In 1981, at the height of Roberts’s success, he was approached by Atlanta designer and licensing agent, Roger L. The Little People were first sold at arts and crafts shows, then later at Babyland General Hospital, an old medical clinic that Roberts and his friends-turned-employees converted into a toy store, in Cleveland, Georgia. Roberts very cleverly modified the look of Nelson’s dolls, birth certificate and adoption papers sufficiently to get a copyright and told potential customers his Little People weren’t for sale, but could be "adopted" for prices ranging from sixty to as much as a thousand dollars. With the help of artist Debbie Moorehead, he hand-stitched dolls called "The Little People". They came with a birth certificate and adoption papers. Production history Creation and development Īccording to court records ( OAA v Toy Loft), Roberts, being a 21-year-old art student at a missionary school in North Georgia, discovered craft artist Martha Nelson’s Doll Babies. The characters and graphics created by Schlaifer and developed by his company, Schlaifer Nance & Company (SN&C), were used on all Cabbage Patch products, ranging from children’s apparel, bedding, and infants' wear to record albums and board games. The new doll brand set every toy industry sales record for three years running, and was one of the most popular lines of children’s licensed products in the 1980s and has become one of the longest-running doll franchises in the United States.
Schlaifer when he acquired the exclusive worldwide licensing rights in 1982.
The brand was renamed 'Cabbage Patch Kids' by Roger L. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured dolls sold by Xavier Roberts as collectibles and registered in the United States copyright office in 1978 as 'The Little People'. Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of one-of-a-kind cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982.
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