Barbie Return to Dreamtopia (part of Barbie's Dreamworld)
Television special(s)
Barbie Dreamtopia TV special
Television film(s)
Barbie Dreamtopia: Festival of Fun
Barbie Dreamtopia,[1][2]Barbie: Dreamtopia[3] or simply Dreamtopia, is a web-based children'smedia franchise created by Julia Pistor for Mattel Television (previously Mattel Creations) which was active from 14 January 2016 to 21 October 2021.
The original Dreamtopia franchise was produced by Israelianimation studio Snowball Studios[4][5] with support from The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund.[6][7] from its beginning on 14 January 2016 until 1 April 2018. Toronto-based Relish Studios produced an 8-part mini-serial spin-off of the franchise titled Barbie Return to Dreamtopia as an part of a broader animated web franchise known as Barbie's Dreamworld which was released by Mattel Television on YouTube Kids and YouTube, the latter via its Barbie user handle, between 21 July and 21 October 2021.[8][9]
Premise
The series follows Chelsea Roberts as she finds herself touring her own make-believe land known as Dreamtopia with her big sister, Barbie. There, they discover a whole new munch-able world; swim through rainbow rivers with small mermaids and fly through cotton candy clouds with fairies.[10]
Broadcast
Dreamtopia began with the release of a teaser promo video on 14 January 2016. The shorts then followed from 5 May to 21 July 2016 and was initially released as a YouTube Kids-exclusive production, but was later made available on YouTube. An animated television special spanning 46 minutes in length was distributed by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and broadcast on television in 5 countries and regions on 26 June 2016. The success of the TV special resulted in the greenlighting of an eponymous web series, with four episodes released early on YouTube and YouTube Kids on 4 May 2017.[11] The web series episodes began releasing weekly on YouTube and YouTube Kids from 5 November 2017 to 1 April 2018.[12]Barbie Dreamtopia: The Series premiered on Cartoon Network in Australia and New Zealand on 2 March 2018.[13] The series also premiered on Kabillion in the United States on 7 September 2018[14]
Main characters
Chelsea (voiced by Meira Bilnkoff):[3] Barbie's little sister and the focus of the franchise.[15]
Otto / Notto Prince (voiced by Addie Chandler)[3] is Chelsea's neighbor. In Dreamtopia, his character is Notto Prince.[15]
Shorts
The Barbie: Dreamtopia franchise overall was centered on a series of animated shorts released exclusively on YouTube between 5 May and 21 July 2016.[16][17][18]
When Chelsea is frustrated that her hair won’t cooperate before the Pink Moon Jubilee, a festival when your hair can be anything you want it to be, her hair takes on a mind of its own and runs away.
Chelsea and Barbie chase her escaped hair creature through the Fair Hair Forest, discovering it in the hands (or on the head) of the Notto Prince. With the help of Barbie, Chelsea and her hair creature work out their differences, finally reuniting just in time to enjoy the Pink Moon Jubilee.
Barbie, the Rainbow Princess, loses a magic stone that provides all of the color to Rainbow World. Worried that she won’t be able to recover the stone before her crowning ceremony, Chelsea and Honey help her look, as they race along the rainbow ramps against the Notto Prince, who wants the stone for himself.
After the magic stone goes sliding down a rainbow, Chelsea and the Notto Prince race to retrieve it. With the help of Barbie and the other Rainbow Princesses, Chelsea retrieves the stone just in time for Barbie's ceremony.
When the bridge over the lemonade river is destroyed, the creatures of Sweetville are worried that they won’t make it across the river for the Innovation Celebration being held at the Lollipop Gardens. The townspeople work together using the unsuccessful ideas of the mysterious Captain Snickerdoodle, revealed to be the Notto Prince, who destroyed the bridge on purpose.
The Notto Prince reveals that he destroyed the bridge because he was afraid everyone would laugh at his ideas. Inspired by Notto and Chelsea, Barbie has an idea and they work together to build a giant cupcake trampoline so they can bounce across the river.
On a class scavenger hunt for magic jewels, Chelsea and Apprentice Queen Barbie engage in a race against the Notto Prince and the Elephant King who want the jewels for themselves.
In the final stretch, with one jewel to go, Barbie and Chelsea abandon their search for jewels to help a kitten in need. When they clean him up, they find that the kitten wears a collar adorned in jewels, and by helping someone in need instead of looking for jewels, Barbie passes her test. -->
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No.
Title
Runtime
Release date
M1
"Barbie: Dreamtopia"
46 minutes
June 26, 2016 (2016-06-26)
Barbie Dreamtopia: Festival of Fun
The web-based special, Festival of Fun, was released on 4 May 2017 on YouTube and its affiliate mobile app. It is a compilation of the first four episodes of Dreamtopia: The Series ahead of its official debut in November that year.
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During MIPCOM 2016, Mattel Creations announced the greenlighting of an eponymous web series and afterwards on YouTube via its Barbie user handle on 12 October 2016, citing the success of the television film special released on 26 June as the reason.[11][28][17] It is, like the franchise overall, created by Julia Pistor with assistance from Saul Blinkoff and majority-directed by Eran Lazar.[7] This web series, like the earlier web shorts, was first released on YouTube Kids and to YouTube itself afterwards from 5 November 2017 to 1 April 2018.[2][29]
