Internet Forces Return Of 80s Icon : WISPA !!!

THIS HAS MADE MY DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cadbury is bringing back the Wispa bar in response to demand from internet campaigners.

Icons of the eightiesThe confectionery giant will re-launch the Eighties favourite in October for a limited period.

It comes four years after the Wispa was dropped because of declining sales.

The Birmingham-based chocolate firm said the comeback was a response to online petitions and campaigns on social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo.

Thousands of fans have campaigned across scores of websites to get the Wispa back on shop shelves.

Cadbury will produce around 23 million Wispa bars packaged in the original blue wrappers for the relaunch.

The comeback could be made permanent if sales figures live up to the online hype.


Spokesman Tony Bilsborough said: "We have noticed the web interest for some time and the consumer passion has undeniably swayed our opinion to relaunch Wispa.

"This is the first time that the power of the internet played such an intrinsic role in the return of a Cadbury brand."

Wispa was launched as a pilot in 1981 and was rolled out nationally two years later.

It fuses dark chocolate and Cadbury's dairy milk in a bar which is interlaced with bubbles.

During the 1980s Cadbury used a string of actors and actresses to publicise the Wispa bar.

Ruth Madoc of Hi-de-Hi!, Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington of Yes Minister and Windsor Davies from It Ain't Half Hot Mum were among the celebrities who appeared in the Wispa campaigns.

The Wispa will sell for a recommended price of 42p per bar. Its 1983 launch price was just 16p.

wowhooooooooo they're gorgeous

i cant wait !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im gonna buy hundred boxes hahahaha

wispas do indeed rule although tbh i hadnt noticed they had gone

god i had .... i hope they bringing them out soon

LIKE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rob_le_shark wrote:

wispas do indeed rule although tbh i hadnt noticed they had gone

rob_le_shark wrote:

wispas do indeed rule although tbh i hadnt noticed they had gone

neither had I!!

yas must be blind or have no taste in a good chocolate bar tut tut humpf !

tbh dairy milk bubbly is pretty much the same

nope its not as velvety lol

im gna have to disagree on this one .. but im willing to take part in a testing session !!!!!!!

i bet the new wispas will taste exactly the same

Digital-Princess wrote:

yas must be blind or have no taste in a good chocolate bar tut tut humpf !

I dont like chocolate that much

im not big into chocolate either but i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeee these !


i love me crisps more though!

rob_le_shark wrote:

tbh dairy milk bubbly is pretty much the same

Disagree completly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wispas are more like Areos imo

no theyre not !!!

THEYRE WISPASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!


i disagree with u all !!!!!

yeah was thinking that actually when i was eating an aero on thursday!

You know it's true Jill.

Wispa's are the Cadbury's version of Areos. Or maybe it's the other way aroiund. I'm not sure which came first, the areo or the wispa

bog off its completly different

the air inbetween the chocolate is smaller than all those other copy cat ones

im telling u its like pure velvety heaven

if theyre out for crasher we shall have a texture test !