For a candy collector the redesign of a major brand tends to be a big deal and that’s especially true for a confectionery classic like Wonka Nerds. While visiting my family for my niece’s High School graduation last week, I spotted a Nerds box that didn’t look familiar. Though it is not a complete redesign, quite a number of things have changed on this new Nerds box – so let’s take a look!
Back in the early 1970′s, the M&M/Mars company took a stab at replicating some of the new found success of rival Hershey’s Kit Kat bar by introducing something that looked and sounded pretty familiar, the Snik Snak. Since first discovering the Snik Snak, I’ve been fascinated with the brand and its brief confectionery run.
I’m back in Nebraska this weekend helping celebrate my Niece’s High School Graduation so I’ve just got a short post for today. But it’s a fun one as we look at a flashy Super Mario Brothers bar wrapper from way back in 1989!
We’re back with a new edition of Wacky Wednesdays and today we’ll be looking at a sticker from the recently-released Wacky Packages All-New Series 10 – 3-Racketeers.
Hi, everybody! I’d like to apologize for being absent this past week. I’ve been very busy with non-candy-related work, all the while battling allergies that turned into a hard-to-shake cold. So my normal candy time was spent sleeping.
I’m finally feeling better and I have a fun little post for today dedicated to that exotic creature that is M&M’s White Chocolate!
As a candy collector people often ask me what that means, exactly? Do I collect the physical candy as well as the packages? Do I collect all candy-related ephemera? My answer is that I mainly focus on actual candy packaging – that being the wrappers and the boxes.
But I do like certain kinds of food tie-ins like cereal boxes that contain candy and while at the grocery store recently I came across these neat Lunchables that each contain a fun-size offering of branded sweets. They struck me as fun and unusual, so they made the cut.
Canada – Neilson’s – Candy Time – 10-cent chocolate candy bar wrapper – circa 1965
Just a one-off for today, folks. This one comes from mid-60′s Canada and the Neilson candy company. It’s Neilson’s Candy Time bar.
At the end of yesterday’s post, we premiered a never-before-seen Marathon John television commercial. Today we’re going to share how that spot came to be and how some of the props created for the original 1970′s Marathon TV commercials were discovered and put back into use for the production of CollectingCandy.com’s “Marathon – Quick Calvin”.
Welcome back to part two in our three day Maximum Marathon coverage! Today we’re going to focus our gaze upon the clever series of 1970′s television commercials that were created to promote the Marathon bar as well as the square-jawed spokesman that starred in them, Marathon John.
[ALERT: Don't miss the super-special world premier commercial spot at the conclusion of today's post.]
This week I’m returning to one of my favorite brands with a series of three posts dedicated to the topic of the 1970′s classic Mars Marathon bar. Today we’re going to take a look at the various evolutions of Marathon’s wrapper design that carried it from launch all the way through its eventual discontinuation.
