McDonald's dropped Cyrk as its European distributor, and Beanie Babies temporarily discontinued making the toys.
From beanie babies to rare coins, I have seen myriad unimaginable, improbable investments in public pension portfolios.
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But stay away from "limited editions" like Beanie Babies and Titanic life vests.
Crazy Bones may not knock Beanie Babies off the shelf, but it's catching on, and not just with small shops.
These avid middle-aged female collectors ex-Beanie Babies fanatics coordinate their visits to coincide with the debut of limited-edition merchandise.
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Instead of swapping Beanie Babies and baseball cards, Altra's customers trade thousands of gallons of propane and butane at a shot.
Another round of Teenie Beanie Babies might work better than warfare chatter.
Tulip bulbs, Beanie Babies, baseball cards, Florida real estate, internet stocks.
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For those few readers who do not yet know, Beanie Babies are sleek cloth animals about the size of a small weasel, loosely stuffed with small plastic pebbles.
The app duplicates the egg-shaped plastic toy that became a must-own sensation like Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo and Furby after it was first released in 1996 in Japan.
Steiff animals arent flash-in-the-pan collectibles like Pet Rocks in the Seventies or Beanie Babies in the Nineties, says Timothy Luke, former director of collectibles for Christies, who owns a 50-piece collection.
Given the history of sentiment being at extremes of bullishness at tops in any market, from beanie babies and Barbie dolls to dotcom stocks and real estate, it has my attention.
By June, the site had reached 850, 000 registered users and held more than 500, 000 simultaneous auctions of everything from Beanie Babies to baseball cards, making it the leader in its market.
And who can forget the run on Beanie Babies that Ty Inc. created in September when it announced on its Web site that all of the products would be retired at the end of the year?
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