January 2024[]
- Jan 5, 2024 / New Items for Truly Me and Children
- Selected new items have released for the Truly Me collection, as well as two general items. Two items are child and doll matching sets.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Jan 18, 2024 / AG Dallas Opening and Closing
- American Girl Place Dallas has been stated to be officially closing January 30, with a reopening at the Shops at Park Lane by early 2024. ETA: This has been updated to state the opening date is March 2nd.
- Nethilia, The Admin
February 2024[]
- Feb 1, 2024 / New Items for Truly Me and Children
- New Items have released for Truly Me (including an additional meet outfit and five new dolls) and Bitty Baby.
- For Truly Me:
- Just Like You 125
- Just Like You 126
- Just Like You 127
- Just Like You 128
- Just Like You 129
- Pretty Plaid Outfit
- Floral Fashion Outfit
- Celebrity Chic Outfit
- Pink Chic Accessories
- Awesome Ombre Glasses
- Petal-Pink Glasses
- Fuchsia Flair Platform Loafers
- Confident Cowgirl Boots
- Cheerful Chunky Sneakers
- Glittery Rainbow Boots
- Purple Pom Phone and Accessories
- For General Use:
- For Bitty Baby:
- Lila Goes for Gold has also released, as well as updated 25th anniversary versions of The Care and Keeping of You 1 and The Care and Keeping of You 2.
- Don't nobody bring me no bad edits.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Feb 7, 2024 / AG x The Disney Princess Collections
A dream is a wish your heart makes...
- American Girl has released a second collaboration with The Walt Disney Company focused on the Disney Princess line, AG x Disney, also known as the Disney Princess Collection. This release is based on three other iconic Disney Princesses--Tiana, Cinderella, and Ariel. Unlike the last collaboration, this one is not limited edition and has no collaboration with Swarovski. The three princesses also have two additional outfits available for each character based on movie outfits; each comes with accessories, and some come with miniatures of sidekick characters. Dolls are of slightly higher cost at $125.
- Disney Princess Tiana Doll
- Disney Princess Cinderella Doll
- Disney Princess Ariel Doll
- Disney Princess Tiana Work Dress and Accessories
- Disney Princess Cinderella Day Dress, Friends and Accessories
- Disney Princess Ariel Day Dress, Flounder and Accessories
- Disney Princess Tiana Evening Star Dress and Accessories
- Disney Princess Cinderella Original Ball Gown and Accessories
- Disney Princess Ariel Castle Ball Gown, Sebastian and Accessories
- A news article by MSN has hinted there will be more items in the collaboration with American Girl citing it as a new core collection focused on Disney, and that there will be items for other Disney Princesses and the Frozen franchise.
- Nethilia, The Admin, is a Disney Kid at Heart
- Feb 16, 2024 / AG Middleton Headquarters to Close
- The American Girl offices in Middleton, WI are to close, with operations being ended by late spring to September; operations will be moving to the Mattel headquarters in El Segundo, CA. Multiple workers--about 200--will remain employed at the distribution center and remotely.
- Nethilia, The Admin
March 2024[]
- March 25, 2024 / New Kitchen Items for Truly Me
- A small collection of kitchen-themed items for Truly Me have been released.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- March 26, 2024 / Special Image Cases - Header Images for Modern Dolls
- Everyone loves new policies, especially when it comes to Image Quality standards.
- Header images for modern dolls that retired before the wiki started in 2008 are hard to get official good header images for--these are the first edition of Just Like You 6, Just Like You 9, Just Like You 10, the first edition of Just Like You 19 with grey eyes, and Just Like You 20. Several of these dolls retired before even the American Girl website offered a proper showcase of dolls. Other than scanning and cleaning up older catalogs to try and get excellent pictures, the reliance has been on personal images to showcase these dolls (and catalog shots if we can find them at all).
- But not only are these images on the main article page for each doll, but several are present on the Visual Chart of Truly Me Dolls that shows all the dolls in numerical order in their last availability. Images were donated from users over the years and have been long standing, because they're good at what they do. But many editors--in good faith mind, but still wrong--have tried to replace these pictures and have not upgraded the quality of them in the process. Furthermore, we've had issues with people uploading the photoshopped examples from AG Playthings' site; these are these very recognizable because the dolls never came in the I Like Your Style Outfit as a meet set and are theft from the site. If they get uploaded, Admin knows exactly where they came from, and not a single one of them are real.
- Since these header images have to represent these dolls for anyone researching them here, they need to stand out to a level not required of many others. They have to be the very best, like no one ever was. So we've implemented new policy.
