In the late '90s, Mickey Krause found her Beanie Baby business starting to crumble ... up in the craze” and ordered shipments of the plush toys to sell through her registered domain ...

In the late 1990s, Ty Warner, creator of the wildly popular Beanie Babies series of plush toys ... he took a friend’s young daughter out for ice cream but made the girl get money from her ...

The Princess Diana Beanie Baby is a special edition commemorative plush toy that was released by ... collectible toys of folks who are coming of age: late 20s to early 40s," she tells PEOPLE.

These plush toys were filled with small plastic pellets and were known for their soft texture and unique, often colorful, designs. "Beanie Babies are very interesting and they're very indicative ...

Yet all of that is steeped in the improbable rise of Beanie Babies as a must-have item – turning them into “little plush Lotto tickets ... of the streaming age, that bubble, at least ...

and had to stock an aisle full of "poseable plush toy" knockoffs. $5.99 for a fake Beanie Baby? Clearly, the fad had run its course. Sure enough, within 18 months, Ty Inc., the original ...