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* [[Vaporware]]: Rumors of a new American Girl doll, Rebecca, began to surface in the adult collector community as far back as 1998, when Mattel trademarked the name of the character. Eventually details leaked that she'd be the first Jewish historical, and after that, she seemed abandoned, with dolls such as Native American Kaya and '70s girl Julie (and the entire "Best Friends" line) appearing instead. Rumors of prototypes of Rebecca being seen by company insiders floated the entire time, with various descriptions given of her appearance, but most of the collecting world had given her up as an idea dumped on the drawing room floor. Following the retirement of Samantha in 2008, American Girl finally confirmed they were producing Rebecca, who was released in May of '09.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Kit was originally intended to be wearing a differently-coloured meet outfit, along with a straw cloche hat as part of her accessories. The change to a knit-cloth cloche was done as it was found out that the initial batch of straw hats made as part of the accessories fell apart rather easily, and as explained by redditor and former model Caitlin
** Leaked renders of Maryellen's prototype meet outfit designs surfaced months before the doll's announcement; this was later shown in a coffee-table book by American Girl.
** Mia St. Clair was originally designed as black.
** Felicity originally was known under the working name "Lucy".
** Prior to release, McKenna went under the codename "Velma".
** An activity book for Rebecca shows a prototype doll for what appears to be her best friend Ana. Whether this was meant as a placeholder or plans for an Ana doll were made was unknown, but as the Best Friend line was discontinued, the Ana doll was scrapped.
** Tenney was apparently intended to be the Girl of the Year for 2017, but following calls for better racial diversity and representation in the doll line, Gabriella, an African-American character, was released in her place, based off an existing Truly Me doll with a repurposed collection from off-the-shelf American Girl accessories as an [[Author's Saving Throw]]. Tenney was used to launch a stopgap line called the "Contemporary Characters", which were similar to the Girls of the Year, but are not intended as a limited-edition character, followed by a boy doll named Logan and a Korean-American character named Suzanne "Z" Yang, who previously appeared in a series of promotional videos which cashed in on the AG stop-motion craze.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://americangirl.wikia.com/wiki/American_Girl_Wiki Here].
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