The Beanie Bubble (2023) poster
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The Beanie Bubble

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Ty was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women turned his stuffed animals into a defining '90s trend. This behind-the-scenes look at history's biggest toy craze is a wild story about what—and who—is valued in this world. From TMDB

41 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Jul 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 11, 2026 · How this works

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  • The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 25, 2025

    This is the vinyl single “This” from Ok Go. I love the way it looks. It’s from Damian’s movie “The Beanie Bubble” in 2023.

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  • Mark Waid Should Be Working Instead @markwaid.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2023

    Derived great enjoyment from THE BEANIE BUBBLE, the Apple TV movie about the rise and fall of the Beanie Baby fad, but there was one brilliant line in particular that floored me with insight: "Once you make a checklist, it's no longer about what you have. It's about what you don't have."

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  • badbrainstorm @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 24, 2023

    'The Beanie Bubble' trailer: Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Snook lead toy-craze biopic. If you don't know the sound of a dial-up modem by heart, you might not remember the Beanie Babies craze. The collectible soft toys became a must-have item almost overnight thanks to the artificial scarcity of "limited editions", leading people to buy them up in the dozens or hundreds as an "investment". So basically NFTs, but less useless. It was all the brainchild of toy salesman Ty Warner — or was it? The…

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  • 'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday "Dick" was a fun movie. The Beanie Bubble wasn't all that bad either.

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  • Mrs.Lovecats @anjijade.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2025

    Did not expect Plainsong to burst out at the start of The Beanie Bubble (Beanie Baby movie). #curespotting

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  • Torontoplex @torontoplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2023

    New - Trans doc KOKOMO CITY, horror flick TALK TO ME, basketball anime THE FIRST SLAM DUNK, N Cage in SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, toy biz tale THE BEANIE BUBBLE, homegrown NORTH OF NORMAL, more! Opening in Toronto: https://letterboxd.com/torontoplex/list/opening-in-toronto-jul-28-2023/detail/ #toOpening

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  • 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2023

    Watched "The Beanie Bubble", a movie about the mystifyingly popular ghastly plush toys. Really well done, even with a fractured time-jump narrative. Great Third Act payoff, but I want to RAVE about Geraldine Viswanathan, whose Maya is one of the best-written characters of the year.

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  • Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2023

    watching The Beanie Bubble, which is not, as i thought, a movie about Beanie Feldstein's 4-month run starring in a Broadway show

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  • Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2023

    At North Shore Movies this week I reviewed THE BEANIE BUBBLE. I didn’t see the Flamin’ Hot Cheeto movie but it can’t possibly be worse than this.

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  • Phil Edwards @PhilEdwardsMastodon · Jun 26, 2023

    Zach Galifianakis creates the Beanie Babies in the trailer for The Beanie Bubble. Watch the trailer here https://bit.ly/3PuOsFe #BeanieBabies #TheBeanieBubble #ZachGalifianakis #ElizabethBanks #SarahSnook #GeraldineViswanathan

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  • brainwashed @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 22, 2023

    The Beanie Bubble — Official Trailer | Apple TV+. Beanie Babies der Spielfilm. Falls es jemandem nichts sagt, laut [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_Babies): > Beanie Babies began to emerge as popular collectibles in late 1995, and became a hot toy.[22] The company's strategy of deliberate scarcity, 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…

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  • Pat @ptwrench.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    Thanks. My gosh, we were told we had to post on social media. I made the most of it. You want to know what Ty is like? Watch the movie "The Beanie Bubble."

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  • Pat @ptwrench.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    Wow, they made a documentary about Lisa Frank. That's the one? One time, I made sure to post a picture of a bus with the movie "The Beanie Bubble" advertisement on it. It was not too kind to Mr. Warner.

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  • Simeon Scott @simeonscott.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2025

    Watched The Beanie Bubble to try and shake the rancid vibes, now THAT was a good movie.

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  • Mia Frenchfry @freinchfrygirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2025

    There’s so very little limiting these big toy companies from actually producing to meet the demand too though. They know the collector market keeps their toys selling again and again. There’s a movie called The Beanie Bubble that I believe was picked up by Apple that gets into it really well.

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  • David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 21, 2024

    Add food, ruin a film The Beanie Bubble Gum

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  • Erik_Nilsson 🦇🐈‍⬛🍂 @x1237valr.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 7, 2023

    Whole movie should have just been about her. | Movie Night - 'The Beanie Bubble' (2023) 📽️

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  • Alison Doherty Tergis @alisondoherty.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2023

    Finally watched The Beanie Bubble movie & I thought it was a delight (not just because I got excited whenever I saw a Beanie Baby I had growing up)

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  • Talcott @talcotts.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2023

    The Beanie Bubble, which is Amazon’s version of the dozen new Beanie Baby documentaries (not to be confused with the movie on Apple) is basically a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

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  • Nicole Campos @camposova.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2023

    Just when you think you've seen the best use of The Cure's "Plainsong" in a film, The Beanie Bubble sets its opening credits to it over a slo-mo montage of that time 1000's of Beanies fell off a truck and people went ham on each other trying to grab them. Excellent.

