I actually had received a message about these reels, too, from someone in Canada before someone in the US bought them. Who knew the Berenstain Bears were so popular for View-Master?
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I actually had received a message about these reels, too, from someone in Canada before someone in the US bought them. Who knew the Berenstain Bears were so popular for View-Master?
How cute is this? I think the best part is that it can stand up on the eyepieces, which double as the elephant's legs. No wait, the best part is the handle to advance the slides: it's like the elephant is waving at you. Well, this is definitely something to keep in my collection rather than sell on eBay!
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.
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?