Located between the Fifth Avenue and the number 49 street are the American Girl Place, one house of one of the most popular dolls of United States of America. I had been there last month (March 2013) and I gonna talk a little bit about this dolls and this store.
The American Girl dolls was creaded by Pleasant Rowland that, after a visit to colonial Williamsburg thought that little girls might become interested in history through identifuing with dolls based on historic periods.
Then, in 1986, she founded the Pleasant Company, which manufactured the dolls, the books and the assessories. The company quickly grown and with that was created new dolls, books and clothes for dolls and for girls. The first three company dolls was Kirsten, Molly & Samantha. In 1998, Pleasant Rowland sold your company for Mattel, who is the current owner and manufacturer of American Girl dolls.
Currently the dolls are divided into five "categories": Bitty Baby, Bitty Twins, Historical Dolls, Girl of The Year and My American Girl.
Bitty Baby are dolls in baby format sold in 7 different models for little girls. The are sold at $55,00 each. Bitty Twins are dolls a little bit older (they aren't babies but they aren't big girls too) on site are sold in pairs and in 5 different ethnicities. On the site you can only buy the pair and they are sold at $115,00 each, but in the stores you can buy only one doll at $75,00 each.
The Historical Dolls are, like their name already said, dolls that represent some time of american history. There are 18 dolls, but just 13 are sold, because 5 were archived and are not sold by the American Girl. The collection includes dolls of the years of 1764 to 1974.
The Girl of The Year are dolls that are just sold in one year. Each year, since 2001, they launch a new doll with personality, characteristics and different hobby. This year the girls of the year is Saige, a red head girl, with freckles and blue eyes that loves arts and ride horses. They all have a story and some of them even have their film (some Historical Dolls too).
My American Girl is the current name for dolls that are similar to the owner. They was called of American Girl of Today and Just Like You. Are 40 models different. Those dolls, different of Historical Dolls and of Girls of The Year, don't came with a book. They came with a code that allows the child to enter a virtual world through the InnerstarU web site.
The Historical Dolls, Girls of The Years and My American Girl are sold at $110,00 each. Aside and above we have photos of storefronts of My American Girl dolls, where you can choose the most similar to the girl.
After buying her doll, what would you buy? Sure! Outfits! There are clothes for dolls and for girls. The price of these products is not very pleasant. Most clothing for the dolls cost from $20,00 to $40,00 and girls clothes cost between $40.00 to $60.00. These outfits are separated into two "categories": one is for Bitty Baby and Bitty Twins and their owners (north american size 3 to 7) the other is for the American Girl (Historical Dolls, & My Girl of the Year American Girl) and their owners (north american size 6 to 20). Besides the clothes and dolls are sold shoes, books, accessories for doll care, beds, tables and chairs, pets, among others. All of these things for the dolls.
After this long explanation about the dolls and their accessories, I'll talk a little bit about the store. The New York store opened in 2003 and is the second American Girl store. Besides this store there are over 14 stores store across the United States. The New York store is very beautiful and very big. It has three floors plus a mezzanine.
On the first floor is all of My American Girl stuff and three small sections in the lobby: a souvenir, another girl of the Year and one of a Historical doll. On the mezzanine has a small part of the Girl of the Year and the bathrooms, which is also worth a visit. On the second floor is all part of the Historical Dolls plus AG Avenue, which where is the salon for dolls, hospital, shirts factory, among others. The third and last floor is where are the section of Bitty Baby and Bitty Twin and the Cafe, where the girl can eat with your doll, or a doll from the store, that lends, if the girl don't have one. You can see the map with details of the New York store by clicking here.
To finish I will talk about these souvenirs that are sold at the store. In the store, all products sold on the website are sold there too, and also you can buy souvenirs that are shirts for the girl and the doll which is written in American Girl Place New York, jeans for the dolls, among others. These products have cheapest prices: Most cost between $8,00 and $24,00.
Well, this is it for today. I hope you enjoyed. Thanks for reading. And if you want to read more posts about the American Girl dolls and American Girl Place subscribe this blog. Also check out my channel on You Tube and my video below, which shows the two days I was at the American Girl Place New York.
Note: All data in this post are in agreement with data from April 2013. To see if there were changes I advise to access the web site of American Girl by clicking here.
On the first floor is all of My American Girl stuff and three small sections in the lobby: a souvenir, another girl of the Year and one of a Historical doll. On the mezzanine has a small part of the Girl of the Year and the bathrooms, which is also worth a visit. On the second floor is all part of the Historical Dolls plus AG Avenue, which where is the salon for dolls, hospital, shirts factory, among others. The third and last floor is where are the section of Bitty Baby and Bitty Twin and the Cafe, where the girl can eat with your doll, or a doll from the store, that lends, if the girl don't have one. You can see the map with details of the New York store by clicking here.
