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Cabbage Patch Kids weren't even originally called Cabbage Patch Kids-they were first called Little People. They were all cloth dolls and sold at craft shows-an inauspicious start for what would become a certified craze.
Cabbage Patch dolls. 1  These dolls were the first toys not tied to a popular TV, movie, or comic that everybody had to have and nobody could find, says Jim Silver, editor of TimetoPlayMag.com. A December 1983 TIME article described parents knocking over display tables, grabbing, and shoving each other just to get one for their kids.