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Local collectors know beans
Stores get calls from Americans looking for Beanie Babies
as collectors hunt for rare bears like one named after Diana
BY SCOTT HILGENDORFF
Expositor Editor
A transport truck full of
them has been stolen from
Aurora, Ontario.
Courier drivers have been
chased down for them.
Border guards have seized
them from Girl Guides and
other young children bringing
them from Canada into the
United States.
Waiting lists grow to
unmanageable lengths in
stores for customers waiting
for them and prices soar for
the ones most sought after.
They're Beanie Babies and
collectors wouldn't have it
any other way.
"I'm having fun
collecting," said Tony
Vandendool. In six months,
he has amassed about 400 of
the Ty Beanie Babies.
The company has created a
sensation that, through
retiring some and issuing new
ones in limited supply, have
created a frenzy, particularly
in the United States where
people line up in stores for
hours when new shipments
arrive.
Both Dens and Friends and
The Hobby Shop in Seaforth
have received calls from
people in the states looking
for Beanies, particularly
Maple, a,bear that's only
available in Canada. Any of
the beanie bears from Ty are
in high demand from Erin, a
green bear produced for St.
Patrick's Day this year and
Princess, a bear with a white
rose on its chest produced in,
conjunction with the death of
Princess Diana.
Linda Neeb of Dens and
Friends in Seaforth doesn't
know how
Americans have
found her storc but
said, "We don't
have enough of
them to go around
for all the
c u s t o m e r s
demanding.
She isn't willing
to charge inflated
prices or make
customers buy 10
or more beanies to
get one of a handful
of the bears. To get
one bear, a store has
to order several
other regular
beanies from Ty.
That has prompted
some businesses to
price Beanies like
Maple at more than
$250 or insist a
person buys a minimum of
the regular, common beanies
before Maple, Princess or
other more rare beanies can
be bought.
The only fair way Necb
and partner Bonnie Schenk
could conic up with to handle
the beanies everyone wants is
to give one away in a raffle
each month. They arc also
donating them to schools to
be used as fund raisers.
Vandendool said he isn't
willing to pay more than
what a beanie is worth.
Lindsay Hoegy holds an armload of Beanies at Dens and
Friends. Her own collection isn't as big and Lindsay
herself is a rare find because she has taken off the tags
and plays with' hers. Without the tags, the beanies lose
their value.
Ty recommends $8.50 as a
reasonable Canadian price for
the beanies.
But Vandendool did buy 25
beanies at once to get his
hands on a Maple, something
he was willing to do because
he wanted to collect as many
of the current beanies as he
could find at the time.
No,w, however, with a
collection that includes
virtually all 'of the current
beanies, he isn't willing to
follow that tactic.
"I'm not
willing to pay big
dollars. That takt.ts
the fun out of it,"
he said.
• Instead, he
continues, for hunt
in small, country
stores for retired
beanies that may
still be available at
uninflated prices.
Vandendool
has always been a
collector from
hockey cards to
antiques and when
he saw Beanie
Babies, he picked
one up, at first
because ,they were
kind of cute. From
there, he picked up
a couple more and
soon found himself
immersed in collecting the
toy animals.
He's looking at them as an
investment now, planning to
builyi one set to keep and the
rest he is willing to sell as the
company retires them and
their prices rise.
"I'll admit, it's also an
investment," he said.
Ty has issued several new
beanies but Vandendool
hasn't bccn'able to find a
store that's received their
shipments yet so he can build
on his collection.
4F
Erin and
are two
harder
Beanies
Princess
of the
to find
Avon trustee resigns
The Avon Maitland District
School Board lost a trustee
with the resignation of'North
Perth representative Philip
Baumgarten last Wednesday.
He said "hc will he
pursuing academic studies
full-time in Toronto and felt
that it would not be possible
to do full justice to his
academic work and his
trustee work," according to
the board's press release.
The board was consider its
options for filling the
position at last night's
meeting.
Friends found on Internet
aren't as good as real thing
FROM Page 4
arc, it should he of some
concern. While the Internet
has opened up the whole
world to young people, life is
passing them by in their own
backyards as they surf
instead of play.
While there's so much to
be learned while on-line,
there's little use for
imagination, a creative force
that can help shape and
develop young minds.
It might actually be nice to
hear a child in a street
creating a scene of battle for
their favourite Power Ranger
rather than surfing their
Chatting with "friends" on
the Internet can he great fun
and even educational if a
child is communicating with
someone from a different
culture, but some real
communication, conflict and
problem solving with friends
on the playground can go a
long way to building
character.
I hope this is not a sign of
an evolving technological
society and that a balance;
will soon be found where
young kids can make great
use of a home computer but
still go outside later and
make great use of the box it
websites. came in.
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Neeb said customers arc
getting impatient waiting for
the new ones.
"They call every day. They
come in every day," she said.
They want to make sure
they're first in line to get
some of the new ones before
shipments run out.
Neeb said if customers
didn't ask for' the beanies,
they'd never have started
carrying them in the store.
She said Ty has several other
product lines that look nicer
than beanies but it's mostly
beanies that people arc
collecting.
'I thought the Cabbage
Patch dolls were had." she
said, comparing the hunt for
Beanie Babies to the line-ups
and fights to get Cabbage
Patch dolls in the early
1980s. Stores couldn't keep
up with the demands then.
But she said the Beanie
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Cabbage Patch dolls were
being bought for children and
for doll collectors but beanies
are being bought by
everyone.
Few of them get to he
played with because if the Ty
tags they come with are
damaged, they lose their
value.
Vandendool has some of
his on display but has
carefully packaged up the rest
in hopes the beanies will hold
their value or he worth more
in years to come.
If they don't he isn't
concerned. He likes
collecting and if the bottom
falls out of the Beanie Bahic
market, he'll pass the
collection on to other
generations of his family.
When he hears about
people fighting and arguing
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excited about them, that's for
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Radiators and bike stolen
Radiators were reported
stolen from Anderson Salvage
in Hullett Township on Aug.
26.
Ontario Provincial Police
say a pick up truck load of of
them was taken sometime that
weekend and anyone with any
information on the theft is
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Birch Street sometime
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