Beanie Babies 2.0 are a brand of stuffed toys, a spinoff of the popular Beanie Babies line, announced on January 2, 2008. The group was introduced following the retirement of all retail Beanie Babies (barring exclusive international and store-specific styles as well as licensed characters) that had been produced prior to 2004.
Each beanie comes with a special code. Once the buyer enters the code on Ty's website, the buyer is granted access to an online environment in which the user can gather points and communicate with other users through chat services. The chat is similar to other child-friendly games, such as Club Penguin, which allow pre-selected prompts to be used if the user has not been given permission (presumably from their parents) to access the full chat. Full chat is simply typed chat.
Prompts may also be used in addition to full chat. The website offers various activities, including opportunities to make friends. Buyers with a Ty Girlz account and a Beanie Baby 2.0 also have access to the Beanie Babies 2.0 site.
With Bo the Portuguese Water Dog being the last official Beanie Baby 2.0 announced in April 2009, and the introduction of a new offshoot line of Beanie Babies called Beanie Boos, it was unclear as to whether Ty had discontinued production of Beanie Babies 2.0 or whether future releases would be announced. In January 2010 in the new Ty spring catalog, the Beanie Babies 2.0 styles were shown to have been merged with the regular Beanie Babies, thus confirming that the line had been discontinued. For some time the online site still maintained its functionality and many Beanie Baby 2.0 styles still remain current. However, many styles such as Ming the panda bear and Topper the giraffe now sport original Beanie Baby hang tags without codes.
On June 7, 2013, the Beanie Babies 2.0 virtual world was officially closed along with the Ty Girlz virtual world.
List of Beanie Babies 2.0
The following is a complete listing of all Beanie babies 2.0. The line has been discontinued as of May 2009, but some new ones were released in July 2009 as Teenie Beanies, along with some originals.