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Back in 95 when Men were men and gettin snake bit was good for you.
Tall tales were just seasoning in the stew.
I rode the Wild West & was accused of or credited with (pick your poison) creating just about everything.
Nowadays I fear I may disappoint when I explain.
I wish that I'd done all the things that people say/ credit me with.
Do I correct the record or let people believe what they want.
I don't know the answer to that question and in truth people will believe what they like anyway.
The difference is that what people choose to believe no longer hurts me, now it helps.
Correct the record if you must, but never challenge the myth.
Any good character is equal parts fact and fiction.
The Pez Change Plate pictured above is about 50/50 mine and not mine as were many things.
Back in the 1990s there were about 3 very energetic and creative Germans in Europe who seemed to come up with many things.
In about 1995-6 as Pez Outlaw began to emerge as the legend he soon became.
(said Tongue in cheek, thought you might enjoy it.)
More to the point the Germans heard that I had and was spending money and they wanted some.
These plates were used place your change on in stores and restaurants with all sorts of advertising on them.
Example of same plate with different advertisement.
I can't remember where I got the first 2 or 3 that I had, but soon after I offered them for sale in Toy Shop magazine the Germans contacted me.
I was informed by the Germans that these could still be made, so how many did I want.
I have no idea how many of these I bought, it was somewhere between 10 to 20 cases of 25 - 50 per case.
I just don't remember.
Of all the non pez dispenser items that I never should have bought n wouldn't if I had it to do over again, these plates were among my favorites.
These Pez Change Plates sold like Hot-Cakes at I think $25 each. $125 -$180 a dozen.
Back in the good old bad days I was accused of making just about everything that I sold.
I always felt that people did that to salve the wounds of there own laziness.
I know there's still a faction that resents Pez Outlaw very deeply and it would appear that the old rumors are reappearing.
Funny thing that.
Back in the day it stung like a knife and was the kiss of death to my business.
Now, Well Now I can't possibly take credit for enough.
I want to and wish I could but that old bugger Karma is having none of it.
So if you want to credit me with designing and creating these Pez Change plates, Well God Bless You, I sure do appreciate it.
If your interpretation of Germans offering to have made something that they had access to for me on or a bit after they were initially made.
Damn that sentence even confused me.
I think that I get to hung up on the word made, because now that means that I nailed the wood n put on the shingles.
I suppose it's fare for others to think that the word made means that you paid the money which created.
Anyway sure I had them made, Why Not.
All the bodies are buried now and nobody remembers where.
More things on Heaven and Earth exist due to timing and access than actual creativity.
A simple yes and more appeared, that's all I know.
Rules were broken, adjustments were made, Karma was patched up best we could.
It's unbelievable to think it's possible, so I'll just ask you and you can be the judge.
Is it even possible that a large international corporation could act ruthlessly against a lone individual out of envy and jealousy?
I put it to you to consider that that's exactly what Pez Corporation did in regards to Pez Outlaw.
To be honest with you I was not known as Pez Outlaw back then, that came later as a more accurate name because of what happened.
My crime was that Pez Corporation after 50yrs had become lazy and I'm sorry but very stupid.
Lazy in a lack of creativity and stupid in there marketing strategy, not to mention failing to register properly with authorities.
Add to those things I've mentioned a deeply rooted rivalry within the corporation itself.
All these things made it possible for a Pez Outlaw to exist.
When two entities within a corporation hate each other it becomes very easy to gain favor with one side against the other especially if you bring money and very good ideas.
After decades of stagnation I brought innovations like the Crystals and Glow in the Dark Pez Heads.
After decades of rejection I brought appreciation for ideas only given regional release or none at all.
Other ideas of mine were a respect for the bottom line in under utilization of money laying dormant in investments already made.
For a few years I was the prettiest girl in town, I mean Austria/Hungary/Slovenia.
All this attention made the other girl at the dance very jealous, filling her/Scott McWhinnie with White Hot Hatred.
Like the beginnings of any backstabbing fight Scott McWhinnie got all his friends to spy on me and tell tales of untruths.
Lies were circulated at every level, some continue to this day, I have to think out of an attempt to justify previous behavior.
People hate to admit that they were wrong especially when there behavior bordered on vicious, so they continue to believe there own lies.
I never decided to become Pez Outlaw, the name was thrust upon me like a hammer on a nail.
Pez Outlaw was the only name that fit the description of Scott McWhinnie's "friends" when they told there tales about me.
When I was a young man we referred to these type of "friends" of Scott McWhinnies as Toadies.
Where are my manners, I totally forgot to introduce Scott McWhinnie to you.
Scott McWhinnie was the then President of Pez USA, not to be confused with Pez Europe who owned his company and hated the very Earth he walked on.
The problem was Scott sold to much product and had a very good balance sheet back then.
I say then with emphasis because after the Pez Color War in which Pez USA and the character you now know as Pez Outlaw went toe to toe/hammer and tong over a couple million dollars worth of product this was no longer the case.
The Pez Color War began in 1998 when I spent a half million dollars on exclusive product, designed by me and purchase from Pez Europe.
This product that I foolishly ordered from Pez Europe consisted of 30 to 50 different Pez Dispenser types, many thousands of each (5 to 10,000 ea).
Head color variations, my ideas for Crystal Heads (I named that one) and Glow in the Dark heads.
Scott McWhinnie's first reaction was a rumor campaign that these items were fakes, methods were printed and word of mouth/whispers.
Scott's second act was to have one of his Toadies buy one of everything so that he could duplicate my exclusive product.
Why would he need samples you might ask, easy Pez Europe hated him so much that they would not tell him the color codes used to make my product.
Scott McWhinnie then proceeded to open the first Pez USA Website ever, populated exclusively with a couple million reproductions of my exclusive product.
You might ask how my half million dollar investment stood a chance against the full might of an international corporation and it's couple million pez dispensers flooding the market.
That answer is easy, I got MAD AS HELL and just burned everything down.
I forgot all about the money that I'd invested and sold at whatever price diminished Scott's ability to sell into the marketplace.
Luckily I got there first and I knew he was coming, The Pez Color War began.
By the end of the Pez Color War I was broke and my small company of 4 to 8 employees dissolved.
Nose to spite my face I'd won, I was flat broke but Scott McWhinnie no longer had a good balance sheet and Pez Europe retired his ass quick smart.
When interviewed for a Pez Outlaw story in Playboy, Scott McWhinnie nearly had a stroke right there on the golf course at the mere mention of my name.
I don't know where this all leaves me now or what will come of all this.
When things get a bit rough I find it helpful to write.
My hope also is that you enjoyed the story.
Hey, over here, shhhhhhhh!
Can I tell you a secret?
If you're reading this, you are most likely the only one.
I no longer promote my writing on facebook and twitter.
So congrats on finding me at all, ergo the title "I Spy With My Little Eye, Pez Outlaw".
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Nothing That a Cup of Coffee n $10,000.00 Won't Fix..
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To My way of thinking there is no limit to the potential of the character Pez Outlaw.
The only limits to his success are the limits of the imagination of the writer.
The story of the travel, the crazy. That's just the premise to build from, a framework of facts to anchor the story.
Imagination could carry the rest. Like I've said go nuts, I just do not care.
It's the Asylum not Harvard.
The Time Travel one I will admit is only to emphasize silly.
After Pez Outlaw, I intend to retire.
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