Buzzy Bee

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A modern Buzzy Bee
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A modern Buzzy Bee
A children's ride in the shape of a Buzzy Bee in Warkworth
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A children's ride in the shape of a Buzzy Bee in Warkworth

The Buzzy Bee is a popular children's toy in New Zealand. It resembling a bee with rotating wings that move while the toy is pulled along the ground. Designed and first produced in the 1940s by Hec and John Ramsey, it became popular during the post-war baby boom. Its bright colours and clicking sound call are familiar to many New Zealanders, making it one of the most well-recognised items of Kiwiana.

It received a good deal of "free promotion" with the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1989 with their son, Prince William of Wales, who played with a Buzzy Bee.

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