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The YouTube channel Scooby Addict did an interview with animation veteran Ron Myrick. At 44:35, he talked a bit about Barbie: Mermaid Power, and how he was inspired by Avatar The Last Airbender. Given how he was in America when directing the movie while the storyboard artists (except Patrick Archibald and Frank Paur) were in Canada, this makes him the first American to direct an animated Barbie movie. Given how he said Mattel gave the script to work with, this seems to imply that they had a tight leash over how things in the movie should go.
Given how Universal (who distributes many movies from DreamWorks and Illumination) distributed Barbie movies until the late 2010s, this makes sense.
A second season of Barbie Mysteries is coming, subtitled Beach Detectives.
I asked a question for Ann Austen about why most of the Netflix movies are barely over an hour. She mentions trying to work within budgets. I would assume this means that the budget for the Netflix movies is smaller than the pre-Netflix movies.
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Here's another clip from the movie.
Here's a 30 second teaser which shows a little bit of new footage
https://youtu.be/I0ky9xsZxAY?feature=shared
This looks great
So, a few days ago, I asked a question on Ann Austen's website about the continuity and production of Barbie: Epic Road Trip, which came out after Barbie: It Takes Two. Last night, she sent me a response. Some things I knew about, but others, I didn't. Since I can't exactly link it, I'll show screenshots. Basically, because of the complexity of the movie's interactive narrative, she and the team started working on it before the show got off the ground, but knew it would come after it. However, since the movie's script was finished before the show's ending was written, she had to be vague enough so as to not potentially contradict the ending even if she did keep in contact with the show's team. Despite the above statement, she thought that the movie would air between the two seasons of the show. She also said how the interactive element would mean that there isn't a 100% canon ending.
Steve Fonti is a storyboard artist on Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase. He's worked on all kinds of shows, such as SpongeBob SquarePants. On his website, he showed animatics and storyboards from some of the episodes he worked on.
https://stevefonti.com/barbie-mysteries-animatics/
https://4ever-barbie.blogspot.com/2025/01/barbie-teresa-secret-recipe-2025.html
The book version of the movie shows some preview pages, with some of them showing someone named Marisol. I'm guessing she's Teresa's cousin.
Yesterday, it was announced that the Netflix interactive series Battle Kitty will be leaving Netflix on December 1. It was then later announced that, with a few exceptions, all the Netflix interactive specials will leave Netflix that day. This includes Barbie: Epic Road Trip. You're probably wondering why a streaming service would remove something they own. Well, in the case of these specials, it's because of Netflix not wanting to make anymore of them, and focus more on gaming. It's not uncommon for streaming services over the past few years to remove shows and movies they own, usually for tax purposes. It was also shown with projects from Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, and HBO Max.
https://youtu.be/mCw5QVqwfiA?feature=shared
Here's the first episode of Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase.
