Just bought a huge TY beanie baby collection for $36

[toys2cool]

yeah I know but before you guys make fun of me, i got a sweet deal..I've always kind of liked them a little bit and back in it's glory days my mom use to collect them a little bit...well i walk in a thrift shop today and find that they are 4-6 in a bag for $0.95, all with tags and the plastic protective thingy on the tag...I said what the hell, is not everyday you can build an instant collection of anything for $36, I bought 36 bags!!! about 160-200 pieces

it'll be good if i ever have a baby girl :grin:


anyone else have any left? I think i got a steal considering what some collectors use to pay ;)

[Earth 2 Chris]

Well, if you wanted them, congrats on finding a huge chunk of them in one place like that.

But to me, Beanie Babies are a prime example of something that was insanely hot for a brief period in time and now you can't give them away for a quarter a piece. By the time the supply caught up with the initial demand, the demand was almost gone.

I worked at comic shop during their heyday, and my boss just couldn't resist the temptation to carry them. He sent me out to every gift shop in a 6 county area to scrounge them up. He didn't mark them up much, he just wanted to generate traffic. The shop was also an office supply store(!), and he figured the older ladies that were after those things might need a stapler too.

It even extended to the McDonald's promotion. He sent me through the drive-thru after new ones up to 3 times in one day!!! I was so glad when that fad started to fade.

Sorry, I had to vent a bit. I loved that job, and my boss there is one of the finest people I've ever known, but the Beanie Babies were the one negative of my otherwise great work experience there.

Chris

[david_b]

I remember walking into one of my staff sergeant's offices up at a military post here back around '96 and he had 'em all over his office.

Didn't quite meet my expectations on displaying 'military bearing'.., but y'know. :no:


david_b

[BlackKnight]

My Old Lady Collects all the Halloween, Xmas and Easter 1's.

[toys2cool]

Well, if you wanted them, congrats on finding a huge chunk of them in one place like that.

But to me, Beanie Babies are a prime example of something that was insanely hot for a brief period in time and now you can't give them away for a quarter a piece. By the time the supply caught up with the initial demand, the demand was almost gone.

I worked at comic shop during their heyday, and my boss just couldn't resist the temptation to carry them. He sent me out to every gift shop in a 6 county area to scrounge them up. He didn't mark them up much, he just wanted to generate traffic. The shop was also an office supply store(!), and he figured the older ladies that were after those things might need a stapler too.

It even extended to the McDonald's promotion. He sent me through the drive-thru after new ones up to 3 times in one day!!! I was so glad when that fad started to fade.

Sorry, I had to vent a bit. I loved that job, and my boss there is one of the finest people I've ever known, but the Beanie Babies were the one negative of my otherwise great work experience there.

Chris

yup i remember my local shop doing the exact same thing :smiley1:

[toys2cool]

My Old Lady Collects all the Halloween, Xmas and Easter 1's.

yea the Halloween ones are cool :grin:

back in the day i only collected the sports ones and Wrestling ones...which aren't TY but same crap :grin:

[Mikey]

My only experience with them was some years ago (I forgot when) I was browsing a Hallmark shop with my sister and her daughter.

My neice spotted a purple bear and said it's worth money.

It was store price.

I took a shot and bought one for her and me.

I made a few calls within the next fews days and wound up trading it for $50.00 worth of store credit at a collectible shop (in Lees)

I think I wound up getting some cool Remco wrestlers in trade -- including Scott Hall :grin:

That's my only Beanie experience :)

[toys2cool]

My only experience with them was some years ago (I forgot when) I was browsing a Hallmark shop with my sister and her daughter.

My neice spotted a purple bear and said it's worth money.

It was store price.

I took a shot and bought one for her and me.

I made a few calls within the next fews days and wound up trading it for $50.00 worth of store credit at a collectible shop (in Lees)

I think I wound up getting some cool Remco wrestlers in trade -- including Scott Hall :grin:

That's my only Beanie experience :)

was it the Princess Diana one with the white rose? i remember the big deal with that one

[Earth 2 Chris]

Oh yeah, that one was insane at the time.

My wife came across a tye-dyed one called "Garcia" (as in "Jerry..."). She ended up trading it for some decent Barbies.

Chris

[Mikey]

was it the Princess Diana one with the white rose? i remember the big deal with that one

I honestly don't know ... I just remember it was purple and it was a bear :)

[Werewolf]

My Mom used to be really into these. I still have the Godzilla ones and a large Halloween Bear. They're cute and were inexpensive and fun to collect before the scaplers and speculators decimated the hobby.

[EMCE Hammer]

I was hoping you'd post that you took the stuffing out and made them into pelts for all your Megos to wear:-)

I have a trunk full of them that were my daughter's, and my younger boys have the odd one here and there mixed in with their other stuffed animals. I have a few sports ones that aren't real Ty, but I think they're cool. I might have sprung for them at that price too. I cam across a similar situation with dozens of Simpsons figures in bags at a thrift a few months ago. In the end I decided I needed the space more and left them for someone else.

[toys2cool]

I was hoping you'd post that you took the stuffing out and made them into pelts for all your Megos to wear:-)

I have a trunk full of them that were my daughter's, and my younger boys have the odd one here and there mixed in with their other stuffed animals. I have a few sports ones that aren't real Ty, but I think they're cool. I might have sprung for them at that price too. I cam across a similar situation with dozens of Simpsons figures in bags at a thrift a few months ago. In the end I decided I needed the space more and left them for someone else.

man i would've taken them Simpsons :grin:

[jwyblejr]

I remember the stories of truck drivers smuggling them out of Canada. The ones that retired here first,would be retired in Canada later. There was suppose to be a limit on how many you could bring back. Truck drivers were said to smuggle them in all sorts of weird places.

[Batman]

Pics???

[TrueDave]

Beanie Babies and Pogs,
Beanie Babies and Pogs.

I just hope somebody learned something somewhere.

Saw a Judge Judy where a lady was suing for buying a Fake Beanie.
Judy ripped her a new one, said she personally collected fine jewerly.

Also what was called teh first crimminal court legislation with toys was a woman in the 1990s from Florida who stole customers credit card numbers from the Tourist resort she worked at.
She was fined , etc but also senetenced to not be allowed to collect Beanie Babies anymore.
I think I read that in Toy Shop Newspaper.

If You do skin the Babies , have the Megos go on a hunt, with extreme prejudice.
Me? i'd just give them away at Halloween or something to kids.
Or hey , "CORNHOLE" is popular here, they are bean bags after all . . . . .

[toys2cool]

naw, i'm saving them for the first baby girl in the family...it may not be something we action figure collectors appreciate but a little girl might..

and someday they might be worth something again, if everyone keeps throwing them away, someday that might be a good thing

[toys2cool]

Pics???

i just put them in 2 storage cases