American Girl Doll News

With Makena about to retire once her stock sells out and Truly Me 123 being gone for good, the Makena mold is now officially retired. This is the third American Girl mold to retire, after the #4 mold, which retired in 2011 after 16 years, and the Marie-Grace mold, which retired in 2014 after 3 years, but came back in 2022. The Makena mold was introduced in September 2021, which means this mold had a little under 4 years before retirement. Do you think it will eventually come back?

My sister took photos of the new American Girl items for me! Since I’m in Charlotte for the summer, and my store closed, Sierra (who lives in Nashville) was nice enough to take pictures for me!

The new American Girl Truly Me dolls are on Amazon, with a price increase of $10.

The new American Girl Truly Me lineup is here: Truly Me 100 Truly Me 101 Truly Me 103 Truly Me 104 Truly Me 105 Truly Me 107 Truly Me 108 Truly Me 110 Truly Me 112 Truly Me 113 Truly Me 114 Truly Me 115 Truly Me 116 Truly Me 117 Truly Me 118 Truly Me 122 Truly Me 124 Truly Me 126 Truly Me 127 Truly Me 130 Truly Me 131 Truly Me 132

These Truly Me dolls are officially retired - they aren't available in the new meet outfit and will be sold in the old meet outfit until stock runs out: Truly Me 102 Truly Me 106 Truly Me 109 Truly Me 111 Truly Me 119 Truly Me 120 Truly Me 121 Truly Me 125 Truly Me 128 Truly Me 129

A new set of Truly Me meet accessories were revealed on Amazon.ca ! Check them out:

The new items are starting to release - and the first one is the brand new Truly Me Salon Chair! It costs $75 and comes with a hairbrush, spray bottle, clips and a chair.

Hi everyone! I hope you all were able to read Happy Birthday, Samantha so we can discuss it today. If you don't have copies of these books going forward at home, you can check to see if a local library has them, and if no libraries have them, you can make an account at the Library of Congress's Internet Archive and check them out there. Happy, Birthday Samantha is about Samantha's tenth birthday, and how her aunts Agnes and Agatha from New York City come to her birthday party. After pesky Eddie Ryland ruins the party, the twins take Samantha to New York City, and go on an adventure - only to discover their aunt Cornelia at a women's suffrage march. When I was rereading this book, several things came to mind about the themes within, and both their historical context and what it means to be a girl in 2025. I don't want these posts to be too long, so I'll list my thoughts, and let you discuss these topics as well in the comments! Despite being in the same state, there are a lot of differences from the smaller town of Mount Bedford to the sprawling New York City in terms of culture. Why do you think that is? From what I have gathered from the books so far, Mount Bedford is a very sheltered community, at least the wealthy parts. The characters from rich families seem to have more superficial concerns and don't know much about the rest of the world. Nellie and Uncle Gard are how Samantha knows as much as she does about the city, and even she doesn't know what's going on there much until Agnes and Agatha come into the picture. Throughout the book, Grandmary insists on being set in her ways of believing women's suffrage is nonsense and that women shouldn't vote, but by the end of the book, changes her mind. Why do you think she changed her mind? From my personal life experience, I've tended to notice that people don't really care about a huge issue until they or someone they know cared about it. Once she saw that Cornelia really cared about the issue, and that Samantha was listening, I think that really opened Grandmary's eyes. Also, her being forced to listen and not in the sheltered part of New York also must have opened her eyes. A big theme throughout the Samantha series so far is Samantha coming out of her shell of being a wealthy orphan and learning more about the world's injustices. How do you think she's been adapting to her new view of the world so far? It's been a gradual process for sure. There are still tendencies for Samantha to assume things about the world that are more simple than they actually are, as Samantha still comes from a privileged background in a time where access to information, especially for women, is hard to come by. But Samantha at this point in the series is a lot more educated than she was at the beginning, and that is thanks to her friends and the people around her. Thanks to the women's suffrage movement, Samantha is among one of the first American Girl dolls who is able to vote - she is 25 when women get that right. Why do you think it took a long time for women to receive that right, if there are demonstrations for it 15 years before? It always takes a long time for the people in power to be comfortable with things changing. Change takes time, and change is never instant - it's a gradual process, with things happening little by little. But the length of time change takes to happen is always frustrating, no matter what you're fighting for, and especially if it's a basic right like women voting. Next week, we will be reading Samantha Saves The Day!

According to Amazon.ca , a new iteration of Coconut Chip will be releasing next month with the Truly Me release!

Today is Cecile's birthday! She was born this day in 1843, making her 182 today.

Here is the Doll of the Month, Blaire's Collection! Who should be Doll of the Month next month?

Today’s Samantha’s birthday! She was born this day in 1895, making her 130 today.