I only had Samantha but she was CHERISHED. I always wanted Kit so unbelievably much. The catalogs and the books omg... If you didn't read "The Care and Keeping of You" 50 times to understand wtf was going on with your body... you missed out.
I had Chrissa, Kit, and Lanie ❤ I used to love the American girl doll books and movies, and was subscribed to their magazines. They could get so unusually depressing. I mostly used them as if they were large Barbies, making them have drama or powers like "Lanie Lazer Beams." When I was younger I was scared of mannequins so I'd turn their heads away from me at night and my mom would come in while I slept and turned their heads back because she wanted them to look nice. I was convinced they were haunted for years.
I feel like this video popped up on my recommended page because literally a week ago I was watching videos of people playing through the old flash games I used to play so often growing up 😂
as someone who played the website in the sad 2010's era, I wish I got to play w how fun the website used to be. still loved it so much tho! all the pet games especially slayed. now I wanna buy a new doll so bad :D
I really enjoyed this video! I actually collect American Girl Dolls, if you couldn’t already tell lol. It sounds wild, but I have…67 AG dolls. I know, I know it sounds wild but I find them at flea markets, thrift stores, doll shows, eBay, Facebook marketplace, etc. I’m working on saving up for my first white body and actually have a set date to meet up with the women whose selling the white body! I’ve been collecting for a long time, but as a child I have sooooooooooo many fond memories of American Girl. I remember pouring over the catalog and wanting Samantha. In elementary school, all the “popular” girls had American Girl Dolls…I did not (I was considered the “weird girl” lol). So of course, from Summer of that year until December (Christmas) I BEGGED for a doll. My family thought they were so expensive despite my grandma constantly sending the catalogs to our house, trying to convince my family to get me one. So, my parents didn’t want to spend $115 on a doll, not knowing if I’d play with it or if it would sit in my closet and collect dust after two hours of play. So, they went online and found a Molly doll. I wanted Samantha, but I guess they got my Molly since she looks more like me. She was secondhand, only $45, and I fell in love. Me and Molly were best friends, as I received her early, like a month before Christmas. I did end up getting Samantha nearly a year later…tho I cut her bangs because my friend in elementary school convinced me to play “hair salon” with our dolls…oops. Anyways, it’s been years and I’m a collector now!
That is the sweetest story!! Thank you for sharing 😊 I love how special these dolls were in our childhood & how much of an impact they have on us still even as we grow up! Your collection sounds awesome! I only have my old ones back in my childhood home that have…seen better days lol but I would love to own one now as an adult collector! Molly & Samantha are awesome 🩷🩷🩷
I remember playing American Girls on the computer in the library in elementary school. Such fond memories. 💝 the water fall jump was my favorite as a kid.
American Girl Is apart of roadblocks now so that's what AG is doing now. We need AG to bring back the games just so that new generation can enjoy the games bring back the old ones and create new ones please AG for all of us
100% agree with all of that! Thank you for sharing everything you did 🩷 I love how much this brand has impacted so many people in so many ways! Keep it up with your RUclips channel 🦋🫶🏼
Also, I know I already commented but I would love, love, LOVE if you could do a deep dive video into the American Girl Boutique and Bistro stores. They were my childhood as we had one within 45 minutes from my house. RIP THE AG STORE!!
my very first American Girl was Lanie!! I'm Australian so it was a huge deal for me. I got her for my 10th birthday!! now i have 2 Samantha dolls as well that i got last year, one for my 23rd birthday haha
Hi Maia, could you make a video on a deep dive of the old Barbie flash website as well as some of the games that are lost media now? & while on the subject of Barbie, could you also make a video about obscure barbie dolls that came out in the 2000s (including the barbie movie dolls)? Love the content, hope your channel continues to grow 🤗🩵
Hey there!! Thanks so much 🥰 if you check out my other two videos up on my channel, I actually dive into both of these subjects! 🩷 one is about the old everything girl website which includes the old Barbie website & flash games. The other is about old 2000s dolls people forgot about which definitely includes Barbie & some of the Barbie movies! Let me know if you enjoy them & if there’s a subject you’d like for me to dive into more, I’ll definitely add it to my list 🫶🏼☺️
I colloct the doll's have since I was 10 and I loved the website games thouse were my first games I played. I leaned to actually read from American Girl book's when I got my first doll because even though I was 10 because of disability of having chronic illness and being very sick at the time I Learned to read with the books with my homeschool teacher. Theirs a few games I never played probably because I always went and played the same games I played and I never found the newer games later on but I always found The Girl of the year game's. I don't think Kailey GOTY 2003 had a game either
Never had any of the dolls but I read and re read the catalogs, magazines and books. Jess' waterfall jump was my fav, I still remember the one time I got to the bottom!
