30 Mayıs 2012 Çarşamba

"KinzCash Club"

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Hi guys this is Keibell,
Carmenta and I have a cool new addition for you! We are starting a webkinz "KinzCash Club"! In this club we will tech you how to save money and spend less!
This club will last for 3 weeks.

Every week during our club we will post a "Weekly Schedule". That simply means that we will tell you what we have planed for each day. We will post the "Weekly Schedule" on the bolg, on our facebook  page, and we can email it to you if you like.

                                           Here is a list of what we will do in all three weeks:


  1. Week One: Making KC corse, in this course you will learn how to make money fast.
  2. Week Two: Shop for less, in this course you will learn how to find great deals and how to spend less and buy more.
  3. Week Three: We will have a lovely course on Keeping a budget.


                                         The club starts on May 6 and ends on May 27
          
                                              The sign up starts today and ends May 3.

                                          If you want to join the club all you have to do is:

Email us at :  Our Email Address!
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or Comment to this post!

Let's Talk Webkinz Birthday Scavenger Hunt

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Friday, May 8th, marks the first birthday of Let's Talk Webkinz!

To celebrate, we will be having a scavenger hunt. These are the basics...
From April 23-May 8, we'll be posting news as usual. However, you must be on the lookout for certain words in the posts...
In the posts, look for words that are underlined or in a smaller font than usual.

Rules
Write down the words you find. They will form a sentence at the end of the scavenger hunt. The words, however, will not be given out in order, so you must make them make sense on your own!
The words can be found both on Let's Talk Webkinz and in our Facebook page. 
The words will not appear in posts made before the scavenger hunt began. None of the words are in this post, either.
The first person to find out what the sentence is will win a prize!

How to Win
  •   Find all of the words and form a sentence with them.
  •  Write a comment that contains the following:
What you would like to be called
Your Webkinz World username
The sentence
  • Comments here are moderated. This means that we receive an e-mail with the comment inside before it can be posted to the blog. 
  • The comment will not be posted until the winners are announced. This is so that people can't steal one another's answers.
  • The winners will be announced in the week following the contest's end (May 10-17).

WKN Reveals PSI and PSF for Summer Beaver and Cocoa Lab!

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Both of these plush pets will be released in June 2012.

The Summer Beaver comes with a Warm River Spa PSI, and a Cedar Sundae PSF.
...making it the 35th Webkinz (that I've found) to come with some sort of spa, tub, or pond. Webkinz: you cannot escape the cleanliness! That's one tasty-looking PSF, too.

The Cocoa Lab come with Frozen Treat Fridge PSI, and Caramel Ice Pop PSF.
...caramel-flavored ice
Sounds delightful! Or maybe it's just frozen caramel? Either way, the Cocoa Lab still looks way too similar to the Chocolate Lab for my liking.
Though I do not deny that its PSI is quite appealing.

And if you look closely: the water in the Summer Beaver's Item and Food is reflective, and the Cocoa Lab's PSI's umbrella is transparent. I really like when they throw in extra details like that; it adds a nice touch of realism to the Webkinz World.

26 Mayıs 2012 Cumartesi

More News About Webkinz Friends; 3 New States Added to Webkinz Road Trip

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"What happened to the blog this week?"
Camping. Camping happened. And now I'm back, so let's get this show on the road!

Webkinz Insider has conducted and published a 10-question interview with the Creative Director of Webkinz World about Webkinz Friends.
Apparently, Webkinz World's Creative Director is also the Creative Director of Webkinz Friends. Cool. You can find the interview here.

Ganz has also announced that Webkinz Friends will soon be playable on the iPad! The iPad Webkinz Friends will be identical to the Facebook app in every way, except for updating slightly later than the Facebook app.

Also there are more places added to the Webkinz Road Trip Map I just now checked that

why don't they announce these things
It appears that Missouri, West Virginia, and Tennessee have been added to the map! There will be 1 stop in West Virginia, 3 stops in Missouri, and 1 stop in Tennessee.

