{"id":6066,"date":"2012-08-24T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2014-06-14T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:33:15","slug":"a-fun-friday-exclusive-premier-1990s-hot-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6066","title":{"rendered":"A Fun Friday Exclusive Premiere – 1990’s Hot Heads!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I get to unveil another CollectingCandy.com exclusive premiere.\u00a0 This is a piece of packaging for a candy item you cannot see anywhere else on the internet.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a really cool cinnamon treat from the folks who brought us Air Heads – it’s Van Melle’s Hot Heads!<\/p>\n

It’s always fun to uncover these lost little confectionery masterpieces.\u00a0 With this being a cinnamon candy, it has become one of my immediate favorites.\u00a0 Not only is it cinnamon, but the graphics take the happy Air Heads balloon mascots and give them a cool devilish visage.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Hot Heads – Cinnamon AirHeads – candy package wrapper – 1990<\/p><\/div>\n

I love the mascots on this one as well as the tag line used, “a flame of flavor”.\u00a0 I think the various elements of this wrapper make for a fantastic bit of packaging.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how long these lasted, but my guess is not more than a year or two.\u00a0 I’ve not been able to find any other mentions of them in my research.\u00a0 It’s too bad, as I think a hot cinnamon Air Heads candy would be pretty tasty.\u00a0\u00a0 Does anyone out there remember these?<\/p>\n

Until I discover more data on them, I’ll leave you with this: Hot Heads were a nearly forgotten spin-off of the Air Heads brand, and I’m excited to be able to share them with you today.<\/p>\n

And that wraps up today’s post.<\/p>\n

See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I get to unveil another CollectingCandy.com exclusive premiere.\u00a0 This is a piece of packaging for a candy item you cannot see anywhere else on the internet.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a really cool cinnamon treat from the folks who brought us Air … 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":[35],"tags":[488,489,530,1063,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,21,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-1990s-candy","tag-90s-candy","tag-air-heads-candy","tag-airheads","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-1zQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","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=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14506,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions\/14506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}