The meteoric rise of the his plush toys generated sales of $1.4 billion in just five years after Beanie Babies came out in 1993. 5 Ty Warner, who is 79-years-old, says kids today are more focused ...

Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s hoped their investment in the plush critters would pay off. But thanks to the glut of Beanies produced, only a very few rare Beanies -- in specific categories with ...

If you were a child (or had a child) in the 1990s, you probably owned a bunch of Beanie Babies. At about 8 inches tall, the collectible plush animals were small enough that you could fit lots of ...

A 5-year-old boy holds an armful of Beanie Babies while shopping with his mother at the Zany Brainy Toy Store on Sept. 2, 1999, in Brentwood, Missouri.

The latest is “The Beanie Bubble,” a comic drama about the Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s. We once debated the ethics of product placement in movies - now the product IS the movie.

The Beanie Babies plush toy craze in the 1990s made toy company Ty Inc. an industry superstar and made its founder, Ty Warner, a billionaire.

In the late 1990s, Ty Warner, creator of the wildly popular Beanie Babies series of plush toys, had a 370,000-square-foot warehouse filled with his beloved collectible animals for kids. All ...

The Princess Diana Beanie Baby is one of the most sought-after plush toys of all time. Here's how much it could be worth and where to buy one.