{"id":3963,"date":"2012-05-16T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T04:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2012-05-16T02:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:16:22","slug":"1983s-dungeons-and-dragons-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"1983’s Dungeons and Dragons Candy!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a bit out of commission since late last week due to an accidental eye injury, and I’m slowly getting caught up on the many things I wasn’t able to do while patched-up with only one good eye.\u00a0 I’m still a bit blurry in the injured eye, but I’m healing.\u00a0 In other words, I’m back and ready to talk candy.<\/p>\n

In order to give myself a leg-up on getting up to speed here on the site, I decided to pull something especially fun from my archives that sort of speaks for itself.\u00a0 The item I chose also happens to speak quite a lot about me personally.<\/p>\n

I played AD&D (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, for you civilians) a LOT back in the 1980’s.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess you could call me an “old-school” RPG player, as I was a 1st Edition AD&D guy… I eventually learned and played 2nd edition, but I never really warmed to AD&D 3rd Edition rules.\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, I’ve got some nerd-cred.\u00a0 I could go on, but rather than bore the non-role-players reading, I’ll get to the subject of today’s short post:\u00a0 Dungeons and Dragons Candy!\u00a0 Yes, it really existed:<\/p>\n

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Amurol - Dungeons and Dragons - fantasy candy figures - candy box - early 1983<\/p><\/div>\n

Produced by Amurol (makers of Big League Chew and Bubble Tape, among other great things) back in the heyday of D&D, it would appear that this was a candy that arrived in the shape of “fantasy figures”.<\/p>\n

I don’t actually remember Dungeons and Dragons Candy, and if I ever saw them on shelves in 1983, I probably didn’t think much of them.\u00a0 Now, however, I can appreciate them for the era that produced them, so I think they’re insanely-fantastic.\u00a0 I hope you think so, too.<\/p>\n

Late addition – here’s an image of a full display box of Dungeons and Dragons candy, from my pal Dan Goodsell:<\/p>\n

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Dungeons and Dragons Candy display box - image courtesy Dan Goodsell<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomorrow I’ll have a new edition of Wacky Wednesdays to share, and I’ve got a nice series of posts being prepared in my run up to CollectingCandy.com’s 100th post, coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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