American Girl Doll News

American Girl just posted on Instagram that their new release - including Julie’s new stuff - is TOMORROW!!!

Today is Julie’s birthday! She was born this day in 1966, making her 58.

American Girl just revealed 2 new outfits for Julie - the Totally 70’s School Outfit and Groovy Summer Skating Outfit!

Here is Molly's collection from her re-release in 2022! I'll ask you all this again - who should be Doll of the Month next month? By the way, I'm nearly free from finals! Only have a few more tests and one more assignment to do, and then it will be summer and I'll have all the time in the world to blog about dolls!

Sorry for my relative abscence here on AGDN. I feel really bad, because I try to post as consistently as possible, but it’s finals season at college and it’s been really overwhelming. But enough about that - I have news about American Girl’s next release! I don’t have an exact date, but Julie’s new journal has been confirmed to launch on May 7, meaning the release will be sometime around there. What’s expected to launch with it are the new birthday outfits, as well as the new Little Bitty Baby items. Maybe some historical items too, and stuff for Lila! What do you all think? Again, I’m sorry for my abscence!

American Girl is having a Berry member-exclusive shopping event at American Girl stores on June 2 for 90 minutes before the store opens. At this exclusive event, there will be: AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK AT NEW ARRIVALS A $50 E-CERTIFICATE WHEN YOU SPEND $250+* 3X POINTS ON PURCHASES** 50 BONUS POINTS FOR ATTENDING** PRIZES***, TREATS, AND A GOODIE BAG† PERSONALIZED ASSISTANCE FROM DEDICATED ASSOCIATES AND MORE! Reservations can be made by Berry members for $10 a person.

Here is some of Molly's collection from the Pleasant Company days! Who should be the Doll of the Month next month?

Today is Molly's birthday! She was born this day in 1934, making her 90.

More of American Girl's next release was revealed online by @amcangrl on Instagram - a new blond Little Bitty Baby and a bath set.

Today is Felicity's birthday! She was born on this day in 1765, making her 259 today.

From today until April 22, American Girl is having $25 off purchases $150 or more for Earth Day! AG Rewards members get triple points on purchases, too.

Hey guys! Sorry for the post so late at night - I’m sure most of you guys won’t be seeing this until the morning tomorrow, but I figured I’d post anyway. I was thinking about some of the false rumors I have heard about dolls that American Girl has released, only for them to NOT be true when the doll actually came out. Usually, the rumors for the historical dolls are pretty spot-on, but with the Girls of the Year, rumors are more commonly wrong. Here’s a few Girl of the Year rumors that turned out to be wrong: Lanie has a connection to Ethiopia. Girl of the Year 2010 Lanie’s author, Jane Kurtz, lived with her parents in Ethiopia from when she was 2 years old to when she was in her 20s, so some AG fans suspected Lanie would have a connection to Ethiopia or another African country. This proved to be the opposite when it came to Lanie - Lanie’s stories were all about finding the adventure in her own backyard! Saige, Grace and Lea are going to be dolls of color. For three different reasons, Saige, Grace and Lea were initially rumored to be dolls of color - all stemming from their movies. Starting with Saige, Girl of the Year 2013, New Mexico, where it leaked she was going to be from due to her movie being shot there. New Mexico has a high Hispanic/Latine population, so there were theories Saige was going to be Latina, but that proved not to be the case, as Saige is a white redhead. Then, two years later, when they were filming Grace (Girl of the Year 2015)’s movie in 2014, pictures leaked of Olivia Rodrigo, who played Grace, on set with the girls who played Maddy and Ella. Her exact ethnicity couldn’t be determined from the picture (Olivia is mixed race, half-white and half-Filipino), but I suspected Grace to have the same skin tone as Olivia - and then, I was wrong. Lastly, the casting call for Lea’s movie in 2015 (for release in 2016) asked specifically for girls of mixed heritage to apply, and the mini doll that leaked of her around the same time had darker skin than the actual Lea doll, so we assumed she would be mixed. She technically was mixed - but we weren’t expecting only 1/8th Brazilian. Luckily, we finally got 2 dolls of color to be Girl of the Year after that - Gabriela and Luciana - and then got Corinne and Kavi a few years after that. Kavi is going to be a poet. This one’s on me, guys - I did the name research, and found that Kavika, her full name, had a connection to poetry. So the entire time, we expected a poet - only to get a theater kid instead. Blame me for this one, lol! Are there any other false rumors that you remember about Girls of the Year? (Besides Tenney being rumored to be GOTY 2017 - we all know that story!)