The Cabbage Patch Fad - How Did This Happen?
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Cabbage Patch Kids were one of the biggest fads of the 1980's but I'm having trouble understanding the appeal. This video takes a look back at the fad and attempts to figure out why they became so popular.
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Back in the Victorian era, children were told that babies came from cabbage patches. That's where the name came from.
@Poison Well, now kids are told babies are delivered by storks so it's not that weird compared to now
Even in that time people thought vaginas looked like cabbage patches. It kinda makes sense
First Last I was wondering why they mentioned the cabbage patch in such a weird way. You often heard that said when I was younger (Australia)
Well, now, we’re told that kids are born out of their fathers head, so it’s not that weird.
smol mean trans wife excuse me?
A dude sitting in a bathtub wearing a cowboy hat & holding a doll looks a bit creepy to me, but hey, to each his own.
Cary Ulmer what’s so weird about it
Really creepy.
Pizza Pal 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pizza Pal ...excuse me?
What makes it worse is that knowing from owning one as a child , what I remember is the signature of his name was on the butt of the doll as well as the adoption papers...
“I like them” she didn’t need a reason she just liked them
Sounds like one of those Applejacks renegades
Exactly she liked them. Why do most ppl love a stuffed toy? Just bcuz
She was cute 😄
@@Ayaforshort i beg your pardon
Kids never know why they like something. They’re too young to understand that it was the advertising and the commercials and their friends having them that MADE THEM WANT IT, u know?
Imagine suing a parody card set when your own doll was stolen from someone else
That's how he caught other people tryin to rip him off cause it takes one to know one.
@@JohnJohn-do2oj Or just being informed or smart.
“I DONT LIKE THEM BUT I WANT ONE” fills me with chaotic JOY
😂 😂 😂
A *Marketers* DREAM.
😂😂
I ran the toy department at a major department store & dealt with those crazy shoppers. My worst year was when they sold the twins
May those dolls rot in hell
😂😂🤣🤣 Can't say I blame you for your comment. I remember watching a news segment where parents, mostly mothers were damn near fighting to get these stupid dolls!
Lmfaoo
I feel your pain Dave. I worked at Toys R Us in the mid 90’s during the Tickle Me Elmo stupidity. I lost count of all the people that tried to bribe me to hold one in the back for them when the next shipment came in.
I’m sorry to hear that, but,it’s so funny the way you said it....you make my day!
hahahahhahaha
I was 5 when they became big. Still have mine. Locked in a zinc box, in a garage guarded by hell hounds
I am an 80s kid. There are no words to describe how big this fad was.
I collected garbage pail kids cards. They were awesome.
I think Xavier Roberts stole her idea.
I'm an 80s kid who remembers Garbage Pail Kids from 86 to 89 from 4 to 7
I still have the vinyl record of some creepy cabbage patch songs 😂
Here's a factor I think you might be missing out on: in prior generations, being adopted had a really negative stigma attached to it--if a child was adopted, their parents would often hide that fact from others and pretend it was their own. But around the 70's and 80's (as I understand it, maybe this shift came earlier), the stigma began to disappear. Now in a Kindergarten classroom, there were more of these adopted little kiddos who understand that they were brought into their families a different way, and it wasn't at all looked down on or thought of as strange. I think this shift in attitudes towards adoption was a significant cultural shift, and the Cabbage Patch dolls might have been a way of reflecting or expressing that.
Something for someone's sociology paper, I guess!
Wow! Thanks for this; I’ll probably write a paper on it if I can!
@@Lyndeflor Cool! I'd love to hear how it turned out/if any research supports my theory. :D
Well said
That is so interesting!
So the dolls are created to cash in on maternal instincts? Genius.
Cz...did no one reply to you?
I read this comment in your voice lol
I'm old enough to have a little sister who was thrilled to get one back in the '80s. I remember the attractions were: 1) each doll was unique; and 2) the personalization with the adoption papers, Xavier's signature, etc. But the biggie was the diversity. All your friends could go get Cabbage Patch dolls too but they wouldn't get one that looked exactly like yours. Your doll was special.
Yep, exactly this. It was the fact that each doll was unique that made them hyper desirable.
Yep, each doll came with their own birth certificate, I remember. Kids got their school pictures taken with them.
They all looked different with their different clothes. Little girls want to be little mommies. I have a first edition coleco 1983 cabbie. She is till in her original clothes and diaper. An excellent example of a cabbie.
@@@jennahenry4426 I USED TO have mine until I had my own kid. She had found it when she was about 18 months old and decided to give it a bath in the toilet. I almost cried!! It was in perfect condition until that day almost 17 years ago.
Helter Skelter, I have a 3 y.o. daughter and she just this week has been able to hold her. Only in my room, lol. She does have a few cabbies of her own, but more recently purchased. I'm sorry about yours.
