Collectible Promo Glasses Of The ‘70s, ‘80s, & ‘90s
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In the ‘70s, ‘80s, & ‘90s there were few promotional items as prevalent as collectible drink glasses. Fast food joints, cereal makers, department stores, and snack brands were just some of the ways to get these decorative delights.
In this video we’ll look back at some of the history and variety of collectible glasses. So pour some Tang, drop in some ice, and take a nice sip of nostalgia.
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Oh, the Smurfs glasses!! 😅❤❤❤
This video hit me kinda hard. My youngest Aunt Donna would get so many of the glasses in this video. She went out of her way to do things like that for us kids. It's been just over a week since she passed, and seeing some of those glasses finally made me cry. Thank you for reminding me of a sweeter time and of a good woman's love of a bunch of brats.
Very sorry for your loss. We hope that we can continue to bring some small amount of joy to you while you’re healing. Thank you for sharing.
My condolences. I empathize as I remember going out with my mom to collect the Arby's Christmas glasses and the Great Muppet Caper. I miss her and dad.
@@katerbiller04 thank you
I have one of the Disney glasses from the early 2000s. And I had a Shrek glass as well both from McDonald's.
Did Shrek disappear or get sold off/given away?
The Garfield mugs were from 1987. 1978 is the year the Garfield comic strip premiered. I wasn't alive through most of 1978 (I was born December that year) and I remember very well the Garfield promotion. We had the whole set at one time, but most of the glasses ended up breaking. Heck, Garfield's design was completely different in 1987 than it was in 1978.
All good points! Unfortunate that the glasses you had ended up breaking though.
My. Favorite. Glasses. Were. ET. And. The. Smurfs. I. Still. Wished. I. Had
Them. They. Were.A. lot. Of. Fun
Yes. They. Were. 😂
I collected many McDonald’s Disney glasses! ❤
Which ones did you have?
@@RetroDaze Cinderella, Snow White and Lady and the Tramp
Watching this while drinking Dr Pepper out of a Porky Pig glass
Ha! Appropriate. But steer clear of the paint 😉.
Had the Flintstone ones.
All of them?
@@RetroDaze I remember having like six of them.
@@RetroDaze We had all 4 and used them, none are left :( I still have one Disney tumbler and 2 cool Lord of the Rings tall goblets that had a red light which snapped to bottom and would light up a glass of water or 7up. I gave them to my 1st born son when he moved out.
I got a Captain Crook glass when I was a kid. It was a rare item in my house. We went to McDonald's probably once a year.
Captain Crook is kind of a forgotten character in McDonald’s history. Still have the glass?
@@RetroDaze Unfortunately it broke at some point before my parents moved. At least I didn't scrape off the paint and eat it.
😆 This is true.
My favorites that I keep thinking of tracking down again are the Garfield McDonald's glasses and the McDonaldland character glasses.
We also had cool Phillies glasses in the 90's I remember from I think McDonalds, or maybe it was Burger King. But, it was the phillies logo and cool designs, one I remember most had like what I think they called zubaz design in the team colors. Wonder if they had those all around the country for various teams depending what area of the country?
Sounds like a team-specific promotion. Depending on where you lived.
@@RetroDaze Surprisingly it seemed to just be the Phillies, they came out in 1993. I did some ebay searching and tried plugging in about ten other random teams from around the country and nothing pops up.
Looking at wiki now, looks like they were in the World Series that year, so must be why. They did lose though, to the Blue Jays, and just looking now, there doesn't appear to be any in that style for the Blue Jays neither.
Next time add the 1963 Anchor Hocking "Universal Monsters" 4 glass set (Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man and the Creature from the Black Lagoon). Free with purchase at Wisco 99 gas stations.
We would totally be all about those! We love us some Universal Monsters!
I had the Creature From the Black Lagoon tumbler from that set, lost in the Loma Prieta quake of '89(along with everything else made of glass that I owned).
@@RetroDaze There was a 5 glass1980 set with Frank, Drac, Wolf, Creature and Metaluna Mutant. I think Spencer Gifts had those. Several more sets in recent years, too.
