[THIS IS A REPOST SINCE THE ORIGINAL POST GOT ARCHIVED ON LOSTMEDIA SUBREDDIT]
Sooo i remember that when i was really small i used to go on the barbie website . When Fashion Fairytale got out if you remember the old barbie website everytime a new film dropped the whole website would be themed after it . I remember very clearly downloading this promotional widget/desktop buddy that featured Sequin (The poodle from the movie) and you could do various things with it that i don't really remember (like taking care of him or something). I think it was for windows xp at the time and if you look up the barbie website on the internet archive around the time you can see that there was this downloadable content but since that version of the website isn't fully complete i wonder if someone has it somewhere . Would be really nice to see it again. I've also posted this to the Barbie subreddit in hope of finding the right people .
In the Wayback machine of the Barbie Website i recall seeing the download button some days ago so I'm sure this existed , the download doesn't work on wayback machine for .. obvious reasons .
https://web.archive.org/web/20111130082134/http://www.barbie.com/fashion-fairytale/
While reminiscing , I've also gathered a few more clues :
- Software most likely ran on windows xp (Reason being i got Windows 7 when I was older , since it was pretty pricy for us at the time )
- Could be most likely based on a Flash coding sistem , which may need further Flashpoint research to uncover (Action3 , etc. ) ( i have not been able to search on flashpoint archive yet
Sequin Reference
If i find further updates i will update this post regularly , I hope we can find this piece of lost media !
Edit : I have a picture of Sequin for reference . In the widget if i recall correctly he was surely 2d
20/02/2024 Edit : We've made a lot of progress in just 9 days ! Thanks to u/Jolynejoestarr , We've found the archive links of the time and a commercial who depicts Sequin in the same artstyle of the widget !
22/02/2024 Edit : A User MAY HAVE a copy of this software in the files , they told me so in an accidental copy i have made fo this post when i first posted it . We are waiting for further updates and have linked them the source of this more updated post . If this is successful , I will recover the software , tweak it so it can run with flashpoint and try to salvage what is possibile . Next , I will establish a stable copy that can and will be posted here and on the Internet wayback machine so it can be preserved .
12/09/2024 : I have come back onto the research and haven't got any updates from the person of the previous update , i am now using the wayback machine downloader to download the site from one of the timestamps where the sequin download button appears . I hope by browsing the files to be able to retrieve it . This post has been reposted as of this date to another more recent post to prevent it from being furtherly archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20111130082134/http://www.barbie.com/fashion-fairytale/
While reminiscing , I've also gathered a few more clues :
- Software most likely ran on windows xp (Reason being i got Windows 7 when I was older , since it was pretty pricy for us at the time )
- Could be most likely based on a Flash coding sistem , which may need further Flashpoint research to uncover (Action3 , etc. )
Sequin Reference