How America Temporarily Lost Its Mind Over a Pudgy Doll With Yarn Hair

Cabbage Patch Kids were the must-have toy in 1983

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It’s not often that an ad campaign works so well that a brand has to yank it for the sake of maintaining civic order. But, 36 years ago, it happened to a toy company called Coleco and a doll named the Cabbage Patch Kid.

Originally branded as Little People, the dolls were created by a Georgia artist named Xavier Roberts using a German method called needle molding to give the fabric faces their signature pudgy pouts.

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