{"id":4958,"date":"2012-07-01T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2012-07-01T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T17:11:51","slug":"japans-mini-pez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s Mini-Pez!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t devoted much effort to documenting the PEZ part of the collectible candy world.\u00a0 It’s not that I don’t like PEZ – I love PEZ dispensers.\u00a0 It’s just that collecting PEZ dispensers is a topic that has been well-documented and well-covered by other folks already.\u00a0 There are a handful of quality books on PEZ, as well as numerous websites devoted to them, so if you’re at all curious about their history, you should check them out.<\/p>\n

In spite of that wealth of information out there, I thought I’d devote today’s post to one of the lesser-known parts of PEZ – the Japan mini-PEZ releases of the mid-2000’s.\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t delve too much into the details of the releases – this is more of just me tipping the hat to something I like.<\/p>\n

Produced by PEZ and Bandai for a few years in the mid-2000’s, the mini-PEZ line-ups differentiated themselves by having miniature stems.\u00a0 Likely influenced by the popular super-deformed figure movement, these were cute short little dispensers, mostly featuring licensed characters from Japanese cartoons and video games.<\/p>\n

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Japan Mini-Pez display<\/p><\/div>\n

What I love about Japan mini-Pez is the high-level of sculpting they received, as well as some of the characters and properties they took on.\u00a0 My absolute favorites were the Nintendo series they did:<\/p>\n

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Japan Mini-Pez shot – Mario<\/p><\/div>\n

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Japan Mini-Pez – Peanuts<\/p><\/div>\n

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Japan Mini-Pez<\/p><\/div>\n

Early last year, my brother Jeff took on the task of continuing the Japan mini-PEZ collection I started, and today’s snapshots all come from him.\u00a0 I do have one last photo from a couple years ago, before he picked up the Japan mini-PEZ collection baton:<\/p>\n

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And that’s everything for today.<\/p>\n

Going to be working to come up with some fun patriotic posts for this week’s July 4th Independence Day holiday.\u00a0\u00a0 See you next time!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t devoted much effort to documenting the PEZ part of the collectible candy world.\u00a0 It’s not that I don’t like PEZ – I love PEZ dispensers.\u00a0 It’s just that collecting PEZ dispensers is a topic that has been well-documented … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,21,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novelty","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-packaging","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}