Pez Outlaw The Million Dollar Idea. pezoutlaw.com Chapter 6. If you want to read the story behind these Pictures. Check out Chapter 6 - pezoutlaw.com A mad car chase through the streets of Vienna, escaping in a hale of Machine Gun fire at border check points. Forged papers, smuggling & payoffs. Clandestine meetings with European underworld figures at the Raba coffee shop in Gyor Hungary. Always looking over my shoulder for fear I was being Followed. These are the fantasies I lived & almost believed for 10 years traveling the world buying Pez Dispensers. There Have in the last 2 weeks been a lot of changes in the book at pezoutlaw.com . About 30 new pictures & some new content. I work on rewrites & new content every week. So if you haven't checked it out lately, you might want to give it a look. Especially chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 & 10. Recently PEZscrapper asked this question concerning this project. If they ever make a movie of this. What actor would you like to play you?    Gabby Hayes (Roy Rogers movie sidekick) is dead, so Bill Murray would fun. If the movie used the story as a launching point & applied a liberal dose of fantasy. Well, now your talking. Instead of border guards simply holding Machine Guns, have them shooting at me. Where I escape in a hale of gunfire. Instead of simply driving on sidewalks or through the walking area of downtown Vienna. Make it a car chase scene. Make it an action comedy about importing Black Market Pez Dispensers. Make Gyor & the Raba my hideout, where I met with European underworld figures setting up deals.  In my fantasy mind that's how I always saw it. The quirky thing being that it was always about Pez Dispensers. Pez Outlaw    Book, Movie or Video Game rights to - Pez Outlaw, Life On The Run. This in short is the story of a middle class factory rat who turned a $3,000.00 investment into a million dollar business. A high school dropout who traveled the world for 10 years searching for Pez dispensers. Almost everybody has seen the Seinfeld episode with the pez dispenser. This story goes into the world behind that brief reference.  If you want to read the rough draft for this proposed book, movie or video game. The real story about Pez in the 1990s? Pez Outlaw by sj glew. Check out - pezoutlaw.com Here are the bullet points for my proposed book or movie. For 5 years in the 1990s I was the largest Pez Dealer in the world. This rough draft explains how that experience affected my life. How I turned a $3,000.00 investment into a business that earned 4.5 million dollars in 10 years. For 10 years I traveled to Europe almost every month buying Pez. Spending just under 1 year abroad in total. Countries visited buying Pez included; Canada, Australia, Austria, South Africa, Spain, France, Slovenia, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Switzerland & Sweden. Amount of money spent buying Pez, over 2 million dollars. Number of Pez dispensers bought & sold, over 1 million. I operated in an underground/black market Pez economy for 10 years. Making me a man on the run for over 10 years, with a giant bulls-eye on my back. How and Why in the end I lost 8.5 Million Dollars selling Pez. Over a 10 year period I spent well over 1/2 million Dollars cash on Pez dispensers in Hungary. At least $250,000.00 of that was in the form of bribes, or money skimmed off the top for services rendered. Everybody got a piece of the Pez Money for there role in the pez dispensers that were provided. Even though people were well paid, getting the Pez dispensers I wanted was always more difficult than you would think considering how much people were being paid. Sample From Chapter 5. I just have to tell you a short story here that may give you perspective on why all this was possible. Most of the Pez dispensers I bought were in Hungary. Early on in my trips to Hungary my middle man told me about a bank robber in Hungary. This bank robber would hold up a bank then make his getaway by swimming across the river that cuts through many towns in Hungary. The problem for police was, to much river & not enough bridges. So the bank robber was making fools of local law enforcement. Everybody in Hungary loved this guy, he was a modern day folk hero. His adventures were followed with obvious excitement by almost everybody I talked to. He was front page in every newspaper & the top of news broadcasts on TV. After approximately 40 years under communist rule most Hungarians had a very deep disdain for authority & a very strong entrepreneurial desire. Most of what people had done for 40 years was under the radar. That is anything that was actually going to help them better there lives. So me, I appeared at the right time, in the right place, when & where what I wanted to do was possible. Joshua & I driving all over eastern Europe ( Czech, Slovak, Hungary, etc) in a little clown car looking for pez dispensers & the factories. I had been buying Pez dispensers store to store in Canada for years at Zellers, so I figured why not in Europe. I had heard about the silver glow Pez dispensers from Dwayne D. Also a customer mentioned you could buy at the pez warehouse in Ljubliana. So we drove from country to country store to store with some success. Though trying to find pez factories & pez warehouses was not so easy. We found a shoe factory, we found a look alike