2009 PEZ WATCH

SCHEDULED 2009 RELEASES

January — Cherub & Hot Pink Crystal Heart - Valentine Set. And Cuddle Cubs BROWN BEAR. The 5th in this set.
January — Pete The Cat & Goofy (new Goofy to go with last years new Minnie, Mickey and Donald) - Disney Clubhouse SetThere is also a new Daisy Duck, as part of the new Disney Clubhouse Set. The difference with the "old" Daisy is hard to notice. From the side the bow of the 2009 version slants back much more than the old version.

AND there is a very newly discovered CLUBHOUSE PLUTO. This is a surprise new version. Note the 2009 edition has longer, fatter ears and a somewhat "meaner" look. This makes a whole new Mickey and gang set.

February — Star Wars Clone Wars - New Set (with 5 repeats)

February — Rubber Duck & Chocolate Bunny - Easter Set

Madagascar set with purchase of DVD at Walmart

May — Scrat w/nut & Dino Momma - Ice Age 3 Set

August — Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine & Spiderman - New Super Heros Set. Apparently Wolverine and Spidey are repeats.

August — Disney’s Fairies– Fawn, Rosetta & Terrance

September — Toy Story – Buzz Lightyear (repeat ), new Woody, & Rex (no Jesse as previously reported) - Best of Pixar Set.

Release is prompted by Toy Story and Toy Story 2 out in October this year as a double feature in 3-D. Maybe Jesse will be out with Toy Story 3 scheduled for June 2010.

September — WIZARD OF OZ GIFT SET – 70th Anniversary Limited Edition Boxed Set –Preliminary info includes 8 characters - Dorothy, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, The Wicked Witch, Glenda the Good Witch, Toto and The Wizard

September – Princess Tiana – Star of 2009 Disney film The Princess and the Frog - Disney Princess set

September–Halloween Bat–Halloween Set

October — WINNIE THE POOH SLEUTH GIFT SET–Includes Winnie Sleuth (new) and Tigger Sleuth (new), Darby and Buster. News Flash! (April 5th) Word on the street is that this set is canceled. Reportedly the release corresponded with a new Pooh TV show which was canceled Another News Flash! (4/15) - The below characters just started showing up on e-bay as a European only issue.

October – Polar Bear – Christmas Set

Some other sets are announced for Europe release in 2009.

Monsters & Aliens - New set based on Dreamworks upcoming movie

Euro Disney - New set with a Dalmatian, Bambi, Marie & (repeats) Simba & Baloo

Hello Kitty - Repeat characters with new colors
Wink - European version of the Bratz?

PEZ WATCH 01

NEW FOR VALENTINES 2009

The VALENTINE CHERUB

PEZ continues their new line of crystal hearts with
HOT PINK CRYSTAL HEARTS for 2009.
This edition only comes in only 3 sayings (all in black).
Past recent issue have come in 13 with saying in 2 different colors.

Here is the current CORNWALL COLLECTION roster which includes one of each heart color combination ever issued.

There is also a new Valentine plush 'CUDDLES BEAR' out for 2009. I haven't seen it advertised anywhere (but I have seen it in real life).
It is NOT one of the characters below - all of which are already in the collection.
Who can be the first to describe what the new CUDDLES BEAR looks like.?

12th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa brought Sarah the
CARS Collector Set

This is a special boxed set issued in the fall of 2008. The 4 pieces are all Lightning McQueen

and with special writing on the stems.
This came out about the same time as the BATMAN boxed se...t which Robbie got in Boston... Yahoo.

THAT DOES IT... THAT'S ALL THE NEW ACQUISITIONS FOR 2008. The total of new models is 96. Counting a few exact duplicates which came in sets such as the DISNEY PRINCESS boxed set and including Robb's 4 in the Batman boxed set... the collection was added to by 109 in 2008.

11th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa brought Rachel
CHOCOCAT

This is the 5th in the HELLO KITTY series.
It is rare, and also a little exciting to come across a character of which you had no previous knowledge. We knew of no announcement this was coming or indication that was on any of the PEZ news sites nor had it showed up on e-bay. It just showed up in stores. When I first saw it I didn't know if it was part of the Halloween series or some other obscure series. Frankly I don't know enough about the HELLO KITTY phenomenon to know if there are any others that could be released as a new PEZ in the future.

10th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa Brought Jeffrey
...the swimmer of the family...
BRUCE the SHARK

This is the fifth piece in the BEST OF PIXAR series.
Bruce is from the ...Nemo movie.

9th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa Brought Elizabeth ...

CLEAR CRYSTAL ELEPHANT

It is appropriate that Elizabeth receive this character as it completes the CLEAR CRYSTAL KOOKY ZOO set, the first 3 characters of which Elizabeth donated to the museum for her birthday back in May 2007 (See post of May 3)

8th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa Brought Katie...

BLUE CRYSTAL ELEPHANT.
on a European Card

This character appears the same as the regular issue KOOKY ZOO ELEPHANT.
The stem on this special edition issue says
"MAXIMARE Erlebnistherme Bad Hamm"
They were made for a German water park and spa.

7th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa brought Dallin
2 NASCAR Helmets

These are the latest editions to the 11 piece series.
Richard Petty #88 - the New Edition
and Carl Edwards - Office Depot

6th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa brought Marybeth ...

Two CRYSTAL PEZ-A-SAURS

FYI - PEZ dinosaur dispensers were first released in Europe in the 1990s, and later in the decade they came to the U.S. as a family called Pez-a-suars. Each character has it's own name - they are - in order in the photo above (of the crystals and minis) - Fly-saur, I-saur, He-saur, and She-saur. Pez-a-saurs are a rare family of images that are PEZ creations not modelled after popular animation characters or based on particular historical individuals.

5th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa Brought Robbie ...

two CRYSTAL PEZASAURS

To join the PEZASAUR family and minis.

4th CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa brought Paisley.

a colored crystal BARKY BROWN

This gives the collection four stem colors of Barky Brown - blue, red, green and yellow. Each one of the four editions - plain stem, paw print stem, bone print stem and colored crystal are issued in five colors (plus orange). Now we have all four different colors and a representative of all four editions. Plus we have have the very special edition (not pictured) white Barky Brown, with black stem, MOC.

3rd CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Santa brought Stefanie...

BARKY BROWN .

A special edition with Bones Print Stem

2nd CHRISTMAS STOCKING..

Santa brought Jason...
BARKY BROWN .

This a special edition with Paw Print Stem of this puppy from Australia.

1st CHRISTMAS STOCKING

For auld PEZ acquaintance be forgot... we shall remember 2008 as a pretty good PEZ year. As we were predicting the number of new acquisitions for 2009 many were interested in the number of 2008 acquisitions. Now don't be confused by the "30" posts under the "New Acquisitions 2008" tag. There were infact 80 new PEZ which included 71 new character editions added to collection this past year. This is NOT including those that Santa brought which were in stockings on the 25th of Dec. Over the next 12 days we will post each stocking's PEZ contents as the 12 DAYS of PEZ LANG SYNE to give each new PEZ it's due solo attention.

We start with the new special set Santa brought to Mom & Dad...

STAR WARS Set