Guide to Collecting Promotional Glasses

etThere 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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