Ah yes, Beanie Babies. Just one of a long, long line of “””toys””” with absolutely no intrinsic value, whose sole purpose is to be collected. Nowadays they don’t even try to hide their forced-scarcity tactics; it seems like every other day they come out with yet another useless collectible series, and it’s always “Collect them all! Can you find the SUPER RARE ones?!”
Oh man, Beanie Babies. My classmates in 3rd grade used to show theirs off after class every day. By the time I got one, they stopped.
Now I’m hoping once we get to 1998 there’ll be another comic like this but for Furbys
Huh third story arc on this family this year. Interesting.
Oh no.
Craig with the solid bit of sarcasm threw me for a slight loop.
Ah yes, Beanie Babies. Just one of a long, long line of “””toys””” with absolutely no intrinsic value, whose sole purpose is to be collected. Nowadays they don’t even try to hide their forced-scarcity tactics; it seems like every other day they come out with yet another useless collectible series, and it’s always “Collect them all! Can you find the SUPER RARE ones?!”
Yeah… not the best retirement investment there, Trish…
OMG.
I’ll be honest, I always thought ‘Nip’ was just intended to rhyme with several of the other Beanie Baby cats (Zip, Flip, Snip)
Nice shout-out to the Sega Genesis game in the title. xD
I had a handful of Beanie Babies. Some of them we bought, some of them were handed over to us.
I never knew it was a craze until many years down the line.
The thing rich people (and banks) don’t tell you about credit cards is that you actually HAVE to repay all that money.
Oh God, The Beanie Babies craze. And Patricia is about to go on a collect a thon.
That second panel is just asking for Japanese subtitles