It's a road tour in which the star doesn't sing, doesn't dance, doesn't even speak. All he does is blow kisses, give hugs and prance about in a giddy, goofy way. And yet he's drawing hundreds of thousands of screaming young children to shopping malls across the country.

He's Barney, the 6-foot-4, purple and green dinosaur from the PBS television show "Barney & Friends," who yesterday had thousands of Washington area youngsters in a frenzy during appearances at two shopping malls in Fairfax County and at the Washington Holiday Parade, for which he was grand marshal.