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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bissonnette, Zac.     Subjects     Warner, Ty, 1944-     Ty, Inc. -- History.     Beanie Babies (Trademark) -- Collectors and collecting -- History.     Toy industry -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bissonnette, Zac.       by title:      The great Beanie Bab...         MARC Display

The great Beanie Baby bubble : mass delusion and the dark side of cute / Zac Bissonnette. by Bissonnette, Zac. New York : Portfolio/Penguin 2015. Subjects Warner, Ty, 1944-   Ty, Inc. -- History.   Beanie Babies (Trademark) -- Collectors and collecting -- History.   Toy industry -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781591846024 (hardback) : 1591846021 (hardback) Description:  260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : some color illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s. In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire-without advertising or big-box distribution. Beanie Babies were ten percent of eBay's sales in its early days, with an average selling price of $30-six times the retail price. At the peak of the bubble in 1999, Warner reported a personal income of $662 million--more than Hasbro and Mattel combined. The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with "rare" Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they'd once been deemed priceless. Bissonnette draws on hundreds of interviews (including a visit to a man who lives with his 40,000 Ty products and an in-prison interview with a guy who killed a coworker over a Beanie Baby debt) for the first book on the strangest speculative mania of all time."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 338.76887 Bi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.76887 Bisson Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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