| Being a toy fan, I have met my share of toy | | | | just how many stuffed pets that they currently own. |
| collectors. It doesn't matter what the collection is, | | | | My children and I got a bit of a late start with our |
| toy collectors are all similar. They get this obsession | | | | collection, so there were already several webkinz |
| about finding every piece to their collection and | | | | stuffed animals that the Ganz company had stopped |
| displaying everything in a particular manner. | | | | making. Some of these retired stuffed toys were |
| I have been collecting toys since I was young. I | | | | even selling on ebay for up to a thousand dollars like |
| remember my mother telling me that I wouldn't want | | | | the cheeky cat and cheeky dog. I can't believe how |
| these items once I got older. I guess she was | | | | in demand these toys are. When they first arrived, |
| wrong, because I still love to collect toys. | | | | the few stores that sold them were unable to keep |
| Just recently, my children returned home from school | | | | their shelves stocked. They have become one of the |
| with a new stuffed animal called a webkinz. I had | | | | most sought after toys on the market today. |
| never heard of them before, but once I found out | | | | Now that the new year has rolled in, so have the |
| more about them I began to develop the desire to | | | | new webkinz 2008 stuffed animals. Ganz has out |
| collect all of them. I now spend hours with my | | | | done themselves with their new plush toy additions. |
| children online in webkinz world which makes collecting | | | | The quality of the toys is increasing as well as their |
| the stuffed, plush animals even more desirable to me. | | | | popularity. Some of the new animals in the 2008 line |
| The funny thing about getting involved in starting a | | | | up include the Himalayan Cat, Schnauzer, Kangaroo, |
| collection is how you become so fanatical about | | | | Black and White Cheeky Dog, and Pink and White |
| completing your collection. It is not uncommon when | | | | Cat just to name a few. With toys like these it has |
| you are on an internet forum to have people stating | | | | become difficult not to want to collect them all. |