With THE LANDON at the Dairyville PEZ Gathering...

As we love PEZ gatherings and conventions,

we are happy to share with you another wonderful review, this time from

the Dairyville PEZ Gathering, written by PEZ PAL

THE LANDON

 

enjoy it :)

 

 

 

Pez Gatherings and Conventions are usually more about the people who collect dispensers than they are about the Pez.

Yes of course there is Pez buying new and selling and trading and chatter and news all about Pez but seeing old friends, meeting new ones and seeing someone who you talked to for years for the first time face to face is what gatherings are all about.

The Dairyville Pez Gathering hosted by the amazing Tina Gunsauls embodies everything I love about collecting. Here is my adventure!

My adventure starts at Wednesday afternoon in sunny Orlando, FL with a 6 hour flight to Ontario, CA (just outside Los Angeles). There I meet up with one of my favorite people in the world, Jessica Orozco.

Lots of hugs and no sleep later, it is Thursday and we are on the road.

I love an epic road trip and when you are with Jessica and her momma, Barbara, you know you it's going to be a blast.

We made it 4 or 5 hours into our road trip when a message from Brent Johnson sent us on a spontaneous side quest. We immediately changed course and headed to his house. As you expect, Brent had a warm welcome ready for us and showed us some of his toy collection, some fantastic poster art and of course his Pez collection.

Brend, Barbara, Jessica, & Landon

The town he lives in, Discovery Bay, is a hidden paradise in the middle of an otherwise desolate and dry part of California. 

He is surrounded by water and beautiful homes on the water.

A trip to the marina proved how beautiful his town is.

 

Moments later we were back on the road to Dairyville. We all got checked in to the hotel and lingered for a few minutes and then we were off to Tina's house!

When we arrived, we were greeted by Tina and learned that Pezamania stars, the Glihas and the Marlowes were already there as well as west coast favorites, the Alexanders. Moments later, I got to meet a Pez pal face to face for the first time! Isn't that exciting?! It was no other than Doron Gazit and his son, Ben all the way from Israel. 

 

 

We agreed we were hungry and went to dinner as a group at Tina's daughter's restaurant, Mill Creek. We had a delicious dinner of good ol fashioned home cooking prepared by Tina's lovely and talented daughter. After some good laughs and some good memory sharing, everyone went to bed to prepare for the weekend.

Friday starts as a sight seeing day for me and for most early arrivals. Some people chose to go hiking, others visited local parks and checked out the local history, while I got to visit an antique mall and a local brewery. Off to Tina's by 2pm to hang out with many new arrivals and by 6pm we were being fed yet again. At this point; you are introduced to the culinary talents of David, who is Tina's husband. This man does it all and is a master of the grill.

(Tina, if you're reading this, can I have the macaroni salad recipe?!)

It may be an unusual thing to include in a Pez report

but those tomatoes were to die for!

David Gunsauls slicing locally grown tomatoes

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 Dairyville is teaming with local produce!

We got our bellies full and shared even more stories with one another and before you knew it, it was time for bed. Well kinda... The stars are in full view in Dairyville and with the Perseid meteor shower, it was a great night to star gaze. Although there weren't many shooting stars that night, we had a relaxing night under the stars in Dairyville.

Saturday! The main event! 10am and Tina's house is in full on Pez collecting mode! Tina's collection is on display and features some beautiful pieces! Her store was open for shopping and you could pretty much pick up anything you needed from her! Several people had set up tables to sell their candy treasures.

 

 I even made a few amazing purchases myself! The attendee pack is awesome and it blows my mind at the generosity of our host!

 

 

Dinner bell rings and it's time to eat again! This time, Chef David has prepared steak and chicken.

Have I mentioned that David is a grill master?! More mingling with more Pez collectors. So many people I haven't seen in years and many I was meeting for the first time. All of them are now my friends for life.

Game time!

Bingo is the name-o!

So many happy winners and it was fun to watch how excited people are to win. From yells of excitement to happy dances, everyone was ecstatic! Then 2 amazing raffles and one lucky person walked away with a covered grandstand from Showtime Displays and another walked away with the super awesome Pez Palz blog dispenser!

 

And before you know it, people started to say good bye and hugs were given.

One more meal with about 50 or 60 of my closest friends to end the evening at Mill Creek and the final wave of goodbyes hit.

 

Tina's generosity is beyond kind and I feel honored to have been invited to her home to share in a part of her life.

