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If you were a kid in the s, you probably, at some point, had a Cabbage Patch Kids doll. Xavier Roberts was born in Cleveland, Georgia, in October ; he is best known as the father of the Cabbage Patch Kids and the creator of a toy phenomenon that had never been seen before. But you might not know about that. You also might not know that a Kentucky artist named Martha Nelson Thomas originally invented the cute little dolls, but her design was stolen and transformed into a multibillion-dollar franchise that dominated the decade.

She shopped for them. She dressed them. They were expressions of her. In , a young art student by the name of Xavier Roberts met Thomas at a craft fair, and was taken by the dolls and their sculpted faces. Roberts began purchasing the Doll Babies from Thomas to sell at a profit at a Georgia State Park gift shop where he worked. After several dolls were sold, Thomas decided to stop supplying her handmade dolls to the shop due to a dispute over pricing with Roberts and also because she was concerned he might take the idea away from her.

With his supply of Doll Babies cut off, Roberts decided to create his own version of the dolls. Roberts was a skilled artist in his own right, so with the help of artist Debbi Moorehead, he began making soft sculpted dolls himself, which he called Little People the name was to change later.

Together they renovated an old building in Cleveland, Georgia, and turned it into a clever little shop that would become known as BabyLand General Hospital. Instead of sales clerks, Roberts turned his employees into nurses and doctors, giving them uniforms. A woman who had purchased one of his dolls in the Georgia area approached Thomas at an art fair to congratulate her on selling her dolls at the Atlanta Airport.

By the following year, Roberts and his friends at the BabyLand General Hospital were unable to keep up with the orders and Roberts licensed the dolls — which were now to have round vinyl heads — exclusively to Coleco for mass-production under the name Cabbage Patch Kids the Xavier Roberts signature remained on the bum, although they were no longer signed with a felt-tip marker.

The dolls were now being mass-produced, but thanks to advances in manufacturing technologies, no two dolls were ever the same. Computerized machines were able to create infinite randomizations by varying several aspects of the dolls, including hair, dimple locations and skin tone. Their names were also unique. The Cabbage Patch Kids came with a new origin story that was printed on every box. The media ate it up, and the Cabbage Patch Kids were quickly featured everywhere, including a cover story in Newsweek before the end of the year.

Nobody, including Roberts or retailers, had any idea what would happen next. Christmas wish list The consumer response was so great, Coleco cancelled all of its advertising as they tried to keep up with demand — shipping a doll-industry record of 3.

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