My Scene: Barbie’s Hard-Partying Parallel Universe

The year is 2002 and Mattel which until this point had been the Undisputed Titan of the fashion doll industry due to the enduring success of Barbie was in fullon crisis mode I mean panicking screaming nashing teeth and pulling hair with Mattel’s Executives going as far as to describe the situation as a Barbie

Genocide and what exactly was it that was sending them into this full-blown existential freak out passion for fashion passion for fashion brats released a year prior in 2001 had irrevocably shaken up the fashion doll industry by being what the traditional and generally conservative Mattel had been resistant to being for

Years trendy brats embraced the reality of Youth fashion which in the great tradition of everything that young people have done for all of history greatly upset the older Generations by being well not what they were doing as kids and teens but I’m not here to tell you about Bratz today instead I’d like

To tell you about Mattel’s desperate move to win the hearts and mind of the youth Market back by well basically just writing on the coat Tales of what Bratz was already Doing in response to Brat’s Multicultural but ethnically ambiguous Khloe Yasmin Sasha and Jade Mattel brought us Barbie Chelsea Madison and noie with big eyes big lips and edgy and trendy fashion relative to what the market had come to expect from Barbie there was no denying that the goal was

To steal a SL of mga’s newly gigantic market share but really Mattel didn’t just want to compete with Bratz they wanted Bratz destroyed and my scene was just one component of their Salvo of attempts to lay waste to the competing franchise so is my scene just a soless

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Frau time in Mattel’s history and it’s definitely a worthwhile read if you’re interested in this slice of the corporate world it’s one of the most in-depth looks at the reality of the fashion doll industry that you can find from the outside what may have seemed like a friendly rivalry was really more

Like Mattel having an absolute fit about what they viewed as an illegal infringement of their intellectual property a claim that largely hand on Brat’s original designer Carter Bryant having worked for both Mattel and MGA at the same time at one point But ultimately MGA was the one who turned

Out victorious in this extremely protracted legal battle but there’s two sides to any big corporate toy creation there’s the cynical and bloodthirsty suits and then there’s the creative Spirit of the designers enter Lily Martinez who began work with Mattel in 1998 after being tasked with designing

For Barbie for a few years she was the one appointed to create this new doll line that would hopefully bring Bratz to its knees now she would would eventually come to succeed at that goal as the original designer of Monster High but my scene would never really Break Out of

The Shadow of Bratz now that’s not to say that my scine was just an uninspired Bratz clone their look despite having some superficial similarities was distinct and difficult to mistake one for the other their proportions were completely different with mine opting for a more Barbie like body layout

Compared to Brat’s nearly chibi large heads and little bodies and perhaps most importantly their Vibe was more adult compared to brass’s distinctly teenage look the question of how old are myene dolls supposed to be is one with no simple answer and I think is a question best addressed in a way that’s more

Fluid than giving them one specific age are they teenagers yes they go to high school are they adults yes they’re clearly nightclub regulars it seems as though myene characters are 16 to 21 depending on what’s convenient at the time ironically due to its association with Barbie and the controversy

Surrounding Bratz at the time my scene was often considered a safer alternative to Bratz despite their de decidedly more adult styling and fashion sense while I wouldn’t say that my scene is inappropriate for kids to play with some of the outfits they wear would probably be inappropriate for kids to wear

Themselves take two lines that are often compared with each other Bratz forever diamonds and my scenes my bling bling the only thing revealing about the forever diamonds looks is an itty bitty slice of midriff in contrast with my bling Bling’s brawlet tops and Tiny mini skirts it should be obvious which one

Would get conservative parents more upset but in reality if it wasn’t both of them it was usually only Bratz goes to show the power of Barbie’s family-friendly branding well let’s stop with the comparisons and start examining my scene on its own Merit let’s start at the beginning for

This history I’ll be referencing the extremely comprehensive My Scene fandm Wiki which has all the doll releases sorted by year the initial release of my scene came in 2002 with a line simply known as first collection this featured a cast of only three characters Barbie Chelsea and Madison The Branding used on

These first release dolls is slightly different than the one most people are familiar with this early style was in nearly ‘ 60s retro take on the characters and while not quite as iconic as the post2 2003 art style I do think this one is very cute this style would only show up on

Two doll releases the first collection and the one that came after spring break 2003 spring break would give us our first instense of my scene’s extremely cool doll cars these would only become flashier and more complex as time went on this line would also introduce some new characters most importantly the

Fourth core member of the group noie and a couple of guys had and Bryant going along with the NYC theming of the group all of the girls except for Barbie had a name that corresponded to a location in Manhattan Madison after Madison Avenue Chelsea after the neighborhood of the

Same name and noie after noita a location short for north of Little Italy certain spring break dolls came bundled with mixed CDs themed to the four girls this includes request line by the blackeyed peas for Barbie Cherry lips by garbage for Chelsea take a picture by

Maya for Madison and soak up the sun by Cheryl Crow for noie the third release back to to school gave us a 1 to1 girls to guys ratio with the introduction of river and Sutton Barbie was paired with River Madison with Sutton Chelsea with Hudson and noie was paired with Bryant

Although this would prove to be short-lived as Bryant was discontinued after back to school back to school has an interesting transitional illustration style That You Don’t See on any of the other releases it’s kind of a hybrid between the first style and the lineless style that would dominate The Branding

For the majority of the 2000s along with the back to school release we get our second car related line and oh my God it looks so good the silver one especially dear Lord I love a doll car in this pack we get two more characters Delancy and

Ellis and even though the two are meant to be romantically linked Ellis was sold together with Barbie and Delany with Hudson with the next release night on the toal the illustration style finally solidifies to the one that they would be using for the majority of the brands run

This one comes with a sound Lounge playet here’s where the whole variable age thing comes into play because the past two releases have been high school themed while this place definitely doesn’t look like any place that teenagers should be hanging around look there’s even indeterminant drinks is

That sake honestly this is an extremely gorgeous playset and the table even pulls out into being a CD holder all the girls get paired up with their respective guys for this release except for noie whose boyfriend has been discontinued so she gets packaged with the lounge continuing with my sc’s

Proclivity for doll Vehicles 2003 brings us a ride in the park with Barbie Madison and noie featuring these bicycles with absolutely wild proportions to accommodate my scenes Five Points of articulation then there’s Vespa scene with Barbie Madison and Chelsea and these Vespas are so gorgeous that they make me feel covus they’re

Officially licensed so they’re perfect little Miniatures of the real thing other releases from 2003 include the winter themed chilling out tuning in which came with a mini FM radio and earbuds and hanging out which featured all the characters will so far except Bryant sorry Bryant the chill and

Outline came with a promotion that if you bought all four of the Dolls you get a prepaid cell phone with up to 300 minutes that’s right a gloriously 2003 cell phone where you’re expected to write texts with only nine buttons I feel like you just don’t see this type

Of promotion anymore moving on to 2004 corresponding with the release of the first my scene movie we have jaming in Jamaica an extensive Line featuring every active character plus a character from the movie named ji trust we will be getting into the movies later on besides the dolls this line included jet skis

Tandem bikes cars and a tiki bar excuse me a Tiki Lounge the word bar would give away the fact that it obviously serves alcohol after that came getting ready a line which marked the first appearance of Kenzie my’s resident redhead this release included four variants my room

With wardrobes in my tub with bathtubs Style with vanities and out and about with dudes there’s something I find so Charming about these bathtub playsets especially Madison’s retr futurism styled one the dolls in this line have a remarkably more Barbie like face than we see in other releases now something that

I find deeply difficult to grasp without actually having one of these dolls in front of me is what exactly is going on with their feet so they’re not like most fashion dolls which just have normal feet and they’re not like brats which have completely detachable feet there’s

Some kind of disturbing hybrid of the two where there’s like a semblance of a foot built into the dolls but then you slip these flesh socks over top of them and the combination of the two creates an entire foot definitely a strange choice but it does allow for a greater

Variety of heels than Barbie’s permanent high arch another major release this year was shopping spree which came with a different real life brand tie-in for each do there’s Levis for Barbie Aldo for Madison Sephora for noie and Chelsea is just called Trinkets and I kind of can’t tell if this was a pre-existing

