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“There was always that guy, that person who would be there with his lawn chair in front of the Best Buy, you know, three days early, a week early, to get that super cheap big-screen TV."

Xavier Roberts, an artist from rural Georgia, created Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1970s, which then caused a consumer frenzy during the Christmas shopping season in 1983.

Two families squared off in the ‘80s, competing over the best Christmas light display. One family’s work was so impressive the other moved out of state.

A look back at local news from years past.

“There was always that guy, that person who would be there with his lawn chair in front of the Best Buy, you know, three days early, a week early, to get that super cheap big-screen TV."

The NERF football is a toy many kids have played with, it was just inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, but did you know it was invented in Minnesota?

The NERF football is a toy many kids have played with, it was just inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, but did you know it was invented in Minnesota?

The days of parents stampeding through toy stores on Black Friday, elbowing one another to grab Cabbage Patch Kids, are long gone thanks to the advent of online shopping and a longer holiday shopping season. But Black Friday is far from dead. This year, crowds of shoppers headed to Chicago area malls and stores Black Friday morning, kicking off what’s expected to be a record-setting — if more ...

The NERF football is a toy many kids have played with, it was just inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, but did you know it was invented in Minnesota?

While Black Friday may no longer look like the crowd-filled, in-person mayhem that it was just decades ago, the holiday sales event is still slated to attract millions of consumers.