Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids

Release date: 2023-11-24
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Genres: Documentary
Doll hospitals, cabbage ‘births,’ a four-year legal battle over the origin of the idea and a billion-dollar toy brand that put the wheels of modern-day Black Friday shopping riots into motion. This is the unbelievable true story you never knew about the toy craze that started it all, the Cabbage Patch Kids.
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