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

November. 24,2023

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Toy Black Friday Cabbage Patch

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Neil Patrick Harris as Narrator (voice)

Connie Chung as Self – Interviewee

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