Cabbage Patch Kids 15 Years of Delivering Babies

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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–present)
Country	United States
Availability	1978–present
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Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of one-of-a-kind fabric dolls with plastic heads offset produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold past Xavier Roberts every bit collectibles and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978 as 'The Footling People'. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. Schlaifer when he acquired the sectional worldwide licensing rights in 1982.^[1]

The new doll brand set every toy industry sales tape for three years running, and was ane of the most popular lines of children'south licensed products in the 1980s^{[2] [3]} and has become 1 of the longest-running doll franchises in the The states. The characters and graphics created by Schlaifer and developed by his visitor, Schlaifer Nance & Company (SN&C), were used on all Cabbage Patch products, ranging from children's apparel, bedding, and infants' wear to record albums and board games.

Production history [edit]

Cosmos and evolution [edit]

According to court records (OAA v Toy Loft),^[4] Roberts, being a 21-yr-one-time art educatee at a missionary school in Due north Georgia, discovered arts and crafts artist Martha Nelson's Doll Babies. They came with a nativity certificate and adoption papers. With the help of artist Debbie Moorehead, he hand-stitched dolls called "The Trivial People". Roberts very cleverly modified the expect of Nelson'south dolls, nativity certificate and adoption papers sufficiently to get a copyright and told potential customers his Niggling People weren't for auction, merely could be "adopted" for prices ranging from sixty to as much as a thousand dollars.^[2]

The Fiddling People were first sold at arts and crafts shows, so later at Babyland Full general Infirmary, an one-time medical dispensary that Roberts and his friends-turned-employees converted into a toy store, in Cleveland, Georgia.^[3]

In 1981, at the peak of Roberts's success, he was approached by Atlanta designer and licensing agent, Roger L. Schlaifer^{[4] [2]} near licensing Little People. But since Schlaifer thought the proper noun was mundane and Fisher-Cost endemic information technology for the toy category, he invented "Cabbage Patch Kids." His goal was to build the start and largest mass-market children's brand in history. In order to attract potential doll manufacturers and to create the entertainment and publishing businesses he envisioned, Schlaifer and his partner/wife wrote the Legend 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 use their rabbit ears to fly about and pollinate cabbages with magical crystals. Since Roberts insisted on beingness a character in the story, Schlaifer created him as a curious, x-year-one-time boy who discovered the Cabbage Patch Kids by post-obit a BunnyBee behind a waterfall into a magical Cabbage Patch, where he plant the Cabbage Patch babies beingness born in a neglected garden. To relieve them from being abducted to work in the aureate mines operated by the villainess Lavender McDade and her two cohorts in crime, Cabbage Jack and Beau Weasel, young Roberts tried to relieve them past finding loving parents who would adopt them and keep them prophylactic in their homes.

In 1982, Coleco'southward design team, headed by famed doll designer Judy Albert, devised an industry showtime—i-of-a-kind, plastic-headed Cabbage Patch Kids dolls with cuter features, softer bodies and a normal toddler'south proportions instead of the morbidly obese bodies on Roberts' originals. It was those comparatively inexpensive--$18-$28 dolls, branded in packaging designed by Schlaifer and produced in Coleco's factories in China, that the public went crazy over—rioting^[5] to get their hands on i in stores across North America. The consumer response was then swell, Coleco cancelled all of its advert as they tried to keep up with demand—shipping a doll-industry record, 3.two million dolls. A huge success, but minor compared to 1984's sales of dolls and Cabbage Patch branded merchandise (children's dress, bedding, sleepwear, books and countless other products that generated an industry tape, $2,000,000,000 in retail sales across Due north America, Europe, Nippon, Australia and New Zealand.

Coleco's sales continued to climb right 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 million 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 visitor later went out of business.

Coleco years [edit]

After convincing Roberts of the demand to change the dolls' name to Cabbage Patch Kids, Schlaifer contacted all the major doll companies in the country. But with i small exception, they all turned him down—proverb the await of Petty People was likewise ugly to sell on the mass-market.^[2] Yet, because of Schlaifer'south persistence, he found Coleco–then famous for its success with electronic toys—and sold them on being his Main Toy licensee—for which he negotiated a record-setting advertizing guarantee.

