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 ...
It's been 40 years since a Georgia art student turned a talent for soft sculpture into a nationwide craze. Xavier Roberts traveled to art shows in 1977 with handmade, nearly life-size dolls that came ...
Cabbage Patch Kids are 40 years old but remain America's most sensational toy story. The pudgy baby dolls ignited a first-of-its-kind consumer craze during the Christmas shopping season of 1983 — ...
When Cabbage Patch Kids burst onto the scene in 1983, Dan Goodman says they set off a consumer frenzy unlike any toy fad seen before or since. Goodman is the executive producer of Billion Dollar ...
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 ...