Ruthie Coming Out in May
I have now heard from a few unofficial sources that the new American Girl Ruthie doll will be coming out in May. Ruthie, who is being released as Kit’s best friend, has been reported to be coming out May 1st. I am trying to get an official confirmation of this and will update once I hear back from an official source.
One thing I did notice is that the Really Truly Ruthie (American Girls Collection) listing on Amazon no longer says it will be released in June - it has no date on the product page and just says it is available for pre-order now. Barnes and Noble and the American Girl publications site list the release date as May 19.
The pre-movie buzz for the Kit Kittredge movie this summer will be starting soon and I am sure the release of the Ruthie doll will certainly help kick it off.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Char
Filed under: American Girl, Scoop
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VERY COOL! YAYAYAYAYAYAY! LOL!
I am certainly getting Ruthie!!!! I Can’t wait!
I would like to get Ruthie- and Kit. Usually, they have some sort of a best friends deal when the friend is released- so I’m saving until then.
I have kit already and I am definetly getting Ruthie! The best friend deal is usually better if you are getting both dolls because A. It is cheaper, and B. Because you get the set with it!!! lol ok
anyway….
ttyl
Well sorry to say, Im not getting Ruthie anymore. I had my heart set on her but one day I’ll hardly ever play with them and i hardly have time for mine now as it is. Im saving as much as i can for charity instead. I hope all of you guyz enjoy Ruthie!
I don’t know if I will get Ruthie or not, it depends on how she looks. I already have 12 dolls, so I’m just thinking if I have room! My friend is getting her though.
i would love to get them both but im getting mia this year yeh!
I’m going to either buy Ruthie or ask for her for Christmas.
Ruthie is supposed to have brown eyes and brown hair. i think she’ll look like Samantha.
How do you know that? Did AG tell you?
I am getting Ruthie for sure! LOL!
Sweet! Kit was my first doll, 6 years ago, and I’ve had to wait 4 years for Ruthie, ever since they made Samantha’s movie. I’ve got three dolls at the moment, Am more than likely going to get Ruthie for my birthday (in two months, BOO!), and want to get Mia sometime before Halloween.
Hey! i’m kit, the doll. My mom\owner is going to get RUTHIE FOR ME!
I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
note from owner:
i have NO idea where you get ALL this info? PLEASE TELL ME!!
BYE!
Did I like, scare everybody, with my somewhat odd respose? Because I didn’t mean to.
Haha no, you didnt!
Kit was my first doll and I have been waiting for Ruthie since they made Nellie - they kept saying kit was next after the samantha movie, and finally they kept their promise!!!
Haha are we, like, on at the same time?
guess not
I know they made Marisol a dancer, but I think there should be another dancer… I guess that’d be a lot of dancers. I am writing a book for my AG and I am making the time period about 1954! I am designing her outfits then my best friend is helping me sew them (she is an amazing sewer and the designs are pretty good, lol!!!)… bye!
Cool
And you still didn’t answer my question Sara, but maybe you haven’t been on
where do you get all the info geys! my cureosaty is GROWING!
please tell!
Gotta go! BYE! but PLLLEEEAASE tell me where the info is, OR Tell me on this chat thing!
well we mostly just researched!
wikipedia occasionally has some stuff about it, but you can’t always trust it. Sometimes I’ll learn about a new AG mystery book by seeing them on ebay. Kirsten has one coming our or already out!
Or, to find out about new books, you can look on their publishing site. To get there, go to americangirl.com, and on the main page, (the one with the four different links) at the bottom of the page there’s a link that says “Bookseller Site”. You can look at new books there, but you can’t buy anything unless you’re a retailer. That’s how I find out about things sometimes.
Oh! Another idea! Google ‘American Girl Dolls’ or some such phrase, and see what comes up. I did that, and found three or four sites, including this one!
Guyz we found all that out b/c American Girl has drawn pics of her with brown hair and brown eyes….AG stays true to the books! My guess is:
HAIR: Brown Curly/Wavy
OUTFIT: Purple and Black Dress OR the floral yellow one
ACCESSORIES: (idc i misspelt it lol) Purple hairband
Naturally tights.
She sounds fantabulous!
☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺
nvrmnd i think i will get ruthie! i m SOOOO pumped! ;p
I can’t wait for her to come!
I am MOST DEFINETLY getting her!!!
ME TOO!!!! I want her SOOO much!!!!
I’m off of school for the rest of today. It’s a half day.