West Virginia

June 18, 11 AM-1 PM
Huntington
Cabell Huntington Hospital 

Missouri

June 29, 2-4 PM
St. Louis
Schaefer's Hobby Shop
 
June 30
Washington
Altemueller Jewelery 

July 1
St. Louis
Sweet Be's

Tennessee

June 21
Memphis
St. Jude's Children Hospital

Sorry

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Hey guys keibell here,

 I am sorry to say that the KinzCash Club is postponed in till June, because I am going on a vacation for a week and there will not be any time for the blog.... I was sick last week, so last week was nothing, but the club will restart in june.

I am very sorry about this, but I promise that we will have the club. I am leaving Wednesday and will return Thursday.

Three July 2012 Webkinz Pet Plushes Revealed at Webkinz Newz

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We'll start with the Tropical Island Pup. If this pet looks awfully familiar, it's with good reason--it was released in October 2011 as a Cracker Barrel Exclusive. As of July of this year, though, it can be found in all Webkinz retailers!

As such, we already know its PSI (Beachside Gazebo) and PSF (Fresh Flower Cocktail).

This here is the Alpaca, which is among the cutest Webkinz of 2012 so far in my book.

And this is the FrooFroo Fox (yes, all two words) which resembles a dog or maybe even a cat rather than a fox.

Ganz Announces Retirements of DiceKinz; Rare Egyptian Theme

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Ganz has just announced the upcoming retirement of DiceKinz.

DiceKinz is a game that's been around for many years. Players could play against either a friend or the computer, and would race to see who'd reach the finish line first with dice, strategy, and sometimes luck. Players started with a basic set of dice, but could expand their collections with Pet Packs, which were unlocked after adopting a certain pet (Cocker Spaniel, Panda, Cheeky Cat, etc.). However, Pet Packs were retired on March 30, 2011--except for the Koala pack, probably because it was set to remove all instances of "Pet Pack" from the W-Shop, and the Koala's was called "Koala PetPack".

On June 6, Ganz has announced, the DiceKinz game will be retired from Webkinz World. If you bought a Pet Pack before they were retired, and haven't opened it yet, you can sell it back to the W-Shop for a full refund.
There is a little upside to the retirement of this classic game: on June 6, players with DiceKinz dice in their accounts who log in on that day will receive this lovely trophy, as a memento of their DiceKinz playing days.

Ganz has also announced the retirement of the rare Egyptian theme.

The Egyptian Theme, shown in its entirety* above, is one of the oldest Rare themes in Webkinz World. Pieces of Rare themes are found in the Curio Shop at certain hours, can be found in Trading Card codes, and can be given randomly in the dice you roll when adopting any pet after your 10th.
On June 20, the theme will bid farewell to Webkinz World.

As of this announcement, you've got 29 days to work on completing the theme!
The Webkinz Insider Forum has a widget on the top of the page that shows the Curio Shop's stock for the day, in Asia, Europe, and North America, along with the times they're for sale. If you're looking for the theme, you can find its known times for sale there.
Plumpy the Hippo will also be/has been in the Trading Hall every day this week, with Egyptian theme items for trade! She'll take anything for them. She posts on WKN the times she'll be in the Trading Hall...but so far, nobody's been able to find her!
*except for the Desert Window, which is an adoption exclusive that's been retired anyway.

What's the problem?

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What's the problem? Well the problem is that when you log into Webkinz.com (as well as try to access several other areas of their website) it uses other servers to perform tasks. For logging into Webkinz.com, you would think that having 'www.webkinz.com' in your Parental Controls for sites with access granted would be good enough. Well it's not.

Webkinz.com uses redirects to IP addresses to validate your login. These IP addresses HAVE to be given access in AOL Parental Controls (it's called Web Unblock in the AOL screen).

Also, I've found that powering on the little "phone" in the bottom right of the Webkinz screen (enabling webkinz chat) redirects to other servers based on the "Zone" the user happens to be in.

Additionally I found that sending a Kinzpost also redirects to other IP addresses to send their "posts". These are like emails within Webkinz.com but are controlled content, i.e. the user does not type any text but rather chooses predetermined text.

23 Mayıs 2012 Çarşamba

Ganz Reveals Webkinz Boxer; Mega Modern Room Theme

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July 2012 is going to be a Webkinz-filled month--this is the 5th pet revealed, and we're not at the Signature yet! The pet shown is the Webkinz Boxer, a happy little guy.

"Mega Modern" it may be called, but I'm detecting more of a sci-fi appearance. Also, note the full, built-in window that's just begging to be ruined by an improperly placed door usually found in eStore walls.