Here's my Cabbage Patch memory: My sister and I were each given a CPK when I was 9, this was the late 90s. My grandfather took us to the toy store as a reward for doing well at school. I can't remember why we chose that among all the possible dolls we could have, but my mother didn't make it a habit to take us to toy stores so I didn't really know what was out there other than Barbie or Baby Born. Anyway, I thought the ones produced at the time were rather sweet. They were marketed as having a real "baby smell" (the plastic was scented, it was mild and pleasant) and the one I picked had a special feature - a plastic lifesaver that the doll sat in, with a working pump-action shower. I took it to the pool whenever I could. It was a precious doll because my grandfather's love language was not buying toys - so it is a memory I have of him. I still have it and I keep it for sentimental reasons. I still think it is pretty cute, but am less enamoured of the newer ones. I'm not sure I cared much about the adoption part, but I liked having a baby doll and I liked the fact you could take it to the pool or bath. (It also made a great weapon when one got into sibling fights, because the Bath Babies were hard plastic!)
this is such a nice comment, made me smile. ty :)
You’re a sweet person. I hope you’re doing well.
@@gracesmelodys thank you, you're so kind! Hope you are too :)
That parenthetical was just the best end to this comment!
What a beautiful memory.
I feel like a lot of 70s and 80s toys and figurines had this kind of round cartoony face, like precious moments.
There’s actually a “Cabbage Patch General Hospital” where the cabbage patch kids are “born.” I visited about 3 years ago, and it was a truly bizarre experience. There’s a huge fake tree they call mother cabbage, and you watch what I can only describe as a birthing ritual. You see an ultrasound in the tree, the crowd watching will say “PUSH!!!” to help the babies get born, and whoever paid for the special cabbage patch kid gets to name it and take it home. They’re quite expensive though, because they’re the hand made kids with a fabric skin instead of the plastic head most of them have now. I’d also like to mention that the majority of the people I saw there were middle aged women, who I assume are collectors.
Yo, you talkin' about the one around Cleveland, GA?!?!
what the fuck
@@wernervoss6357 Holy shit you serious? I assumed there were other hospitals in the states other than Georgia.😮
No way! It exists?! I always wanted to go as a kid!
puptented the older folks aren’t so much collectors as they are older women that use the dolls as surrogates for the children they never had. It’s weirdly depressing.
What until you look into Tickle Me Elmo. There's a nightmare that's still fresh in my mind even damn near 20 years later...
*shudders* And Teddy Ruxpin...
Shudders and other moving toys
We have one my little brother loves it to death he would not sleep if Elmo isn't around him 😂😂😂
And Furby
I had to put my tickle me Elmo in my dad's closet bc it was moving and talking at night 😖 So scary
My dad was a lawyer at the time and traded legal services for the dolls. THAT’S how crazy it all was. 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
My mom bought me a boy doll named Leroy, I had him for years but while my hubby and I were moving around with the Navy it was lost...sad day
when i had my son, i still had the boy sammy doll. he left him at walmart and i almost died, lmaooo
*_Cabbage Patch Fads vs Garbage Pail Kids sounds like a great anime crossover fights._*
I was going to mention the garbage pail kids.
*Bling Bling Boy Vs. Snotty Boy*
I LOVE Garbage Pail Kids!!
Both of them creeped me out as a child.
if you weren't alive in the 80s you wouldn't understand
So like, apparently my dad had a cabbage patch doll when he was in college, and I don't remember all the details, but apparently in some hazing thing his was stolen and was left with a ransom note and a picture of his cabbage patch hung all tied up on a rope dangling over a toilet. Also my mom was the one who did it. So there was that. My mom still thinks it's funny, and last time I asked my dad did one of those "uhuh, yeah that happened" half smile. It's a cute story, I guess.
Lol, your mom sounds like a lot of fun! But I think just the fact that your dad owned one (and during his college years, no less) is cute by itself haha.
@@SeventhClover IKR! Only a man very secure in his masculinity would be able to do that! Too cute!
My good friend had an Eeyore donkey doll and one time I put it in a noose and hung it above his bed.
We aren't friends anymore.
@@simrdownmon6431 oh no
Michelle Tabisz oh my gosh I love your moms humor
When I was little (in the late 2000s to early 2010s), I absolutely loved the Cabbage Patch Kids. I knew of them because my parents had two dolls custom made to look like myself and my sister when we were very little. I had a mixture of the dolls from the 80s and the modern versions. The main reason I loved them was because I thought they had cute faces, huggable bodies, and the biggest perk for me was, as you mentioned, the fact that I could adopt them. They gave me a feeling of responsibility for the first time; I felt more like a mom to my three favorite dolls and I spent most of my time taking care of them and spending time with them. The marketing for the dolls was definitely genius; I stayed playing with them for about two years. Now I walk past them as they collect dust on an old bookshelf, and I can't help but feel a little guilty that I've neglected my children for so long😂.
