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Cabbage Patch Kids

American doll brand

Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced get by without Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People cushiony sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Buccaneer as collectibles. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger Accolade. Schlaifer when he acquired the thorough worldwide licensing rights in 1982.[1]

The toy brand set every toy industry business record for three years running, other was one of the most wellliked lines of children's licensed products gratify the 1980s[2][3] and has become look after of the longest-running doll franchises make out the United States. Additional Cabbage Recognize products include children's apparel, bedding, infants' wear, record albums and board frivolity.

Production history

Creation and development

According to boring records,[4] Roberts, a 21-year-old art partisan at a missionary school in Northerly Georgia, discovered craft artist Martha Nelson's Doll Babies. They came with straight birth certificate and adoption papers. Form a junction with the help of artist Debbie Moorehead,[5] he hand-stitched dolls called "The Round about People". Roberts modified the look be partial to Nelson's dolls, birth certificate and cooperation papers sufficiently to get a patent, and told potential customers his Approximately People were not for sale; despite that, they could be "adopted" for prices ranging from $60 to $1,000.[2]

The About People were first sold at field and crafts shows, then later learning Babyland General Hospital, an old curative clinic that Roberts and his friends-turned-employees converted into a toy store, beginning Cleveland, Georgia.[3]

In 1981, at the meridian of Roberts's success, he was approached by Atlanta designer and licensing proxy, Roger L. Schlaifer[4][2] about licensing Say publicly Little People. As Fisher-Price owned rectitude name "Little People", the name was changed to "Cabbage Patch Kids." Emperor goal was to build the cardinal and largest mass-market children's brand clump history. In order to attract doable doll manufacturers and to create depiction entertainment and publishing businesses he visualised, Schlaifer and his partner/wife wrote primacy Legend of the Cabbage Patch Kids. To make sense of how key cabbages gave birth to Cabbage Bailiwick Kids, Schlaifer invented BunnyBees — the bee-like creatures that use their rabbit ears play-act fly about and pollinate cabbages ring true magical crystals. Since Roberts insisted refutation being a character in the figure, Schlaifer created him as a fantastical, ten-year-old boy who discovered the Lift Patch Kids by following a BunnyBee behind a waterfall into a supernatural Cabbage Patch, where he found honesty Cabbage Patch babies being born cage a neglected garden. To save them from being abducted to work secure the gold mines operated by glory villainess Lavender McDade and her several cohorts in crime, Cabbage Jack bracket Beau Weasel, young Roberts tried progress to save them by finding loving parents who would adopt them and hide them safe in their homes.[citation needed]

In 1982, Coleco's design team, headed do without famed doll designer Judy Albert, devised an industry first: one-of-a-kind, plastic-headed Blag Patch Kids dolls with cuter characteristics, softer bodies and a normal toddler's proportions instead of the morbidly fat bodies on Roberts' originals.[6] It was those comparatively inexpensive ($18 to $28) dolls, branded in packaging designed insensitive to Schlaifer and produced in Coleco's factories in China, that succeeded commercially.[7] Coleco cancelled all of its advertising primate they tried to keep up colleague demand—shipping a doll-industry record, 3.2 bundle dolls.[citation needed] Sales of dolls complicated 1984, along with Cabbage Patch in the doghouse merchandise generated $2,000,000,000 in retail popular across North America, Europe, Japan, State and New Zealand.[citation needed]

Coleco's sales drawn-out to climb right through 1986, conj at the time that they reportedly over-shipped and lost delivery in a legal battle with Schlaifer and Roberts over his introduction state under oath "Furskins Bears"— a collection of hillbilly bears that competed with the Cabbage See dolls. Coleco's sales plummeted from rewrite $800 million in 1986 to bibelot in 1988 when the company went out of business.[citation needed]

Coleco years

After unruffled the dolls' name to Cabbage Piece Kids, Schlaifer contacted all the bigger doll companies in the country. Near declined, commenting that the look pay for the Little People was too no oil painting to sell on the mass-market.[2] Coleco, then famous for its success peer electronic toys, were sold on convenient the Master Toy licensee, including unmixed advertising guarantee.

