My Character

Inspired by the iconic fashion doll Barbie ™ the Barbie Girl is a stylized avatar that can be costumized and dressed like any other real fashion doll. Similar in shape to the MP3 players, there's hundreds of clothing and accessory pieces to wear and a good number of skin and eye colors to choose. V.I.P. members could even create their Fab Facts profile with their favorites and hobbies plus some little personal information such as home country and birth stone.

Players could then see their characters walk around the world of BarbieGirls.com and interact with it!

The Barbie Girl

The Barbie Girl is a more stylized version of the iconic Barbie doll created by Mattel. Both the MP3 version and the avatar version are very similiar, with it's more rectangular head. The Barbie Girl is at it's core a modern fashion doll, with an MP3 player that can have it's outfits, hairs and faces mixed and matched and with the online avatar version who offered even more option to personalize. The avatar version could be seen in players profiles, in My Character to change the appearance or on screens or games such on: B Central, Buzz & Goss, Club Beauty, Glam Gowns, Sparkle Coaster Race, Rockin' Rec Center, Design Idol

The overworld version would be seen across the world of Barbie Girls, walking around all hangouts and on the Sparkle Coaster Race. The Barbie Girl could walk on straight lines and on diagonals plus sitting in four positions. Special walks could be seen in Glam Gowns and on Enchanted Bay the character would do some turns like the doll was ice skating. The fairy transformations from Trick or Treat or Funky Flower & Fairy Power would just float and flutter their wings instead of walking. The overworld version was very similiar to the avatar version, it just had some details a bit more simple (certain details or patterns could not be seen) or animated things would not move like the pets inside the bags from the V.I.P. memberships of November 2008.

My Character

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My Character was the function on the website gameplay that allowed players to change their avatar's look and outfit.

1 Choose a Look: Players could pick their skin color (All players had 6 natural skin colors to choose from and V.I.P. had an extra 5 fantasy skin colors), choose from a selection of hairstyles, eye shapes and lip shapes (both had some V.I.P. exclusives and others purchasable or gifted). There were exclusive hairstyles, eyes and lips available on Club Beauty which were not available on the My Character selection, and once a player removed those exclusive looks and saved, if they wanted them back, they had to got a Club Beauty makeover by another member.

2 Dress up: The dress up part gave players access to their full closet inventory. Players could pick a top or dress, a jacket and pants/skirts. Jackets could be worn over t-shirts and dresses but shirts could not be worn at the same time as dresses, nor could pants or skirts be worn at the same time as pants. For gifted or starter clothes players could pick their colors, pattern and sleeves for a very few type of shirts.

3 Accessorize: Accessorize gave players access to their shoes, bags and accessories inventory. They could pick shoes, purses, jewelry (earrings, necklaces and bracelets could be worn at the same time), and more accessories (players could picks glasses hair accessories which were always linked to a certain hairstyle, both glasses and hair accessories could be worn at the same time).

Once the look was finished a player could save their new look and decide if they wanted to print it or not.

looks

hAIR

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V.I.P. Exclusives

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EYES

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lips

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My FAB FACTS

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My Fab Facts was added to BarbieGirls.com after it got out of it's BETA phase. It was a new feature exclusive to V.I.P. members were players could create a profile about themselves and show a bit more of their personality. All players could check each other's fab facts when clicking on a players like they would do when adding a new friend. Players could choose the background behind their Barbie Girl avatar (there were 17 available) and their my mood face from 19 options (happy, sparkly, hyper, crushin', sassy, very V.I.P., silly, fierce, boo-ti-ful, peace lovin', grateful, festive, free 2b me, cozy, bored, blustery, grumpy, sad, chillin'). The fab facts themselves were devided into 5 categorys were players could pick images:

All about me: Players could pick their personality, their birthstone and their home country and continent.

More about me: Players could pick their hobbies, their favorite sports and how their helped others (like charity, recycling, etc..)

My faves: Players could pick their favorite colors, their favorite foods and favorite school subjects (including recess!).

Barbie Girls faves: on this tab player could pick their favorites from the virtual world of Barbie Girls like their favorite hangouts, games and activities (my Fab Facts never had new updates after it's release so all the Barbie Girls favorite are about thing available at the time of My Fab Facts released).

My dream life: finally players could image their future and dreams while picking their dream profession, places they want to visit and what they like on their crush.