Fun fact: when I was a baby my Aunt dressed me up in her cabbage patch kids' clothing because I was that small!
Cute
It must of smelled like.. the smell of toy clothes
That's sounds adorable
I used to dress my (male!) cat in my cabbage patch’s clothes!!! And that’s why I always feel bad for children’s pets now!
That photo of Xavier in the bath with the dolls gave me the heebie jeebies
cmoooooon haven't you ever seen a creep?.... with a cowboy hat..... and successful
@@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637 Making children's dolls nonetheless! I'm willing to bet he was doing quite a few illegal and immoral things...
@@thomaslisankie342 we'll find out that from another 20 years from now (it apparently works like that)
but it's just a photo at the end, apart the plagiarism
It rubs the lotion on it's skin
If you look carefully, you'll see he's wearing jeans in the tub. He's hardly naked.
I owned a Cabbage Patch doll! My sister and I each got one for Christmas in 1983-during the fad. In 83 I was 16 and my sister was 13. When we unwrapped the dolls my parents told us to leave them unopened in the box because they would be worth money someday. These are the same people who bought the Pet Rock in the 70s because they were sure it would be worth something 30-40 yrs later. Well, I have no idea where that doll or rock is. I’m 51 now, married with millennials. Your videos are wonderful for me to remember, reminisce and share with my friends and family.
Yeah, I don’t expect that you would understand but I love your videos. It’s nostalgia at its best. Thanks!🙂
I always HATED getting dolls or any toy that a grown up wanted me to keep in the box for later and I never did keep any of them at all, let alone IN THE BOX and now I deeply regret it too! I just don’t understand why any grown-up would expect a child/teenager to do something like that??? Kids just aren’t capable of thinking 20 or 30 years down the line at such a young age!
The Cabbage Patch Kids fad was so crazy that a man from Kansas flew to London, England because he heard they were available there. He went, got one of the dolls, and came back in time to make it a Christmas present for his young daughter.
that's soo cute and wish i had one back then
That’s so sweet 🩷
I thought they were kinda cute i liked that they weren't plastic and they smelled kinda nice.
I was born in 78. The appeal was the same appeal as any 80s toy: Imagination. The blank expression is like the low key personality of a popular teen in school. You can xerox your own likes onto that face. There is nothing that disagrees with you on style, flavor, interest, etc. You can endow that doll with your own personality. And you adopt it! You choose to be the doll's parent, endowing it with yourself.
Rick Sanchez, is that you C137?
Go Garbage Pail Kids!
@Luis Martinez your dumb for even saying that
Another thing about the dolls that was unique was the smell...they all had a creamy vanilla-like smell that lasted quite awhile!
I loved that smell! They always smelled like you just bought the doll even after like a year of having it.
I forgot about that!
Yeah, the smell and taste (don't judge me I was 4, you put everything that smells good in your mouth at that age).
Exactly! The smell!!
Your comment just put me into a time machine and sent me back 35 years!
I STILL have mine...even though he looks like he’s fought every war by himself, he’s smiling happily in my closet!!!🥰🤓🤷🏽♀️
Best comment ever😅
Imagine if unopened.....
...... you could make some serious cash lol
Was Danny devito the old lady in that line interview?
No. The old lady is Danny Devito. 😎
“little people” reminds me of those old plastic fisher price toys called Little People I used to play with as a really little kid. Are they related at all? I can’t find anything about it
I don't believe they're related because I've bought them for my three year old and they aren't made by coleco
I played with disney ones :/
I know what you're talking about! It might be a predecessor to wheeble wobbles. The Little People though were smaller and didn't wobble. I think my mom has a picture of them on a nostalgia Pinterest board. I know I've played with them before,,
I love the Little Peoples!! I had them when they were the size kids could still choke on them. Good times.
@4:42 "Ok I'm having some publicity photos taken, I need to portray an image, of a family friendly, old fashioned toy company So Im gonna get my denim shorts and cowboy hat and hop in the bathtub with these dolls I made"
*SOLD!*
Never knew these where a fad, I liked mine cause it smelt good.. like baby power and vanilla or something, the eyes and deformed head where kind of creepy
YES! The powder-scented ones were like 2nd generation, or only certain dolls maybe? But they really did smell soothing--and the yarn hair was so soft!
Did anyone else get REALLY uncomfortable when the pic of the guy in the bathtub came up?
That's how pedos lure in kids. With pets and such.
Yeah, that was super gross...
Wait come back I have candy
It gave Tiger King vibes
I thought it was rather comical lmao he looked ridiculous
4:40 The biggest part of that case was that he knew her and had previously bought dolls from her, which he turned around and sold.