It was a half day here too…tornadoes and floods made us get out…but i have been sick so I didnt even go today
I am on spring break! hee hee! I have to go back Monday though
Wow, we don’t have tornadoes or floods where I live, I’ve never seen a tornado or flood in real life. We get bad wind storms though, and TONS of rain! I live in Washington state!
Where I live it was just a half day for no real reason.
Since I am homeschooled i dont get the day off, but spring break will start this monday!!!
Cool.
I’m homeschooled too but I get every day off that the normal school gets off.
oh. I get spring break off, thank goodness! LOL!
I was homeschooled, but now I’m taking a correspondence course so I can get my high school diploma and go to college.
char, why did you delete abigail breslin’s comments?? pleas eput them back!! I din’t finish reading them
What was Abigail Breslin saying, Ash????? Was it truly her?
Ashleigh - they were never published and have not been deleted, but the fact that you know they were there makes me even more suspect of their authenticity.
someone told me there were some so i told ppl and she told me what they were saying and i came here and there were none. but it was definatly her!!
she was really nice and just saying she would come on when she could and said she’d tell us all she could and she talked about the movie they are filming now and that she hopes we all see nims island and that she had fun making it also she had facts about her.
that is what my friend said or maybe it was another site
no im sure it was this one
A while ago, under a different post, Abigail did post but I dont think it was her. Ash, if you’re the only one who saw them, that means that your computer was the one who wrote them (because they would be private till the moderator saw them and approved them). I am NOT accusing you of anything, I am just saying what I think, which is probably nothing to worry about, lol!
This is Sienna C. I am just checking something.
Ah HAH! Before it was spam filtering my name, and not anymore! waHA! lol!
I swear it wasn’t me, i remember where i heard it, it was an abigail breslin fan site and someone said on doll diaries tht abigail was talking! Please believe me!
someone told me evrything she ’said” on here and when i came on and they weren’t here I thought cahr deleted them, and when i went back on the fan site my friend Kadie had deleted the comments making me tell char i ddin’t finish reading them and wanted her to put them on, so i guess it was just a conwincednce! ok, now do you beleive me!!!!!!
any one on??
I’m on now. I believe you about Abigail.
Ashleigh - please don’t take this the wrong way, but I know it was you posting as “abigail breslin”. The IP addresses from your comments and the supposed “abigail” comments are the same.
You are welcome to keep posting as yourself here, but please do not pose as someone else. It is not fair to the other readers and the integrity of the site. Now I will be deleting those other comments along with the one you posted with the made up email address.
I didnt think Abigail would come on this site, anyway. Ash, please just be yourself, everyone else is taken! I guess online we have to trust that no one is lying, and thats why we need to be as truthful as possible. Ashleigh, I am in NO WAY mad at you, and I still want to be your friend, so please dont take this the wrong way!
I agree with you Anna.
Thanks Marcia!
so just let me know! and also if i use 2 names, but everyoneknows Anna and Sienna C. are me, right? So it doesnt matter…? lol! Sorry if i am confusing!
Char, I have 2 computers and I like to use both - does that mess anything up? I mean like I know computers have their own code, numbers, and I was wondering if i was not supposed to use multiple computers because it looks like someone is being me…? IDK
no it wans’t me i swear!! I’m not an only child and i have only one computer in my house so why don’t you believe me, my little sister always trys to play jokes on me and so does my friend kadie so they probably planned it, it wasn’t me!!!! I can’t belive you guys!!
does anyone know how do add a blog thing on a website so ppl can comment??
im so getting ruthie i love kit, so i want her bff, when i was 10 i collected the player card things with the dolls pictures on them and there was one of ruthie and i was like i can’t wait for kit’s movie so she’ll become a doll casue she is so pretty
last night we saw spamalot it is the best play ever
You know Ash, with your little sis and all, it is possible… once my brother saw this site and said he was going to come on here and use another name…I don’t think he ever did but it is possible that your sis or friend did that, I mean, Alexandra’s friend did something like that…so, if you say you didn’t do it, I believe you.
thanks marcia you are a great friend
I agree unfortunately there is No Way we will ever find out.
lol. But EVEN SO
Oops. Sorry my computer posted it before I was done!
Anyway, even so, I still dont care. I will be your friend no matter what, Ash! I still like you for who you are, and not because of something else.
