I love this video! CPK's were it! I lost my original in a move when I was a kid. As an adult collector I decided to try to re-buy her...I found her, purchased/adopted her... along with 500+ others! I've since trimmed my CPK collected down to about 20 of my favorites! LOL
Ok that really reminds me of a show I saw on Travel Channel or something. A couple had like 500 dolls and treated them like real people. My Strange Obsession or something like that
What a fun video! Thank you for sharing your collection with us. I had a few that I came across second hand when I was younger and liked their baby powder smell.
Another great vid! I had a real Cabbage Patch kid named Xavier. He came in a St Louis Cardinals uniform. I was probably 8-9 years old. Mine came with birth certificate too! I loved that thing!
Love that retro Christmas Shopping video in the beginning. I totally forgot about those phones, boy those bring back memories. You know what else I remember? Cabbage Patch Kid cereal sucked. I like almost every cereal, but not that one. Great video.
I was initially appalled by them as a kid, but my grandma loves them & treated them like real babies 👶🏼👩🏼🍼🚼🍼🍼🧸🙄so they eventually, inevitably grew on me as an adult. Although, I only have a few & very small collection of the kiddies & pets bc I mainly only like the cloth ones more than vinyl. Hence, I rather keep the CPK collection compact to make more room for my other 🪆 dolls that I prefer more. They may not be my favorite dolls, but they're cherised♡♡ & share shelves right next to my American Girls,Reborns,Adoras etc.. & definitely form an integral part of my dolly family plus my 81 year old granny👵🏼loves them.
The first "preemie" you showed is actually a "Baby" CPK, known to collectors as Bean Butt Babies :) They are called this because they came with beans in their butts. They are the cutest and some of my faves! Yours is absolutely authentic and they were released first in 1986.
i am about your age. and i got tons of cabbage patch kids. tons. in 6th grade i took one to school on the bus and my brothers thought i was nuts. they were hiding in the seats. i loved them. still do. i got a cloth face one from babyland. the first real babyland. vintage. great shape. i got receipt from babyland and the adoption papers. a bald boy.
Yeah Star Wars toys didn't have the same craze since they made so many. Back then you couldn't go into a store without seeing them stocked on shelves and racks from floor to ceiling.
Great video. I especially loved that part at the beginning. It was so neat seeing the maddness these dolls caused. This is the first toy I remembered people going mental for. I was 5 when the boom hit but thankfully i was about gi joe and wwf. Another cool thing i noticed was in the beginning of the video look at the hideous 80s decorations in the stores lol.
@@rccottrell def cool to see another fan of WWE when It was WWF and I also grew up WWF and attended house shows in early 2000's and still consider myself fan even though haven't watched it in years but always looking it up on youtube videos
We got ours at Service Merchandise. My mom had like called around and found out they were getting a pallet in. These mom's went nuts when they brought it out, my sister and I looked on in amazement. My mom at 5 foot used that to her advantage, ducking under the elbows of other moms. She immerged with two giant boxes and yelling out, " I don't what I got, I just grab the two I could get!" What's funny is she got two preemie, a boy with green eyes like me, and the other was a girl with blue eyes like my sister. But yeah, seeing those I smell baby powder and remember all the fun certificates and accessories, that's what made it fun, too. I did give to my sister because I felt weird having a doll. But I wasn't afraid to take it from her house as adult male. It was unfortunately lost when I put it in my mom's storage and she ran into financial issues and couldn't keep it. But us, as a unique generation, you just had to be there to fully understand the Cabbage Patch craze!
Hey buzz Classic ending. No shame You know it’s serious when cashiers or store managers are beating back the clients for a doll. I think it ushered in the relentlessness of parents buying something for the kids. Perhaps under produced. And scalpers first really appearing in toy world more than anything. I think both he man and Star Wars were bigger fan bases but at same time production kept up. Plus they had the luxury of bigger toy companies behind the supply and demand. The kids became overnight sensation from a relatively smaller company. Regardless. I had one. Still have him. And down the line goT a boxed one at a bulk trash pickup a few years back. Good video. Cheers
There was a transitional period between Coleco turning everything over to Hasbro. They didn't seem to waste anything so some cabbage patch kids are half Coleco and half Hasbro lol.