I still have my original cabbage patch doll, she’s still one of my favorite things
I have my own real life Cabbage patch kid.😍She's 27 going on 28 this year! And her arms have always been stretched out to hug me just like these precious dolls! When I lived with my foster family, I received an adoption doll for Christmas! By the time that I was returned back home with my mom, she bought me a very dark skinned adoption doll, which looked closer to me.😍 Then! My mom bought me an Annie doll!:😍 Dolls were not a game to me! It hurts to know that little girls don't all love dolls like we used to. I had so many. I felt rich when I had nothing but my dolls
You couldn't tell me nothing!
I used to have one. It wasn't my favorite but my grandma gave it to me. The only thing I remember is that she smelt nice. Mind you I was like four lol
Do a video on the decline of GameStop. They are getting IRRELEVENT. Also there are several employee stories about GameStop being horrible to them. It’s perfect
bobspineable wOw
@bobspineable kids without credit cards still gotta go out to Gamestop to buy "physical download codes"
GameStop is a like a mini Pokemon Center now. They may not be relevant for games, but I like being able to browse a bunch of pop-culture do-dads with more of a gaming slant to them.
Number Six you are correct. Number Six you AAARE correct.
@@meganmularz4939 I agree. Gamestop is toast. You can get physical games cheaper online. I remember when they were called Electronics Beautique. LOL
From one RUclipsr to another, i really love your content. I know it takes a lot of research to do what you do, i watched every one of your episodes. I like learning the history of products and companies. So the combination of the information and your voice, makes it fun to watch and engaging!
Keep up the good work, you have a great channel! 👍
Will you be starring in cars 4?
I thought a guy bullying kids, people, and animals with an RC car would be a fad but holy shit I saw your channel years ago. I thought your channel would die in a year when people weren't interested anymore, now you have a check mark next to your name.
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Yeah I usually can’t sit and watch the same channel for 5 days straight, but that’s exactly what I’ve been doing with yours. I love it!
7:08 -- wow. As a kid in the 90s, I thought Gill was making up the Coleco name in that episode because he couldn't afford an IBM or Apple. xD
The little girls’ response in her interview is so cute !!!!!!
Fk Cabbage Patch Kids... I’m more of a Sour Patch Kid, myself...
Now you're speaking my language.
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Facts
same lol
Yes darling
The 80s had a bunch of these toy fads.. teddy ruxpin.. my little pony. Strawberry shortcake . My buddy .. peewee herman .. pound puppies.. he man.. etc .. ahh. The good ol' days :)
At least Pound Puppies and My Little Pony were cute.
Are My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake even considered fads when they're still popular today and have maintained popularity?
Teddy Ruxpin Was The weirdest. Isn't the movie Ted based on him?
I saw a poppel the other day in a 2nd hand shop, remember those!
I think to reach fad levels people have to be willing to pay exorbitant prices in order to get the item. We definitely had many popular toy brands in the 80s. Many of them still around to this day. But not all of them reached fad levels.
I can’t be the only one who is a tiny bit bothered by how he says “dowels” instead of dolls
You're not the only brother. That's was driving me crazy. 😫
No.....Things like that don't trigger me since I'm use to a ton of accents and dialects. I love when people speak or pronounce words with originality. It adds to their uniqueness.
Lmao first time he said it I was like....what the hell is a "dowell"...ohhh he means doll
my mom says it like that 😫
RIGHT??? LIKE :((
Martha was my Godmothers mom.
My mom helped make these dolls. I had one of the original Martha doll.
Xavier stole the doll idea from Martha. I also have a cabbage doll.
But the dolls from Martha were better!!!
Wow! I’ve never seen an original Martha doll in person, but they seemed so full of detail and beautiful. Maybe consider donating it to a toy museum so it can be preserved.
Cabbage patch kids have a weirdly specific smell
Emma Walker I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about, I can’t explain it maybe it’s like baby powder & something weird
@@rachelpac1096 I thought it was the kerosene-soaked rags they used to put inside.
Who wants Company Man to do a vid about Barney, the purple dinosaur? I wanna see why it hypnotize so many kids...
If you were a kid in the early 80s this was life and yes I still have mine !!
I was given one by my mum - early on - I remember before this watching the news at a friend's place, and her older sister cracking up about one woman rushing the purchase, shouting "I got the Do- oool!". My doll was called Garland, and I had the adoption paper and everything. My mum - who was previously trend-proof - got me this doll, I have no idea why or how, but I had one super-early on. I remember thinking how chunky and unappealing it was, but was simultaneously stoked I had this rare (at the time) item.
No idea where it is now. What a phenomenon it was!
Don't find it, it's hiding under your bed.
@@newbiechu7024 oh totally, yes - staring out with glowing eyes... "Why did you abandon me, Mommy?"