The friends, both new and old, are all appreciated and I loved seeing you all and swapping stories with you. With more than 100 people in attendance, this gathering maintained the feel of a small get together with friends who are just happy to sit and talk with each other about the one thing that we all love.

 

Landon & Tina

Thank you Landon for your great report, and all the pictures

Kelle's emotions few days before the 1st UK PEZ gathering...

Kelle's date for the
1st UK PEZ Gathering
is almost here. 

We are happy to share again Kelle's emotions just few
days before the gathering is happening.

Kelle is allways super talented and creative, she did a WONDERFUL work with all the preparation and promotions on her first gathering.
 

Thank you Kelle for beeing a great
PEZ PAL, you will ROCK IT!
Enjoy every minute of your gathering, the day will be gone super fast! <3


Kelle's story
chapter 1 can be found here
chapter 2 can be found here

here we go with chapter 3 

 

It's 2.40am,
and whilst I'm sitting here, waiting for some paint to dry, it's dawned on me; this time next week, it'll all be over!

For months now,

I've been working non stop trying to sort things for the

1st UK PEZ Gathering

and with less than a week left, it feels like I still have

the same amount of work left to do again!!

You know what it's like though, everything will come together all of a sudden.

I've been working on lots of very cool things for the gathering. I really want to show you all now, but I'm going to keep them as a surprise for the day.

As you may have seen though, I have unveiled one of my surprises today - my very own PEZ girls! I had a lot of fun making the outfits for them and really enjoyed taking some photos this morning to help promote the event.

 

Kelle`s own PEZ girls

Talking of promotion, I've plastered the "fine" city of Norwich with posters and flyers and on Tuesday I'm heading into the BBC radio station to do an interview!

posters at the city of Norwich

 

 Promotion is key, or else I'll be hosting a gathering to me, myself and I. Where's the fun in that?!

When taking on the challenge of hosting an event like this, I don't think I quite realised what a mammoth task it would be to undergo all by myself. From the main things like sorting the PEZ to booking the venue right down to the silly things which I didn't really take into consideration like van hire and insurance, there is not one minute of the day

I'm not thinking of ways to make this gathering great.

HELLO BEAR will play @ the after party

You can't move in my house due to boxes, my bank balance is looking rather unhealthy and my eyes have bags under them, but I'm happy and super excited for next Saturday.

Looking forward to seeing some of you there!

 

for more Info please visit the UK PEZ gathering FACEBOOK page

Stay tuned on our blog, we will report more from and about the

first UK PEZ GATHERING

Elmeri makes PEZ Headlines...

Our Friend Elmeri from Finland made it to an Interview in a Finish magazine Meidän perhe (our family)

Elmeri spoke about his beginning of PEZ Collecting back in 2001,

when he was 2 years old.

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On vacation with his family in Greece he got his first PEZ dispenser.
It was Pikachu from the Pokemon assortment, which he still owns. 

"Pikachu" Elmeri's first PEZ dispenser

He told also about dispenser prices in the shops
to PEZ Collectors

and about PEZ Conventions.

Elmeri was also one of our DISCO INFERNO Contest winner,

what he mentioned in his story too <3

It's allways great to see our friends in the news and promoting our hobby,

 for maybe a future collector :)

Elmeri with a part of his 1500-1600 PEZ dispenser Collection

2nd Indonesian PEZ Gathering...the gathering dispenser...

       

The gathering dispenser for the 

2nd Indonesian PEZ gathering 

in Jakarta has been unveiled.

5 different neon Bubbleman PEZ dispenser with printed stem

 packed in an AMAZING custom box.

 

 

 Every box has a numbered hologram sticker on it, and only 120 pcs. are made.

 

limited to 120 pcs.

Jan, Gita, and Aina and their helpers did again a wonderful job on the custom gathering dispenser, it's super great to have so creative pez friends <3

 




2nd Indonesian PEZ Gathering
for more Info, please visit the PEZ Indonesian gathering facebook page
PEZ Gathering Indonesia Facebook page

With Val Miller @PEZMANIA 26....

Every year I would like to be a part of PEZMANIA as every PEZ Collector else.

Unfortunality again I was not able but we are so grateful for the opportunity to share with you Valerie Miller's report from the 26th annual PEZMANIA Convention.

Here we go... 

Wednesday  -  Finally the day I leave for PEZamania is here. I'm up at 4 a.m. to head to the airport .  It was a long travel day, especially since Ohio is 3 hours ahead of Phoenix . By 6 p.m. I've landed collected my luggage and the shuttle get me to the hotel in time to see the start of the Pony Races. This is the first of many games played at PEZamania .