I think we had some glasses with images printed on them, especially the Welch's ones (which this video reminded me of), but for the life of me I can't remember which ones. What I can remember vividly is the Batman Forever glasses. I had all of them and they were great.
They were a fun deviation from the standard painted on glasses. Very cool designs. Definitely in line with the ‘90s and taking things to the next level.
Cadmium HOOOOOOO!!!!
😆 We like our fun to be dangerous, even if it just involves drinking.
@@RetroDaze speak for yourself, my cousins and me used to suck on honeysuckle and play with horse chestnuts
My favorite collectible glasses and the ones I wish I still had or set released by Burger King in the early 2000s for the Lord of the rings. They were a wine goblet looking thing with a light attachment at the bottom that will light up your drink
Those were very cool for sure.
My brother has all four Great Muppet Caper glasses (minus the management only fifth glass), and they remain unused to this day.
That is awesome! Maybe one day he’ll get ahold of one of those fifth glasses.
I still have my Empire Strikes Back glass from Burger King
@@thenatureboy1837 Awesome! Bet you’re glad you hung on to those.
There was a fifth managers glass for that Taco Bell Star Trek collection.
@@malindner No way! Would like to check that out.
@@RetroDaze oof…. Totally wrong about that! Battlestar Galactic had a managers glass not Star Trek!!!
I drink from the Batman ones
Those are safe to do so from at least. 😆
Ah, lead paint.
I still have my Garfield glass mugs.
Awesome! Hold on to those. Lead and all.
I pick these up here and there when I see them. Got a really cool '78 Superman movie one at an estate sale for a buck. Not gonna drink out of any of them for sure, but they make great display pieces.
Agreed. They are a lot of fun to show off.
Garfield mug. Had all of them at one time-
Kids now a days will never know the excitement of going to McDonald's or BK and getting glasses and happy meal toys based on the film they where about to go see, streaming killed another piece of Americana!
It was perhaps more exciting than it should have been, but who cares! We loved them! 😆
I remember ALL of these glasses😃Now I feel old🤣Thank you RetroDaze for this👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
It is our pleasure! Well, not the feeling old part. 😆
Give me the complete collection of DC and Marvel Comics cups collectors plastic cups. In the 70s you could get them for the price of a slurpee. I had Wonder Woman, Flash , Robin and The Joker. Boy do I miss those cups.😢
Plastic cups were sometimes the more desirable choice. Less chance you might break them!
I picked up a set of glasses and plastic tumblers, McDonald’s and Burger King, at a flea market for $12, Star Wars Returns Of The Jedi. Glasses are mint but the tumblers are a little faded but graphics are great!
Very nice finds! Especially if the designs are still completely intact.
Had the Great Muppet Caper glasses as well as Empire Strikes back with some others I'm sure. Now have several Smurf glasses, set of the Return of the Jedi glasses and the Happiness Hotel bus glass. Also some Loony Toons glasses floating around here. I think everyone on the planet had those. I can remember going to a friends house and that was the glasses we drank from at dinner.
Seems as though you still have a nice little collection happening there. Very cool!
One of my favorite glasses is the 70's A&W sets, with their bear mascot. Their orange and brown color scheme fit perfectly with the era.
Agreed! Pour some ice cold, frothy A&W in one and you’ve got the makings of a great afternoon.
We unpacked some theme glasses from fast food places like the old Smurfs and Garfield. They're probably from the 80's
Excellent! Definitely hang on to those. They make for fun displays and may even be worth some decent cash.
@@RetroDaze Thanks and good call there. I still have my Gremlins 5 books with the record's set from the 80's. They are from 1984.
I have those as well! (Tony G., producer)
I finally completed my set I’ve had since my youth by finding the fifth book/record at Retro Con a couple years back.
I remember B. C. glasses; I believe they were from a gas station.
Arbys
B.C.!? Wow. You didn’t see much merchandise featuring that strip.
Next, 7-11 collector cups!
Heck yeah! There are so many great collector cups that we’d need multiple episodes!
When I was growing up my grandma had Smurf glasses that my cousins, sister, and I would love to drink from, but since they were glass we wound up breaking many of them. One visit as an adult, my wife and I visited a local flea market and found some. We bought them to give to my grandma to replace ones we broke as kids. She told me to keep all of them, including the ones she still had. I have them in a cabinet in our house now. They have new sentimental value since she passed 2 Christmases ago.
