The toy that birthed Black Friday chaos — and a very weird origin story.
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.
Direction
Jenks finds genuine suspense in toy industry bureaucracy.
Acting
Neil Patrick Harris narrates with perfect campy gravitas.
Editing
Archival footage cut like a heist thriller.
Director
Andrew Jenks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original 'Little People' handmade dolls signed by Roberts now sell for thousands, while mass-produced Cabbage Patch Kids flooded discount bins by the 90s.
This documentary reveals how the 1983 shortage essentially invented modern 'drop culture' and artificial scarcity marketing years before Supreme or Nike perfected it.
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