{"id":6593,"date":"2012-09-26T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:08:12","slug":"wacky-wednesdays-big-baddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=6593","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Wednesdays – Big Baddy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s Wednesday, and once again time for another installment of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays!\u00a0 Up for discussion today is a Wacky Package sticker from 1973’s Series 5; Big Baddy.<\/p>\n

Big Baddy is based upon Topps’ own Bazooka Big Buddy gum, and is one that does involve Wacky characters, though they are less rendered than many of the other stickers from this period.\u00a0 Here’s a close-up look at the sticker:<\/p>\n

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Wacky Packages Series 5 – 1973 – Big Baddy<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u00a0 like how the parody reuses the Gadzooka name from an earlier Wacky Package.<\/p>\n

As I said, Big Baddy is based upon a Topps product called Big Buddy.\u00a0 In this case, it’s the fruit flavor of Big Buddy bubble gum.\u00a0 In a bit of a departure for a Wacky Wednesdays column, I don’t actually have a fruit flavor Big Buddy wrapper in my collection to show, but I do have a couple quality images of what the packaging looked like.\u00a0 Here they are:<\/p>\n

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Bazooka – Fruit Big Buddy bubble gum – 1974<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bazooka – Fruit Big Buddy bubble gum display box image – 1974<\/p><\/div>\n

So, this is a case where I’m still looking for the missing spot to fill in my original Wacky product collection.\u00a0 I still need to find one of these Fruit Big Buddy wrappers.\u00a0 If anyone out there finds one, drop me a line.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today’s edition of Wacky Wednesdays.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, and once again time for another installment of CollectingCandy.com’s Wacky Wednesdays!\u00a0 Up for discussion today is a Wacky Package sticker from 1973’s Series 5; Big Baddy.<\/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":[24,5,34,91,89],"tags":[519,520,374,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,21,373,15,348,141,1213,90,11],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-bubble-gum","category-gum-2","category-topps","category-wacky-packages","tag-1970s-gum","tag-70s-bubble-gum","tag-bazooka-gum","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-parody-stickers","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wackies","tag-wacky-packages","tag-wacky-packs","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-1Il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","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=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}