Talk:Beanie Babies

Tag variants

It seems a disproportionate amount of this article is spent differentiating the generations/subtle differences in the tags of beanie babies...not the babies themselves. The article is obviously incomplete, but even in its completed form, it should not contain so much about the tags. The amount of detail spent on these tags is the level of detail necessary in a beanie baby collector/buyer/seller guide - by no means relevant in a general article on beanie babies in an encyclopedia.

If such detail is to remain, I would at least recommend the tags be addressed in a separate article. - Slow Graffiti 05:32, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the tag info should be a separate article. 67.172.125.13 21:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm gonna go ahead and start a new article for the tags. Splamo 18:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Improvement

I find this article's subject to be fascinating. Perhaps someone who was/is an avid collector could add more details about the collecting procedures, craze, and bust. Price guide values? --Chris Griswold 12:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I used to be, but I broke from the addiction years ago, and it has died down greatly. A price guide would bnot be wise, as it has changed a great deal. For example, while eight years ago, such Beanie Babies as Humphrey the camel once sold for several thousand dollars, yet today, some go for under one hundred. There's no real consistency now that the craze has died down. Michael 21:08, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Furthermore, there are probably over a thousand Beanie Babies that have been released. It would be impossible to cite them all. Michael 21:09, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe some notable ones should be mentioned... Michael 21:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to make a section on some of the rarer ones now. Mr. Papaya 18:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Historic values would improve this article. Properly cited references to the peak selling price of some notable items, and more recent prices for comparison. Ronstew (talk) 19:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Copyvio in sections?

the lead looks like original work, but I have my suspicions about the content in the sections. Reads like a Beanie Baby collector's book I got a few years ago, I'll look at it once I find it and post back. ~Chris /e@/iar/beans/dbad/ 22:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed while browsing, much of the Beanie Buddies section seems to have been copied verbatim from beaniephenomenon.com which says clearly at the bottom All graphics and content on Beanie Phenomenon are property of Peggy Gallagher Enterprises, Inc. And may not be reproduced, copied, or tampered with in any way without express written consent. -- Richard 23:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

I think beanie babes should sell everywhere cause i love them myself —Preceding unsigned comment added by IHEARTRAINBOWS (talk • contribs) 01:03, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Tenses?

This article, in particular the history section, seems to be written in past tense, to me it seems as this implies that Ty no longer makes beanie babies. Does anyone else think this and are they still produced? I'm not much of a beanie fan so I thought I'd check before rewriting all of it. Thanks Jyuichi 04:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I just cleaned that up - I can't belief it was left with so many sloppy tenses for so long! Beanie Babies still exist (obviously) and new designs are being released regularly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.182.66.234 (talk) 05:46, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Section for specific beanies

I remarked out the Peace Bear Collecting section. I did this because it would set a precedence where other editors will think that adding their favorite beanies is acceptable. Based on the deletion of beanie-specific pages earlier by the admins, we shouldn't be resorting to jam-packing this page with the same material. Even if the section was used as an example, it is much too information to serve as an example. Groink 22:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Beanie baby photos ...plus "webkinz" photo?

I look at the beanie baby article and see a single bear. Ok. Fine. As I scroll down I see a photo of several "Webkinz" dolls. Why? They aren't even made by Ty, Inc. This article needs a photo with different beanies... maybe a Teenie Beanie Baby, one with a new gen-15 tag, and a Beanie of the Month tag. Any volunteers.... if not I'll see what I can put up in my spare time.

Protecting this article

This article currently has a low level of protection. But it still has been subject to some vandalism. One user changed it to say that Beanie Babies are 'evil.' The amount of protection should be increased. Xyz7890 15:29, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

There is one user who has repeatedly vandalized the page and should probably be banned entirely. Bluebeary 20:38, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

I cannot remember if I have ever edited this page myself, but I do have it on my watchlist for curiosity, since I once collected beanies. I have noticed the page's repeat vandalism, which has differed somewhat each time, and I have been concerned about it. Often, vandals return under new user IDs each time, making banning a particular person difficult. Protecting the article prevents it from being edited by these newly registered users, and any vandalism thereafter will have to be planned at least 4 days in advance rather than done on impulse, like most of it is. Sebwite 22:50, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/71.190.144.240 is the user I had in mind. I have cleaned up the last of the vandalism so far (I removed my comments on that from this talk page as well).Bluebeary 01:02, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Copy editing and "Introduction"

Just did a little cleanup work on this article. Someone needs to fix the first sentence of the "Introduction" section. It appears that the first part of the sentence is cut off, and there's no indication as to what it needs to be.PacificBoy 16:31, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Innards of the toys

Also a word or two about the redesign of the innards that happened in 1998-1999. I collected beanies for a while - I bought my first on holiday in New York in 1998, and my last I guess in 2001 when I was still at university - and remember the early ones - a fox and a horse I later gave to a child on a long-distance coach to keep them quiet! - were floppier than their successors (I still have Scorch the Dragon which I bought in London in the summer of 1999 while interning for the Labour Party, so the change happened within a year of that NYC trip in 1998). Scorch has what seems to be a rubber "inner tube" which protects the beans from spilling out while the fox and the horse were just floppy and unreinforced. I also heard that this was done because people were concerned the official Ty beanies were too easily ripped open, spilling the stuffing material and obviously inducing small children to eat it. Any verification of this? Lstanley1979 (talk) 17:37, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

External links cleanup

I cleaned up the external links and removed everything except the official Ty site. If some links were compliant with the Wikipedia:External links policy it would be most helpful if you'd clarfiy on the talk page when re-adding. Siawase (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I think you made a good decision with the links. The official website is all that's needed. Somno (talk) 10:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Writing Style

Someone really needs to go through and re-write most of this article. The information and citations are fine, but the style comes off as childish and at times like a blatant advertisement with its flowery language. Hardly becoming an encyclopedic article.24.190.34.219 (talk) 11:50, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

He who?