We also have a new W-Shop theme coming up, the first half of which will be released in tomorrow's Wednesday update.
It is called the Mega Modern Room Theme, and the first half consists of the following:
Cryonic Comfort Bed
Stasis Sofa
Omni Glass Coffee Table
Luminorb Floor Lamp
Synthopane Floor Vase
That's a mouthful!
Also, in an unspecified fashion, you can win the following items from WKN:
Glowing Coffee Table, Glowing Vase, and Glowing Lamp. Basically the table, lamp, and flower found in the theme, only glowing and bluer. Placing a Glowing Vase and a Floor Vase on either side of a piece of furniture would work nicely, though.

I made a page for the Webkinz Road Trip 2012.

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I figured it would be more efficient to just tell everyone when I update the page than it would be to add every new location, date, and time in each post. That would make searching for the dates very hard in the future!

Here's the page, which you can find again in that little bar on the top of the page. :3

The information collected is a calendar of every day from May 1 to October 31. Under each day is the city, state, and location that was visited that day. ("no event" if there was none; left blank if we do not know yet)

Let me know if there's something I missed, if it's too complicated, etc.

Wednesday Updates 23/05/12

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A new, Deluxe-exclusive Arcade game has been added.

 

This game is called "Leapin' Llama", a side-scroller in which you help Lulu the Llama to race her way up a mountain while avoiding obstacles.
This game has a trophy! It is obtained by racing 1,500 meters.
The Llama League Cup can only be obtained once per account. It cannot be traded or sold.
There are also two known badges to be won.

The first half of the Mega Modern Room Theme has been introduced to the W-Shop.

I was bracing myself for high prices, and was surprised to find that this theme really doesn't cost much more than the average! To buy the entire first half of the theme, it costs 2,855 KC.


Cryonic Comfort Bed=750 KC
Luminorb Floor Lamp=345 KC
Mega Modern Flooring/Wall=250 KC each
Synthosphane Floor Vase=260 KC
Omni Glass Coffee Table=450 KC
Stasis Sofa=550 KC

I imagine the furniture would blend beautifully if matched with pieces of the Upscale Condo or City Styling themes, both found in the W-Shop as well!

Why this blog?

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Why did I start this blog? Well I decided to create this blog because I recently made the decision to setup our kids on AOL. I did this because the Parental Controls looked like a great option for securing their internet activity. So I went through and downloaded and installed AOL on the kid's pc and setup both kids with their own AOL screen names. After setting them up with "Kids" security I thought life would be great.

Well .... Considering that the new craze is Webkinz, my kids decided that they just HAVE to play on Webkinz.com. So this should be fine right? NOPE!! The problems began not long after.

They would try to login and the login screen would just hang. As much fun as it is to watch a monkey play drums or an elephant dance on one arm ... getting logged in it pretty important!

Through a LOT of trial and error I have found work arounds to all the issues so far. This blog will be where I post all I find that may be helpful to other people on the web. I wish I could say that Webkinz.com support was helpful but they were not. After sending 2 emails asking for help (and considering I know how to work on pc issues my emails were pretty detailed) I FINALLY got a response back from them after about a week or two. Unfortunately the response only gave basic troubleshooting tips such as clearing IE cache, loading the most current Adobe software, and rebooting. Good information but not much help here.

Please enjoy because if I wasn't already bald then I would've pulled all my hair out by now.

What's the problem?

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What's the problem? Well the problem is that when you log into Webkinz.com (as well as try to access several other areas of their website) it uses other servers to perform tasks. For logging into Webkinz.com, you would think that having 'www.webkinz.com' in your Parental Controls for sites with access granted would be good enough. Well it's not.

Webkinz.com uses redirects to IP addresses to validate your login. These IP addresses HAVE to be given access in AOL Parental Controls (it's called Web Unblock in the AOL screen).

Also, I've found that powering on the little "phone" in the bottom right of the Webkinz screen (enabling webkinz chat) redirects to other servers based on the "Zone" the user happens to be in.

Additionally I found that sending a Kinzpost also redirects to other IP addresses to send their "posts". These are like emails within Webkinz.com but are controlled content, i.e. the user does not type any text but rather chooses predetermined text.

