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Miss Bimbo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6876230
Source-derived summary

MissBimbo.com (now ximbo.land) is an online fashion game and social networking site. Players style their 'Ximbo' character and level her up by accumulating a variety of attribute points. Points can be earned by playing mini games, participating in competitions, spending time at specific city locations, or points can be bought with in-game currency. The website also features a diverse forum and the opportunity for players to design their own clothes to be sold in the digital shop. Many of the gameplay mechanics and names of attribute points changed when Miss Bimbo was controversially relaunched as Bimboland with new politics, later rebranding to Ximboland with the reported reason being that investors did not like the word 'bimbo'.

History

Miss Bimbo started as an English version of a French game called Ma Bimbo. Ma Bimbo was owned and developed by Beemoov and Miss Bimbo was developed by Blouzar Ltd., London.

In 2008, Beemoov and Blouzar split, citing difficulties co-operating. Blouzar retained rights to the Miss Bimbo game and continued to develop the website independently. Miss Bimbo was closed and relaunched 1 March 2015 as The Republic of Bimboland.

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“Miss Bimbo” enters the record as video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miss, Bimbo and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Miss, Bimbo and video.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6876230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Miss Bimbo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.