American Girl is reintroducing the eight original historical characters to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Each girl will come with her signature meet outfit, accessories and book, with packaging inspired by the dolls’ original 1986 design.

I know I’m not the demographic for these dolls anymore, but when I recently looked at their roster I was SHOCKED at how many of the original girls are gone. Made me feel decrepit to see they have a 90’s girl now hahaha

Eight original? Ahem, some of us are not that old and know there were originally three.

Anyway this is cool and I’m glad they didn’t yassify them.

I had Samantha and my sister had Kit

Not me yelling “Felicity!?!” like “Beyonce!?!”

So after years of trying to “modernize” and change the formula they finally realized that people actually liked the original historic dolls?

I had Addy and loooooved her so much. Also I’m old enough to remember when kit was announced and thinking she was so *modern*. Seeing the yasssifyed versions is breaking my brain.

I feel like Samantha has been an influence on my general fashion vibe and aesthetic my whole life. 

Will they release all the furniture tho?? I remember so desperately wanting it but we couldn’t even afford the doll back then. I remember the entire set was $995 and vowing that I’d buy my own when I got older. But I don’t know if they even do those anymore?

Kaya gang rise up

Will Brennan Lee mulligan be making their shoes?

I had Kirsten and Addy. My Kirsten still has her original braids, I never took them out!

Insane that I can name 7 of the 8 still by sight. (The last one was after my time.)

Trying to figure out how I can justify buying my 4 year old a $200 Kristen doll because I always wanted one of these but never got one. This is after I bought her a bitty baby doll that she has proceeded to trash then abandon

I remember when some of these were added and I was born in 1988. Still have my Kirsten doll tho 😂

Man, I’m old enough to remember when Josephina, Kaya, and Kit weren’t even in this lineup.

Awe I wish it included their friends. I still have my old Nellie doll and always wanted an Emily one, too. Shout out to my Mom for insisting we keep her when my teenage self was “too old for dolls.”

My neighbor cut my Felicity’s hair when we were like 9 and I’ll never forgive her for it.

Being in whatever socioeconomic class that could afford the books but not the dolls and accessories 🙋🏻‍♀️

This is great timing because I had a baby girl last year and found my Samantha doll and she’s ruined 😭 so Im sending her off to the doll hospital for me and getting my girl a new one. Getting Samantha for Christmas was one of my happiest childhood moments and I sobbed when I found her under the tree

Brennan Lee Mulligan better be making the shoes

When people are surprised at millennial activism I’m like I had the Kirsten doll as a child, an immigrant child to Minnesota who loses a friend to disease. My best friend had an Addy doll and as a white child Addy’s book was the first exposure I had to the horrors of US slavery in a way that made sense a child.

Story time: I grew up wanting an american girl doll SO BAD. My cousins had a good portion of, if not potentially all, of the original historic dolls and tons of accessories and i was always so excited to go to their house and play with them. They probably still have them too. But anyway, i could never convince my grandparents to get me one until i was 12 years old. I got the doll of the year for my birthday, McKenna. My older cousin was there when i unboxed her and i was so excited until he said something like “a doll? Arent you too old for dolls?” And i instantly got really insecure about it. I still played with her for about a year and converted a bookshelf i had into a multi story apartment for her even though she was the only doll i had. But that comment led to me never asking for anything like that again and she lived in the top of my closet for years afterwards. I still have her but most of her accessories are gone and shes currently in my storage unit because i live in an RV and theres very limited space available. But i still think about her sometimes and consider pulling her out when i live in an actual house again and rebuilding her an apartment.

Edit: for the record i am currently 25 and will be 26 in august lol

I had them alllll

I wanted a Josephine and Kaya doll so bad but my parents wouldn’t let me get me one. The dolls were so expensive that I could only get a doll that looked like me.