Clip, Regular or Medium — Which Beanie Boo Size Suits You

Ty makes most of its popular characters in more than one size, and the size you pick matters more than people expect. It decides whether the toy ends up on a shelf, on a school bag, or in bed every night.

Clips are the smallest, usually $5.99 to $6.99, with a metal clip stitched into the top.

That clip is the whole point. These are the ones that live on school bags, pencil cases, pram handles and gym bags, and they take a beating without complaint. They're also the easiest entry point for a young collector, and the natural thing to add when a gift needs one more small item in it. Turbo the Spotted Turtle and Alex the Pastel Axolotl are typical of the range.

Regulars, at around $11.99 and roughly 15cm tall, are what most people picture when they hear Beanie Boo.

Big glitter eyes, soft body, sits up properly on a shelf. If you're collecting seriously — matching birthdays, building a themed display, working through a range — this is the size to standardise on. They line up neatly, they photograph well, and at that price you can keep adding without much thought.

Mediums move up to about $19.99 and 25cm.

This is the size for the one character that gets genuinely loved rather than displayed. Binky the Bush Baby comes as both a regular and a medium, which is a common pattern in the range and a useful one: one for the shelf, one for the bed, no arguments about whether the shelf one is allowed down.

Above that sit the larges and the Squish-A-Boos.

A 14 inch Squish-A-Boo like Iron Man is around $27.99 and it's built for squeezing, not for keeping pristine. Squish-A-Boos also come in mini clip form, so you can go small in the same soft, pillowy style.

Our short answer: clips for bags and stocking fillers, regulars for collecting, mediums and larges for the characters that have earned permanent status. Plenty of collectors end up with all three sizes of the same character sitting together, and honestly, that's part of the appeal.

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