Beanie Babies were somehow everywhere and nowhere. As soon as scores of the plush animals rolled off factory lines and were ...

When former toy salesman Ty Warner introduced a line of small stuffed animals called Beanie Babies to the world in 1993, there was no indication that over the next few years the cute plush toys ...

Gen Z isn’t playing around when it comes to their love of stuffed animals. Young adults are leading the plush toy boom as the ...

By then, the plush animals had become ubiquitous ... in 1986 with the dream of creating a stuffed animal kids could afford. At just $5, Beanie Babies hit the shelves in 1993 and soon became ...

TikTok/natalielawyerr Elliott likened the stuffed animals to a “modern-day Beanie Baby.” Plush toy brands are “kind of hot right now,” Brian Benway, a senior tech and gaming analyst at ...