If you’re prone to keeping your things from childhood, you might want to take a look in your attic or garage to see if there’s a Cabbage Patch Kid lurking around. If there is, you could be sitting on a goldmine, with some original Cabbage Patch dolls from the 1980s selling for US$2,000 or more.
How much are original Cabbage Patch dolls worth?
The value of Cabbage Patch dolls can range from $14 to $2000 or more. In fact, when we checked eBay’s international listings there were some selling for over US$5000, including a 1983 doll in its original box. There were also 17 people watching it, which means eBay included a “People want this” note.
While that price might seem high, there’s a history of these dolls selling for a lot of money. In April 2021, for example, a 1985 Cabbage Doll called Teresa Ann sold on eBay for US$2000. At the time, that works out to around $2570 Australian dollars.
The green-eyed cutie with a dimple in her left cheek still had the signature of creator Xavier Roberts on her bottom, which may have helped her fetch such a grand price.
Dolls with adoption papers are worth more
The original dolls sold for RRP US$30 in the ’80s but today, some Cabbage Patch dolls with birth certificates and adoption papers can be sold for hundreds of dollars.
For example, one 1986 Cabbage Patch doll called Anna Greta with double popcorn red hair, adoption papers and a pacifier sold for US$810 in April 2021.
A Cabbage Patch doll with original features is also worth more
The very first Cabbage Patch Kids (called Little People) had soft bodies and large thumbs. Later versions had plastic bodies and regular sized digits.
Older dolls also had woollen hair as opposed to the synthetic strands on newer versions. And not all of them are worth hundreds of dollars but some definitely are.
What price will your Cabbage Patch Kid fetch?
Cabbage Patch creator Xavier Roberts copyrighted his design in 1976 and sold the rights to company Giant Coleco in 1982. Dolls that were made prior to the Coleco handover are worth the most.
Little Tilly Kay, a 1979 pre-Cabbage Patch Little People Original Doll sold for US$550 in March 2021.
These prices are incredible when you consider that, according to cabbagepatchkids.com, almost 3 million dolls were sold by the end of 1983, which made it “the most successful new doll introduction in the history of the toy industry” at the time.
Cabbage Patch kids live on
As well as eBay, the dolls have previously been sold at auctions such as McLaren auction in Oregon, US. They auctioned a blonde haired, blue eyed girl and raised US$475 in January 2018.
Needless to say, the world loves a Cabbage Patch Kid.
So is yours worth a fortune? You’ll have to sell it to find out.
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