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Current Member for over 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
- My original review expired yesterday, so here is a newly updated review to reflect the changes in Teen Dreams and it received a boost in the score from my 2007 review. One of the internet's biggest sites around.
- New servers deliver lightning fast downloads to me, US based as are the servers, regularly hits 100% of my max DL speed when using DownThemAll with Firefox
- The content over the last few years sees a raise in quality, pics top out in the 2500ish range and come zipped.
- Viv Thomas "bonus" content is equal to full access to the Viv Thomas video site and photo site as well. BL explains.
- Video quality is above average, 640-720 high end, 2000+ bitrates on last two years videos.
- Site forum is not only active, but has one of the funnest, most helpful and most knowledgeable groups of porn fans on it, outside of PU of course! Customer service is very responsive.
- Less than $20 price is icing on the cake
- Six updates per day, five days per week |
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- Navigation has improved, but still could be hard for some to get used to. I've noticed that now when you click on a letter in the model list, the models come up alphabetically. Used to this wasn't the case, so this isn't quite the con it once was.
- Still suffers from alias problems when naming models. Sandra Shine is listed as Judith for example. I just pick a letter or two at a time and scan through them for recognizable faces.
- Videos named the same! |
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I have been impressed with the forward progress this site has made. Back when it seemed to be stalling in its progress, they picked up the Viv Thomas bonus content.
The Viv picture sets are not in zips, but you can download them all with DownThemAll add-on with Firefox. Also, the videos on Viv's bonus content are not as high quality as the ones you get from Viv's official video site, but they are 640 high end 750-1000 bitrate and look plenty good enough considering those come from a site that is $30 a month! His videos adds a lot of depth to this site as well. Viv has always been one of my favorites of Euro videos, hardcore, solo, girl/girl, those are all here for you to download and it comes free with Teen Dreams.
One thing I forgot to mention in the pros is the use of "guest models". This is an interesting feature that adds 25 pictures per set from other sites and lets you get a sampling of those site's content, quality and maybe even discover a new model or two.
The biggest complaint that I remember members having about TD is the speed of downloads. I've tried various download managers with the site and find that some won't work, Free Download Manager doesn't seem to work with the site, but try DownThemAll add-on for Firefox. Change the filter to download only movie and archive files, right click the page, click down them all and it will load up the videos and zip/rar files and do the work for you. Really pushes my speed limit as well, I had never seen my speed top 1,200 kb/s but it has here, 1,296 kb/s. I do limit my number of connections to 2 though.
Despite the old issues with finding models you are looking for, the site's navigation once you find the said model is really easy to work with. All the picture sets come up for the model and the movies as well, with DownThemAll, you can skip even having to click on each set to download.
Picture size is coming in at just under 2500 high end. Movies at 640-720 high end with 2000 bitrates. Pretty impressive numbers for a site that updates 30 times per week!
I want to compare it to Twistys, but I think there are a few notable differences. Like another site, Nubiles, Teen Dreams does shoot plenty of never before seen models, giving it more of an amateur feel than Twistys has. That is probably a major pro for some of you, but you all know me, I like my major glam models that I'm used to!
There is really no way for me to guess what the percentage of exclusive and non-exclusive content there is. For me, Twisty's Treat edges Teen Dreams out here. Though there is exclusive content on here, especially in the solo videos. Love the Eve Angel in the bathroom video, staring at herself in the mirror and brushing her hair obviously turns her on as much as it does me since she ends up with one foot on the sink and masturbating.
The amount of content can be overwhelming. I usually stay a member for 3 months at a time, then come back the next year. I like the changes and definitely recommend it! |
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exotics4me wrote 1 review (05-17-07) prior to this. Archived reviews no longer count toward score. |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
+ Freakin' huge amount of content
+ Good $20 TBP monthly membership
+ 30 updates per week (6 per day, M - F)
+ Good customer interaction with model ratings, personal favorites section, set/scene comments and a forum
+ No DRM
+ Supports download managers
+ Large photos (newest at 2500x1660) and all sets have zips and slideshow option and many have no or very small watermarks
+ Newer material appears to be mostly exclusive
+ Full tour available before joining |
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- Search function leaves a real nasty after taste
- More of a pic site than a video site
- Model names are strange here and model info is few and far between
- Quality varies
- "Teen" concept loosely defined, lots of 21 to 25 year olds.
- Older material is mostly nonexclusive |
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I had high hopes when I joined this baby but was only moderately entertained: sort of like dating someone who you know ain't quite right but running with it anyways just for the sex ;) This site features a lot of Euro babes with the emphasis on photography.