candy manufacturer, but not pez. So I stopped a taxi showed him the address on a Pez dispensers package & we followed in the clown car, which led us to the pez yellow house in Gyor & my first meeting with Gunther. The Elvis Cafe. The Elvis Cafe was this really weird restaurant located at the side of the road. I used to pass this cafe every trip in Hungary. Like I said, If you take the M1 freeway you really don't see Hungary. You have to take two lane backtops if you want to see a passenger plane sticking out of a building. This restaurant was located about midway between the Vienna Hungarian border and Gyor. I actually stopped at this cafe several times. Had espresso up in the plane and bought several T-shirts. Elvis Cafe outside Gyor in Hungary. Picture courtesy of Rudi. The Injection Molding Facility was named Gyori Plast. Directions to Gyori Plast. Coming from the direction of Budapest, M1 highway direction Wien (Bécs)/Győr: Take the M1 highway until Exit "Pápa". At this exit, go to the left, following Győr Centrum. At the second traffic light (after Tesco), go to the left. Follow this road for approximately 2 km crossing the railroad intersection. Beyond this railroad crossing, after 800 m you will see a dead-end street to the left (Győri Plast). Follow this street to the end, where you will find The West-Gate Business Center. CDA Group is on the third floor to the left, in 306. Coming from Vienna, M1 highway direction Budapest/Győr: Take the M1 highway direction Győr/Budapest. At the exit Csorna-Sopron, go right direction Győr Centrum. At the first traffic light, go right and continue until you reach the city center. Continue at the traffic light and drive on to the viaduct. After the viaduct, go immediately right and drive onto another viaduct. Follow this road until the first traffic light. At this light, take a right hand turn and immediately again turn right, into a dead-end street (Győri Plast). Follow this street to the end, where you will find The West-Gate Business Center. CDA Group is on the third floor to the left, in 306. I have to tell you though, I never used these directions coming from Vienna. I always got off the highway just after crossing the border into Hungary. Where I took a two lane road into Gyor. Coming from Budapest you don't really have any choice. You see M1 is a toll road. None of the locals use it. After you cross the Hungarian border coming from Austria, you have to get off in a hurry. Otherwise you will be required to pay the first of several tolls. Ten years ago it was this beautiful new highway, that only Austrians used to get to Budapest. Plus if you stay on it, you might as well be on a highway anywhere. You won't see anything. For me the only way to really experience another country, is on a two lane blacktop. This is a side view of Gyori Plast. Where they made Pez Dispensers in Hungary.  Picture courtesy of Rudi. The Yellow House The company name of the Pez Yellow House located in Gyor is Hungarocandy. Head of operations for the Pez Yellow House was Gunther Leitner. I say was as I have no idea what his title is today. Last I heard Gunther & Robby were making trips to China setting up & overseeing pez operations there. I asked the Queen of Austria what Gunthers title is today when she emailed about this listing, but she never responded after that. Inside the pez yellow house we were talking to the people who worked there about buying some pez dispensers, when a man in a plaid sports jacket came out of an office. He approached the conversation listened for a bit then introduced himself. Hello my name is Gunther Leitner. Getting no recognition he said "Don't you know who I am". Then he said "I know what you want, I'm the guy you need to deal with". He turned grabbed a post-it, wrote something on it & signed it. I sold this post-it on ebay a couple of years ago. While it was listed for sale Andrew emailed me. He told me how uncool it was to sell this post-it. All these years later & they still thought I should play by there rules. Me I thought. Are you kidding me? After being wiped out financially during the Pez Color Wars you still expected me to take it & like it. How Bizarre. How Bizarre. That said. I don't think the person who won this post-it really realizes how significant a piece of Pez memorabilia that little post-it is. That piece of paper signed by Gunther brought over 1/2 million dispensers to the hobby of collecting pez. The price it sold for on ebay was about $20.00. The actual value as an iconic mile marker in the hobby of collecting pez is more like $2,000.00 when you truly appreciate what it is. I have no dog in the fight concerning the Pez post-it signed by Gunther as I no longer own it. I'm just saying if any piece of paper ever collected by Pez collectors is worth $2,000.00 that little post-it signed by Gunther Leitner is. It single handedly impacted the course of pez collecting in the early 1990s & for the next 10 years. He gave us an address & said go here. When we arrived at the address, we showed the postit to the guard & the gates opened. Once in the warehouse the manager snapped to & took us to a pile of boxes containing older pez dispensers. We selected what we could afford & paid Gunther. I believe though that he was very disappointed. Being one of my first few trips, we only spent a few thousand dollars. Not a lot