H. Ty Warner for starting it all. We can easily imagine a world
without iPhones, wide-screen TVs and Starbucks, but not a world without Beanie Babies.
Wanda Whitley for giving us our first Beanie Baby as a Christmas present in Hanau, Germany. Wanda
inspired our dream of a Beanie Baby museum.
Karen Holmes, editor of Ty Beanies Tracker Third Edition, for advising us on all things
Ty, and helping us to fill so many vacancies on our Ty collection wish-list.
Karen Boeker, a knowledgeable collector and reseller, for providing so many of the hard-to-find Beanie Babies and Beanie
oddities for our collection. Even more thanks Karen, for the first shiny apple in our collection;
Tyra with pom-poms.
Jacob Sadoff, who sold us our first "Original 9" Beanie Baby with 1st generation swing and tush
tags.
Phyllis Miceli who supplied many of the photographs of
prototypes and also assisted us in locating other collectors who specialize in
these rare and exotic collectibles.
Fabric Friends & Dolls for always going the extra mile to help us obtain newly released Ty products
for the museum project.
Reference sources
Internet sites
(current)
Internet sites
(discontinued)
- Beaniesource.com (launched January 2011, discontinued March 2012)
- Beanieuniverse.com (discontinued 2010)
- Karenbrit.com (discontinued 2011)
- Peacebears.com (inactive since June 2009)
Books
- Bean Plush Field Guide, 2nd Edition, Edited by Dan Brownell, Krause
Publications, 2008
- Ty Beanie Tracker, Third Edition, Edited by Karen Holmes, Bangzoom Publishers, 2007
- Beanie Mania II, Becky Phillips and Becky Estenssoro, 1998, Dinomates, Inc.
- Beanie Mania, Becky Phillips and Becky Estenssoro, 1997, Dinomates, Inc.
Magazines
Mary Beth's Beanies & More, Collectors' Edition #5,
September/October 2002
Mary Beth's Beanies & More, Collectors' Edition #7,
January/February 2003
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