TY Beanie Baby, Rocket the Blue Jay Collection – Original, Rare and Retired Collectable with Tag Errors

Collection includes:
Rocket the Blue Jay Beanie Baby
Rocket the Blue Jay Teenie Beanie Baby (McDonalds)

Original 90s Beanie Baby collection for sale at a great price! Beanie Babies are a unique and collectible brand of stuffed toy because they are stuffed with plastic pellets ("beans") rather than conventional soft stuffing.

Babies emerged as a major fad and collectible during the second half of the 1990s. They have been cited as being the world's first Internet sensation in 1995. They were collected not only as toys, but also as a financial investment, due to the high resale value of particular ones.

What makes Beanie Babies so valuable was the deliberate scarcity of supply, producing each new design in limited quantity, restricting individual store shipments to limited numbers of each design and regularly retiring designs, created a huge secondary market for the toys and increased their popularity and value as a collectible.

Following are key factors that contributed to the collectible nature of Beanie Babies:
• Unique creative elements – each product contained a unique birthday and poem that was printed on the tag of every Beanie Baby
• Supply/demand – Scarce availability fell short of the product demand
• Availability – Beanie Babies were initially only sold in individually-owned small gift and specialty shops
• New releases / retirements – Several times a year, Beanie Babies would retire and the production of those characters would cease, to make room for new designs[4]

Beanie Name - Rocket
Style Number - 4202
Category - Bird
Sub Category - Blue Jay
Birthday - 03/12/97
Intro Date - 05/30/98
Retired Date - 12/23/99
Hang Tag Gen 5
Tush Tag Gen 6
Copyright Date 1998
Pellets PE
Origin China, Indo
Color blue

Both Tages have printing errors.
Tag Errors: Oak Brook is one word and space between last word and exclamation point!
Filled with environmentally PE pellets
Great Condition
Vintage from the 90’s
Poem message inside