just wondering
2006-08-09 05:19:50 · 19 answers · asked by NEOTEH 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Yes my grandmother spent weeks trying to get those dolls for me and my sister. Now I don't even know where it is.
2006-08-09 07:57:06 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Pants 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
While I'm not usually one to vouch for the sanity of any of my relatives, becoming crazed over the latest craze is not something that's afflicted any of my relatives, so... No. Nobody in my family was involved in the Cabbage Patch, Beanie Baby, Tickle Me Elmo, various and sundry Video Game Console, etc Riots that have taken place over the years.
2006-08-09 12:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by Mel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - my uncle got one for me for my birthday somehow.
Little did I know that later in the year, Cabbage Patch Kids would headline in the newspaper as having strangled their owners in their sleep.
Okay, it was in the Weekly World News, not a real newspaper, but that can still scare the crap out of a seven-year-old!
The dolls lived in my parent's room after that.
If you think about it, Those are some creepy looking dolls!
2006-08-10 16:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Itwasnt actually a riot but I remember my 2 year old wanted one and i couldnt find one anywhere, i finally was in a furniture store and if you spent $300 on furniture they let you buy a doll for another $100 so I went home buying bunkbeds for the girls and my daughter got the doll she wanted and on christmas night she took a permanent marker and colored the face in and that was the end of the doll. I was mad back then but now its one of those memories I can laugh about.
2006-08-09 14:59:04 · answer #4 · answered by michele c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about a riot but I know my aunt and someone else struggled over a cabbage patch kid that they both wanted. A decade later she did the same thing over Tickle Me Elmo.
2006-08-09 12:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by Lex 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes!! I was working for a retail store at the time so I got it first-hand. Thank God I could put the ones I wanted back when they came in so I didn't have to fight the mob.
Yeah I know, I cheated but I had to work and couldn't go buy them while on the clock when they came in and I had a 3 year old step daughter that I had to get something for cause no one else had bought her the ONE thing she had asked for that year.
2006-08-10 14:59:08 · answer #6 · answered by Big-Sister 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that seemed so long ago but I remember. I was 16 at the time and had no interest in them until four years later when I was buying them for my little girl. True, not very good looking dolls.
2006-08-09 12:27:08 · answer #7 · answered by BRITCOURT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I remember. I was 5 in 1983 and those dolls were very desirable. I still have mine (in the attic) because my mom had to fight for them at the local K-Mart. It was great! Looking back those dolls were really ugly.
2006-08-09 14:52:22 · answer #8 · answered by TropicalSun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Two people were killed and about 17 injured. But we got one of those dolls!!!!
I think it's in the back of the garage somewhere, under some dusty rags...
2006-08-09 12:26:25 · answer #9 · answered by bodinibold 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah my mother was buying one for me. Her name was Jennifer Marion and I actually visited Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia with her(doll). JM had surgery there, it was strictly cosmetic, I had freckles added to her for $3.00. I remember having to hide her until my mother worked up the nerve to tell my father that she had spent $125 for it.
2006-08-09 12:27:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they weren't. When I got pregnant, my husband told both families-no post nuclear mutant dolls in the house.
2006-08-09 17:45:35 · answer #11 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