That would explain her extra large beak!” Legs was one of the easier of the Original Nine to get hold of with him being available all over the place. According to his poem, Legs loves to play leap frog and hang out by the lake. His eyes were slightly different to the other Original Nine, in that they were black buttons with a green ring around the edge. Legs is a bright green coloured frog who was introduced 8th January 1994. Flash and Splash were retired together on 11th May 1997 and Echo the Dolphin took her place. The adorable grey dolphin has her birthday on 13th May 1993. It is indicated that Flash the Dolphin and Splash the Whale are good friends, with Splash being the one who taught clever Flash to read. Splash the Whale is the one who taught herĪlthough reading is difficult under the water!” Cubbie went into retirement on 31st December 1997. The two are identical in every way except for the name difference. Shortly after it’s release, Brownie was retired and was re-introduced as Cubbie. When the cute little brown bear was first introduced, it was under the name “Brownie”. Actually Cubbie wasn’t really his original name. I’m not quite sure what’s funny about being stung by fourteen bees. The poem suggests that his favourite treat is chocolate, and you’ve got to love the pun, Chocolate Moose! Chocolate was one of the last of the Original Nine to retire, doing so on 31st December 1998. So now it’s time to introduce you to the Original Nine… Chocolate the Mooseīut there is one more thing he likes to eatĪ dark brown moose with orange antlers, Chocolate did not receive a poem until he was released with a 4th generation swing tag. Tush tags were small fabric tags which initially were white with black lettering (later changed to red lettering) and were attached to the Beanie Baby’s rear end. Poems weren’t introduced until the fourth generation of swing tags. The first generation tags were simple double-sided tags with the name and style number written on the rear. Every Beanie Baby adorned a red heart swing tag with the word “Ty” on the front in white. Ty had a simple marketing strategy, and that was to keep it simple! Each character would only have a few colours of fabric and simple facial features. Originally the critics were sceptical of their appearance, giving them horrific nicknames like “road-kill” due to their somewhat flattened appearance when lying down, but little did they know that Beanie Babies would be a worldwide phenomenon!Īt first, they didn’t catch on, but when they did, they were a global success! Millions of Beanie Babies were sold around the world, with hundreds of different characters coming on to the market. These bean-filled animals would become what is now known as the “Original Nine” Beanie Babies. This gave you the ability to pose them in various different ways. But these were plush toys with a slight difference in that instead of the usual stuffing which previously filled children’s plush toys, these would be partially filled with PVC plastic pellets, nicknamed “beans”, giving a unique appearance. Nine small, plush-like toys were introduced to the world, styled in various animal forms. It was 1993 at the World Toy Fair in New York City.
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