Cabbage Patch Kids 25th Anniversary!
My Cabbage Patch Doll had an adoption story all her own and I was so proud to tell it. I suppose the politically correct thing would have been to let her tell her own adoption story but since she couldn’t talk quite yet I told everyone how my parents sent my neighbor all the way over to China just to get her and bring her home for me.
You see, at the time, Cabbage Patch Kids were sold out everywhere. If you do the math correctly… (32-25) I was 7 years old in 1983, the year Coleco couldn’t produce dolls fast enough. Luckily my neighbor was actually traveling to China on business and knew just where to get several Cabbage Patch Kids…at a store that had an abundance of them. He brought three home; one for his daughter, one for me, and one for my cousin.
Cabbage Patch Kids are now produced by Mattel (after a brief production spell with Hasbro). The dolls are 14″ smaller than the original ones and they generally have a gimmick. The doll that my son has (which, coincidentally, looks just like him) eats a Carvel Ice Cream Cone.
However, this year the kids are celebrating their 25th birthday on September 20 in Cleveland, GA. The best part about the anniversary is that Mattel has produced 25th Anniversary Cabbage Patch Kids that are exact replicas of the originals (so if you lost yours from childhood you could actually find her again!) Each doll will have the Xavier Roberts special anniversary signature AND will come with a commemorative silver stamped 25th anniversary birth certificate and adoption papers.
Please, head to the Cabbage Patch Kids website and tell me which one you use to have (or which one is your new favorite)!
Thanks to Team Mom for the 25th Anniversary CPK that we had the opportunity to review.
I used to have one named Loretta Lulu. She was a bald baby. I won her from a drawing at K-Mart. You couldn’t buy them anywhere then because they were so popular.
oh too funny–I had a regular CPK named Lulu Susie and a preemie named Julian Steven. Lulu was a gift from my grandparents–my brother got a Colecovision game system and I got the doll (I think it was some sort of special offer), and we were both thrilled. The preemie I bought with my own money–$30 at KMart. We got a tip as to when a shipment was coming in, and sure enough, I got one! I remember they were just on wheeled cart–they didn’t even bother to pretend that they were going to stick around long enough to be put on the shelf!!
They’re actually made by Play Along, which is the 5th manufacturer to make them. Coleco, Hasbro, Mattel, TRU (Toys R Us) and now PA.