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Beanie Mania
2021 · Film · documentary · 80 min
Directed by Yemisi Brookes
An eye-opening deep-dive into the world of Beanie Babies, charting the origins of a frenzy that helped make Ty Warner’s plush toys the biggest fad of the 1990s.
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> I’ve also seen instances of people mortgaging their house and using their life's saving to buy monkey pictures
Really? Really? I really want to meet these people. I feel like it will be the new beanie baby documentary (there's actually a really interesting one about how the craze started called Beanie Mania). Just blows my mind. But I wonder how many of these cases are real, and how many are just memes? Hard to tell these days on the internet.
Also Beanie Mania on HBO, not as insightful as the book but still a good documentary. The Beanie Baby bubble was essentially a textbook example of mania.