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This is the way the world once was. Full grown adults sitting around a conference table, not only talking about Beanie Babies, but providing other adults with “helpful” tips to ensure that their Beanie Babies were authentic. Never Forget. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
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My mother gets together sometimes and chats about those creepy Royal Dalton figurines. This shit will never end.
When the wife-ish and I visit her parents.. we have to sleep in a room that has two of them in it.. positioned tactfully so I can never keep both of them in my eye-line at the same time. It’s terrifying.
never remove those tags. those cute things…
Look, I know you probably can’t relate Gabe because you were already in your mid-to-late-forties when the Beanie Baby craze was at its peak, but I was not. I was maybe 9. And there was literally nothing more important to me in life than finding the Beanie Baby elephant that was the same shade of fuchsia as Inch the Inchworm’s tail, because god knows if it was darker than that it was probably a counterfeit. And truly, I should be so lucky as to find something in this world that makes me so happy again in my life.
I absolutely know what you are talking about! Beanies were MY WORLD. But I was a child and that was okay. These creepy people are NOT OKAY.
Oh wait, those people aren’t 9. That actually is creepy.
Remember in 1999 when we were all preteens and they announced that no more Beanie Babies would be made in the 21st century? That was terrifying to my nine-year-old self.
i wasn’t a preteen in 1999.
And remember when they didn’t actually stop making Beanie Babies in the 21st century but practically everyone stopped buying them anyway and the craze stopped almost immediately because of that stupid attempt to raise hype backfired?
Hey, you make fun, but that was some good lookin’ out! Nowadays, on the open market, an authentic Beanie Baby could bring you up to twenty-five cents, whereas a counterfeit would only be worth about a quarter.
That just made me snarfle all over my office. I feel bad for my co-workers, I totally have swine flu.
we all know this is the real culprit of the economic meltdown- the crash of the unregulated beanie baby markets. we should send all of these people to jail.
It was all the beanie default swaps. I heard about it on This American Life.
Oh yeah, The Giant Pool of Beanie episode. Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson did a great job.
All these has-beens talking about who “has” real beanie babies! You know what? They should all be called HAS-BEANIES!
Yes, I’ll see myself out, thank you so much for this opportunity to make you laugh and I’m sorry I’ve wasted your time.
Sadly, http://www.beaniemomwebsite.com seems to have been taken down.
i still have my goat, but my ex took the lion and the octopus.
I, like many commenters, was a child when the beanie babies craze hit. But I didn’t give a shit then and I give even less of a shit now.
But I feel bad for people who collected them religiously in hopes that their values would appreciate… Who knows, though. Maybe I’m the asshole here. Maybe in 2075, beanie babies will be the highest value item on future-Antiques Roadshow episodes.
But then again, maybe not, because Beanies don’t float, because 2012.
1. I like that the video is named Beanie Baby Beanie Baby.
2. Last night one of my friends insinuated that Friend X was a “beanie baby version” of Friend Y and I fell out of my chair and died laughing.
3. When I was in middle school, a girl in my class sold her Beanie Baby collection for enough money to BUY A HORSE/HOUSE IT/FEED IT/CLOTHE IT for like five years. Good lord.
“My mom started collecting beanie babies about four years after she died.”
My Aunt maxed out her credit cards buying Beanie Babies as an investment to pay for her son’s college. Really, they were like adjustable rate mortgages or credit default swaps; complex financial investment systems not understood by those buying into it. It’s true that stupid childhood toys often increase in value until a Charles in Charge lunchbox sells for 500k at auction. But the reason for that increase was the rarity of the item. Nobody bought Charles in Charge lunchboxes (everyone got Saved by the Bell) and those who did were unable to keep them in mint condition after being beaten with them so often. On the other hand, everyone collected Beanie Babies and nobody actually played because they were so lame thus leading to a glut in the market that caused them to never increase in value.
And that cousin of mine who was supposed to go to Harvard on Beanie Baby money? It didn’t matter that his college fund was lost when there was an AC leak in the garage. Because he was far too retarded to finish high school. What did you expect? He was raised by an idiot.
My grandmother used to give us money to put in my college fund, then the late 90s happened and she started giving us Beanie Babies with the tag protectors for insurance purposes or something. She honestly thought they were a better investment. Thanks Nana.
Beanie. Beanie. Beanie babies. Beanie babies. China.
I’m going to beanie blow my brains out.
I stockpiled Beanie Babies assuming that in the post-Y2K world, they would be our only currency.
all getting pogs, as change.
Dude, I thought we as a nation agreed to never mention Pogs ever again. They have been erased from history. In fact, what’s a pog? Some kind of fancy Swedish restaurant?
Anyway, I had Beanie Babies. For some insane reason the chameleon was green and the iguana was rainbow colored. I keep them in a box next to my Magic: The Gathering cards and Rob Liefield comics. I’m going to trade that box for a Ferrari.
This video won me so many LOL-points with my bff.
“Hi; Beanie Babies. Beaniamania!! Beanie babies. Beanies Beanies Beanies Beanie Baby Beanie Babies. China.”
I remember having that royal blue elephant everyone creamed their pants over. Is that still worth money? I have it in a box with all my stuff from the 90′s that I never thought was cooler than the internet.
http://cgi.ebay.com/BEANIE-BABY-TY-COLLECTION-INCL-PEANUT-BLUE-ELEPHANT_W0QQitemZ280400505637QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item41492c2b25&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
I would like 1,000 of those dollars for the research i just did please.
I’m so glad the childhood toy I kept in a plastic box for year because I thought it was some weird piece of Bob Dole memorabilia can pay my rent for a few months.
Needs more Samm Levine.