Brand or if it’s just a generic name for an accessory store kind of leaning towards the ladder there were a few other less notable releases in 2004 but the next big one after shopping spree was in tandem with the second myene movie Masquerade Madness this is probably one of my absolute favorite

Myene releases especially butterfly Barbie this outfit is just so memorable and detailed tailed Mattel just doesn’t make him like this anymore there’s also mermaid Chelsea cat Madison who’s giving Kitty Claudine here a little bit rocker noly another extremely cool outfit Genie Delany which is not their best and then

Roller derby Kenzie and the boys as whatever whatever and Dracula the boy dolls are pretty much always a snoozefest in comparison to the girls but this one makes that extremely obvious along with the dolls for this one we have the party pad Loft playset and yet another cool ass My Scene car

Rolling into 2005 we have the Miami getaway line with even cooler vesas than the first versions then there was Club birthday where he could win a chance to meet Lindsay Lohan and put this one down for cool car number five and this one came with a working radio it’s no’s

Birthday in this one maybe as an apology for being under included in the doll releases and having her boyfriend discontinued and being a few years away from discontinuation herself oh spoiler alert well let’s move on to the third my scene movie tie in My Scene goes Hollywood each one of these dolls came

With an alternate outfit and load loads of accessories and we’ve got the side openening limo SUV which is quite possibly the coolest of the cool doll cars we’ve seen yet and let me not forget the one the only the just on the brink of total disaster Lindsay loohan

We weren’t quite in her darkest era at this point but her reputation had taken some hits making her a bit of a controversial inclusion her actual doll well it doesn’t exactly look like her they probably should have just used the default mying face to be honest she’s a

Bit scary I’ll definitely be getting into the Lindsay My Scene collab a bit more when we talk about the movies the Swap and styles line had an interesting gimmick their heads were designed to be swappable so you could change them to have different hair colors and styles I

Guess Mattel had heard about how little girls were vengefully popping Barbie’s head off and decided to turn that into a play feature we’ve got secret Locker once again implying that these girls are in high school despite all evidence to the contrary then there’s day and night which came bundled with one daytime look

And one nighttime look or in this case at least an outfit with shorts and an outfit with pants and after this something shifted from here on out there would be the my scene that came before and the my scene that came after and this shift would be definitively marked

By the final release of 2005 my bling bling their outfits tiny sparkly glamorous even sexy their faces different while they wouldn’t retire the previous screening immediately after the release of my bling bling they’d used this new more cat-like Eye Design more and more frequently starting now and

Their cool ass doll car fully Chrome baby hell yeah with this release we have entered the second era of my scene and needless to say I feel right at home this release also came with some styling heads which is a product that showed up for the first time in 2003 but these

Ones were the first to come with hands their dead unfocused eyes are really something else moving on to 2006 so a few months ago when I was visiting my parents house I was watching season 2 of Project Runway with my mom and who shows up other than my scene My Scene you know

What I mean despite growing up as a hardcore Project Runway fan I had completely forgotten about this episode in this episode the contestants were made to design an outfit that could be shrunk down to sell in doll form with designer Lily Martinez as a guest judge designer Nick Vos had the winning design

For this episode and an adaptation of his dress did in fact appear in the Toys R Us exclusive Project Runway release is that the same dress well it’s close enough there’s M Maniacs which was basically a rehashing of shopping spree with all the different real life brands there’s teen t-shirts year of style

Street style whatever whatever whatever except that last one you could give them tattoos which probably pissed off a few conservative moms but all of this pales in comparison to what is unequivocally the funniest dull gimmick to ever exist Fab faces now these prototypes just look like your run-of-the-mill former wear

Myene dolls what’s so funny about them well the prototypes don’t include the gimmick that was used in the final doll Fab faces had five but buttons on their backs each corresponding to a different expression that the doll was capable of making in order to accommodate this gimmick the default expression of the

Fab faces dolls look like this while their other Expressions look like this I love it I don’t care if it’s ugly I need more dolls that are capable of doing this but hold on a minute aren’t I forgetting something let’s check which characters were included in this release

Chelsea Madison noie and Kennedy that’s right babes My Scene Barbie is officially discontinued leaving another identical blonde to take her place but Barbie is well she’s Barbie how could they ever get rid of Barbie well I think the reason for this is twofold one the kids who were into Bratz simply weren’t

Into Barbie so they wanted to separate the two brand so that Barbie’s old timey associations wouldn’t rub off on my scene and second the parents who hated brats were pretty likely to hate mying as well so the distancing also serves to preserve Barbie’s squeak and clean image

While the Ming girls go off to the club and do poppers the rest of the doll releases this year were mostly unremarkable they recycled the swappable head gimmick had a few straightforward non- gimmicky lines the one I remember most was Unforgettable because it was included in the flash dress up game then

We ran out the year with my bling bling bikini which is mostly notable for having a pool plays set 2007 brought us my bling bling 2 which was basically the same as the first version but worse as time progresses after this point this can be said of more and more of these

Lines however the same cannot be said about the following release Roller Girls a roller skating themed line which is widely considered to be a highlight of the my franchise as a whole there was the standard doll body version and then the remote controlled version which have relatively shrimpy bodies to lower their

Center of balance and these gigantic platform feet so they don’t fall over if any of you owned one of these I’m really curious as to how well they worked so please leave a comment if you know the my bling bling line must have so sold like crazy because after this point we’d

Be seeing more and more lines that include the word bling There Was Juicy bling also known as tropical bling juicy bling bini icy bling I actually love this one sparkles in winter fashion are a match made in heaven the majority of the releases from this year were pretty

Safe non- gimmicky just the girls and cute outfits with some accessories sometimes bundled together as in I love my friends and photo fabulous but usually just on their own a noi looks so cute and I love my friends doesn’t she well it’s too bad that this release marks her unceremonious discontinuation

Bye noie have fun in the void with Barbie well these releases were mostly safe and unremarkable with the notable exception of what is potentially the most controversial release in the history of my scene so you may have already heard of The Growing Up Skipper doll from 1975 this was a doll that had

Two forms when her arm was extended she’s a little girl but when her arm is pulled down she becomes a teenager along with everything that entails minus the menstruation and this one caused a major stir because oh my God she grows breasts that’s so inappropriate and well I can

Kind of understand where they’re coming from with that because at a glance it does seem a little perverted but I also think the panic over this was pretty overblown because well puberty is a normal thing that everyone goes through and having a doll that demystifies it and makes it seem less threatening can

Be really positive for kids who might be worried about going through it themselves so I can defend this gimmick in general but what I can’t defend is when they brought it back with my scene in 2007 with the tagline Kennedy grows up she gets curvy just a strange choice

I think my sc’s growing up Glam wasn’t quite as well executed as Growing Up Skipper mostly because Skipper had a much more age ambiguous face compared to my’s 20s something at all times kind of look so my’s take on it kind of look like they just slapped adult heads onto shrimpy

Bodies moving on to 2008 and the mine brand had officially entered its Twilight phase the majority of the releases we see over the next few years could be described as quantity over quality we see a lot of rehashing of Concepts that they’ve already done just worse and with less stuff the outfit

Items start getting less interesting and less detailed playsets and larger accessories were becoming few and far between and for God’s sake we haven’t seen a doll car since my bling bling we also barely see the boys anymore but to be honest I didn’t miss them there’s also a notable disappearance of any type

Of illustration style the boxart is pretty much exclusively photographic at this point in time a common complaint with these last few years of the Brand’s run is that my scene had lost its identity and fully surrendered to being something that they hoped parents would pick up by accident while trying to buy

Bratz despite this there are a few notable releases in 2008 there’s splashy Chic a line that came with translucent plastic rain coats and umbrellas which are really very adorable there’s snow Glam a my bling bling s winter theme line which brings us her first my scen car in years that’s right we’re back

Baby it’s a cool ass doll car literally this time it’s snow themed there’s myene heart shopping or perhaps my scine love shopping another mall shopping spray themed set but this time without the real life branding there’s karaoke Divas with each girl coming with their own karaoke machine but I think it’s a bit

