The 1980s, like every decade before and after it, were filled with fads that captured the imaginations of people and resulted in some pretty big cultural icons. That 10-year period gave us everything ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Third-graders in Robana Patterson's class at Pilgrim Elementary School are looking slightly pained. The girls and boys have just admitted that they, like most other children in America, want Cabbage ...

In the early 1980s, the toy industry gave birth to a new doll: the Cabbage Patch Kid. In 1976, 21-year-old Xavier Roberts creates the hand-stitched, "adoptable" dolls, which came with their own birth ...

For those who weren’t around for the great Cabbage Patch Kids craze of the 1980s, it’s hard to convey the intensity of it. There were fistfights between parents, near riots outside stores and endless ...

Into every generation, a toy craze is born. And if it happens to be born in an Appalachian cabbage patch where a Bunnybee can sprinkle it with magic crystal dust, chances are that toy craze will never ...

When Cabbage Patch Kids burst on the scene in 1983, the dolls flew off the shelves as shoppers fought to get their hands on one. Forty years later, the popular dolls have been inducted into the “Toy ...

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 — ...