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In 1978, Xavier Roberts started marketing a set of cloth dolls with exaggerated features of a baby under the name of Little People. Initially sold at craft shows, the dolls took off and in 1982, he rebranded them as "Cabbage Patch Kids" and created a backstory involving a young boy named [[Author Avatar|Xavier Roberts]] following a BunnyBee and discovering the world of the eponymous kids. The dolls became a big hit, inspiring books and an animated Christmas special, but the craze peaked and fell around 1988. The line continued in a smaller vein, going through a series of companies, from Colēco to Hasbro to Mattel, but have largely become a historical footnote.
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The dolls had a number of interesting gimmicks. One is that they were ostensibly "adopted" by new owners, not bought (they came with birth certificates). Another is that each doll was slightly different, having been manufactured through a process that would change a variable each time. This helped keep up the "real baby, not a doll" illusion.
Perhaps because of the general cuteness of it all (and the doll's wild popularity), two disturbing [[Urban Legend
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* [[Author Avatar]] - Xavier Roberts
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]] - Otis Lee
* [[Collectible Cloney Babies]]: Exploited this trope. You could find a baby and collect it, with varieties. Unlike other collectibles, though, Cabbage Patch Kids were manufactured with a process that randomized each doll, making it essentially unique; the psychology behind their collectability was less about finding specific rare varieties and more about acquiring dolls with features or combinations of features that appealed to the collector.
* [[Delivery Stork]] - Colonel Casey of the [[Animated Adaptation]].
* [[Evil Counterpart]] - The [[Garbage Pail Kids]].
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