Copywrite dates do not always mean that item was made that year. Sometimes company will have items tagged Made in XXXX but it is really year YYYY. It does cost money to produce the tags and everytime they have to do a new date, it will cost more. As right now most AG dolls say 2008, yet it is only 2005, so the tag does not have the same year the doll was created. The dolls that do not have tags, I do not know the reason PC did this, amybe it ws the transistion period of the German Factories to Hungarian Factories. Hope this helped.