Hey guys,
do u remember the beanie baby craze?
Did any of u collect any of those?
and if so have u tried to sell them?
and how much profit were u able to make?

I have at leat 100 of those critters :D
maybe one day they will make me rich:lol:

I remember Beanies!! Everyone in the UK was mad on them about 3 years ago. I have a few but I never bought any of them myself - they were given to me by other people. I've got a cat, a pig, a cow and about 4 different bears.
One of my bears is apparantly worth quite a bit of money but I was never that fanatical about beanies to actually worry about how much mine were worth.

lol!! i had soo many of those things in 5th and 6th grade...now they decorate my room...i have them on shelves over the windows and behind the door..everywhere...

(my favorites were Twigs, Snip, Speedy, Chops, and Gigi, lol. the most recent ones i got were Righty and Siam...lol, theyre still pretty cute)

I have a lot of the bears and a few others. I don't have like 268094 of them, though

LOL I have tons of those. I remember when I was 9 my friend and I brought a diff one to school everyday to put on our desk and our teacher would always come up to us and say how cute they were. I even have those tiny ones from McDonalds (ugh we ate there like everyday to get a new one and by the time it was over I was ready to puke over McDonalds...havn't been a big fan of it since :lol: ) I never tried to sell them though...I don't even think they're worth much cause so many ppl have them.

I have about 10 of them in my room but I don't want to sell them yet.

Yeah i collected quite a few a those ......I am kinda sorry I did buy so many i spent couple hundred on all of em. I hope that one day they will be worth.....but i doubt it .They used to say the princess bear was worth alor of money but i saw one in an antique store for like 30$....so i dunno:confused: They only ones who made a lot of money are the TY company.:lol:

But they are so cute!:D
http://www.theturtletrail.com/ttt/pic/beanie/frisco-l.gif

Originally posted by Bad_Company

But they are so cute!:D
http://www.theturtletrail.com/ttt/pic/beanie/frisco-l.gif

My beanie cat is just like that - 'cept it's brown, not grey. It's called Pounce and was 'born' on August 28, 1997.

I own five, they were all gifts though. :lol:

And I have a mini one from McDonald's. :lol:

Oh back in '98 I remember the Beanie Craze here! Dude, I was really hookd on those things... I have 125+.. and all the mini ones from McDonalds! LoL!.. My fave has to be Clubby, because it was born on the same date as me, and it's just so tight... I also like Erin, Princess Diana, Twigs, The Beginning, the Holiday Bears, Bones, Peanut, and ohers... lol... and I havent sold them. I'm saving them!

Do you all keep the tags on them? I do...

And, here in Jacksonville, FL.. the beanie craze was sorta watered down by the Pokemon craze

Originally posted by SomersCompany3
And, here in Jacksonville, FL.. the beanie craze was sorta watered down by the Pokemon craze

I kept the tags on all my beanies - you're not meant to take them off.
Since you mentioned Pokemon I must admit I preferred Pokemon to Beanies. I used to buy Pokemon cards. I have my entire collection - I have loads of Japanese cards - displayed on my bedroom wall. I also have about 5 different t-shirts with PiKachu and Team Rocket on them.
This would all be perfectly normal and acceptable were I not 18 years old at the time!! :lol:

I agree! I loved Pokemon more than TY Beanies!... Lol... I was addicted to Pokemon as well. I always had the best cards .. lol.. I was so sad when the public started to get tired of it... :( But I still have all my cards...

They were my first obsession. I collected them when I was 8-10 years old. I think I have like.....a little over 100. It's crazy, I even paid $25 for that Princess Diana bear. And now I can't believe I'd pay $25 for a little thing like that. It seemed like I was buying at least two every week. If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be the Golden Retriever, Fetch. Aww...

http://www.workingdogs.com/images/cover/beanie_fetch.gif

I still have some of them in my room with my other animals and stuff, but a lot of them are in a big box somewhere.