I had Marisol girl of the year:) She was so adorable. I also had Julie! I remember asking for " Coconut and Licorice" for Christmas one year and my parents thought I meant the actual foods 😂Also, I never played it but that sea horse game reminds me of the 3D animated Mazin' Hamsters game on Webkinz back when they released little hamsters.. I was obsessed with that. PLEASE do a video on Webkinz, or Club Penguin Lore!! Also, did you play Poptropica as a kid? (or adult lol) I'm loving these videos!!😍
Omg Tysm!! 😭 Marisol & Julie are both iconiccc! Also webkinz & club penguin are 100% on my list!! I’m lowkey holding off on them because I’m so excited to do videos on them that I don’t want to do them right away & it all be over hahah 🩷 but yes 100% soon! Also I only played a LITTLE bit of poptropica but I know it’s such a fan favorite that I deff have that one on my list to look into too! Thank you for your support it means so much 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Kit was my favorite too! I still have her doll, though I gave away all the extra outfits. I own her movie on DVD too! As to games, I loved the pet ones. I still like to play Pet Pick Up, Net Pet and The Morning Walk on those Flash browser programs. I also loved Amelia way back when she was a thing, and Sea Horse Roundup was an old favorite. The Orsinal art style is my favorite of the art styles. And I loved the magazine so much!
Yaaay! New video! I don't know anything about american girl, probably cuz I was born in 2006 and I'm also not from the USA But I always like learning about "new" girly stuff!
I commented before I watched... but the net pet games!!! Omg!!! I loved morning walk so much and I also loved to play as the bunny in the other one, and wished that you could have a bunny or hamster in the pet simulator. Such a shame they changed to the licensed characters :( and the around the world games!! I LOOOVED the australia one and the seahorse one too. Gosh I played so many of these and forgot about them, like the girls of many lands games. The art style for so many of these is just lovely!!
I guess Kristen was my fav. Since i recall she was 1st american girl to read about in my local library when I was little. I could relate to her the most, since she was so sympathetic. On how shes lost friends, when they died in her stories. Which was inconvenient. Or was that she forced to move to a place of knowing little to no english. In a foreign different country, (or something like that its been a logn time since ive read the books). where she mostly didnt know any 1. Making it hard to communicate to others. Ik how that feels when I talk to my cousins outside the us. Making it difficult for me to talk to them. Other times they have a hard time understanding me which can be frustrating. When they couldn’t relate to my interests smh. Sometimes they couldnt understand. Or when my friends who i just got to know them, from meeting them in school, my neighbor hood. Or anywhere. Then out of the blue, i was starting to become their friend, but Until the moved and didnt see them anymore. Which made me so sad. So im glad u made this video since i thought no one cared about american dolls anymore. But i was wrong we all miss the good old days. I just wish we could relive it more. Sometimes its great to go back in time and relive the past fun times wahhh. If only it was possible to repeat the past.
I colloct All Girl of the year and historicals . I have my RUclips channel which I mainly do doll videos from opening new dolls reviews and at the moment working on restoring my older dolls then other doll things plus sharing my life with chronic illness and couponing. Plus Webkinz game plays
Omg I never knew they only gave Lindsey a waste basket activity on the site - that's hilarious. I was a big fan of American Girl myself, but I think a lot of this stuff came after my time. It was fun to learn about though! And really cool that you've found the games archived somewhere. When you were on the site as a kid, did they still have the "HELP!" advice column? Every week they'd post a problem someone wrote in as well as the best advice that other girls wrote in as a response. I used to run to the computer every week to see if my advice (which usually involved instructing someone to make a friendship bracelet) got published. It never did. Another lovely video :)
Lindsey was released in middle of 2001 and was retired in 2002 and then Kailey was released in the middle of 2003 and was retired in 2004. Then from 2005-2016 the girl of the year doll stayed for one year. Until in 2017 when Gabriella was girl of the year she stayed another year in 2018 and now since 2018 all previous Girl of the year dolls stay available to buy 2 year's after their original year. Then last year AG released Lila Girl of the year 2024 in October 2023. Then AG will be doing the same thing again with upcoming GOTY 2025 summer with her release being sometime this Fall
i had two gerbils as a kid, one was black and one was albino. i named them coconut and licorice! they were mean but i liked them. one day i woke up and they were gone, i asked where they were and my mom told me my dad sold them to a pet store 😑
U didn't even try with the #NICKELODEON section I mean #KLASKYCSUPO I just forgot was da #PROMOS I only forgot bout me meat & thanks to other RUclipsr I unfortunately know I prurposefully forgot bout#ANGELA
I was able to play them on Numuki!! The link is in my description :) also I was able to find some of the older ones through the wayback machine & flash point too 🩷
I only had Samantha but she was CHERISHED. I always wanted Kit so unbelievably much. The catalogs and the books omg... If you didn't read "The Care and Keeping of You" 50 times to understand wtf was going on with your body... you missed out.
