Meet the American who launched Cabbage Patch Kids, Xavier Roberts, dolls ignited Christmas shopping craze
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Xavier Roberts, an artist from rural Georgia, created Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1970s, which then caused a consumer frenzy during the Christmas shopping season in 1983.
"Stampeding crowds knocked down an elderly man in North Miami Beach, Florida, trampled a pregnant woman in Bergen County, New Jersey, injured five in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania," The Christian Science Monitor reported in Dec. 1983. "Roberts seems to inhabit the character of a mystical figure in the toy industry." — James Zahn, toy expert "Cabbage Patch Kids are the prime example of the lightning-in-a-bottle phenomenon that the toy industry has been looking to recreate every single day since." Cabbage Patch Kids appeared in 1983 at the International Toy Fair in New York City. "Cabbage Patch Kids offered American children a soft, cuddly playmate in a world of hard toys and cold electronics." — National Toy Hall of Fame Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
Cabbage Patch Kids even inspired the retail phenomenon today known as Black Friday.
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