Week #7 – Toys Week: What was your favorite childhood toy? Is it still being made in some form today?
Discussing this with my sister, we were having trouble coming up with one favorite childhood toy. We vividly remember a lot of the board games that we enjoyed playing as children but no toys really stood out.
That is, until I remembered Cabbage Patch Kid dolls! Since we never actually owned one maybe we should rename this post "favorite childhood toys that we never actually had but really, really wanted"! Most of the kids in the neighborhood had one of these and although we were a little on the older side for playing with dolls (except Heather), Cabbage Patch Kids were popular even with older elementary school kids like us. These dolls, created by Xavier Roberts in 1978, were so popular in the early to mid-1980's that people would stand in long lines and even get into fights in stores over them. Since our Mom is not the type of person to go crazy over a toy fad and she did not really have the extra money to buy one for each of us at that time, she did what any kinda hippy mom with sewing talent did - she made us a homemade version of the cabbage patch doll! Just like the originals, she even signed her name on each of their little homemade butts and made birth certificates for each of them. At the time it was a little (maybe a lot)disappointing to not have a REAL Cabbage Patch Kid, but we later learned to appreciate the gesture AND it makes for a great story. By the way, she also made us homemade Care Bears..I know, you are all so jealous!
Please, other children of the 80's, tell us about your Cabbage Patch Kids memories.
And do you still have the kids? If not, I could probably do it again for the grand babies!
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And his favorite toy was "Clancy the Great"--a roller skating monkey. A 60's toy, not an 80's toy.
i had to make my own Fake cabbage patch kid, cause no, we didn't get the real thing either. at least I never did. maybe my sisters did, once the fad was over and they were cheaper! right before Josiah was born, my parents and terry went to the "cabbage patch factory" and bought some cabbage patch clothes, which josiah actually fit in as a newborn! :) i also loved my Monchici monkey toy- and i got SO excited when i saw one at target a year or two ago. my kids had no idea what the big deal was.
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