of money in the beginning, as we were just figuring this whole thing out. Though from my point of view a very successful encounter, we got a little of everything. The pez trucks sold out in a few days, so within two weeks, I went back to Gunther on a trip just for Truck Pez dispensers. The real for real Pez truck. Parked at the Yellow House aka Hungarocany in Gyor. For all the trucks that have been made and sold to collectors. I never understood why someone did not make the real thing. For me this truck is an icon. This truck is also the reason I thought Gunther was disappointed after we made our first Pez buy. He had them back it up to the warehouse, so once we were done it could be loaded for transport. That buy was early days only a few thousand dollars. What am I saying? I never in 10 years bought more than could fit in a good medium size car. Five duffel bags was my limit. I used to see this truck in Hungary, Slovenia and in between. Picture courtesy of Rudi. Epilogue Weird Things at the Raba Last night I had the coolest dream. In the dream I was traveling between parallel universes. It appeared that in the dream I was on the run, being pursued. Every time my pursuers got close, I would shift into a different parallel reality. This made me remember the odd effect Hungary always had on me when I was tired. This only happened in my third floor corner suite at the Raba. For the first 3 years I stayed in the same small room on the 3rd floor, south side of the hotel. The people who ran the Raba knew how funny I was in general, which included same room every trip. After 3 years they decided I should take the northwest corner suite on the third floor. So they pried me out of my little room. The funny thing was, that new room had a very odd effect on me when I was tired. Which by the way never happened in my old room on the south side of the building or anywhere else. There is no sane way to say this, so I will just say it. Whenever I got tired in that room my body would vibrate. Quite often this would result in very lucid half awake, Half dreaming experiences while my body felt like it was vibrating. On many occasion this resulted in out of body experiences. Almost always these out of body experiences were confined to the room. Though on one and only one occasion, I traveled into outer space. I believe people refer to this as astral projection. Again I will state only what I know is true, not what was trippy. In that room, only in that room. Hungary, Gyor, The Raba, Third floor suite, North West Corner. If I was tired my body would feel like it was vibrating. Followed by half awake, half sleeping, very lucid dreams. The explanation I have always half believed is this. That for every person there is one point on the Earth that has an odd effect on you. Kinda like your bodies personal Biorhythms coming into conflict or to much in harmony with the earths magnetic whatever Biorhythm. At the molecular level for both. This is really of no importance except potentially as a whopper of a story.  A Science Fiction story about Parallel Universes. The concept that an infinite number of Parallel Universes/Realities exists. A new one created with every decision every person makes. Some are not much different than ours. Others are radically different. The movie would tie together my dream and what I experience at the Raba. The previous Book Pez Outlaw would just be my characters back story. How and why he ended up at a particular place, at a particular point in time. For years I had been having weird out of body experiences, whenever I stayed at the Raba. What I didn't know. What nobody in our reality knew. Was that for every person on Earth there is one specific spot where the wall between two realities is very thin. That at that particular place it is possible for that person to shift into an alternate reality. That by accident I had found mine 36 feet in the air at the northwest corner of  the Raba Hotel in Gyor Hungary. I would find out later in another reality, that this accident had happened many times to many people from my reality. The hospitals for the mentally ill were full of them in this alternate reality. None had ever made it back to there own reality. Though I guess if they had maybe they too were in a hospital on this side. So as far as anybody knew in my reality and others, they had just disappeared without a trace. Nobody had ever made it back, having gone nuts from the experience. Leaving everybody on this side was blissfully unaware. The common thread for those poor souls was, they had happened on there spot exhausted & made the journey on there first encounter. The shock of it all was just to much. Me, I had flirted with the journey for 7 years. Just peaking over the edge time after time. Sometimes shifting over, then immediately shifting back. Being a creature of habit involved in a very repetitive endeavor, brought me to that spot over and over. To be exact once a month for 7 years. The thing that protected me from going nuts was my misspent youth and generally my life experiences. All the drugs & LSD had been a training exercise for what was to come. The fact that for my entire life I had been building bridges in my mind so things made sense. The end result of all this being that I view the world a little different. The way I process information is different. What is