Girl of the Year 2025 Summer Mckinny!!!

[@aglbp]

I really hope they make a Daisy doll! I'd be so excited

[@deenaandbeena]

So excited to see more of Summer and her collection! I too hope her bestie is released :)

[@desnakellum-yanzuk2217]

Your idea for the bracelet making business storyline for little girls exists in my everyday reality. I work with kids, and they totally do that.

[@barbarawalsh2875]

I appreciate that I really do. And I respect your opinion and you’re right the joy and the happiness that it brought my daughter of the 80s. I don’t know if given the opportunities she would pick those same dolls today I am mother and grandmother and all my vision is the joy that the past produced, although I will admit, I’m adding three dolls to my collection. To Two are current. But one is Molly. That’s when my mom grew up the stories of the war and the struggles of the families because of the need for supplies and things like that and the rationing our stories that I grew up with and stories that based the way, I was raised, they are completely different than the way. My daughter was raised. We lived in a proudly wealthy community. She wanted for nothing her father saw to it. But I wanted you to know I read what you had to say and I understand it. I was a child of Mattel after all my first Barbie came when I was six I think maybe five and I never had a problem with the fact that Barbie kept, getting reinvented and getting better and facing not facing that’s the wrong word but reflected is a better word the times that we were in we went from the 50s and the 60s and the 70s. Thanks for a good conversation, please

[@kaichiGIRL]

I really hope that release Daisy! Fingers-crossed~ And in a mold that hasn't been done before in that skin tone?

[@ALT-vz3jn]

They haven’t trademarked her name, so I doubt it will happen.

[@kathyanderson8299]

Pets are huge with kids and many adults so that may result in a successful release. We were brought up with animals and to this day animals are part of my life and interests.

[@stephaniefriend9912]

love the idea of a character having a jewelry making business!!!

[@jaceylowieta]

I hope they release her best friend! I can’t wait to see them! I wish they did it at the beginning of the year still because every year I waited until the 1st and I was so excited

[@dianaalmazan69]

PLEASE make a tutorial for Josefina's birthday hairstyle. I know you mentioned that it could only be done on select dolls, but please make it.

[@katc4786]

The acsessories and doll style now is going more justice and limited too vibes. Which I’m not mad about bcs I was obsessed with that as a child but it’s very bright like neon and lots of patterns

[@CMdragon42]

We haven't had a glasses wearing Girl of the year since Z.

[@CraftyMagicDollz]

Z wasn't even a girl of the year. She was a "modern line" doll.

[@CMdragon42]

@@CraftyMagicDollz that's right. Which means Summer would be first glasses wearing girl of the year.

[@amysmuggleworld]

@@CMdragon42and z did not even come wearing her glasses like Molly dose z had her glasses in her accessories found that very odd

[@bethbacarella]

Releasing Daisy would be a great step in the right direction. I also completely agree that, based on the book pictures, she's an MG mold. Thanks for sharing!

[@laurabilansky8155]

Off I go to Barnes and Noble! Also, I LOVE the idea of a jewelry business within a story line, yes please!!

[@ALT-vz3jn]

The book isn’t for sale yet. Amazon removed the pictures from their listing.

[@laurabilansky8155]

@@ALT-vz3jnI was able to see the pics before they took it down. I’m an animal nut so I’m excited about this story.

[@BrianMalibu]

I would liiiiiiive if she had the Marie-grace face mold and has Caroline’s blue eyes

[@ellawitt3111]

I love AG pets, pastel colors, middle parts on dolls, and have glasses this girl was made for me 😭

[@dolls4u541]

I’m soooo excited with your predictions!!!

[@alle2740]

The stores have already pulled images from booksellers but they have been saved and spread around. I think like Lila they want a simple concept that will be a best seller after a few rough years. Good take on the meet outfit though. I think having it modeled after Rapunzel is a good idea but more affordable than a $300 collectors doll.

[@tinmanlover1994]

Look I just just ordered Lila Shes on the way. I want to enjoy Lilia when it's her year and wait until next year to get summer.

[@theannacorley]

I remember reading Nicki’s books and feeling like she had to be reunited with sprocket and begging my parents for the dog for Christmas lol… also Julie came out that year so I got Julie too 😊

[@Pam34514]

So, I recently found a few pics that AG Fandom has, and it looks like Summer may have green eyes. There are a few pics of her and Daisy. Your description of her seems spot on except maybe her eyes. And she has a dog walking and treat baking business. Her and Daisy decide to go into business together because Daisy makes cat toys. So definitely re-using the dog bathing set will happen. Enjoying all your videos!

