Cabbage Patch Kids…..
December 12, 1983……
The Cabbage Patch Kids dolls are featured on the cover of Newsweek magazine. The dolls were responsible for Black Friday riots at stores where shoppers were trampling each other to “adopt” them. The dolls would go on to set the record as the most successful new doll introduction in the history of the toy industry.
They were created in 1976 by Xavier Roberts using the German technique of needle molding from the 1800s. Instead of selling them, he allowed people to adopt them from Babyland General Hospital, which he ran from a renovated turn of the century medical facility.