Webkinz the next Beanie Babies?

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Apr 062007
 

The Globe & Mail thinks so. Kind of startling to think — I hadn’t really considered the collectible aspect that much. Beanie Babies with an online world…

  6 Responses to “Webkinz the next Beanie Babies?”

  1. SWEATblog says:
    April 7, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Our link is courtesy of Raph Koster, who is also tracking the Webkinz craze, and who admits he didn’t consider the collectability of the plush dolls. There has been a secondary market on eBay and Amazon for some time. The dolls are fragile, only surface washable. This may contribute to their long-term scarcity, and reinforce their collectablility. I wonder what will happen when the accounts change

  2. Steven Davis says:
    April 7, 2007 at 10:20 am

    Wicked combo – real toys, collectibles, virtual world – plush Magic: The Gathering. We’ve seen a couple of variants on this and I’m guessing we are going to see a lot more. This is a very significant trend.

  3. Allen Sligar says:
    April 7, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    @Raph,

    Reverse engineer this, recall all those MMOG players that collected rare and unique items for display (SWG, UO). Now what if the player got a rare/unique item in game…..and then got one in the mail!!! 🙂

    Your OpenGL/Resin model post from…like 9 months ago(?) comes to mind…

  4. Andrew Wooldridge says:
    April 8, 2007 at 11:11 am

    Imagine what will happen when you can create your own custom character, then have the toy manufacturer create that toy on demand? You take your Bratz/MMO character – dress it up and buy accessories, then the toy manufacturer custom “print”‘s that doll for you. Like the lego concept. Seems like we could be very close to that: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/color_3d_prints_print_world_of.html

  5. Michael Chui says:
    April 9, 2007 at 3:57 am

    Now what if the player got a rare/unique item in game…..and then got one in the mail!!!

    One word:

    Spore.

  6. Joe Ludwig’s Blog » Living in a bubble says:
    April 15, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    […] methodologies that aren’t even from software development, let alone games. Raph spends almost as much time talking about recent web developments and broader media topics as he does MMOs. I suspect that […]

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