway and I really hope they will continue to arrange more gatherings in the future.

Now we are back home again and counting the days till the Swedish PEZ gathering on the 24^th September, and hope to see many of you in Stockholm.

                                                    Adjö from Weronica J

Thank you Weronica for your great report

and the pictures <3 

PEZ International 2017 Line up...

PEZ SPOILER ALERT :D

if you don't want to see what is coming from PEZ International, 
for 2017

then please leave this post :D

 We are happy to share some news about the releases for next year, at this point no pictures available, but if we hear or see more, we will share them for sure with you.

  

Yes!! We will see more HELLO KITTY'S in 2017,

Krissy and I are BIG fans of the HK series
(since I started with the HK Tests) and so many other

HK fans from all over the world will be happy!
We can confirm the new Set will have some changes.

PAW PATROL

A Canadian animated TV series, it first aired on Nickelodeon.

A boy named Ryder leads a pack of dogs known as the "PAW Patrol." They work together on rescue missions to protect the city of Adventure Bay.

It will be great to see them next year as PEZ dispensers.

THE SMURFS are back!

After we got the new click´n play set two years ago, 

It´s now time to update the previous sets.

MORE EMOTICONS

We are so excited for more new emoticons, We would love to have enough emoticons to fill up a full shelf in our collections!

TWO NEW CHARACTERS will be added to the Nintendo set, 

we are so excited to see which one they will be, maybe some new character from the Japan mini Series? We can't wait to see them!! 

Despicable Me, We have Dave, Stuart and Agnes we are hoping for Gru, 

Please Pez make Gru!!

Be sure to check with us for the latest Pez news!!

GUINNESS WORLD RECORD: The largest PEZ dispenser sculpture...

PEZ enterers the 

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 

on June 30th 2016 for Worlds Largest Pez dispenser sculpture.

If today you're in Richmond, British Columbia (Canada) you need to head over to the Aberdeen Centre to check out the Pez sculpture of Big Ben, we got pictures from the Aberdeen Centre earlier this week. MILLION Of Pez Candies were used!!!

Thanks to Linda for the Pictures :)

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Picture from https://www.facebook.com/AberdeenCentreRichmond

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 Keep Calm and Love PEZ® 

Be PEZ®-merized! Look up to a massive 9ft tall sculpture of the London Eye and a 27ft wide Tower Bridge, both created using millions of colorful PEZ® candies! Check out the world’s largest PEZ® dispenser sculpture in the form of London’s Big Ben. On June 30, see Aberdeen Centre break the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ at 1pm!

Visit the Original Article HERE

FIRST LOOK: PEZ from NORWAY....

Kjersti and Thor are bussy these days, because of lots of prepairings to do for their

1st Norwegian PEZ Gathering

which will be held from 14th till 17th July

in Haugesund at the Scandic Maritim Hotel. 

 

we are sure lot of fun and a great PEZ time

is waiting for all the attendees of the gathering, and sure surprises to.

 

Maybe you remember, we reported last year about the printed 

pez of Norway puck (50 pcs) which was produced by Kjersti and Thor to promote and support this years gathering.

 

For more Info, please visit pezofnorway.com/

 

Now the time has come, and we are happy to share with you 

the first look of the Norway "Lovey" gathering dispenser.

 

 

With the Norway dispenser we have seen so far 13 different "loveys" from

Australia, Barcelona, FinnPEZ, French, Israel, Japan, Kleinmuenchen, Madrid, PezPalz, Portugal, Turkey-2 Stems 

 

 

and there are more to come:)

 

by the end of next month Kelle will suprise us with the UK lovey,

and Patrik from Sweden in Septmeber.

 

sadly another year have to go, to see the last lovey from Europe, 

its Uwe´s German PEZ Gathering 11th till 13th August 2017 in Hamm/Germany.

But that´s not all for now :D
we all know, PEZMANIA is coming soon, and we are super excited
to see the new PEZMANIA dispenser.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finding Dory PEZ Gift Box....

  Today we see completely surprising a new finding dory PEZ gift (Twin) set.

The new box (which include Nemo & Dory) can be found at Jungle Jim's.
(USA release only)

Thanks to Eddie PezHunter S for the pictures
 

Many of us think (since the overdose of the frozen gift sets) not again another gift set, but from the PEZ Candy Inc. business side, that is the best way to bring more PEZ to the customers, the gift boxes are fast and easily produced (the dispenser are made before) and they can now offer the single dispenser (from the dory assortment) the twin pack and the fish bowl with three dispensers in the shops.

The finding dory series, with the translucent stems are still our favorite from this year,and YES we want the gift pack also in our Collections :D

What about you??

Time to Win Winners!

BIG Congratulations to our Winners!!! 

Brian's Report from the Kleinmuenchen Gathering!

Brian's Report from the Kleinmuenchen Gathering!! 

Thanks for Letting us share it Brian!!

