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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: The rise and fall of the popular toy craze of the 1990s
March 30, 2023

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: The rise and fall of the popular toy craze of the 1990s

Beanie Babies began as inexpensive toys and became one of the strangest speculative frenzies of the 1990s. Scarcity, retirements and the early internet convinced ordinary buyers that plush animals could be investments. A five-dollar plush toy should ...