Cabbage Patch Kids & 1980s PVC figurines
Prepare for the nostalgia-fest
Right before I was born, there was a frenzy to buy Cabbage Patch Kid dolls in time for Christmas. My aunt and Baba managed to buy one downtown, en route to the cabbage patch1 where I was born.
Forty years later, I’m not nostalgic about my CPK doll. But I kept and still love the PVC figurine versions.
CPK Incorporated (I made up that name, the company kept changing) had a standard set of molds. The factory changed the colours to create multiple versions with the same mold style - e.g. aqua and teal overalls to red and blue overalls, in all “four” colours of hair (blonde, redhead, brunette, black hair).
A few of the figurines were Black, but they appear to be far more rare.
They sold for a dollar or two per my research2.
Sometimes you can even find them in mint condition, never removed from their cardboard and plastic prison:
However, I keep mine in a repurposed Lego bucket with their friends - Snugglebumms, Wrinkle Dogs, the pets that came with Strawberry Shortcake dolls, the lady and friends themselves, the Muppet babies from McDonalds that all of us seem to have, Bubblins, and one solitary See Wee3.
This is not to mention the Precious Places people, Mr. Men and Little Miss, Smurfs, Sweet Secrets4, Sesame Street, Disney, California Raisins, Garfields, and infinite more that have come and gone since the 80s.
ANYWAY. I could not find a list of all the colour varieties of CPK figurines online, so I tried to make one.
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My purple Sweet Secrets is long gone, but I did recently buy a sticker version.
Damn it now I have to go dig out the tote where I stash my Cabbage Patch and Strawberry Shortcake figurines. And then immediately hide them again from my children!
this is so nostalgic omg
these were at the bottom of every single toy bucket I played with as a child