A Doll Was Sold for $230 in 1976 and Was Sold Again in 1989

American doll brand

Cabbage Patch Kids

Type	Dolls
Company	Coleco (1982–1988) Hasbro (1988–1994) Mattel (1994–2003) Toys "R" United states of america (2003) Play Along (2004–2011) Jakks Pacific (2011–2014) Wicked Cool Toys (2015–nowadays)
State	United States
Availability	1978–present
Official website

Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of ane-of-a-kind cloth dolls with plastic heads showtime produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts every bit collectibles and registered in the United States copyright role in 1978 as 'The Little People'. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger Fifty. Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 1982.^[1]

The new doll brand set every toy industry sales record for three years running, and was ane of the most popular lines of children'southward licensed products in the 1980s^{[2] [3]} and has become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the U.s.a.. The characters and graphics created past Schlaifer and developed by his visitor, Schlaifer Nance & Company (SN&C), were used on all Cabbage Patch products, ranging from children's clothes, bedding, and infants' vesture to record albums and board games.

Production history [edit]

Creation and evolution [edit]

According to court records (OAA v Toy Loft),^[iv] Roberts, being a 21-year-old fine art student at a missionary schoolhouse in North Georgia, discovered craft artist Martha Nelson'southward Doll Babies. They came with a birth document and adoption papers. With the help of artist Debbie Moorehead, he hand-stitched dolls called "The Niggling People". Roberts very cleverly modified the look of Nelson's dolls, birth document and adoption papers sufficiently to get a copyright and told potential customers his Footling People weren't for sale, only could be "adopted" for prices ranging from lx to as much as a k dollars.^[2]

The Lilliputian People were first sold at arts and crafts shows, then afterward at Babyland Full general Hospital, an old medical dispensary that Roberts and his friends-turned-employees converted into a toy store, in Cleveland, Georgia.^[3]

In 1981, at the height of Roberts's success, he was approached by Atlanta designer and licensing amanuensis, Roger Fifty. Schlaifer^{[four] [2]} about licensing The Little People. But since Schlaifer thought the name was mundane and Fisher-Price owned "Little People" - which were included in McDonalds Happy Meals -

for the toy category, the proper noun was changed to "Cabbage Patch Kids." His goal was to build the get-go and largest mass-market children's brand in history. In club to attract potential doll manufacturers and to create the amusement and publishing businesses he envisioned, Schlaifer and his partner/married woman wrote the          Fable of the Cabbage Patch Kids. To make sense of how special cabbages gave birth to Cabbage Patch Kids, Schlaifer invented BunnyBees—the bee-similar creatures that employ their rabbit ears to fly most and pollinate cabbages with magical crystals. Since Roberts insisted on being a character in the story, Schlaifer created him as a curious, ten-year-former boy who discovered the Cabbage Patch Kids by following a BunnyBee behind a waterfall into a magical Cabbage Patch, where he found the Cabbage Patch babies being born in a neglected garden. To salve them from existence abducted to work in the gold mines operated by the villainess Lavender McDade and her ii cohorts in law-breaking, Cabbage Jack and Boyfriend Weasel, young Roberts tried to relieve them past finding loving parents who would adopt them and keep them safe in their homes.        

In 1982, Coleco's design team, headed by famed doll designer Judy Albert, devised an industry get-go—one-of-a-kind, plastic-headed Cabbage Patch Kids dolls with cuter features, softer bodies and a normal toddler's proportions instead of the morbidly obese bodies on Roberts' originals. It was those insufficiently inexpensive--$18-$28 dolls, branded in packaging designed past Schlaifer and produced in Coleco's factories in Communist china, that the public went crazy over—rioting^[5] to get their hands on one in stores across Due north America. The consumer response was so great, Coleco cancelled all of its advertising as they tried to continue up with demand—shipping a doll-industry record, 3.2 million dolls. A huge success, but minor compared to 1984's sales of dolls and Cabbage Patch branded merchandise (children's clothes, bedding, sleepwear, books and endless other products that generated an industry tape, $2,000,000,000 in retail sales across North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Coleco'due south sales connected to climb correct through 1986, when they reportedly over-shipped and lost ground in a bitter legal battle with Schlaifer and Roberts over his introduction of "Furskins Bears" —a collection of hillbilly bears that competed with the Cabbage Patch dolls. Coleco's sales plummeted from over $800 meg in 1986 to nothing in 1988 when, after a number of questionable acquisitions, and, after paying Roberts a reported fortune for an extension to their CPK contract, the company afterward went out of business.

