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The Infamous Cabbage Patch Kid Riots of 1983

Everything 80s

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The History of the Cabbage Patch Kids

Cabbage Patch Kids are still being produced by Wicked Cool Toys, which I assume is based out of Boston. They're still huge going into 1984 and even into 1985. By the end of 1985, they'd still made $600 million. The popularity would really drop off after that. In 1986, they would earn around just maybe $250 million. That's still a huge amount of money during this gold-naved age of toys.

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