Originally Posted By chickendumpling Here's what happened to one... <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=uh81YFnIwq0" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/watch?v=uh8 1YFnIwq0</a>
Originally Posted By Tinkeroon My DD still has hers. She got it when she was about 2 or 3 and she will be 29 this year. I saw it on a store shelf and thought it was the ugliest thing I had ever seen. But I kept coming back to it, deciding it was so ugly it was cute. They weren't the "in" toy yet. In fact, I had never even heard of them. But by that Christmas they were busting down the doors to get them so I was glad we missed all that. She has the little birth certificate and everything and it was a "well loved" addition to her little doll family.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo What happened to mine? The same thing that happened to my Furby: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=_lNfBZTz2xQ" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/watch?v=_lN fBZTz2xQ</a>
Originally Posted By sarahwithbaloo I never had one my Mum did not like them. Mmmmmm not sure I should have watched the Furby clip with Jess on my lap she is now sitting here saying oooh Furby, wake up furby.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>oooh Furby, wake up furby.>> Sorry! I never had one. They were after my time, but my kids collect them - I think we have 10 or so in the house now. We find them at the thrift store for about 50 cents each. I see some of them sell for $$$ on ebay. They're really pretty funny - if you get like 6 of them looking at each other and talking at once they'll sing songs together and tell jokes and play red light green light. When I get bored doing housework I set them all up on the kitchen table and get them going. For the record, my kids are mad at me for finding that Furby in a microwave vid on youtube, and they've formed a "Furby's Rights" organization. I'm sure they'd let your daughter join. IMHO, Cabbage Patch dolls are simply hideous. That commercial was funny though.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo This is just for Jess: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfqNXADl3kU" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfq NXADl3kU</a>
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 I used to have one named Genevive. I LOVED her. And then I spilt a chocolate ice cream cone on her, and she was pretty grody after that.
Originally Posted By debtee I never had a Cabbage patch doll, I thought they were weird little things! LOL I did have a Furby though! LOL on the Furby's rights!
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 <<<I used to have one named Genevive.>>> A Cabbage Patch Doll, that is. Not a Furby. I did have one of those, but he didn't have a name. They really smelled funny. All these years later I can still conjur that exact smell. Weird.
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I had a few. My favourite one was Jeremiah, I still have her and everything she came with =)
Originally Posted By trailsend I live about 90 minutes from the original Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, GA. When my children were younger, this was a fun trip. Cleveland, GA is the hometown of Xavier Roberts who created the dolls; the original name was "Little People Adoption Dolls". They each came with birth certificates. They became enormously popular through local craft shows and were the "talk". Everyone just had to have one. The original dolls are really quite something and were different from the Cabbage Patch dolls we now have. The original dolls were each handmade by Xavier and quite detailed. Many of these are in the Babyland General Hospital Museum and are worth thousands of dollars. One room in the hospital has photos and autographs lining the walls of all the celebrities who have visited Babyland General. This is quite a "success" story of someone who had a dream of a soft sculpture doll; handmade them with so much detail and the rest is history. I'm sure there are some pics available somewhere of the original dolls. They were really neat. Here is a link: <a href="http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/cabbagepatch.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ideafinder.com/hist ory/inventions/cabbagepatch.htm</a>
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle I had a few Cabbage Patch dolls growing up - I loved them. Now this is where I should stop this post, to avoid embarrassing myself. BUT my sister and I recently (at 31 and 24 years of age) each bought a set of Cabbage Patch Twins. We were reliving our youth, and we named them Kelsey, Kenzie, Kiera and Keeley. They're so cute, they're all blonde with big dimples only mine have teeth because they're slightly more developed than their cousins, and ... I'm not weird.
Originally Posted By debtee Actually after teasing you Kez, I have a confession to make. Last year my sister and I were out shopping when the Care Bear revival was on. This brought back so many childhood memories, I had to buy a Good Luck bear as I still have my original GL bear and now they sit together as friends! OK the weirdness is catching! LMAO!!!
Originally Posted By mj9401 I still have my three cabbage patch dolls...they are packed up in a spacesaver bag in the garage!!
Originally Posted By Dznygrl I loved Cabbage Patch dolls! I still have mine. All 8 of them, along with their birth certificates. I got my first one in...I think '84 or '85 for my birthday. From what my parents told me, they were still hard to get at that time. She has yarn hair and her smile shows two little bottom teeth, and she came holding a crayon. I wish I knew more about that particular Cabbage Patch style... I'm fascinated by the recent trend of bringing back all of my favorite toys from the '80s. In a way I'm enjoying it because it lets me relive my childhood, but on the other hand it just leaves me shaking my head wondering, "Are the toy companies so out of ideas that they have to recycle stuff from twenty years ago?"
Originally Posted By trailsend Dznygrl ~ read the link on my post 12 above. You probably have an original!
Originally Posted By mj9401 That was a great link trailsend. I got my first CPD in 1985. I remember vividly as my mum had to put her name down on a waiting list at our local toy store and the shipment seemed to take forever to arrive. My mum had to go to the toy store hours before it opened to line up to secure my first doll.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle OMG Deb! One of my friends bought me a Good Luck Bear a couple of years ago for Christmas because I was on about how much I'd loved Care Bears and my favourite was GL Bear. I'm just making myself sound worse by the minute. Dznygirl - I think the revival is because all the people who loved Cabbage Patch and Care Bears when they were little have "grown up" now (okay, I'm not the best example of that!) and love buying them for their kids and friends' kids so they know the love too!
