Cabbage Patch Dolls

The Cabbage Patch Kids a.k.a. Cabbage Snatch Kids, Baggage Patch Kids, and Crappage Patch Kids are the creation of Larry Holmes, and Larry King. The original doll created by Ricardo Montalban and called the “Little Pooper” was modeled after Herve Villechaize. Unfortunately, Mr. Montalban changed the dolls name to Cabbage Patch Kids after the discovery of Mr. Villechaize dead body in a Hollywood apartment from an overdose of Twinkies and 38 caliber bullets. In spite of the checkered beginnings, Cabbage Patch Kids go on to become one of the most popular toys of the 80s. Mostly collected by children, this fad did not stop homemakers, construction workers, sweatshop owners, and pedophiles from purchasing children on the internet. The Catholic Church heavily protested against the dolls believing that buying and owning dolls was gay, a sin against God and held Baby Burning rallies. Sadly, the church discontinued the rallies when some idiot misread the flyer and tossed a "real baby" into the ... Read more

Yeah, just another passing fad. My cutesy-poo doll ended up in a garbage landfill.

Does anyone know what a 1983 girl in box is worth? I want to sell mine. I see all kinds of prices for similar cabbage patch. What makes the difference?

I was too young to remember exactly any of the hype surrounding them (I remember getting one when I was five, still have it actually; not particularly attached to the doll so much as remembering how my mom gave it to me); I never really cared to get one, did kids actually ASK to get one??? They weren't all that cute. I thought the Pound Puppies were way cuter (anybody else remember those? I still have mine). Oh well, just another passing fad.

I never understood the appeal of these hideous specimens, and now to my amazement, they're coming back into style. If I were a kid I would rather have a Barbie doll or an American Girl Doll.

not the worst of the fads. they were ugly for sure. and for awhile they were very popular. you would have a hard time even finding them.luckily it was just before our oldest was born. by the time she was a toddler we bought one because they come with names and we found one with her name.Otherwise, I would have not bought it. wish I thought it up. I would have become rich off this fad that lasted a few years. What I find annoying about any fad especially for children is how greedy people become. You just know that when something becomes hard to get, you can look in the classifieds and find them offered at five times the price.I have seen it with Cabbage patch dolls, Tickle Me Elmo.etc. who would be willing to pay a huge sum for some toy, if you just wait it will show up on the shelves eventually.

They were kinda cute, in a strange way. I think I still have a couple of mine in a box somewhere, but I don't have their original clothes or birth certificates so they're not worth much. I remember my mom trying to find ones that had the same birthdate as me, or at least the same first name.

These came out in 1983, when I was nine (yes, I still liked dolls at the age of nine). There is no denying that these dolls were very homely, but I (like any other child in that era) wanted to adopt one of my own. I didn't have an authentic Xavier Roberts doll, but I did have a fake one someone made me, and I still liked it. There was also a series of Cabbage Patch Kids books put out by Parker Brothers (with characters like Ramie and Otis Lee), which was about the adventures of the CP Kids living in the Cabbage Patch while they were waiting to be adopted. I only had one of them, and it was about a Cabbage Patch girl who was shy, and how she learned to get over her shyness. I was that way myself, so it was a book I identified with at the time. Nothing but the best of memories. Then again, I was a kid in the '80s -- what the heck do I know?!!

So ugly they looked like they were mentally ill. My daughter wanted one of these in the worst way and got one from her grandmother for her birthday. Six months later the grotesque brute was in a garage sale. One of the great marketing successes of selling tripe in recent history.

They were ugly and now they're history. Another one I wish I'd thought of. (oh COME ON people! You KNOW they were ugly little toads! Faces only a mother could love. Methinks we have a lotta denial going on around here...hahahahah!)