Xavier Roberts' cuddly-toy business grew into a billion-dollar empire in the space of a few years. Why did these dolls have Christmas shoppers scrambling to buy them in 1983?

If you’re an ‘80s baby, either you were obsessed with Cabbage Patch Kids or you never understood the hype. The dolls were huge in the early ‘80s, and for some people, they’re still cherished ...

An avid Cabbage Patch Kids fan has dedicated three rooms of his flat to his collection of more than 600 dolls that he says are his children. Bachelor Dan Knowlton, 41, has spent thousands of pounds ...

Claim: Cabbage Patch dolls were designed to get people accustomed to the appearance of mutants following a thermonuclear war or were modeled upon mentally defective children. One legend that I have ...

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A Cabbage Patch Kids fan has devoted three rooms of his flat to a collection of over 600. Dan Knowlton, 41, has spent thousands of pounds buying the cloth dolls, which were a huge fad in the 1980s. He ...

Cabbage Patch Kids are 40 years old but remain America's most sensational toy story. The pudgy baby dolls ignited a first-of-its-kind consumer craze during the Christmas shopping season of 1983 — ...

A longtime Kansas City Chiefs fan took her son’s vintage Cabbage Patch doll collection and transformed them into hand-sewn members of the Kelce family -- and even added a Taylor Swift version. Teresa ...

Two decades after they burst on the toy scene, the Cabbage Patch Kids will go 3-D under an animation deal among 4Kids Entertainment, toonmaker IDT Media and toymaker Original Appalachian Artworks. The ...