This distinction apparently was lost on Pez, which insist upon killing the counterfeit candy-coughing contraption. When the Dosses got letters from the company objecting to it being called “the world’s biggest Pez dispenser,” they changed its billing to the “world’s biggest dispenser of Pez.” Still, it’s the Sasquatch-sized snowman that Pez-ophiles see first when they enter the museum’s “gift shop” (which is actually as big as the museum itself) and which Pez began protesting almost as soon as it went on display in 2007. “I don’t know what kid didn’t have a Pez dispenser,” Greene said while browsing at the museum recently. Richard Greene of Redwood City, Calif., who says he has a collection of 10,000 Pez dispensers, buys them from the Dosses and at flea markets.
The displays are neatly displayed and remarkably dust-free - no small feat considering the number of small feet. The museum is packed with battalions of 5-inch-tall cartoon characters, Jedi knights and other objects of fantasy. Potato Head Pez, worth an estimated $5,000. Gary Doss added the only rarity missing from his collection - a Pineapple Pez worth $3,500 - in 2005, but his biggest prize is the Make-a-Face Mr. The Dosses opened the place in 1995 as a small computer shop, but soon they began displaying their Pez collection on the hulking Ataris and Commodores, and within a year the miniature figures had taken over. The candy company is represented in its lawsuit by Palo Alto-based attorney Larry Johnson of Alston & Bird LLP, who did not return calls seeking comment. If the company made Biblical characters, the museum would be David and the Teutonic tort-slinging confectioner would be Goliath. The Burlingame museum features every one of the more than 550 Pez dispensers created over the years. Candy for the American market is manufactured in Connecticut, but the fountainhead of Pezdom is in Linz, also notable for having produced the Linzer torte. Pez is the only candy that you load like the clip of a gun and eat after performing a toy tracheotomy. “From a branding perspective, I think Pez should embrace the Dosses and the museum, instead of trying to attack them,” said Rodger Cole, the Mountain View-based trademark attorney from Fenwick & West LLP. Pez seeks to have the snowman melted down.Īnd, says the museum’s newly hired lawyer, the company is demanding that the museum’s “curators,” Gary Doss and wife Nancy Yarbrough Doss, turn over all profits from the Pez shrine’s 14 years in business. The legal broadside, which was filed in San Francisco last month, singles out a 7-foot-10 snowman, built especially for the Burlingame, Calif., museum, that has been recognized by the Guinness record keepers as the world’s largest Pez dispenser. District Court, where it has slapped the tiny faces that fill the Museum of Pez Memorabilia with a lawsuit. has reached all the way from Linz, Austria, into U.S. But now the long arm of the Pez Candy Co. It took more than 30 years for the creators of Pez candy dispensers to give the little plastic figurines feet, and they never did get hands.
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