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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. Autumn says:

    i think in barbie beta all first comers should get at least one code to unlock one thing of there choice like clothes or furniture.

  2. Yo says:

    they will not let me in the park or cafe how stupid is that if we want to play let us play!!

  3. they should really let every one every where thier just persuading them to get that toy and some of us dont have the money to get it right now

  4. Jenny says:

    I loved this

  5. baybiichris says:

    how do you get the toy and the codes?

  6. jujoana says:

    porfavor mim ajude eu fiz um barbie beta mais eu quero bloquear e escluir eu quero que meu avatar sair eu não quero mais ter porisso eu pesso eu quero saber como bloqueia o meu avatar.

    por favor

    mande um recado para o meu email.

  7. kryszle says:

    my barbie beta is not working

  8. Andrea says:

    This is stupid, they don’t let me go to the cafe!

  9. cherry says:

    stupid! i cant go to club beauty and icant go to my friends rooms darrrrrnnnnn!!!!!! eror!

  10. cherry says:

    hey my character is full of white

  11. maya says:

    they won’t let me buy a posh pet

  12. i love the barbie girls beta and my chaicter its so cool

  13. hadeer says:

    oh silly they sait to me
    [barbie is super busy right now]
    they do not let me play

  14. wire says:

    just wont let me log on all ways so busisy

  15. Heather says:

    i love this its just gay that i cant adopt a pet

    I want a pet damb it!!!!

  16. Heather says:

    i want to adopt a dang pet plz plz plz its so boring on here without a pet plz i want a cat!!!!!!stupid barbie mp3……….to be continued……….

  17. Heather says:

    i love atumns idea to get at least one code to unlock one thing they wish to!!

  18. i really don’t understand.why they don’t let me go to all places at the barbie girls beta.i can’t go to my friend’s room,i can’t hang out with my friends.they don’t let me do anything.i really really don’t understand.i also cannot do anything.just staying in my room ALONE. i also have sent e-mails to all my friends but didn’t reply back.so boringgggg.

  19. All you do Is go To Dazzling Nails and Click A Character, then you click done and then click play again. Fast and easy way to get tons of B Money!
    10 B’s Just Like That

    Dazzling Nails Game -> Character -> Done -> Play Again

  20. Nicole says:

    The site is so stupid because it dosen’t let you get anything cool! You also cant say hate,dislike,stupid,dumb,come,its so retarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  21. Nicole says:

    Tell your frends to send you cool stuff that they have bought with there MP3 thingy.

  22. now i can’t open my barbie beta

  23. I’m personally looking forward to checkign this out, it sounds a lot like Webkinz which was very popular with my neice’s age group of friends, around 10 years of age.

    I’ll be blogging about my experiences!

  24. Liz says:

    Barbie girl is a fun game but it sux when u cant have a pet or ne cooler things!

  25. Hadeer says:

    my girl is not talk,walk and is not go to any were
    there is a proplem in the game i wich they fix this ploplem

    thanks for reading

  26. Hadeer says:

    i wich they open more things cool

  27. Hadeer says:

    i know barbie beta code
    do anybody wants to know it?

  28. Hadeer says:

    the code is
    barbiegirls232
    you will have 100 b bucks

  29. it wont let you in club beauty or get a pet if you dont have a code from the barbie mp3 player duhhhh!!!and if it says barbiegirls is super busy just click try again and look at the picture that is on the video when you click try again…when the video turns off press the play button…and then when the spot that was on when you pressed try again comes on…press the word wait that is under your password

  30. Merryweather says:

    what wrong with barbiegirls,i can check in for 5 months ,when i go to barbiegirls.com.They said “coming soon”.plz plz let me check in.

