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Description
BIRTHDAY 7/23/98
RELEASED 1/1/99
RETIRED 12/23/1999
FREE HOME AND HAS BEEN STORED
IN A BAG SINCE PURCHASE. THIS BEANIE IS FROM A RARE COLLECTION.
SWING TAG 5TH GENERATION VERSION 1
These 5th generation heart tags were introduced in the beginning of 1998 and are much like the 4th generation tags however they now use the comic sans font on the inside and outside of the hang tag.
The inside left on the first line "The Beanie Babies Collection®" is now a registered (®). Also the address lines changed. It no longer mentions 'Ty Inc. USA', 'UK' and 'Deutschland', it now refers to 'Ty Inc. USA', 'Ty Europe' and 'Ty Canada'. The Ty Europe address's first line can say just "Ty Europe" followed by a Gosport/Gasport address, or it can say "Ty Europe Ltd." followed by the Fareham Hants address.
The inside right now has the Beanies birthday spelled out and the style number has been deleted and the "Visit our Web page" is replaced with only "www.ty.com".
TUSH TAG 7TH GENERATION
The 7th generation tags began appearing after January 1999. A brand new hologram is now present, replacing the red heart symbol and “The Beanie Babies Collection. The Beanie Baby’s name is located below this hologram.
In the middle of the tush tag is a pale heart symbol which is heat activated and disappears when heat is applied. This has been added to help to identify between real and fake Beanie Babies.
The Chinese stamp that was present on the previous generation has now disappeared.