*shudders*
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 burn it with fire.
@@newbiechu7024 like I did with all my other toys?
@DisneySwan1990 oh God yes. I mean the newscasts we were seeing were mostly of people going nuts desperately competing to try and get one Stateside, so maybe they were a bit easier to obtain here, but you were a very au courant kid here if you had one.
So you... know what country I'm in? Or was the "mum" thing a bit of a giveaway?
They were thrown out and became the Garbage Pail Kids
XD bogus
Step One: Get Xavier Roberts' autograph tattooed on your buttcheek.
Step Two: Call yourself the Original Cabbage Patch Kid.
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
Step 5: *NoT sToNkS*
I'll never forget the images on the news of mothers fighting eachother over those effing dolls at Christmas time 1982-83
I got one from my adoptive parents in the early 2000's. I wasn't necessarily a fan of dolls as a kid but I can appreciate where my parents were coming from getting their adopted kid a doll that's sold with the intent of making you feel like you're adopting something
Same--my guardians got me a whole CPK set with the stroller, 2 dolls, the baby carrier, etc for that 1983 year. I always found it weird though cuz they didn't adopt me for another 5 years, so the dolls had parents long before i did... i felt almost like i'd been turned into a cheap novelty toy that my parents were buying.
Do a video about uggs
I second this
As a 44 year old I've tried to forget these repugnant dolls but I do remember the craze. I thought Cabbage Patch dolls were hideous and creepy as a young kid and still do today. When I was in grade school it felt like all the girls had been brainwashed by aliens because they were absolutely obsessed with these things. My Grandmother searched for weeks to find three for my sister and two female cousins and when my brother and I found out that she spent $200+ on each one that was a very interesting Christmas (we got really cheap gifts by comparison, lol). Most young girls I knew would just throw tantrums until their parents relented and bought them one, no matter the difficulty or the price.
The part I really try to forget were the weddings. Yes, I said weddings. Apparently it was possible to do an official Cabbage Patch wedding, complete with paperwork and my elementary school actually allowed these to occur. The girls got to use a classroom and handed out fliers asking everyone to attend and bring food and gifts. All of us boys, except one (who only went to eat the food) refused to go and again, we thought all the girls were crazy. I mean we had GI Joes and Transformers but we didn't have weddings or parties for them at school. It was just so weird.
When the Garbage Pail Kids came out we boys finally had our revenge. We took every opportunity to gross out the girls with them and my parents and even the school tried to ban us from having them. We refused to obey and thankfully the fad for the dolls eventually died down...but I'll never forget seeing all the girls marching around with those ugly dolls in dresses and announcing that they were getting married...it was almost too strange for words!
I was a little girl who thought they were creepy, but I loved Garbage pail kids cards.
That sounds cute to me tbh
I had two cabbage patch dolls and a ton of garbage pail kids cards 🤷🏿♀️
Haha, why, you were a party pooper and still are it seems.
Damn... I was an 80s kid who had 3 CPKs total, but never heard of ANYONE "marrying" them... They were our *babies*, wtf. And I had a good stack of Garbage Pail Kids.
I love how you say dolls.
"Dahlls!"
I thought they were ugly but i wanted one because my friends had them.
First of all dahling, we called them Cabbage Patch KIDS all the time. We never referred to them as Cabbage Patch Dolls. Secondly, little boys wanted them as much as little girls. Thirdly, I'm 42 and My original CPD is sitting on a shelf in my current bedroom. I was 8. They were cute (to an 8yr old) I wanted one. That simple. (Also, I'm black, and it was the first black doll I ever owned. There weren't a lot around back then.)
Says she always called them "Cabbage Patch Kids", then later refers to them as "CPD = Cabbage Patch Doll" ... Ironic.
My first one was black with hair like mine. Then they came out with hair you could comb. Loved practicing braiding styles on that doll. Very different from black barbie.
There were black ones? I didn't like them cause I thought they were white. I had only black dolls growing up.
@@politereminder6284 lol wtf
@@nasirb3914 I don't understand your comment. Why would a black child want to play with white dolls? The whole idea behind playing with a cabbage patch kid was that it was your baby. It would be weird to produce a baby that looked nothing like you.
I always thought it was the uniqueness of each one that had the appeal. Another 1980s fad was Swatch brand watches because each was unique and they were cheap. They were brightly colored (another 1980s thing) and some people would have a whole row of them up their arm. I think a lot of people didn't like how insanely popular they were and that was what gave the Garbage Pail Kids momentum. 1983 was also the great video game crash and maybe it was the next thing to get peoples' attention, although I don't think young girls played video games as much as older boys did. Great video, Company Man. I'm looking forward to the Coleco video.