So true it’s literally just a cannon event 😭 I loved Samantha too I hope the rerelease her again in her old outfit 🩷
I had Chrissa, Kit, and Lanie ❤ I used to love the American girl doll books and movies, and was subscribed to their magazines. They could get so unusually depressing. I mostly used them as if they were large Barbies, making them have drama or powers like "Lanie Lazer Beams."
When I was younger I was scared of mannequins so I'd turn their heads away from me at night and my mom would come in while I slept and turned their heads back because she wanted them to look nice. I was convinced they were haunted for years.
Share your doll collection! Would love to see who's all on your shelves. And I love the content you make, so keep making more girlie! 💗
Aww thank you so much!! ☺️ I’ll definitely make a post so everyone can see all my lil doll friends in the back haha 🩷
i second thisss
I feel like this video popped up on my recommended page because literally a week ago I was watching videos of people playing through the old flash games I used to play so often growing up 😂
Haha yess that’s probably why 🩷 happy to have you here!
as someone who played the website in the sad 2010's era, I wish I got to play w how fun the website used to be. still loved it so much tho! all the pet games especially slayed. now I wanna buy a new doll so bad :D
Ugh yes me too!! I definitely enjoyed both but there’s something about the beginning that’s just so adorable 🥺
9:32 i'm so proud of her transition
i LOVED the girls of many lands books/dolls, and i feel like i haven't seen them since i was a child, what a nostalgia trip
They were a really cute concept! It’s a shame they didn’t last too long!
I really enjoyed this video! I actually collect American Girl Dolls, if you couldn’t already tell lol. It sounds wild, but I have…67 AG dolls. I know, I know it sounds wild but I find them at flea markets, thrift stores, doll shows, eBay, Facebook marketplace, etc. I’m working on saving up for my first white body and actually have a set date to meet up with the women whose selling the white body! I’ve been collecting for a long time, but as a child I have sooooooooooo many fond memories of American Girl. I remember pouring over the catalog and wanting Samantha. In elementary school, all the “popular” girls had American Girl Dolls…I did not (I was considered the “weird girl” lol). So of course, from Summer of that year until December (Christmas) I BEGGED for a doll. My family thought they were so expensive despite my grandma constantly sending the catalogs to our house, trying to convince my family to get me one. So, my parents didn’t want to spend $115 on a doll, not knowing if I’d play with it or if it would sit in my closet and collect dust after two hours of play. So, they went online and found a Molly doll. I wanted Samantha, but I guess they got my Molly since she looks more like me. She was secondhand, only $45, and I fell in love. Me and Molly were best friends, as I received her early, like a month before Christmas. I did end up getting Samantha nearly a year later…tho I cut her bangs because my friend in elementary school convinced me to play “hair salon” with our dolls…oops. Anyways, it’s been years and I’m a collector now!
That is the sweetest story!! Thank you for sharing 😊 I love how special these dolls were in our childhood & how much of an impact they have on us still even as we grow up! Your collection sounds awesome! I only have my old ones back in my childhood home that have…seen better days lol but I would love to own one now as an adult collector! Molly & Samantha are awesome 🩷🩷🩷
I remember playing American Girls on the computer in the library in elementary school. Such fond memories. 💝 the water fall jump was my favorite as a kid.
that one is just so much fun! 🩷
American Girl Is apart of roadblocks now so that's what AG is doing now. We need AG to bring back the games just so that new generation can enjoy the games bring back the old ones and create new ones please AG for all of us
100% agree with all of that! Thank you for sharing everything you did 🩷 I love how much this brand has impacted so many people in so many ways! Keep it up with your RUclips channel 🦋🫶🏼
the net pet game literally me tear up omg 😭 i remember being like 5 and being OBSESSED w that game
Right!! Core memory for real 🥹
Also, I know I already commented but I would love, love, LOVE if you could do a deep dive video into the American Girl Boutique and Bistro stores. They were my childhood as we had one within 45 minutes from my house. RIP THE AG STORE!!
my very first American Girl was Lanie!! I'm Australian so it was a huge deal for me. I got her for my 10th birthday!! now i have 2 Samantha dolls as well that i got last year, one for my 23rd birthday haha
Aww that’s awesome!! My sister’s first doll was Lanie & she LOVED her 🩷
Hi Maia, could you make a video on a deep dive of the old Barbie flash website as well as some of the games that are lost media now?
