A Nice Piece Added To The Vintage Care Bears Collection

I'm watching America's Funniest Home Videos; can you believe that show has been on the air for 23 seasons.  I wonder how many clips of golf balls to the groin have been shown all these years.

I once read that Bob Saget's least favorite video from his time hosting the show was a clip featuring two young children who were brothers; the older brother is shown sleeping on a floor while the younger brother is sitting over him.  The younger brother begins to dig for gold up his nasal cavity - a few seconds later he brings home a nugget which he then proceeds to put in his brothers open mouth.

Anyway enough about the 90s nostalgica and slightly disgusting booger-to-mouth stories - let's turn the flux capacitor dial back a few years and into the mid-80s shall we.

I recently purchased an item online for my vintage Care Bears collection that I felt like sharing up here on the blog.  I would totally label this one an 'on the whim' pickup as I pulled the trigger and clicked the "Buy It Now!" button just a few moments after stumbling across this gem.  It was just something that I felt like I had to have.

This Play-Doh Care Bear Cousins Playset was made by Kenner and released in 1984.  I basically could have bought this for the box art alone not to mention the fact that I've never seen another one of these Play-Doh playsets through my online vintage Care Bear searches.

There's another Play-Doh playset released from the Care Bears line featuring just the Care Bears themselves.  I personally have yet to see that one make an appearance online.

The set itself is missing just a couple of small pieces such as a sculpting knife and a rolling pin.  If there were any additional papers/instructions that came with the playset then those are absent as well.

Oh yeah, I also just wanted to mention that the seller had a "Best Offer" option available but went ahead and rejected my offer that was just $3 less than his asking price.  Why even bother.

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1983 Care Bears Pizza Hut Glasses

When I think about Care Bears I really can't help but also think about pizza.

Okay, not exactly but Pizza Hut seemed to think so as they produced several promotional items during the 80s featuring the those lovable bears.

For instance, in 1983 the pizza franchise released a set of six glasses each featuring one of the Care Bears; Cheer Bear, Good Luck Bear, Friend Bear, Tenderheart Bear, Grumpy Bear, and Funshine Bear.  Two glasses for the price of just 99 cents with the purchase of a - what else, a pizza.

We've only been lucky enough to thrift a Grumpy Bear glass in the past - which met it's demise after taking a fall to the floor.

But for Christmas I was gifted a near complete set of these glasses.  Missing just two from the set: Friend Bear and Good Luck Bear.  It appears that those two had a much lower production run than the main 4 hence why they can be found in the $30+ price range on the secondary market.

Here's the official Pizza Hut commercial for these glasses.  I find it funny that they only mention four of the Bears and make it seem as if they were the only tumblers released.

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