Twelve Days of Christmas: Uncovering Wonka’s 1991 Christmas Boxes!

CC_WonkaChristmasEarly90's_TITLE PLATEI’ve often pointed out that where candy packaging is concerned sometimes tracking down a specific piece can be much like archaeology. Oftentimes you start without any hard evidence that a piece existed at all. Sometimes that first evidence is a photo or the mention of the product on a list or ad. In some instances the path to discovery can take a good deal of time, a good deal of luck, or both.

Such was the case with the subject of today’s post; a pair of holiday-themed Willy Wonka candy boxes from the early 1990’s that I recently had the pleasure of uncovering.

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Twelve Days of Christmas: Hershey’s New Candy Cane Bar!

CC_Hershey's Candy Cane bar TITLE PLATEEvery year there are always new candy packages and products released for the Christmas holiday season.  One brand new item that I found particularly striking from the packaging standpoint was Hershey’s Candy Cane bar.

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Twelve Days of Christmas: Jelly Belly’s Disney Christmas Packs!

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Over the last couple of years Jelly Belly has made an entry into the checkout isle size packaged candy market with 1.2 oz jelly bean packs – including holiday releases.  I first took note of them with their 2013 Halloween edition Disney Villain packs.  For Christmas they’re continuing with a series of flavor assortments based on the Disney license – this time from a variety of properties.

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Twelve Days of Christmas: A Quartet of Christmas Tootsie Roll Two-Packs!

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It’s always great to find a new holiday edition package for a classic brand, and I’m pretty sure I’d never seen any kind of Christmas package for Tootsie Roll two-packs before this year.   So today I’m going to take a quick look at this neat quartet of Christmas-themed Tootsie Roll Two-Packs!

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Twelve Days of Christmas: A Decade of Christmas Hot Tamales & Mike and Ike!

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This year the Just Born company has introduced a pair of brand-new designs for their holiday editions of Mike and Ike and Hot Tamales.  They’re both fun designs so I thought it was the perfect opportunity to review a few of their Christmas holiday offerings from the last decade.

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Twelve Days of Christmas: Gingerbread for 2013!

CC_Gingerbread TITLE PLATE_BToday we’re kicking off our 2013 Twelve Days of Christmas series with a look at some new gingerbread-flavored candy.

Today’s post will showcase the great new limited edition releases of 2013 that all bring gingerbread flavoring into the mix.  Including two fun new releases from the M&M/Mars company – Gingerbread M&M’s and Twix – as well as Just Born’s delightful new Gingerbread Marshallow Peeps!

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Happy 50th Anniversary Doctor Who – with Jelly Babies and More!

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Today the BBC celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the classic television show Doctor Who.  Like countless others around the globe, I’ll be sitting down the join the Doctor(s) for what I hope will be one of his greatest adventures yet.  In celebration of this occasion, I thought it would be fun to dedicate a post to the candy packages I’ve collected due to my personal love of Doctor Who.

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Australia’s Awesome New Wonka Bars for 2013!

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Wonka is one of my favorite brands so I take notice even when they release something really neat on the other side of the planet.  Such was the case when the Australia-New Zealand arm of Nestle released a quartet of groovy new Wonka bars for 2013.

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Leaf’s 1978 Star Wars-Inspired Bubble Gum – Space Wars!

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The confectionery world is one that is never too shy to jump on a trend or fad, and that was certainly the case with the Leaf company.  They were skilled at re-branding their standard gumball assortments into products that reflected then-current pop culture like Jaws, CB Radios and in 1978; Star Wars.  Leaf’s Space Wars was their bubble gum product that loosely invoked the sci-fi classic.

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Hershey’s 1992 Apple-A-Day Sweepstakes!

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Back in 1992, Hershey teamed up with Apple Computer to give away 365 Mac Classic computers to lucky consumers.  Today I’m featuring a marketing circular released as part of that Apple-A-Day Sweepstakes.

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