I am still suspicuos of who Sarina was, and now we know who Alexanda’s poser was, but what about mine? That was all weird. And then the Madison poser on Alex’s site. Strange. Speaking of which, I cant get on Alex’s site, can you?
no i cant either
No, I can’t get on her site either. And with Sarina, I don’t think we’ll ever know, really. It was all really weird with her.
Hey are you still on Ash?
Probably not.
I’m going on stardoll. Does anyone besides Anna have a stardoll account?
Hey Marcia, I have been saying your (or one of your) names Marcia the same way but now I wonder, how do you pronounce it?
)
Sienna is pronounced See-Ahn-A, and Anna is pronounced Ahn-nuh (so the A is longer and it makes almost an H sound after the A, Confusing, right? but its true!
Anybody there?
Thanks , I’ve been pronouncing your name wrong! Marcia is pronounced Marsh- uh.
OH! LOL! I have been saying it Mar-cee-ah, lol!
how were you pronouncing my name?
mine is pronounced ashlay or ashlee I’ve been in new york all day and we were gonna go to the AG store but there was too much traffic
huh thats cool how we all pronounce our names differently!
hey guys, guess what? I am going to be on TV! I am so excited! they did an interview yesterday and it is brodcasted some time this week!
WOW THAT’s SOOO COOL!
I was pronouncing your name See- ehnnuh and I’m not sure how to write how I was pronouncing Anna.
what tv show, commerical???
and which person is u??
any body here
no on eve ron
hello???????????????
gueststarring on one of those docter kind of shows, but its only people who live up to 2 hours away from us, and closer. So not THAT many people get it, but a bunch do!
The audition process was so hard! they made us sing, actually. Sing and act. Because the girl I play, Becky, has to sing to herself. lol! She is supposed to be 11, but since I “sorta” could be, lol, I got it! (there were at least 600 girls: I say that because my number was 597, lol!). They did an interview with me and the show will air soon! Not sure of the exact date!
im here
you ther??
u guys i found this rilly cool american girl doll site
americangirldollquestions.wetpaint.com
Thanks i’ll check it out!
That was a cool site
omg abigail posteD? (eek)
oh and anna, congrats millions!
anyway yyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh how r u guyz?
no it was a big joke made by my sis and my friend kadie on me
we all r pretending it nvr happend caused 2 many probs
sienna wher hav u been?? u havent emailed me back even
thanks for the congrats!
Oh and I am going to see the American Idol finale!! I am so excited!
part of the reason I got the part is because at a dance competition a talent agent noticed me and said that I was a good performer and then it all happened fast!
good luck have fun!
thanks, Ash!
HEY
u ther??
i know u hav 2 be ther come on we always miss eachother, but ill stay on until u come
hello???
my fav doll is kit
did u guys go on tht site
americangirldollquestion
.wetpaint.com
can become a free member i did
**u can become a free member, i did!
i still like doll diaries bttr
Hey are you still on???
I missed you by maybe 20 minutes…sigh
Just in case you come back on, I’ll be back, but for now I’m going on some other sites.
Well I’m back but it looks like nobody else is here…
Hey Sienna C, on a site called American Girl Blog, did you post under the name S.C.? Just wondering.
Anybody want to talk?
Is anybody on?
I’ve got to go.
hey hey gurlfriend
ant body here
I’m here now…I keep missing you!
lol now I am but not for long! LOL! No I might be on for like 10 more mins. just if you DO come on wait a sec I will keep checking!
and Marcia no i didnt… why? (Post as S.C., that is)
just wondering
I wanted to see if SC stood for Sienna C
And she seemed to know something that only those of us who post on this site a lot would know, but if she wasn’t you…
idk what is the link? I dont remenember but post the link, please!
hey hey wat up???
hello?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
HI! lol!
hi
Hey!
haha
the website was
Americangirl.wordpress.com
But I don’t think it was you who posted there probably
Thanks Marcia! I will let you know
nope not me!
Are you still on?
Hello?
Sorry!!
Arch my sister left it on Bayleigh. lol. that was Sienna before. We have the same computer.
Okay.
=) yeah the nerd, lol!
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lol!
I cant wait for Ruthie to come out! Kit is one of my favorite, and I love dolls with curly hair! This will be good!
Yeah! I can hardly wait!
same here!!! =)
Hey, Alex, someone by the name of Hailey posted on Millie’s doll blog, was she your friend Tara before? IDK! lol! I am just wondering, I am NOT in any way accusing you of posing, I am just wondering if that was Tara. Bye!
they told me in an e-mail that i sent them b/c i was confused on the eye color in the original Kit books. i think that they’re going to change the eye color to hazel though.
of Ruthie?
