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Yes those adoptable Cabbage Patch Kids are back again...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Dec12.html
Toy Story, Part 2
Cabbage Patch Kids Have Familiar Feel
Monday, December 13, 2004; Page C14
Pam Farkas has adopted 300 children. The oldest is 20, the youngest is a few
months old, and none is more than two feet tall.
They're Cabbage Patch Kids and they're baaaack -- big time.
The first CPKs, as they are known in toy circles, were born in 1983. Their
poofy bodies and chubby cheeks made them instant gotta-have-its. Some adults
even got scolded for scuffling at toy stores in hopes of snagging one.
More than 20 million CPKs have come out of the patch to be adopted, not
bought. (Adoption is a legal process in which adults agree to raise someone
else's child as their own.) A CPK adoption costs about the same today as in
1983 -- $29.99. There's nothing fancy about the dolls: no batteries, no
computer chips, no ability to eat or cry -- just the adoption papers for
each doll.
One modern twist is that CPK parents now can use the Internet to download
the papers and change their kid's name. And there's more diversity,
including black and Latino dolls "to better reflect the world around us,"
said Al Kahn of 4 Kids Entertainment, which helped give the dolls new life.
No two Cabbage Patch offspring are the same. "They literally are all unique,
whether it is the addition or removal of a dimple or . . . a hair color,"
Kahn said.
Farkas, who is 49, bought her first CPK "for my daughter when she was 13.
She is 33 now" and lets her mom baby-sit the doll. Farkas keeps it -- and
her 299 other CPKs -- on floor-to-ceiling shelves in her home in Wisconsin.
"We really are one big happy family. And for me, the attachment . . . was
that they really looked like they needed care."
Some Cabbage Patchers do just fine on their own. In 1985 a doll named
Christopher Xavier flew on the space shuttle, the first CPK in space! And in
1992 some of the kids became official U.S. mascots at the Olympic Games in
Barcelona, Spain.
More important than this celebrity stuff, said Jay Foreman of doll-maker
Play Along toys, Cabbage Patch Kids have helped make adoption a normal part
of life. And, he said, because children pledge to take good care of the
dolls, they get "a little extra sense of responsibility."
-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
KL
__________________________
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Dec12.html
Toy Story, Part 2
Cabbage Patch Kids Have Familiar Feel
Monday, December 13, 2004; Page C14
Pam Farkas has adopted 300 children. The oldest is 20, the youngest is a few
months old, and none is more than two feet tall.
They're Cabbage Patch Kids and they're baaaack -- big time.
The first CPKs, as they are known in toy circles, were born in 1983. Their
poofy bodies and chubby cheeks made them instant gotta-have-its. Some adults
even got scolded for scuffling at toy stores in hopes of snagging one.
More than 20 million CPKs have come out of the patch to be adopted, not
bought. (Adoption is a legal process in which adults agree to raise someone
else's child as their own.) A CPK adoption costs about the same today as in
1983 -- $29.99. There's nothing fancy about the dolls: no batteries, no
computer chips, no ability to eat or cry -- just the adoption papers for
each doll.
One modern twist is that CPK parents now can use the Internet to download
the papers and change their kid's name. And there's more diversity,
including black and Latino dolls "to better reflect the world around us,"
said Al Kahn of 4 Kids Entertainment, which helped give the dolls new life.
No two Cabbage Patch offspring are the same. "They literally are all unique,
whether it is the addition or removal of a dimple or . . . a hair color,"
Kahn said.
Farkas, who is 49, bought her first CPK "for my daughter when she was 13.
She is 33 now" and lets her mom baby-sit the doll. Farkas keeps it -- and
her 299 other CPKs -- on floor-to-ceiling shelves in her home in Wisconsin.
"We really are one big happy family. And for me, the attachment . . . was
that they really looked like they needed care."
Some Cabbage Patchers do just fine on their own. In 1985 a doll named
Christopher Xavier flew on the space shuttle, the first CPK in space! And in
1992 some of the kids became official U.S. mascots at the Olympic Games in
Barcelona, Spain.
More important than this celebrity stuff, said Jay Foreman of doll-maker
Play Along toys, Cabbage Patch Kids have helped make adoption a normal part
of life. And, he said, because children pledge to take good care of the
dolls, they get "a little extra sense of responsibility."
-- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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