h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

>>But are they still made, Em!!!<<

Nah, I just felt like saying that.

I've just seen candy cigarettes, the white type and the larger ones with rice paper on.

Have also just seen Sherbet dips, black jacks and fruit salads sold individually and in stick packs.

Aniseed balls and round tubes of Smarties with the plastic lid have gone .

Emmily

Smarties haven't gone.. they are currently advertising additive free ones..

Yes, but they're now in a hexagonal tube.

BK do you mean PEZ sweets?

And for whoever said the sherbert dibdab - thanks, I brought a "monster bag" and had been saving the double dip for last. I'm scared to eat it now.

Can I just clarify that parma violets, mojos and aniseed balls are all available at my local newsagents.

And presumably elsewhere, unless the charming Bangladeshi gentleman that runs it has access to some kind of kiddy-sweet-vortex.

B

TP, could be Pez, that sounds kinda familiar, all i really remember is the dispenser.

>>Yes, but they're now in a hexagonal tube.<<


Well, I'll be blowed!

http://www.pandapops.com/

Panda Pops has a website? Blimey.
I notice they don't do the blue one any more though.

**shameless plug**

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B

I've seen Pez (Pezzes?) on sale in Madrid recently, BK - this is their website: http://www.pez.at/pezat/index.html [no idea why it's in German, but you can click on 'English' and then 'History' to find the packaging I remember - (can't recall how they tasted, though)].

It's in German 'cos they make them in Linz, Austria.

Bangers and jumping jacks around Guy Fawkes' Night. Caps, too. Strange that we no longer encourage pyromania in the young.

some people collect Pez dispensers, I think some are quite valuable.

* back after checking online auction sites*

Corection - relatively valuable compared to the purchase price of new ones.

Also from Germany, we used to get lollies from the baker's van. They were a little bit bigger, but roughly the same shape, as Kojak lollies. But made of toffee-like (but like a chew, but more toffeey than a chew) stuff covered with chocolate. er... that's a rubbish description.

I remember a little while after 1/2p stopped being legal tender Blue Peter ran a thing on what to do with the millions of them people were still finding down the back of sofas etc. It was to make a hexagonal-shaped coaster out of them. You had to polish up the coins then stick them to a painted, hexagonal piece of card and then varnish the lot. I made two for my grandad for christmas. He was still using them up to the day he died

Do you think it was something in the varnish?

ah a few posts back has reminded me.

Gone but not forgotten...

Indoor fireworks

Can't imagine why they have disappeared

The best selling boys toy of 1964 the one and only Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army) gun.

It consisted of seven guns in one, which included: Grenade Launcher, Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher, Anti Bunker Missile Launcher, Armor Piercing Shell, Rifle fires 10 Bullets, Slide Bolt Action Machine Gun and a Detachable Cap Pistol. The Stock detached and it had a built in Bi-Pod. It was over 3 feet long as well - the ultimate non PC kids gun ever.

A few years ago I used to buy, refurbish and re-sell these babies as there was a lot of money to be made from collectors looking for fully working examples. They used to cost £8 new, but a mint condition never been out of the box example will now set you back around £1200.

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?johnny7index

I am happy to say that I own a mint condition one myself........great fun!

I want one of those.

Spirograph? I believe it made a brief re-appearance, the vanished again. There was also something similar who's name escapes me.

Also penny-bricks and stickle bricks. Penny bricks were red plastic with 1d on each block, which came in singles, doubles and threes I believe...

Also Quizzinaire. This consisted of wooden blocks of different colours from a cube and then rising in the same measurements to 10. It was used as a mathematics teaching tool...

Pez, Eh? The containers came in many shapes, but I always managed to break mine after a couple of refills...

You can still get indoor fireworks.

At least our lab technicians can.

B

>> Gone but not forgotten...

Indoor fireworks

Can't imagine why they have disappeared <<

All those indoor fires, I'd imagine.

RF