Photos: 1280 HC sets, 1600 lez, 6000 solo and a smattering of other categories. As mentioned the newest stuff clocks in at 1660x2500 with older stuff at 2000x1300 or 1020x715 and a few 800x600. All have zip and many have a slideshow feature. Be wary if you're joining for the HC. 75% of this is leased content added a few years ago that's on all the megasites as is some newer stuff. Most of the newer solo stuff is exclusive but, again, a lot of the stuff past a couple of years ago is not. Most sets have 100 to 200 pics; oldest sets are smaller.
Vids = 560 HC, 180 Lez, and 800 solo. You get only get a couple of vid updates a week. Newest stuff is 720x480 on WMV while older is 350x240. Stream rates were only OK. Like the pics, you've probably seen the older stuff around.
My biggest beef is with the search function. There is 9 function search engine so it looks promising. However, even when limiting yourself to 1 or 2 of options you either get a couple of results or a ton of results. The only real way to find out what's there is to use the model directory or search by lez, HC or solo categories. With this much content that spells "p-a-i-n".
The pain goes deeper when you look at the categories. They use a magazine cover to show the girl but often times it's the same used for every shoot the girl does. You don't know what the content of the shoot is unless you dig into it.
There is very little if any info on most of the models. A lot of models, even known ones, somehow get stuck with different names so it's hard to find exactly what you're looking for.
Most of the emphasis here is on the youngish gals doing photo solo sets. For the most part, they were only OK. Not much eroticism or tease factor here. Part of this is due to the fact that they get a lot of their stuff from outside sources. This factor also explains why the quality can vary from set to set. Some are great, others are poorly cropped and shot.
The girls are generally fairly attractive. Not top shelf but not off the street either. Thankfully there was not a lot of silicon here, at least in the solo content and newer HC stuff.
This site gets an 85 for sheer volume, good pic sizes and good newer vids. You also get acccess to the Vivthomas bonus site. Not as big as his "real" site but not bad. It's definitely one of the better bonus sites you can get. It loses ground on it's half ass search function, varying quality and the fact that the older stuff has been around the block a few times.
If you like solo girls and pics this is a pretty good place for the value; just plan on spending some time digging through it all. |
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Was a member approx. 1 month prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
+Great price. ($19.95 from here or you can find it for $17.95 from another site)
+Updated 2-3 times a week.
+Very helpfull members forum, where the webmaster will even reply.
+Bonus guest model section. Gives samples of other sites.
+Nice and easy navigation. By style of set, body type or even just searching for the models name.
+Good selection of solo, girl/girl & boy/girl |
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-Some girls are the same one you've seen from other sites but with different names.
-Images are 1333x2000 for portrait and 1999x1333 for landscape.
-Newer Videos are 704x396, older videos are 640x480.
-Security doesn't allow me to download images using DownThemAll download manager.
-Too many images per set, where 3-4 in a row look almost identical. |
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For the price of under $20 a month, Teen Dreams is a very good site. And if it wasn't for economic reasons, I'd still be a member.
Compared to other websites, Teen Dreams is a bit behind on the quality of both the video and images. The images are good quality and decent size but don't compare to other sites that have 3000px and 4000px images. Both the new and older video are decent quality, however non are true HD or HD quality. I'd consider most videos to be near DVD quality.
One other nitpicking I didn't like was the fact that I couldn't use DownThemAll in Firefox for the images. It has a cool feature where you save the first image as "name" and then each following image would get a number behind it in order. The webmaster was quick to reply as to why, since they were recently hacked, it was a double security thing. Unfortunately there was no way around it, except don't use the download manager. Their suggestion was to just download the zips, unfortunately they normally have 100+ images per set. However there always seemed to be 3-4 in a row that looked almost identical and could have been left out. It just made it a bit more of a pain to download images, then other sites.
Overall Teen Dreams is a site worth checking out, you can't go wrong for $20. |
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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So many Girls. There are more girls on this site than any other I've been a member of. Love the photoshoots, Love the DVDs. Love the fact that you find some hidden gems. They are there, but whilst this is great, this is one of my criticisms below. A lot of content that is different to what you see elsewhere. Pretty Girls who look and act pretty in the videos. |
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Pretty Girls great. But do we want Pretty Girls doing pretty video shoots and photoshoots. Of course not, what we want are Pretty Girls doing depraved things like working out how to get their bodies into positions where you know you're going to need a knob of butter to slide them out of the position afterwards, and while you've got the butter out, some of the hardcore is a little missionary. In some of the videos the girls are more rigid than the bed. A lot of repeated girls photos in the browsing make finding something you haven't seen before a bit hard work, and I guess when I started my membership I thought, hey I'm gonna need to budget for this, probably be a member for a while, but for some reason, and I think it was the fact that you kept finding the same shoots on different navigation pages/repetition seemed to make it hard work. Quality of some video was not high std but still consumed my bandwidth. |
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I'm glad that I was a member but it felt a bit like same old same old and finding and watching repeats. Downloads were fast. Had some hits and misses. Found some gems, some mistakes - mingers. Overall though definitely a good site to use but you do feel when you are there if there's something better elsewhere and eventually I think you'll wander off. A site you will find hard to remain faithful too, even on day one. But you will still enjoy the content. |
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Was a member approx. 3 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
-Excellent price (especially with TBP Bonus!).