Coleco years [edit]

After disarming Roberts of the demand to change the dolls' proper name to Cabbage Patch Kids, Schlaifer contacted all the major doll companies in the country. Only with one small exception, they all turned him downwardly—saying the look of Piffling People was too ugly to sell on the mass-market.^[2] Withal, because of Schlaifer'southward persistence, he found Coleco–then famous for its success with electronic toys—and sold them on being his Master Toy licensee—for which he negotiated a record-setting advertising guarantee.

At the peak of their popularity, between 1983 and 1986, the dolls were a must-have toy for Christmas.^{[half dozen] [7]} Cabbage Patch riots occurred as parents literally fought to obtain the dolls for children. In later years, Coleco introduced variants on the original Cabbage Patch Kids, and derivatives of the original line of dolls continued to be marketed.

International variations [edit]

When Coleco was producing the dolls for the North American marketplace during the 1980s, they provided technical assist to other doll manufacturers in Panama, Europe, Commonwealth of australia and Japan who wanted to utilise their molds.^[5]

Hasbro years [edit]

Hasbro took over the rights to produce Cabbage Patch dolls in 1988 afterward Coleco filed for Chapter xi defalcation,^[8] and continued to make the dolls with various gimmicks, including dolls that played kazoos. Some of the more popular doll lines to come out nether the Cabbage Patch Kids proper name included the "Birthday Kids", "Splash 'n' Tan Kids", and "Pretty Crimp and Curlicue". Hasbro produced a 10th ceremony doll, reintroducing Schlaifer's original packaging–a practice that other CPK doll manufacturers would do to give sales a boost on various anniversaries. Hasbro gradually began making the dolls for younger children, which led to smaller and smaller dolls. Although Cabbage Patch dolls were still best selling toys, the rage was clearly over. And with no TV or movie presence, in that location was seemingly no way to significantly revive them.

Mattel years [edit]

In 1994, Mattel acquired the licensing rights to the dolls from Original Appalachian Artworks. Their beginning Cabbage Patch dolls hit the stores in 1995.

The Mattel Cabbage Patch dolls were non limited to cloth bodies and included dolls made from vinyl, resulting in a more durable play doll. The Mattel dolls are mostly sized 14" or smaller, and almost variants were individualized with a gimmick to enhance their collectibility, eastward.g. some dolls played on water toys, swam, ate nutrient, or brushed their teeth.^{[ citation needed ]}

Some memorable Mattel lines include the updated Kids line of bones cloth dolls that came with birth certificates, the OlympiKids that were made to coincide with the 1996 Olympics, and the Cabbage Patch Fairies. Additionally, to celebrate the dolls' 15th anniversary, Mattel created a line of exclusively female dolls with reproduction confront molds, dressed in a reproduction dresses reminiscent of the original line and packaged in retro style box. These were 16 inches tall, the same measurement of the offset Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids.^{[ citation needed ]}

Toys "R" Us Kids [edit]

In 2001, with Mattel's sales stalling, a former Coleco marketing whiz, Al Kahn, acquired Original Appalachian's licensing rights and sold retailer Toys "R" Us on producing 20-inch (l.8 cm) Kids dolls and 18-inch (45.7 cm) baby dolls, both with textile bodies and vinyl heads. They were packaged in cardboard cabbage leaf seats. In 2001, the 20-inch dolls debuted in the Times Square flagship store. These were created to gloat the 20th anniversary of the line, and were bachelor both online and in stores effectually the Usa. Expensive and too cumbersome for well-nigh immature children to play with, they didn't last long at the high volume retailer.