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  • Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2023

    Movie Diary: They Cloned Tyrone, Pretty Problems, Gray Matter, The Beanie Bubble, 65, etc. http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2023/08/movie-diary.html

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  • dEnnyUK @dennyuk.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2023

    I just realized that that’s Zach Galifianakis in Apple TV+ movie The Beanie Bubble! I recognized the voice, but struggled placing the actor. It’s so weird seeing him without a beard! #Chameleon

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  • A P *demon bursts out of my face* Clarke @apclarke.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2023

    The Beanie Bubble (2023) Yet ANOTHER 'behind the scenes of that thing you remember from your youth!' movie. Strangely honest, in that the green-lighters are genuinely trying to make movies about 'real lives', it's just that 'their lives' are sensible, comfortable, office-based middle management.

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  • megaphone @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 28, 2023

    Film review: ‘The Beanie Bubble,’ with Zach Galifianakis, plunges into a plush toy ’90s craze.

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  • tv+news · all things tv+ @[email protected]Mastodon · Jun 22, 2023

    Here is the official trailer for #TheBeanieBubble, premiering on #AppleTVPlus July 28. The film chronicles the true story of how billionaire #TyWarner founded the iconic toy company and the 3 women who helped him cultivate the '90s #BeanieBaby phenomenon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV32siOI9mU

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  • Fiona R @lonewraith28.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    Forgot to mention The Beanie Bubble (2023) as a recently watched film.

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  • Sean Hecking @seanhecking.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2023

    The Beanie Bubble g.co/kgs/GGrHzB not the greatest movie but interesting marketing nuggets on scarcity & WOM strategies

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  • Kariyanine @kariyanine.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2023

    Movie 120 of 2023 - The Beanie Bubble Structured a bit weird but a fascinating dramatic look at the rise and fall of Ty, Inc. from the perspective of the women that helped shape it but were screwed out of their credit for their work.

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  • jp @jprrMastodon · Aug 4, 2023

    I’m not sure that The Beanie Bubble is about a plush toy. In fact, I’m not altogether sure that the filmmakers even care about beanie babies at all. They’re just using the rise and fall of Ty Inc. as a thinly veiled MeToo lecture. #TheBeanieBubble #MovieReview #Comedy #Drama #TrueStory #Movie https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/the-beanie-bubble/

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  • Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2023

    after two decades I am like exquisitely calibrated to rotten tomatoes and I can usually guess within about 10 points of a movies score after I see it. I dont know what it is about it, but The Beanie Bubble just became the movie with the biggest mismatch in guess vs actual. about 30 points wide! wtf

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  • Great Pop Culture Debate @[email protected]Mastodon · Jul 29, 2023

    Panelist Joelle from @thepocketpod is reliving her #BeanieBaby filled youth while watching the wild retelling of the Ty story in #TheBeanieBubble on #AppleTV. For a triple feature, check out the nostalgia-filled docs on Max and #PrimeVideo. #GPCD #Toys

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  • Last One to Leave @LastOneToLeaveMastodon · Jul 28, 2023

    This week I review #HauntedMansion , #TalktoMe, #happinessforbeginners, #KokomoCity, #TheUnknownCountry and #TheBeanieBubble https://lastonetoleavethetheatre.blogspot.com/2023/07/haunted-mansion.html

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  • Scott Renshaw @scottrenshaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2023

    New City Weekly reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: HAUNTED MANSION, TALK TO ME, THE BEANIE BUBBLE and more. https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2023/07/27/film-reviews-new-releases-for-july-28

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  • Talcott @talcotts.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2023

    The Beanie Bubble is basically a Christopher Guest movie about Beanie Babies. Also this:

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  • Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.comBluesky · Jul 21, 2023

    so excited for today's big debut of the movie of the summer, The Beanie Bubble

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  • Movie Emporium @movieemporium.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2023

    The Beanie Bubble is another film focusing on the building of a brand, but does this film rise or does it fall. Click below for the review. youtu.be/dIChRKH7_FY #TheBeanieBubble #AppleTVPlus #MovieEmporium

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  • aric @aghastronaut.comBluesky · Jul 20, 2023

    Me: One for the big B movie. Ticket Seller: One for Barbie! Me: No, the other B movie. Ticket Seller: B...bomb? Bomb! One for Oppenheimer. Me: The other one. Ticket Seller: ... Me: The Beanie Bubble.

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  • Last One to Leave @LastOneToLeaveMastodon · Jul 18, 2023

    This week on @fanbolt I preview 7 movies coming out including #Barbie, #Oppenheimer, #TheBeanieBubble, and #TheDeepestBreath https://fanbolt.com/143048/7-new-movies-coming-out-this-week-barbie-oppenheimer-and-more/

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  • BlueBoxNERD @blueboxnerdMastodon · Jun 22, 2023

    🚨JUST IN🚨 #TheBeanieBubble Trailer #1 (2023) is OUT! 😍 #BeanieMania #CuteOverload #NewMovie #MustWatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQ_pIoY4fk

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  • tv+news · all things tv+ @[email protected]Mastodon · Jun 22, 2023

    #TheBeanieBubble stars #ZachGalifianakis, #ElizabethBanks, #SarahSnook and #GeraldineViswanathan. The film can be added to your Up Next queue here: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-beanie-bubble/umc.cmc.4byzgw44377yxyjsl85rhn8vq?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000

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  • tv+news · all things tv+ @[email protected]Mastodon · May 11, 2023

    #TheBeanieBubble will premiere on #AppleTVPlus on July 28. The film chronicles the true story of how billionaire #TyWarner (#ZachGalifianakis) founded the iconic toy company & the 3 women who helped him cultivate the '90s #BeanieBaby phenomenon. (https://ew.com/movies/the-beanie-bubble-first-look-elizabeth-banks-directors/)

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