  31. nicole says:

    my name is nicole too and the barbie thing totally rocks

  32. chris says:

    why when i talk or the other girls talk its all a bunch of symbels intead of words whats up tell me how to fiix it

  33. GUIAFRELEEN says:

    barbie girls is not fair

  34. nolee says:

    the barbie girl beta is waiting our time im not in their ok its only junk my boy friend dump me on that stupid game

  35. Eva says:

    wow i try to go on and the thing loads but the thing wont show up i have on but it still wont work and i dont see any progess in the site!!!!!

  36. kim says:

    i hate how this game works you have to get a barbie something to play thats crap

  37. chris says:

    i hate that the girls call each other beaches meaning the bad word or the word for a female dog the older girls are fuguring out a way to say bad words and the little ones dont understand what they are being called bad names for example they say no to them and get called a bad word

  38. Krystal says:

    i agree with chris .if a little girl is called beach they would probly think that they want to go to the beach i hate that people call each other turkey ass to

  39. krystal says:

    im so mad yesterday was my birthday and i got a barbie girl and it wont let me in my room so when i log in it is just all white!im getting a new barbie girl they r like 60.00 dollars!my parents r so mad!that happend right after i got my pet i feel like breaking it!

  40. jdisa says:

    hey everyone i had a barbie now i am happy it is just that i think barbiegirls.com is cheating on those who has an mp3 player……after a week my mails says i used my secret question and answer to get online and after 2 days they repeat it so many times>>>>i asked some girls with mp3 too they say someone knows thier password too and then i wondered it is the barbiegirls.com who is doing that right there si 3 ideas for me to think of that…. 1 they change ur cloths but they dont buy anything… 2 they are saying you used the secret quetion and password to get online and 3 maybe they want you to buy another barbie so that you can get 1 more code…..you get it…….many girls are like that and i think it is barbie girls i am just warning you….but if you want to buy i dont care…..

  41. rebecca says:

    cool cd i love barbie dolls

  42. rebecca says:

    it is fair cuiafreleen
    barbie girls rock

  43. rebecca says:

    i like barbie,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  44. i hate how this game works you have to get a barbie something to play thats crap
    and this is the stupidest game i ever played in my whole intire life i hate this fucking game and Barbie girl is a fun game but it sux when u cant have a pet or ne cooler things! and nicole shut up and stupid! i cant go to club beauty and icant go to my friends rooms darrrrrnnnnn!!!!!! eror! and they should really let every one every where thier just persuading them to get that toy and some of us dont have the money to get it right now and they will not let me in the park or cafe how stupid is that if we want to play let us play!!

  45. ashley says:

    i have it in your face all of u girls hahahahaha the mp3 barbie is mine!!!!

  46. kali says:

    Barbie girls is totally awesome you can get all kinda of dif. stuff

  47. stephanie says:

    my computer loads fast on barbie girls :) but i want a mp3 player so bad imma get one soon but i dont know how much sooner ;_;

  48. chris says:

    I paid 70.00 for a barbire girl my daughter played and played haveing so much fun then out of no where a error message flash player 9 is running slowly if you continue to play your computer may run slowly or something to this effect you click yes to abort or no to continue neiter of wich works she cant even get her barbie girl to download the message pops up each time you put the doll on so
    whats the point of paying all this money and she cant use the doll foooie for 70.00 i can get her a mp3 player that holds more than 120 songs iv returned the doll and she can play the game fine with the regular barbie girls no error message pops up. I realize this is beta but dont buy that doll unil the bugs are worked out of this game its a waste of money and actualy she hardly plays it now found a game called stardolls she has much more fun with it but yes i have to pay 5.95 for every 50.00 dollars she can spend on items to buy for this doll but she loves it she is only 8 years old and isnt being called names anymore try the game girls its cool she has made friend from sweeden and england and the e- mail each other and yes i do monitor the e-mails to maske sure no one is saying things she shouldnt be hearing but so far much more fun for her no prolems no mean girls saying bad words because se wont give them a barbie girl gif

  49. Irene says:

    chris is right it always says adobe 9 flash player doesnt work or whatever but it always happens after a while and your computer will get frozen

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