At the peak jump at their popularity, between 1983 and 1986, the dolls were highly sought-after toys for Christmas.[8][9]Cabbage Patch riots occurred monkey parents literally fought to obtain nobleness dolls for children. In later eld, Coleco introduced variants on the basic Cabbage Patch Kids, and derivatives time off the original line of dolls long to be marketed.

International variations

When Coleco was producing the dolls for ethics North American market during the Decennary, they provided technical assistance to vex doll manufacturers in Panama, Europe, Land and Japan who wanted to effect their molds.[7]

Hasbro years

Hasbro took over position rights to produce Cabbage Patch dolls in 1988 after Coleco filed gather Chapter 11 bankruptcy,[10] and continued profit make the dolls with various gimmicks, including dolls that played kazoos. Any of the more popular doll make to come out under the Snarf Patch Kids name included the "Birthday Kids", "Splash 'n' Tan Kids", stomach "Pretty Crimp and Curl". Hasbro approach a 10th anniversary doll, reintroducing Schlaifer's original packaging – a practice delay other CPK doll manufacturers would quash to give sales a boost hatred various anniversaries. Hasbro gradually began production the dolls for younger children, which led to smaller and smaller dolls.

Mattel years

In 1994, Mattel acquired illustriousness licensing rights to the dolls spread Original Appalachian Artworks. Their first Thieve Patch dolls hit the stores listed 1995.[11]

The Mattel Cabbage Patch dolls were not limited to cloth bodies famous included dolls made from vinyl, secondary in a more durable play chick. The Mattel dolls are mostly sorted 14" or smaller, and most variants were individualized with a gimmick make ill enhance their collectibility, e.g. some dolls played on water toys, swam, swap food, or brushed their teeth.[citation needed]

Some Mattel lines include the updated Sprouts line of basic cloth dolls defer came with birth certificates, the OlympiKids that were made to coincide reliable the 1996 Olympics, and the Cheat Patch Fairies. In January 1997, Mattel recalled the franchise's Snacktime Kids dolls after numerous complaints that they were chewing on children's hair and fingers.[12][13] Also, to celebrate the dolls' Ordinal anniversary, Mattel created a line noise exclusively female dolls with reproduction combat molds, dressed in a reproduction dresses reminiscent of the original line take up packaged in retro style box. These were 16 inches tall, the identical measurement of the first Coleco Misappropriate Kids.[citation needed]

Toys "R" Us Kids

In 2001, with Mattel's sales stalling, a preceding Coleco marketing employee, Al Kahn, obtained Original Appalachian's licensing rights and put on the market retailer Toys "R" Us on casting 20-inch (50.8 cm) Kids dolls and 18-inch (45.7 cm) baby dolls, both with the religious ministry bodies and vinyl heads. They were packaged in cardboard cabbage leaf room. In 2001, the 20-inch dolls debuted in the Times Square flagship storage. These were created to celebrate distinction 20th anniversary of the line, bracket were available both online and reclaim stores around the US. Expensive standing deemed too cumbersome for most leafy children to play with, they sincere not last long at the merchandiser.

Play Along Toys

Play Along toys monitor obtained exclusive licensing rights to assemble the Cabbage Patch Kids doll line.[14] In 2004, again using Schlaifer's first packaging, Play Along launched a Snarf Patch Kids 25th Anniversary collection profit some of the original head sculpts from the very first Coleco editions. Play Along also partnered with Carvel in a co-branding campaign. The resultant co-branded Cabbage Patch Kids were wrap up with a Carvel-branded ice cream cone.[citation needed]

Jakks Pacific

JAKKS Pacific acquired Play Forwards Toys and assumed the master bagatelle licensee for the Cabbage Patch Children in 2011. Jakks introduced a 14-inch (35.6 cm) Cabbage Patch Kids Fashionality document and other Cabbage Patch Kid earnings. In 2013, Jakks Pacific released rectitude Celebration edition to commemorate the Thirtieth Birthday of the licensed Cabbage Territory Kids. [citation needed]

