Keep or Sell?

When I started picking up View-Master reels with the idea of selling them on eBay, I would get out a viewer, look at the reels once, and figure I'd enjoyed them and could pass them along. Now I've started to feel more of a dilemma and been more inclined to keep some of the sets. After all, they don't take up much space, right?

I was looking through some reels I'd picked up last week and there were some very cute Sesame Street ones. Won't my little nephew want to look at these one day? Also, there was a great Godzilla set which took place in Seattle, with Godzilla rising from Puget Sound with the Space Needle in the background; as a lifelong Seattle area resident, I wasn't sure I should part with that one.

On the one hand, I could focus more on selling things on eBay I feel more detached about, and then this dilemma would never arise, but on the other hand, it's much more fun to sell things you really enjoy.

I listed a couple of vintage sets last night and this morning, including this one from The Black Hole, a Disney live-action sci-fi movie from the 1970s. It has lots of cool retro images of robots and spaceships. I never saw the movie myself, so it doesn't have a hold on me the way other Disney movies like, oh, The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills does.

View-Masters I Have Owned

When I think back on the View-Master toys I had as a kid, I can remember having a classic red viewer, and I can also remember having a blue projector. I think my brother and I got the projector for Christmas one year (Santa would sometimes give us a shared present), and it came with a bunch of reels from The Muppets. I asked my mom the other day if she thought this set was still up in the attic, and she said she might have taken it to preschool (she's a retired preschool teacher). Well, I guess we'll see if it turns up one day; I don't care about the projector, but I'd love to have the Muppet reels!

Yesterday at a local Goodwill store, I found a three-reel set telling the story of Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, which wasn't a set I had as a kid, but I had a Disney storybook with that story and loved it very much. So it was almost like finding a View-Master set I could remember from my childhood.

Are there specific sets you remember?