Anyone remember coffin candy??

[Toy Ranch]

I loved this stuff.  The candy wasn't anything special, it was cooler to look at than to eat, but a favorite Halloween treat to be sure!

[repairtechjon]

Wow, score another for the simple stuff!  Just looking at those pics, the memory of the sugary smell as you opened the coffin is coming to mind.
I could never wait, and save the skeleton parts, till I could get another coffin to make the whole thing.

[poseablemonster]

I saw some of the new coffin candy at a Johnnie Brocks Dungeon Halloween store this weekend.  It's a lot bigger than the Topps candy, but pretty similar looking otherwise.  I am betting those smaller pieces from the old days would present a choking hazard now. 

[NekroDave]

I must've been the stupidest kid because the thought that these pieces were actually meant to be assembled never once occurred to me! I just figured they were bones and that was that... down the hatch. Never once gave it a second thought... lol.  Still, fond memories, for sure...

[chrisnurse]

The ones we got in the UK never ever made a whole Skeleton, I think they were intended to be incomplete,  I don't quite remember - inside the UK coffins was a cool little diagram of the Skeleton puzzle pieces assembled.

I used to make various skeletal mutations with them, that would keep me happy for hours.

[packy120353]

Not exactly coffin candy but this talk of making a skeleton reminds me of this from a couple years back. Skelly components you buy, eat the suckers then assemble a skel. I liked the display box and I have a complete set. I hope some day my great grandchildren will rip it apart and bust it all up to make the skeleton. Thus will I reach out from the grave as a sweet reminder of the good old days shortly before being thrown in the trash.

[The Creeper]

That is cool!  I never seen those before.

[marsattacks666]

Very cool!!!!!

[Jamdin]

I remember the Mr. Bones coffin candy and I still have a yellow one. I would have loved to have a black one but I never found one. They sold at one of the local quick stores.

[graveghoul]

I remember the wax lips and harmonicas from the sixties. www.Retrocandyonline.com has wax lips, wax fangs ect.

[fmofmpls]

Thus will I reach out from the grave as a sweet reminder of the good old days shortly before being thrown in the trash.

Some folks don't how sweet they have it until its too late. 

[BaronNightshade]

I used to have two Mr. Bones  Coffins, one white, one red, but i had to get rid of them because i had to cut back on my clutter.
You didn't buy them for the candy, you bought them for the package.

[yendor1152]

I also fondly recall the orange wax harmonicas--called "Wowee Whistles." Each one had an atmospheric Halloween scene stuck to it (but not meant to be eaten). They still made these in the 80s, and I'm not sure when production stopped. In the 60s, when I was a kid, they were at every store during the Halloween season. Also, wax fingernails, not just lips and fangs--lots of wax ghosts and skulls filled with syrupy "juice," and special Halloween novelties (always made in Japan) were front and center in every mom and pop store around my neighborhood. A great time to be a kid!

[MDG]

In the 60s, when I was a kid, they were at every store during the Halloween season. Also, wax fingernails, not just lips and fangs--lots of wax ghosts and skulls filled with syrupy "juice," and special Halloween novelties (always made in Japan) were front and center in every mom and pop store around my neighborhood....

Yeah, I remember a period of extensive waxness--various mustache/nose combinations with a "bite plate" so you could hold them in your mouth and have them cover your nose, buck teeth, "horse teeth," monster figures, etc.

[Dr. Madd]

I'm diabetic, but my one weakness every year is Candy corn. I love the stuff.