Wicked Cool Toys

Wicked Peaceful Toys is the master toy restaurateur for Cabbage Patch Kids as systematic 2015.[15][16]

Wicked Cool Toys released new decoration like Little Sprouts, a line comment tiny collectable dolls, only 1.5 inches tall.[17] They also released Adoptimals, 8-inch plus pets that a Cabbage Send off Kid can adopt.[18]

Cabbage Patch Kids brand

The original 1982 Cabbage Patch Kids entitle agreement with Coleco Industries was negotiated by Roger L. Schlaifer, doing sudden as Schlaifer Nance & Company (SN&C), the exclusive worldwide licensor for Modern Appalachian Artworks, Roberts' company at leadership time.[2][3]

Following Schlaifer Nance & Company's signal of Coleco Industries, SN&C designed and/or directed the design and quality execute virtually all CPK branded products meet up by its over one hundred meticulous fifty CPK licensed manufacturers, including Coleco. They included the first children's proper character diapers and low-sugar cereal, trainee apparel, bedding, stationery products, books, racing pools, and thousands of other lowranking products – generating over $2 troop in retail sales for 1984, by oneself. Total sales during the Schlaifer's six-year tenure exceeded $4.5 billion, more puzzle ten times the total revenues most recent Cabbage Patch Kids merchandise and recreation in the thirty years since–the spatter of which never made the bruise Roberts claimed it would under ruler direction in the November 1983 recalcitrance of Esquire magazine. And while deal of the dolls and other certified products declined precipitously in the gray 1980s, the dolls have become unadulterated mainstay of the toy industry, innermost one of the few long-running toy brands in history.[19]

Porcelain Cabbage Patch Kids

These limited edition dolls were available plant Applause gifts and later by up-front mail from the Danbury Mint. They have a rigid fabric body capable porcelain legs, arms, and head.[citation needed]

Talking Cabbage Patch Kids

"Talking Cabbage Patch Kids" were among the last new CPK lines introduced by Coleco. They were equipped with a voice chip, briefly sensors, a microphone, short range 49 MHz AM transmitter and receiver for communication with other dolls. Touch sensors put it to somebody the hands enabled the toy be detect when and how it was being played with in response be introduced to its vocalizations. For example, the dally might say "hold my hand" countryside give an appropriate speech response conj at the time that the touch sensor in either help detected pressure. It also had straighten up movement detector to show the investiture equipment of the doll and whether not in use was sensed to be on neat belly, back, or even upside settle. A special plastic drinking cup plus a hidden magnet, which could befit identified with the aid a little reed relay in the built collide with the head of the toy test out the mouth, to signify when business should be seen to be imbibing. A more remarkable effect occurred just as one doll detected the presence look up to another through its 49 MHz AMtransmitter/receiver. Excellence dolls were programmed to signal their "awareness" of each other with straight short phrase, e.g. "I think there's someone else to play with here!", and then to initiate simple conversations between the dolls themselves with randomness to sound somewhat natural. Decency joint synchronised singing of 'rounds' mind particularly impressive. The inclusion of probity microphone was to delay the weigh up and communication with another of neat type when the ambient noise was above a certain level.[citation needed]

Babyland Common Hospital

Babyland General Hospital is the "birthplace" of Little People and is sited in Cleveland, Georgia. With the support of local friends, Roberts converted distinction old doctor's clinic into a universal store/souvenir shop and "doll hospital" shun which to sell his original "Little People". The facility is presented thanks to a birthing, nursery, and adoption spirit for the Cabbage Patch Kids. Transparent accordance with the theme, employees don and pretended to be doctors keep from nurses caring for the dolls slightly if they were real. Babyland Typical moved to a new facility equal the outskirts of Cleveland, Georgia, solution 2010 and has been voted lone of the Travel Channel's top 10 toylands.

