In the new AppleTV+ film, “The Beanie Bubble,” we discover there were several brains behind the understuffed animals and a leader who wasn’t quite sure what he wanted.
Toymaker Ty Warner and his Beanie Babies are the subject of a new Apple TV+ film. Learn more about the billionaire's legal woes following the toys' decline.
The latest is “The Beanie Bubble,” a comic drama about the Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s. “The Beanie Bubble,” which lands on Apple TV+ Friday, may be part of a ‘20s trend but its interest is unpacking a late-20th century phenomenon and the some of the women exploited along the way. Zach Galifianakis plays Ty Warner, the chief executive of Ty Inc., the maker of the stuffed animals that — thanks to a few ingenious innovations and lucky twists of fate — became, as one character says in the film, “little plush lotto tickets.”
Beanie Babies were sought by collectors in the late ‘90s and could be sold for a massive return. The same reasons they were valuable resulted in their downfall.