Hey guys, here is my Kleinmuenchen Gathering report. Sorry to my German-speaking friends, this time just in English :-)

What a trip! I had told Guenter a month ago that I was going to Germany for work in June, and that I was planning on coming to Linz for his gathering. I asked Guenter to keep it a secret, because I wanted to surprise everyone when I showed up unannounced and said "hey guys, how's it going!" He agreed, and the plan was set in motion... As it turns out, my work trip was cancelled about a week before I was supposed to leave, but I still went to Europe anyways... You can't keep a PEZHead away from the PEZ!!!

I arrived in Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday and spent my time there looking around the supermarkets for any new dispensers and candy. It was cool to see the new Euro Finding Dory, Angry Birds, and Batman/Superman on short cards in the stores. Aldi had the new round candy tablets that PEZ makes for the Aldi private label brand, so I scooped up some of those. The supermarket Rewe had the PEZ-branded round candies in the new cassis flavor as well. Jackpot! After walking around for a while it was time to catch up on my sleep and get rid of the jet lag. Had to be refreshed for my arrival the next day in Austria!

On Thursday morning I flew to Vienna and drove my rental car a few hours to Linz. Along the way I stopped at a few Spar and Hofer supermarkets. Hofer has carded refill packs, instead of the traditional long single row of packs on a blister card, they were double packed on a shorter card. I had never seen them before, so I had to pick some up! They had different flavors and card colors so i bought all the different ones I could find.

I got to the hotel at 2pm and checked in. What a nice hotel! I found Guenter right away, and headed to the courtyard cafe where the guests who had already arrived were enjoying a cold beer while the sun was beating down. As I walked in I was greeted by a lot of surprised smiles as they said "Brian!!! What are you doing here?" The surprise worked! After chatting for a bit Guenter asked me if I wanted to see the PEZ headquarters. I couldn't say yes fast enough! We drove over and I was instantly in awe. Seeing the PEZ logo on the building brought an instant smile to my face. We took some pictures outside, and headed into the lobby. Inside they have several cabinets with different dispensers on display. There's also a tall wall with many ads/paintings of PEZ girls and other marketing characters. So cool to see! There's also a giant silver glow in the lobby, definitely another photo op! After we got some pictures we thanked the nice lady at reception for allowing us inside, and headed back to the car.

The next stop was at Guenter's house to take a look at his collection. He has some unbelievable pieces! And a lot of paper / marketing items. A man after my own heart :-) After chatting with his lovely wife and discussing PEZ while relaxing outside on the balcony, it was time to head back to the hotel. Guenter, thank you for opening your home to me and showing me your collection, it was great!

The rest of the day was spent room hopping, drinking, eating delicious Austrian food (of course when in Austria you have to eat Wiener Schnitzel! And in case you never knew, Wiener actually means Viennese in German) and chatting with other fantastic collectors. There were many familiar faces (whom I had met last year at the Vienna VIP Gathering), and some new friendly faces as well. It was great to see Gerda Jahn there, the original PEZ girl herself. Always friendly and eager to talk to the collectors there. She's the greatest!

On Friday Guenter had arranged a factory tour for the entire group at the steel plant he worked at for many years. The first half was more historical / technical steel information inside their museum center. The second half was a tour inside the actual factories where the the steel was made. Who knew a PEZ trip could be so educational! It was very interesting to see.

After lunch (more schnitzel! I'll never say no) we headed back to the hotel and people had their rooms open for selling and trading. I brought with me a suitcase full of current US items that aren't available in Europe, both loose dispensers and various boxed sets, and all of it went very quickly. So glad I brought them! Although the cash didn't stay very long in my pockets, as it was my turn to do some major shopping. I found some old and new candy boxes, a few vintage regulars I didnt have, and some marketing/ paper items. And of course I love love love the Kleinmuenchen gathering dispenser, both the PEZ-made one and the set of 3 Guenter had made. Great job!

After dinner Silvia Biermayer invited me to her house to take a look at her collection. All I can say is wow.... I was able to see so many one of a kind things (dispensers, candy, paper items, displays, clothing... You name it, it was there!) which I'll probably never see again. Looking at her cabinets, I found the dispenser I was looking for... the original Admiral PEZ pal. Had to get a picture with it, and of course send a few teasing text messages to some friends telling them "guess what's coming home with me!!!" I hope most know I was joking (or am I?!?!?). Thank you Silvia for inviting me over, I really enjoyed going through your fantastic collection!

On Saturday morning a lot of us went to the Linz city center to go to the flea market. The center of Linz is absolutely beautiful and picturesque. Unfortunately no PEZ to be found at the "Flohmarkt" (hey I had a lot of competition!!!) but it was still a good time. After a few cold drinks at a cafe, we headed over to a wonderful Biergarten for a big group lunch. This time I tried the lamb goulash which was absolutely fantastic. Thanks Momo for the recommendation!

After lunch, Guenter had a cool excursion planned for us. The city of Traun (where PEZ is actually located) has a museum, and right now they have an exhibition on PEZ. What great timing! The curator there was very informative on the history of Traun, and knew quite a lot about PEZ. They had a working vintage vending machine that we got to try (and keep the candy), and had some items on display that I had never seen before. The giant Mickey dispenser rack was awesome! The curator had kept a binder of old newspaper clippings and PEZ photos over the years- that was really cool to look at!