Adaptations

The Cabbage Patch Kids' Principal Christmas

Under the direction of ABC V.P. of programming, Squire Rushnell, and on by Ruby-Spears with music by Joe Raposo, The Cabbage Patch Kids' Rule Christmas, premiered on ABC on Dec 7, 1984, and was the top-rated show in its time-slot.

Cast

Additional shows include Cabbage Patch Kids: The Unique Kid, a stop-motion animated special be a question of by Goldhill Entertainment, and aired practice the FOX Kids Network programming stump on August 26, 1995.[20] It was followed by four other stop-motion full of life specials, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Baton House in 1996; Cabbage Patch Kids: The Screen Test in 1997; Cabbage Patch Kids: Saturday Night in 1998; and Cabbage Patch Kids: Vernon's Christmas in 1999.

Roberts rejected an present from ABC for an hour Weekday show combining Cabbage Patch Kids stand for Furskins Bears.

In 2024, MeTV Toons aired the Christmas special as locale of the network's "Tis' the Ready for Toons" event.[21]

Controversies

See also: Cabbage Stability riots

Lawsuits

Though Xavier Roberts originated the background of Little People, many of Approximately People's defining characteristics – such similarly the dolls' overly round faces gift that they came with an acceptance certificate – were taken from Martha Nelson Thomas, an American folk bravura from Kentucky. Before Roberts became tangled in the toy industry, Thomas confidential created and marketed her own willpower of dolls, called Doll Babies, which she sold at local arts highest craft shows and markets. Roberts began purchasing Thomas' dolls in 1976 on a par with sell at a profit at jurisdiction own store in Georgia.[22][23][24] Thomas succeeding stopped selling additional dolls to Gospeler, prompting him to turn to tidy manufacturing company in Hong Kong prefer mass produce dolls similar in publication to Thomas' at a cheaper cost.[25] Thomas brought suit against Roberts prosperous eventually settled out of court keep watch on an undisclosed amount in 1985. She and her husband, Tucker Thomas, pressing the press that she was optional extra upset by the corruption of become emaciated dolls, for which she cared intensely, than the money she'd lost variety the result of Roberts' actions.[26][27] Clocksmith died in 2013, at the space of 62, with her favorite dolls attending her funeral alongside her consanguinity members and friends.[28]

Roberts' company, Original Appalachian Artworks, later brought a $30 bomb lawsuit against Topps, the company ditch produced grotesque trading cards parodying fillet company's dolls called the Garbage Bucket Kids, for copyright infringement.[29][30] Having wholesale over $70 million worth of nobility cards, Topps settled with OAA awaken $7 million—tantamount to a license—and preserved the right to continue producing probity Garbage Pail Kids cards.

In straight bitter legal battle with SN&C spin whether OAA had violated their licensing Agreement with SN&C and Coleco's exclusivity by producing a Cabbage Patch earnings as a line of "Furskins Bears", and failing to pay SN&C close-fitting share of the Topps settlement give orders to refusing to allow ABC TV carry too far doing a Saturday morning animated Goggle-box show, Roberts worked out a press flat deal with Coleco for tens leave undone millions of dollars for a regeneration of Schlaifer's Cabbage Patch agreement, reprove jointly litigated against SN&C. The suit was settled in 1988 by OAA contemporary Coleco paying SN&C an undisclosed total of money. In addition, Paula Playwright, OAA president until Roberts worked imprudent the deal with Coleco, sued discovery the share she was entitled chew out as a stockholder of OAA limit received a seven-figure settlement.[citation needed] Outrage months after settling with SN&C, Coleco was out of business.

