Moms Fight for Cabbage Patch Kids

[@gooniesgirl1979]

My mom could pull off the huge sunglasses look.

[@stillaboveground2470]

I remember seeing on the news where people were getting into fi$tfights over those dolls! My mother worked for a store during the Cabbage Patch Kids craze. She was able to buy one before the store opened. She bought it for my grandmother, who had an extensive doll collection.

[@CoconutDaddy]

In the end, moms probably went home exhausted but victorious (or bruised, depending on how things went down in that aisle). The Cabbage Patch kids got delivered, kids got the toys, and we all got a lesson in how far some moms will go for a little plastic, yarn-haired, nightmare-inducing dol

[@williamburke7383]

I definitely remember the “Cabbage Patch” craze when it happened, but didn’t buy into it. Funny…you didn’t see people trying to kill each other over the STAR WARS toys, LOL!

[@3Storms]

I don't remember parents acting that way over any boy's toy, and only over girl stuff like Cabbage Patch Kids.

[@Sammy_Boy_Smith]

Those hatch A mals ( egg doll animal toy things) a few years back were going nuts over them then. And lil boys were wanting those too. But mainly girls I know what u meant tho ... There's no just for boys toy that mom's lined up for

[@theequalizer9154]

@@3Storms Before the popularity of on-line shopping, you should have gone to a Walmart Black Friday sale.

[@theequalizer9154]

I was hoping to see a cat fight. Darn!😂😂😂

[@paddric9346]

Imagine telling your boss, you need a couple days off for this. I saw a couple guys in line too. Did no one have a job?

[@werewolfantipaladin]

Oh God I remember this. My mother had taken me to the South Attleboro MA Zayre to buy some Colecovision games with money I had gotten for my birthday the previous day. We saw a ton of people but figured it was typical Christmas shoppers. We were wrong. The crowd was already unruly and the police were doing their best to control them. We were allowed into the store because we had no interest in the dolls. Well two of the stupidest store employees decided to wheel in a couple pallets of the things Total bedlam. The crowd surged forward. 12 year old me got separated and I was shoved aside and to the front of the store, my mother to the back. I had never seen anything like it. We had the flying dolls, screaming mothers, crying kids. Everything My mother and I eventually found one another and left. I never did get my games and we were both traumatized.

[@hediho-ry6rs]

Moms were going nuts to get those things then teddy ruxpin tickle me Elmo

[@gooniesgirl1979]

My mom was 34 that year. She got a few. She turned 75 last month.

[@raywallacefan7786]

Yeah, I was just thinking that all of the people interviewed are either retired or dead now.

[@jokebone1]

I remember the news about people all but having MMA matches at the K-Mart and Service Merchandise. Very entertaining!

[@jackkintsel7605]

Kiddie City Time Machine, Hell Yeah!!

[@jackkintsel7605]

Only problem is now days , that store name just sounds so very creepy

[@chi-townlegend1417]

It's one of the first hyped xmas toys that i remember. I was around 9 years old at that time. That was probably the year i got my Castle Grayskull. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

[@Sammy_Boy_Smith]

Same.

[@oldschooltommyim]

Bulldaggers

[@melissacooper8724]

I was 4 years old at the time of the Cabbage Patch Kids craze. I don't remember what I asked Santa for that year, but it wasn't the Cabbage Patch dolls! 😂

[@Who.Knew-The.Salt.MustFlow]

I remember... Marketing really did a number on these simpletons😂

[@johnbeechy]

the lesson for business retail is this. put the Item at the front door. let one to two people in at a time, 1 per person/ and no running to the back of the store. // attach a flyer on to each box of the item. first come, 1st get served. 1 per person. now r the days of the amazon delivery man. then some dude races to the Porch and steals the box.

[@Joshua-l7g]

Nancy Potts lol

[@rhettgenung1223]

This made my Christmas, Junkman! One of your very best 🎉 videos ever.

[@candacecherry2846]

I remember these my grandmother grate one for me

[@tperson8347]

I'm glad they didn't let them pick, because that would take ALL day. That would be so much chaos.

[@alexianemp]

I remember Kiddie City! It was in Philly. We had Kiddie World in Delaware.

[@f.frederickskitty2910]

I think I was 16 during this time. My boyfriend's mother and her friend came out to visit and her friend spent hours at local stores looking for one in vain. Boy was she bad tempered over that.

[@raywallacefan7786]

That woman with the big sunglasses was setting a good example for kids by smoking while waiting outside a toy store. I know nicotine patches weren't invented yet, but still ...

[@theequalizer9154]

Today, she'd probably be smoking a joint in front of the kids.

[@carbidejones5076]

My local Zayre in Wilkes-Barre was in the clip

[@thomasprice8019]

I remember this like yesterday people are were insane trying to buy these cpk dolls great video have a great week ahead 👍

[@PhilippeErnst-z2r]

Funny Video Junkman😂 i wish you and your Family wonderful Christmas Days ✨🎀🎄

[@NintendoSuperstar93]

Wow and I thought people fighting over Turboman in Jingle All the Way was bad, but at least he looked kinda cool, even have one still in box, not from ‘96, but from the rerelease by Funko and every Christmas, it is nestled safely under my tree.

[@psychodebergeracpictures]

I remember that craziness 😅😅 And, yeah I always thought those things were ug-lee😂 If EBay had existed back then, those things would have gone for a small fortune, people were so nut over those things.

[@ciscodeer9094]

That was crazy

[@StephandJoshMartin]

Where is the version without Larry the cable guy?

[@simseven4967]

Stanley cups are the new cabage patch…🤭😁😂

[@alexianemp]

Is this the end. or do I go in cirlces forever?

[@tperson8347]

I never had an issue with Cabbage Patch dolls, but I don't know why people were so crazy about them besides the hype. Everybody wants one, so everybody wants one. Same with the Tickle Me Elmo, what's the deal? 🤷‍♂️ I remember that craze. Cookie Monster's WAY better. Thanks for the video

[@funkyfreshbboy]

When I bought my ColecoVision it came with papers for a free doll my sister-in-law filled it out and got one for my nephew. Darin this. Tim Fountaine.