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To shed some light on this.
My hope of a Pez Outlaw movie is more than a pipe dream. For a year n a half I had a contract with an Oscar winning producer n one of the biggest studios in hollywood.
This story takes place 20yrs ago. I view that long ago adventure of a lifetime with you now.
My hope is that you enjoy hearing the story as much as I did living it.
Sometimes in the middle of offhandedly telling parts of the Pez Outlaw story to someone unaware I catch the look in there eyes or expression on there face.
At that moment I realize exactly how unbelievable n crazy the Pez Outlaw story truly is.
Most of the stories you've heard or read about Pez Outlaw are true, not all but most.Truthfully most of it's so bizarre, nobody would believe you if you made it up.
Imagine the excitement of exceeding your life's dreams, that was my life for a decade.
Crazy stupid amounts of money.
Wishes n dreams fulfilled, the excitement of that time was intoxicating.
My
background coming from the lower middle class with much lower
expectations did not prepare me for this decade of things happening so
fast n going my way.
Add to that the fact that I was walking a very fine line between legal n illegal.
A fact that didn't bother me as much as maybe it should've.
So many hushed conversations where things were spoke of in an abstract shorthand, even when you'd think nobody could possibly hear.
Bribes to grease the wheels n routes chosen very carefully to avoid detection.
Flamboyant when selling but maintaining an undetectable profile when buying.
What a crazy decade.
For ten years I had the unexpected pleasure of traveling to Europe & other areas of the world searching for Pez. A more noble journey would have been in search of wisdom or truth. My journey was in search of Plastic.
My lifestyle allowed me to travel Worldwide roughly 10 times per year for most of 10 years. Each trip lasted 4 to 8 days. Some of the trips were more of a whirlwind affair involving many countries on the same trip. Austria to Hungary, Sweden to Hungary, South Africa to Hungary, Slovenia to Hungary, France n Germany to Hungary. Somehow I always ended up in Hungary. I also took my dream trip to Australia. I don't miss it, especially with flying being what it is today. Though for ten years it was my life & beyond what I ever thought possible.
Everywhere I went people on the hustle with a recent jolt of freedom. Eastern Europe was to me a real contradiction. Remnants of the old oppression side by side with the new energy of a fresh batch of entrepreneurs. My timing could not have been better, the perfect marriage of an idea, the will to act on it n the environment for it to be possible.
In my years as Pez Outlaw I bought n sold well over 2 Million Pez Dispensers.
I earned $30,000.00 in one weekend at 1 Pez Convention.
My best day of sales Mail order was $15,000.00 in 1 freaking day.
In my Pez Outlaw Decade I earned 4.5 Million Dollars.
I traveled to Europe in excess of 70 times in 1 decade, + Australia n South Africa.
Pez Outlaw created The California Pez Convention n immediately GAVE IT AWAY.
In the 1990s a major cable channel contacted Pez Outlaw thinking I was Pez Corporation.
I can't stress the significance of that n that it happened because my activities were so big at that time that they would get that confused.
opening shot
1994 Flight to Ljubljana. After waiting all night on benches in a
small corner of the Vienna airport finally it was time to board. We
walk out onto the airstrip & are directed to board Sky Kings
plane.
Pilot copilot & 4 seats for passengers. One of the seats occupied by the overweight male stewardess handing out sandwiches from Rubbermaid containers. This did not look good. The flight turned out to be quite similar to a ride on a scary roller coaster with the male stewardess in your lap more than his own seat. Something to do with flying over the Alps in winter in a small plane, wind currents, downdrafts & low altitudes. We drove clown cars down through the mountains after that. The single most beautiful drive you will ever take is a winter drive from Vienna to Ljubljana through the mountains. The air is crisp & clean. The scenery unmatched anywhere in all my travels. Whenever I think of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen it is that drive in winter. Though driving clown cars through serious mountains can be a harrowing experience.
Wardrobe.
Me in my Trench Coat n Midnight Blue Velour Track Suit, clutching a
paper towel in my left hand for security, true story. On the flight from
the US to Europe I would
not let the Flight Attendants take my coat as I did not trust anybody.
Sitting in my seat on that flight to Slovenia, I began wondering how I ended up here, sure I was about to die.
The whispered word "Kolinska" that led me to that moment in
time. From 1970 to 1990 I had been an accumulator of things old, from
1990 to 1994 I started doing antique n toy shows as a seller. During
1993 I started
selling Pez from Canada, which led to the decade that changed my life's direction forever. All the previous was reflection while sitting on this plane ride from Hell, from here the adventure begins.
The story unfolds.
Reality TV pales in comparison to the life I lived for 11 years. Hungary - 700,000 Pez Smuggled. Pez Outlaw
Spies, Black market deals, smuggling and Bribery.
Final shot.
As the credits roll show a backshot of Pez Outlaw today sitting on set in the dark watching his life being made into a Hollywood Movie.
To me this is the money shot, telling the audience that after all that they just watched HE WON.
Life
is hard n people need the encouragement of seeing that if you stick
with it n believe in yourself, you actually can succeed.