My aunt is at :55 sec. She got one of those for my cousin and still has it in the box, she got punched in the face and almost mugged like 5 minutes after getting the doll and wouldn't let my cousin open it because since she got beat up over a doll she made sure that she kept it to remind what her mom had to go thru to make her daughter happy.
Yeah and also this can be good for a reaction video about this and the doll itself. May want to tell the RU-vid Reaction videos on this as well really blows peoples minds.
My parents both worked at Babyland for Xavier Roberts when all this started. They told me wild stories about how crazy people got over these babies. Our house was overrun with Cabbbage Patch dolls when I was a kid.
Honestly the way the guy behind the counter was throwing them like footballs was asking for a fight to break out. There had to be a better way then what he was doing.
It was the 1980's before there was online shopping and smartphones also this can be good for a reaction video which you may want to tell people about this as well.
Before Christmas 1983 in NJ, my mom shopped at Caldor department store in Willingboro NJ on Route 130. She witnessed several people trying to buy Cabbage Patch Kids. There was shoving, but no serious violence. However, some guy stole a hair dryer that was in her cart and they got in a verbal argument. She threatened to get the store manager and got her hair dryer back. How bizarre! If she had a Cabbage Patch Doll in her cart, forget it! She would have had to fight off tons of desperate parents and most likely get injured. Those dolls were not worth the violence.
Ava Bender Nobody has Bill on their birth certificate but ok... I was just going by what the news report said in any case if that name is wrong take it up with them not me.
TheGlitchGuy957 It pissed me off because I was one of those kid on Christmas morning who didn't get one because my mom couldn't find one and here I am seeing this as an adult and some bitch had one who didn;t even really want it.
TheGlitchGuy957 What is even more sad is that I went to school after Christmas break and all my friends had CPK's and I didn't and they told me Santa Claus must not love me because I didn't get one and they all did. Now I'm an adult who collects them. lol Making up for lost time.
It never occurred to me to ask my parents for anything. Even though they were upwardly mobile middle class people, it never dawned on me that they would get something just because I wanted it. They just weren't the type. And when I'm around some Christmas where the kids just tear into packages, instead of waiting their turn for each one, I find it as bizarre as this video. I asked a Santa for a little toy soldier when I was around five. Since I never mentioned it to my folks, guess what?
Thank God I wasn't interested in Cabbage Patch kids! I was 11 and too old for these. And I was too interested in Atari games, die-cast cars, scratch-and-Sniff stickers, and Star Wars toys in 1983, so these were on my Christmas list.
lol i love the Cabbage patch dolls and great to see them still going strong today i got all my cuzzys vintage 80s dolls including 1 that my aunt had to fight for
Did this take place during the post-Thanksgiving Day sales? Ironic. So much for people expressing goodwill, thinking of others, and celebrating gratitude for what they have. Before I'm accused of making fun of Americans, similar behavior has happened in my country. The biggest shopping day of the year is around December 26-27. This is when stores have their post-Christmas stocktake sales. In 1992, way before the days of online shopping and 'click and collect', people would wait outside the store in large numbers for the store to open. They would then dash madly to buy the item that they wanted. Some got violent. The crowds got out of hand, even with security guards to control them. One shopper even lost some fingers in a doorway. People got trampled on.
1:16, yep, this matches my parents' story on how they managed to get one of these suckers. Why they bought one, I don't have the slightest idea. My sister was two years old, I was a year old.
I was talking about this in another video chat, I was wondering why the guy waving the bat was so vivid in my mind... Wilkes-Barre is where my parents drove to get it. My parents wanted on for my sister. NOTE: They weren't at this store when this happened, I think the way they got it was through a family members friend. We lived in NJ and my parents drove 4+ hours to pick it up from Wilkes-Barre.
They forgot to mention the "adoption papers", which was why every Yuppie in the nation had to have one, so their own adopted kids would feel "accepted". I am not making this up either, I knew a lot of them back then and this was their parental psychology. The economy was very good at the time, and those people had no shame. Money and material items were what mattered most to them! By the way, these are the same baby-boomers that are now the lawmakers, judges, and politicians that have put this country in the social and economic toilet, just in case your wondering where they disappeared to.
Do kids today still play with dolls? Well, I sure hope so. But it seems like most kids are into electronics these days. It’s kind of sad to see. I was a kid during the 80s & 90s.
Aviva Kirsten I don’t think the Build-a-Bear madness was all that mad. This was parents clambering over a new toy and there were many fights, attempted muggings, injuries, etc. BaB offered a really good sale and did not anticipate the turn out. Some said there were safety concerns but I don’t think there were actual safety issues. For the most part people waited patiently in line, but stores were not prepared and did not have enough supplies to accommodate all. www.google.com/amp/s/blog.timesunion.com/kristi/2018/07/15/what-the-build-a-bear-insanity-teaches-us-about-children/amp/ www.inc.com/peter-economy/build-a-bear-workshop-just-did-something-so-crazy-they-had-to-shut-it-down-almost-immediately-yes-customers-werent-happy.html Shame really. It was the only way a lot of lower income families could afford them.
I had a few (born in 89) so I was kind of a 90s kid. I didn't really like them. I still have 5 of them b/c mom won't throw them out! She thinks they'll someday be worth something...anyways Barbie was the sh#t back in the 90s. Cabbage Patch dolls couldn't hold a candle to Barbie. And yes, I have tons of Barbies that my mom has saved too. :P