Originally posted by *A TV People*
LOL I have tons of those. I remember when I was 9 my friend and I brought a diff one to school everyday to put on our desk and our teacher would always come up to us and say how cute they were. I even have those tiny ones from McDonalds (ugh we ate there like everyday to get a new one and by the time it was over I was ready to puke over McDonalds...havn't been a big fan of it since :lol: ) I never tried to sell them though...I don't even think they're worth much cause so many ppl have them.

Yeah when I was in 5th grade my friends and I used to bring a different one to school everyday. I had so many of them, even after the craze was starting to die down, my grandmas kept buying them for me. They are all in boxes in the basement now, we needed 3 boxes for all of them, but I have the Princess Diana one in my room in a special case it came in when I got it.

Yep i really got hooked I wish I had a scaner so i could show u all this pic i have with all by beanies allover me just coverd in all these beanies:lol: it's funny :D

http://www.theturtletrail.com/ttt/pic/beanie/lullaby-s.gif
Lullaby <------ awww I want this one
these are some of my favs.
http://www.bbtoystore.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/T_bones.JPGhttp://www.bbtoystore.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/T_flip.JPG
BONES & FLIP
:wave:

OMG... the beanie craze.:blush: I remember me & my mother would go to the store the day they were released and people would be lined up. We even placed orders ahead to be garaunteed. Id never sell mine though. Theyre cute.:D I still buy some.. but only the ones I really like.

My mom has a few of the cat beanies and I have a unicorn beanie. I luv unicorns and kitties! :D

:lol: Oh man I have like 400 of these things...they're all sitting on these 2 huge shelves in our extra bedroom....I haf all...or most of the really "hard to find" ones....like the Princess Di one and the Glory bear or whatever the hell its called. God those things were a waste of money.

Yep, I rememebr them in 6th grade. Our whole class even asked if we could bring them to school to put them on our desks. The limit was 5. God, I was such a dork. Everyone was. I still have all 6 of them.....in some box.....in my closet.

Ive got a storage box jammed full of them. My favs are the weiner dog and the skunk. Skunky looks like roadkill. Too cool.

I have over 30 Beanie babies. I love them, my favorite is "Princess" I think that's what it's called. It's a purple bear with a white rose on it's chest. I also have the irish bear and Valentina.

I still buy them if I see any that I don't have.

i have about 70 of them, and the penguin is my favorite

yep:D they are just too cute:talk:

My mom loved them and collected many.........

I didnt see the big thrill over them to be honest!!

Its unreal how much at one point they were going for!

I remember when Ty Beanie Babies became all the rage and I can remember my mother wanting to collect the McDonald's Teenie Beanie Babies and we had to eat McDonald's every week so Mom could get one and I always thought they looked cute and then my mother had to collect the McDonald's Teenie Beanie International Bears which were sold out in our McDonald's restaurants the minute they debuted and I can remember Dad calling every McDonald's restaurant in our area but we finally got some for Mom but how the Teenie Beanie International Bears became so hot i'll never understand. My aunt gave me my first big Ty Beanie Baby which was a bear named Pecan and she is so cute. Did you ever have Pecan The Bear too? I also like the Princess Diana bear named Princess because she is purple because purple is my favorite color and my Mom found one at a thrift shop and bought it for me and I also have the frog too

I believe Valentina was a Valentine's Day bear that TY released around February and there was also a male version called Valentino that was released to go with Valentina The Bear. And they had a bear called Billionaire too and there was also Billionaire II which was a second version of Billionaire The Bear. And there was also Garcia the tye-dye bear as well. I can honestly say that TY Beanie Babies are to blame for bean bag plushies becoming hot because once Beanie Babies became huge other companies started making their own bean bag plushies like Warner Bros Studio Stores and Disney. I'm shocked that TY is still making plushies and they're focusing on Beanie Boos which are like Beanie Babies but have big eyes and they are really cute