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Barbie: A Touch of Magic

Barbie: A Touch of Magic is a CGI-animated children's television series produced by Mattel Television and Mainframe Studios in which Barbie "Malibu" Roberts and Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts discover a mysterious baby Pegasus named Peggy on the beach in Malibu and work to find out where the magical horse came from and how to get her home.¹^•²^•³ It ran for two seasons of 13 episodes each on Netflix and is classified as ended.⁴

Key fact	Detail
Premise	Malibu Barbie and Brooklyn Barbie find a baby horse on the beach who is actually a Pegasus; they must protect her from Rocki the Glyph, who hopes Peggy will grant her biggest wish, her own wings³
Format	2 seasons of 13 episodes; runtimes listed at 22 to 23 minutes⁴
Netflix debut	Season 1 listed with a Season 1 premiere of July 27, 2023; Netflix USA added it on September 18, 2023¹^•⁵
Season 2	Debuted April 18, 2024, with a mystery of a missing crystal gem; the final episode, "Barbie, Take a Bow," aired the same day⁶^•⁴
Main voice cast	America Young as Barbie "Malibu" Roberts, Tatiana Varria as Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts, Alex Cazares as Rocki the Glyph, Ritesh Rajan as Ken⁴
Franchise position	The third animated Barbie television series, after Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures and Barbie: It Takes Two⁷
Audience ratings	IMDb 5.6/10 weighted from 221 user ratings, with an unweighted mean of 6.0⁸

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Premise and story

The series follows Barbie "Malibu" Roberts and Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts, two teenage Barbies who look alike and become friends, as set out in the earlier series Barbie: It Takes Two.⁹ On a day at the beach in Malibu they find a baby horse who grants fantasies and turns out to be a baby Pegasus, whom they name Peggy.³^•¹ While the two try to learn how to return Peggy to her home, they must protect her from Rocki the Glyph, a fantastical creature who followed Peggy hoping that Peggy would grant her the biggest wish of all, giving Rocki her own wings.³

Season 1 traces Peggy's mystery across episodes such as "When Barbie Met Peggy," "Finding Home," and "The Key," in which the wizard Will the Lizard Wizard reveals who holds the key to the doorway between Malibu and Mesmer, a magical realm tied to the story's mystery.¹⁰^•¹¹ The second season adds a new student, Leo, whose arrival coincides with a magical gem stolen from Mesmer, and follows the friends through conflicts with Dru Charles, mermaid adventures in Pacifica, and a concluding school play in "Barbie, Take a Bow."¹⁰

Season 2

Season 2 debuted on April 18, 2024, with 13 episodes, each 22 minutes long. The season centered on the two Barbies trying to uncover the mystery of a missing crystal gem while balancing the dramas of their teenage, Malibu-based lives. New original songs accompanied the season, including "Got the Magic Touch," which premiered on April 5, 2024, and "Center Stage," released April 12.⁶ TVmaze lists the season finale, "Barbie, Take a Bow," as airing April 18, 2024,⁴ while TheTVDB dates the season 2 episodes to December 13, 2023,¹⁰ a disagreement between the two databases.

Production

The series was produced by Mainframe Studios and Mattel.¹ Christopher Keenan and Fred Soulie served as executive producers across all 26 episodes; directors included Scott Pleydell-Pearce, Dom MacKinnon, and Larry Anderson, and Daniel Bryan Franklin wrote the largest share of episodes at ten.¹² Music for all 26 episodes was composed by DJ Brady, and the theme song "A Touch of Magic" is by The Math Club.¹²^•¹³ Each season runs 13 episodes of about 22 minutes.⁶

Release and distribution. Season 1 is listed on Metacritic with a premiere date of July 27, 2023, and Netflix USA added the show on September 18, 2023.¹^•⁵ Distribution partners for the first season alongside Netflix included Pop in the United Kingdom, SuperRTL in Germany, Cartoonito and Boing in Italy, and Minimax in Eastern Europe.¹³ The show made its exclusive UK television premiere on the free-to-air children's channel POP on Monday, September 4, 2023, airing weekdays at 4:30 pm with catch-up on the POP Player.³ Age ratings differ by market and database: Metacritic lists the show as TV-Y,¹ while JustWatch and Flixboss list a PG certificate,²^•⁵ and Netflix lists it under Kids' TV and TV Cartoons.¹⁴

Merchandise and reception

Mattel created an accompanying Touch of Magic toy line, featured throughout the show,¹⁵ and a product range inspired by the series, including the Barbie A Touch of Magic Pegasus and Accessories, was available from the retailer Smyths.³ A Mattel catalog also lists dolls that feature in A Touch of Magic Season 2, such as a new color-change feature mermaid doll.¹⁶

On IMDb the series holds a weighted rating of 5.6/10 from 221 user ratings, with an unweighted mean of 6.0; the highest-rated episodes of season 1 include "A Selfie to Remember" at 9.3 and "There Might Be Dragons" and "The Key" at 9.2.⁸ Metacritic shows no critic reviews and no sufficient user ratings to generate a score.¹

A Common Sense Media review by Stephanie Morgan rated the show appropriate for age 5 and up, noting that Barbie and Brooklyn are kind and helpful to others, believe in themselves and each other, and that an ongoing theme is "we can be what we dream." The review describes the series as teenage Barbie tales with low-quality CGI but a fresh approach to storytelling that relies on visual narrative rather than explicit explanations, and cautions that episodes frequently conclude with cliffhangers, which may leave children eager to continue watching.⁹ A Washington Post roundup carrying Common Sense Media's weekly recommendations described the show as an enchanting series about a Pegasus with lots of product placement, in which the best friends depend on communication skills, teamwork, and fun to achieve their goals.¹⁵

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026