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Title: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: Alys on September 27, 2024 @996.22
(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6d/89/51/6d895173076501106e96d9363355fee2.jpg)
This is a low-res, screenshot type image that I found on Pinterest a while back. It was immediately sooo nostalgic, I was in love, and wanted to put them on my site (I know a lot of people have the Sanrio/Anime etc. ones as deco)

I tried to find the original, high quality versions on the archives. I but came up with nothing since I'm not so good at navigating them. :notgood: Can anyone help me in this search? Also highly interested in the 'Everything Girl' and 'Polly Pocket' ones too/ any others  :chef:
Title: Re: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: Memory on September 27, 2024 @27.65
pretty sure all of those should be archived from barbie.com; if you check through all the images from both barbie.com (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://barbie.com/images/*) and barbie.everythinggirl.com (https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://barbie.everythinggirl.com/images/*), they're probably in there.

makeover magic (https://web.archive.org/web/20060528224808/http://barbie.everythinggirl.com:80/images/ads/BarbieMakeOver_486x60.gif)
a fairytopia banner though not the specific one you're looking for (https://web.archive.org/web/20060207212019/http://barbie.everythinggirl.com:80/images/ads/flash/bb_fairy_728x90.swf?banurl=%2Fincludes%2Fadredir.aspx&sourcecode=Fairytopia_728x90&desturl=%2Factivities%2Ffantasy%2Ffairytopia%2F)

im too lazy to keep checking stuff myself especially since the site was flash-based and is not playing nice with the wayback machine, but there you go
Title: Re: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: Alys on September 27, 2024 @32.99
Wow thanks so much!  :ozwomp: I'll have to comb through those links later.
Much appreciated  :4u:
Title: Re: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: bingus_baby on October 16, 2024 @997.34
Did you ever comb through them? Archive/org is down right now, but I am also very interested in the banners! I have a growing banner ad collection and want to re-implement it into my site hehe

(all vintage banners of course! I would never give big sites like those free promo!!)
Title: Re: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: Alys on October 27, 2024 @983.95
Quote from: bingus_baby on October 16, 2024 @997.34
Did you ever comb through them? Archive/org is down right now, but I am also very interested in the banners! I have a growing banner ad collection and want to re-implement it into my site hehe

(all vintage banners of course! I would never give big sites like those free promo!!)

I did some looking, but got caught up in some other stuff and didn't get back to it  :tnt: However, I am definitely going in now to see what I can pull up. If/When I find them, I'll be sure to let you know!! :unite: (I think I might already have a few barbie banners from gif cities too... definitely not lime the mid 200s ones tho)
Title: Re: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: Kallistero on October 29, 2024 @19.06
This sounds like something that people on Everskies (https://everskies.com/club/profile-layouts-more) might have a lot of interest in! I'm not sure about their ability to find things on the independent Web, but I could see people in asset-interested or long-lived communities sitting on things like this  :eyes:
Title: Re: Help searching for these old 'Barbie' web-ads?
Post by: Dazhak on November 05, 2024 @422.04
There has been created a page on Everyone for old ads, as a sort of comunity sourced archive!
If you have found anything that is not already there, or you have a collection of old ads lying around, you are welcome to add them.
It is pretty small so far, but still someting worth checking out (there is a bit of barbie ads there :eyes:)