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The toys were not incredibly popular at first outside Ty's home market of Chicago. Starting in late 1995-early 1996, the line suddenly grew in popularity, in part due to the marketing strategies of selling them only at small gift shops for $5-$6 each. Furthermore, the company began regularly retiring existing Beanies and introducing new ones. Adding some fuel to the fire was the introduction of the first exclusive-release Beanie, Maple the Bear (sold only in Canada). It was also in 1996 that the toys first included birthdays and short, four-line poems on their tags. In 1997 through 2000, McDonald's jumped on the bandwagon as well, including fun-size "Teenie Beanies" with Happy Meals.
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== Animal tropes present: ==
* [[Cunning Like a Fox]]: Well, it ''is'' named Sly, and his poem says "tricky is he." Even Snocap the Arctic Fox is "very sly."
* [[Cute Kitten]]: A LOT of kittens and cats.
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* [[Smelly Skunk]]: Yep, named Stinky, given perfume and mints as gifts, and "hop[es] one day he wouldn't stink."
== Other tropes present: ==
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: Played straight and averted. Some are realistically colored and designed; others are more cartoonish and less realistically colored.
* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Some Beanies' genders are never stated in their poems. Usually this is because the poem is in first-person, but other times they just manage to get to four lines without using a pronoun. Some are still obvious anyway (e.g., the several kangaroos are all female, as they have joeys in their pouches).
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* [[Spin-Off]]:
** Attic Treasures were introduced in the same year as Beanie Babies. These were given a more [[Retraux]] style and hinged limbs, and were quietly retired in the early aughties.
** Pillow Pals, a large, stuffed plush toy line intended for toddlers. Many of them were [[
** There were also Beanie Buddies, which were larger, softer counterparts of existing Beanie Babies, sometimes with trivia about the corresponding Beanie in the swing tag. Both these and Baby Ty were made with a new fabric called "Tylon."
** Ty Girlz, which are... well, basically plush Bratz dolls.
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