Play Forth Toys [edit]

The Toys "R" Us line lasted until Play Forth toys obtained exclusive licensing rights to produce the Cabbage Patch Kids doll line. In 2003, again using Schlaifer'southward original packaging, Play Along launched a Cabbage Patch Kids 25th Anniversary collection using some of the original head sculpts from the very first Coleco editions. Play Along also partnered with Carvel Ice Cream in a co-branding campaign. The resulting co-branded Cabbage Patch Kids were packaged with a Carvel-branded ice cream cone.^{[ citation needed ]}

Jakks Pacific [edit]

JAKKS Pacific acquired Play Forth Toys and assumed the main toy licensee (c. 2011) for the Cabbage Patch Kids. Jakks introduced a fourteen-inch (35.6 cm) Cabbage Patch Kids Fashionality line and other Cabbage Patch Kid products. In 2013, Jakks Pacific released the Commemoration edition to commemorate the 30th Birthday of the licensed Cabbage Patch Kids.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Wicked Cool Toys [edit]

Wicked Cool Toys (Owned by Jazwares) is the current master toy licensee for Cabbage Patch Kids.^[9]

In this line, WCT released new additions like Trivial Sprouts, a toyline of tiny collectable dolls, and Adoptimals, costly pets who interact with the Kids.

Cabbage Patch Kids brand [edit]

The original 1982 Cabbage Patch Kids license agreement with Coleco Industries was negotiated by Roger L. Schlaifer, doing business as Schlaifer Nance & Visitor (SN&C), the sectional worldwide licensor for Original Appalachian Artworks, Roberts' visitor at the time.^{[ii] [3]}

Following Schlaifer Nance & Company's signing of Coleco Industries, SN&C designed and/or directed the design and quality of virtually all CPK branded products produced past its over ane hundred and l CPK licensed manufacturers, including Coleco. They included the first children'southward licensed character diapers and low-sugar cereal, children's wearing apparel, bedding, stationery products, books, backyard pools, and thousands of other children'south products – generating over $two billion in retail sales for 1984, lone. Total sales during the Schlaifer's vi-year tenure exceeded $4.5 billion, more than ten times the total revenues of Cabbage Patch Kids trade and entertainment in the thirty years since–the latter of which never made the impact Roberts claimed information technology would under his management in the November 1983 add-on of Esquire magazine. And while sales of the dolls and other licensed products declined precipitously in the late 1980s, the dolls have go a mainstay of the toy industry, and one of the few long-running doll brands in history.^[10]

Porcelain Cabbage Patch Kids [edit]

These limited edition dolls were available from Applause gifts and after by direct postal service from the Danbury Mint. They take a rigid fabric body with porcelain legs, arms, and head.^{[ citation needed ]}

Talking Cabbage Patch Kids [edit]

"Talking Cabbage Patch Kids" were amongst the terminal new CPK lines introduced by Coleco. They were equipped with a phonation chip, affect sensors, a microphone, short range 49 MHz AM transmitter and receiver for communicating with other dolls. Touch on sensors in the hands enabled the toy to discover when and how information technology was being played with in response to its vocalizations. For example, the doll might say "hold my hand" and give an advisable spoken language response when the touch sensor in either hand detected force per unit area. It also had a movement detector to show the positioning of the doll and whether information technology was sensed to be on its abdomen, back, or fifty-fifty upside downwardly. A special plastic 'drinking' cup containing a hidden magnet, which could exist identified with the assist a small-scale reed relay in the built into the head of the toy above the mouth, to signify when it should be seen to be 'drinking'. A more remarkable effect occurred when one doll detected the presence of another through its 49 MHz AM transmitter/receiver. The dolls were programmed to signal their "awareness" of each other with a short phrase, e.g. "I call up there's someone else to play with here!", so to initiate unproblematic conversations between the dolls themselves with plenty randomness to audio somewhat natural. The joint synchronised singing of 'rounds' being particularly impressive. The inclusion of the microphone was to delay the search and communication with another of its blazon when the ambient noise was in a higher place a sure level.^{[ citation needed ]}

Babyland Full general Infirmary [edit]

Babyland Full general Hospital is the "birthplace" of Little People and is located in Cleveland, Georgia. With the help of local friends, Roberts converted an old md's clinic into a general store/souvenir store and "doll hospital" from which to sell his original "Little People". The facility is presented as a birthing, nursery, and adoption center for the Cabbage Patch Kids. In accordance with the theme, employees dressed and pretended to be doctors and nurses caring for the dolls as if they were real. Babyland General moved to a new facility on the outskirts of Cleveland, Georgia in 2010 and has been voted one of the Travel Aqueduct's top 10 toylands, though its actual rank and the identities of the remaining toylands on the listing are mysteries.

