Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1980s, like every decade before and after it, were filled with fads that captured the imaginations of people and resulted in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the '80s, Cabbage Patch Kids were the most coveted toys on the market. With their round plastic heads, floppy cloth bodies and ...

Christmas morning 1983: All the presents in the Fleming household had been unwrapped — or so I thought. But then a package that had been hidden behind the tree “caught” my Dad’s eye. It was for me.

Forty years ago, Americans kicking off the holiday shopping season decided to kick one another instead. It was a doll they were all after, and most would stop at nothing to get it. In Charleston, W.Va ...

Into every generation, a toy craze is born. And if it happens to be born in an Appalachian cabbage patch where a Bunnybee can sprinkle it with magic crystal dust, chances are that toy craze will never ...

Cabbage Patch Kids were the toy back in the 1980s. These pudgy baby dolls had humble beginnings but caused a frenzied shopping season so memorable, we’re still talking about it 40 years later. From ...

If you've been scouring the shelves of toy departments, looking for cabbage Patch dolls, you know that you just can't find them. You might find accessories like this stroller. But for the dolls, ...