"Ty decided to stop making Beanies in 1999; however, consumer demand made Ty Warner change his mind. He continues to run Ty Inc. and design new Beanie Babies to this day." Who is "he"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.97.12.231 (talk) 23:07, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Ty Warner. --BDD (talk) 16:45, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Scaly

In the list Beanie Babies, it says that the retired "Scaly" is a lizard. I've got a "Scaly" toy in my class and it is a komodo dragon. Shouldn't Scaly be listed as a Komodo dragon? 78.150.183.177 (talk) 13:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Komodo dragons are the largest species of lizard, so it is technically correct, if not very specific. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.139.237.90 (talk) 21:31, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 16:42, 15 April 2013 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

Beanie Baby → Beanie Babies – Most sources tend to refer to the toys only in the plural, such as [www.ty.com/BeanieBabies_home the official Ty website], these Google News hits, and all the books on Google Books. Since it is a trademarked name of a series of items, I think that this is a clear-cut case such as Care Bears or Ho Hos, where the plural should be used first. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 07:17, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Support - I agree with the above. I find that collectible toys tend to be plural as well. YES, you can collect any toy/thing but these are specifically made for collecting.

...gee, is this really my life? *throws computer out window... error_code #42: 01101010100010101000010111011101010001010111

AnimatedZebra (talk) 14:37, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

• Support. All advertising that I can find specifically calls the brand "Beanie Babies" as well. Steel1943 (talk) 05:26, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
• Support – Either the title should be the trademark or a generic term, not a butchered trademark. Dicklyon (talk) 05:45, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

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Why is there a section for "Notable Beanie Babies"?

I see that in the past, this section has been merged with the more appropriate page, "List of Beanie Babies". There are simply too many Beanie Babies that interesting facts could be listed about for this main article to include a "special" or "noteworthy" section separate from the "List of Beanie Babies" page. The nature of this section seems to be very arbitrary (which should be included?) and doesn't seem in keeping with the encyclopedic nature of Wikipedia.

Additionally, this appears to be ripe for frequent unsourced comments to appear. To my knowledge, the text offered under Tabasco are entirely urban legends. Both the Princess and Garcia sections similarly have some fairly dubious claims (production figures for Princess? a delay for "[s]ome vendors? "an alleged lawsuit" that is then referred to as a factual matter in the next sentence?)

I think this section needs to be cleaned up and merged with "List of Beanie Babies", and once that is done, we need to keep a close watch to keep this sort of rumor-prone, unencyclopedic section from emerging again. Bluebeary (talk) 16:35, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

• I agree this is messy because there are so many Beanie Babies that could be listed here and all the notes here are not cited. Ronniebrown2 (talk · contribs) 16:36, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Princess (Beanie Baby)

There's a deleted article here about the Beanie Baby bear that was made in the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diego (talk) 08:56, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

• It does not make sense that the page was deleted, yet the link to Princess is still in the Ty Inc link set at the bottom of the page. I think either a plea should be made for the page should be un-deleted, or that the link set should be edited? Ronniebrown2 (talk · contribs) 10:51, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Sources

Here's a rather good one: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2002020751_beaniebabybubble31.html --Jerome Potts (talk) 08:30, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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No mention of the craze and bubble?

Beanie Babies are a classical example in Sociology, of a totally insane consumer craze, and in finance, of a huge speculative bubble --like Dutch tulip bulbs in the 16 century, and the South Sea stock a century later. The article should definitely have a section on that. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 05:11, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

• I agree. It's almost the only reason anyone would want to read the article on Beanie Babies would be to understand the bubble, the causes, mentality, and the extent to which blame can be laid to the bubble and damage it caused. 121.7.53.215 (talk) 11:05, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

• I also completely agree with this and I have made some attempts to start expanding on this. The Beanie Baby Bubble offers some great references for this as well. Ronniebrown2 (talk · contribs) 16:36, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Need help expanding Internet section

Hi Wikipedians - I drafted a paragraph relating to the role the Internet played with the popularity of Beanie Babies. There are tons of references on this and I was hoping someone could help expand on this. I also added a section on the Ebay page about how eBay captured so much market share in the early days because of Beanie Babies - there are a wealth of references on this topic as well - if anyone can help me find more and expand on this, I think it would be awesome. The story is very fascinating and is a testament to how one product can have such an impact on innovation ... thanks!

Ronniebrown2 (talk · contribs) 16:36, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

References of Beanie Babies on Internet Sensations Page

Hi Wikipedians - I started a paragraph on the Internet Sensations page citing Beanie Babies as the first Intenet sensation and my paragraph was deleted - I reversed the deletion and added a lot of sources to my paragraph. The question was whether Beanie Babies warranted it's own paragraph on that page. I believe it does because it was the first Internet sensation and it set the tone for the internet crazes that followed. Does anyone have any feedback on that? Please follow the link to the talk page and comment on the discussion with your thoughts ... thanks!!

Ronniebrown2 (talk · contribs) 21:24, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Retired ones

Retired ones 67.174.160.164 (talk) 01:16, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

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