Adaptations [edit]

Under the direction of ABC V.P. of programming, Squire Rushnell, and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions with music by Joe Raposo (of Sesame Street and Frank Sinatra fame), The Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas, premiered on ABC on December seven, 1984.  and was the top-rated show in its time-slot. Additional shows include Cabbage Patch Kids: The New Child, a end-motion animated special produced by Goldhill Entertainment, and aired on the Flim-flam Kids Network programming cake on Baronial 26, 1995.^[11] It was followed by three other stop-movement animated specials, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Lodge House in 1996; Cabbage Patch Kids: The Screen Exam in 1997; Cabbage Patch Kids: Saturday Dark in 1998; and Cabbage Patch Kids: Vernon'southward Christmas in 1999.

Roberts rejected an offer from ABC for an hour Saturday show combining Cabbage Patch Kids and Furskins Bears. At that place has not been a similar opportunity since.

Controversies [edit]

Lawsuits [edit]

Though Xavier Roberts claimed to have originated the look of Little People, many of Piddling People'south defining characteristics – such equally the dolls' overly round faces and that they came with an adoption document – were taken from Martha Nelson Thomas, an American folk artist from Kentucky. Before Roberts became involved in the toy industry, Thomas had created and marketed her ain line of dolls, called Doll Babies, which she sold at local arts and craft shows and markets. The two crossed paths at a state off-white in 1976, whereupon Roberts began purchasing Thomas' dolls to sell at a profit at his own store in Georgia.^{[12] [13] [xiv]} Thomas eventually confronted Roberts almost his unethical business organisation practices and ceased to sell boosted dolls to him, prompting him to plow to a manufacturing company in Hong Kong to mass produce dolls similar in appearance to Thomas' at a cheaper cost to him.^[fifteen] Thomas brought suit against Roberts and eventually settled with him out of court for an undisclosed amount in 1985. She and her husband, Tucker Thomas, told the press that she was more upset by the abuse of her dolls, for which she cared securely, than the coin she'd lost as the consequence of Roberts' actions.^{[16] [17]} Thomas died in 2013, at the age of 62, with her almost favorite dolls attending her funeral aslope her family members and friends.^[xviii]

Roberts' company, Original Appalachian Artworks, later brought a $30 million lawsuit against Topps, the company that produced grotesque trading cards parodying his company's dolls called the Garbage Pail Kids, for copyright infringement.^{[19] [20]} Having sold over $70 one thousand thousand worth of the cards, Topps settled with OAA for $vii 1000000—tantamount to a license—and retained the right to continue producing the Garbage Pail Kids cards.

In a bitter legal boxing with SN&C over whether OAA had violated their licensing Understanding with SN&C and Coleco's exclusivity past producing a Cabbage Patch bear as a line of "Furskins Bears", and declining to pay SN&C its share of the Topps settlement and refusing to allow ABC Goggle box from doing a Saturday morn animated TV testify, Roberts worked out a side deal with Coleco for tens of millions of dollars for a renewal of Schlaifer's Cabbage Patch agreement, and jointly litigated against SN&C. The suit was settled in 1988 past OAA and Coleco paying SN&C an undisclosed amount of money. In addition, Paula Osborne, OAA president until Roberts worked out the deal with Coleco, sued him over the share she was entitled to as a stockholder of OAA and received a vii-figure settlement.^{[ commendation needed ]} Six months after settling with SN&C, Coleco was out of business organisation.

Product safety [edit]

1 of Mattel's line of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids, was designed to "eat" plastic snacks. The mechanism enabling this was a pair of one-way smooth metal rollers behind plastic lips. The snacks would get out the doll'south back and "magically" announced into a backpack. The mechanism could be de-activated by releasing the backpack.^[21] They were extremely popular during Christmas 1996. The line was voluntarily withdrawn from the market following an agreement betwixt Mattel and the Consumer Product Safety Commission in January 1997 following several incidents where children got their fingers or hair stuck in the dolls' mouths leading to rubber warnings from Connecticut'south consumer protection commissioner, Mark Shiffrin.^[22]

Timeline [edit]

