I would be interested in hearing from other Ty retailers who attended the show. I am not doubting this report but since I was not in attendance I just need to make it clear that I personally can not verify this information.
Ms. Janie
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Hi, I was so excited typing you guys the letter last night that I forgot to include there is the new March Birthday bear. The color of him is a blue that is a few shades Lighter than the December Birthday bear. I have also included a picture of the Gift & Home show guide along with my Badge that we had to wear to be able to get into the show (p.s. I had to cover some info on it though) I hope this helps. Thanks, Andrew

Hi, We had some free time this weekend so we took a 3 hour drive to the Chicago show at the Merchandise Mart, and of course the first stop was the Ty Booth!!
And if you thought Easter introductions were over, THINK AGAIN! First the NEW NEW stuff:
Instead of Jingle beanies for Christmas, We now have Basket Beanies for Easter. They are the same as the Jingles, just with a hang tag that has multicolor letters that say Basket Beanies. Those ones are: Hope, Eggs, Ewey, Floppity and Hippity.
New beanies are a dog-named Frisbee: Grey fur with a black and blue checkered ribbon (I think it was those colors) Also a Cat named Tracks: Cream/white fur with light brown spots and furry/feather ears. They also had 1 more new one, a bear: looked like the bear form Nick Jr.s " Bear in the Big Blue House" but they didn't have the actual beanie there...just a picture. Next for buddies, they had new Eggs buddy and Cashew buddy.
I didn't have much time to check out other stuff but I noticed a new Baby Ty: gogo and some new beanie kids cloths: ( I think they are new: workout gear? sorry the info is so little but the I don't think the Ty reps wanted me there...I was trying to write down info and one of them just came up and handed me a Ty Order form and said here just take this, but it didn't have any new items on it so I don't know. But I did notice later on that they were giving out free Ty Plastic bags but by the time I got back there...she was handing the last one out. And of course the Ty booth was the busiest out of all of them! Although I didn't see Ty...one of the reps was acting weird...standing in the corner talking really quiet to someone on her cell! lol and you never know they might even introduce more at the show tomorrow. So I hope this helped.
Thanks, Andrew