Cabbage Patch Kids Movie Commissioned For Small Screen

It?s been a while, but the Cabbage Patch Kids (CPK) are once again ready for their close-up! Kids of the ?80s are rejoicing (or groining, depending on who you ask?.) over Tuesday?s announcement that Paramount Pictures producer Galen Walker has obtained the rights to turn one of the most popular children?s toys of the decade of velcro and big hair into an animated made-for-TV movie.

CPK creator Xavier Roberts signed off on the deal this week, Entertainment Weekly has learned, paving the way for the iconic toys to return to the tube for the chubby, dimpled-cheeked, yarn-haired dolls since their holiday show, which aired to rave reviews in Dec. 1985.

The Cabbage Patch franchise, which allowed boys and girls to adopt an orphaned tot in the former of a doll, were first introduced to the market in 1978. Marketing under the tagline, ?They?re each one of a kind,? every doll came with its own ?pretend? birth certificate. (Trust us, it was much cooler than it sounds!) The inspiration behind 1987?s popular Garbage Pail Kids trading card collection set off one of the biggest Christmas toy crazes Americans had ever seen when the dolls went flying off shelves all over the nation in the winter of 1983.

Kids wouldn?t be that crazy about a doll again until Tickle-Me Elmo came chuckling along in 1996. Ironically, that?s the same year that then-CPK owner Mattel recalled Cabbage Patch Kids Snacktime Kids, dolls which were designed to ?eat? plastic snacks. Each doll came equipped with one-way metal rollers fitted behind rubber lips, which would transport the plastic food into a backpack. The mechanism was triggered simply by any object being placed in the lips. The line was voluntarily withdrawn following incidents involving children?s fingers or hair being gobbled up by the dolls.


     


Source: http://www.popcrunch.com/cabbage-patch-kids-tv-movie/

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