I wanted her to have brown eyes.
thts cool………………………………….
hello any body herre
i wanted brown eyes too
thats how i thought she’d look!
brownish redish curly hair and brown eyes
im still here
still here
ok i g2g bi
im still here, im so bored
i wish there was a time when evry1 was on
im here cme on
im gonna cry
happy came back
srry im watchin tht new show mighty bee
i want ruthie sooooooooooooooooooo bad
im here still
i’ve gotta go
Now I’m here but of course, you aren’t anymore. Why is it that we never are on at the same time?
I RRRREEEEAAALLLYYYY want Ruthie!
did any1 get the catalog yet? i didnt…
no i have not either, but i hope i get one soon i bet ill get one b4 may 1st w/ ruthie in it
there is a new catouloge i bet well get it soon caus eit has stuff bout kit movie in it probs ruthie too!! so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i saw it on the AG SITE!
i emailed ag they said my catalouge should come tonight or tommoro
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! im so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!
So am I ! I hope mine comes really soon!
I havent got the Americn girl magazines lately!
I hope I get 1!
no im talking bout catalogues, ag said ruthie might not be released untill the movie is! but ill keep emailing
they say they can’t tell me much
Oh! That’d be AWFUL!!!!
Oh I hope I get the catalougue!
even though ruthie isnt in it… but she will be soon!
Yes maybe next month? Definetly by July though I’d say!
shes not coming out in may!
not until the mivie comes out
Did american girl say that?
Sry, i didn’t know anyone posted here- and yes, Tara did pose as Haylee, too.
ok. thats annoying!
yes thye said tht
Ohhhhh, I can’t wait that long!
I really wish she was coming out sooner.
Hey, ya’ll! I have been waiting for Ruthie for 4 yrs.! I can’t wait, I’m getting that doll! I wonder if she’ll have the elizabeth face!
no she’ll probably not, maybe josefina’s and nickis hair but in redish brown ringlets
josefina face mold and eye color but lighter skin
yeha I’ve been waiting for ruthie evr since i was seven and my sis got kit, i just had a feeling they’d make her a doll and then they started making bff dolls and when i heard the movie was cming out i was so excited cause i knew theyd make ruthie and then seeing her book cover! oh you know what i mean. I slept with her trading card on my night stand and everynight i d say i know ruthies gonna come out, so im im over thrilled overwhlemed i guess! I’m 12 now almost 13
my mom would read kits books to me and i loved when ruhtie was in a part and theyd talk about her. i fell in love w/ her character and then i saw her in the pics of the book and i knew she was the doll for me.i might not play w/ them tht much anymore but i dress them up and have kits whole setup out waitin 4 ruthie, i know i never told you guys all this so here.
kits book was one of the first books ilearned ot read, just because of ruthie and her dreams of happy ending and fairy tales! It gets to me cause i grew up w/ her and he rmottos in my mind
you guys need to post more
Ruthie is going to be cute… I hope they make a game for her, like Julie and Mia have. I hope she has hazel eyes! Oh, Ruthie…
ohh online you mean, well she is a bff doll, but ivy kinda got a gmae under julies name, the chinese one, so if ruthie will have a game it will probs be under kits nme
who is this kit gurl, is she pretending to be kit? just wondering cause b4 some1 was
I doubt she is posing as a doll, Ash. lol!
hey on girl sense go to groups and type in i love american girl dolls, that’s my group name and we can chat there too. someone make their username ruthie cause if you do we can type in ruthie.
no this gurl was lik hi im a kit doll and this is my owner i dnt remeber which oine it was on but it is weird
i was wonderin if it was the same gurk
take this sienna c! Kit, on April 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pm Said:
Hey! i’m kit, the doll. My mom\owner is going to get RUTHIE FOR ME!
I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
note from owner:
i have NO idea where you get ALL this info? PLEASE TELL ME!!
BYE!
she was posing as a doll and i was wondering if the kit gurl was tht same gurl
I still cant find that comment! ???
huh i saw it, thanks Ash. that is so weird! who would pose as a doll?
