How The Beanie Babies Frenzy Collapsed | Rise And Fall
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- Beanie Babies were once the hottest toys in the world, sometimes being flipped for thousands of dollars in the '90s. Now, they're nearly worthless.
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How The Beanie Babies Frenzy Collapsed | Rise And Fall
My daughter used to cut them open and do “surgery” on them. She always sewed them back up. She’s in her last year of Vet School now.
“It could be our college money” is such a sad thing to hear
How sad that adults ruined something for children. Just like they always do.
I cleaned the home a woman who collected beanie babies “for her daughter” and displayed them in her daughter’s bedroom. The beanie babies had their own specially designed wall which she (the child) was not allowed to touch. As you can imagine it was over the top and the child could have cared less about the toys since she was not allowed to play with any of them. I always felt like it was rude to have toy wall in her room she couldn’t touch. I wonder how she feels about them today.
There was a claw machine at a restaurant in my small town that my family always went to on weekends. The owner had put a Princess Diana bear inside. I probably played that machine over a 1000 times trying to get that bear. You could play 1 game for $0.25. One lady put $50 in & played. She moved the bear around but didn't win. I put $1.00 in right after her & finally got it. My 10 year old ass was so proud. I had played that game for a month trying to win. That same lady actually offered me $150 when I won the bear. She then turned into a Karen & had a hissy fit about how I would ruin it. My Granny told her to kick rocks. I collected Beanie Babies. I had around 1500 of them. My lovely Granny would always have a baggie of quarters for me to play games with. I miss her so much. She was an amazing woman. I'll never get rid of that Beanie Babie.
gained popularity because of the scarcity, lost popularity because of the abundance
I never even realized the beanie baby craze was all because of their supposed monetary value. I just liked the way they looked. My dad got me a happy meal with that bluebird beanie baby one day and it was kind of like my imaginary pet for a few years.
It's the bitcoin before bitcoin.
BRING BACK THE SMALL BLACK EYES.
This is going to be NFTs
I remember i had so many beenie babies when i was a kid. Then i got a ferbie and some pokemon cards lol. Just like in the video. 1990s Kid man
My grandparents’ neighbors were two wealthy old ladies who got me a TON of Beanie Babies when I was little. They spent a fortune on them. I still have them all for sentimental reasons.
I know people that spent their entire savings on "rare" beanie babies issued by the Franklin Institute. Now, you can't sell them for a $1.00 at your yard sale.
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Bought them for my daughter because she loved them. She played with them and still has them. For us they are just as they should be, a child’s toy with very happy memories attached.
Whenever McDonald's had those tiny beanie babies in their happy meals my friends and I would stand outside of McDonald's and adults would hand us their happy meals. They had only bought the happy meals for the toys. We cleaned up and gained a lot of weight during that time. Good memories.
Watching this during the squishmallows era is wild
My daughter grew up to be a teacher. Gave her all of the beanies my kids had to be “reading buddies” for her students.
Anything that is a made to be a “collectible” isn’t worth collecting.
Wait, the "ty" on the tag was literally just the creators first name? I always thought it meant Thank You. As if the stuffed animal was saying "thank you for bringing me home". Either way this guy was a genius.