Sorry to learn of her passing, but it is fantastic that not only did you find some years later, but you also got to keep the ones she had. Very special for sure.
My favorites were the Arbys Looney tunes glasses from the 70s and I loved the Marvel and Dc Slurpee cups from the convenience stores.
The plastic collectors cups are a whole other world! Sooo many to cover. Perhaps give it a try though at some point.
Garfield mugs were 87 my mom had the whole set. I was 8-9. We also had Peanuts, Smurfs, Pac-Man, ET and Alvin and the Chipmunks sets. I would get very sad when the paint would start to peel when they were being washed. We were poor. We didn't have room for glasses that were not functional.
That was one of the great things about those glasses… if money was tight, they were cheap, they were cool looking, and functional.
Loved this vid, it really takes me back. Growing up, my sibs and I had the Flintstones juice glasses. While those are long gone, I still have all the Star Trek and Star Wars glasses and BKs 1990s Coca Cola glasses.
Very solid collection! Many good ones on there.
I had the Welch's Tom and Jerry jelly glasses. I still have the the one where Jerry is on the skateboard. Great Episode, 🤘🏻👍🏻🇺🇲
Thank you once again Z Man. We love our regulars! Hang on to those Tom & Jerry glasses!
Empire Strikes Back was my favorite. Wish I still had mine.
I have all three movie sets displayed.
What happened to them?
@@dpc374Nice!!
"Or want to have?" to add to that question on the end of this video.
Quite a few you have an eye out for?
Back when everything was better
Well, there definitely were a great many things that we wouldn’t mind having never changed with time.
I think i still have that pegasus hercules plate. I have search for Spock glass and a star trek 2009 glass from burger king
Very cool that you have that Star Trek glass!
I got some super hero glasses at some restaurant in the 1970s I was hooked on collecting caracter glasses.
They were collectible AND functional!
just wanna complete some of the sets that I have incomplete now. Great video!!
Thanks Jason! What sets are you looking to complete?
I loved Welch's jelly glasses! Warner bros.
It seemed earlier than 78 for the wb collection.
They had a nice variety of WB characters on those glasses through the years.
I just purchased a set of four Burger Chef King King glasses from 1976. The artwork is pretty detailed. I often see various character glasses around antique shops. Lots of looney tunes. The dc comics ones are harder to find.
Some here mentioned having some of the DC character glasses at one time but no longer had them.
I have about. 700 of these glasses
The Smurf, CareBear, Star Trek, Garfield & The Muppets where my fave
Care Bears! Were those at retail or promotional?
@@RetroDazeThose were put out by Pizza Hut.
I remember we had the Garfield glasses. I'm sure we had others but none of them survived, or maybe were taken to Goodwill. If you go to an Antique Mall you should find some collector's glasses for sale. Thanks for the video.
Thank YOU for watching and joining us on this nostalgic journey!
This a great video!
Omg i want those peanuts glzsses! And the Marvin the Martian
Peanuts rule!!! Thank you for giving this a watch Sieren.
@@RetroDaze I LOVE Peanut Butter!
Toledo, Ohio here. My Grandfather a WW2 Navy Veteran worked for Libby Glass up till his death in 1970. And the Building depicted in the segment is the Owens-Illinois building built in 1932 they occupied it until they built another tower in Downtown Toledo's Riverfront in 1982, some time later in 2000s they relocated yet again i believe to Perrysburg ohio. Toledo certainly has a Rich History in Glass as Well as Jeep, Champion spark plug and Dana axles.
That’s very cool to have that connection to these glasses in your family AND your community. Thank you for sharing that.
yeah lead n radioactive paint. 🍻
We’re all going to turn into the ghouls from Fallout.
I remember having a bunch of Welch's glasses growing up. My family had a serious obsession with jelly. Plus with 7 kids in the house (and our friends), you could imagine how fast we would go through that.
Very cool! Did you have any personal favorites in the bunch?
Speaking of fast food promos I recall in the late 80's Burger King would give you an ultra thin 45 record to play and it had their classic jingle about "special orders don't upset us" If you got the winning record it played all the way to the end you would win a prize but if you got a non winning record the jingle would stop about halfway through like the music stopped and the singers were bummed about it.