Of a missed opportunity to not include a karaoke Lounge playset and finally there’s perfume party which is the only my scene release where they come with big ass angel wings which are apparently scented the most notable change to the brand come 2009 was a major revamp to

The illustration style this was seen for the first time in the line street art I have to assume that this one carries some design genetics with Monster High cuz these two are literally just Claudine and Cleo I personally have no affection for this version of The myene

Branding it just confirms to me that this was a brand in the throws of an identity crisis in its final gasps to maintain relevance the best that I can say for it is that they do technically look more like the dolls the first release using this new branding was

Elevated slightly from the typical late stage quality Decay due to Kennedy having a push scooter to follow that up we’ve got Ultra Glam which sets it itself apart by including wigs that are meant to go over top the normal doll hair for that bumped aesthetic in this

One Kennedy came with a vanity playset and it seems like Kennedy is the only one who gets bundled with cool stuff anymore we’ve got the boys returning for the first time in a while in the love release which proves that Kennedy didn’t just steal Barbie’s friends and dog she

Stole her boyfriend too and then there’s boring boring and not boring but remarkably ugly but I think the release from this year that best demonstrates how far myen Star had fallen is the cool nights line compare this to the original May bling bling the dynamic Silhouettes tailored garments multiple outfit

Options and numerous accessories compared to this frumpy cheap looking mess and the cherry on top those Technicolor legs to stand in for tights the budget has clearly left the building even the better releases from this year like caama and jewet they were just cute outfits and handful of accessories when

The standout lines from previous years usually had cool outfits and something else to make the the line remarkably unique the declining interest and funds clearly shows its ugly head the following year because while 2008 and 2009 were packed with releases of various quality 2010 was slashed to a

Humble seven releases first is City Diva which is basically just a worse rehashing of the previous year’s street art complete with Kennedy and her push scooter I’m noticing that Nia a Latina with a tan complexion is starting to show up in these a whole lot more often

Than Madison my guess was that market data was showing who exactly was left buying mine dolls and I imagine that print out looked a little something like this although my was still selling pretty well in Latin America so I’m sure that’s part of it too the same Trio

Appears in the line’s disco girls Glam Beach Fashion Boutique and pop diva the only release including Madison this year would be the final time that she appeared as a doll in the admittedly great for this Sunset phase bling Boutique their outfits aren’t all that varied but they do look really nice 2011

The final year of my scene included only two doll releases bling nights a simple nightclub fashion line that came bundled with one alternate outfit and season style yet another rehashing of an idea from a previous better release what once was interesting trendy and unique despite its inherently derivative

Concept was Whitted down to a shell of its former self and then into nothing as goes the Corporate Circle of Life despite the fact that it lasted for 9 years Mattel has been completely silent about the existence of my scene after the point of its discontinuation maybe

It reminds them a bit too much about that embarrassing point in history where their doll sales were being crushed by MGA they were pouring a ton of money into unsuccessful litigation but is that really my’s fault maybe they’re due for a second chance well as of November 13th Mattel has actually renewed the

Trademark for myene and maybe this means something and maybe it doesn’t now that we’ve wrapped up the history of the Dolls it’s time for the official Lee speaks my scene popularity contest that’s right we’ve got the top seven myene releases according to my audience why top seven because only

Seven lines got more more than 20 votes each in the Seventh Place slot with 22 votes we have the one and only Fab faces what they have to say about it is uncanny valley reactions a little nightmarish the nightmare love child of Barbie and Freddy Fazbear and chew

Ability what part of it were you chewing on in sixth place with 27 votes swaping Styles the fans say so much fun to change the hairstyles and multiple heads for one doll is so weird and kind of Genius fifth place with 28 votes it’s Roller Girls feedback on this one says I

Would literally find any reason to use the roller skates in any pretend scenario my dolls were in and hello they’re wearing roller skates what else do you need in fourth place with 32 votes there’s My Scene goes Hollywood respondents say I love the movie and the accessories and amazing quality and came

With so much stuff and now we’re down to the final three in third place with 47 votes is jaming in Jamaica they say I love it for the G doll the only darker skinned doll in the line diverse fun characters and I loved that it came with

The movie and with a huge surgeon votes comes number two with 124 mentions it’s my bling bling how could I possibly disagree comments say they look so luxurious I love how they came with rings and my mom said that these dolls would make my sister and I into

And finally topping out the list with a whopping 140 mentions it’s masquerade Madness I think it’s obvious why this one came out on top because it was both a movie tie-in and came with the most memorable outfits that the line is possibly ever had comments say their outfits were

Astonishing to me and still are the butterfly wings live in my head rentree the pets wearing matching outfits and top tier final boss level mying dolls to be honest I didn’t own any Ming dolls growing up despite being squarely in the Target demographic however I grew

Up with a great affection for the mine franchise which I can directly attribute to its excellent presence on Mattel’s website everythinggirl.com I was hardly alone in this 84% of respondents answered that they interacted with my scene via everything girl as compared to only 39% who claimed to have owned the

Dolls the website is actually pretty well preserved you just need to know a couple tricks in order to navigate it first you’re going to want to have the ruffle extension downloaded just typing in my scene. everythinggirl.com won’t get you satisfactory results because you’ll be hit with a download Flash

Screen but all you need to do is hit the site map tab on the Wayback machine and navigate the website using that instead that or you can look up my scene on flasho or Nuki if you just want to play the games it’s time it’s time for me to come

Home I love everything about this games page Chelsea’s hair blowing in the wind as the subway comes by because she standing dangerously close to the edge the different games opening up in the door of all the many features on the glorious everythinggirl.com website this has got to be my favorite

It’s not even a game it’s just a menu but it’s more than that it’s an experience the first thing on the main page is the dazzling Nails game you pick one of the girls do their nails and add decals and Rings while this game is very simple and has fairly limited

Customization there’s just something that’s so enchanting about these glitter polishes you can click through to see the other patterned options when you’re done giving your manicure you can print out a version for yourself Mattel really had children running around with paper nails if you did this please let me know

I need to hear from you what was the experience of wearing those things when Taylor Swift said I’d marry you with paper rings she was specifically talking about the printouts from the dazzling Nails game next is Room Makeover and oh my God it’s so difficult to pick a

Favorite out of these games but this one has to have been up there you get two options to design a room a bedroom and a party pad in each you get three distinct design styles that you can either either match or mix up as you pleasee there’s

This mod purple pink and green style then there’s a tropical theme which I admittedly didn’t tend to pick as often and an elegant pastel pink and blue room every time you hit finish on this mode one of the mying girls will appear and give you a present this doesn’t actually

Unlock anything but it does feel rewarding the other mode is the party pad again with three themes to choose from there’s something about the combination of this shiny purple floor in this dance floor that just evokes pure Bliss next on the list is the Beauty studio you pick a girl do her

Hair do her makeup give her accessories rinse and repeat I think the standout of this game is the hair section while the actual hair options are just so so and have very few curly options the colors and highlights are pretty fun to play around with I used to play this game on

Loop going in and picking each girl until each of them had makeovers this game had a revamp to suit the 2008 illustration style and I’m really working on not hating this so much I really am there’s nothing wrong with it it looks fine hell I’ve

Even come as far as to admit that the lip color options kind of look better in this version but it still replaced the version I like better I think it’s funny how they’ve tried to recycle as many assets as possible from the previous version now to round out the makeover

Games you make over your nails you make over your room you make over your face and now it’s time to makeover your outfit the shopping spree game occasionally updated to accommodate each major doll release but it seems like the only versions that got preserved or at

Least that I was able to find are two iterations one spanning masquerade Madness to Unforgettable and one spanning Unforgettable to street art while I do miss the dress up options that existed in the previous version of this game this one was a pretty great time period to have captured masquerade

Madness and my bling bling were major highlights The Flash versions of Barbie’s butterfly costume and no’s brocker costume are burned into my mind permanently they don’t make it particularly obvious which outfits are meant to go with each character and sometimes you can’t particularly tell which sets are meant to go together but

I think that captures the charm of playing with a real life fashion doll and swapping and mixing their outfits as you please this one is probably tied with the room makeover game for my favorite of the My Scene selection the post2 2008 version of the game is fundamentally the same but with that