At the elevation of their popularity, between 1983 and 1986, the dolls were a must-take toy for Christmas.^{[6] [7]} Cabbage Patch riots occurred as parents literally fought to obtain the dolls for children. In afterwards 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 market during the 1980s, they provided technical assistance to other doll manufacturers in Panama, Europe, Australia and Nippon who wanted to use their molds.^[five]

Hasbro years [edit]

Hasbro took over the rights to produce Cabbage Patch dolls in 1988 later on Coleco filed for Affiliate eleven bankruptcy,^[8] and continued to make the dolls with various gimmicks, including dolls that played kazoos. Some of the more than pop doll lines to come out under the Cabbage Patch Kids name included the "Birthday Kids", "Splash 'n' Tan Kids", and "Pretty Crimp and Curl". Hasbro produced a tenth 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 notwithstanding best selling toys, the rage was clearly over. And with no Goggle box or movie presence, there was seemingly no way to significantly revive them.

Mattel years [edit]

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

The Mattel Cabbage Patch dolls were not express to cloth bodies and included dolls made from vinyl, resulting in a more durable play doll. The Mattel dolls are mostly sized xiv" or smaller, and most variants were individualized with a gimmick to enhance their collectibility, e.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 basic cloth dolls that came with nativity certificates, the OlympiKids that were made to coincide with the 1996 Olympics, and the Cabbage Patch Fairies. Additionally, to gloat the dolls' 15th anniversary, Mattel created a line of exclusively female person dolls with reproduction confront molds, dressed in a reproduction dresses reminiscent of the original line and packaged in retro fashion box. These were 16 inches alpine, the same measurement of the offset Coleco Cabbage Patch Kids.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Toys "R" Us Kids [edit]

In 2001, with Mattel'due south sales stalling, a sometime Coleco marketing whiz, Al Kahn, acquired Original Appalachian's licensing rights and sold retailer Toys "R" Us on producing twenty-inch (50.8 cm) Kids dolls and 18-inch (45.7 cm) babe dolls, both with cloth bodies and vinyl heads. They were packaged in paper-thin cabbage leafage seats. In 2001, the 20-inch dolls debuted in the Times Square flagship shop. These were created to gloat the 20th ceremony of the line, and were bachelor both online and in stores around the US. Expensive and too cumbersome for most young children to play with, they didn't last long at the high volume retailer.

Play Forth Toys [edit]

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

Jakks Pacific [edit]

JAKKS Pacific acquired Play Along Toys and assumed the master toy licensee (c. 2011) for the Cabbage Patch Kids. Jakks introduced a 14-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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Wicked Absurd Toys [edit]

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

In this line, WCT released new additions similar Little Sprouts, a toyline of tiny collectable dolls, and Adoptimals, plush 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 concern every bit Schlaifer Nance & Company (SN&C), the exclusive worldwide licensor for Original Appalachian Artworks, Roberts' visitor at the time.^{[2] [3]}

Following Schlaifer Nance & Company'southward signing of Coleco Industries, SN&C designed and/or directed the pattern and quality of virtually all CPK branded products produced by its over one hundred and fifty CPK licensed manufacturers, including Coleco. They included the start children'southward licensed character diapers and low-carbohydrate cereal, children'south dress, bedding, stationery products, books, backyard pools, and thousands of other children's products – generating over $2 billion in retail sales for 1984, alone. Total sales during the Schlaifer'southward half dozen-year tenure exceeded $4.5 billion, more than than ten times the total revenues of Cabbage Patch Kids merchandise and entertainment in the thirty years since–the latter of which never made the bear on Roberts claimed it would under his management in the November 1983 addition of Esquire magazine. And while sales of the dolls and other licensed products declined precipitously in the tardily 1980s, the dolls have become a mainstay of the toy industry, and i of the few long-running doll brands in history.^[10]

Porcelain Cabbage Patch Kids [edit]

These express edition dolls were available from Adulation gifts and later by directly mail from the Danbury Mint. They have a rigid fabric body with porcelain legs, artillery, and head.^{[ citation needed ]}

Talking Cabbage Patch Kids [edit]

"Talking Cabbage Patch Kids" were amid the final new CPK lines introduced by Coleco. They were equipped with a voice scrap, bear upon sensors, a microphone, short range 49 MHz AM transmitter and receiver for communicating with other dolls. Touch sensors in the hands enabled the toy to detect when and how information technology was being played with in response to its vocalizations. For instance, the doll might say "hold my hand" and requite an appropriate speech response when the impact sensor in either hand detected pressure level. Information technology also had a movement detector to bear witness the positioning of the doll and whether it was sensed to exist on its belly, dorsum, or fifty-fifty upside down. A special plastic 'drinking' loving cup containing a hidden magnet, which could exist identified with the aid a small reed relay in the congenital into the head of the toy above the oral fissure, to signify when it should be seen to be 'drinking'. A more remarkable effect occurred when ane doll detected the presence of some other through its 49 MHz AM transmitter/receiver. The dolls were programmed to signal their "sensation" of each other with a curt phrase, due east.chiliad. "I think there'southward someone else to play with here!", and so to initiate simple conversations betwixt the dolls themselves with enough randomness to audio somewhat natural. The joint synchronised singing of 'rounds' being peculiarly impressive. The inclusion of the microphone was to delay the search and advice with another of its type when the ambient racket was above a certain level.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Babyland General Hospital [edit]

