Sesame Street Beans

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In 1998, Tyco released a set of 24 beanie-style Sesame Street plush, under the name Sesame Street Beans. The set was the Sesame version of the Beanie Babies fad, which was at its height at the time. The "collectible" aspect of the Beanie Baby fad depended on having a large number of items in the set, with some more common than others. To fill out the set to include 24 different character Beans, a number of characters were produced as plush toys for the first time, including Barkley, Benny Rabbit, Guy Smiley, and the Amazing Mumford. Three different colors of the Honker bean were produced and two different colors of Sherlock Hemlock's nose were produced as well.
The toys varied between 6 and 10 inches in size; most were about 9 inches. Each Bean came with a tag which included facts about the character. Smaller, 6 inch clip-on versions of the dolls were also sold by Tyco under the name Sesame Street Beans.
A TV commercial for the toys featured Elmo, a Honker, and Herry Monster. Elmo sees "You Don't Know Beans" printed onscreen and attempts to remove the "Don't" with a crowbar. He recruits the Honker to pull it off, to no avail. Finally, Herry steps in and effortlessly rips the word away, as the dolls burst through the wall.
==Mini beans==
Small (approx. 4 inch) versions of the toys were sold in Singapore in 1999 as a McDonald's Happy Meal promotion. In 2000, Kellogg's cereals packaged the mini-beans in cereal boxes. In both mini-beans collections only one Honker was made.
==Beans==
Image:Tyco1997BabyBear8in.jpg|Baby Bear
Image:Tyco1997BeansNatasha.jpg|Baby Natasha
Image:Tyco1997Barkley6inBeanie.jpg|Barkley
Image:Tyco1997BennyRabbit9inBeanie.jpg |Benny Rabbit
Image:Tyco1997Bert9inBeanie.jpg|Bert
Image:Tyco1997BettyLou9inBeanie.jpg|Betty Lou
Image:Tyco1997BigBird10inBeanie.jpg|Big Bird
Image:Tyco1997Cookie8in.jpg|Cookie Monster
Image:Tyco1997Count8in.jpg|The Count
Image:Tyco1997Elmo9inBeanie.jpg|Elmo
Image:Tyco1997Ernie9inBeanie.jpg|Ernie
Image:Tyco1997Grover8inBeanie.jpg|Grover
Image:Tyco1997GuySmiley.jpg|Guy Smiley
Image:Tyco1997Herry8in.jpg|Herry Monster
Image:Tyco1997GreenHonker9inBeanie.jpg|Green Honker
Image:Tyco1997BeansPinkHonker.jpg|Pink Honker
Image:Tyco1997PurpleHonker9inBeanie.jpg|Purple Honker
Image:Tyco1997Mumford8in.jpg|The Amazing Mumford
Image:Tyco1997Oscar9inBeanie.jpg|Oscar with Slimey
Image:Tyco1997Rosita8inBeanie.jpg|Rosita
Image:Tyco1997RubberDuckie5.5inBeanie.jpg|Rubber Duckie
Image:FB4DA920-0468-4336-BE8D-40056DD45031.jpeg|Sherlock Hemlock (pink nose)
Image:Tyco1997SherlockHemlock9inBeanie.jpg|Sherlock Hemlock (purple nose)
Image:Tyco1997Snuffy.jpg|Mr. Snuffleupagus
Image:Tyco1997Telly9inBeanie.jpg|Telly
Image:Tyco1997TwiddleBug9in.jpg|Twiddlebug
Image:Tyco1997Zoe9in.jpg|Zoe
==International beans==
In addition to Tyco selling the above beanies in Germany with Sesamstrasse tags, Tyco also produced beanies of International Sesame Street characters.
File:Tyco Graf Zahl tag.jpg|example of Sesamstrasse tag
File:HuHuZhu Tyco bean.jpg|Hu Hu Zhufrom Zhima Jie
File:Samson Tyco bean.jpg|Samsonfrom Sesamstrasse
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