I have a NIB CPD that I bought as an "investment" in about 1984-85. Interestingly, it is in a very generic looking brown box, not in a see-through shelf display type package. Any thoughts on that?
I’m trying to re buy my favorite childhood cabbage patch doll baby but it’s so hard to find. Do the signatures colors mean something ? I believe the sig was hot pink anywhere between 86-91 the doll prob was purchased 😬
Cabbage Patch Kids were ‘bootlegs’ off of those plastic heads you speak of in the craft stores. Xavier Roberts capitalized, very well, off of an idea that was never his.
@@TheNew80sRevolution yes….so first THANK YOU for listening, and second, Im a guy who loved CPKs in the 80s. I just dont think I can throw away the love I have for them, as painful as the truth is. But the reality is that those ‘Doll Baby’ brand heads you could buy at Kmart were the home craft kit version of Martha Nelson Thomas’s Doll Baby’s, which she sold (of course not plastic but each hand sewn) as ‘real babies’ with birth certificates and unique personalities, at artisan fairs in Georgia. Young Xavier would buy them from her and resell them up-priced in his gift shop. He tried to convince Martha to go big with him with Martha’s idea, but in the name of true art, she did not want them commercialized. He wrote her a letter and said, well, Im going forward with these even if without you. Long story short, that’s how CPKs started, and Xavier never stitched a doll. He LOL may have ‘blobbed’ one together, like one at Babyland. But the part that brings teara of joy and a reaounding VICTORY for me in this story is that Xavier Roberts, eventually having been taken to court for his stealing the idea, admitted in the settlement, that CPKs were derived from Martha’s dolls. That Xavier was a bit of a snake, but I do admit I think they are cute. But I will always stand for true art, and it is Martha to thank for all of it.
@@TheNew80sRevolution it is one of those that is holding a real crayola 🖍 and is still in box, doll in perfect condition, and has its birth certificate in there.
@@TheNew80sRevolution Just did to me! 🙂 LOVE your Collection! What do you think of the very new ones they've released? Not sure they still give the Certificates with some of them though which is a real shame...
I had one of those freaky looking things when I was a kid and I hated it. His name was Kendrick..something.. I remember stuffing him down the darkest depths of my toy chest and praying that I wouldn’t see him peeking out at me on one dark and desolate night. I preferred the wrestling buddies of later years much more.
I have a cabbage patch doll which nobody can tell me more about. Some people say it's a transitional preemie. Do you maybe want to tell me more since you know much about them? 🫣
In 1989 Hasbro began to take over for Coleco in the production of The Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, this period is known to collectors as the transitional period. Dolls made during the transitional period often came with a mixture of Hasbro and Coleco parts as Hasbro was using up Coleco's old stock. So, for example a transitional doll may have a Coleco head and a Hasbro body. You likely have one made during this time period, cool! :)
80s kid here! I loved cpk then and still love them now! Thanks for sharing!
Welcome to the channel!
I love this video! CPK's were it! I lost my original in a move when I was a kid. As an adult collector I decided to try to re-buy her...I found her, purchased/adopted her... along with 500+ others! I've since trimmed my CPK collected down to about 20 of my favorites! LOL
Ok that really reminds me of a show I saw on Travel Channel or something. A couple had like 500 dolls and treated them like real people. My Strange Obsession or something like that
They are so adorable! 🥰
What a fun video! Thank you for sharing your collection with us. I had a few that I came across second hand when I was younger and liked their baby powder smell.
love the stories! yup i got a koosa in box, i love those ones ! i have the cassette boom box used it until the buttons broke lol
Another great vid! I had a real Cabbage Patch kid named Xavier. He came in a St Louis Cardinals uniform. I was probably 8-9 years old. Mine came with birth certificate too! I loved that thing!
wow def a cool memory and def luv cabbage patch kids and def remember them coming out and being popular for boys and girls and still like them today
Aww i bet that's certainly one of the more special memories hun, how sweet ☺️💖
@@sharker102saww definitely hun, much agree! 💕
Love that retro Christmas Shopping video in the beginning. I totally forgot about those phones, boy those bring back memories. You know what else I remember? Cabbage Patch Kid cereal sucked. I like almost every cereal, but not that one. Great video.
