The Cabbage Patch Dolls had a large surge of popularity in the 1980s that didn’t last. A man named Xavier Roberts a Georgian sculptor had created them. He used the technique of “needle molding” to create these dolls. First, he had called these dolls “Little People” but later on developed onto what is now known as the “Cabbage Patch Kids”. Xavier Roberts had an art exhibit he would showcase them at. His assistants were then told to dress in maternity clothing and held the dolls up as if they were for adoption. And so rather than using the conventional ‘selling’ of the product, he gave them to costumers through “adoption” for $40 each, providing them with the official paperwork’s that would come along with adopting a child. This idea had worked as a very popular movement in the United States. So he then came together with five other friends and the original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. and created the “Baby Land General Hospital” in Cleveland Georgia in 1978. It became a huge Christmas gift phenomenon. It was so popular that fights would break
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This was one of the relatively lower price range stage, from around $40 - $80. She had played around with The Cabbage Patch as we would with dolls nowadays, but since they provided the “façade” of it being an adopted child she treated it in the manner she imagined she would treat her own child when she was older. Later one day she lost the doll, she said she was very sad about it but eventually she moved on from the loss, to other products. She especially felt better when the fad died.
The Cabbage Patch Kids is in the stage just off of maturity and into decline, as there sales have dropped a large amount, yet they are still making sales on a new and not as enthusiastic generation that is prone to technology. As well, they seem to still be making enough money off of the consumers who would purchase it for memorabilia
This was one of the relatively lower price range stage, from around $40 - $80. She had played around with The Cabbage Patch as we would with dolls nowadays, but since they provided the “façade” of it being an adopted child she treated it in the manner she imagined she would treat her own child when she was older. Later one day she lost the doll, she said she was very sad about it but eventually she moved on from the loss, to other products. She especially felt better when the fad died.
The Cabbage Patch Kids is in the stage just off of maturity and into decline, as there sales have dropped a large amount, yet they are still making sales on a new and not as enthusiastic generation that is prone to technology. As well, they seem to still be making enough money off of the consumers who would purchase it for memorabilia