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Fans of Beanie Babies must always be weary of counterfeiters. The demand for these toys unleashed countless copycats who aim to profit from sales to unsuspecting customers. Buyers who purchase Beanie Babies through online auctions must take the time to ask detailed questions and review the seller's feedback record. Counterfeits can easily be spotted because they are listed well below market value or because the seller is evasive or unknowing about the origin of the toy. Buyers should take the time to seek out original Beanie Babies because they have a greater market value and are usually a higher quality product.
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Examine the ribbon: Find out if the Beanie Babies you want were issued with ribbons. If the Beanie is supposed to have a ribbon, the ribbon ends should hang loosely, rather than sticking out to the sides. Also, look for sheen on both sides of the ribbon.
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The manufacturer of Beanie Babies continues to introduce new varieties of Beanie Babies. Through an arrangement with McDonald's, the company regularly introduces Teenie Beanies into the market, a miniature version of the standard Beanie Babies, distributed in Happy Meals. Teenie Beanies ... have collector's value as they are only distributed for a limited time. In 2004, McDonald's introduced a commemorative Teenie Beanie to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Happy Meal, an instant collector's item.
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Compare the Beanie Babies to the real animals they represent. Have students investigate each real animal through a multimedia encyclopedia to find the animal's length, weight, and other characteristics. After all comparisons have been made, the children can rank the real animals by size. This is ... an opportunity to make fractional or ratio comparisons of stuffed to real animals. (This is an important language development connection.) Animals can be classified again by real size.
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The original nine Beanie Babies were first sold to the public in small retail establishments in the Chicago area in 1994. The original nine are Legs the Frog, Squealer the Pig, Brownie the Bear, Flash the Dolphin, Splash the Whale, Patti the Platypus, Chocolate the Moose, Spot the Dog and Pinchers the Lobster. They came labeled with a two-sided hanging tag and a sewn cloth tush tag. These toys have long since been retired from production and today they are the most valuable of all Beanies, selling for thousands of dollars. They are even more valuable with the tush tag intact because many tush tags were removed due to the choking hazard to children.
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Advantage Business Forms ... donated 20 Beanie Babies to a police department whose officers give teddy bears to children when responding to domestic disputes or car wrecks. The distributorship sent a press release about the donation to a newspaper, which ran an article about Advantage's goodwill efforts at the top of its business section. "I don't think we could buy an ad like that for what those Beanie Babies cost," Nickel says. The distributorship also donates printing to a Friends of the Zoo organization. In return, Advantage's name is mentioned in radio and television ads the organization runs to promote special events.
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