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Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts as collectibles. The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 1982. [ 1]
Born. ( 1955-10-31) October 31, 1955 (age 68) Cleveland, Georgia. Nationality. American. Known for. Cabbage Patch Kids [ 1] Xavier Roberts (born October 31, 1955, in Cleveland, Georgia) is best known for Cabbage Patch Kid dolls, once immensely popular soft sculpted dolls.
November 22, 2023 at 4:00 AM. Cabbage Patch Kids drew serious shoppers at Christmas 1983. (Andy Hosie/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images) As shoppers line up for Black Friday, whether online or ...
The Cabbage Patch riots were a series of violent customer outbursts at several retail stores in the United States in the fall and winter of 1983. The Cabbage Patch Kids toy line was in tremendous demand, and in 1982 Cabbage Patch's parent company Coleco was the the best performer on the New York Stock Exchange rising from $6.87 to $36.75 per ...
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Abramorama has acquired North American distribution rights for the feature-length documentary “Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids” from NBCUniversal Syndication ...
Occupation (s) Graphic designer, writer, inventor and licensing agent. Known for. Cabbage Patch Kids. Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23, 1945) is an American graphic designer, writer, inventor and licensing agent. He is best known for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids and the name and works of Andy Warhol .
Babyland General Hospital is the fictional "birthplace" of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls located in Cleveland, Georgia. Xavier Roberts converted a former clinic into a retail facility for the sale of his dolls, originally called "Little People." It is presented as a birthing, nursery, and adoption center for premium Cabbage Patch Kids.