I think the girl owns a Kit doll and wants to make her talk to us, if what I just typed made any sense.
i saw ruthie she is sittin gnext to kit on ag site click my name it is the photo w/ all the dolls in the theater
Char, why is it deleting my comments? I saw Ruthie in that picture a few days ago!!! And i told peeps but you deleted it!
umm the picture just came out yesterdat=y and then git deleted. so it couldnt hav been a few days ago.
sienna! why havent you emailed me back??
yuo should get the kit expert quiz on here
Lets see maybe because I’ve been busy Ashleigh! i have swimming soccer school softball, shopping, friend s a life
excuse me i don’t remeber you have so much attitude sienna and i have a life, lacrosse school work friends shopping play practice running my own website and still can check my email and email ppl
thts so rude are you saying tht i have no life cause i sepnd 1o minutes to 30 mins on the computer!
you are not the same as u used to be!
woa dont fight, guys!
stay positive… ok! So… Ruthie… awesome! TOTALLY CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, stay p
sitive
And about Ruthie, she is SO TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!
YAY!!! I can’t wait! Hurry up, Ruthie! 
i cant wait for ruthie!
ohh and char thanks for metioning me giving you the photo but my name is spelled ashleigh not ashley i know it is like that on the email but it wouldnt let me type ashleigh idk why!!
Hey guys,
I can’t wait for ruthie to come out!!!
And Sienna and Ashleigh please stop fighting!!
guys is no one posting here??
GO TO AMERICAN GIRL QUESTIONS.WETPAINT.COM
WITHOU THE SPACES KK! BECOME A MEMBER i MEAN IT IS FREE
Hey Ashleigh,
What American girl dolls do you have??
Are you getting RUTHIE when she finally comes out??
Hey,
Does anyone know where I can find info. on
the Kit movie!!
I am seeing it 4 my birthday!!
Did you try kitkittredge.com ?
i wanna get ruthie i hope i get her. I have addy, elizabeth, felicty, kailey, jess, mia, julie, just like you doll Medium skin, short brown hair with highlights, brown eyes Item# F5232, and Light skin, dark brown hair, brown eyes Item# F5210 sold ivy and josefina, wish I didn’t. and I kinda have kit too. so tht’s umm 9 i think!
I’m getting Ruthie.
I love her!
Wow Ashleigh,
Yeah I did try kitkittredge.com I only have 3 dolls
Kit, Julie and an American Girl Today Doll
I only have 2, so yeah!
I didnt mean to send that, oops! sorry!
Continuing on:
I have Kit, and AG of today (brown hair, blue eyes, freckles), and soon to be Ruthie! lol!
Oh, and Annabelle, you are going to confuse me really bad. My sister’s whole name is Bayleigh Annabelle, and if she uses her second part of her first name, she will confuse all of us (and there is a major chance she will do it so we get confused). Ah well.
AND Annabelle is close to Anna too! This will get confusing! Tell your sister not to use the name Annabelle so we can keep things straight!
Cool!!
How was school??
I have exams next week!
I’m homeschooled. I get out June 5 and my best friend gets out May 22!How about you girls?

I love Ruthie!
how old are you, Annabelle?
haha)
(And Marcia, dont worry… just dont say anything. If you say something THEN she will. If you dont, she might not realize
Realise what?
Please tell me….
Im 13 by the way!!
How old are you guys??
OK bye 4 now
I’m 13 too!
I’m 13
and my sis Bayleigh… her name is Bayleigh Annabelle, and she likes to confuse people, so she may just use Annabelle as her name lol! but I doubt she will. dont worry!
Well, I emailed AG and their being all idk how 2 put this… annoying, prissy, stuborn?
They wrote this
American Girl’s first big screen movie will feature Kit® and will
premiere on July 2, 2008. New product releases at American Girl® are
very exciting events and we know that our customers are eager for their
details as soon as possible. While we can confirm that we will be
releasing a book related to the movie entitled “Really Truly Ruthie”, we
do not have information to share at this time regarding other products
that will be released in conjunction with the movie.
It has been our custom to release the best friend doll of our Historical
Character with the premiere of our movies. However, whether it is the
Girl of the Year, a new Historical Character or simply a new outfit or
accessory, future products are not revealed prior to their launch on the
website and in the catalogue. In the event that a Ruthie doll would be
released with the movie, any pre-sale or reservation system for her
purchase would be announced on our website as soon as the information is
available.
Thank you for your interest. We hope that you enjoy the show this
summer!
k they said the EXACT same thing to me- they’re busy, but do they really need automated responses???
I know! I’ve emailed them and got that email before too!
yeah but now ruthies out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!
YAY!!!!!!
I am so excited i ordered her and she should be coming soon!!!!!
I ordered her too! I REALLY hope she arrives today! I’m feeling VERY impatient!