😆 I wonder if that tune can be found online somewhere?
I still have and use the coke glass
You use it? Probably not a great idea. 😆
In '01 Burger King released a set of 4 Lord of the Rings etched glass goblets that lit up. I had them all but sadly lost them over the years. Definitely my favorite ever
Don’t recall those. They sound amazing though! Need to search these out.
I remember and had at one time or another slot of those glasses. My sister used to always look for a ziggy glass but could never find one before she passed. To this day i can't help but look for it as I pass them in thrift stores. I have a BC cartoon glass and I colected the batman mugs for my son. Thhanks!
Nice collection Angela! Any that you wish you would have gotten back then?
We had the Peanuts camping from McDonald's. Still have it to this day.
Nice! Hang on to those babies.
The Burger Chef Empire Strikes Back glasses. :)
@@HonkyTonkBuffalo They are real collector’s items now! Fetching big prices.
Omg I so remember these!
Glad to jog the old memory!
I miss those glasses! I had the Muppets on a bus one and a couple of the Snoopy ones. And it seemed like there was always someone with limited edition glasses.
Makes you wonder just how limited some of those actually were.
@@RetroDaze Yep. Though like the ones from Godfather's are rare cause, how many locations did they even have at the time? Not a lot of people had a chance to get those.
@@laurenmp7486 I know at least for me (Tony G.) that we did not have a Godfather’s Pizza anywhere near us.
@@RetroDaze I think maybe there were a few in the Chicago suburbs back then. If there were, it was a very few and in the more far away suburbs. I never saw TV ads for them as a kid.
I've got a set of the `76 King Kong ones packed away somewhere.
Woah! That’s awesome. A very underrated outing for the big ape, that film.
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@@RetroDaze u know it!🤟💯
I've got one of the Garfield glass mugs. It says, "I'm easy to get along with when things go my way!"
Ha! That is about as “Garfield” a thing to say as there is.
I spent all my money as an 80's kid ! I loved all of it
No better time to have spent money! 😆 So much to get and enjoy, so little time!
The Alvin and the Chipmunk glasses were always my favorite
Were those promotional or store purchased?
@@RetroDaze promotional from Hardee's
Wow! Very cool.
We had a huge cabinet full of those drinking glasses. Smurfs, Star wars, too many to remember. One day my dad was doing something and had to move the cabinet and dropped it! All those glasses broke! I can still remember the sound of it crashing to the ground. LOL
Holy cow. What an awful feeling he must have felt. That stinks!
wow had no idea there were so many! I remember the batman forever set I think we had a couple of those. would've loved the arby's pac-man set though, although I can't imagine namco-bandai not selling a modern equivalent, I wouldn't be surprised.
At the very least they probably still make plastic cups with our favorite yellow orb on them.
I also have a couple Garfield mugs
Hold on to those babies!
I have over 400 of these!
Really!? That’s incredible! What are your favorites?
We have a bar in our basement full of these type of glasses. My mother put them in the dishwasher and destroyed them
Aww… that stinks. Thinking of searching out replacements with less damage? Some are still pretty reasonably priced on Ebay and Etsy.
Hey RetroDaze, as usual I admire your thoroghness here and loved the history you covered. Just as a suggestion on a related topic, I was a big fan of Waffelos Cereal when I was a kid. It was a cereal shaped like and tasting like waffles, but as tasty as it was, what was really cool about it is the cereal boxes had cutout buildings that if you collected them all, they made an a Western town!
That is awesome! You would think something like that would have been more prevalent on cereal boxes.
Thank you for the kind words too!
I didn't elaborate too much in this one, because I figured you knew about it (I thought you may have already covered it, in fact, since it was from the late 70s and early 80s) but there were nine buildings in total. Also, the mascot was a Wild West character named Waffelo Bill, and there was a bunch of great commercials for them. You may want to check out the history of this if you're oblivious to it...
That sounds fun! We’ll definitely look into this more.
I have a burger king lord of the rings mug that lights up
That is very cool!
Me too! one in the box and one to show my dominance at the dinner table!