We didn’t know it but Cleveland GA is where those cabbage-patch dolls were created by Xavier Roberts some 30 years ago. The visitor center is called “Babyland General Hospital.” It was fun to look around as the place was full of little girls and their mommies spending lots of money.
This is one of those imaginative marketing concepts ever conceived. Those little girls and their mommies just don’t buy a doll, they adopt them. They get a birth certificate and they take the oath of adoption -- “promise with all your heart to be the best parent in the world.”
The gift shop is full of doll clothes and accessories for dolls, including strollers for the dolls. Some of these items cost as much as the dolls themselves.
The purchase price (adoption fee) for the dolls range from $20 to $185 and up for the old-fashioned “soft-face” dolls. Today they were selling like hot cakes.
The staff all wears blue scrubs. The presenter in the center court theater called himself a CPD (cabbage patch doctor) and then went on to demonstrate the “birthing” of a cabbage patch kid. Each “little newborn is a one-of-kind, hand-sculpted work of art, lovingly hand-stitched to birth.”
There are a lot of cabbage patches in these parts. Fresh local cabbage is available at every roadside stand. Maybe if we eat enough of it, we’ll get a bright cabbage-patch marketing idea.
There’s more. Check it out at http://www.cabbagepatchkids.com
This is one of those imaginative marketing concepts ever conceived. Those little girls and their mommies just don’t buy a doll, they adopt them. They get a birth certificate and they take the oath of adoption -- “promise with all your heart to be the best parent in the world.”
The gift shop is full of doll clothes and accessories for dolls, including strollers for the dolls. Some of these items cost as much as the dolls themselves.
The purchase price (adoption fee) for the dolls range from $20 to $185 and up for the old-fashioned “soft-face” dolls. Today they were selling like hot cakes.
The staff all wears blue scrubs. The presenter in the center court theater called himself a CPD (cabbage patch doctor) and then went on to demonstrate the “birthing” of a cabbage patch kid. Each “little newborn is a one-of-kind, hand-sculpted work of art, lovingly hand-stitched to birth.”
There are a lot of cabbage patches in these parts. Fresh local cabbage is available at every roadside stand. Maybe if we eat enough of it, we’ll get a bright cabbage-patch marketing idea.
There’s more. Check it out at http://www.cabbagepatchkids.com
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