Late stage illustration style the fashion art looks really nice and they removed some of the flash game jankiness of the previous version but the options become a little disappointingly minimal in this newer version just one big category for the entire outfit just one single headband that everyone has to

Wear probably my biggest gripe with this version is that they just look too much like Bratz now it’s just full-on brater High although even my Harden heart melts for the Splashy Chic outfits the last option on the main games page is the fashion designer you select the tops

Bottoms shoes and a bag you want to customize out of a list and then fill in the lines with colors and patterns off to the side I remembered not liking this game as much as the the others and as I finished up I remembered why there’s no

Way to actually view what you’ve made without printing out the paper doll pattern that they give you I found that so disappointing you can’t even preview it to decide if you like it or not before you print and since I didn’t know that you could save as PDF in the print

Window as a kid and I wasn’t allowed to use the printer without permission I just kind of associated this game with having a disappointing abrupt ending but no more I will break the cycle of disappointment I’m an adult I own my own printer now and I will get my Chelsea

Doll here she is let no one claim that Lee speaks doesn’t own a myene doll it’s pretty cute pretty fun to put together but I feel like if I was playing with his as a kid I just immediately throw the clothes away and make my own there

Was one other games page that branched off the main one the first option on this page is a little music video creator where you can choose between either the mying theme song or a handful of short Loops you pick an animated background details to go on top of that

And then pick some characters to show up on top there’s the main four girls and all their respective guys hey it’s like Bryant was never discontinued the second one here is Fortune fun where noi does a tarot card reading for you input your name select from a list of questions

About your crush or your friend and then type in your Crusher friend’s name then you’ll be presented with three non-standard oracle cards that read your past present and future and once you’ve revealed them all the game will tell you the outcome of your question which will be more often than not indeterminate the

Last one is the cell phone and um I don’t know what’s the deal with this one it says great games which would reasonably lead you to believe that there would be at least one game that pops up when you click on it but no you get treated to a slideshow of

Screenshots from the web series it’s completely non- interactive and it will never respond to any of your clicks my best guess is that they had bigger plans for this feature and just never got around to it other than the games on everything girl there are profile pages

For all of the girls each with a Blog that would update regularly unfortunately it seems like this can’t be viewed in its original form anymore because the text that these Pages linked to now lead to nothing however the blog entries can be viewed in plain text on the Wayback machine in 2003 Barbie’s

Talking a whole lot about this guy named Robbie I’m curious if this is just River with a different name or a different guy entirely there was also a Zen which has been broken into his individual components by now and is difficult to reassemble I think it’s not out of the

Question that this feature was added mostly in service of the pun my zen my freebies had the typical 2000s website offerings wallpapers aim icons and e-cards my shop had ads for the most recent dolls available to buy I particularly love the Fab faces one yep those are the Expressions all right wa

Hold on are they using the prototypes for this it’s a bit misleading and finally there was my shows which hosted all the webisodes now the majority of those watching knew about the myene section of the everythinggirl.com website but did you know that my scene had two CD ROM

Games you can actually even still play them them you’ll need a computer running Windows and a virtual drive to get the machine convinced that there’s CD in it but once you do that it’s easy to install and play however for some reason these games would only open on the

System I had running Windows 10 and not the ones running Windows 11 my scen CD ROM opens with Barbie and Madison chatting about their planned surprise party for Chelsea and they quickly change the topic after Chelsea walks in after this little cut scene you’re free

To roam the streets of New York City as Barbie the gameplay Loop involves you checking off each of the tasks listed on your cell phone each week you have to to go to two of three part-time jobs a music mixer a fashion designer and a store window dresser after that you have

Enough money to buy everything on your shopping list this always involves a specific outfit where you’re given a couple hints to figure out which clothes to pick and then a selection of other stores the accessories and makeup store work the same way you have to pick the

Right item out of a list of nine and you’ll be given a hint about if you’re in the right column or row to narrow it down then there’s the gift shop and food store where you select the right item out of the three based on the hints that

They offer and then there’s the CD store where you pick the song that matches the one they sing to you over the phone that song Went something like This it’s pretty much just that again and again until the game ends this game is pretty and stylish but ultimately boring the lack of Freedom with a clothes shopping is probably my biggest gripe for some reason despite being present and fully voiced noie gets completely shafted in this game she

Basically only appears to read the other girls their horoscope I don’t understand why they didn’t just make her a playable character it’s not like these in quests aren’t completely interchangeable she doesn’t even get to go to Paris with the others at the end of the game poor noie

When will she ever catch a break the second CD ROM game is myene goes Hollywood based on the movie of the same name and it is not called myene goes to Hollywood no matter how many times I accidentally call it that in this one you become interns at a movie studio and

Um ladies you need to unionize because they are having you do literally everything they’re doing all the usual intern stuff sure but they’re also designing the sets writing the script starring as the lead roles in the movies they specifically mention that they’re not getting paid for any of this this is

Pure exploitation although I guess they’re rich enough to just not worry about it you’re LED through a series of mini games for each movie you do a puzzle to reveal the movie’s Poster you do a little mad libs like fill-in the blank to write the script and then they read out what you just said you design the sets deliver lunches to the crew and literally vaporize anyone who dare gets in your way and then the crown jewel of this game hair and makeup it’s

Similar to the makeover game from everything girl but so much more advanced and customizable there’s so many more interesting colors and styles you can apply the highlights manually and there’s actually interactivity in the makeup application process I don’t know I just think actually applying the makeup yourself elevates The Experience

So much in a game like this you have a high level of control in this mini game which I think is highly enjoyable the mini game after this one is relatively dull you just sort the props into their respective Silhouettes as they slide across the screen then there’s costuming

It’s pretty fun but I do wish for a larger amount of options especially considering your costume Choice doesn’t even carry over to the movie premier cut scene next mini game you take some pictures of dogs then in the last one you create a sequence for the opening credits using a selection of backgrounds

Transition and the Ming girls that you customized earlier after that you get to see the movie premiere which is just those credits which you just made and the little mad lib steene from before this sequence repeats four times one for a sci-fi movie One for a beach romcom

One for a spy Thriller and one for a skiing movie I guess after you complete all four movie types the game opens up to let you use aspects from any of the previous movies for a custom movie of your own this feels like a worthwhile final prize because the makeup and dress

Up aspects are really elevated with all the features unlocked I think that my Scene goes to Hollywood goes Hollywood is a huge improvement over the first cdrom game I thought it was genuinely fun and enjoyable to play and while I did Tire of the less enjoyable mini games the makeup and costuming section

Was something to look forward to every time so I kind of glossed over this when I was looking at the myene website earlier but my look at the myene franchise wouldn’t be complete without taking a look at the webisodes now many think that Monster High popularized the

Concept of doll high episodes and well maybe it did but my scene did it before them and this aspect is not a ripoff of the Bratz franchise Bratz had a singular we episode in 2010 and then a series in 2015 and this came years before that however you could claim that this

Concept was taken from Diva Stars an MGA franchise that was producing webisodes from 2000 to 2002 so MGA wins The Innovation trophy on this one as well the first webisode is a music video for the mying theme song it’s I you know what I and then we get into

Some actual plot lines with the next one Barbie leaves her cell phone in a taxi but makes lemons into Lemonade by using it to connect with a cute guy who got in behind her you see this total cutie was getting in as I was getting out God damn

This flash audio is crunchy they flirt with each other on the phone a bit and he shows up to give Barbie her phone back but Chelsea recognizes him and the fact that he has a girlfriend next episode Chelsea is standing in the game Subway she chats with Barbie on the

Phone and then makes herself a new outfit with Ludicrous Speed before they meet a b of concert turns out that Subway alterations are a habit of hers the singer of the band approaches her and she thinks his style is lame and takes it upon herself to make him a new

Outfit this woman is a machine a sewing machine next Madison’s eyeing a top at a store but no le snatches it before she can but in the next scene Madison has it and then she gives it to Chelsea it seems like maybe they don’t know noi yet

She sees the top on Chelsea and is fine with it and then Madison flirts with a DJ and meets his sister this one was just confusing next Hudson and Bryant are speculating about the vibe of girls walking by and one of them happens to be noie later on Hudson FS with a sales