[@katherinejohnson4184]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I hope they make Daisy. I love the idea of Summer having glasses. Do I plan on purchasing her...no. the list of dolls I want is very long. And I just dont think (right now) shes going to stand out enough for me to buy her.... but we shall see.

[@gotzBearhugz]

If you do Google images for Summer Mckinney book, you will see her journal, & it's cats that she has. 🐈 🐈‍⬛️🐱

[@guiguiny]

it’s fake, you can see real leaks searching for American Girl Girl of the year 2025 novel!

[@Selenas_Elegant_Dolls]

very well said! and done, people wanted more diverse GOTY dolls, AG gave it and they didnt buy them! D uoi plan on doing highlights again?

[@ALT-vz3jn]

Exactly! It’s so sad. The ones that make the loudest noise about AG not having dolls of color are the same ones who don’t buy them. It’s frustrating - corporations are revenue driven, if these people are complaining about wanting dolls of color but they buy white dolls or not buying any dolls then they need to stop complaining so much?

[@kivrinsagchannel791]

I hope dasiy gets made

[@guiguiny]

she actually is gonna be released on September!

[@lillianmanuel4956]

Love the video! Side note, do I see Moriah Elizabeth's Georgie in thr background? 👀🍍🦆

[@Agarya-ks7ik]

Yessss I see it on the self!

[@JoanneSag]

Just as a heads up in regards to dogs and dolls, when I did my grad work One project I did is have about 15 culturally mixed children draw pictures of their family. Every child that had a pet drew that pet in the picture as part of their family and of course most of them were dogs, then cats, then birds. They are important to children and so as it follows they add them to the dolls, which are primarily created for children. Just sharing. Thank you and I appreciate you Chris.

[@Zoeybb88]

I like the 2024 doll she’s so cute🎉

[@Neodelta81]

'what have you' is a new expression in my vocabular now 😁

[@chezfortine800]

I think American Girl is open to doing best friends dolls again, for sure. We had Tenney and Logan, World by Us group, Corinne and her siblings, and the 90s twins. But wouldn’t we have already seen a copyright for the Daisy name if they were to make that doll? They might do what they did with Kavi’s friend and use an existing Truly Me doll in the photos. Also, pets and animals are HUGE with their target audience. When my daughter was that age, all she thought about was animals and she loved the AG pets.

[@margaretespinoza4492]

I am sure that most of the dogs are going to be Truly Me dogs market with her. Also, from what I could tell, the treat stand is for cat treats. There are two cat treat recipes in her book. From these leaked illustrations she be fostering or adopting a cat in the story. I am certain that pet store will not be made important here. The cances she'll a cat in her collection ate higher here based on what I have seem of book, if that is the I will buy a cat in heart beat.Side note Corrine Tans's dog is adopted from a shelter, and she independently starts training it to be a mountain rescue dog in her books. In the movie, she does not own Flurry, but helps train her, so she will not be returned to her breeder for falling the program.

[@tinmanlover1994]

Corrine dog is a snow search and rescue and then Nicki service dog named sprocket.

[@Summer-dr2gr]

I’ve been dreaming to have a girl of the year with my name. My inner child is healed.

[@margaretespinoza4492]

She's is coming out in September according to the Mattel investor meeting.

[@deadlynightshade_art]

If Daisy is a doll I will be very happy!! I'm excited to see what Summer actually looks like, I'm not a huge MarieGrace face mold fan so if there's another doll 👀👀😂

[@jessicaamaryyy]

Obsessed w the shelf to the left in the back!! Where’s it from? I’m so excited for Summer because my little cousin who just got into dolls also is named summer hopefully we can go to the release 🥰

[@ALT-vz3jn]

You used to be able to get those at Target and IKEA, it’s an older style so I’m not sure if they still sell them. I bet Amazon still has them.

[@fatimaazam6108]

👋 Kris,thankyou for sharing & giving us your true opinion's on GOTY Summer McKinney 😮. Basically it's all relative at this point, know what i mean.

[@ALT-vz3jn]

Yeah it’s fun to speculate though.

[@Nana.cosplays]

The girl of the year for 2025 has the same last name as me and it’s even spelled the same way 😂

[@ag_tumeg]

This reminds me of new gen of pokemon, what are the starters gonna look like, where is the region, etc.

