{"id":14894,"date":"2014-10-06T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=14894"},"modified":"2014-10-06T13:26:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T17:26:44","slug":"a-little-mms-halloween-historical-packaging-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=14894","title":{"rendered":"A Little M&M’s Halloween Historical Packaging Evolution!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While going through my archives for the CountdownToHalloween this month, I realized I had a few older Halloween seasonal M&M’s packages I never covered before.\u00a0 So I gathered them together for today’s post which I think presents a nice look at how M&M’s Halloween packaging has evolved over time.<\/p>\n

To start off today’s historical look back, I have an M&M’s “Holiday” package, which was something Mars did in the late 80’s\/early 90’s – giving consumers assortments of M&M’s themed for the seasons by color.\u00a0 I am fairly sure that this predates any actual Halloween themes they used on the large product packages as it also predates their introduction of the M&M’s character mascot family, but I might not be correct on that.<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Holiday Plain chocolate candies in autumn colors – 16oz candy package – late 80’s early 90’s<\/p><\/div>\n

Next up is what I believe to be one of the earliest actual Halloween-themed M&M’s packs – and it’s a fun one featuring a 1990’s M&M’s styled mascot in a witches’ hat and broom.<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Plain – 16oz Halloween candy package – circa mid-1990’s<\/p><\/div>\n

During the 1990’s Mars introduced M&M’s Minis to the marketplace and they’re still around today, though I don’t see them as often.\u00a0 From that early period in M&M’s Minis life comes this next piece – a large package created for Halloween that contained 18 fun-size M&M’s Minis boxes:<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Minis – 10 oz mini-boxes Halloween multi-bag package – 1990’s<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s an example of what one of the Minis fun-size boxes looked like (I didn’t have these stored together, so I’m not sure they are a matching set – but they probably are):<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Minis – Halloween mini fun-size candy box – 1990’s<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, we jump ahead to the mid-to-late 2000’s, with another lovely Halloween themed M&M’s package.\u00a0 At this point, the branding had been termed the “Pumpkin Mix” and Halloween graphics were printed on each individual M&M candy piece.\u00a0 It’s awfully cool that they printed little Jack-O-Latern graphics on each M&M.\u00a0 These also feature the modern, rendered versions of the M&M’s character mascots:<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Milk Chocolate – Pumpkin Mix – 14oz Halloween candy package – mid-2000’s<\/p><\/div>\n

At this point I’m a bit embarrassed to say that my evolutionary coverage needs to come to a halt as I couldn’t find my more recent Halloween M&M’s packages in time for today’s post.<\/p>\n

I do encourage you to check out some of the neat Halloween M&M’s releases I’ve covered in the past with Candy Corn M&M’s<\/a>, Pumpkin Spice M&M’s<\/a> and their Halloween-themed theater-sized boxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s post and my look back at M&M’s historical Halloween packaging evolution.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n

(Well, one more thing to share – not necessarily Halloween, but very Halloweenish – it’s the Addams Family done up as M&M’s on a promotion for Dark Chocolate M&M’s)<\/p>\n

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Mars – M&M’s Dark Chocolate Candies Sales Circular Coupon-Advertisement – The Addams Family – 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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Today\u2019s post has been part of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s 2014 Countdown to Halloween. To check out other sites celebrating Halloween all month long, visit the official CountdownToHalloween site.<\/a>\u00a0 For more of CollectingCandy.com\u2019s CountdownToHalloween posts, just click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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