Rumours, News, Info!
These are things that people have told me by word of mouth, or that I have read on the Ty page or other Beanie pages. Most of these have not been confirmed. Please feel free to send any rumours that you have heard! Once in a while I will delete old messages, but anyone's that might still be interested even now will be kept.
June 13, 1998
Here's interesting news information, though I'm not sure how true it is! As you probably know, some Princess' say PVC on their tush and some say PE. The ones that say PVC were the original 12 that were shipped to stores before Christmas. The ones that say PE were released later. As far as I have noticed, ALL BEANIES now say PE on their tush tags, it wasn't just Princess that changed. Maybe they changed the pellets inside. There isn't much of a price difference in the PE and PVC tags, and hopefully it will stay like that!
May 31, 1998
The new releases have been announced! They are:
-Erin (If you check your Ty checklist, Erin is an American Exclusive right now. On May 1 she will be officially released to other countries)
-Cloud (Blue Bear)
-Peach (Bear)
-Pooch (Tie-dye Dog)
-Muddy (Tie-dye Fish)
-Hip (Cat)
-Vanilla (Moose)
-Timber (Coyote)
-Grunt (Wolf)
-Dirt (Rat)
-February (GroundHog)
-Blondie (Golden Retriever) Note: There have already been sightings of a Golden Retriever named Blondie. These have not been verified, nor have I seen a photo.
-Yankee (Pony)
I was not given names for the others listed here.
-Derby's mother?? (A dark brown horse with a white star)
-Prairie Dog (Retailer said that Ty is coming out with a line of Wild Life Beanies)
-Gopher
-Lamma
-Poodle
April 11, 1998
Some little known info about Gobbles! He has actually undergone a very subtle design change. Here's the news that I have received:
There is actually a small design change in Gobbles during the 4th swing tag phase. If you look at his waddle under his chin. On the first version that came out there is no seam going down the edge of the waddle, so you actually have two pieces of fabric in his waddle. On the newest version there is a red seam going down the edge, making a single waddle.
April 8, 1998
Ty has limited orders on Maple, Peace, and Princess! Stores must buy ten dozen other beanies in order to receive one dozen of any one of these bears. They would have to get thirty dozen other beanies to get one dozen of each of the bears! Rumours are flying about this, many people say that Princess will have an early retirement, as well as Peace and Maple both retiring.
January 6, 1998
This is a comment I got from someone, who doesn't want to have her e-mail address posted. I will be forwarding all the comments I receive, but I will also put some of the comments on this page. Her comment: Spot w/out Spot and Quackers w/out wings were out for about 6 months before they were retired, now, less than three years later, they're worth about $1000 each. Since the new releases (1997 Teddy and Snowball) were only released for 3 months in the States and less than that in Canada and other places, how much will they be worth in the year 2000? If you have any comments on this, please e-mail me. I will post all comments here.
COMMENTS:
A lot of people have written to say that Mary Beth's Beanie World 1998 Buyers Guide is predicting Teddy to be worth $250 by this time next year.
I've had one person e-mail with a prediction that there will be very few "perfect" releases in the year 2000, because some will be played with, tags will be creased, they won't be stored properly. Therefore, she predicts people may pay as much as $750 for "perfect" ones!
The most common price for the year 2000 so far seems to be $500. If the beanie is in mint condition with all tags, and has been stored in ziploc bags away from light for the whole people who have e-mailed me seem to agree that they could be worth as much as $600. Most people also think that Canadian ones and ones from countries other than the States could be worth as much as $100 more than that, because they were released for a shorter period.
Quite a few people have commented that value will be determined by the number produced and not how long they were on the shelves, combined with demand (creates perceived value). When Spot (w/o spot) was on the shelves there were a lot less adult collectors and more children collectors who played with them and ripped off their tags. This seems to be most reasonable to me. So though Teddy and Snowball may achieve very high prices, (especially compared to the beanies they were retired with) they probably won't get near the prices for Spot and Quackers.