- As of 2024, policy for these particular doll pages is that all images of these dolls must be approved by admin before being placed on the page. They can be uploaded, but editors will need to contact admin through their talk page for approval of the image being placed on the page. Admin can give feedback, but the decision to change the image lies in admin's hands.
- Unless a new personal picture for these dolls is enough of a high quality upgrade--which means it needs to meet all qualifications for a picture as stated on the Image Policy page--it likely won't be given approval. Nor will it be if it's merely a switch to an image by the uploader because it's one they took and they really want it here. Consider what TV Tropes does for good images--new images have to be chosen by committee to replace what's standing there, and just "but I'd like mine there" isn't good enough of a reason. They have an entire flowchart and a dedicated forum for it.
- Pictures of these particular dolls, if uploaded and added without approval to the page under any circumstances--especially if it replaces the current header or is done as a new version of file--will be immediately removed and the user informed of their violation, with continued violations resulting in blocks. Uploads of the photo-edited versions of these dolls from Playthings will result in an immediate two-week ban from the first violation. Any attempts to photo edit the doll images to place them in meet outfits they were not available in will be immediately removed. We don't need your attempts at digital manipulation--we want real pictures.
- Frankly, there have been too many low quality and unapproved images over the years and I and other admins have had to do multiple reverts for poor images and copyright violation issues. I for one would like to have to stop doing that.
- Nethilia, The Admin
May 2024[]
- May 2, 2024 / Classic Historical Rereleases for Older Historicals and New Julie Things
The Classic Rerelease!
- Classic versions of Kirsten Larson, Josefina Montoya, and Addy Walker have been rereleased--in the case of Kirsten, this is her first major re-release since her retirement in 2010, not counting the 35th anniversary release. The dolls come with their accessories and reprints of their Meet Books, and cost $150 (very similar to the 35th Anniversary versions). The releases also include updated versions of their Birthday Outfits that are bundled with the birthday books as separate purchases (and for Addy and Kirsten, include additional shoes).
- Kirsten Larson doll (Classic)
- Apron Dress and Daisy Wreath (Re-Release)
- Josefina Montoya doll (Classic)
- Feast Day Finery (Re-Release)
- Addy Walker doll (Classic)
- Birthday Pinafore and Snood (Re-Release)
- Julie Albright also has new and rereleased items for her collection. The doll now comes with Julie: My Journal.
- Julie: My Journal
- Julie's School Outfit
- Julie's Summer Skating Outfit
- Julie's School Lunch Box (Re-Release)
- Julie's Record Player and Accessories (Modified Re-Release of Julie's Sound Accessories)
- Julie's Floral Jumpsuit (Re-Release)
- Nethilia, The Admin, Has No Beef With BeForever Regardless
June 2024[]
- June 1, 2024 / Price Increases on Dolls
- Happy Pride Month!
- There's been a price increase on all dolls. The costs are now $125 for Historical and Girl of the Year dolls, $160 for the bundled historical dolls (Addy, Josefina, and Kirsten), and $135 for the Disney Princess dolls. Truly Me dolls remain at $115.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- June 1, 2024 / New Items Released
- New items have released for Truly Me and Bitty Baby, based on the upcoming US Team for the 2024 Summer Olympics and birthday celebrations. There is also a new bundle for WellieWishers.
- For Truly Me:
- For WellieWishers:
- For Bitty Baby:
- Furthermore, a journal will be released for Melody Ellison in the style of Julie, Isabel, and Nicki: Melody: My Diary. Isabel and Nicki's journals will also be available separately from the dolls in the future.
- In May, costumes by Rubies Costumes released based on American Girl Characters in adult and children's sizes. Adult costumes include Kirsten, Samantha, Kit, and Molly; children's costumes include Maryellen, Melody, Julie, and Courtney. These can be purchased at various retailers.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- June 10, 2024 / 2025 Girl of the Year, Summer McKinny
2025 Girl of the Year - Summer!
- The book cover for the 2025 Girl of the Year has been listed on Amazon along with more details about Melody's diary. The character is named Summer McKinny, and her book will be titled Summer Gets to Work by Clare Hutton. Themes of the collection will include pet care and animal fostering.
- As per our stance when data starts to emerge, since we don't have more data than what's presented we aren't posting it. The policy around Rumors, Leaks, and Hearsay remains in effect and as a reminder: users can and will be blocked for six months on the very first offense for leaking, editing in, or uploading unreleased data. Here we wait until American Girl, or an official or reliable source, provides official information. A new character release has all related high traffic pages protected to prevent bad faith, "first with information" edits, and shoddy data. Once the articles are open to all editors, the AG Wiki still expect users to comply with the site's Article Creation, Editing Guidelines, and Style Guide.
