{"id":8311,"date":"2013-01-15T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2014-06-14T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:34:18","slug":"cadbury-of-canadas-pokemon-candy-gotta-collect-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8311","title":{"rendered":"Cadbury of Canada’s Pok\u00e9mon Candy – Gotta Collect Them All!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wanted to follow-up yesterday’s Digimon post with Cadbury of Canada’s companion release from 2000; their series of Pok\u00e9mon bars.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just like the Digimon, these were a licensed release that re-sized and re-branded Cadbury’s standard Caramilk bar, this time with a fun variety of Pok\u00e9mon collectible wrappers.<\/p>\n

I think the first time I ever heard about Nintendo’s Pok\u00e9mon was when the news came out about the Japanese cartoon and how some of the flashing light special effects used were inducing seizures in children.\u00a0 It was at once hard to believe and strangely ridiculous to imagine a cartoon having that power.\u00a0 But other than that news story, I didn’t really know what Pok\u00e9mon was until later when my friends at Marvel Comics brought them to my attention again.<\/p>\n

Around 1998 or 1999, there were a group of Assistant Editors and artists who would challenge each other in the bullpen to all sorts of entertaining illustration games.\u00a0 One such bit of distraction was performed by Paul Tutrone, <\/a>who was illustratively turning Marvel staffers into\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon characters.\u00a0 Paul was one of the many fantastic and talented people I had the fortune of working with at Marvel – he could always get me laughing.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul even transformed me into a Pok\u00e9mon during that period — which I thought was pretty cool. \u00a0 Now back to the candy.<\/p>\n

As with the Digimon wrappers I shared yesterday, there is surprisingly nothing that I could find on the internet about the Cadbury Pok\u00e9mon release.\u00a0 No images or information at all, which makes today’s post another CollectingCandy.com exclusive premiere!\u00a0 Woo-hoo!\u00a0\u00a0 Once again this was a series of twelve different wrappers – so let’s get to them:<\/p>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Bulbasaur #01 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Charmander #04 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

This next one is for a character that appears to be a living piece of Silly Putty:<\/p>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Ditto #132 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Eevee #133 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Jigglypuff #39 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Marril – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Mewtwo #150 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Pikachu #25 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Ponyta #77 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Psyduck #54 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Snorlax #143 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada – Cadbury Caramilk – Pokemon – Squirtle #07 – chocolate candy wrapper back – 2000<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s all twelve of Cadbury’s Pok\u00e9mon bar wrappers – a complete set.\u00a0 I hope you’ve enjoyed checking them out.<\/p>\n

Oh and one more thing – I always kept the drawings and sketches my friends made for me at Marvel.\u00a0 Since I mentioned it, I thought I should dig it out to share, so here it is:\u00a0 Me, Pok\u00e9mon-ized!<\/p>\n

\"Jason

Jason Liebig as Pokemon by Paul Tutrone – 1998<\/p><\/div>\n

Ha ha!\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to follow-up yesterday’s Digimon post with Cadbury of Canada’s companion release from 2000; their series of Pok\u00e9mon bars.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just like the Digimon, these were a licensed release that re-sized and re-branded Cadbury’s standard Caramilk bar, this time with … 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":[123,68,56],"tags":[1217,67,1210,321,316,328,351,332,14,324,78,333,713,153,23,715,21,714,15,348,11],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadbury","category-canadian","category-chocolate-2","tag-cadbury","tag-canada","tag-canadian","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-digital-pet","tag-licensed","tag-mascot","tag-nintendo","tag-packaging","tag-pokemon","tag-sweets","tag-vintage-candy-wrapper","tag-wrapper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aFGk-2a3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311","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=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14508,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions\/14508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}