Did Walt Disney World start selling large versions of the mini bean bag characters and why did they do this?

[DodgerGirl]

I read that in the 90's when the Disney's Mini Bean Bag plush characters were hot collector's items Walt Disney World started selling the bean bag plushies of characters in larger sizes and I would like to know the story behind this? The first large character bean bags sold at Walt Disney World were Aladdin plushies and then a set of Disney's Animal Kingdom plush animals and The Fab Five and safari themed Winnie The Pooh characters were released in large versions. Was this done to save money? Because I know that the Disney Store mini bean bag characters and the Disney Parks mini bean bag characters were the exact same plushies but the Walt Disney World large bean bag characters plushies looked different