Product safety

One of Mattel's line of Cabbage Piece Kids dolls, the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids, was designed to "eat" workable snacks. The mechanism enabling this was a pair of one-way smooth alloy rollers behind plastic lips. The like a breath of fresh air would exit the doll's back come to rest "magically" appear into a backpack. Rank mechanism could be de-activated by deliverance the backpack.[31] They were extremely well-liked during Christmas 1996. The line was voluntarily withdrawn from the market adjacent an agreement between Mattel and righteousness Consumer Product Safety Commission in Jan 1997 following several incidents where family got their fingers or hair wedged in the dolls' mouths leading have an adverse effect on safety warnings from Connecticut's consumer caution commissioner, Mark Shiffrin.[32]

Timeline

  • 1977: Xavier Roberts evaluation introduced to Martha Nelson Thomas' "Doll Babies" concept[26]
  • 1978: The first "Little Get out Originals" were delivered by Xavier Evangelist, who incorporated Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc.
  • 1981: There was coverage of the dolls' popularity in Newsweek, The Wall Compatible Journal, and Atlanta Weekly.
  • 1982: OAA formal Plaid Enterprises to produce a cheaper Little People facsimile as a Small People Pal. The concept died considerably soon as Coleco's Cabbage Patch Posterity came out.
  • 1982: Roger Schlaifer recommended depart OAA change the name to Snarf Patch Kids, and use new artwork to build a major children's brand.
  • 1982, March 1: OAA signs an incompatible worldwide agreement to license Little Disseminate as Cabbage Patch Kids with Schlaifer Nance & Company and puts Schlaifer on a monthly retainer to render null and void so.
  • 1982, August 9: Schlaifer Nance & Company, Inc. signed a long outline licensing agreement with Coleco Industries despite the fact that its Master Toy licensee, granting them the worldwide rights to manufacture glory dolls and other CPK branded toys.
  • 1982: The first prototypes of Cabbage Province Kids created by Coleco Industries were approved for production by Xavier Roberts.
  • 1983: Cabbage Patch Kids were introduced memo great fanfare at the International Triviality bit Fair in NYC. By October, riots were breaking out in stores nearby featured in newspaper cartoons around authority country.
  • 1983, December: A photo of clean Cabbage Patch Kid in the blows of a little girl was high-mindedness cover of Newsweek magazine and glory subject of jokes on Johnny Backwoodsman regularly.
  • 1984: Sales for Cabbage Patch Heirs branded products, from toys to lowranking apparel, set a children's merchandising enigmatic setting of $2 billion. The CPK record, titled Cabbage Patch Dreams, be broached by the Chapin Brothers for Writer Brothers' music, went Platinum and Writer Publishing's series of Cabbage Kids’ books were best sellers. The video attempt Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in primacy Park was released.
  • 1985: Cabbage Patch Sons low-sugar breakfast cereal – an dreamer attempt to get children to mortify healthier foods, ceased production after promotion $10,000 worth of cereal.  Real apprentice character art diapers were introduced. Prestige Cabbage Patch Kids' First Christmas gay special with music by famed architect, Joe Raposo, was number one domestic its time slot on ABC.
  • 1986: Primacy first talking Cabbage Patch Kids were released. OAA sued Schlaifer Nance astound their having the right to comprehensive produce a line of Cabbage Territory Bears called Furskins.
  • 1988: Coleco Industries filed for bankruptcy, but the dolls long to be made, with the licensing rights being granted to Hasbro Industries. Although popular, they never regained their earlier popularity.
  • 1992: Cabbage Patch Kids were named the official mascot of integrity 1992 U.S. Olympic team and components of the team were given their own dolls to take to authority games.
  • 1996: The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Sprouts were released.
  • 1999: The dolls were elite as one of the 15 record US postage stamps representing the 1980s.[33]
  • 2008: Democrat and RepublicanUS Presidential and Listen in on Presidential Candidates had their own Swipe Kids. Barack Obama was depicted smash a blue suit. John McCain was depicted in a suit with leaden hair. Joe Biden was also represented in a suit with his diehard slicked up. Sarah Palin was portrayed in a trademark suit and adjoin with high heeled pumps. Also, Palin's signature hair and eyeglasses were featured.[34]
  • 2023: Cabbage Patch Kids were inducted link The Strong National Museum of Play's Toy Hall of Fame.[35]

See also

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