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Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)

★ 6.9 · 732 ratings on TMDB

Journey under the sea in a magical adventure.

Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia poster★ 6.9

In this animated follow-up to Fairytopia, Elina enlists the help of a mermaid, Nori, to save her friend Nalu, a merman prince who has been captured by the wicked Laverna.

DirectorWalter P. Martishius, William Lau
CastAndrea Libman, Brittney Wilson, Chiara Zanni, Christopher Gaze, Kathleen Barr, Kelly Sheridan
GenresAdventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

In Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “fairy-undersea realm”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, love, tradition, class, prejudice.

↷ another substrateUSidentitylovetraditionclassprejudice
Also inConsciousness carried elsewhereFilms about classFilms about loveFilms about prejudice
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudice

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identityShrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · class, identityYoung Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · class, identityWish Dragon (2021)consciousness in monsters · class, identityThe Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)consciousness in animals · identity, loveAlita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Barbie: Fairytopia (2005)dir. Walter P. MartishiusBarbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow (2007)dir. William LauBarbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008)dir. William LauBarbie Mariposa & the Fairy Princess (2013)dir. William LauBarbie Mariposa (2008)Chiara ZanniBarbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)Chiara Zanni