- The character won't release until September, so there's no point in jumping the gun. You don't get a bonus for doing it first.
- ETA: The images were later pulled from the Amazon listing.
- Nethilia, The Admin
July 2024[]
- July 1, 2024 / New Items Released
- New items have released for Truly Me including for the Little Bitty Baby Doll collection.
- For Truly Me:
- All Set for Sleepovers Canopy Bed
- Little Bitty Baby Doll (blonde/blue eyed light version)
- Little Bitty Baby Bubble Bath Set
- Nethilia, The Admin
- July 9, 2024 / American Girl Graphic Novels
Meet Josefina in comics!
- American Girl will be releasing older characters stories and new mysteries in graphic novel format. Along with the already released Julie and the Blue Guitar, other books include Isabel and Nicki Versus the Bigfoot Bandit in July 2025 and Meet Josefina as a graphic novel retelling the first of Josefina's Central Series books in February 2025.
- Source: Amazon.com - listing for Meet Josefina; IDW to Publish "American Girl" Graphic Novels on ICv2.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- July 30, 2024 / American Girl X Gap
Fall Into the Gap.
- A Truly Me outfit in collaboration with Gap Inc has been released. The outfit, the Gap Star Hoodie Outfit, is only available online and in select Gap retail stores. The collaboration also includes clothing items for children.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- July 30, 2024 / American Girl X Disney's Frozen
Frozen Limited Edition dolls - Anna and Elsa!
- The next in both the series of Disney and Swarovski American Girl Collector Series Dolls is focused on the Frozen franchise with the release of the Disney Frozen Anna Collector Doll and Disney Frozen Elsa Collector Doll.
- There will only be 5,000 of Anna and 7,000 of Elsa total. The first day of sales is limited to AG Rewards berry level members; after that, sales open to other Rewards members.
- Nethilia, The Admin, is letting it go
August 2004[]
- August 1, 2024 / American Girl X Disney - Rapunzel!
Flower, gleam and glow; let your power shine...
- American Girl has released another character in the AG x Disney collaboration the Disney Princess Collection, based on Rapunzel. This time the doll is of standard issue and comes with two accessory sets:
- Nethilia, The Admin, likes lantern festivals
- August 7, 2024 / American Girl 2024 Advent Calendar
- It's Holiday Season already for AG, with the release of the American Girls Collection 2024 Advent Calendar. The set includes all the Historical Characters, including Best Friend Characters.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- August 27, 2024 / American Girl -- Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
American Girl is for Everyone.
- The policy page on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion has been written. The short form is that the American Girl Wiki is a diverse and inclusive community. The American Girl Wiki believes in equality, diversity, and inclusion of all people. We will not tolerate bigotry against cultures, ethnicities, genders, disabilities, or anything else.
- This is not a topic that is up for debate. There is no other side to this topic. If you think there is, get out. If you can't or won't respect everyone, get out. We don't need you here.
- These are policies we've had from day one; they now just have a full policy written out on their own page.
- Nethilia, The Admin
September 2024[]
- Sept 1, 2024 / Practice-to-Performance Dance Set
- (backdated as I forgot to mention)
Boogie Down!
- American Girl has released the Practice-to-Performance Dance Set, which includes the choice of doll included from the Truly Me line up: #111, #117, #125, and #127. The doll comes with outfit components and accessories focused on dance performance.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Sept 3, 2024 / Pink Stardust Holiday Collector Doll / IDW Books cancelled
Pink and Stardust Sparkles
- The Limited Edition doll for 2024 is the Pink Stardust Holiday Collector Doll. The limited edition doll, in partnership with Swarovski, comes in either a light skinned brunette or a dark skinned brunette. The dolls are exclusively available to Berry level AG Rewards members for the first day of sale, and will be open to all Rewards members from the second to fourth days and all customers starting on day five.
- In other news, the graphic novels that would have been released in 2025 appear to have been cancelled according to Bleeding Cool News, leaving only Julie and the Blue Guitar as a graphic novel. Dates on Amazon for Meet Josefina (which would have retold the first of Josefina's Central Series books) are now a distant future indicating cancellation, while Isabel and Nicki Versus the Bigfoot Bandit (which would have been another historical mystery) is now unavailable on Amazon. We have no further information on the books at this time.
- Source: IDW – Losing American Girl and My Little Pony Licences?, Bleeding Cool
- Nethilia, The Admin, is still a doll but still likes to party
- Sept 12, 2024 / Welcome, Summer McKinny!
Sweet treats for dogs!
