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American Girl Dolls (38/?)  

Tenneyson Evangeline “Tenney” Grant ~ 2017

I looked up at the twinkling stars in the darkening sky. I felt like one of those stars, floating higher than I could ever imagine, shining with my whole heart. Remember this feeling, I thought to myself. It’ll make a great song.

And the cynics were outraged Screaming, “This is absurd!” Cause for a moment a band of thieves in ripped-up jeans Got to rule the world

first released 16 February 2017

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I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons.

Tenney Grant, at some point probably

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American Girl Dolls (39/?)  

Logan Everett ~ 2017

“When we first started playing together, I didn’t want you to change a single note I had written. But then I realized that you made my music better. You made me better. You taught me that admitting you need help is hard. It takes courage. But when you lean on someone else for support, that makes you both stronger.”

And how can you learn what's never shown? Yeah, you stand here on your own They don't know me Cause I'm not here

first released 16 February 2017

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Tenney Recipes + Crafts

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ok but in addition to the caption on my last post, i am wondering if ag was ever planning on releasing jaya. see... my first impression, upon seeing leaks about tenney and logan back in 2016, was that ag was going to release jaya, too, and they were all in a band together, and i’m starting to wonder if maybe that was the plan

i don’t have a lot of evidence, but: 

ag definitely wanted to start a contemporary line 

it would be really good marketing to have a group line where everyone’s in a band; “hey kids, if you want the whole band you have to buy all the dolls, lol”

tenney and logan very specifically had new hand molds so they could hold instruments, which is very interesting for dolls that reportedly were planned to be goty, so therefore only around for one year 

speaking of which- tenney has five books if you count her journal, with most girls of the year capping off at three with maybe a short story. if she was planned for an extended line, a traditional six-book arc would be a good way to introduce all the characters they planned to sell as dolls 

there are a lot of illustrations of jaya in tenney’s journal in comparison to the one (1) of logan, which is intresting because at the time american girl had been trying to retire illustrations for a couple years

jaya’s poses definitely seem like they could’ve been marketing poses; could you not see those photos slapped on a standup in an ag store or on the outside of a box? 

tenney got jaya a tambourine for her birthday, aka an instrument she could use in their songs 

tenney and jaya also befriend holliday hayes- which btw is a very memorable name that could also be used in marketing- who is interested in music 

i doubt this would’ve been a plan for long, maybe dropped before prototypes of jaya could be made because ag decided to just dump their contemporary line as a bunch of different girls with different stories, with logan as tenney’s best friend just because they wanted to try selling boy dolls, but it is an interesting thought and i kinda wish they’d done that, a band line would’ve been cute and each doll could’ve had their own instrument

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Tenney’s Journal Illustrations!

I find it interesting that there are so many illustrations of Jaya. Makes me wonder if AG was planning on releasing her at some point...

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Tenney Grant Song Lyrics 2/2

from Tenney’s Journal

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Tenney’s Official Playlist