The second week of October is when the Halloween Beanies come out of their boxes, and this year the bat is leading the way again. It was a quieter week at the top of the market, with no four-figure sales, but a handful of Ty’s very first animals turned up in far greater numbers than usual, and a pair of patriotic bears from Ty’s online store kept selling steadily.
Batty sold 30 times, up from 25, and Princess cooled off after her busy start to October. The best price of the week went to a bear most collectors have never seen: Aotearoa, Ty’s New Zealand flag bear, at $850.
This report covers October 5 to 11 and compares it with September 28 to October 4. A character’s count can include more than one version.
Sales activity: the week’s biggest changes
| Beanie | September 28–October 4 | October 5–11 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batty | 25 | 30 | +5 |
| Princess | 57 | 30 | −27 |
| White | 15 | 20 | +5 |
| Teddy | 24 | 17 | −7 |
| Chocolate | 6 | 11 | +5 |
| Pinchers | 3 | 10 | +7 |
| Weenie | 5 | 10 | +5 |
| Loosy | 1 | 8 | +7 |
| Gobbles | 12 | 8 | −4 |
| Tiptoe | 12 | 6 | −6 |
Batty keeps climbing
Last week Batty more than doubled as October arrived. This week the bat added another five sales, to 30, and the price stayed exactly where a seasonal favorite should: 24 of the 30 sold for $10 or less, with a median of $6.75. Batty now has more sales than any other Beanie in our tracker, tied with Princess.
The rest of the Halloween shelf moved more gently. Spooky the ghost went from six sales to eight and Frankenteddy from seven to eight, with Frankenteddy holding a slightly higher median of about $13. Gobbles, the Thanksgiving turkey, slipped from 12 sales to eight after last week’s jump, though nothing sold for more than $12.
Princess takes a breather
Princess sold 30 times, about half last week’s 57, which looks like a busy stretch running its course. The price did not move with it: the median was $10 again, and the most expensive single Princess of the week was $69.99, for a bear with its case. Teddy also cooled, from 24 sales to 17.
The Original Nine wake up
The most interesting movement this week came from the very first Beanie Babies. Pinchers the lobster, one of the Original Nine released in January 1994, went from three sales to ten, and Chocolate the moose, another of the nine, nearly doubled to 11. Neither cost much: the medians were about $8 for Pinchers and $5 for Chocolate. The first-generation versions of both are a different story, and our guide to the rarest Beanie Babies explains what to look for.
Two other 1990s characters joined them. Weenie, the dachshund that was the first Beanie Baby to stand on all four paws, doubled to ten sales, and Loosy the goose went from a single sale to eight, every one of them $10 or less.
A patriotic pair from Ty’s online store
White and Blue were two of four Independence Day bears Ty sold only through its own website in July 2003; White was on sale for barely two weeks. That short run has not made them scarce today. White sold 20 times this week, up from 15, and Blue 12 times, with medians of $10 and about $11.
Top sales of the week
With no first-generation rarities changing hands, the top of the week belonged to an international exclusive, early Teddys and three of the Billionaire bears Ty gave its own employees.
| Beanie and listing details | Sale price | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Aotearoa, flag nose, New Zealand exclusive | $850.00 | October 11 |
| Old-face violet Teddy and new-face magenta Teddy, sold together | $585.00 | October 6 |
| Humphrey, 2nd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $500.00 | October 9 |
| Billionaire #3, signed and numbered, at auction | $303.50 | October 5 |
| Wingless Quackers, authenticated, at auction | $289.99 | October 8 |
| Billionaire #6, signed and numbered | $285.00 | October 7 |
| Billionaire bear, signed and authenticated | $230.00 | October 5 |
| New-face jade Teddy, 2nd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $200.00 | October 8 |
| New-face violet Teddy, 3rd-generation hang tag, UK tags | $200.00 | October 5 |
| Nip, 3rd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $125.00 | October 9 |
| Flutter, 3rd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $115.00 | October 9 |
Prices are the amounts buyers paid, in US dollars before shipping and tax, checked in eBay’s sales research tool. Tag and authentication details are as the sellers described them.
Aotearoa is one of six flag bears Ty made for its 2005 Asia-Pacific set, sold in that region rather than in the United States, and this one has the flag nose rather than the plain black one.
Humphrey continues to be one of the most reliable early Beanies. The first Beanie Baby Ty ever officially retired, it brought $500 with a second-generation hang tag, right in the range it has held all year. The violet old-face Teddy in the $585 pair is the more valuable of the two bears; on its own, an old-face Teddy with a second-generation tag usually sells for $250 to $600.
The three Billionaires came in on the low side. Ty gave these signed, numbered bears to its staff and never sold them, and the same numbers have done better recently: a #3 brought $455 at auction in August, and a #6 sold for $650 last December. The scarce Billionaire #2, made in a run of 475, is the one that reaches four figures.
Keep an eye on your own Beanies
Every character in this report has a page in the Beanie Baby Market Tracker, with the recent sales behind these figures. If you are working out what a bear of your own might fetch, our guide to valuing Beanie Babies from sold listings explains how to read those sales properly.
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