Customer Reviews

Ty Beanie Babies Winter 2000 Collector's Value Guide (Collector's Value Guide Ty Beanie Babies)

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1 star:		(4)

 

 

This is really an excellent book, and I don't think anthropologists will care about my beanie baby collection. Really! No one can really expect to get a book with "current" values for beanies--but this book is excellent to use as a checklist. I like to keep all my beanies catalogued and this book provides a wonderful way to do that. The Winter 2000 Edition Value Guide is colorful and has a picture of every beanie and buddy along with most variations. And if Ty Company is going to retire all and make no more after this year, this book makes an excellent checklist of all beanies ever made. Let's take into consideration what is going on here, people. Beanies are fun and a pasttime. I love the book because I can keep my large collection catalogued in one place. Isn't that really what these kind of books are for? Go to the internet for more current values if you have to, but don't try to build a great beanie collection without this book!

I've just started collecting beanies since Dec. 99. Having no clue as to who was who of the beanie animals, this book gives me a great starting point. It has all the info on beanie B-days, retirements, and most importantly what is a reasonable price to pay for them.I'm not looking to re-sell them to make money but I don't want to go over board on my spending for beanies at the same time. Of course its not up to date as far as new Ty products, but I don't need that info immediately as I'm just starting out. It also gives info on tag generations and tush tags which is most helpful to me. The bottom line is, if you are new to collecting Beanies, get at least one of the Checkerbee series for reference. It helped me tremendously.

This book is of great value to the collector. It is easy to follow and offers answers to adult and child collectors. The photographs are beautifully done. Collectors will appreciate this concise and accurate guide. Collecting anything may be regarded by the non-collector to be odd, but for the collector, it is simply an innocuous hobby that gives one pleasure. Certainly, collecting Beanie Babies is innocent enough fun! This book will help you value your collection and inform you of what's available to add to it.

As a value guide this book is almost worthless. As a collecters guide its perfect but only because the beanies are being retired and no new ones have come out since. Whether beanies are retired or over with for 2000 this book is the one worth buying. Like others have said these books are stupid because its outdated by the time it comes out, but this one does have all of the beanies including the "last" ones and even all the spangles. It also has buddies, teenies and sport ones. So if you want a last beanie book (for 1999) buy this one.

Very satisfied with the book. Extremely fast shipping and excellent communications from Fox Hill Books. Highly recommend.

Ok this is a great book. I didnt buy it normal price (I got at a thrift store for $1 lucky me!) but its a nice find. I mean I am thinking of buying the newest one for 2001. But I think I might stick with the magazine. The reason is this book doesn't have all the beanie babies that were out in 2000 because it was published before they were out. For example I love the teenie babies 2001 but they are NOT in this because it was put out before they were put out. CheckerBee publishing puts out a lot of great guides, this is sure one of them. At least they put out one for Beanie Babies updated. Puffkins has ONE from 1999 and that is the ONLY one out there and they never update, and just like Beanie Babies they are always changing too. Well so I put 4 stars not five because of it not going to be as updated as you want. There is a great magazine Mary Beth she seems updated, or try to internet. But as a new collector and as a person who wants to see what they are worth or to see at least who goes with what name, this guide was great. Gives great information on beanie baby, retires, prices and check list. Cute pictures too. So if you need a view of them or a checklist this is nice. If you need updated stay with the mags and the internet! Ok? Peace, out. Beanie Babies Forever!

I HAVE THIS BOOK AND I NEVER THOUGHT ANYTHING WOULD BEAT THE MAGAZINE THAT I NOW GET MONTHLY. BUT, I MUST SAY, THIS IS A GREAT RESOURCE FOR BEANIE COLLECTOR'S AND LOVER'S. A MUST HAVE!

This is a company that continually seeks to capitalize on the popularity of beanie babies. They are always at least a step behind the whims of the Ty company and the books always become outdated any time Ty releases new beanies or retires old ones. While this has roughly the same information as the popular Mary Beth's Bean Bag World Monthly, at least you do not have to wade through nearly 200 pages of useless ads. Most of the information in this book can be found on the internet. As a pricing guide, it is useless. Prices fluctuate so much and I would not buy anything from any dealer who has to rely on this as a price guide, anyway. Just think, for the price of this CheckerBee book, you could have bought two beanies.

Just ask yourself, "do you really have to buy this?" Do you really have to support these gold diggers?

i just got this book for my birthday and i have to say not only is it a terrible book, but it's completely useless to me. i don't even have any beanie babies. i think my nana gave it to me in hopes of getting me interested in these silly toys, but honestly, it's only made me hate them even more and feel sorry for the people who consider them a valid collector's item. what can you do with these puppets aside from display them on your dash board or "admire" them? that's not exciting. and it's definitely not fun. i'd rather take a nap. or collect stamps. atleast stamps will be worth something in 20 years. heck, atleast stamps are worth something right now.

Most people who buy this kind of book tend to get caught up in the monetary value of Beanies. This book series never examines the aesthetics and the information is almost already too old by the time it reaches print. What Beanie fan doesn't already have these pictures? This is a poor excuse for a book. Most of the legwork was already done once. They revise a few things and put out a new edition everytime Ty wiggles his finger.