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++ $2.75 2 day full access trial through TBP
++ Newest pix go up 4,000 pixels though most stop at 3,000.
++ Daily updates for photo sets (about 1300 photo sets and 600 vids on main site)
++ Years of material on site(s)
+ Generally decent professional photo and lighting work
+ All photosets have zip functions and you can zip in 1k, 2k, or 3/4k mode
+ About 100 or so 1280x720 vids with decent download speeds
+ Access to 8 other sites
+ No DRM limits
+ Uses major billing companies
+ Small watermarks on pics and vids
+ Video options include full scene, clips and streaming
+ Has a detailed search function and a model directory with some bio material
+ Has a support and FAQ section |
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-- Nonexclusive content
-- Not a site for hardcore fans
-- The bonus sites no longer update
-- Quality really drops once you go back a few years in both pics and vids.
- Cross sales on sign-up page
- Navigation could use some work
- Only a couple of screen caps showing video contents (needs more)
- Have to type in password info for each site (and you get some long randomly generated password when you join)
- WMV only file option for downloading vids
- Vids only update once or twice a week |
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I last joined this site about 5 years ago and decided to to the trial option to see what's changed. In short, not much and that's not necessarily a good thing. There really isn't anything to not like about it but it is a mostly softcore nonexclusive content site (if you like your action hardcore, skip this network) that mostly left me feeling "meh".
PICS: It's nice to see a site that lets you zip in multiple sizes. As noted above, the newest stuff goes up to 4000 pixels however some pixelation occurs at this level on a few sets. The downside is that the quality drops to about 2k sizes when you get to early 2009 and rapidly drops to 1k sizes thereafter. All pics come up in a separate screen. Most of this is stuff that you've seen before and not necessarily a models best offerings.
VIDS: Good download speeds and about 100 newer HD vids. Bad news is that once you get past the HD sizes, the vids fairly quickly drop to 480x320 and the quality of the older stuff is average at best. If you like HC there are only about 40 HC vids in total (1 in HD). Even though I have high speed, the streaming stuff was only OK I had problems jumping forward on some of the streams.
OTHER: It does have a good and mostly complete search engine but it's not entirely intuitive (it took me a few minutes to figure out how to find all the HC vids). Jumping around to different pages requires some clicking too. It's not bad (better than some other good sites) but it does need a few tweaks like adding "softcore", "lez" and "HC" categories, etc.
All the bonus sites stopped updating at least a year ago so they don't really have anything to offer assuming you've been around the porn block a time or two. The pic size and video quality on those sites is mostly second rate by today's standards.
TBP gave this site a "87" score which I can't justify. It's nonexclusive content and once you go back to early 2009 the quality starts to rapidly drop off. It is mostly softcore and, as I noted, these aren't what I would consider the models best work. For me, Twistys, VivThomas, Teendreams and others do a better job with this genre of site than Babelicious does. When I was last a member here I thought the site held up pretty well in comparison to what was going on at the time. Not so much any more. It's not a rip-off by any means but others do it better now. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
Discount price of $19.95 available through TBP or $9.95 for returning members via email link
Billing by Epoch with no regional variation
12 bonus sites included with membership
Updated most days
Photos available in 3 sizes with zip download for each.
Videos look great
Great navigation and search features
No download limits |
| Cons: |
Non Exclusive content
Method of downloading the photo zips is a little annoying as each time you select the size of zip you want from the drop down menu the yellow bar security warning in IE pops up to deny you so you have to click allow download then select the zip again, basically 6 clicks of the mouse just to bring up the save box
Little to interest fans of hardcore here |
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As an ex member of the Sexy Babes and Dream Babes sites 4 or 5 years ago I regularly receive emails offering me the chance to rejoin for $9.95 so as they now include their premium sites Babelicious and Babes.tv in the package I decided it’s time to take my first look at these sites. Babelicious is packed with gorgeous babes in high quality photos and videos in mainly solo strip, masturbation and toy scenes. There’s little to interest those looking for G/G or B/G action. Looking through the last 100 video updates I spotted only 1 B/G scene.
The site claims to update daily with 5 photo sets and 2 videos per week but over the last few weeks they’ve been missing a few days with the update count for September being 22 out of 30 days and for October 22 out of 31 days. Latest photo sets are being added in 3 sizes, 1000, 2000 and 3500 px with a zip for each and video updates currently at 1280 x 720 @ 3500k with wmv being the only download option plus a flash streaming option.
The pictures here generally look crisp, colourful and well lit even in the highest resolutions, sometimes a little too much photo shopping. The largest size photos are a little inconsistent and can range from 2500px to 4000px, only exception being a few sets that are were only available in 1000px added around December 09 to January 10.
There’s currently 270 models here dominated by Eastern Europeans with a few British and American girls thrown in including some of my favourites like Georgia Jones and Carli Banks. There’s plenty of search and browse options to help you easily find who you’re looking for and you have the ability to rate every model, scene and photo set out of 10. Current top ranked model by members is a British girl named Sasha with 34 photo sets and 11 videos. I don’t recall coming across her before and I really enjoyed her videos. I loved the way she talks dirty in her British accent while striping and mastubating which you seldom hear on sites these days dominated by Eastern Europeans, such a shame she had to go and ruin her sweet body with those awful implants though.
The biggest negative about the site is the non exclusive content. I recognised many of the sets from sites like Teendreams and ATK Galleria although I found myself downloading the sets again here to get them in the higher resolutions. Now that this site is the main focus in the network with regards to updates maybe they should consider a Babeslicious exclusive section similar to twistys Overall a decent site with updates most days and a ton of content over the network of bonus sites. |
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