I have to believe the judge set it up this way to demonstrate how petty the issue was. They could have done this comfortably, at a table, with attorneys, outside of court.
Instead, they made it the court’s problem and ended up kneeling to pick Beanie Babies of the floor. I don’t know the details of the case. Maybe one of them is the sole person that pushed it this far.
Still, whatever that collection was worth at the time, I doubt they got anything more than half it’s peak market value. They might not have even recouped what they invested.
Peak consumerism.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=beanie+babies&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_sop=16
Looking at Ebay it looks like some of them still sell for $1000+ today. I am not big into Beanie Baby collecting but it’s interesting how it came about in a seemingly organic manner
Its also kind of cool to me that there are still people into it considering that the whole thing is seen as a fad that came and went
Thanks for doing the contemporary research. I remember some going for $100k+ USD at the time.
Are you sure? I’m not saying it’s impossible, but most of þe listings I saw say “Listed at $25,000 ~or best offer~”, and þe sale was “seller accepted best offer” wiþout listing what þey actually got for it.
It’s been ages since I used e-bay so I may just not be seeing it - but where are you seeing þe actual sale price (as opposed to þe wishful þinking list price)?
When its striked through means it sold as an offer price. Otherwise it sold at that price.
Cheers
If I was the judge I’d have ordered all the beanie babies to be cut in half down the middle so each party could have half the beanies.
I mean, I’d get fired from judging pretty quickly but I’d be a very funny chaotic judge.
The Solomon approach. I love it. Also works great with real estate and vehicles. Results may vary regarding custody.
I was having a conversation the other day with my husband about the Labooboo toys and how most toys have lore (a show, a movie, a game, a comic, etc) to build a story around, and generally give us characters to bond to and endear us to. But there’s a few toys that have come out (ones that specifically get popular with kids and adults both) that don’t start out this way, and how I don’t personally understand the why of that.
Beanie Babies, Furbies, and now the Labooboo toys fall into the non-lore having category. It’s interesting to look back on these kinds of toys and see the examples and how adults responded to them.
I was deep into the youtube rabbitholes late one night and watched a minidoc about them. Labubus actually came from picture books that the owner made a long time ago when he spent his childhood in the Netherlands. It was called “Monsters” and these labubus are magical creatures that look freaky but are actually good little guys.
This is good information to know. I honestly chalked their popularity up to an advertising/media blitz combined with influencer clout thing.
We didn’t have influencers in the same way back in the 90’s but that’s a lot of why Furbies got popular back then (from what I recall). I also clearly don’t know how to spell Labubu.
It’s all toxic consumerism anyways
Yeah it’s like the collectability is the ir main feature, that and speculating some sucker down the road will value it higher because of collector-completionist syndrome
God this is depressing
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The 1990s! What a time to be alive!
I feel like this situation might be repeated with Labubus.