17 Mayıs 2012 Perşembe

What's the problem?

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What's the problem? Well the problem is that when you log into Webkinz.com (as well as try to access several other areas of their website) it uses other servers to perform tasks. For logging into Webkinz.com, you would think that having 'www.webkinz.com' in your Parental Controls for sites with access granted would be good enough. Well it's not.

Webkinz.com uses redirects to IP addresses to validate your login. These IP addresses HAVE to be given access in AOL Parental Controls (it's called Web Unblock in the AOL screen).

Also, I've found that powering on the little "phone" in the bottom right of the Webkinz screen (enabling webkinz chat) redirects to other servers based on the "Zone" the user happens to be in.

Additionally I found that sending a Kinzpost also redirects to other IP addresses to send their "posts". These are like emails within Webkinz.com but are controlled content, i.e. the user does not type any text but rather chooses predetermined text.

Login solution

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Here is what I've found to be the solution to the login issues on Webkinz.com when accessed from an AOL screen name with Parental Controls turned on (and not given "General Access").

Come to find out, Webkinz.com uses up to 4 different servers (so far, there could always be more) to validate a user login attempt. These are direct IP address calls instead of using the www.webkinz.com DNS name. This means that it points to an IP address and thus these IP addresses must be granted access with AOL Parental Controls.

These IP addresses are:

66.48.69.98
66.48.69.99
66.48.69.102
66.48.69.104

So to make sure your child can log into Webkinz.com within AOL, you need to sign on as a master screen name and then click 'Security' and select 'Web Unlock'.

Next select the child's screen name in the drop list (this only shows those screen names not setup as General Access). Now on the left select 'Allowed Sites'. There is a button on the right side that is labeled 'Add More Sites'. Click this button. In the next window type in 'www.webkinz.com'. Then click 'Add'. This adds webkinz.com as an allowed site.

Now repeat the 'Add More Sites' steps to add the above list of IP addresses (66.48.69.98, 66.48.69.99, 66.48.69.102, 66.48.69.104).

Once you are done you should repeat this for any other screen names that need access to webkinz.com.

Webkinz chat status solution

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The next problem I found was that when a user clicks on the little phone icon at the bottom right corner of their Webkinz panel and then clicks the 'Power' button it would give a message that the server could not be reached. This "phone" basically makes them available to chat with their friends list in a controlled chat environment.

Well evidently this ALSO redirects to an IP address (actually 6 potential IP addresses/servers) of a server that is based on the particular "Zone" the user is in.

To correct this problem you repeat the steps that you did to correct the login issue but add the different IP addresses. I've repeated these steps below.

So to make sure your child can "power on" their Webkinz.com chat status within AOL, you need to sign on as a master screen name and then click 'Security' and select 'Web Unlock'.

Next select the child's screen name in the drop list (this only shows those screen names not setup as General Access). Now on the left select 'Allowed Sites'. There is a button on the right side that is labeled 'Add More Sites'. Click this button.

In the next window type in the IP address below:

66.48.83.160

Then click 'Add'. This adds the IP address as an allowed site. Now repeat this step for each of the following IP addresses:

66.48.83.161
66.48.83.162
66.48.83.163
66.48.83.164
66.48.83.165

This will now allow the user to power on their "chat phone" and make them available to chat to someone on their friends list.

Kinz Post solution

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We also discovered that the kids were not able to 'Send a Note' to the others in their friends list. When they tried it went through the entire process and then when they clicked the 'Send' button it just sat there and nothing ever happened.

The problem I found to be was that there was yet another IP address being used to send notes (predefined emails). Since the IP address was not in the list of accessible sites on AOL Parental Controls, it was being blocked and the screen was just hanging.

The solution is the same as the login issue as well as the chat issue. You need to add the IP address of their "mail" server to the list of websites you grant access to for your child. The process is the same but I'm posting it again to be detailed.

So to make sure your child can send a note via Webkinz.com within AOL, you need to sign on as a master screen name and then click 'Security' and select 'Web Unlock'.

Next select the child's screen name in the drop list (this only shows those screen names not setup as General Access). Now on the left select 'Allowed Sites'. There is a button on the right side that is labeled 'Add More Sites'. Click this button. In the next window type in '66.48.69.123'. Then click 'Add'. This adds this IP address as an allowed site.