Clerk at a record store while the other girls watch and make fun of him Madison asks noie what she thinks of Brian and she ends up saying oh baby I’m in love reading aloud the record she was looking at later they’re all at a coffee shop and Hudson accidentally begins a rumor

Train while trying to confirm what noie thinks of Bryant culminating and Madison saying in front of them that she thinks they’re secretly dating and we’re hit with a 2B continued which I believe is never actually fulfilled next the girls are getting dressed for their dates and

The guys catch wind and go on their own shopping spree skipped to after the date it turns out that River ripped his pants Sutton had something in his teeth and Hudson spilled a drink all over Chelsea but they forgive them next they’re out skiing and Chelsea Falls over as an

Excuse to flirt with another guy on the slopes is she not dating Hudson anymore is Chelsea sneaking around she invites him to a party and he says no and shows up anyways abrupt ending next intro ductory title cards all of a sudden the audio is a lot better M you guys you’ve

Got to try the chocolate chip it’s really good today the girls are at a cafe and take notes on their planning for an upcoming concert Madison asks what to do when you have to interact with someone you just had a weird dream about and everyone gets suspicious Delany just moved here and Chelsea

Gripes about having to hang out with her turns out that Madison’s dream was about River she has an extremely awkward hangout with him and then leaves unable to stop laughing jump to a nail salon where Chelsea and Barbie are hanging out they record a promotional segment with

Hudson who then encour ures Chelsea to flirt with a guy getting his hair cut there and I guess we’re acting like two episodes ago didn’t exist Chelsea gets blocked by Delany Barbie meets with River to record his segment and he asks her out instead she’s bewildered but

Says yes noie walks out of a yoga class with Sutton and promotes the concert to passers by Delany and Ellis flirted a skat Park Delany likewise about having to hang out with Chelsea they awkwardly meet and realize that they had more in common than expected Madison comes to the conclusion that she doesn’t

Have a crush on River followed by everyone learning about how River asked Barbie out they show up to the show and noie realizes that all the guys she invited there assumed that she was asking them out on a date and they give the concert and the episode ends after

All those tiny bite-sized episodes I wasn’t expecting a Whopper like that this episode was an entire prequel to The First movie in the questionnaire I did for this video several people mentioned this franchise’s similarities to the show Sex in the City that’s actually completely accurate my scene is

Just sex in the city for tweens next episode is just a commercial for the jaming and Jamaica movie they reanimated scenes in the flash di which is a cute touch next Delany and Ellis hang out at the skate park and Delany takes issue with somebody saying that one of the

Other guy skates like a girl and so she tears it up next everyone exchanges Christmas gifts but nobody brought a gift for noie turns out that Bryant who moved away due to being discontinued did one of those bias star scams and it’s all very romantic sorry that you don’t

Get to have an actual boyfriend now noie next shopping spree the girls shop while the guys carry their bags and get too hungry they split up so the guys can go eat and and the girls meet Kenzie who’s Southern I guess and blasts Madison in the face with perfume they bond over the

Fact that Kenzie is carrying a handbag made by Chelsea next delany’s cat had kittens and now she’s drowning in them Delany get your damn cat fixed one of them gotten her hair dye because that’s adorable and totally not going to poison the cat the other girls take her out

Allowing the cats to continue destroying her apartment the end next the girls are getting taken out on a date and a horse drawn carriage next they’re looking for new homes for all the kittens and it goes smoothly delany’s a little sad about the fact that they’re all gone and

It turns out that Ellis was withholding pinky you know the one that got poisoned by hair dye next it’s another movie advertisement this time for masquerade Madness they do the flash Recreation thing again next one is similar but instead of directly reanimating certain scenes it’s a sort of prequel where

They’re getting ready for the events of the first movie with an emphasis on showing off their costumes cuz you got to sell those dolls this next one is a little weird because they’re shown to be talking but there’s no dialogue at all turns out that this is because a fan

Video is the only remaining footage of this one they get in a snowball fight they have a sleepover next the girls are planning for nollie’s surprise birthday party they order a dress for her but the wrong one shows up so Chelsea Alters it to be more trendy they party and noie

Gets surprised with a car next the group plus Kenzie is visiting Miami they engage in Beast Shenanigans and then it rains and then it unra next the girls are hanging out at their extremely Glam lockers when Hudson shows up and his racis to Madison bet you I know all your

Beauty secrets Madison hair extension And then he gets shoved in her locker and they leave him there I must have watched this one repeatedly because the whole thing sounded so familiar especially this sound effect next Alys picks up the phone for Delany after her cat runs out of the apartment Madison just starts talking

Without confirming who’s at the phone and accidentally says she has a crush on Ellis and corrects herself to say suton and insults Ellis in the process and then she gets embarrassed when he reveals that Delany wasn’t the one who picked up the phone next the girls go

Shopping for a holiday party and fight over items from the my bling blang line until they eventually divvy it up so they’re all in their respective doll outfits next the group is trying to combat their shopping addiction and noie blows off their hangout they start hallucinating about shopping starving on

A deserted island style they all immediately relapse and run into noie who is out shopping the whole time addiction to spending is so funny capitalism is great the next and second to last episode of the original run isn’t voiced instead having pop-up dialogue that explains what’s happening Barbie’s moving away to California and

So the group goes out clubbing one last time the Lany spots a Barbie look alike who’s spinning out of control and smacks into a waiter the girls are shocked Barbie and I look like twin sisters we’re all instant friends Kennedy invites them all out to a concert but

Barbie can’t go because she’s leaving tomorrow thus beginning Kennedy’s systematic stealing of every single aspect of Barbie’s Life Next the last episode of the original run Fab faces Chelsea gets sad when they notice that Barbie’s missing out on their fun night out and so Kennedy takes them to a photo

Booth to take pictures to send to her they assemble a whole photo album to send her and this is pretty sweet and heartfelt especially considering that the whole thing is just an advertisement for dolls that can do this that was really sweet of you Kennedy now Barbie will probably forgive you for stealing

Her face and her wardrobe and all of her friends and her dog and her boyfriend really those episodes were just meant to wet your appetite for yet more myene media and I hope you’re hungry cuz we’ve got three whole directed DVD movie releases each one neatly bundled with

Purchase of the corresponding my doll the first of these movies was jaming in Jamaica now there’s just something about these animated Mattel movies that just loves a pop rock moment and I love them for that River Band Urban desire opens up this movie with the extremely catchy spontaneous combustion Spont and they end up winning a battle of the bands type competition and will therefore be traveling to Jamaica for the next round Madison’s going with them because she’s their manager which makes Barbie the girlfriend of river grow increasing ly jealous Delan is also going cuz she’s like their audio tech or

Something the other girls angst about missing out on the Jamaica trip but their parents give them permission to go and they raise money by selling off underused items from their gigantic rich girl closets except for noie who walks dogs far too many dogs and therefore these maybe supposedly teenagers are

Flying out to Jamaica so they can stay with their boyfriends alone again deeply deeply ambiguous ages here they fly out to Jamaica and surprise the band They touch base and the girls leave to go to the pool except River calls Madison back before they leave which makes Barbie

Even more jealous gany chats with the others at the pool about her relationship to one of the other band members Ellis and she states that she’s tired of guys being intimidated by her and that Ellis needs to step up if they’re ever going to be together something peculiar about this movie is

That it seems like no matter who was interacting with who it’s extremely Flirty Girls interacting with guys platonic or not Flirty Girls interacting with girls flirty the guys don’t interact much with each other but I have to imagine they’re having shirtless wrestling sessions off screen this creates a funny character Dynamic where

It seems like every possible pairing has some kind of romantic tension after another Madison River jealousy moment River wakes Barbie up in the we hours to take her to a gorgeous waterfall for a picnic date except no not really that was a dream Barbie wakes up to the band

Practicing and River hands her a saggy Bagel the group engages in more flirty banter and we get an island montage what no poly pocket Cameo this song is really Something afterwards the group confronts Ellis about his failure to take action with Delany again it’s like they literally never have non- flirty interactions ji gets her 30 seconds of screen time when Sutton flirts with her oh don’t worry she’ll have five more later on it’s pretty disappointing to me

