{"id":9510,"date":"2013-03-25T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=9510"},"modified":"2014-04-15T16:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T20:47:56","slug":"easter-week-countdown-sunmarks-new-easter-treats-for-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/collectingcandy.com\/wordpress\/?p=9510","title":{"rendered":"Easter Week Countdown – Sunmark’s New Easter Treats for 1996!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kicking off my week of Easter candy coverage is today’s post on Sunmark’s “New Easter Treats” for 1996.\u00a0 For those that aren’t familiar with the name, before Nestle acquired them, Sunmark was the company best-known for the Willy Wonka candy brand.<\/p>\n

In the Fall of 1995 Sunmark released a magazine advertisement to the candy trade showcasing their new Easter holiday products for the coming year.\u00a0 Today I’ll be admiring that neat ad and highlighting its contents.<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoy collecting vintage candy trade magazines as they’re an invaluable source of historical information and images that you cannot find anywhere else, and today’s ad sheet is no different.\u00a0 The products it includes are pieces I don’t have in my collection, nor have I ever encountered them anywhere else – I’ve only ever seen them on this single ad.\u00a0 That makes this a pretty neat piece of recent candy history, so let’s take a look:<\/p>\n

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Sunmark – Candy trade magazine Easter ad from September 1995<\/p><\/div>\n

This ad is ripe with neat Easter-themed candy packages I’d love to eventually find – and here are my three favorites:<\/p>\n

\"Willy

Willy Wonka’s Easter Pop-Up book for Easter 1996<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not exactly sure what Willy Wonka’s Easter Pop-Up book was, but I’ll assume that it was similar to the Sweet Storybook model where it contained an assortment of Wonka candy goodies along with the added element of pop-up book type graphics.\u00a0 Sounds pretty awesome and it’s a piece I’d love to one day find and document here on the site.<\/p>\n

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Easter Tangy Taffy for 1996<\/p><\/div>\n

Next up is this Easter package for Sunmark’s classic Tangy Taffy, featuring the neat 1980’s\/early 1990’s Tangy Taffy fruit mascots.\u00a0 It also features the introduction of Tangy Taffy in a “bite-size” which may have foreshadowed the eventual merging of the Tangy Taffy and Laffy Taffy brands.\u00a0 [Tangy Taffy bars would eventually transition to be called Laffy Taffy while traditional Laffy Taffy product would continue to be sold in bulk.\u00a0 The Tangy Taffy brand name would be retired after this transition.]<\/p>\n

\"Willy

Willy Wonkas Easter Tart N Tinys package for 1996<\/p><\/div>\n

Last up is a groovy cello pack for an Easter edition of Tart n Tinys.\u00a0 I always love finding any kind of packaging for the classic-but-now-discontinued Tart n Tinys, and this Easter package is no exception.\u00a0 It’s a great-looking cello pack that I’d love to track down some day.\u00a0\u00a0 For now, I’m excited to have an image of it and to be able to share that here.<\/p>\n

And that wraps up my highlights of the trade ad.\u00a0 And don’t get me wrong, I love ALL of the pieces pictured; the Quik Bites, the Easter Laffy Taffy package, the SweeTarts Basket Treats and the Laffy Taffy Ropes.\u00a0 I’d be excited to uncover any one of these – as they’re all great examples of vintage candy holiday packaging.<\/p>\n

And that’s everything for today.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed our Easter week countdown kickoff, and I’ll be back tomorrow with more Easter candy fun.\u00a0 See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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