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Roberts didn't come up with it
- Unfortunately, there's a dirty secret behind Roberts' gangbusters idea, reports Vice in a new mini documentary on the history of the dolls: Roberts didn't come up with it. He copied the concept (eventually making him millions) from American folk artist Martha Nelson Thomas.
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Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955, in Cleveland, Georgia) is best known for Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, once immensely popular soft sculpted dolls. [2]
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Given the fact that over 30 million dolls were sold in the 1980s, it could be considered even a miracle that some dolls are worth thousands and thousands of dollars. Admittedly, the majority of dolls you can find today on auction websites actually cost the same amount of modern-day Cabbage Patch Kids: roughly $60 or in some cases, even less. So wha...
While technically they aren’t Cabbage Patch Kids, these dolls were the ones that began it all for Xavier Roberts and can be considered essentially as the prototypes of our favorite Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Many of these dolls were created between 1976 and 1982 and were sold from the Babyland General Hospital upon Robert’s more formal conception of...
With the deal reached between Roberts and toy manufacturer Coleco, 1983 was when the Cabbage Patch Kids really began to take off. Met with much fanfare at the International Toy Fair in New York, the Cabbage Patch Kids were featured on Newsweek and mass production of them shortly began after their large debut. Compared to their original $40 price ta...
The popularity of the Cabbage Patch Kids would continue to rise well into 1984 and the dolls began to expand into a franchise including a video game and a record album. 1984 would specifically see the introduction of the Preemies, which were Cabbage Patch Kids who were slightly shorter than their 1983 counterparts as well as a Couture Kids line for...
This original doll from 1985, is now selling for $3,000 on eBay. James Dudley comes complete with blond hair and a red and blue shirt with the numbers 31 like a sports jersey. His blue eyes match his shirt and he wears blue and white shoes. He comes complete with official adoption papers that have never been open. It comes complete with the traditi...
The doll was made before the Cabbage Patch Kid’s company began. The doll was designed and made by Xavier Robert himself, and hand-signed, but the owner was unsure if the clothes were original. Even still, 1979 originally sold for $1,500.
The vintage Adam Gregory Little Peopledoll was recently auctioned for $600.00, not the most expensive doll on the list, but still noteworthy as this doll was sold with all the original clothing and accessories. The doll comes complete with a white hoodie, brown pants, and even has a diaper.
A red-haired, vintage green-eyed doll from 1985 has sold for more than $1 million after being listed for sale on the world wide web. She was sold in an original pink dress complete with a little bow. She has the same long, red hair similar to Raggedy-Anne, though a little thinner. Like other dolls, she comes complete with an adoption certificate an...
This red-haired cabbage patch doll was sold to a local contractor for $17 million after receiving 17 bids. The baby’s double red hair, green eyes, and pacifier are all very popular with the contractor’s crew. She was brought with her birth certificate and adoption papers, which add to the cost of the doll. The doll was not in a box but was listed a...
This blonde doll is a predecessor of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but that doesn’t hurt her collector’s value at all. She comes with her original mint green outfit, shoes, and socks. Despite the mint condition, she does not come with any adoption papers. Still, she comes with a high valuation due to the coveted signature that this doll comes with on her...
Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts as collectibles. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 1982.
Jan 6, 2019 · During the time Martha was birthing these doll babies to allow them to be “adopted” at trade shows, a guy named Xavier Roberts sauntered through one of them in 1976. He bought up a few of them and then ended up selling, or adopting them out, at his own shops in Georgia.
Obviously the answer was to mass-produce, using vinyl for the heads (the tricky bit), and cloth for the bodies which did not need so much sculpting. Xavier joined forces with Coleco industries, and by 1983 the dolls were in production, now called Cababge Patch Kids.
Dec 27, 2022 · Cabbage Patch Kids were a popular line of dolls created by American art student and illustrator Xavier Roberts in the late 1970s. By the time the dolls were first sold in 1983, they were already among the most popular toys of the decade — and quickly became a cultural phenomenon.
