In the '80s, Cabbage Patch Kids were the most coveted toys on the market. With their round plastic heads, floppy cloth bodies and winsome, folksy styling, Cabbage Patch Kids are instantly recognizable ...
If you’re an ‘80s baby, either you were obsessed with Cabbage Patch Kids or you never understood the hype. The dolls were huge in the early ‘80s, and for some people, they’re still cherished ...
In the weeks leading up to Christmas 1983, pandemonium erupted at toy stores across America as shoppers scrambled to get their hands on the season’s hottest commodity: Cabbage Patch Kids. People ...
Galen Walker, who is producing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, has picked up rights to the the toy, which became a phenomenon in 1983. By Paul Bond Cabbage Patch Kids The Cabbage Patch Kids ...
Third-graders in Robana Patterson's class at Pilgrim Elementary School are looking slightly pained. The girls and boys have just admitted that they, like most other children in America, want Cabbage ...
A fan of the iconic Cabbage Patch Kid toys has taken her obsession to the next level by making her own versions of the dolls’ woollen tresses. Amanda Lillie, 32, has created a range of crocheted wigs ...
Pat Benner of Hanover Twp. was just telling her granddaughter about surviving a riot and walking away with three Cabbage Patch Kids dolls in Wilkes-Barre in November 1983. Soon, they’ll be able to ...
An avid Cabbage Patch Kids fan has dedicated three rooms of his flat to his collection of more than 600 dolls that he says are his children. Bachelor Dan Knowlton, 41, has spent thousands of pounds ...
In the early 1980s, the toy industry gave birth to a new doll: the Cabbage Patch Kid. In 1976, 21-year-old Xavier Roberts creates the hand-stitched, "adoptable" dolls, which came with their own birth ...
The unique dolls, which came with customized adoption papers, flew off shelves faster than they could be stocked.