Webkinz Chat fix part 2

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Well it happened again. The IP addresses for the Webkinz Chat and "Friends" list have changed so there is a need to add these to the list of unblocked sites on AOL Parental Controls.

To correct this problem you repeat the steps that you did to correct the login issue but add the different IP addresses. I've repeated these steps below.

So to make sure your child can "power on" their Webkinz.com chat status within AOL, you need to sign on as a master screen name and then click 'Security' and select 'Web Unlock'.

Next select the child's screen name in the drop list (this only shows those screen names not setup as General Access). Now on the left select 'Allowed Sites'. There is a button on the right side that is labeled 'Add More Sites'. Click this button.

In the next window type in the IP address below:

66.48.83.151

Then click 'Add'. This adds the IP address as an allowed site. Now repeat this step for each of the following IP addresses:

66.48.83.152
66.48.83.153
66.48.83.154
66.48.83.155

This will again allow the user to power on their "chat phone" and make them available to chat to someone on their friends list.

13 Mayıs 2012 Pazar

Happy Birthday to Let's Talk Webkinz!

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Let's Talk Webkinz is now 1 year old!

As of today, Let's Talk Webkinz has:
5 followers
248 posts (not including this one)
11,048 pageviews, averaging in 1,000-1,400 a month since December 2011
71 comments

Thank You, Everyone!

Lots of news to report! The Wednesday update is tomorrow, May 9th, but I highly doubt that I will be present to make the list on time, so...have the known updates early! 

 Wednesday Updates: May 9, 2012

Three new Pet of the Month items will be added!

These can be obtained by either trading for them, or by adopting a Pet of the Month during its month--they're basically Exclusive Items given as a bonus for Pets of the Month adopted in their month. 
However, to make room, two POTM items will be retired. They are the Dex's Lugbot Lookout and the Blooming Dandelion, both pictured above. 

The new items are the Caramel Apple Seeds (which grow into Caramel Apples), Volcanic Geyser, and Air Hockey Arcade Unit!

Three new Challenges will be added. 

Deluxe members will be able to take on the Once Upon a Time...Challenge, which is unlocked to them after completing The Big Scoop Challenge.
All WW members can play the New Cat in Town Challenge (unlocked after the Plumpy's Great Advice Challenge), and the Webkinz World Summer Games Challenge (unlocked after the Jungle Safari Challenge).

PSI and PSF for Webkinz Rockerz, Signature Ragdoll Cat, and Purple Floral Fawn Revealed at WKN

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We'll start with the much-anticipated Webkinz Rockerz!
They originally had much longer names (Peace, Love, and Moosic Cow; Bad to the Bone Bulldog; Punk Rock Princess Cat; and I keep forgetting the Lion's name), but it appears that they've been shortened to simply Rockerz (whatever animal they are).

The Lion comes with Shock Rock Stage Flames for a PSI, and Heavy Metal Meatballs to eat.
And so, now that the Webkinz had harnessed the power of fire, they went on to create the world's coolest barbeques.

The Rockerz Cat comes with a Dressing Room Vanity PSI, and Funky Fish Sticks PSF. That is among their more creative PSFs! Wonder if the keyboard it's on still works.

The Rockerz Bulldog comes with a Rockin' Drum Set PSI, and a Mosh Pitatoes PSF. Tee hee, puns

Finally, the Rockerz Cow comes with a Groovy Solo Stage PSI, and a Flower Powdered Sugar Cookies PSF. Huzzah, we finally have more microphones! And a really cool one, too.


The Signature Ragdoll Cat, June's Signature pet, comes with a Designer Catwalk PSI, and a Seared Scallops PSF.


The Purple Floral Fawn is a new, virtual Webkinz pet. It comes with a Cozy Log Hideaway PSI, and Apple Blossom Tarts PSF.

Not to be confused with the Purple Floral Fox, which I am to assume is the older relative of this newcomer.
The main difference between these two appearance-wise is that the Fox has a bunch of flowers on its back.

Ganz Introduces Two New Social Events...Part 1

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Ganz has recently added the new "Collection Friend Events" in Webkinz World.

Read the WKN article here.
From May 9-31, 2012, players can play the first "Collection Friend Event".