That despite getting a tiean doll she’s barely even a character in this movie that night at a dance club this must be one of those mythical teen dance clubs or they’re at least 18 teen my scine is pretty much like a kid’s imagined ideal version of a grown-up they’re teens and

They’re adults at the same time because they can have the safety and support of being a teen with all the freedom of being an adult Barbie gets annoyed with river for talking too much about band stuff which I think is pretty lame of her they’re not just on a fun little

Trip like you are Barbie get your head in the game and of course she gets jealous again when Madison and River start geeking out about competition stuff Madison asks no if there’s a problem with Barbie and if noie told her about that dream she had about River unexpected webisode continuity noie

Points out that her and River have been together a lot during this trip to which Madison reasonably replies with the fact that they need to be because there’s huge Stakes on the line Chelsea tries to talk some SS into Barby but she’s still feeling insecure Madison awkwardly confronts River to confirm that they’re

Only friends and that he doesn’t think there’s something else between them after they enthus about how well their music production skills compliment each other Barbie walks in at precisely the wrong moment we’re perfect together she runs off and they run around trying to find her which causes

Them to miss their checkin time for the competition and therefore they’re disqualified Barbie saw River and me together okay I feel really bad for Madison in this movie but she’s also admittedly pretty terrible at making it seem like her and River aren’t cheating we get a ridiculously Dynamic zoom in on

Barbie being depressed on the beach time for angsty Montage she deletes all of her photos of Madison and River while everyone else is sad for various reasons Madison owns a heart-shaped locket with a picture of her and Barbie inside again romantic tension between literally everyone Madison is the first one to

Find Barbie and gives her a thorough apology and I feel like she’s taking way more blame than she needs to in this situation Barbie decides she needs to make up for accidentally getting the band disqualified by having them throw an Afterparty concert they give the concert Barbie and River kiss and make

Up oh there’s J again oh sorry that was a lot shorter than 5 Seconds Barbie convinced a record producer to show up and despite the fact that they didn’t get to perform in the competition they get offered a deal to record a demo anyways these dance mes are

Incredible silly dancing aside for this kind of direct to DVD toy movie The Animation was honestly pretty amazing the style is just slightly different than the promotional Graphics or the we episodes but it’s still identifiably my scene as far as the writing goes it’s basically just an animated episode of a

CW teen drama but maybe less gritty so of all the various romantic tensions in this movie which one is the most compelling I propose that it’s unrequited madine X Barbie first and most obviously there’s this scene where she looks sorrowfully at and then abandons her heart-shaped locket and

Like sure there’s friend heart lockets out there but used in a movie like this this imagery is very heavily romance coded second the fact that she takes so much of the blame and the apology and seems to genuinely feel as though she’s done something wrong maybe she has a

Guilty conscience because part of her was trying to get between Barbie and River just not for the reason that Barbie expected and when she’s talking hypothetically about having a crush on him here even if I wanted him which I don’t I’d be way out of luck cuz he’s

Massively in love with you that wasn’t really a hypothetical at all except she’s not talking about River she’s talking about Barbie Barbie she loves you and you treat her like how could you next up the other one released in 2004 masquerade Madness this movie opens on this probably very expensive CGI shot

Of the city that zooms into Madison’s loft apartment where she asks her dad if she can host a surprise party for Chelsea’s birthday you don’t think Chelsea will guess do you that we’re throwing her a 16th birthday party two whole I’m sorry what 16 as in she is at this moment 15 years

Old maybe this makes sense for the movie that we’re in now but this has got to be out of order chronologically with the first movie cuz there is literally no way that a bunch of 15 and 16-year-olds were flying out to Jamaica with their boyfriends to go clubbing I refused to

Accept that as Canon they all enthus about participating in a charity fashion show along with their pets who conveniently come bundled with the Masquerade Madness dolls available at all major retailers 11 and 1 12 in dolls each sold separately Delany almost lets it slip about her s prise party but the

Others recover by talking about her fashion designs he’s cool to math geniuses like you yeah oh great one of n’s only character traits besides being spiritual is that she’s good at math they’re attending a rehearsal later and keny is there it’s a complete disaster with all their dogs because

Taking dogs on a Runway is just a patently bad idea since Chelsea didn’t show up Delany convinces Ellis to take her position on the runway and drag and he beefs it the show coordinator is mad at them for making a mess despite the fact that it’s definitely her fault for

Deciding that there should be a bunch of dogs running around back home everyone talks about how they’ve been planning the party and gossip about chel El and Hudson’s relationship they add her to the call and it turns out that she’s with Hudson Delany runs her fat mouth

Again and causes Chelsea to admit that she’s secretly been dating Hudson except that her body language gives it away that she’s lying and hiding something from the others turns out that he’s just tutoring her at math and she’s embarrassed about it she angs about the possibility of failing her math class

And asks Hudson not to tell and then they enter the fake dating Trope because we’ve got to mark it to the girlies who read and write fanfiction after another surprisingly dynamic shot Delany vows to stop talking to Chelsea for a while so she doesn’t accidentally blab to her

About the party which you know is about to become drama and it immediately does there’s a shopping montage and every time Chelsea turns to Delany for feedback she just shrugs and walks away I’m like I’m sorry Delany is kind of a shitty friend in this movie she’s constantly on the verge of ruining

Chelsea’s surprise she helped herself to Chelsea’s food after she left the table she can’t even manage a thumbs up and Nod when Chelsea askk for her feedback like no wonder Chelsea starts assuming that she hates her everyone else covers for Delany by saying she’s just jealous

Cuz she has a crush on Hudson this supports that this movie appears in the timeline before Jim and and Jamaica this movie sure uses a lot of CGI backgrounds Hudson takes the fake dating thing too seriously and shoes off another guy that Chelsea is flirting with he goes as far

As kissing her which Chelsea is seriously uncomfortable with honestly the Ming dudes have some consent issues Chelsea realizes that she doesn’t have enough time to both prepare for the fashion show and study hard enough to not fail the test and so she lets the girls know that she can’t finish the

Costumes Hudson tries to let the others know about the tutoring situation but everyone else jumps to conclusions and he gets so giddy about the Revelation that Chelsea has a crash on him that he forgets to finish his sentence before he’s pushed out the door but Delany

Learns the truth by a dropping on his phone conversation therefore noie comes to greet her and offers to tutor her in Geometry via a method that she already understands fashion design costume making Montage with yet more surprisingly Dynamic camera movements and therefore she gets tutored in math

And gets to complete the costumes at the same time Chelsea gets a good grade on the test and suddenly all the dogs are well trained enough to walk the runway well most of them everyone looks really cool in their mask grade Madness outfits and yet more Dynamic camera shots

Chelsea’s surprise party goes off without a hitch Chelsea completes the inevitable fake dating Trope cycle by actually dating Hudson and everyone toast to their various successes it’s cool it’s fun it’s fashion but we need to move on to the third movie because I can’t physically restrain myself from

Talking about it even a moment longer My Scene goes to h My Scene goes Hollywood time to get feature lengthy here we open with an even more expansive zoom in shot through the CGI New York City in an intro sequence which shows us aspects of the characters that haven’t been shown

Previously Barbie is apparently a photographer Madison is a horse girl Chelsea is some kind of student activist we already knew that noly spiritual and likes dogs and we already knew that Delany is a skater surfer girl they accidentally stumble into a movie Shoot going on at their favorite Cafe they try

To spot some celebrities and Delany sneaks them in as extras however they’re not dressed for the scene so Chelsea just starts hacking into the set and I guess that works oh my gosh it’s Lindsay Lohan the scene they’re shooting is about a teen spy training camp and would

It be a my scene movie without a bunch of rotating camera shots they get invited back to set the next day which means they’ve officially snuck themselves into the movie Chelsea is sour about the fact that she got assigned a lame role and keeps bitching about it there’s a link to all these

Lindsay Lohan interviews she seems totally normal exactly the kind of girl we’d hang out with what do you think she is though good question Chelsea is she though they all vow to become friends with Lindsay Lohan and basically all fantasize about exploiting her for their own personal gain they set approximately

