Posted by bbegirl Thursday July 17 2008 at 12:47AM originally on mmorpg -

So I came across this article:

http://www.zergwatch.com/News-288/MMORPG-Showdown-Hello-Kitty-vs-Toontown-Online.html

an interesting comment:

So while most of the MMORPG world is watching and waiting for a WoW KO of Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, my eyes are on the gritty powerstruggle that will ensue between Disney’s Toontown Online and Sanrio’s Hello Kitty Online.
Just from the pure gayness and pop-culture that surrounds Hello Kitty, my money is riding on Hello Kitty.

Well it’s great that you like Hello Kitty Online, but in keeping with some of the other posts I’ve seen, why do you all think Hello Kitty Online is for children first and then for older people later on? I’m not a child (at least age wise), and mosf of the beta players are not children either, infact I did not find any kids there at all, but maybe I chose not to meet them.

My point is, do away with the stereotype that pink and cute must mean it’s for kids, it’s not Club Penguin, it’s not Neo Pets. If you must know, Hello Kitty lovers go for this! And we think ourselves more as the below than as little kids.

I have been following with great interest the amount of interest and topical comments in the forums and elsewhere about Hello Kitty Online and it’s potential subscriber numbers and how it will be in the millions of millions, nobody seems to doubt that!

The most interesting one is the whole “Wow” Beater thing. Lots of games go out and claim they want to beat WoW, but why do we talk about HKO beating WoW? What amazes us about this topic? Does this mean that the world of Pink is here sooner than we all expect?

Well one image I found that I think you’ll find all amusing in all of this is this one from orcraider, ironically he too is on Hello Kitty blogging away!

Image courtest of Orcraider as originally posted on my MMORPG blog

Published under a creative commons derivate-attribution license 3.0

The acid smiley gives it a cute non anime sort of touch I think.

The blog of our HKO MMO guild is here, we’re a strong guild is all I can say! Here’s a snapshot of our guild on the last beta!

I got this one from ripplecloud, thanks for the tip! Incase the above video doesn’t link correctly, then go directly to the link over on http://www.elle.fr/elle/elle-video/(chaine)/558757/(video)/558761

as seen on Sanriotown, got to love the pinkness of it! The most pink car you’ll ever see!

It’s for real, for those of you who don’t know Samanda they are famous pop musicians with the famous ditzy track "I’m a Barbie Girl" which you may already know if you click the song, I did not know they were called Samanda (who are real twins!), they are now blogging on Sanriotown, way cool! Now if they could only tell us the Blog URL?!

A quick search reveals this this video link as below as to their possible residence site, but not sure.

To see the actual Barbie Girl Video, this is what I see on YouTube, you’ll know the song.