After the museum it was time to head back to the hotel. A little more room hopping, drinking, eating, chatting... What PEZHeads do best. There was even a wedding party going on that evening at the hotel; it was neat to see some of their traditions and the differences between Austrian and American wedding receptions.

Sadly, it was time to say my goodbyes and go pack for my early 6am flight on Sunday morning. It was so great to see a lot of people there, and it warmed my heart that everyone asked about Porter and our wedding plans. They made me promise to bring him the next time we come. Done! The entire time I was greeted by the friendliest of people, some who knew me, some who did not, and no matter where i went, although I was the only American there, I always felt included and was continuously welcomed. Guenter, you did an amazing job my friend, and I can't wait until I'm able to come back.

Until next time, auf Wiedersehen, und vielen vielen Dank fuer die schoene Zeit!

-Brian "Youknowmyname" Jaskolski

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK...the fabulous Michigan PEZ Convention Dispenser...

 Are You Ready for Something Fabulous?

YES!!! Today is for sure a special day!! After we saw Silas's convention dispeners and now Jim Blaine's dispensers these custom Pez take convention Pez to a whole new level!!

Silas and Jim deserve full respect for their decision

to make something very special for all of us!
They both spent a lot of time and work

 to create their spectacular dispensers.
GUYS, WE LOVE YOU FOR YOUR CREATIVITY!!!

Before we share the very

FIRST LOOK

from the AMAZING Michigan PEZ Convention dispensers, we would like to

give you some facts about Jim, and his convention.

THE HOST: Jim Blaine
(Jim's personal website can be found here)

Jim has been a PEZ collector since 1999, currently, including his extras he has about 17,000 Pez dispensers total. (4000+ in his personal collection)

Dr. Skull PEZ Army which has exactly 1,331 Skulls!!! WOW!!!

Jim has been a Newsletter Superstar since January 2016, 
and he was voted for Facebook Pez Collector of the Month in February 2016. Jim is also founder of Dad2Mom.org where their mission is to bring low-cost clothing to families.

Jim says: PEZ has lead me to friends all over the world, to enjoy other cultures and other people. PEZ is a great way for people from all walks of life to come together. Not only to enjoy the art of collecting, but to learn from others, history, life lessons, and new things. 

The Convention:

The MI PEZ Convention will be held in Embassy Suites (Troy, Michigan)
850 Tower Dr Troy, MI 48098 from Thursday August 25th till Sunday August 28th,
4 days full of PEZ Action, from a Kids Pool Party, to a PEZ Swap & Candy Pack Trade Party, Games, Bean bag contest with 12 specially created custom boards to play on, Raffles and a chance to make your own Souvenir Michigan PEZ Convention Button. 
For more information please visit MIPEZCON.com OR
MICHIGAIN PEZ CONVENTION FACEBOOK GROUP

Fun Games for Everyone!!!

A new PEZPALZ CONTEST? YES stay tuned :) we are working with Jim on a nice contest!

The Convention Dispenser: These are so special! The center is magnetic and can be interchangeable with each other. The wonderful artworks/drawings came from Eddie Pez Hunter S.
 

The Colors:

Yellow

Convention dispenser 

this one comes in the attendee or absentee packet, unless you registered the first day, then you were upgraded 

Black & White

Early Registration dispenser
(anyone who registered the first day was upgraded from the yellow to this one) 

 

Green

Exclusive & Dealer Dispenser
(anyone who registers as a dealer for the
Michigan PEZ Convention will receive this dispenser)

Red

Charity Dispenser
(the proceeds of this dispenser goes to our charity
Camp Lake Louise, it is available for purchase at time of registration.) 

 

Blue 

Ultra Rare Dispenser
(There will be very few of these available & will be hard to obtain one) 

 

Rainbow or Multicolor 

Prize Dispenser
(These will be used as prize dispenser at the Michigan Pez Convention, and will
also be a challenge to get one if you do not attend the MI Pez convention)

 

The center is magnetic and can be interchangeable with each other.

The official PEZ Portugal 2016 Gathering Dispenser....

Here they are from Castelo Branco, PORTUGAL the 2016 gathering dispenser.

Today we are so happy to see the crystal yellow 

head lovey for the Pez Portugal gathering!!! 

 Our friend Luis who runs the PEZILLA is holding the gathering

 in Castelo Branco, Portugal June 18th & 19th. 

We have had many guesses on what color the stem would be 

(I guessed green) we are sure that everyone is having a

 great time at the event!!

The Ben Pakulski Pez is Real!!

Ben Pakulski 

is Creator of the Best Selling Mi40 Brand of Intelligent 
Muscle Building Programs according to his website

 http://www.benpakulski.com/ 

and looks like a guy you would not want to make mad! 

We saw these Pez pop up earlier in the year, and we immediately thought they had to be made by a 3D printer, but now we learn that they are official!!! 

These were made to help promote the new BCAA Chews. 

Collectors are starting to get these added to their collections and we now have close up pictures.

 

 

Photo: google images

Photos: google images

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