The Strange History of the Cabbage Patch Kids

don't look them directly in their eyes, they'll steal your soul.
original music by Ben Sparaco: / ben.sparaco
00:00 Toy Fads
00:53 Cabbage Patch Freaks
01:39 The Legend of the Cabbage Patch Kids
02:49 The Real Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids
06:13 Cabbage Patch Riots
06:46 Cabbage Patch Lawsuit
07:10 End of the Cabbage Patch Toy Fad
07:55 Present Day Cabbage Patch
#history

[@sabrina19ization]

I collect cabbage patch dolls, and I'm not weird ty in Jesus mighty name

[@Alex-Novell]

bless your heart

[@CheapRobot]

Wow this is really well done. you should cite your sources

[@rosannaanisi4642]

I know Xavier stole Martha’s idea but his kids looked cuter imo and at least mass marketing them to coleco mean the world could literally enjoy them. If Xavier never mass produced then they would’ve been exclusive to only the small towns people Martha originally made them for and I still have mine 37 years later.

[@lakotagibson659]

Fantastic video! Keep it up! I enjoyed it very much! Very educational

[@Hillers62]

Although he is a thief...Xavier is a damn good marketer...

[@kkurova9345]

He's also a narcissist and a manchild, between the fact that he put his own signature on all the dolls and they had to appease him by including him in the cabbage patch origin story...

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

She should have received a percentage of all the profits he’d made by that point, and continued royalty payments per doll sold from then on out. What a really gross thief! The fact his greed couldn’t even contain him from the start to sell them for no more than $30 upon their agreement is so pathetic. He didn’t even put in any work on them!

[@Unsweetened8618]

Het stole that Lady work and got all the wealth. SMH

[@beckyringkamp-wells1619]

He was a thief.

[@Hillers62]

At 8:17 ...I'm not judging...but....

[@butwhy3322]

There’s a bit more to it than that

[@anablackmoon5114]

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️I’m pretty sure, both stories are true 😢

[@charlottedangelica4617]

He was a business man, not a theif. She did not have a patent on the doll so he moved in and legally manufactured them. I feel sorry for her but it's business.

[@barry2354]

xavier was a thief

[@elizabethadrion644]

Me

[@dillonk3555]

Omg. This bs story again. Coke Pepsi Levi’s wrangler’s

[@SplashSurfer216]

Technically, Xavier didn’t steal Martha’s idea. He made his own version on it that was a bit more fleshed out with a story. You can’t steal an art form like soft sculpting. If all art forms were protected by law, hardly anything would be made.

[@Hillers62]

I remember when this happened...and I never understood it...these really ugly dolls reminded me of the troll dolls in the 70's...

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

The plastic headed ones weren’t ugly at all! They were adorable.