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New Barbie Girls Bridge Virtuality Gap via PC

May 2, 2007 by Erin  
Filed under Gaming

200704292208Remember those dreams you used to have when you were little? The ones where your Barbie dolls came alive with a maniacal Valley Girl giggle and proceeded to menace your cowering, sleep-fogged self with their sharp-edged plastic accessories? No? Well you should because it wasn’t just a dream, it was a premonition. Mattel’s new line of dolls, aiming to be a chic re-tooling of a classic brand, may just feature connectivity to your humble PC. BarbieGirls.com appears to be part community venue, allowing visitors to chat with friends (classified as friends, or best friends…ouch on the clique-y-ness), play games, building up a stash of the site’s virtual currency “B Bucks”, and part portal for further branding exercises.
According to 3pointD.com, which poked around at the official website of the new “Barbie Girls”, proud doll owners may be able to buy virtual outfits for your doll’s virtual self, while perhaps also being able to grab a physical set of duds for their clutchable companion. I set about my own adventure in Barbie Girl World, creating an account and an avatar that looked…nothing like me. I didn’t get much further than that though, because my lack of a physical doll prevented me from unlocking the hairstyles that I wanted, and the ‘Tell Me More’ link, which was supposed to explain how a doll would allow me to access more content, didn’t respond to my frantic clicking. From what I could tell, it’s sort of like Second Life meets Habbo Hotel meets reality, in that there seems to be a suggestion of interactivity between the doll that you buy in the store, and the happenings on the computer, and vice versa. The system is currently in beta.

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122 Responses to “New Barbie Girls Bridge Virtuality Gap via PC”
  1. Fifi says:

    i tried the codes, but what do you do if you want a pet? I mean where do you put the code??

    Fifi

  2. rachael says:

    i hate barbiegirls.u cant even get the code to get on the whole world.this sucks so fucking badly.im out

  3. monique says:

    plz plz plz!!!!!!! barbiegirls be faster in making your web on beta everybody wants to open their accounts again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  4. monique says:

    hope that barbiegirls beta is more better than the old barbiegirls

  5. SHane says:

    The new Barbie beta sucks you should pay monthly to unlocked all the items i hat barbie beta at all it suck 1OOOOOOOOOOOOOO X

  6. kairi says:

    b girls ain’t stupid at all! im like, obsessed! i have a b girl mp3 and i’m also paying vip! if u pay vip u can type chat and say evrythin u want! once i called a girl stupid ass and it worked! anyway, here r some bgirl codes 4 money:
    mattelbbucks, walmartbbucks, targetbbucks, barbiegirlsbbucks, and barbiegirls 232
    in total those r 1032 b bucks! :]

  7. katrina says:

    this barbie girls and club penguin just want money money and f corse money
    zwinky is much much better than both of them

  8. lisa says:

    look, you gys say that bgirl is a lot of money? hello! it’s only $30 and i have two.and they let me go into the cafe when i didn’t have a bgirl. the only thing that you couldn’t go into was club beauty!Do you like their new barbie vip? i do! it’s awesome! i have it and it is so worth the money!i also have be-bratz and that also is cool! i think that they should make it so other people can go into your rooms.zwinky is also pretty cool! love how you can easily access it! and they always have tons of new clothes! look guys, when you get a barbie girl, you do not get codes.)-: that was a bummer.hope that you guys can get me codes!

  9. Erica says:

    the game is awesome and i have a barbie girl but i enter the stupid code and it doesnt work u get codes on the instructions i write it down and it still doesnt work

  10. princess says:

    i know the zwinky is really cool like a barbiegirls beta and there are mall,shopping ang anything else if you dont want the barbiegirls beta go in zwinky.com im also need a code f barbie girls but i dont have so i will go now to zwinky.com because i have a character there but i dont have a code my money there is 1,000 b balance

  11. Libby says:

    I can’t believe how RUBBISH this website is.I mean, hello, I can’t even find out where to unlock my room so friends can come in.I can’t buy clothes, or “furni” or even write my own chat.BTW, I reckon your Barbie girl will break after a few months.Also, there is no chance of anyone NOT American-like me- to have acess to VIP.A brain-sucking, stupid, Food-disorder and debt promoting website in my opion.Enjoy!

  12. Libby says:

    If anyone wants a DECENT website, visit http://www.americangirl.com or http://www.neopets.com American Girl has loads of awesome,differet games and quizzes, plus a shop-for real- but you can’t set up an account.Neopets is similar to Barbie Girls, but you have a fantasy pet, plus it is MUCH better orgainised.HTH

  13. cayz says:

    Anyone who wants codes for bBUcks for barbiegirls.com then here
    barbiegirls232 – 100 b bucks
    barbiegirlspresale – 200 b bucks
    mattelchoice – 100 b bucks
    mattelbbucks – 100 b bucks
    walmartbbucks – 100 b bucks

    use these while u can before they expire

  14. vaishali says:

    it’s so boring here. everything is for barbie v.i.p. that’s not fare. i just hate it.STUPID!!!!!!!!!

  15. orange lemon says:

    hey barbie girl company why are you so greedy when it comes to vip membership! and you get money from our parents pocket and gives expiration date!!! and sometimes your site freezes it is really much a pain..i think your site have more work to do..and i agree some of the opinion that you are not fair. do you know that some girls are envy with the vip? why can’t you let a vip membership for free..

  16. tina says:

    whats is a barbie girls vip code?

  17. ebony says:

    guys you do know that you have to pay to get a game up like this and it cost like 200 a week so don’t be like this is not fair i cant play this and blah but I’m super lucky because i don’t have to pay so there and i got a mp3 for free and i am listening to it know and if you want codes i will give you them just post that you want them

  18. Kate says:

    Whatever happened to Barbie Girls?
    Rember, you could buy quite a few things from the store, even if you didn’t
    have a barbie girl?
    And yet there where a few things you still could not buy, but I liked it more when you COULD buy quite a few things.

  19. maritulip says:

    i already now those codes thank you though!it so hard to get codes when u r not a v.i.p so wut ever i guess i have to b lookin!:)

  20. angelina says:

    i cant go on zwinky any more thoe but when i get my own comuter i can

  21. angelina says:

    just email them i will

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