I remember having 7 Swatch watches, one for each day of the week. I thought I was so cool wearing those watches and my knit tube ties. Yeah...if 2019 me could just go back to 1983 me and tell him to save his money and just buy a Timex LOL
I loved my Swatch Watches so much! It took a long time for me to save up for the ones I had and of course had to get matching guards to twist. I got a supposedly rare one and like an idiot let a skater dude borrow it. He broke it skateboarding. 😑
I remember all my friends trading Garbage Pail Kids in the ‘80s but I never heard of Swatch until the early 2000s. Some kid brought a slap bracelet to school that he or she got from some restaurant and I thought it was the coolest thing because I had never seen or heard of one, and that was 1990 at the earliest. I recall capsule machines with the slap bracelets and eventually I saw a capsule machine that had them with a little digital LCD watch, but the Swatch fad must have completely skipped my region (Atlanta area).
Similarly, I recall visiting San Diego for the Summer in 1994 and all the kids there thought I was crazy for not having heard of POGs/milkcaps. I knew of Tonks, which were basically the same thing except that they were also miniature sports trading cards. Tonks weren’t huge and I really only knew of them from TV commercials and I remember thinking those were old by Summer 1994. When I came back I told all my friends about this weird “POG mania” that was happening out West and they were just as confused about it as I was. 1995, on the other hand, it finally reached us, though it was already fading in the West and still never got as big here. It did get big enough for there to be commercials for the “Official POG Maker” and such. Commercials out West were usually local, like a Fox Kids TV host for “Fox Six-A-roonie” telling you to meet him at McDonald’s for some POGs.
@@emmettturner9452 I looked up Swatch on Wikipedia. Company was formed in 1983. Apparently in the '70s digital watches were coming down in price and they wanted to make cheap "disposable" analog watches to try to hang on to them. It talked about everything the company did, but not much about the market at the time. I remember two events: finally seeing an ad for a Swatch watch and thinking "Wow, they look like they've become high class now." Also, in 2005 I became interested in "Internet time" and found out that Swatch owns the rights to all Internet time physical devices. (I don't remember which one of those events came first.) So, after the Swatch watch fad of the '80s, I barely ever even heard of the company/name for quite a few years after that. It seems that digital watches became so simple and toy-like that it turned around and people started wanting mechanical analog watches again (maybe kind-of like grandfather clocks being hugely expensive today.) I was finishing my last two years of college in 1994/1995 and was busy and not surrounded by younger people. Then, 1996 I moved from Ohio to Taiwan and have been here ever since, so I don't "feel the pulse" of USA anymore and don't remember the Tonks or POGs things. When I first saw you write POG, I sort of remembered the name, but I think I was confusing that with PROGs from the early '80s game: Robotron 2084.
I had a Swatch. At first I thought it was cool. One thing the Swatches were famous for is that they ticked really, really loud! The ticking was so loud I grew to hate the watch! I would be in a quiet room trying to study and all I would hear is TICK, TICK, TICK. I would take the watch and put it someplace and I could still hear it, TICK, TICK, TICK! Anytime I was in a quiet room or trying to take a test at school I had to take the watch off. The sound was driving me crazy! I finally had to stop wearing it and bury it someplace so I wouldn't hear the ticking anymore. Kind of reminds me of Captain Hook being chased by Tick-Tock the alligator!
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*They sold the Sizzle, not the Steak!*
When I was little back when the cabbage patch kids were popular but we were too poor. For my birthday I got a cabbage patch kid knock off. My dad bought it from under a bridge. I still have it and yes she still looks crazy
I loved my Cabbage Patch Kids. My first Cabbage Patch was an infant named Tabitha. ❤️
Mine was a bald boy named Robert.. I was sad cause I wanted a girl but my mom said she got the last one in stock at that time.. oh well I still loved that doll lol
I had two! One girl with ginger pigtails called Lydia and a bald baby girl called Erin! I loved them! I'm 38 and got my first one in 1988, I'm Australian so I guess it took a bit of time to get over to us because it was huge for years! way past 88.
Same! Loved the adoption paper lmao me @ 5 years old with documents
It's all about the Avocado Toast fad now
Whats with complaining about what 'millennials' buy with money that they earn
Before that, it was all about drinking water fad.
Now?
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Because millennials don't buy the products that THEY want them to buy.
I remember being in kindergarten amd Baby Alive was a huge thing, with the actually eating and urinating dolls. Which may have been the answer to "had these have been cuter would they have been more popular?" Question.
I had one of those! I'm kind of appalled now at how blatant the "mommy training" was with that, tho. (Crying till you picked it up or fed it or changed the diaper, which was wet or gross.)
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"What?! It's all Toys?!"
"Always Hasbro."
I remember going to pick out my first one. My mom worked at the Bay and her coworker let us go in the back and I could pick which one I wanted before they were put out, then she held it back for me. I still have it and 4 others from back then.
