![]() ![]() The doors of perception, however, are rigorously guarded. Cults usually hide their most peculiar practices BabyLand invites everyone in, and you can take as many pictures as you want. To an outsider, it's other-worldly and creepy. Other rooms are set aside for purchasers to sign "adoption papers" for their new doll. A glass-fronted Recovery Room allows prospective parents to see newborns measured and weighed (under the watchful gaze of a giant stork, for parents preferring less anatomical revelation). Blue and pink rooms separate babies by gender. There's a nursery filled with "Preemies" in incubators and "Lullaby Babies" in cribs, with piped-in sounds of cooing infants. Most carry one of the pudgy Kids as if giving them comfort or a burping. Staffers walk the floor dressed as doctors, nurses, and orderlies. It presents itself as a real hospital and the Kids as real babies. The new BabyLand facility is vastly larger.īabyLand II occupies a 70,000-square-foot building on 650 acres of land. For them, a visit to BabyLand General Hospital isn't an option it's a sacred pilgrimage.īabyLand is the place where Cabbage Patch Kids are "born." It's in the hometown of the Kids' creator, Xavier Roberts, who first opened BabyLand hospital in an old medical clinic. They still mesmerize a legion of loyal fans and collectors, now reaching its third generation. If you're a student of early 1980s culture, you know the Cabbage Patch Kids: fat-faced, open-armed, darlings of a doll-smitten America. ![]()
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