Because the country had fallen in love with the doll with the birth certificate, the group adopted the first Cabbage Patch doll with a death certificate. In an article in Musician magazine, the band’s keyboardist/leader, Terry Adams, said that the band was considering starting up a graveyard/funeral home where badly damaged Cabbage Patch Kids could be buried and laid to rest.Īnother link in the NRBQ chain comes from this 1985 news article:Ībout a year ago, displaying its typically perverse commercial instincts, NRBQ jumped on the Cabbage Patch doll bandwagon. The unique names given to the Cabbage patch dolls included Edwin Nicholas, Cora Delilah, William Jack, Rose Katniss, Emily Jane, Destiny Raine and Jared Benjamin. One of the (many) zany things they were doing back in 1984 was blowing up Cabbage Patch Kids onstage. The Cabbage Patch dolls hit the scene in the early 1980s and came complete with adoption papers for the new parents. The Coleco factory codes are OK, KT, IC, UT, P, PMI, SS, and WS.
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Look for the factory code which is 1, 2 or 3 letters, sometimes accompanied by a number. Overall great condition for a doll from 1985. The side body tag will let you know what factory and country of origin your Kid is from. This rare Coleco 1985 Cabbage Patch Kids Doll is still in the original box and never been opened. Sometimes it’s said a citation is issued to the bereaved kid for “child abuse”.Īn interesting theory about how death certificates came to be associated with this toy (and far in addition to the obvious one of “if a doll needs an adoption certificate for you to take one home, then it certainly requires a death certificate when it’s too banged up to keep any longer”) involves the rock band NRBQ (New/National Rhythm & Blues Quartet). Vintage 1985 Cabbage Patch Doll W/ Birth Certificate/Adoption Box-NIOB eBay.
In others, the broken-hearted child is billed for her doll’sįuneral. In some versions of the legend, the doll is returned in a little coffin suitable for burial. Cabbage Patch Kids, JoJo Siwa Doll, 14, Plush Toy, Includes Sparkly Dress, Vest with Patches, Giant Hair Bow with Birth Certificate, Birthdate, Birth Time 4. But that didn’t stop people from believing them. It wasn’t long before sad tales of cold-hearted death certificates received instead of refurbished much-loved dollies began to make the rounds. They were ripe to become fodder for an urban legend.