Babyland General Hospital is the "birthplace" of Picayune People and is located in Cleveland, Georgia. With the help of local friends, Roberts converted an old dr.'s clinic into a full general shop/souvenir shop and "doll infirmary" from which to sell his original "Piffling People". The facility is presented equally a birthing, plant 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 Channel's pinnacle x toylands, though its bodily rank and the identities of the remaining toylands on the list 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' Outset 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 Kid, a stop-move animated special produced by Goldhill Entertainment, and aired on the FOX Kids Network programming cake on August 26, 1995.^[xi] It was followed by three other stop-motility animated specials, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Club House in 1996; Cabbage Patch Kids: The Screen Exam in 1997; Cabbage Patch Kids: Sabbatum Night in 1998; and Cabbage Patch Kids: Vernon's Christmas in 1999.

Roberts rejected an offering from ABC for an hour Sat testify combining Cabbage Patch Kids and Furskins Bears. There has non been a similar opportunity since.

Controversies [edit]

Lawsuits [edit]

Though Xavier Roberts claimed to accept originated the look of Footling People, many of Piffling People'due south defining characteristics – such as the dolls' overly round faces and that they came with an adoption document – were taken from Martha Nelson Thomas, an American folk creative person from Kentucky. Before Roberts became involved in the toy industry, Thomas had created and marketed her own line of dolls, chosen Doll Babies, which she sold at local arts and craft shows and markets. The 2 crossed paths at a state fair in 1976, whereupon Roberts began purchasing Thomas' dolls to sell at a turn a profit at his own store in Georgia.^{[12] [thirteen] [14]} Thomas eventually confronted Roberts about his unethical business concern practices and ceased to sell boosted dolls to him, prompting him to plough to a manufacturing company in Hong Kong to mass produce dolls similar in advent to Thomas' at a cheaper price to him.^[xv] Thomas brought suit confronting Roberts and somewhen 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 result of Roberts' actions.^{[16] [17]} Thomas died in 2013, at the age of 62, with her about favorite dolls attention her funeral alongside her family members and friends.^[xviii]

Roberts' company, Original Appalachian Artworks, later brought a $thirty million lawsuit confronting Topps, the company that produced grotesque trading cards parodying his company'southward dolls called the Garbage Pail Kids, for copyright infringement.^{[xix] [20]} Having sold over $70 million worth of the cards, Topps settled with OAA for $7 1000000—tantamount to a license—and retained the right to continue producing the Garbage Pail Kids cards.

In a bitter legal battle with SN&C over whether OAA had violated their licensing Agreement with SN&C and Coleco'south exclusivity by producing a Cabbage Patch bear every bit a line of "Furskins Bears", and declining to pay SN&C its share of the Topps settlement and refusing to allow ABC Tv set from doing a Sat morn animated TV prove, Roberts worked out a side deal with Coleco for tens of millions of dollars for a renewal of Schlaifer'southward Cabbage Patch understanding, and jointly litigated against SN&C. The suit was settled in 1988 by 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 equally a stockholder of OAA and received a vii-figure settlement.^{[ citation needed ]} Six months afterward settling with SN&C, Coleco was out of concern.

Product safety [edit]