& while on the subject of Barbie, could you also make a video about obscure barbie dolls that came out in the 2000s (including the barbie movie dolls)? Love the content, hope your channel continues to grow 🤗🩵
Hey there!! Thanks so much 🥰 if you check out my other two videos up on my channel, I actually dive into both of these subjects! 🩷 one is about the old everything girl website which includes the old Barbie website & flash games. The other is about old 2000s dolls people forgot about which definitely includes Barbie & some of the Barbie movies! Let me know if you enjoy them & if there’s a subject you’d like for me to dive into more, I’ll definitely add it to my list 🫶🏼☺️
I colloct the doll's have since I was 10 and I loved the website games thouse were my first games I played. I leaned to actually read from American Girl book's when I got my first doll because even though I was 10 because of disability of having chronic illness and being very sick at the time I Learned to read with the books with my homeschool teacher. Theirs a few games I never played probably because I always went and played the same games I played and I never found the newer games later on but I always found The Girl of the year game's. I don't think Kailey GOTY 2003 had a game either
As someone who played these american girl games before, especially the girl of the year games, this is nostalgic.😌
omg i've been WAITINGGGG FOR THIS VIDEO im so excited
YAYYY im so happy you’re here! 🥰
kit was my favorite too! I had matching dresses with her that I wore to the American Girl Place in Chicago!
That’s so cute!! 🩷
New Maia upload!!! Woooo
Aww thank you so so much!! Can’t wait to make more for you guys :)
Never had any of the dolls but I read and re read the catalogs, magazines and books. Jess' waterfall jump was my fav, I still remember the one time I got to the bottom!
Wait WHAT there’s a bottom!?? 🩷 omg I have to go back & play
@@maiafaithtalks I thought I was maybe imagining it but I talked to some AG fans on insta who remember it too!
I had Marisol girl of the year:) She was so adorable. I also had Julie! I remember asking for " Coconut and Licorice" for Christmas one year and my parents thought I meant the actual foods 😂Also, I never played it but that sea horse game reminds me of the 3D animated Mazin' Hamsters game on Webkinz back when they released little hamsters.. I was obsessed with that. PLEASE do a video on Webkinz, or Club Penguin Lore!! Also, did you play Poptropica as a kid? (or adult lol) I'm loving these videos!!😍
Omg Tysm!! 😭 Marisol & Julie are both iconiccc! Also webkinz & club penguin are 100% on my list!! I’m lowkey holding off on them because I’m so excited to do videos on them that I don’t want to do them right away & it all be over hahah 🩷 but yes 100% soon! Also I only played a LITTLE bit of poptropica but I know it’s such a fan favorite that I deff have that one on my list to look into too! Thank you for your support it means so much 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
I remember playing the pet grooming studio game through friv as a kid, I loved it so much
So much fun!! 🩷🩷
Kit was my favorite too! I still have her doll, though I gave away all the extra outfits. I own her movie on DVD too! As to games, I loved the pet ones. I still like to play Pet Pick Up, Net Pet and The Morning Walk on those Flash browser programs. I also loved Amelia way back when she was a thing, and Sea Horse Roundup was an old favorite. The Orsinal art style is my favorite of the art styles. And I loved the magazine so much!
Ahhh I’m so glad to hear it!! 🩷 I still have my Kit doll too, although she’s seen better days 🥲 definitely needs a trip to the doll hospital lol
Yaaay! New video!
I don't know anything about american girl, probably cuz I was born in 2006 and I'm also not from the USA
But I always like learning about "new" girly stuff!
Yayyy I really hope you enjoy it anyways!! 🥰🥰
You were a Kit and a Licorice girlie?? Subscribed done
LOL both are icons 💅🏼
@@maiafaithtalks you’re so correct, I knew I liked you for a reason!!! the second you said that I was like oh yeah for sure that checks out
your channel is fantastic, it’s already one of my favourites!!! great video!!!
