Examples include sports cards depicting individual players, or different designs of Beanie Babies.

Each toy has an inner " posable lining " and is stuffed with plastic pellets ( or " beans ") rather than conventional stuffing ( see PVC and PE ), giving Beanie Babies a flexible feel.

The original nine Beanie Babies launched in 1993 were Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Spot the Dog, Flash the Dolphin, Splash the Whale, Chocolate the Moose, Patti the Platypus, Brownie the Bear ( later renamed " Cubbie "), and Pinchers the Lobster ( with some tag errors with " Punchers ").

In 2000, a Beanie Baby named " The Beginning " was introduced to remind people of Beanie Babies ' comeback.

Teenie Beanies, an offshoot of the Beanie Babies line, were made by additional manufacturers for a few McDonalds Happy Meal promotions.

They are not new Beanie Babies, but Beanie Babies in a smaller size.

Beanie Babies began to emerge as popular collectibles in late 1995, and became a hot toy.

The craze lasted through 1999 and slowly declined after the Ty company announced that they would no longer be making Beanie Babies and made a bear called " The End ".

Since the beginning, Beanie Babies have included two tags for identification: a heart-shaped " swing tag " at the top, and a fabric " tush tag " at the bottom.

It was not uncommon for Beanie Babies to be accidentally shipped out with incorrect or misspelled tags, which sometimes increased the toy's value.

On occasion, the poems, birth dates and even the names have been changed on certain Beanie Babies.

In 2008 Ty, Inc. released a follow-up line, Beanie Babies 2. 0, for use on online games on the Ty website.

Much of the success of Beanie Babies can be attributed to the marketing strategies of the company.

# Reasonable Price: Ty Warner wanted to keep Beanie Babies selling at a lower and more reasonable price, but did not want to mass produce them.

# Surprise People: Unpredictability became entertaining to the mass public and made people even more eager to engage in the collection process of Beanie Babies.

# Limit Production: Limiting production ensured that keeping some Beanie Babies rare would keep people excited.

# Avoid Large Chain Retailers: Unlike most toys that are mass produced and retailed to major toy stores, Beanie Babies were sold at smaller, more refined specialty shops.

This helped sustain the authentic image of Beanie Babies.

# Personification: Personification made Beanie Babies easier to relate to ; every Beanie Baby had a Ty tag with a unique name, a background story including a birthday, and a poem.

# Variety: Producing a variety of Beanie Babies attracted everyone because this tactic aims to please everyone ’ s taste.

The problem was eventually resolved, and since then, the LOX and Beanie Sigel have collaborated on various tracks together, including Sheek Louch's Kiss Your Ass Goodbye Remix, Ghostface Killah's " Barrell Brothers " which features both Styles P and Beanie Sigel and DJ Khaled's track " Problems " which features Beanie Sigel and Jadakiss.

Certain designs of Beanie Babies and Ty Classic plush have been categorized as Pinkys.

Like Beanie Boppers, exclusives for many American and international sports teams have been released.

Some has been through the sale of certain Beanie Babies in which the proceeds have been donated to various causes.

At the peak of the Beanie craze, the privately owned Ty Inc. is believed to have earned over $ 700 million in profits in a year.

This ploy also made serious collectors more eager to collect every Beanie Baby out there.

Many of them also hailed from Philadelphia, and were soon compiled into the group State Property led by Freeway and Beanie Sigel.

A propeller hat, also known as a Beanie ( North America )# Propeller beanie | propeller beanie.

" I Miss You " was also sampled by Kanye West on Jay-Z's song " This Can't Be Life ", featuring Beanie Sigel and Scarface.

Following the group's 2004 effort Fire in the Hole, a rejuvenated Puba appeared on tracks with Beanie Sigel (" Bread and Butter ," also featuring groupmate Sadat X ), Missy Elliott (" My Struggles ," featuring his onetime collaborator Mary J. Blige ), and Ugly Duckling (" Something's Going Down Tonight ").

By far their most famous line of products are the Beanie Babies, but Ty also manufactures other lines of stuffed toys.

They also sold Beanie Kids " Ty Gear ", which were special clothing for the Beanie Kids.

There was also a small Beanie Baby version of the toy which came boxed with the YES!

He also donated $ 1. 5M for the creation of the Ty Warner Sea Center in Santa Barbara, California and donated one million Beanie Babies for children in Iraq.

Former partner Avery Schreiber also appeared on the show as Beanie the Bison.

He also appeared briefly in the cult hit State Property 2 along with Dame Dash and Beanie Sigel.

Travelling art displays are a frequent attraction and celebrations, such as the annual Beanie Festival, are also held there.

In addition to sports memorabilia, West also pitched products such as Beanie Babies and Pokémon collectibles.

" Da Bridge 2001 " also featured a response from Nas to Memphis Bleek, in which Nas calls out most of the Roc-A-Fella Records roster, including Memphis Bleek, Damon Dash, Beanie Sigel and Jay-Z.

He also starred as Biggis ( El Plaga ) opposite Beanie Sigel, Noriega, and Damon Dash in the Dash-directed hip hop cult classic State Property 2.

The Saints lost their first five games, including an embarrassing 28-14 loss at home to the then-winless Arizona Cardinals in which LeShon Johnson rushed for 214 yards, a Cardinals franchise record which has since been broken by Beanie Wells in 2011.