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It was, without question, the saddest trailer in the state of Maryland.
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While filming with the Proseys, I spent some time in a trailer on their property that they've packed with hundreds of other Cabbage Patch Kids (which you can see in the photo above) that had been given to them either by collectors who had been forced to get rid of their dolls when moving into nursing homes, or by the surviving partners of collectors who had died. The Cabbage Patch Kids fans who do still exist seem to be slowly disappearing. It's the most iconic toy of the 80s, I mean, so…" she added, before trailing off. "I'm trying to get someone to take the collection and open up a museum sort of like we did. "We're trying to price it at a price where somebody might be able to take it and do what we did." "We didn't get into this to make money," she said. I asked Pat if she would be willing to come down on the price if it meant keeping the dolls together, and she told me that's the exact reason the collection is listed at such a reduced price already. It's hard to imagine who would buy the Proseys' collection. The Proseys with their collection of unwanted Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.
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Pat said that, to this day, she hasn't heard from anyone at Original Appalachian Artworks-a silence she finds especially bothersome, given how much free publicity she and Joe have given the company on TV and in print over the years. "I think they care more about the bottom dollar than they do the collector." People at the company who she had previously been in regular contact with completely cut off all contact, she told me. Pat felt that, because she wasn't giving Original Appalachian Artworks any more money, the company no longer cared about her. Read: This Kid Rented Out a Theater and Recreated an Entire Lady Gaga Concert "When we stopped going to conventions and didn't pay our dues, no one in that organization acknowledged that we weren't even a part of Cabbage Patch. It was also the first year they hadn't paid their annual dues for membership to the Cabbage Patch Kids Collectors Club.īecause she and Joe had been such a huge part of the Cabbage Patch Kids scene, Pat said she expected to hear from someone at Original Appalachian Artworks asking about their absence. It was the first time in 20 years that they hadn't attended the meet-up. Worried that they wouldn't be able to resist the temptation of buying more "kids," Pat and Joe decided against going to the annual collector's meetup that Original Appalachian Artworks holds in Georgia. The cracks in their love for the company and its products first started to appear in 2012, when the Proseys ran out of room for their collection, and decided against building an extension to their museum (which they'd already extended a few years earlier). The decision to ditch their collection is perhaps made slightly easier by the fact that, in recent years, the Proseys have become disillusioned with Original Appalachian Artworks, the company that makes Cabbage Patch Kids. Pat and Joe with Cabbage Patch Kids "creator" Xavier Roberts (left) and a Klingon Cabbage Patch Kid (right) Like many people with an extreme obsession, whether it's sports, or celebrities, or games, the Proseys' obsession with Cabbage Patch Kids seemed to be more about the friendships and experiences they've had as a result of their collection, rather than the actual objects themselves. They're just a normal couple who are really into their hobby. The reality of Pat and Joe is much more boring. Just not raise-a-doll-as-though-it's-a-real-child crazy. They're definitely spend-$1 million-on-dolls crazy. By pretending to be weirder than they are, they were able to get in on the joke. I got the impression that the Proseys were willing to play up their craziness because it gave them control over it.
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Read: This Guy's Trying to Collect Every Single Copy of the Movie 'Speed' on VHS In previous media appearances, they explained, they'd done things to seem crazier for the cameras, at the insistence of producers-like the time they appeared on a television show pretending to have raised a Cabbage Patch Kid named Kevin as though he were an actual child (something they assured me was not actually true). Before traveling to Maryland for the documentary, the couple told me over the phone that they would be willing to act however we'd like them to for the piece. While filming the Proseys, it became clear that they were not as insane as they appeared on television. A Cabbage Patch Kid for the Confederacy, one of the more than 5,000 dolls included in the Proseys' collection.