Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story Of The Cabbage Patch Kids | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Andrew Jenks reveals the stranger than fiction yarn surrounding the original “parenthood” of one of the biggest fads | dG1fck5uQmRfTzgwLUU

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00:16 >> Three people were injured on a busy Black Friday.

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00:22 >> I got my dog.

00:24 I got my dog.

00:26 >> It wasn't always like this, but something happened in 1983.

00:31 And we were never going back.

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00:42 >> The intensity of this search for these dogs.

00:45 >> A fully grown woman taking a doll out of a child's hand.

00:48 >> They're trampled everybody.

00:50 >> The way in which people reacted in stores, this was new.

00:54 >> What do we tell our little girl Christmas morning?

00:56 What are we supposed to say?

00:58 You've been good, but Santa ran short?

01:00 >> This is a story about the worst parts of capitalism.

01:03 >> This nice lady created these dolls.

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01:09 >> And then this guy comes along and he steals the idea.

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01:15 >> I don't know whether it's true or not true.

01:17 >> Cabbage Patch Kids are original to Xavier.

01:20 >> I used to think that it was illegal to talk about this when I was little.

01:23 >> Anybody tells you, oh yeah, we knew this was going to happen, you institutionalize them.

01:26 >> I don't think there were any winners.

01:28 The winner was money.

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01:32 >> Is this an advertiser's dream come true or a nightmare?

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01:42 >> I was scared to death.

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