• 1977: Xavier Roberts is introduced to Martha Nelson Thomas' "Doll Babies" concept^[16]
• 1978: The first "Little People Originals" were delivered by Xavier Roberts, who incorporated Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc.
• 1981: In that location was coverage of the dolls' popularity in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Atlanta Weekly.
• 1982: In effort to satisfy dwelling house sewers who were doing knockoffs of Little People, OAA licensed Paid Enterprises to do a cheap Niggling People facsimile as a Picayune People Pal. The concept died as soon as Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids came out.
• 1982: Roger Schlaifer recommended that OAA change the proper name to his invention, Cabbage Patch Kids and use his new graphics to build a major children'due south brand.
• March 1, 1982, OAA signs an exclusive worldwide agreement to license Niggling People equally Cabbage Patch Kids with Schlaifer Nance & Company and puts Schlaifer on a monthly retainer to exercise so.
• 1982: After being turned down past about U.s.a. doll makers, on August 9, Schlaifer Nance & Company, Inc. signed a long term licensing agreement with Coleco Industries every bit its Master Toy licensee, granting them the worldwide rights to manufacture the dolls and other CPK branded toys.'
• 1982: The outset prototypes of Cabbage Patch Kids created past Coleco Industries were approved for production past Xavier Roberts. They were afterward made cuter before shipping in 1983 and causing the international sensation.
• 1983: Cabbage Patch Kids were introduced with great fanfare at the International Toy Fair in NYC. By October, riots were breaking out in stores and featured in newspaper cartoons effectually the country.
• Dec 1983: A photo of Cabbage Patch Kid in the arms of a niggling daughter was the embrace of Newsweek magazine and the subject of jokes on Johnny Carson well-nigh every night.
• 1984: Sales for Cabbage Patch Kids branded products, from toys to children's apparel, ready a children's merchandising record setting of $2 billion. The CPK record, titled Cabbage Patch Dreams, produced by the Chapin Brothers for Parker Brothers' music, went Platinum and Parker Publishing's serial of Cabbage Patch Kids' books were best sellers. The video game Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park was released.
• 1985: Cabbage Patch Kids low-sugar breakfast cereal – an idealist attempt to become children to consume healthier foods, ceased production after selling $x,000 worth of cereal.  Existent children's character art diapers were introduced. The Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas blithe special with music by famed composer, Joe Raposo, was number one in its time slot on ABC.
• 1985: Within a month of Susanne Schlaifer sending a bald, Rex & I costumed Cabbage Patch Kid to Yul Brynner, he was dead. Though it's considered bad luck to exercise a replica of a Broadway, no other connection to the star's death was ever discovered.
• 1986: The beginning talking Cabbage Patch Kids were released. OAA sued Schlaifer Nance over their having the correct to mass produce a line of Cabbage Patch Bears called Furskins. Despite having over half a one thousand thousand unsold bears in storage, to keep their Cabbage Patch license, Coleco bailed out Roberts and gave him a multi-one thousand thousand dollar bonus under the guise it was for the creative developments that were done by Judy Albert!
• 1988: Coleco Industries filed for bankruptcy, but the dolls continued to be made, with the licensing rights existence granted to Hasbro Industries and Mattel and a number of other companies noted above, though pop, they never regained the appeal they had  when managed past Schlaifer Nance.
• 1992: Cabbage Patch Kids were named the official mascot of the 1992 U.S. Olympic team and members of the squad were given their own dolls to accept to the games.
• 1996: The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids were released.
• 1999: By popular vote, the dolls were selected as 1 of the 15 commemorative Usa postage stamp stamps representing the 1980s. They were voted fifth backside E.T., Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the stop of the Berlin Wall and video games.^[23]
• 2008: Democrat and Republican U.s. Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates had their own Cabbage Patch Kids. Barack Obama was depicted with a bluish suit. John McCain was depicted in a suit with grayness pilus. Joe Biden was likewise depicted in a suit with his hair slicked upwards. Sarah Palin was depicted in a trademark suit and brim with high heeled pumps. Too, Palin's signature hair and eyeglasses were featured.^[24]

Run into as well [edit]

• Garbage Pail Kids
• The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
• Garbage Pail Kids (TV series)

References [edit]

