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Subject: Re: The Cabbage Patch Caper?
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 15:10:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 15:10:22 1983
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The Cabbage Patch Doll was not hyped on the Saturday morning
shows, it has all been a result of tv and newspaper overreaction
to a story.  The whole thing started about 8 years ago when the
originator of the dolls started making them in an Appalachian
Folk Art Workshop.  The dolls went over fairly well so he and
several of his friends bought an abandond(sp) medical arts
clinic(or vet Hospital) and started making the dolls.  The tv
program "Real People" featured the "factory" about two years ago.

Coleco decided to get into the business and bought a license
to produce the dolls.  Coleco has not had to advertise the
little rascals as the media has done it all for them.  At a
200,000 per week rate of manufacture, the original group is
really rolling in the dough.  I have seen them go as high as
60.00 per doll just this weekend at Englishtown, N. J..

Put the blame on the whole sordid mess where it belongs folks,
the media and parents so hyper about what is the latest that
they will go to any length to get their kids the doll.  Oh
well, tis the season and all that.  The Scandanavians have
an expression for the season, The Tunnel.  That is, with the
onset of winter, they go into that long dark tunnel until
the light returns in the spring and people do strange things
while they are in the tunnel.  I guess we are in the tunnel.