I agree with other people commenting, I believe it was the uniqueness - everyone had one but they were all different, no two alike.
And I think they are cute actually
AND the fact that you could get one that looked like you (or your child) was the allure for me.... well, and my mom too! She was beyond thrilled that she could actually buy me a doll that had brown pigtails and glasses just like 3 year old I did.
Maybe they were so creepy, it looped around making them the most attractive thing on earth?
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Why do we watch like all the same channels justin?
Just watched a video on you wow
Those were my favorite baby dolls growing up. The were soft, smelled like baby powder and had unique clothing. And yes every time I was gifted one I felt like a proud momma of another life lol
Is it weird that I can still smell my cabbage patch doll? Also, I had one growing up in the late 2000s
Damn, I searched your name and this was posted 1 second ago. Perfect timing.
I think limited supply helped push the sales of the dolls. In the early to mid 80s my daughter worked the jewelry counter at Target. During xmas shopping days Target would advertise when they were getting a shipment of Cabbage Patch dolls. People would literally crowd in front of the doors on the day waiting for the store to open and when it did there would be pushing, shoving, people falling down, etc. to get to the toy department and then the grabbing and fighting would start. Target actually hired extra security people. My friends at work would beg my daughter to get one for them and hide it under the jewelry counter for them to pick up later. There were NEVER enough for everyone to get a doll. That increased the frenzy. No one wanted their kid not to have a doll on xmas morning. I mean, what would you say? The elves ran out of thread?
I actually think they manufactured a sense of scarcity for them. By producing fewer during peak selling months, they could make them seem more desirable. I got one in June as a "reward" for doing well in school...but I later learned that I really got it in June because my mom couldn't find one in December or January for Christmas and my birthday.
I showed a picture of that doll to my little sister...
Welp. Let's just say... I ain't her favorite brother anymore.
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uhh... he has shorts on in the bath..
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You need to talk about American Girl Dolls My sister loves them and I don’t understand why
Those things are too expensive I also don't like them either. Never understood the popularity
I think the appeal is that you can get a doll that looks just like you. I wanted one as a girl as well but the are costly. You can also get famous historical figures which you don’t often see in school.
@@luyandolove I see your point,most dolls I see when we go toy shopping at Target or Walmart I mostly see light skinned dolls(Read a article about race in kids toy(I have nothing against light skinned people))and in fact me and my sister have had a conversation about race in kids toys for some reason so I see where you are coming from
@@luyandolove I just asked and she said they are fun to play with,well I got my answer
Idk about modern kids, but I loved my Felicity doll when I was a kid because I got to have a doll with my favourite set of books. I was a bookworm as a kid XD. That was the early 90s, though, so I couldn't answer about today's youth.
“All those crazy ladies,” comment bothers me. Those women were killing themselves trying to find and buy Cabbage Patch Kids Dolls for THEIR CHILDREN WHOM THEY LOVED! That’s all their kids wanted from “Santa.” These women were willing to take criticism from everyone (in the 80’s and obviously current) to make their kids happy. My sister was one of those woman. I helped her shop everywhere. Luckily(?) at the last minute she found someone selling these dolls for an exorbitant amount, but she paid it! Sis was thrilled. Her daughter doesn’t even have a clue what her Mother had to deal with. So, NO they were not crazy ladies, just Moms loving their children. Ridiculing what you know nothing about is rather ignorant.
"Jingle All The Way."
I remember one year, during this 80's craze, my mom was able to get two CPKs for the two girls who lived next door to us. The CPKs were the only presents the girls got that Christmas. My mom didn't even take credit for getting the gifts. She let the parents of the girls, (or maybe Santa) have the credit.
Dude I LOVE the new thumbnails!!
I'd somehow accidentally missed this vid before, but this thumbnail immediately caught my eye on my recommended!
I was born in '82. When my sister was born in '85, I got a Cabbage Patch doll. My dad got it on a dock in Boston at night, you gave the guy your money, you got a doll. No box, just in the plastic, with all the papers & the doll. No refunds if you didn't get the color or gender you wanted. Done deal. It was an authentic Cabbage Patch doll.
And I loved her. Her name was Patience Grey.
I wonder if your dad has mob connections?
Don't forget Rodney Dangerfield's Melon Patch Kids. "The Melon Patch Kids are not orphaned; they're abandoned! We think it's a winner."
This video did make me want to watch Back to School.
My grandmother got it for me one year. She was so proud of her purchase and was so excited to see me love it, and I knew that she went through a lot to find one for me.
I was so creeped out by that doll and I honestly hated it, but I took one look at my grandmother’s face and decided to treat that thing like one of my most beloved possessions. Made sure that doll was at every tea party and tucked it in every night just cause I wanted my grandmother to be happy.