Ahh thank you so much!!! I really appreciate it 🫶🏼
I commented before I watched... but the net pet games!!! Omg!!! I loved morning walk so much and I also loved to play as the bunny in the other one, and wished that you could have a bunny or hamster in the pet simulator. Such a shame they changed to the licensed characters :( and the around the world games!! I LOOOVED the australia one and the seahorse one too. Gosh I played so many of these and forgot about them, like the girls of many lands games. The art style for so many of these is just lovely!!
I completely agree!! 🩷🩷 they were so sweet & special & nostalgic 🥹
I guess Kristen was my fav. Since i recall she was 1st american girl to read about in my local library when I was little. I could relate to her the most, since she was so sympathetic. On how shes lost friends, when they died in her stories. Which was inconvenient. Or was that she forced to move to a place of knowing little to no english. In a foreign different country, (or something like that its been a logn time since ive read the books). where she mostly didnt know any 1. Making it hard to communicate to others. Ik how that feels when I talk to my cousins outside the us. Making it difficult for me to talk to them. Other times they have a hard time understanding me which can be frustrating. When they couldn’t relate to my interests smh. Sometimes they couldnt understand. Or when my friends who i just got to know them, from meeting them in school, my neighbor hood. Or anywhere. Then out of the blue, i was starting to become their friend, but Until the moved and didnt see them anymore. Which made me so sad. So im glad u made this video since i thought no one cared about american dolls anymore. But i was wrong we all miss the good old days. I just wish we could relive it more. Sometimes its great to go back in time and relive the past fun times wahhh. If only it was possible to repeat the past.
I colloct All Girl of the year and historicals . I have my RUclips channel which I mainly do doll videos from opening new dolls reviews and at the moment working on restoring my older dolls then other doll things plus sharing my life with chronic illness and couponing. Plus Webkinz game plays
i never had an american girl doll !! this is so fascinating to me!
So glad I can bring you into this world! 🥰✨
Omg I never knew they only gave Lindsey a waste basket activity on the site - that's hilarious. I was a big fan of American Girl myself, but I think a lot of this stuff came after my time. It was fun to learn about though! And really cool that you've found the games archived somewhere. When you were on the site as a kid, did they still have the "HELP!" advice column? Every week they'd post a problem someone wrote in as well as the best advice that other girls wrote in as a response. I used to run to the computer every week to see if my advice (which usually involved instructing someone to make a friendship bracelet) got published. It never did.
Another lovely video :)
My brain wants to remember these games so bad lmao
The way you & I 100% played freewheeling friends together
I absolutely love your channel
Aww thank you so much!! That really means a lot 🥺🩷
41:56 this is completely unrelated to the video, but I can’t believe Chaney took Kristen’s braids out of their little loops. The audacity! 😂😅
& you just know they will never go back 😅
IM GONNA NEED A DOLL TOUR PLZ
IM ON IT 🫡
33:22 i am *shocked* that you didn’t include a smoothie moves reference there lol
I’m not going to lie…I did & then I cut it out 💀 I was like omg I’m going to sound so annoying hahah
Reply also took everything in me to not include “Zingo’s Pop” with the winter game
Lindsey was released in middle of 2001 and was retired in 2002 and then Kailey was released in the middle of 2003 and was retired in 2004. Then from 2005-2016 the girl of the year doll stayed for one year. Until in 2017 when Gabriella was girl of the year she stayed another year in 2018 and now since 2018 all previous Girl of the year dolls stay available to buy 2 year's after their original year. Then last year AG released Lila Girl of the year 2024 in October 2023. Then AG will be doing the same thing again with upcoming GOTY 2025 summer with her release being sometime this Fall
all these games are archived on either y8 games, or numuki
Yes! Played most of these on Numuki, flashpoint or the way back machine!
i had two gerbils as a kid, one was black and one was albino. i named them coconut and licorice! they were mean but i liked them. one day i woke up and they were gone, i asked where they were and my mom told me my dad sold them to a pet store 😑
yessss fellow kit girl!
Kit is THAT girl 🫶🏼
U didn't even try with the #NICKELODEON section I mean #KLASKYCSUPO I just forgot was da #PROMOS I only forgot bout me meat & thanks to other RUclipsr I unfortunately know I prurposefully forgot bout#ANGELA
where were you able to find these games??😭🫶
I was able to play them on Numuki!! The link is in my description :) also I was able to find some of the older ones through the wayback machine & flash point too 🩷