 

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Since I just got there I was eager to get my registration package so I didn't stay for the game but headed to the registration room . I keep running into so many people I know from other conventions and the other 3 times I've been to Cleveland the rest of the evening just flew by.

Thursday - I got out and did some room hopping. Some of the people I ran into were :

Eddie " PEZ Hunter" Santiago , who did the logo for the convention 

Eddie PEZ Hunter S

David Welch - iconic PEZ dealer and author of " Collecting PEZ "

John LaSpina -  another icon of our hobby and Author of " The PEZ Price Guide"

Chris Jordan - owner of PEZ Collectors Store and inventor of the best PEZ shoes ever made

Ruth and Tom,  Brian , Jeff, Robert , Phyllis, Jessica, Juan , Karen and Ivan , all long time PEZ friends.

Suddenly it's 7 pm and time for PEZ trading . Grabbed a few things and headed down. I like to have some 3.9 thin foot and some harder to find but inexpensive PEZ to trade with the kids. I like to think of them having so much fun they turn into serious collectors when they get older. I made some fun trades.



Dora Dwyer & Valerie Miller

After the trading I caught up with my friend of 19 years Megan Northrup and did some room hopping together. We chatted with Landon Proctor who created People of PEZ Collecting Trading Cards . 

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They were a big hit . Quite a few of the people on the first series were at PEZamania so there were a lot of people autographing their cards . Then we went to Shigeki's ( from Japan)  room and I got a couple sets of Bandai minis. It's been years since these were discontinued and are getting quite hard to find. Now I have 41 out of a total of 49 sets. So another day of PEZ fun came to an end .

Friday - Today is the day I am going to add 3 pieces to my collection I have been wanting for years and years. This year I decided to preview the available PEZ on Thursday and them think it over and get a couple of my dream PEZ . First I got a peach beak Cockatoo from John LaSpina and then I got the beautiful cobalt blue candy dish from David Welch.

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It's my understand this dish was a Christmas present from PEZ USA to their customers in the 70s or 80s.

At PEZamania Friday night is when the main game is played ( this year similar to Bingo) plus there are silent and live charity auction in addition to all the raffle winners . One of the live auctions was a MOC PEZ Palz blog dispenser in the amazing custom box . It was won for $220.

After all these events there was more room hopping and catching up with more people. There are so many activities and people there it is impossible to do everything and see everyone, but it is sure fun trying.

Saturday- Is the day of the public show. I had a table so was set up at 8:30 a.m. in time for the registered attendees to get the first look. At 9 a.m. the walk-ins joined the ones already in. As usual more visiting with people I hadn't already seen and lots of PEZ talk.. after the show there was another auction for charity then those of us staying the night went off to dinner. About 9 p.m. there carnival games in ballroom and many people gathered in the lobby getting a few more hours of visiting and PEZ talk.  All to soon it's time to go to pack and sleep .

Sunday - It was an all day travel day to get home and go back to the real world. I'm looking forward to the next PEZ convention.
                                             Valerie Miller

At the end, we like to thank Val for her great report <3. and for sure Krissy and me would like to send a  thank you from here to Rick and Sue M. for all the hard work on the convention, all the amazing things they have done for the Gliding Stars, and to bring the PEZ family together. 

Rick and Sue M.

2nd Indonesian PEZ Gathering...

Our dear PEZ friends Gita, Aina and Jan are only few day's away from their

2nd Indonesian PEZ Gathering in Jakarta.

August 7th 2016 Jakarta

Last year they surprised us with an amazing work on their limited Edition

Indonesian PAL Gathering Boy,
all the great artwork on the stickers, bags, t-shirts.
We are super duuuper excited to see what they will have this year for us. :)

update:,

sorry to report,
the absentee packages are mostly gone, for more information please 
check the PEZ Gathering Indonesia Facebook page

Official Pezamania Pez 2016

Pezamania starts today, and if you are there we hope you have a great time!!

We have been waiting all year to see what the official Pez made for Pezamania would be and now we see that is is very close to the NE Pez gathering that was held earlier this year. 

A color difference for the stem along with a difference in the spacing in type for "Hungary" has been reported by the Captain Krunch & The Cereal Killers Radio Show. 

USA Conventions 2016

Worldwide Gatherings 2016

Holiday Time 2016

Hi Friends, 

It's that time of year to take a break from everyday life.

We will be back in about 2 weeks.

Enjoy your summer!!!

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!!