5 billion alarms to wake up for the 600 a.m. shoot and make it there on time they meet some French guys who asked to take a picture with them can we take how you say a photograph with you we can take it right outside our trailer it

Seems like a lot of this plot is driven by Delany being a compulsive liar they participate in a horse riding themed shoot so they all get to have a horse girl moment except it seems most of the time that the horse is fake they help themselves to The Crafty attack each

Other with makeup and this is a spy movie right what do all these horses shoots have to do with anything especially the one in space and then they steal a car very useful girls somehow they just get sent back to the extras trailer instead of being immediately fired after waiting a few

Hours Barbie convinces the group to run off again to go disrupt the filming and break into the costume trailer they genuinely just suck at being extras but at least we get a dress up Montage oh yeah nice Glam fishing outfit Chelsea are you kidding me Dynamic camera

Movements noie is a cop now this is such a weird Montage between Chelsea’s waiters and Madison’s frumpy dosen outfit cop noie and Barbie’s goddamn suit of armor I just I kind of expected this to be more glamorous they somehow managed to not miss the extras getting someon into the shoot because who needs

Consequences when you look this good Chelsea gets assigned to be the scooper one of the leads gets a broken leg and the director notices Madison’s horse girl skills so she gets promoted from being an extra they’re all both happy for her and jealous and Madison is uncomfortable about being separated from

Her friends delany’s obsession with snacks continues to be her most endearing trait Madison gets a makeup and costuming montage and then they all meet Lindsay Lohan they have a friendly interaction Madison asks her how to deal with Stage Fright not much actually happens when they go to do the scene for

Real Madison breaks character when she’s supposed to kiss a love interest and then she sneezes and then they both break character that’s what you get for hiring somebody with without an audition although a lot of it isn’t their fault like these pigeons and the Boom showing

Up in the shot after 37 takes they finally do it without fumbling afterwards the actor interrupts the girl’s gossip and asks Madison out oh he’s checking himself out in the mirror you know movie rule number 2561 if a man visibly cares about his appearance that means he’s bad news and

Madison accepts it seems like they’re totally non-committal to their respective love interests in these movies except for River and Barbie it doesn’t really seem like Delany and Ellis are still together it doesn’t seem like Chelsea and Hudson are still together maybe they’re prioritizing the hypothetical shipping potential over

Emphasizing the cannon ships the group decides to follow Madison and the actor to the nightclub where they’re meeting and they find Madison and Lindsay tearing it up on DDR the actor’s name is Ryan but I can’t retain that information so I’m going to continue to refer to him

As actor guy I can’t believe I was so nervous about meeting you you’re like the easiest person in the world to talk to Lindsay must have contributed to this movie on the condition that everyone is extremely complimentary towards her at all times the whole group approaches Madison Lindsay and W’s face and make

Things weird because Madison was interacting with her as a friend and peer and all the others are just Fans Madison gets disappointed with the others because they can’t hang and leaves to go hang out with actor guy he subtly encourages her to ditch her friends for not being famous enough the

Paparazzi chased them down and he totally called them here didn’t he the next day Madison doesn’t meet up with the girls before the shoot and so their jealousy is starting to take over the vicarious enjoyment of her Newfound Fame they’re both being kind of shitty because everyone else is being jealous

And parasitic and Madison is acting like she’s too good for everyone else at actor guys behest so like they kind of both have a point because Madison is definitely ditching them to hang out with more famous people but Madison is also right because they’ve proven that

They don’t know how to be chill around celebrities it’s a pretty good conflict setup honestly it’s multifaceted Madison keeps being like later later later I’ll catch up with you later and so they all just get more and more upset Madison has a date Montage with this guy who’s

Obviously set up to be the bad guy because he’s coming between her and her friends everyone rants jealously at the cafe and then Madison comes in in full celebrity mode Madison’s clueless about how upset they are and blows them off again and at this point she’s being way

More rude than is Justified Madison and Barbie confront each other and again they’re both kind of right Madison’s serving Bob now and she tries to reach out to her friends to undo some of the damage but they’re just completely cold to her now to the point that they’re

Being way more rude to her than she is to them also they were being really dismissive about the size of her role earlier when it kind of seems like she’s the main antagonist or at least something close to that oh who’s this picture looks great Jim I’m really

Excited about it it’s Harvey Weinstein who he’s like the biggest producer in Hollywood this must be one of his movies good job young lady thanks what no Madison get get her out of there before she becomes a victim like okay the Lindsay Lohan roll aged pretty poorly in

Retrospect but that is small potatoes compared to Notorious sex pest Harvey Weinstein Madison tries to invite actor guy to the after party set up by her friends and he completely blows her off reveals that he never thought of her as his girlfriend and that she basically isn’t famous enough to continue hanging

Out with him Madison you should have known he literally looked in a mirror earlier that is literally movie rule number 2561 Lindsay notices that Madison is upset and she talks him sense to the others because she’s the most perfect understanding and normal actress in the whole world we get a sad Madison Montage

While everyone else tries to call her they all force their way into her room are you okay aside from being the biggest idiot on the face of the Earth yeah aside from that another rude Delany moment Madison apologizes to everyone for blowing them off and why is it

Always Madison who has to apologize they make up there’s a Time skip Spa Montage wow they look exactly the same they all go out with their government assigned dudes except for noie whose boyfriend was discontinued before we could make this movie but again it seems like

Barbie and River are the only ones who are actually still dating they wrap up in the My Scene ghost Hollywood stretch limo available now it all major retailers sold separately turns out that their destination was the movie premiere and they all meet up with Lindsay and

Have a red carpet moment actor guy shows up and they ditch him Dynamic camera angle the end all right now let’s zoom out and take a look at these movies as a whole first and most notably these are really pretty for a directed DVD kids movie The Character designs the animation those

Goddamn Dynamic camera angles it looks really nice and I can’t name any other show or movie that looks anything like this even the early CG was pretty well integrated when the standard for that time period was usually distractingly bad like sure they’re pretty same faced and have zero body diversity medium medium medium

Medium but that’s also not really something I ever expect to see from girls media in this time period and considering that they represent dolls who literally do have the same faces and bodies I I won’t diging it for that now I usually tend to get kind of annoyed at

The over inclusion of pop tunes in animated shows and movies but this kind of movie is exactly what that soundtrack style is made for the choices are tasteful they’re catchy they add to the moment instead of distracting from it the music in all of these is Rock Solid

Pop rock solid now the question of are these movies good for kids well I’m kind of on the fence probably the worst aspects of these movies is the glamorization of shopping addiction and the romanticization of settings that in real life are Laden with drugs alcohol and sexual pressure especially for young

People the fact of the matter is is that nightclubs are not safe settings not particularly for adults and definitely not for teenagers and so I kind of take issue with this portrayal of them as this wonderful utopian experience where everything is great and nothing bad ever happens if broaching the realities of

Staying safe while clubbing is too inappropriate for these kids movies which it almost certainly is then maybe nightclubs are just not a place where these characters should be found there’s a reason I don’t have nearly as much of a problem with the birthday party thrown in masquerade Madness it’s a much more

Reasonable situation for a kid or teen to be in especially because everyone in attendance is probably around the same age but another part of me wants to say it’s not that deep it’s just a harmless fantasy about being rich and having the freedom of being an adult there are

Certainly other movies out there that are more positive for developing mind but it’s not like this one is overtly harmful it’s fluff it’s popcorn it’s not full of those juicy brain nutrients but it’s not going to kill you either one thing that I appreciate about these movies is that the conflicts are more

Complicated than one person is being being completely awful and everyone suffers because of it and then they all forgive them at the end if someone’s doing something wrong there’s an understandable element to it there’s never a hardl antagonist and we’re never expected to forgive somebody at the end who did something unforgivable although

The fact that Madison ends up with a conflict role in 2third of these movies this kind of makes it feel like they’re picking on her my final rating for all of these movies is that they’re just fine except for the godamn Weinstein Cameo now don’t touch that dial it’s

Time for the my character popularity contest I’ll only be ranking the girls in the main group because the guys don’t matter and ji only gets less than a minute of screen time sorry j at the bottom in ninth place with only four votes is Nia sorry Nia it’s just cuz you

