Rarest Beans

Hello! Welcome to our beanie blog highlighting the rarest Ty Beanie Babies in the hobby. This is an ADVANCED guide discussing pieces for the most sophisticated collectors. With this site we are hoping to better educate the most serious collectors and bring to light brilliant pieces.

For commons and standard rare pieces please visit beaniebabiespriceguide.com – this site is run by the top experts behind truebluebeans.com -the premier grading and authentication service. This is a GREAT resource for 99.9% of the beanies you will ever encounter. For that final 0.1%, we hope this site is illuminating. Please do not share or repost pictures from this site without permission/permission + attributed credit.

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A blog highlighting the rarest beanies in the Ty hobby

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Ty Canada TAN STING prototype beanie baby with patch!

We completely left this incredible prototype out of our original Ty Canada article (now updated) – most famous for being the home/original of the second known set of 3rd gen patch prototypes including the green dino trio, yellow flutter, etc.). Link to this article here: Now, also in this set was of course the original…

Pre-1st Generation UK Rectangular TY Original 9 Beanie Baby Set

We haven’t had a review of production beanies in a moment. Most collectors in the hobby strive to add 1st generation tagged pieces to their collections – viewing them as one of the pinnacles of regular vintage production. Indeed, assembling a full set of 1st generation pieces, especially in MQ condition, has become quite a…

Stinky the red Tie-Dyed skunk prototype Ty beanie baby

Always a soft spot for Ty’s first beanie baby skunk, Stinky! This guy was released in mid 1995 with a 3rg generation hang tag in a very dapper tuxedo black and white fabric pattern. This prototype example has replaced the entire top white strip of fabric with tie-dyed red! The piece is complete with pax…

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