possible is different. An infinite number of possibilities, most just not recognized yet. So for seven years, once a month I flirted with making the journey. Not completely understanding what exactly I was seeing or dealing with. Until finally on 8-11-2001 something made my mind up for me. What I had never realized was that the out of body experiences were actually the shift from one reality to another. I had never stayed in the other reality because I was to fascinated with the feeling of being in between realities. Kinda trippy watching yourself. The key to that final decision to shift was the TV. You see on all trips to the Raba, the television was always on a 24 hour news channel. During this trip, this out of body experience. For the first time I looked at something other than me sitting there. I looked around the room. When I saw the TV I noticed the news alert being broadcast. What I saw on the screen forced me to concentrate on it. To focus on this new reality, discarding all consciousness of my own. By doing this, I completed the shift. The date was 8-11-2001 in both realities but in this alternate reality 2 planes had just flown into the twin towers in New York. The rest of the movie is my realization that this was going to happen in my reality also. You see it was only after returning to the USA in this alternate reality. After completing the Pez trip that I realized this was also going to happen in my reality. I had to get back to the Raba. Being pursued by officials in the new reality who were aware I was there. My presence having caused a noted disruption. Others who crossed were locked away so there presence had not noticeably changed anything. Being an anomaly, someone who didn't go nuts was a danger to them. It was imperative to them to find out why the experience had not driven me mad. Worse yet what if there were others. My only goal was to escape and get back to my reality before it was to late. ************   Things I Like.   ************ Pez Books.   picture courtesy of John Laspina price $15.00 + $2.75 shipping 21st Edition, 2010  Original Price Guide to Pez and Other Candy Dispensers.   Have you ever gone to an antique store or flea market and and wondered if you should make that pez dispenser purchase? Color variations of pez dispensers can be worth 10 times more then the more common color variation of the same dispenser. My 21st edition price guide contains 122 pages of every known pez dispenser, as well as Totems, TV Pals, Funny Face, Zepher and Yummys , and all known color variations of each, and a price range each dispenser is worth. You can easily look up the dispenser's value to determine if the dispenser you want to buy is over-priced or under-valued.  The Pez Price Guide can also be used as a check list so that you know exactly which dispensers are in your collection. Take the pez price guide everywhere you go as it fits easily in a car glove compartment.  The prices in my pez price guide have been used by insurance companies to determine the $ value of a collection.   Shipping will be as follows: to USA will be $2.75, Canada will be $3 and to Europe will be $9.  NJ residents must pay a 7% sales tax. Please note, there are NO pics in the price guide. 732-671-8575           john@jjpezpal.com           http://www.jjpezpal.com Pez Conventions.   picture courtesy of  The CoolPezMan During the 10 years I was involved in Pez, this was the one I never missed. I even liked this convention more than the one I started in California. The CoolPezMan puts on a very warm & friendly convention. Barr none this was my favorite convention. Highly recommended, if you are interested in collecting Pez. Endorsement written by Pez Outlaw aka sjglew. John 'COOLPEZMAN' Devlin 5640 B Telegraph Rd #119 St. Louis, MO 63129 Please email coolpezman@aol.com or mdevlin@aol.com for any pez convention questions. picture courtesy of The CoolPezMan _______________________________________________________________________________________ Northeast PEZ Collectors Gathering, 13th year in 2011, April 7-9 Stamford CT Largest PEZ convention on the east coast! www.PezGathering.com _______________________________________________________________________________________   PEZ in the Sun, 10th year 2010, Oct 28-30th, Sunny Myrtle Beach, SC Take a vacation and get some PEZzing in. Something for everyone in the family. (Best of all it's FREE to attend)    www.PezGathering.com  __________________________________________________________________________________   Pez Websites.   Myspace4Pezheads.com   picture courtesy of Richie A really cool online community for PEZheads. Pictures, videos, blogs, forums and 1500 members strong! Myspace4Pezheads.com  The following endorsement is by Pez Outlaw aka sjglew This is the Pez Website I am a member of. It's a terrific website & Richie is a very good host. Highly recommended if you are interested in or collect Pez Dispensers.     Thanks for viewing. If you want to read the rough draft for this proposed book, movie or video game. The real story about Pez in the 1990s? Pez Outlaw by sj glew. Check out - pezoutlaw.com If you want to read the rough draft for this proposed book or movie. The real story about Pez in the 1990s? Pez Outlaw by sj glew. Check out - pezoutlaw.com Please e-mail us with any questions BORSMENTA@MSN.COM SJ GLEW 5611 LEHMAN RD DEWITT MI 48820-9151