On the Kinzville Map, you'll see a new gazebo, right next to the My Page icon. Click on that, and this will appear:

The way this works is that you ask your friends for flowers--you can ask 10 friends a day, but you can only get 5 flowers daily. You also get 1 free flower daily, and from May 10-31, you can get flowers from WKN. You can also buy them from the eStore.
"Why all the flowers?"
Because prizes.
Upon collecting...
10 Flowers------Bloomin' Comfy Chair
20 Flowers------Baby Buttercups Plant
40 Flowers------Lollipop Seeds
55 Flowers------Flourishing Tree and Flower Bed
75 Flowers------Grand Prize: Wildflower Gazebo

With the 5 Flower per day limit, if you want the grand prize, you need 15 days to get it. This means the latest you can start is May 17.

Ganz Introduces Two New Social Events...Part 2

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Ganz has created a Facebook app.

As such, you cannot use this without a Facebook account. (yet?) You can find the app here. 
This new app is called Webkinz Friends. It is currently in beta, and is a Farmville-meets-Webkinz kind of world. It is a lot more complicated than Webkinz World, as would be expected of an app that only 13+ can use.
Here is the app description:

Webkinz Friends is a social game where you can make a big happy family in the Kinzville of your dreams, with the added benefit of sending prizes to anyone in Webkinz World!
 This is what it looks like...

This is a snippet of Sir Rhineholt's yard. What's supposed to be animated, is, and it's the perfect opportunity to decorate with eStore items when you normally couldn't.
About every 5 minutes, a little ditty that sounds like a cross between Mazin-Hamsters/Creatures Adventures music plays. Birds chirp the whole time.


Upon starting up, Ms. Birdy greets you, and asks you to choose a Webkinz with which to represent yourself in your Kinzville. You also get to name it. You may choose a Black and White Cat, Golden Retriever, Basset Hound, Pig, Cow, Hippo, Cocker Spaniel, or Lion. They don't get specified genders, though.


Then they just traipse around the roads.

The features of the game are as follows:
Pet Adoption--You can adopt Webkinz pets to create your family. You can use the codes from actual Webkinz plush pets (only works if the code is unused, or was used after May 2012), and you can collect Adoption Certificates from the Adoption Center, and trade them in for a pet (which can only be used in the app, of course). Plush pets adopted in Webkinz Friends come with their PSI.
You earn 1 Adoption Certificate a day. It takes 5 Certificates for your first pet, 10 for the second, 15 for the third, and so on--just multiply the number pet it is by 5. 
Upon adopting a new pet, you can choose if you want a new room in your house, OR 2,000 KinzCash.
I do not know exactly how this plush-adoption thing works. We know that Webkinz World first, then Webkinz Friends does not work, but does Webkinz Friends first, then Webkinz World work? I imagine it would only be fair for it to work as such, because I'm not going to buy a plushie just to have it wander around in my Facebook app.

Kinzville--Everyone's wondered what Kinzville looks like in-depth...and now we know--whatever you want it to look like! Yep, you can make little buildings and houses and make your own Kinzville. Sir Rhineholt, your first and default friend, has his own bustling Kinzville that looks like this:

Goals--As you play, you'll see goals--a little Cocker Spaniel in a box--on the left side of the screen. Completing these goals gets you KinzCash, items, goods, and prizes!

Experience--The more you have, the more levels you get. The more levels, the more items you can unlock in the KinzMart. The more items, the bigger your Kinzville can become!

Goods--On the top of your screen, there are Goods. There are four types: Materials, which you get from resources like the Mystery Mine. You can also get them from cutting down pine trees. Materials are used to make buildings. The second type is Food. They're used to stock restaurants. The third type is Items. They're used to stock places like the W-Shop. And lastly is the Clothes, which are used to stock places like clothing stores.

Kinzfolk (I've always wondered what you call citizens of Kinzville)--Kinzfolk are just Webkinz that run around your town, adding the cutest slice of life. A wider variety of Kinzfolk are made available by buying Pet Packs in the KinzMart, however, these packs cost real money in the form of Facebook credits.

Happiness--This is important, as the more happiness you have, the more bonuses you get from harvests from buildings and resources. To get more happiness, have a large family, and/or a high-quality town. 