[@dolltimewithkayla]

not super into ag pets either and i feel like it’s a little overdone BUT i would loveeee if they finally did an all black cat 🥰🐈‍⬛

[@ALT-vz3jn]

Was Inkpot not all black? Caroline’s cat. I forget now.

[@abrielle13]

I actually love that they have started to release her earlier in the year!

[@Zoeybb88]

I don’t I know that there was gonna be a 2025 American girl doll I just found it out😮

[@kivrinsagchannel791]

Ok, I would go more to Daisy

[@ALT-vz3jn]

People say that, but the sales numbers for Daisy would be much lower and AG obviously knows this. I watched the latest Amazon Prime day action, the dolls of color were among the last ones to sell out.

[@tinmanlover1994]

I think summer Having the pink hair very similar to Isabelle GOTY 2014 it'll be 11 years so Isabelle would be a an adult being like 21 so maybe she's summer's Aunt related in some way possibley. At first I thought Maybe Isabelle is the mom but that wouldn't make since unless it's another former way older GOTY daughter.

[@ALT-vz3jn]

None of them would be old enough to be a mom to a 10 year old kid unless they were a teenage mom…

[@Razzberry_dollz]

Testing best friends with summer Testing historical duos with Nikki and Isabel Hopefully ending up is being back Cecile and Marie and best friends with ivy being the first one they bring back

[@barbarawalsh2875]

😅 let’s remember it’s Mattel not pleasant company that is releasing these products. I have been with the American girl since they came out because they hit right when my daughter was the proper age, so yes everything that we own was in her age bracket so it was all under pleasant company. I had my suspicions when Mattel took over at the fact that they would probably over merchandise them certainly take away dollars and bring them back so that they would have a greater value. The Disney princesses is no shock to me. There should be a more diverse world of dolls, just as in real life, there are a very diverse group of people that make up the world. Where pleasant company need these things and put them into practice . Mattel is a publicly held company with stockholders to answer to, and a dividend to be hopefully given out quarterly. This success that they enjoyed with the Barbie movie which will be hot wheels, movies, and eventually you will see American girl movies more than just the cute little snippets that they used to put up and they didn’t do any of that before they went with Mattel. Now we all know that little girls generally are not shareholders nor little boys or older, however, will do what is necessary to keep their shareholders happy. I mean I own two dolls of all of the I can’t bear to say 18 that my daughter owns and she has given to my granddaughters thank God, I have two sitting right here one of them. I sat on the bed while I was listening to something last night just because I needed somebody’s here to comb other than my own. I’m having surgery in six days and it’s major so I was tense and needed just to sit in comb some hair for a while. i’m glad my daughter was young when she was and I was only paying $75 a dollar and not the prices that were being asked today. Even the prices of their wardrobe is just a little bit more than unreasonable. However that doesn’t stop me from sending boxes to Texas at Christmas and the appropriate birthdays and holidays. But it is unfortunate that things that I thought in my head when the Mattel company took over are coming to fruition.

[@ALT-vz3jn]

You’re not taking into consideration that a company will grow and evolve along with their audience. Little girls in the 80’s are not at all like little girls in 2024, you can’t reasonably expect a company to stay stale. So don’t blame Mattel, they’ve owned AG for the past 24 years and you’re acting like they just bought them. My favorite AG dolls and outfits are from when they were owned by Mattel, I think they’ve done a pretty great job for the most part.

[@ralmainglam1800]

yesssss love this, can't wait.

[@ralmainglam1800]

josephina mold needs to be stopped fr

[@dolls4u541]

I’m praying for her to be have MG face mold too!!

[@CaringDisneyfan]

Pretty tired of pets pets pets. Here’s a novel idea! Make her interested in school and school projects! Hey! Studying, Maybe drama class, organizing fund raising for the poor, etc etc. the whole pet thing is really boring…..

[@ALT-vz3jn]

You didn’t mention Kavi! AG did release 2 DOC GOTYs in a row. So it’s not surprising that we’ll probably get like 5-6 years of Caucasian GOTYs. Hopefully they’ll have some unique elements to add interest. I would be very interested to know the sales numbers of Corinne and Kavi and how they compared to Lila’s release, I think we could use that info to predict how often DOC releases will happen in the future. If collectors and fans want to see DOC GOTYs then they have to buy them when they’re released. It’s pointless to make noise on social media but not actually buy them - AG is revenue-driven, they’ll listen if the numbers are good. Also AG hasn’t trademarked Daisy’s name, so I’m doubtful they’ll make a companion doll. I hope I’m wrong though.