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American Girl fans.
Apparently there's a new store coming to Memorial City this summer.
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Re: American Girl fans.
If I could do a back handspring, I would!
I thought of you and your girls when I saw this.
What age did you girls get into AG?
I don't fully get the AG stuff. We never had any of it growing up, and there are no little girls for me to buy for.
Thankfully, I know enough Star Wars & Transformers to keep up with boys.
Same here Chuck's nieces had them growing up and I just about died at the prices when I went into the store in Chicago. I'm too much of a cheap "b" for that. It was worse when they stopped playing with them a year maybe two later and literally had a gold mine in stuff.
I'm happy for those of you with kiddos who will be delighted though.
when I was a kid they had 3 dolls. I loved the books that went with them and my mom loved that I learned something about the time period (each book told about the girl's life in her time and at the end gave real facts). It was fun to imagine yourself living then. i would pour over the catalogs and save my money to buy the accessories.
I don't get the dolls that can look like you or the baby ones, although they are cute-they defeat the purpose to me. I liked the learning and roleplaying aspect of the historical dolls. I could see the store as being a special trip one day, like the cabbage patch hospital was for me as a little kid.
I believe that a very large part of my love for reading to Kirsten, Samantha & Molly. They started coming out with some of the others (Felicity & Addy in particular) when I was too old to really be a fan, but I still read & adored those books. I really hope I have a daughter someday to share those magical books with.
did you have any of the dolls? which one?
I had Molly. They say that was the one that somewhat nerdy girls who preferred reading to sports picked. My cousin was Kirsten all the way, it fit her totally. She now lives in a log cabin in WI!
I had Kirsten & Samantha. I wasn't into Molly because she was a four-eyes like me & I loathed my glasses. Having a doll with glasses just wasn't my cup of tea.
Samantha is how I learned to cross-stitch. There was a sampler kit that my mom bought me & I got hooked on it.
Kirsten I adored because she was Swedish & my dad would tell us how his grandfather came to the US from Sweden on a boat just like Kirsten. I'm pretty sure that's the only thing my Dad knew about the AG books.
I LOVED the books (the original 3) when I was growing up, and always died over the catalogs, but never had a doll - my dad couldn't fathom paying that much for a doll.
My niece later got several - the first as a result of a charity auction my parents' won (the Native American doll). I was in college then, but felt slightly devastated that I never had gotten one, and now she did.
A few years ago for Christmas, I got Molly. And a year or two later when they retired Samantha, my parents tried to get me one because she had been my favorite. AG was sold out, so my dad tracked two down on Ebay - one for me, and one for my niece. Mine are still in their boxes - hopefully I have a little girl to share them with one day!
Samantha was my absolute favorite, but I loved Kirsten, Molly, Addy & Felicity as well. I think after those 5 I stopped reading them because I grew out of them. I still have them--they sold them in the set of 5 (or was it 6) in red/maroon satin boxes with a ribbon--and cannot wait to pass them down to Emily.
I had the Bitty Baby (BEGGED for it). It's in my closet at my parents house...I guess Emily will inherit her, too. My sister had an AG Doll that looked like her. I really hope this store sticks for 5 years, because I would LOVE to take Em when she's old enough and not have to make a special trip to Dallas or Chicago.
I have a feeling this store isn't going ANYWHERE! AG has had a huge following for YEARS! I can recall reading just the first few characters....but Samantha was my favorite! I think I grew out of them fairly quickly (I was reading a bit above grade level at the time), but I do remember them fondly. Those and Babysitter's Club. I think my mom still has the first 50 or so that I collected.
Ann M. Martin
PS See siggie...my DD got an AG doll that looks like her while we were in NYC. OMG, that store is HUMONGOUS! And it was SO.RIDICULOUSLY.CROWDED! Insanity! But it was sooooooooo fun!