From 1983: Demand for Cabbage Patch Kids causes chaos in stores across America

[@hickory5467]

Not all heroes wear a cape, some wave a bat and shout at customers

[@mysocalledknife07]

😂😂😂

[@mrgone19871]

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.

[@davidlewis5189]

AmericaFirst_87 It should be kept as a family heirloom...

[@068dirtboy]

@OJ McClanahan no, they lost all there value like bennie babies

[@royalpemberton8724]

Nowadays if you went to something like that somebody would have a gun and if someone was about to grab their doll from them they'd get shot....

[@thetravelingsteampunkkitty534]

NBO? Damn I say put it up in eBay

[@lambgaming1347]

WOW :O

[@kenmograd2009]

This craze was the inspiration for the 1996 Christmas action-comedy film “Jingle All the Way,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad.

[@kimberlyblackwell3324]

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.

[@teresapflaumer5717]

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.

[@BerniceBowling]

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.

[@kellychuang8373]

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.

[@teresapflaumer5717]

It looked like the zookeeper throwing raw meat in the lions den!

[@Ritsukaberry]

Lmao at the cops throwing the boxes of cabbage patch at the animals.

[@mariamayub212]

OMG I never had one of these growing up but it's so interesting to see this footage now! 😮😮😮

[@ryacus]

"The store manager, William Shigo, armed himself with a baseball bat. ''This is my life that's in danger,'' he said from behind a protective counter."

[@ryacus]

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.

[@ryacus]

I heard it got pretty crazy over the tickle me elmo in the 90's as well, the hot toy this year is called Hatchimals.

[@rexrabbiteer]

@@ryacus beanie babys and furby were bigger

[@user-og9lu6lf6d]

​@rexrabbiteer Nope. Neither of those caused riots at stores like Tickle Me Elmo did.

[@patluvsvettes]

FOMO. That's why these dolls were so popular! That also why I saw grown adults lined up out the door at McDonald's back in 1997 to get Beanie Babies.

[@teresapflaumer5717]

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.

[@sclogse1]

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?

[@crashwatson7844]

I get it what your saying ❤

[@pumpkinguts308]

I had one of these when I was little like around 2006 and they had this baby powder smell that always crosses my mind when I see CPK

[@tayllor2900]

The old lady at the end....who is probably dead now....annoyed me by saying she hates their faces and does not like them but she wants one. Whatever.

[@Ritsukaberry]

Lol...

[@TheGlitchGuy957]

+Taylor Anstrom Yeah, that was weird. If she doesn't like them then why does she want one?...

[@tayllor2900]

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]

+Taylor Anstrom That's sad. :(

[@tayllor2900]

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.

[@scottmcphee2076]

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.

[@The_whimsickal_artist]

Then tickel me elmo😅 smh...i worked wt toys r us during tickel me Elmo craz..🤦🏻

[@deadslash736]

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.

[@gravesclayton3604]

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.

[@DreamDancer82]

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.

[@ryanscarola]

I remember hearing this on my mom's car radio when she picked me up from elementary school.

[@HdefgvvfRydgggg-tb9tu]

They shoud call it cabbage patch riot

[@lailaplaysdbd4004]

Dang lol. My grandmom can confirm the craze. She lined up to get one for my mom when she was little. ☺️

[@a.b.c.x.y.z.2967]

Did your grandmom get it? 🔍

[@Endermanator]

Yes she got one! @a.b.c.x.y.z.2967

[@grapeape9098]

I was 11 in '83. and have absolutely no idea why people wanted these things.

[@anne123480]

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

[@davids.7567]

At least online shopping gives us a chance to shop for what we want/need when the brick and mortar stores don't have the item...

[@JeffReysofficial]

Today people are crazed for the Popeye's chicken sandwiches. Humans never change.

[@fiji9793]

Shows the world been like this

[@allyouget4960]

We still have our male cabbage patch and it has a attached ding ding 🥒 why did they make these folks with private parts🤷

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

I miss those days! fights in the stores was the best!