I was initially appalled by them as a kid, but my grandma loves them & treated them like real babies 👶🏼👩🏼🍼🚼🍼🍼🧸🙄so they eventually, inevitably grew on me as an adult. Although, I only have a few & very small collection of the kiddies & pets bc I mainly only like the cloth ones more than vinyl. Hence, I rather keep the CPK collection compact to make more room for my other 🪆 dolls that I prefer more. They may not be my favorite dolls, but they're cherised♡♡ & share shelves right next to my American Girls,Reborns,Adoras etc.. & definitely form an integral part of my dolly family plus my 81 year old granny👵🏼loves them.
The first "preemie" you showed is actually a "Baby" CPK, known to collectors as Bean Butt Babies :) They are called this because they came with beans in their butts. They are the cutest and some of my faves! Yours is absolutely authentic and they were released first in 1986.
Aww interesting and cute fact! 🥰
"Bean butt babies" are officially Newborns.
i am about your age. and i got tons of cabbage patch kids. tons. in 6th grade i took one to school on the bus and my brothers thought i was nuts. they were hiding in the seats. i loved them. still do. i got a cloth face one from babyland. the first real babyland. vintage. great shape. i got receipt from babyland and the adoption papers. a bald boy.
I love them too and that's so cool all the cabbage patch kids you got and how you got one from babyland .
I'm late to the party, but this was a pretty fun video. 😀
Yeah Star Wars toys didn't have the same craze since they made so many. Back then you couldn't go into a store without seeing them stocked on shelves and racks from floor to ceiling.
Great video. I especially loved that part at the beginning. It was so neat seeing the maddness these dolls caused. This is the first toy I remembered people going mental for. I was 5 when the boom hit but thankfully i was about gi joe and wwf. Another cool thing i noticed was in the beginning of the video look at the hideous 80s decorations in the stores lol.
when you talk about WWF are you talking what WWF is now world Wildlike Foundation or when WWF was pro wrestling?plz let me know??
@@sharker102 what is now wwe
@@rccottrell def cool to see another fan of WWE when It was WWF and I also grew up WWF and attended house shows in early 2000's and still consider myself fan even though haven't watched it in years but always looking it up on youtube videos
We got ours at Service Merchandise. My mom had like called around and found out they were getting a pallet in. These mom's went nuts when they brought it out, my sister and I looked on in amazement. My mom at 5 foot used that to her advantage, ducking under the elbows of other moms. She immerged with two giant boxes and yelling out, " I don't what I got, I just grab the two I could get!" What's funny is she got two preemie, a boy with green eyes like me, and the other was a girl with blue eyes like my sister. But yeah, seeing those I smell baby powder and remember all the fun certificates and accessories, that's what made it fun, too. I did give to my sister because I felt weird having a doll. But I wasn't afraid to take it from her house as adult male. It was unfortunately lost when I put it in my mom's storage and she ran into financial issues and couldn't keep it. But us, as a unique generation, you just had to be there to fully understand the Cabbage Patch craze!
Lol, omg, I have the exact...same...one!!! (CPK Piggy Bank) 😂 And I still use it 😊
Better than a bank account!!
Hey buzz
Classic ending. No shame
You know it’s serious when cashiers or store managers are beating back the clients for a doll.
I think it ushered in the relentlessness of parents buying something for the kids. Perhaps under produced. And scalpers first really appearing in toy world more than anything. I think both he man and Star Wars were bigger fan bases but at same time production kept up. Plus they had the luxury of bigger toy companies behind the supply and demand. The kids became overnight sensation from a relatively smaller company.
Regardless. I had one. Still have him. And down the line goT a boxed one at a bulk trash pickup a few years back.
Good video. Cheers
There was a transitional period between Coleco turning everything over to Hasbro. They didn't seem to waste anything so some cabbage patch kids are half Coleco and half Hasbro lol.
Lol yh like half breeds 🤣
@@DaLilVivi96 yes 😂
I had A Cabbage Patch doll
I have a NIB CPD that I bought as an "investment" in about 1984-85. Interestingly, it is in a very generic looking brown box, not in a see-through shelf display type package. Any thoughts on that?
