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The Rare Bear cards are wonderful full hologram cards of some
of Ty's Bears. There are a total of 12 of them and come in four
different colors: Blue, Green, Silver and Gold, with blue being
the easiest to find and Gold being the most difficult. The color
of the card is determined by the words "THE BEAR" under
the name of the bear. The odds of finding one of these cards is
1 pack in 50, which makes them a little more available than the
Original 9 cards, but the production numbers of some of them make
it more difficult to put together a set of Rare Bears. They are
all limited editions and the production numbers are given below.
There are 15 Retired cards (numbered 274 through 288). The odds
of finding a retired card are 1 in every 5 packs which makes them
easier to find than in Series 1. As with the Rare Bears, they
come in the same four color ranks. The color is determined by
the small "Retired" insignia on the bottom left of the cards.
There are 100 gold cards for each and they are serial numbered
on the back. The hardest to find is Rex. 
There are 24 Birthday / Rookie cards (numbered 250 through 273).
The odds of finding one of these cards is 1 in every 3 packs,
making them more difficult to find that Series 1 birthday / rookie
cards. The same four colors are used again with 100 golds for
each. The color is determined by the color of the Beanies name
at the bottom of the card. The hardest of these to find are Caw,
Nip and Peanut. 
Similar to Series 1 there are 100 common cards (numbered 150 through
249). These cards have the same Horizontal format as Series 1
and contain the same basic information. There are quite a few
errors in the commons but the two biggest are that Scat is numbered
125 instead of what it should have been, which is 217. Mel and
Millennium also share the 196 spot and 195 is vacant where Mel
should have been. Unlike Series 1 there do not appear to be hard
to find commons in this series, although in general the higher
the number, the more plentiful they are. A full list of
Series 2 commons is available 
There are a total of 25 different trivia cards, where each card
has 5 questions. Of course, the questions and answers are covered
up and have to be scratched off. The questions are of different
perceived levels of difficulty and points are associated with
each question. In general the questions at the top are considered
easier than the ones at the bottom. If two competing players finish
up with the same score, there is a tie breaker rub-off circle
at the bottom of the card. Whoever gets the highest or lowest
number wins. A great fun addition to the trading cards.
The packs contained a checklist just as in the first series. Again,
no distinction is made between the different sets or colors of
the cards. 
The Canadian edition was released on June 16th 1999 and came as
a surprise to most retailers who were just expecting to receive
the standard US edition. Each card in the Canadian series has
a red foil maple leaf in the top corner of the card. What is rather
puzzling though is that there are three cards missing in the Canadian
edition, two commons: Sammy the tie dye bear (I think they produced
so many US Sammy's, that the plates wore out), Mac the Cardinal
and one Rare Bear Princess. While the checklist was updated to
remove these three, Ty obviously didn't want to update the poster,
so these were left out of the boxes. 
The European edition appeared in the late summer, first in England.
This edition has the same three cards missing as in the Canadian
edition and also does not have the poster. Each of these cards
has a blue "EU" printed in one of the top corners. The run size
appears to be about twice that of the Canadian cards, but is is
unknown how many autographed cards there are. A signed Grunt has
been reported to smartcollecting, so it is clearly different from
the Canadian run. One collector did
find a Sammy in a European pack, but it was missing the EU stamp.