!Other tropes present:
* AerithAndBob: Most of the names are very cartoonish, but there are some with more realistic names such as Erin or Scottie.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Played straight and averted. Some are realistically colored and designed; others are more cartoonish and less realistically colored.
* AmbiguousGender: Some Beanies' genders are never stated in their poems. Usually this is because the poem is in first-person, but other times they just manage to get to four lines without using a pronoun. Some are still obvious anyway (e.g., the several kangaroos are all female, as they have joeys in their pouches).
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: There are a few examples of this. For instance:
** Seaweed the Otter is holding a piece of seaweed in her paws, and her poem mentions that she likes eating it. Otters are carnivorous.
** Double-subverted with Runner, whose species is only given as ''mustelidae'' (i.e., weasel family), an unusually prominent example of ShownTheirWork on a toy. However, its poem says it can be a "ferret, mongoose, weasel, or mink"; mongoose are actually their own family, which is more related to felines than anything else. The inclusion of mongoose may be because it originally ''was'' a mongoose, but it shipped with a "mean poem" about killing snakes.
* CashCowFranchise: The toy line now includes Beanie Baby adaptations of ''HelloKitty'', ''SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''{{Shrek}}'', ''DoraTheExplorer'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', ''WowWowWubbzy'', ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', ''TheBackyardigans'', the live-action ''{{Garfield}}'' movies, the ''actual'' Garfield, the ''IceAge'' films, the ''{{Madagascar}}'' films, and so on. Special Beanie Baby bears in honor of people, which started with the Princess Diana tribute bear. Some are exclusive to retailers such as Walgreens. Yet others are exclusive to certain areas.
** To say nothing of the intentional release of design variations. For instance, Patti the Platypus comes in several almost-indiscernible color variations; Mystic the Unicorn had ''three'' design changes; Lucky the Ladybug can have 7, 11 or 21 spots (and they can be stitched-on felt or patterned fabric!).

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* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Yep, they even have ''three'' octopi: Inky, Opie and Wiggly. And [[SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward.]]
* PandaingToTheAudience: Three of the giant variety (Peking, Fortune and Wonton), one of the red variety.
* PlayfulOtter: Seaweed is her name.
* SmellySkunk: Yep, named Stinky, given perfume and mints as gifts, and "hop[es] one day he wouldn't stink."

!Other tropes present:
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Played straight and averted. Some are realistically colored and designed; others are more cartoonish and less realistically colored.
* AmbiguousGender: Some Beanies' genders are never stated in their poems. Usually this is because the poem is in first-person, but other times they just manage to get to four lines without using a pronoun. Some are still obvious anyway (e.g., the several kangaroos are all female, as they have joeys in their pouches).
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: There are a few examples of this. For instance:
** Seaweed the Otter is holding a piece of seaweed in her paws, and her poem mentions that she likes eating it. Otters are carnivorous.
** Double-subverted with Runner, whose species is only given as ''mustelidae'' (i.e., weasel family), an unusually prominent example of ShownTheirWork on a toy. However, its poem says it can be a "ferret, mongoose, weasel, or mink"; mongoose are actually their own family, which is more related to felines than anything else. The inclusion of mongoose may be because it originally ''was'' a mongoose, but it shipped with a "mean poem" about killing snakes.
* CashCowFranchise: The toy line now includes Beanie Baby adaptations of ''HelloKitty'', ''SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''{{Shrek}}'', ''DoraTheExplorer'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', ''WowWowWubbzy'', ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', ''TheBackyardigans'', the live-action ''{{Garfield}}'' movies, the ''actual'' Garfield, the ''IceAge'' films, the ''{{Madagascar}}'' films, and so on. Special Beanie Baby bears in honor of people, which started with the Princess Diana tribute bear. Some are exclusive to retailers such as Walgreens. Yet others are exclusive to certain areas.
** To say nothing of the intentional release of design variations. For instance, Patti the Platypus comes in several almost-indiscernible color variations; Mystic the Unicorn had ''three'' design changes; Lucky the Ladybug can have 7, 11 or 21 spots (and they can be stitched-on felt or patterned fabric!).
* FollowTheLeader: In the wake of the first wave of Beanie Baby success in the late nineties, many other plush toy lines suddenly came into vogue, such as Puffkins.
* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: Yes, there is a Godzilla [[strike:beanie baby]] Classic Ty plush...as well as Mothra and King Ghidorah. They were only available in Japan as a tie-in promotion for the release of GMK back in 2001.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Any Beanie with a tie-dye appearance is officially listed as "Ty-dye."
* LongRunners: The toys have been consistently in production since 1993.
* MeaningfulName: Why do you think they named a rabbit "Ears"? Or a bee "Bumble"?

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