Quick Answer: Cabbage Patch Kids were soft-bodied dolls invented by Georgia art student Xavier Roberts in 1977 and mass-produced by Coleco starting in 1983. Each doll came with a unique name and adoption papers rather than a receipt — you didn’t buy one, you adopted it. In the fall of 1983, demand so far outstripped…
Stretch Armstrong is a gel-filled action figure first sold by Kenner in 1976. Made of latex rubber packed with gelled corn syrup, it stretches from 15 inches to over four feet before snapping back to shape. Kenner’s original run ended in 1980, but the toy has been revived multiple times — Hasbro owns the brand…
Pogs 90s ruled American schoolyards from 1993 to 1996 — how a Hawaiian juice cap became a $175 million craze, then collapsed in eighteen months.
In November 2024, somebody handed over $1.34 million for a 3.75-inch action figure that came free in the mail to Star Wars kids in 1979. It was a Boba Fett prototype — one of about 100 ever made before Kenner pulled the spring-loaded rocket for safety reasons. The buyer is anonymous, the seller had owned…