Were introduced in 2008 in eighth place with six votes is Kenzie for the redhead representation and then seventh Kennedy with 12 votes sorry Kennedy you might have been a main character but you’ll always be to the myen friend group as mine was to Bratz and in sixth place

With 14 votes it’s Miss Lindsay Lohan I know I said I’d only be ranking the main girls but the fact that she beat Kennedy is too funny not to include and in fifth place with 20 is Miss Barbara millant Roberts herself which I couldn’t say is that surprising to me because compared

To the others in the group my Barbie has very little identity all of the others get at least one token hobby or personality trait and Barbie’s just like I love shopping with a substantial jump in votes we’re tied for third and fourth place with 68 votes each we’ve got

Delany and noie Delany may have only been kind of sort a part of the main group but her cool girl Vibes Triumph in the end a lot of the people who mentioned noie appreciated her Asian-American representation with yet another big jump in second place we have

Chelsea with 131 votes and I know why Chelsea is a favorite she’s a potential self-insert character for both Brown and redheaded white girls Latinas and West Asian girls plus she wants to be a fashion designer and who doesn’t want to be a fashion designer and finally number

One with a substantial 144 votes Madison or Wesley if you’re European and does she really need an introduction she’s that girl she’s the moment she cut a record deal for urban desire she’s 2005’s hottest new actress she’s the only girl representing complexions darker than tan and she’s the only one

With textured hair Madison may have been tokenized in the franchise and vilified in two out of the three movies but that doesn’t stop her from coming out on top mying goes Hollywood may have been the final myene movie but there’s still some myene media that we haven’t

Explored yet that being the post2 2008 web series a total reboot that ignores the cannon established in all the previous media in the first episode we meet Nia who is a DJ at an exclusive club and I guess we’re in UK mode because Madison is Wesley Nia feels

Underprepared and nervous and seems to be getting sick they try to make her feel better but nothing works and her voice just gets worse and worse everyone else shows up at the club and Kennedy makes it work by speaking for her everyone cheers we all love Nia hooray

Next Delany meets Nia and Kennedy while they’re out shopping and agonizes to them about the fact that her Crush asked her out for a night of salsa dancing and she lied about having experience with it Nia actually does have salsa dance experience and offers to teach her and

Then they have a vaguely flirty dance lesson Delany tries to put off Dancing for as long as possible but is eventually dragged out onto the dance floor in the process she mes her dance partner and then the other girls she admits the truth to her date who isn’t

Mad next Chelsea has a part-time job at a high-end makeup store however she’s humiliated by the tacky uniform she forces herself to tolerate it by reminding herself that this job is her ticket to going to Paris she very meekly suggests that she try altering it and this Chelsea is a completely different

Character than the one before because OG Chelsea would have cut it into ribbons with no hesitation she turns it into a much more flattering dress and it goes over so well that she’s asked to design uniforms for the other employees next the girls are in vaguely Egyptian themed outfits corresponding with the golden

Bling doll line and take a limo to the museum for an auction that Madison planned they walk the red carpet and get treated like celebrities for some reason Madison’s mortified when she realizes that she forgot the most high value item at home and Chelsea and Delany run to go

Get it Madison gives an awkward speech to stall for time and the dubiously obtained artifact arrives and sells for the big bucks next we’ve got a three-parter that’s basically one episode so I’ll describe it as such Chelsea has her first big fashion show coming up and Kennedy and Nia are

Supporting her Chelsea stresses about potential disasters and assumes That She’s forgetting everything but unfortunately disaster does strike and it turns out the models were booked for the wrong day but that just means her friends get to be models but she has to model two because there aren’t enough of

Them to accommodate the costume changes Kennedy Nia and Chelsea Walk The Runway and even though chelse flubs her walk a bit everything goes well in the end next in another three-parter Kennedy Madison and Nia are hanging out at a cafe and Kennedy is being harassed by a secret

Admirer he orders muffins to the table and she looks around wondering who it could be the next day she contemplates meeting him and misinterprets when a sales clerk offers her to try on some boots as the admirer revealing himself she becomes overly defensive and starts telling every single guy she encounters

That she has a boyfriend River’s back in town now and a bouquet of roses gets delivered to Kennedy’s apartment but there’s only 11 instead of a dozen River shows up with the 12 row revealing himself to be the admirer all along as if that isn’t total weirdo Behavior next

Kennedy is staying over at Chelsea’s place and she’s a shitty guest she’s careless around Chelsea’s projects she drags an entire vanity into her room and she brings her dog despite Chelsea’s dog not being friendly and also he shits on her floor Kennedy complains about the food options that Chelsea has and then

Her dog shits on the floor again and Kennedy tries to wipe it up with Chelsea’s work in progress the others encourage them to talk with each other and implying that there isn’t one of them who is obviously obviously the one at fault here and Chelsea is the one who

Apologizes first are you kidding me they pretend that this wasn’t a total disaster and make nice next the girls were in a hurry this morning and are having a bad fashioned day and Nia is filming them without their consent because she’s putting together a reality show of her friends for a competition

She shoots a feature of Kennedy who’s a bad actor and does a really rough take and then so does Lancy and then so does Chelsea later at the club it’s so funny how when they do this whole kid-friendly nightclub thing they can’t show any actual dance moves that people use at

Clubs so everyone’s just kind of bouncing and wildly waving their arms around the girls plan to steal Nia’s camera the next time she shows up with it Nia returns and Records them without their consent again turns out she won the contest and they’re doomed to continue being used for content in

Perpetuity I don’t like the way they’re actually being kind of awful to each other now next Kennedy’s preparing for a flea market and Madison was asked to fill in for a Gala organizer but turns it down because she doesn’t feel like it nobody’s free to hang out with Madison

And so she starts regretting turning the job down and she begs for the job back and since it hasn’t been filled yet she gets it it’s a big success Madison feels great about being employed and that’s the actual final episode of the myene franchise and after that there is no

Further media no games no movies just dolls and then nothing I feel like in this Incarnation the myen girls are much less Ambiguously adults they’re never seen in a school setting and they’re all employed and living in their own places the nightclubs are more night Clubby

Than they’ve ever been it seems as if they’ve graduated from being both 16 and 21 and are now just 21 maybe a bit ironically because these new designs are more teenage looking than they’ve ever been the animation looks pretty nice and it’s a lot more high polish and Slick

Than the majority of the original runw episodes but I still can’t get over how Bratz cloney their new designs look you could say that Monster High has the exact same issue but Monster High can escape those allegations on virtue of them being all fantasy monsters and not just glamorous teens there’s just not

Enough to distinguish my scene from Bratz in this period except maybe the fact that they seem to no longer be teenagers but they all kind of behave and talk like teenagers and the plots in these episodes also feel a bit more childish than the previous version the

Teen drama CW Show appeal doesn’t really apply to these webisodes despite all their clubbing and now I would like to return to the question posed at the beginning of this video does my scene hold up on its own Merit or is it doomed to be lost in the lip-shaped shadow of Bratz for

All eternity well if it’s a matter of direct comparison between the two Brands my scine loses on pretty much every metric they didn’t sell as well they didn’t have as much cultural impact they never did anything that somebody else hadn’t done previously in some way or another and ultimately the fundamental

Purpose of my scene was to compete with and vamper eyesee the Bratz brand until there was nothing left and they fundamentally failed at that goal maybe that’s why they turned to vampire girls next but if you focus on what it was instead of what it wasn’t I think that

Paints a much different picture what it was was a doll line that lasted for an impressively long 9 years and had International success it was a gorgeously crafted website that people who couldn’t afford or otherwise couldn’t access the dolls could enjoy it was a line of dolls that are well

Regarded to this day for their craftsmanship trainess and gorgeous playsets it was a media franchise that utilized unique and memorable designs and beautifully crafted animation it was some of the coolest doll cars that have ever been made godamn it my scene may have gone down in history as a Shameless

Bratz copy and well it kind of was but it wasn’t just that it was the effort of so many people who wanted to create the best toys that they could and in many ways they succeeded wow hey you made it to the end thanks for that if you’d like to support

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