Beanie Babies were collected by kids and adults alike in the late 1990s. There was a time when collectors thought the pile of beans and fluff they sat on was going to make them rich.

Nick Surman reached out to News 8 about his large Beanie Baby collection. He wanted to talk about what he has planned for them.

Surman didn’t collect the Beanie Babies himself. He saw them for sale on Craigslist and bought them for a few hundred dollars from a man in Rockford.  More at www.CooperandAnthony.com, and watch us nightly at 7pm EST https://www.twitch.tv/cooperandanthony