One 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 1-way smooth metal rollers behind plastic lips. The snacks would exit the doll's dorsum and "magically" appear into a backpack. The mechanism could exist de-activated by releasing the backpack.^[21] They were extremely popular during Christmas 1996. The line was voluntarily withdrawn from the market following an understanding between Mattel and the Consumer Product Rubber Commission in January 1997 following several incidents where children got their fingers or pilus stuck in the dolls' mouths leading to condom warnings from Connecticut's consumer protection commissioner, Marker 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: At that place was coverage of the dolls' popularity in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Atlanta Weekly.
• 1982: In attempt to satisfy dwelling house sewers who were doing knockoffs of Little People, OAA licensed Paid Enterprises to do a cheap Petty People facsimile as a Little People Pal. The concept died every bit soon every bit 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 sectional worldwide agreement to license Little People every bit Cabbage Patch Kids with Schlaifer Nance & Company and puts Schlaifer on a monthly retainer to practise then.
• 1982: Afterward existence turned down by about US doll makers, on August 9, Schlaifer Nance & Visitor, 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 get-go prototypes of Cabbage Patch Kids created by Coleco Industries were approved for production by Xavier Roberts. They were afterward made cuter before shipping in 1983 and causing the international sensation.
• 1983: Cabbage Patch Kids were introduced with slap-up fanfare at the International Toy Fair in NYC. Past October, riots were breaking out in stores and featured in newspaper cartoons around the country.
• December 1983: A photo of Cabbage Patch Kid in the arms of a piffling girl was the cover of Newsweek magazine and the bailiwick of jokes on Johnny Carson almost every dark.
• 1984: Sales for Cabbage Patch Kids branded products, from toys to children'southward dress, set a children's merchandising record setting of $2 billion. The CPK tape, titled Cabbage Patch Dreams, produced by the Chapin Brothers for Parker Brothers' music, went Platinum and Parker Publishing's series 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 try to go children to eat healthier foods, ceased product after selling $10,000 worth of cereal.  Real children's graphic symbol art diapers were introduced. The Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas animated special with music by famed composer, Joe Raposo, was number one in its fourth dimension slot on ABC.
• 1985: Within a month of Susanne Schlaifer sending a bald, King & I costumed Cabbage Patch Child to Yul Brynner, he was dead. Though it's considered bad luck to do a replica of a Broadway, no other connectedness to the star's death was ever discovered.
• 1986: The get-go talking Cabbage Patch Kids were released. OAA sued Schlaifer Nance over their having the right to mass produce a line of Cabbage Patch Bears called Furskins. Despite having over one-half a million unsold bears in storage, to keep their Cabbage Patch license, Coleco bailed out Roberts and gave him a multi-1000000 dollar bonus under the guise it was for the creative developments that were washed by Judy Albert!
• 1988: Coleco Industries filed for defalcation, just the dolls continued to be fabricated, with the licensing rights beingness granted to Hasbro Industries and Mattel and a number of other companies noted above, though popular, 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 team were given their ain dolls to take to the games.
• 1996: The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids were released.
• 1999: By popular vote, the dolls were selected as i of the fifteen commemorative United states postage stamp stamps representing the 1980s. They were voted fifth behind E.T., Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the end of the Berlin Wall and video games.^[23]
• 2008: Democrat and Republican Usa Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates had their own Cabbage Patch Kids. Barack Obama was depicted with a blue adjust. John McCain was depicted in a adapt with gray pilus. Joe Biden was also depicted in a accommodate with his pilus slicked up. Sarah Palin was depicted in a trademark conform and skirt with high heeled pumps. Also, Palin'south signature hair and eyeglasses were featured.^[24]

Encounter also [edit]

• Garbage Pail Kids
• The Garbage Pail Kids Picture
• Garbage Pail Kids (Television receiver serial)

References [edit]

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6. ^ DeMott, John S.; Bureaus, Other; Byrnes, Rosemary (Dec ten, 1984). "Booming Sales in Toyland". Fourth dimension . Retrieved March 3, 2010.
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13. ^ Piro, Lauren."The Not-And so-Sweet Truth About Cabbage Patch Kids: Behind those iconic chubby cheeks is a disappointing story" April 21, 2015. Skillful Housekeeping. http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a32201/cabbage-patch-dolls-history/
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17. ^ Original Appalachian Artworks v. Toy Loft, 489 F. Supp. 174 (N.D. Ga. 1980) U.Due south. Commune Court for the Northern District of Georgia - 489 F. Supp. 174 (Northward.D. Ga. 1980) May ii, 1980 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/commune-courts/FSupp/489/174/2394655/
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19. ^ "Copyrights: Trouble in the Garbage Pail". Time. March 17, 1986. Archived from the original on Dec 21, 2008. Retrieved March three, 2010.
20. ^ "AROUND THE NATION; Guess Rules in Example Of Garbage Pail Kids". The New York Times. Baronial 30, 1986. Retrieved Baronial 7, 2010.
21. ^ "$twoscore Refund Is Offered for Pilus-Eating Dolls". The New York Times. January vii, 1997. Retrieved Baronial 7, 2010.
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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 Folio on Cabbage Patch death certificates
• Any Happened To Cabbage Patch Dolls?
• The Secret History of Cabbage Patch Kids

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