World War II stopped the production of Pez candy and it wasn't seen again until the late 1940s, where it was packaged in a plain rectangular dispenser. When it was introduced to the American market in the early 1950s it was barely successful. That made Eduard Haas go back to the drawing board. He came up with a variety of fruit flavors in a novelty type dispenser. This was a huge hit in the children's market and the Pez candy with novelty dispenser took off.
Mr. Haas carefully guarded his designs and production records. So, dating a lot of the novelty dispensers and variations of dispensers is not recorded for reference during those times. The three basic types of dispensers are generic, licensed, and seasonal. A typically popular dispenser with a long production time such as Mickey Mouse, has gone through at least a dozen changes over time.
Pez is distributed in the United States through a plant located in Connecticut and a plant in Linz, Austria distributes to the rest of the world. There are plants in Austria, China, Hungary, and Slovenia that manufacture the dispensers.
Estimates on Pez dispensers can range from $1 to well over $500 depending on condition, packaging, and novelty type.
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Great information to those who are learning about the history of PEZ Candy! Good Job Patty. Just an added reference,,, it is often debated which character head was the first to be added atop the PEZ dispenser stem. We're pretty confident it is a contest between Mickey Mouse and Popeye! Santa Claus sure wasn't very far behind... - Dale - collectingpez.com
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