What were those sweet dispenser things called?

Pigman II · 24-01-2004 11:44pm #1

Basically the main body of the 'toy' was a rectangular plastic tube (perhaps 2-3 inches long?) usually with a cartoon characters HEAD on the top (eg Mickey Mouse, Goofy or whoever you like). Inside the tube was row of sweets and a spring mechanism beneath the sweets.

When you tilted the head on the top of the toy backwards the spring mechanism would push the sweets upwards towards the head so that you could take one of the sweets out of the tube. The head would then shoot back in its original position and one could get back to enjoying their sweet.

Flashman · 25-01-2004 12:01am

pez

Blisterman · 25-01-2004 6:38pm

They still sell them. I last saw them in the newsagent near mcdonalds in stillorgan.

DriftingRain · 26-01-2004 4:24pm

PEZ Are still big here in the US. You can still by them in almost every quicky mart. They still put the cool characters on them too.

~DR~

eggshapedfred · 29-01-2004 9:31am

i've got a darth vader one. it rocks!

BEAT · 01-02-2004 6:37am

i always hated the pez candy, gross...but the dispensers were cool. wish i would have kept them from years ago, worth money now the old ones are. :dunno:

weemcd · 01-02-2004 8:53pm

that takes me back, ill have to get some pez sometime, they were my favourite sweets for ages

Crash · 02-02-2004 7:15pm

I love Pez. though i found when i came back to Ireland they were a bitch to get. how i want some right now....

Catsmokinpot · 03-02-2004 11:55am

pez kick ass

i had about 20 dispensers when i lived over in spain the sweets never lasted long enough to warrant having a dispenser though

Shabadu · 03-02-2004 4:08pm

Couldn't you get the actual Pez seperatly and refill the dispenser? Did anyone else trying to cram their penny sweets into them? Grubby 7 yr olds shoving blackjacks gone sticky in the heat into a little plastic tube to be retrieved later by a bic biro. Endearing image isn't it?

koneko · 03-02-2004 4:15pm

Best Pez dispenser ever:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2221256639&category=4099

There's loads on Ebay. The sweets were annoying to cram in there with tiny kiddy fingers. The stack of sweets would fall apart and then I'd have pez sweets everywhere. Pez was great.

What were those sweet dispenser things called?

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