Buzzy Bee
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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.
As an iconic New Zealand symbol, the Buzzy Bee caricature was recently unveiled on the keel of NZL84, one of Emirates Team New Zealand's entrant yachts for the America's Cup to be held in Valencia Spain in 2007.
