With Halloween a week away, the skeleton finally had its turn. Creepers sold 11 times, up from three, while Batty held exactly where it was. Princess stayed the busiest Beanie on eBay even after a quieter week.
This report covers October 19 to 25 and compares it with October 12 to 18. A character’s count can include more than one version.
Sales activity: the week’s biggest changes
| Beanie | October 12–18 | October 19–25 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Princess | 45 | 32 | −13 |
| Creepers | 3 | 11 | +8 |
| Magic | 9 | 1 | −8 |
| Weenie | 10 | 2 | −8 |
| Blue | 10 | 17 | +7 |
| Serenity | 7 | 0 | −7 |
| Swirly | 4 | 9 | +5 |
| Kicks | 3 | 8 | +5 |
| Pumkin’ | 3 | 7 | +4 |
| Peace | 12 | 15 | +3 |
Across the whole market, 1,002 Beanie Babies sold this week, a little below the week before, and the typical sale was $7.
Halloween, final stretch
Creepers the skeleton came out for Halloween 2001 and was retired that November, after barely ten weeks on sale. Even so, most sell for pocket change. This week the median was $8 and nothing went above $14. The jump came from timing alone: people want a skeleton on the shelf in the last week of October.
Batty sold 20 times for the second week running, with a median just under $7. Pumkin’ the pumpkin went from three sales to seven, and Spooky the ghost matched last week’s five. Expect all of them to go quiet once the candy is handed out.
Princess slows, still on top
Princess sold 32 times, down from 45, and still more than any other Beanie. Her median dipped slightly to about $9.70, and the best price for a single Princess was $34.95. A drop of a dozen sales is ordinary for a bear with this many copies in circulation.
Bears in demand
Blue went from ten sales to 17 at a steady median of about $9. It is one of the four Independence Day bears sold only through Ty’s online store in 2003. Peace, the tie-dyed bear, climbed from 12 to 15 with its median rising from $5.50 to $7.50. Swirly the snail and Kicks, the soccer bear, also more than doubled, though neither sold for more than $14.
Who went quiet
Magic the dragon fell from nine sales to one and Weenie the dachshund from ten to two. Serenity the dove, which sold seven times the week before, did not sell at all. None of them had a run of high prices behind the earlier activity, so this looks like supply drying up for a week rather than a change in value.
Top sales of the week
Early-tag Original Nine Beanies filled most of the top of the week, led by a Spot from the first run, before Ty gave him the black spot on his back.
| Beanie and listing details | Sale price | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Spot without his spot, 1st-generation hang tag, Korean-made, authenticated | $1,700.00* | October 21 |
| Scared-e, signed by Ty Warner | $395.00 | October 25 |
| Digger, orange, 3rd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $319.01 | October 25 |
| Valentino | $229.99* | October 22 |
| Spot, 2nd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $199.99* | October 22 |
| Digger, orange, 3rd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $199.99* | October 22 |
| Bumble, authenticated, 3rd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $165.00 | October 19 |
| Blackie, 2nd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $154.95 | October 25 |
| Garcia, in a display case | $149.95 | October 23 |
| Sting, 2nd-generation hang tag, 1st-generation tush tag | $145.00* | October 22 |
Prices are in US dollars before shipping and tax, as shown on each sold listing. *Sold through Best Offer. eBay’s sales research tool is running behind this week and has no records past mid-October yet, so we could not confirm what buyers paid on these. A Best Offer sale shows the seller’s asking price, and the price actually paid is often lower. Tag and authentication details are as the sellers described them.
Spot without his spot is one of the most sought-after early Beanies. Ty added the spot in April 1994, so a spotless Spot only ever came with one of the first two hang tags. An authenticated one with the second-generation tag sold for $425 in late September, and the first-generation tag on this one is the older of the two. Scared-e was a Ty store exclusive for Halloween 2002, on sale for only one month. Pairs of Scared-e and Fraidy usually sell for under $40, so Ty Warner’s signature is what carried this one to $395.
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 one of your own might fetch, our guide to valuing Beanie Babies from sold listings explains how to read those sales, and our guide to the most valuable Beanie Babies shows which versions are worth looking for.