Tonight while browsing eBay, I came across a TON of amazing PEZ advertisements from the 70's and 80's. The ads are all from the Politikin Zabavnik magazine in the former Yugoslavia at the time. I didn't want these to escape into the web ether and I hope you all enjoy these as much as I do. The auctions for these have now ended, but here is the link to the seller's eBay link. The seller is based in Serbia and hopefully he/she will put some more PEZ items for auction in the future.
Today I finally got around to buying a bunch of the MLB caps. Only two more to go! While staring at the cards, I noticed there were four different card designs, which you can see in the photos below. I don't recall seeing this mentioned before, so I thought I share here. Normally, I don't pay a
whole lot of attention to the cards before I open them, but I thought
these card design differences were interesting.
On the leftmost card there is "I Live for This" under the MLB logo, while the other three card designs don't have that element.
The middle two card designs look nearly identical on the front, except for the upper left: one has "Visit our website www.pez.com", but the other doesn't. However, when you look at the back of the middle two cards, the layout is very different with one having "Gluten Free".
The rightmost card is the most unique one in the group. It has a different photo of the glove, baseball, and bat than the other three designs. Additionally, both the MLB logo and flag logo are larger on the rightmost card. The back of the rightmost card has two elements that the other backs don't: a little plug for the PEZ Visitor Center and a MLB logo. Lastly, the back of the rightmost card has no trivia about the baseball team, which the others do.
Speaking of cards, anyone else like the card designs for the all the German, English, and Scottish soccer dispensers? Those are excellent, in my opinion, and I'm keeping all those on the card!
Today after buying the new set of 3 Walgreens trucks I worked on a little PEZ project I've had in my head for a couple weeks. With all the advertising trucks lately, I was thinking it'd be cool to display them on a two lane road with staggered trucks.
Below are photos of the prototype I came up with with. My daughter had some black construction paper, which I used for the road. The dashed line I created by cutting up an extra name badge label sticker I had.
The paper was 12" x 9", so I kept the 12" length and cut the road 3" wide which seemed to fit two trucks side-by-side pretty realistically.
The dashed line was a bit more work. I wanted it to scale properly with the trucks, so I did a little research on the internet. Apparently, the standard length of highway dashed lines is 10 feet with 30 feet in between dashes. The length sure seems a lot shorter when we're speeding along the highway, huh?! The standard dashed line width is about 6 inches.
To scale them I then needed the standard length of a big rig cab with trailer and the length of a PEZ truck. The typical length of cab with trailer is 70-80 feet and PEZ trucks are about 4 ¼ inches. Armed with all these numbers I broke out the calculator and figured the dashed lines to be 5/8 inches long, 1/16 inch wide, with 1 and 7/8 inches between each.
Overall, I think the prototype came out pretty well. Of course, the elephant in the room is that most collectors have dozens of trucks and this only supports three. What can I say, except the design is expandable. ;-)
Please let me know what you think in the comments section below and thanks for reading!
