Cabbage Patch Kid figure

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20852

Title

Cabbage Patch Kid figure

Description

A Cabbage Patch Kid wearing a blue jumper with yellow pants and striped leggings. The feet are dressed with blue shoes and the figure holds a cat in its right hand. The words 'Cabbage Patch Kids' are printed on front of the dolls jumper. The letters MM are embossed on back of the neck and legs.

Artist / maker

Hasbro

Date

1984

Size

9cm

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

Accession number

MC26.2005

More than three million Cabbage Patch Dolls were sold in the USA in 1983, with an amazing 20 million selling the next year. Each doll came with an envelope containing its name, birthday and an 'adoption oath' for the new owner. Part of their popularity was that every doll was unique, with variations in features, colouring and clothing.
In the early '80s chaos broke out in shops as desperate parents tried to buy a Cabbage Patch Kid buy by 1986 demand was tailing off.

The first Cabbage Patch Kids were made from moulded fabric, and later, plastic 'toy' versions and dolls with porcelain heads and fabric bodies were also made. Cabbage Patch Kids were relaunched in 2004.

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Toys > Dolls > Plastic dolls

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