- That's the character, not the season. Welcome the 2025 Girl of the Year, Summer McKinny! (At this rate of moving the release up, they're going to release 2026's girl in June of 2025.) She's a dog-and-cat lover and baker who wants to found her own business to support the shelter she adopted her dog from -- but struggles to handle her business and get the pets in her house to get along.
- Cook up a sweet treat with the following in Summer's Collection:
- Summer McKinny (doll) with Summer's Journal (which is also sold separately)
- Summer's Stars and Snuggles PJs
- Summer's Waggy Pup Tails Outfit
- Summer's Bake Sale Outfit
- Summer's Accessories
- Summer's Dog, Crescent
- Summer's Dog Accessories
- Summer's Cat, Fettuccine
- Summer's Baking Accessories
- Summer's Treat Cart
- Summer's Sleep Accessories
- The full book, Summer Gets to Work by Clare Hutton will come out in 2025.
- Admin is still a stickler for quality control, be it cooking, caring for pets, or creating data. Don't bake up a mistake and get your edits reverted by not following the Article Creation, Editing Guidelines, and Style Guide once the articles are open for general editing.
- Nethilia, The Admin, dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria!
- Sept 24, 2024 / AG x Janie and Jack Holiday Wear
Holiday Sets inspired by Historical Characters!
- American Girl is partnering again with Janie and Jack for a holiday separates collection. This time, the items are each imspired by various Historical Characters. The collection is up for preview now on the site, with items going on sale properly September 26th.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Sept 25, 2024 / AG Holiday Items
- More holiday themed items have been released along with the Janie and Jack items.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Sept 29, 2024 / AG x Disney - Moana Doll
What can AG say but "you're welcome!"
- American Girl has announced the upcoming release of another character in the AG x Disney Collaboration as part of the promotion for the upcoming film, Moana 2--namely, Moana. The Disney Moana Doll and Disney Moana Accessories, Pua and Heihei accessory set are up on the site to be seen, but are not yet priced and will go on pre-order on November 27 and be in stores and for purchase December 2nd (source: Scary Mommy).
- Nethilia, The Admin, doesn't know how far zie'll go
October 2024[]
- Oct 2, 2024 / WellieWishers Dragon Dress-Up Set
Princesses and Dragons
- The American Girl store on Amazon has released the WellieWishers Dragon and Dress-Up Set. Sets include the doll, an outfit with multiple components, Crisella the Dragon, and the book The Princesses and the Dragon. Sets retail for $99.99.
- Nethilia, The Admin, dances with dragons
- Oct 7, 2024 / Small Truly Me Release
- Two more items for Truly Me have been released.
- Fun in the Southwest Travel Outfit
- Hit the Road Scooter and Sidecar (a color and item variation on the True Blue Scooter and Sidecar)
- American Girl is also doing their $55 childrens and dolls pajama sale through the end of the year.
- Nethilia, The Admin
November 2024[]
- Nov 3, 2024 / Limited Edition Holiday Kirsten
Kirsten, Here For the Holidays
- American Girl has released a limited edition of Kirsten Larson based on Kirsten's Surprise as Kirsten's Surprise Holiday Collector Doll and Book Set.
- The set includes a Kirsten doll, the complete Saint Lucia Gown set, the Saint Lucia Wreath, pantalettes, a copy of Kirsten's Surprise a unique box, and certificate for $230. All sales are final with no refunds, returns, or exchanges.
- Presales until November 3rd are limited to Berry level AG Rewards members.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Nov 18, 2024 / Limited Edition Barbie Day-to-Night Fashion Pack
Office by Day...
Party by Night!
- American Girl has released the Barbie Day-To-Night Fashion Pack, based on the classic Day-to-Night Barbie released in 1985. The set includes both outfit components and accessories for a daytime office look and a "night on the town" evening look.
- The Limited Edition set only has 8,000 sets. The set releases on November 18th for Berry members, November 19th for all AG Rewards members, and November 20th for all purchasers. All sales are final with no refunds, returns, or exchanges.
- Nethilia, The Admin, has always been more of a Peaches and Cream Barbie kid
December 2024[]
- Dec 2, 2024 / Charlotte Store Closing
- American Girl Place Charlotte has announced their closure after ten years in operation, with the final day of operation on February 17th.
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Dec 6, 2024 / AG Fan Gear for Adults
- The following items have been released for adult fans of American Girl:
- Nethilia, The Admin
- Dec 24, 2024 / New Items for Truly Me and Bitty Baby
- The following items have been released as the start of the 2025 releases.
- For Truly Me:
- For Bitty Baby:
- Nethilia, The Admin, wishes you a Merychippus and a Happy New Deer