Town Quality--Based on what's in your town, the Quality level helps determine your Happiness level. You can increase the Quality with a big Webkinz family and having lots of Kinzfolk.

Neighbors--These are your Facebook friends that you invite to Webkinz Friends. You can visit their towns, and help them by collecting from businesses and harvesting crops. This gives you Experience and KinzCash. You can only help out with 5 buildings daily, though.

Your House--Or just "My Room" in WW terms, your house allows you to make recipes. You can also decorate it, of course! You can also get a Happiness bonus from it--the more pets in your family, the more Happiness you earn.

Eager Beavers take care of the construction work. :D
...that Tomato Soup recipe up there is the most sensible one I've seen Webkinz World associated with. (also, I feel duped. I took a book, some gardening tools, and a pen and tossed them together in real life, and was not given a blank book. Just some confetti.)


Collections--Collections are groups of items that you can get from collecting from buildings and harvesting crops. They're awarded randomly, so you never know what you'll get, but the goal is to get ALL the pieces in the collection. For getting a complete collection, you can trade them in for KinzCash, goods, or a special item. Some Collection items can be used in recipes.

Whew! That's a long list.

Ms. Birdy shows up at the start of your Kinzville to guide you through a tutorial. The first building you build is your own house, and you can build other houses, too, from mobile homes to mansions.


You can adopt pets, but only a few varieties work--there's a list you can find here, along with a Q&A of Webkinz Friends. eStore pet codes don't work and due to the lack of a place to enter codes, Zumbuddies and Mazin' Hamsters wouldn't work, either.

If this sounds like something you'd like to check out, do note that the app requires the following of your Facebook account:
  • Basic information (name, gender, list of friends, anything you've made public)
  • Your birthday
  • The ability to send you e-mail notifications
  • Post on your behalf (make posts about stuff you've done in Webkinz Friends)
  • Manage your [Webkinz Friends-related] notifications
For more information, check out the following:
-this video, made by the staff of Webkinz Insider
-the Webkinz Friends Customer Service
-the Webkinz Friends Facebook page, where they answer questions and clarify things.
-Webkinz Insider has created a sub-forum about Webkinz Friends. 

There is also a Webkinz Friends website, though there's not much point to it, as it just shows the WF title screen and gives a link to the Facebook app, the only place so far to play it.

The thing that I find the best about this new app so far is that the decorations you can place are real items from Webkinz World. Also, there's an option to make it fullscreen. It just makes it so much cooler.

The app runs surprisingly fast, and the little Webkinz running around are so cute! There's so freaking much to learn, though, and it's still in beta, so who knows what's still ahead.

You can send gifts to WW accounts, apparently, but I don't know how to do that yet.

We made a mistake in the Let's Talk Webkinz treasure hunt; please read if you're stuck

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As you may know, for Let's Talk Webkinz' 1st birthday on May 8th, we ran a Treasure Hunt. To play, you just looked for underlined words in LTW articles, wrote them down, and tried to decipher them into a message. We tried to make the message complicated enough to not be guessed immediately, but it may have been a little too complicated...
So I will give you two hints. If anyone doing the Treasure Hunt really needs them, they are after the break.

1. One of the words is used twice.
This is on purpose.
2. The word "because" is supposed to be in there.
For some reason, it never got into a Treasure Hunt post.

6 Mayıs 2012 Pazar

Ganz Reveals June 2012 List of Pets

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Ganz has announced the plush Webkinz pets for June 2012, along with the July POTM.

June is going to be a rather meager month, with 2 Webkinz and 1 signature being released. And here they are...

The Summer Beaver, which is basically a pink, bipedal beaver with orange dots.

Can I make a small complaint for a second? They really need to learn how to adjust their camera settings. It just makes the Beaver look neon./endcomplaint
Moving on to our second pet, which is the Cocoa Lab.
Do not get this confused with the Chocolate Lab! The Chocolate Lab was released in 2009, is retired, has its Magic W on its back right paw, and looks like this:
That's my Lab, BTW. Her name's Ella.
The Signature for June is the Ragdoll Cat!
Simply gawgeous, dahling.