I am so happy I no longer have that doll as an adult.
Aw you being so tickled over that card made me happy lol
My mother-in-law waited in line to buy a Cabbage Patch boy doll for my son. When he started wearing glasses I bought him another one with glasses. By the time my daughter was born I was able to buy her one just by walking into a store. I still have them in my attic. The reason for buying them might have started with the adoption papers but it was FOMO that created the need to have one.
Oh, I was 13 when these came out. I remember being at the local K-Mart when an employee rolled some out then had to basically duck and cover because every adult in the vicinity basically lost their minds and rushd the dolls.
I was the perfect age for my dad to watch fistfights as he snagged me a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas. Darby Ann.
Amazing video and content!
I was the 1983 female demographic for CPD. And I hated them. I'm not a doll girl anyhow. I would have rather had he-man (even she-ra with the big bewbz) or some hot wheels.
However, my grandmother insisted I have one. But, we po'. And the stores were perpetually sold out so she had a friend at church make one for me. It looked very much like the ones that woman made. Even less cuddly than cabbage.
That said, it's entirely possible that neither of them invented the doll. It could've been a pattern in any number of craft magazines back in the 70s.
I had the same thing! It was probably 1984 when my Uncle bought a handmade CPD from a friend that sewed them herself in the Chicago area. It must have been a pattern.
Edgy! You’re not like those other girls! Ur so special!
I was a kid in the 80’s and I didn’t see them as creepy. Though I never got one or even wanted one, I did think they were cute. In fact, there was this cute girl at my school who name was Natalie Padgett. I thought Padgett sounded similar to Cabbage Patch, so I would call Natalie Cabbage Patch Kid as a way of saying how cute she was as the doll. However, she thought they were creepy and thought I was calling her a creep. Funny how some boys liked them and some girls didn’t.
I was 4 in 1983 when all of this hit and I remember wanting one. My grandma actually made me one (you used to be able to buy the plastic heads at craft stores) because I couldn't get one. And yeah I remember the marketing around it. She wasn't my favorite doll, but one I enjoyed, especially knowing my grandmother had made me her for me.
The bit about them growing in a cabbage patch: that's one of the things parents used to tell children when they asked where a baby came from - "He was found in the cabbage patch". It's the equivalent of, "The stork brought him!" That was apparently the inspiration for the name/concept.
Can we get a video about Muzak? It’s a great example of a company with a unique product that can make it past a bankruptcy
I'll second that.
Do a video about American girl dolls I think it started in the mid-80s although it was not as popular as cabbage patch kids until the mid to late 90s I think
I had one cabbage patch doll when I was a kid, and even though I loved it back then, it WAS creepy. I kept it because it was creepy and smelled really good for whatever reason
One thing to note: While the stork story is overwhelmingly popular, one of the other "where children come from" myths parents have been known to tell their children is that children are grown in a cabbage patch. It also adds a bit more of a personal element to it, because in this myth, the parents are choosing the children. That's where the name comes from.
I CANT GET OVER THE FACT YOU SAY "DALLS" INSTEAD OF DOLLS AHHHHHH
The decline of Atari What Happened? Can’t wait for that one.
Xavier Roberts used to be my across-the-hall neighbor in Midtown Atlanta.
He bought his Atlanta corporate penthouse across from ours in the Eighties and redesigned the interior with the most beautiful veined black stone (don't know if it was marble or granite or what, but when I heard the cost my jaw dropped). He was one of the nicest people I'd ever met. A genuinely kind, accommodating human being with a very pleasant demeanor and an easy-going nature.
My oldest son, David, now 39, was just a little boy back then, so Xavier gifted him a Cabbage Patch Kid. No, not one you could buy in a store; it was one of his original, hand-sewn by Xavier, hand-painted eyes by Xavier, personally signed by Xavier on the buttocks, can't get them anymore or ever again Cabbage Patch Kids. As in, auction-worthy today. He loved it!
And then one day, David wrote all over it with an indelible green marker. When we moved years later and he was older it was thrown away, as tends to happen with old childhood toys on moving day.
Looking back, I've had an unusual number of events like this happen.
You laughing at combover Grover was so funny I burst out loling too hahah
Don’t forget to mention that brief animated series of the Cabbage patch kids.
I had friends who loved these. I even had the memory of being given one by a well meaning relative. Little girls are sensitive enough about their appearances but to take this butt-faced thing and say "here, sweetie, here's your little twin!" is rather mean. I remember feeling insulted and not terribly pleased.
I was born in ‘97 and LOVED webkinz as a kid. I had so many and I still have my pink iridescent Pegasus I named Pinky😂 please do webkinz!
My parents still talk about what they went through to get me a doll for Christmas. I was born in '83, so right around the start of the whole thing. Crazy times.