{"id":8612,"date":"2013-01-30T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2013-01-30T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:29:39","slug":"wacky-wednesdays-atomic-fur-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=8612","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Wednesdays &#8211; Atomic Fur Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8613\" alt=\"CC_WackyWednesdays_Atomic Furball TITLE PLATE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_WackyWednesdays_Atomic-Furball-TITLE-PLATE.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_WackyWednesdays_Atomic-Furball-TITLE-PLATE.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_WackyWednesdays_Atomic-Furball-TITLE-PLATE-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to another edition of CollectingCandy.com&#8217;s Wacky Wednesdays!\u00a0 This week, we&#8217;ll be looking at one of my favorite parodies from the recently released Wacky Packages Old School series 4 &#8211; Atomic Fur Ball.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Atomic Fur Ball is a parody of the classic Ferrara Pan candy, Atomic Fire Ball.\u00a0 Since today&#8217;s sticker is a selection from an Old School series, this parodies the 1970&#8217;s version of the Atomic Fire Ball box. Let&#8217;s take a closer look at the sticker:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8614\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8614\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8614\" alt=\"Wacky Packages Old School 4 - Atomic Fur Ball\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_Wacky-Packages-Old-School-4-Atomic-Fur-Ball.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_Wacky-Packages-Old-School-4-Atomic-Fur-Ball.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_Wacky-Packages-Old-School-4-Atomic-Fur-Ball-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Topps Wacky Packages Old School 4 &#8211; Atomic Fur Ball<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love this parody and sticker &#8211; it&#8217;s an incredibly clever use of the original package design and mushroom cloud graphic &#8211; this is something I never would have thought of.\u00a0 Pretty fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Matching the candy box to this Wacky Package wasn&#8217;t too difficult as I already had a nice example of a 1970&#8217;s Atomic Fire Ball box in my collection.\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8615\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8615\" alt=\"Ferrara Pan - Atomic Fire Ball - candy box - late 1970's\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_Ferrara-Pan-Atomic-Fire-Ball-candy-box-late-1970s-Kallok.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_Ferrara-Pan-Atomic-Fire-Ball-candy-box-late-1970s-Kallok.jpg 780w, http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CC_Ferrara-Pan-Atomic-Fire-Ball-candy-box-late-1970s-Kallok-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ferrara Pan &#8211; Atomic Fire Ball &#8211; candy box &#8211; late 1970&#8217;s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you can see, my Atomic Fire Ball box appears to match up almost exactly to the one parodied in Atomic Fur Ball.\u00a0 Mine might represent a slightly larger box than the one used, but only slightly.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s definitely close enough for me to be satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s everything for today&#8217;s edition of Wacky Wednesdays.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed this look at Atomic Fur Ball, from Wacky Packages Old School Series 4.<\/p>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another edition of CollectingCandy.com&#8217;s Wacky Wednesdays!\u00a0 This week, we&#8217;ll be looking at one of my favorite parodies from the recently released Wacky Packages Old School series 4 &#8211; Atomic Fur Ball.<\/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":[24,47,46,91,89],"tags":[1206,317,27,737,321,316,328,351,332,169,14,324,78,333,736,738,21,143,15,348,141,1213,90,11],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-boxed","category-hard-candy","category-topps","category-wacky-packages","tag-1970s","tag-1970s-candy","tag-70s","tag-atomic-fireballs","tag-candy-collecting","tag-candy-collection","tag-candy-collector","tag-candy-wrapper-collection","tag-candy-wrapper-collector","tag-cinnamon","tag-collectible","tag-collecting-candy","tag-confectionery","tag-confections","tag-ferrara-pan","tag-fireballs","tag-packaging","tag-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-2eU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612","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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}