1. ^ Blotcher, Jay (June 1988). "The Warhol business relationship". Surface | Syracuse University Magazine. June 1988: 5–11.
2. ^ ^{a b c d due east} "Cleveland'southward Cabbage Patch Kids turn 25". AccessNorthGA.com. September seven, 2008. Retrieved August 7, 2010.
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Our History". Babyland General Hospital. Archived from the original on Feb 18, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
4. ^ ^{a b} "The Cabbage Patch Kids' Twisted History".
5. ^ ^{a b} Jerry Adler; Frank Maier; Nikki Finke Greenberg; Holly Morris; Tessa Namuth; Darby Junkin (December 12, 1983). "Oh, You Beautiful Dolls!". Newsweek. pp. 78–85.
6. ^ DeMott, John S.; Bureaus, Other; Byrnes, Rosemary (December 10, 1984). "Booming Sales in Toyland". Fourth dimension . Retrieved March 3, 2010.
7. ^ "TOYS: Problem in the Cabbage Patch". Time. May 16, 1988. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
8. ^ "Cabbage Patch Doll Maker Is Bankrupt". Los Angeles Times. July 12, 1988. Retrieved November 12, 2013.
9. ^ "Archive » Wicked Cool Toys adopts Cabbage Patch Kids". Kidscreen. February 10, 2015. Retrieved March xix, 2016.
10. ^ Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Miracle. Susan Gunelius. June three, 2008. ISBN978-0-230-59410-4 . Retrieved August 31, 2016.
11. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Blithe Cartoons (third ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 271. ISBN978-0-8160-6600-ane.
12. ^ "The Secret History of Cabbage Patch Dolls" May 10, 2015 Vice.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gk4dk/the-secret-history-of-cabbage-patch-kids-011
13. ^ Piro, Lauren."The Not-Then-Sweet Truth Most Cabbage Patch Kids: Behind those iconic chubby cheeks is a disappointing story" Apr 21, 2015. Good Housekeeping. http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a32201/cabbage-patch-dolls-history/
14. ^ "Infant Snatcher: He Stole Her 'Doll Baby' Concept To Make Iconic Cabbage Patch Kids" Apr twenty, 2015. Women You Should Know. http://womenyoushouldknow.cyberspace/baby-snatcher-he-stole-her-doll-infant-concept-to-make-iconic-cabbage-patch-kids/ Archived 2017-12-12 at the Wayback Automobile
15. ^ "The Not-And so-Sweetness Truth About Cabbage Patch Kids". Good Housekeeping. April 21, 2015. Retrieved Apr 11, 2018.
16. ^ ^{a b} Joyce, Fay South. "CABBAGE PATCH KIDS SPUR A BATTLE OVER PARENTAGE" December 6, 1983. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/06/us/cabbage-patch-kids-spur-a-boxing-over-parentage.html
17. ^ Original Appalachian Artworks v. Toy Loft, 489 F. Supp. 174 (N.D. Ga. 1980) U.Due south. District Court for the Northern Commune of Georgia - 489 F. Supp. 174 (N.D. Ga. 1980) May 2, 1980 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/489/174/2394655/
18. ^ "Martha Nelson Thomas's Obituary on Courier-Journal". Courier-Periodical . Retrieved April 11, 2018.
19. ^ "Copyrights: Trouble in the Garbage Pail". Time. March 17, 1986. Archived from the original on Dec 21, 2008. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
20. ^ "Around THE NATION; Judge Rules in Case Of Garbage Pail Kids". The New York Times. Baronial 30, 1986. Retrieved August 7, 2010.
21. ^ "$40 Refund Is Offered for Pilus-Eating Dolls". The New York Times. Jan 7, 1997. Retrieved August 7, 2010.
22. ^ "Mattel and the U.S. Consumer Product Prophylactic Commission Denote Voluntary Refund Program for Cabbage Patch Kids & Snacktime Kids Dolls". United states of america Consumer Production Safety Committee. Jan 6, 1997. Archived from the original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2008.
23. ^ "Americans Pick Stamp Symbol For '80s: Video Games". Mail-Tribune. April 14, 1999. Archived from the original on May 4, 2018. Retrieved November v, 2016 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required.)
24. ^ "Sarah Palin becomes a Cabbage Patch Kid". MSNBC. Archived from the original on April 23, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.

Further reading [edit]

• Hoffman, William (1984). Fantasy: The Incredible Cabbage Patch Phenomenon . Dallas: Taylor Publishing. ISBN9780878333868. OCLC 10996773.

External links [edit]

• Cabbage Patch Kids Official Site
• Cabbage Patch Kid Restoration Official Site
• Cabbage Patch Kid mania - CBC Digital Athenaeum
• Urban Legends Reference Page on Cabbage Patch Kids legends
• Urban Legends Reference Page on Cabbage Patch expiry certificates
• Whatever Happened To Cabbage Patch Dolls?
• The Secret History of Cabbage Patch Kids

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