Whenever you see a "hot investment" being covered by the mainstream news, run away... fast.
And yes, I saw NBA Hot Shots last week on the evening news.
And as for Beanie Babies, I can remember buying our first home in the late-90's and we looked a big house owned by a single lady, and it was CHOCK FULL of Beanie Babies. They were on couches, beds, floors, shelves, virtually anywhere you could put them, and two of the unused rooms were absolutely filled with them. She was there during the showing (probably scared we'd steal them), and when I casually mentioned it, and she just said that she "reeeeaaaally liked Beanie Babies". No sheit.
I didn't even ask to see the basement.
She had more Beanie Babies than this guy in the doc, but appeared well off and probably just had OCD and liked collecting them, but man, what a freakshow of a house viewing.