There are a wide variety of different promotional glasses out there, both modern and retro in nature, that feature sports figures, colorful advertising and a plethora of different characters from television shows, cartoons, movies, comic books and comic strips. These promotional glasses are excellent for bringing back fond memories of childhood while bringing a smile to your face. You will find that there are a large and ever growing selection of promotional glasses or collectible drinking glasses that you can buy online and through antique dealers and thrift stores in your area as well, including everything from Pepsi promotional glasses to Derby glasses, Welch’s Jelly glasses to Warner Brothers glasses, Disney glasses to Star Wars glasses and everything in between.

You will be able to find a wide variety of promotional glasses promoting absolutely everything from Soda brands like Pepsi and Coca Cola to favorite childhood characters including Holly Hobbie, the Flinstones, Snoopy, Looney Tunes and Disney characters.

There are a lot of popular promotional glasses that you can collect. The first step to starting a promotional glass connection is to decide what types of glasses you are interested in collecting. Here are some examples of promotional glasses that you may decide to collect. Some popular choices will include:

- Disney Glasses - Many Disney character glasses were Pepsi glasses featuring characters from Disney stories, including Mickey and Minnie mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck and characters from the 101 Dalmatians, The Rescuers and the Jungle Book.

- Warner Brothers Glasses - You can collect Warner Bros. promotional glasses by Pepsi or by Welch’s. The most common Warner Bros. characters have made it onto a lot of promotional glasses including Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil and Speedy Gonzales for example.

- Comic Character Glasses - There are comic book characters and comic strip characters that have been featured on promotional glasses including Discover Archie Comic characters, Superman, Batman and Robin, Aquaman and Green Lantern, and comic strip characters like Popeye, Peanuts, Dogpatch and other comic strips.

- Television Character Glasses - There are a number of television character glasses that you can collect including Underdog, Flintstones, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Wendy the Good Witch, Casper, Dudley Do-Right, Woody Woodpecker and many other cartoon favorites, as all of these characters have been featured on promotional glasses at some point in time.

- Star Wars Glasses - You can pick up promotional glasses featuring Star Wars characters, many of which were released by Burger King. There are Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back promotional glasses, Return of the Jedi promotional glasses and character specific promotional glasses as well including loved characters such as Luke Skywalker, C3PO, R2-D2 and Jabba the Hutt for example.

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Originally posted 2009-09-26 03:14:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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For the person who has everything, personalized gifts can be some of the most thoughtful, so why not choose personalized shot glasses? There are many advantages to this type of collectible item, both as a gift, and as something you collect yourself.

Personalized shot glasses are relatively inexpensive compared to some other kinds of gifts. A plain shot glass might make a nice, small gift, but a personalized shot glass suddenly becomes much more significant. The thought that goes into a personalized item will always make it stand out to the recipient, and the personalization that’s added, depending on the message or occasion, can add an even more special touch.

As collectibles and gifts, personalized shot glasses may be small in size, but that’s an advantage. How many times have you received a gift that was meant to be displayed, only to wish it were smaller? Especially for those who love to collect, size and space can be real issues. Mugs are a popular collector item, but take up much more room than shot glasses which are easier to display in smaller spaces. Even a large shot glass collection takes up far less room than almost all other types of collections.

Personalized shot glasses can be purchased with almost any logo, saying, name, initial or type of image engraved or printed on. While these can be purchased in a variety of places, often the best bargains are found in online auctions, especially when you’re ordering bulk purchases.

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For individual purchases, auctions can still offer great bargains. Some key things to remember when ordering collectible personalized shot glasses are to read the description and instructions carefully. Some auctions will offer personalized items that have already been engraved or printed. Some people enjoy collecting these items for their novelty value, and may have collections featuring glasses with people’s names on them, wedding or anniversary glasses, initial glasses engraved with only one letter and even personalizations that are practically undecipherable. But if you’re looking to personalize something yourself, you must be sure that’s what the auction offers.

Note if the auction is offering a choice of fonts, or just one standard type of printing. Also, look at the images available if they’re on display. If an image you want looks strange in print, it might not look much better once engraved or printed on the glass. Personalized shot glasses can also be purchased without engraving, but bearing emblems of sports teams, celebrities, countries and any type of item you can imagine.

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Originally posted 2008-10-08 14:00:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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