I’m trying to re buy my favorite childhood cabbage patch doll baby but it’s so hard to find. Do the signatures colors mean something ? I believe the sig was hot pink anywhere between 86-91 the doll prob was purchased 😬
I really don’t know. The dolls are just a small part of my collection.
Yes, the signature colors indicate they were signed in different years. There are pages online where you can find what they mean.
My family had lower priced Flower Kids.
Found 1 with no signature no tag and nothing on the back of her head could she be a prototype?
Cabbage Patch Kids were ‘bootlegs’ off of those plastic heads you speak of in the craft stores. Xavier Roberts capitalized, very well, off of an idea that was never his.
For realz?
@@TheNew80sRevolution yes….so first THANK YOU for listening, and second, Im a guy who loved CPKs in the 80s. I just dont think I can throw away the love I have for them, as painful as the truth is. But the reality is that those ‘Doll Baby’ brand heads you could buy at Kmart were the home craft kit version of Martha Nelson Thomas’s Doll Baby’s, which she sold (of course not plastic but each hand sewn) as ‘real babies’ with birth certificates and unique personalities, at artisan fairs in Georgia. Young Xavier would buy them from her and resell them up-priced in his gift shop. He tried to convince Martha to go big with him with Martha’s idea, but in the name of true art, she did not want them commercialized. He wrote her a letter and said, well, Im going forward with these even if without you. Long story short, that’s how CPKs started, and Xavier never stitched a doll. He LOL may have ‘blobbed’ one together, like one at Babyland. But the part that brings teara of joy and a reaounding VICTORY for me in this story is that Xavier Roberts, eventually having been taken to court for his stealing the idea, admitted in the settlement, that CPKs were derived from Martha’s dolls. That Xavier was a bit of a snake, but I do admit I think they are cute. But I will always stand for true art, and it is Martha to thank for all of it.
I have a 1983-1985 doll trying to identify collection and value. I’m struggling. I don’t know anything about these dolls.
Honestly it’s probably not worth much. Most go for 10-20
@@TheNew80sRevolution it is one of those that is holding a real crayola 🖍 and is still in box, doll in perfect condition, and has its birth certificate in there.
@@minnesotarebel oh! There is one on eBay listed at 1500$. Check out Cabbage Patch with crayon on eBay
@@TheNew80sRevolution I will thank you!
I have 6 cabbage patch dolls I want to sell
Has anyone ever told you that you sound like Bjorn Ulvaes of ABBA?
British voice and all? Nope
@@TheNew80sRevolution Just did to me! 🙂 LOVE your Collection! What do you think of the very new ones they've released? Not sure they still give the Certificates with some of them though which is a real shame...
Thanks for the feedback! I haven’t seen new ones. But I think they are from Jakks?
@@TheNew80sRevolution I will let you know when I receive mine; it’s on Order. For some reason it doesn’t give the Manufacturer on Amazon.
Are you sure it doesn’t say 1978, not 1973?
I’m sure it’s not 73. Did I say 73?
I had one of those freaky looking things when I was a kid and I hated it. His name was Kendrick..something.. I remember stuffing him down the darkest depths of my toy chest and praying that I wouldn’t see him peeking out at me on one dark and desolate night. I preferred the wrestling buddies of later years much more.
Fred Fitzgerald mighat be a Newborn, not a Preemie. If the body feels like a beanbag, he's a Newborn....a little smaller than a Preemie.
Yes you’re right. This was mentioned by someone else too. Good catch
I have a cabbage patch doll which nobody can tell me more about. Some people say it's a transitional preemie. Do you maybe want to tell me more since you know much about them? 🫣
I actually don’t know that much. I’m just a nerd with some toys. You can send me a pic on instagram and I can try to check into it for you
In 1989 Hasbro began to take over for Coleco in the production of The Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, this period is known to collectors as the transitional period. Dolls made during the transitional period often came with a mixture of Hasbro and Coleco parts as Hasbro was using up Coleco's old stock. So, for example a transitional doll may have a Coleco head and a Hasbro body. You likely have one made during this time period, cool! :)