[@trinarichardson6682]

There still here it's called "Black Friday"😏

[@Wa3ypx]

Black Friday isn't fun any more. My wife saw a woman get beat with a flat screen tv years back.

[@stanford-nf4jk]

My mom worked at a toy store for the holiday season that year. She saw a man (who acquired his doll fair and square from an employee) be tripped and have it taken from him. He also broke his arm pretty badly in the fall!

[@Emperormonkeman]

Bro has a baseball bat 💀

[@raidramon0]

I feel like I saw this before. Now where was it? Oh, yes. At the end of South Park's Console War trilogy.

[@DeepScreenAnalysis]

It’s like watching people on the Titanic!

[@brianwilliams4832]

That poor manager lol

[@Lanae8199]

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.

[@dunktheball]

My cousin, who's like 2 or 3, does a bowling game on a phone and also walks around saying "ipad!". lol.

[@johnathanrice4207]

I want a fucking cabbage patch kids dolls

[@stratman2348]

I was 7 when this happened, I couldn’t stand those things, the jingle to the commercials annoyed the hell out of me.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

It's only one doll responsible this time. War, economy, celebrities, politicians, NGO...the list goes on.

[@kingruhul785]

1983 to 2022 the years are just getting mad and mad every year.

[@snakes3425]

So where were the cops in all this

[@dre12337]

they sure weren t shooting people for them were they

[@mrgone19871]

They were monitoring the black dolls matter riots going on outside the doors of the stores.

[@jessicastiner2123]

I think they were waiting for the SWAT team just in case things got Hairy 😱😱😱😱

[@michaeldavidson8971]

It was a different world, we didn’t rely on cops to resolve every little situation, there were no cops in the schools back then.

[@mercuryfever392]

Did that man actually pull that stupid doll out of a cabbage patch? That is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.

[@anne123480]

those sticker tattoo things at 0.14 with the star and rainbow looks a bit like modern Rainbow Dashs cutie mark lol

[@lamar1990lg]

And Tommy was talking about Jordans lol

[@CC-vw1nd]

It wasn’t the brain child of Xaxier Roberts, it was Martha Nelson Thomas’s. He stole the idea from her when she wouldn’t mass produce for him to sell her dolls.

[@carolynlong9148]

This doll crazy is now worth a lot of 💰.

[@wiishopchannel0175]

This like when amiibo came out in 2014

[@francinecine2626]

Vende no brasil

[@kafei44]

That's how parents make their daughters become consumers

[@snapdragon6601]

Those adults should be ashamed of themselves. 😆

[@hannahlynn8028]

I don't like their faces, but i want one. lol. what, why?

[@Keviva007]

The Build-a-Bear madness of the 80s.

[@pollysshore2539]

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.

[@ryacus]

He should have said get the fuck back.

[@uwtitanfan]

F-bomb at 0:02

[@beverlysw1866]

i know he didn't bring out the bat

[@ns2443]

Yikes! I had one, and my sisiter had one, but I don't remember that face on them! I guess we were too brainwashed. This clip was funny.

[@ns2443]

taledarkside lol, no. I was brainwashed by all the hype, obviously, like all the other girls.

[@iicapnjazzii6779]

Childs play was inspired by these events

[@xZippy]

Humanity broke over a fucking doll. I hope all the hostile people part of this feel bad forever.

[@gedaag6139]

No wonder were all so fucked up

[@andrewking8174]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@raccoonmotion5681]

00:55

[@DarlingStudent]

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

[@claudiabruce6375]

Love it

[@my2cupcakes]

Good times lol😂😂

[@OwenConcorde]

We need Chadtronic to see this.

[@uglypeaches6306]

the fidget spinners of the 80s

[@GodWeenSatan]

More like stupid funko pops

[@bryanthompson5374]

Crystalbird3207: usa threat ussr in cold war in 1990

[@julissafernandez3374]

Came here for the issa amd laura dern hbo series

[@Cansigirlbb]

The first dolls were ugly still are ... my mom paid $125 for my redhead! Those were cute