The Current22:33How Cabbage Patch Kids became a ‘riot-worthy’ toy
When Cabbage Patch Kids burst onto the scene in 1983, Dan Goodman says they set off a consumer frenzy unlike any toy fad seen before or since.
Goodman is the executive producer of Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids, a documentary narrated by Neil Patrick Harris that explores the history of the Cabbage Patch Kids and the brand’s hold on toy consumers at the time. It is now playing at select theatres.
“This was really the first time retail shopping for a toy turned violent and people left a Toys R