-Lots and lots of content available.
-Frequent updates.
-Nice mixture of content, including boy/girl scenes.
-No DRM.
-Unlimited downloads.
-Download managers supported.
-Good support. |
| Cons: |
-Some leased content.
-Bonus Viv Thomas section not great.
-Doesn't take long to see flesh in the photo sets. This seems to lessen the erotic-ness.
-Not the greatest download speeds.
-Model names inconsistent. They seem to be different on Teendreams than other sites that feature the same models - makes it hard to grab all one models content.
-Some of the photosets are poor quality.
-Updates seem to favour photosets rather than video.
-Live Cams section of the website doesn't work. |
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All things considered, Teen Dreams is overall, one of the better Teen sites on the net.
The majority of the models are indeed teens, as opposed to the frequent 21yo models seen on other teen sites.
The variety of content is appealing and with unlimited downloads and no DRM, people who enjoy collecting large amounts of teen porn should fare well here.
One should note however, that the download speeds aren't that great. That was an issue for me, because I'm impatient. I'd like everything to download at 2.4MB/s, I'd be lucky to achieve 150KB/s at Teen Dreams.
I also got frustrated because models I recognised from other sites used different names here. This messed up my collection a bit.
Even though there's a few negatives, I still recommend Teen Dreams if nothing in the Cons list really grabs your attention.
It's also good to know that if you do join and have a problem, they have excellent support who will reply to your emails usually within the hour from my experience.
Recommended Teen Site! |
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Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
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| Pros: |
#offers stunning mostly Eastern European women--with a lot of set pic counts in the 100-150 range.
#newer pics blow up big: 1164 X 1746 and 1747 X 1164 with nice resolution
#frequent updates- six new updates per day, 5 days a week.
# movies play WMV, recent hardcore movies in Divx AVI format, and MPG: feeds are large and clear.
#Content in movies arousing, ranging from solos teasing and stripping to hardcore.
#Andrea, or other support staff answer questions promptly via email or forum |
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# navigation is not convenient or easy. For solo girls, they show nine girls avatars at a time with 576 pages to look at. (though you can sort via hair, race, action, location, breasts, p#ssy, ass, and models name)
#There is both hardcore and softcore sets and you have to look at the set to find out.
# user does not have choice to blow up pic in med res-- all pics blow up very large- so this may be hard for those with dial up connections.
# older sets are 768 X1024, and 1024 X 683 |
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Teen Dreams strength is their frequent updates and stunning pic series: their updates are just beautiful. If you have a hi speed connection, then this site may be for you. Personally- there are a lot of other sites that also offer this among other things so I probably will save my money to join one of them and not rebill here. Though I may come back and rejoin later. I'll give detail below and let you come to your own conclusion.
##Ok when you join you encounter a screen that has six large avatars of the days updates--six models are updates per day five days a week.
##Then underneath this are six avatars of the next days updates. Underneath these avatars you have links to these forum threads: general, support, and requests.
##Then these links on the side: solo girl (5184 updates at 80-150 pics each), lesbian (1820 updates at 100-300 pics each), boy girl(1336 updates at 80-200 pics each, some at 200+), amateur (161 updates, most at 60-150 pics each), asian (64 updates at 50-100 pics each), uk teens(123 updates at 60 -100 pics each) and Viv Thomas.
##Then you are offered these links: solo movies (498 most at 5 - 12 minutes in length) , lesbian movies (116 movies, 5-30 minutes; most at 10 min range) boy girl (5-40 minutes with a lot of video more than 10 minutes), Viv Thomas movies, and movies on demand.
##Then these links:
live cam girls, live teen gallery, and model interviews. Below these are sexy singles: a link to a free swinger personal site, and local datin |
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Was a member approx. 6 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Aurora Snow (the one decent video I got off it) |
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- Pictures woeful quality
- No coherence in the site
- Photo shoots done by boofheads who have no sense of the erotic - 5 pics, and then the girl is showing her spread pussy! The sense of the erotic tease is lost.
- TOO MANY SHAVED PUSSIES (as per usual) |
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A vastly over-rated site with poor navigation & coherence. Do yourselves a favour and give it a miss. |
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