Cartoon Doll Emporium
Cartoon Doll Emporium (CDE) has made a new virtual dress up doll of Mariah. It took them over ten hours to draw. CDE is the #1 online destination for girls ages 6-16. It features more than 650 original, hand-drawn dress-up dolls, as well as hundreds of fantasy makers, scenery makers, room makers, and other dress up games. The site also contains quizzes, picture galleries, arcade games, music, and one of the most unique chat forums on the web.
In the chat forum, users create avatars (miniature representations of themselves), buy and sell items with virtual currency, take on jobs, earn reputation, and engage in elaborate make-believe games. All CDE members can be as involved in the pretend life of our forum as they wish; they do not have to pay to participate, and everyone is treated equally.
Their philosophy is that CDE should be a fun and safe environment where everyone is treated cheerfully and fairly. Their greatest inspiration is Walt Disney, whose vision was to create a truly magical experience for children where their imaginations could roam free and they could always feel at home. They aspire to do exactly the same thing on CDE. Their visitors are young girls and they acknowledge that there are a lot of challenges in the life of a modern pre-teen, or "tween". CDE is a safe haven away from those challenges, a place where girls come to be girls and just have fun.
The type of experience they foster on CDE is largely creative. They believe that kids should feel that they have control over their entertainment experience. Dolls have always been about giving kids choices - specifically, deciding which outfits the doll should be wearing and what the doll's personality should be like. These choices make an impact on how kids learn to socialize. On CDE, they've taken the concept of dolls into a next-generation context. Their dolls are online, they're free, and they're fully customizable. They believe that by dressing the dolls, saving them, and acting through them in our chat forum, kids are able to utilize their most valuable asset - imagination - while learning valuable social skills.
Cartoon Doll Emporium was created in late 2005 by entrepreneur and eternal child Evan Bailyn. It officially launched in its current form in January 2006. Within one year, it became one of the largest children's sites on the internet, with over 3 million visitors, 90 million page views, and more than 1 billion hits each month. (Cartoon Doll Emporium)
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