Big League Chew retrospective.

[JasonLiebig]

Howdy, gang.

Big League Chew, the shredded pouch bubble gum that, since its' introduction in 1980, was produced and sold by Amurol/Wrigley, is now going to be produced and sold by the Ford Gum company.  The deal took effect January 1st, 2011, and beyond the sale and distribution, Ford is also moving production back to the United Sates - and I think that's pretty cool.

To celebrate that, I did a big retrospective of the Big League Chew packaging I have in my collection, and even posted some of the other Amurol-produced pouch bubble gum from the 80's I have.  I thought you guys might dig seeing it all.  

It's about 30 images all-together, and you can see it all on my Flickr, but I'm going to post a trio of the highlights here:


Amurol-Wrigley - Big League Chew - shredded bubble gum pouch package - 1980 by JasonLiebig, on Flickr


Amurol-Wrigley - Buckaroo Chew - shredded bubble gum pouch package - 1981 by JasonLiebig, on Flickr


Amurol-Wrigley - Popeye - shredded bubble gum pouch package - 1981 by JasonLiebig, on Flickr

[bigfoot67]

Howdy, gang.

Big League Chew, the shredded pouch bubble gum that, since its' introduction in 1980, was produced and sold by Amurol/Wrigley, is now going to be produced and sold by the Ford Gum company.  The deal took effect January 1st, 2011, and beyond the sale and distribution, Ford is also moving production back to the United Sates - and I think that's pretty cool.

To celebrate that, I did a big retrospective of the Big League Chew packaging I have in my collection, and even posted some of the other Amurol-produced pouch bubble gum from the 80's I have.  I thought you guys might dig seeing it all. 

It's about 30 images all-together, and you can see it all on my Flickr, but I'm going to post a trio of the highlights here:


Amurol-Wrigley - Big League Chew - shredded bubble gum pouch package - 1980 by JasonLiebig, on Flickr


Amurol-Wrigley - Buckaroo Chew - shredded bubble gum pouch package - 1981 by JasonLiebig, on Flickr


Amurol-Wrigley - Popeye - shredded bubble gum pouch package - 1981 by JasonLiebig, on Flickr

Very cool to see. Those wrappers bring back fond memories. I used to love the green Popeye gum!!!

[Crust]

That's great that they are making it here in the U.S. WOW!!! Popeye gum!!! That sounds awsome. Great pics.

[starman101]

Jason,

Great collection!  I didn't realize the packaging changed that much over the years.  The one set of photos you shared here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/5347236152/in/photostream/

was the rendition we used for our parody version...


Click for full sized version:

[dth1971]

I know Big League Chew, but Wrigley's sold the gum after it acquired the Mars Candy Company?

Did one of the Wacky Packages ANS artists do a rough for a Big League Chew spoof for a Wacky Packages ANS that was rejected?

[slamjim]

I know Big League Chew, but Wrigley's sold the gum after it acquired the Mars Candy Company?

Did one of the Wacky Packages ANS artists do a rough for a Big League Chew spoof for a Wacky Packages ANS that was rejected?

I did one. It was based on ballplayers corking their bats:

[JasonLiebig]

I did one. It was based on ballplayers corking their bats:

That's great!