Cabbage Patch Kids Connecticut's consumer protection commissioner, Mark Shiffrin. Cabbage Patch Kids Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of soft sculptured toy doll like creatures sold by Xavier Roberts and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978. The doll brand was one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States. The characters appeared in many other Cabbage Patch merchandising products ranging from animated cartoons to record albums to board games. According to Roberts, as a 21-year-old art student, he utilized the quilting skills he learned from his mother and
Xavier Roberts gave credit to Martha Nelson Thomas, the original creator of these dolls. Roberts would later create a series of country-inspired toy bears called the Furskin Bears. Due to the commercial success of his Little People line Roberts had already become a self-made millionaire by the age of 26. Other artwork by Roberts has been featured in galleries such as the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. His creations also became part of the State of Georgia's permanent art collection after Roberts presented three Little People to Georgia Governor George Busbee. Roberts designed and built his own house with help