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W@W! This is a tie-dyed 1st generation prototype for the original Peking the panda. The piece has light blue fur for body/eye patches, and a core body/head in original garcia-esque tie-dyed fabric! It is complete with pax hang and pax tush tags. Original August 1992 pax dates! This is such a show-stopping piece, and isContinue reading “Peking the Tie-Dyed Panda Prototype: Light Blue and TD!”

Here is another legendary legend prototype in the hobby – the Tyriffic orange and brown Nana the monkey! This piece, as with all at the tyriffic store, had its pax hang tags removed. An earlier post outlines the Tyriffic green and yellow Nana. This was actually the first Tyriffic Nana to be surfaced from aContinue reading “Nana The Monkey Prototype Tyriffic Orange and Brown!”

The Four Faces of Woolie Brown This post is to celebrate the Woolie Brown Attic Treasure – the rarest and most infamous style in the Attic Treasure line. Even if attic treasures are not your thing, know that a few of us in the hobby serve as historians and cartographers mapping out the whereabouts ofContinue reading “Woolie Brown Attic Treasure Teddy Bear Production Proto.”

To think, Ty’s other original teddy outside of his six old face teddies was itself almost released in OLD FACE style. This is earliest “Valentino” prototype we have on record -1992 pax hang tag dates! Complete with pax hang and tush tags. Valentino was originally released as a 2nd generation piece, and is very covetedContinue reading “Valentino the teddy bear OLD FACE PROTOTYPE”

These prototype peanuts are absolutely INCREDIBLE! Let’s break them down. First, they are complete with pax hang and tush tags with the earliest January 1994 pax dates for the Peanut style. Next, they are FULLY alternate colors – a squealer light pink. But each has the light blue and royal blue fabric in their earsContinue reading “Peanut the Elephant Royal Blue and Light Blue in SOLID LIGHT PINK prototypes”

Our previous post outlined the famous Beanie Mania set of green dinos, lizzy, yellow flutter, and violet coral. Little known fact, Ty made a second set of these pieces and gifted them to Bill Harlow – head of Ty Canada. But the set came without the green Bronty! We had wondered where that piece mayContinue reading “Ty Canada Green Dino patch set/Lizzy, Flutter, and Coral”

In the famous Beanie Mania books, the authors (Becky Estenssoro and Becky Philips) put forward a masterful outline of every production beanie produced to that point. They also have a special prototype section that includes six very special prototypes: a dinosaur trio (Rex, Steg, and Bronty) and the tie-dyed Lizzy in a solid Ally-green fabric,Continue reading “Beanie Mania GREEN Prototype Patch Set: Rex, Steg, Bronty, Lizzy, Flutter, and Coral”

Here we have a 1992 true original prototype for WEB the spider in SOLID red. This is a sibling for the solid ORANGE Web example that has survived. The production Web ended up with a red belly – so it doesn’t surprise us (returning to our theory about Ty’s love for symmetry) that he playedContinue reading “Web the Spider SOLID RED Prototype!”

The fine mane Derby is, generally, one of the most underrated production rare styles. Locating a MQ example will still take $400-$500. The piece was only made for a short while with a 3rd generation hang tag. Finding a Korean or German example is another challenge altogether holy grails in the hobby. A tier pastContinue reading “Derby the Horse Fine Mane PROTOTYPE Red and Brown”

Hah! This is a really fun Inky prototype showcasing Ty’s transition from its original gray (tan) color, to the eventual pink body. Tan Inky was originally released with the original Mid-1994 1st generation released pieces (without a mouth- June 25th, 1994). Ty added a mouth to this guy on September 12th, 1994, and then aContinue reading “Inky The Octopus PROTOTYPE Tan and Pink”