One of the Biggest Scandals in the History of Toys. The Dark Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids

A Foreshadowing of Things to Come

In the heyday of the Cabbage Patch Kids, people would camp outside stores to try and get their hands on one of these dolls. Others would attack displays and even swarm through parking lots for one of the baby dolls.

The kind of craze you saw for Cabbage Patch Kids was a foreshadowing of how shopping would become decades later for items such as iPhones, gaming consoles or manic Black Friday sales.

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It was the sale of these dolls on that Black Friday in 1983 that set the trend for what would later become a norm – the crazy, manic buying during Black Friday sales every year.

How far did this craze go?

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