Um, yeah, no. Just no...

This is not sad news. Sad news is a puppy being burned. This is not even news, peeps. This is a doll.

*ducks as all the strange doll-loving, cosplay folks barrage me with how important their dolls really are*:rolleyes:

Samantha is the only AG doll I ever got, and she has always been my favorite! It's sad to see her ending....I wish I had collected more of her accessories.

Hahaha...yes I feel you on that. I believe I was a semi-fan of American Girl books when I was in 4th/5th grade, but i've definitely outgrown that. I wasn't even aware that they made dolls.

Oh, I knew. I just came in here to witness the strangeness.

BTW, I think Scandia has already taken your cosplay-the-American-Girl-for-Halloween idea many times over. lollers!

I was a Samantha fan as well- she was my one & only AG doll, mostly because she looked like me. :)

It makes me sad too.

I feel bad that I can't even sympathize. My mom never bought me any doll/book except for Addy, so I have no idea about the other girls. I don't like seeing anything good end though.

I thought that the company went bankrupt, or that one of them got knocked up by a Star Wars figure or something.

Where's that lollercoaster pic when you need it?

They were bought out by Mattel.

It's sad in the context of dolls - or maybe, just as the end of what was a part of many girls' childhoods. I'm wistfully sad, because my eldest (who also looked like Samantha) so loved her doll and books. I'm not sad in the same sense I will be on Nov. 5th. :rolleyes:

oh i remember AG! I had all the Addy books. I was in B&N a couple christmases back and saw a hardcover edition of all the books in one and the pages had gold edges. it was magical. i bought it, reread all the stories in one night. then i gifted it to my mentee (at the time) and now she's hooked!

--insert aww's here--

p.s. i hope Mattel doesnt royally eff this up.

Hmm..the head of AG is an Alpha Gam (I think I heard, lol).;) Sorry I don't want to do research, my foot hurts (well I can use that excuse for at least another weeks, lol.)

Do you mean the founder Pleasant Rowland? She went to Wells College in Aurora, NY which I do not believe has ever had sororities. She sold to Mattel in 1998.

Ellen Brothers is the current president of American Girl and executive vice president of Mattel, as well as a member of Mattel’s management committee. She graduated from U of Illinois. And is listed on the Alpha Gam website as a member of the Sigma chapter!!

This is sad for me. I don't know if anyone knows but there were American Girl fashion shows. My grandmother took me to my first fashion show when I was five and my favorite picture of my grandmother was the Samantha model, my grandmother and me dressed like Samantha. When I was older, I was in a few of the shows as a Girl of Today and Samantha. She was my favorite doll even though I had four or five of them. I lost interest in the company a few years after Mattel bought it. I disliked most of the new girls. Has it really been a decade? I still have all the dolls and all the books for my daughters if I have any.
I am a little sad about it just because I had a personal connection.