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The first thing you’ll spot is this guy – the world’s largest PEZ dispenser! He’s pretty tall and he’s interactive. Once you have paid your admission and have your lanyard on, you can head into the visitor’s center. You also receive a $2 credit towards any purchase and you have the chance to win a PEZ dispenser. Besides entrance, you get to keep your PEZ visitor lanyard. The neat thing about PEZ is they really give you a lot with your paid admission. They offer group rates as well and you can add on a candy demonstration.

Admission to the PEZ Visitor’s Center is $5 children ages 3-12 are $4 and children under 3 are free. When you walk in through the double doors, you’ll see the admission counter. You’ll want to plan your visit wisely if seeing production is important to you. We visited on a holiday so we missed out on seeing things in operation. However, if you hope to catch a glimpse of the factory in operation, you’ll want to visit on a weekday (and NOT a holiday). The doors to the PEZ Visitor’s Center are located right by the giant PEZ on the building. Otherwise, I would have totally sniffed the air to see if that was true.

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It was raining on the day we visited so we had our windows closed. Apparently some say you can smell the PEZ when you drive into the area.

The PEZ Factory is located in an Industrial Park just off of I-95 – which makes sense, it’s a working factory. So being able to visit the PEZ Factory is a fairly new thing. And the PEZ Visitor’s Center in Orange did not open until 2011. While PEZ have been around since the 1920s, the PEZ Factory was built in Orange in the 1970s.

I understand if you are completely shocked at this fact. Since we were not that far from Orange, I told my husband, “I want to go to the PEZ Factory!” And like everyone else around here, he looked at me and said, “There’s a PEZ Factory in Connecticut?” Last month we found ourselves on the shoreline in Bridgeport for another excursion.