And July's POTM is the Puckerfish. what

Also, the Yellow Fluffy Cub and Tyrannosaurus, two new virtual pets, have been officially revealed on Webkinz Newz. (and it turns out that I was right, the T-Rex's PSI is named Amber Armchair)
The T-rex comes with an Amber Armchair PSI, and Gigantic Jawbreaker PSF.
The Yellow Fluffy Cub comes with a Totally Fun Toy Box PSI and Honeycomb Porridge PSF.

Wednesday Updates April 25, 2012

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Sorry about the delay. Went camping on Wednesday.

The second half of the Spring clothing has been added to the KinzStyle Outlet. 

 From the top left corner to the bottom right corner, these clothes are:-Striped Cotton Dress--300 KC-Layered Skirt--200 KC-High Cut Runners--175 KC-Purple Denim Jeans--225 KC-Long Knit Sweater--185 KC-Blue Argyle Sweater--190 KC-Spring Fedora--150 KC-Beige Toque--80 KC-Lemon Lime Sash--110 KC-Checkered Board Shorts--200 KC
Also, three more WKN exclusive clothing items have been added.
GanzWorld Striped Cotton Dress; GanzWorld Layered Skirt; GanzWorld Spring Fedora

 These three items--along with the second half of the Spring line--can be found from April 27-May 9 at Webkinz Newz, in a click-to-win. Just look for the floating PJ Collie to win!

Two new Challenges have been added in Webkinz World.

These next few weeks, at least, will be a doozy for players keeping up with their Challenges! The first is CampKinz Canoe Trip, which is unlocked after completing the CampKinz Counselor challenge. This Canoe Trip challenge is categorized as a Mega Challenge, which, according to WKN, has "more challenging tasks and better prizes". This challenge is the first Mega Challenge in Webkinz World!
And by Mega, they are not kidding. I just checked, and these are the first three tasks in the challenge:Ask your friends for 30 MapsEarn a total of 25,000 points playing Pinky's Big AdventureAnd...earn a total of 250 KinzCash playing Zacky's Quest in the ArcadeDear goodness. It's a good thing that those KinzCash and points will accumulate over plays, so you don't have to get it all in one shot. Let's get to playing, I suppose! 
The second challenge is Plumpy's Great Advice, named after the book of the same name. It is unlocked after completing the Smarty Pants challenge. If you have a free vacation ticket, save it for this challenge--you will need it. This challenge is much easier in comparison to the one above--buy a hat, buy a book, earn 3,000 points in Goober's Lab. There are, however, 6 sets of tasks.

Contrary to what the WKN article said, the Webkinz Road Trip map has not been added to the site. 

The article in question said that the Road Trip map would be added to the site on April 25, but they either haven't put it there yet, or they did and just hid it really well. 

A Retro Replay Video Challenge has been added to the POTM video, "Tiger Tiger". 

The video, which was made for the Bengal Tiger (POTM for July two years ago) featured an unidentified pink monkey wearing some sort of dress that you couldn't find anywhere else. The monkey later turned out to be a Glamorous Gorilla, which was released a few months later. And now, you can get her outfit, too!Just watch the Tiger Tiger Retro Replay video here, and answer the trivia to win this dazzling Dance Party Dress:Your pet even wears the bracelets!And yes, the dress can be traded and sent in KinzPost. 

They finally fixed that thing where when you win stuff it doesn't show up in a window

Here, here, let me explain it. A lot of months back, Ganz added a feature where, when you won a prize from WKN, a window would appear upon logging into your account that would tell you exactly what you won. This was a really helpful feature, especially for click-to-wins with random prizes, as there is an incredibly high amount of players who had so many items in their docks that they couldn't take the time to discover what they'd won.Unfortunately, a few months later, accounts with a certain amount of pets found that the window didn't show up for them anymore. Eventually, nobody was able to see the window.
As of today's update, my account with 16 pets on it is able to see the window! (where we discover that we've won yet another rain coat.)

And in Let's Talk Webkinz related news, sometime today, we reached our 10,000th pageview!

Plus, we got 99 pageviews in all of yesterday, which happens to be the current record on this blog. Huzzah! The viewership has been doubled! Thank you to everyone for helping us get this far!

Webkinz Road Trip Map Posted to Webkinz Newz

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You can find the map with this link.

Albeit 2 days after it was scheduled to be, Ganz has finally added the Webkinz Road Trip Map to Webkinz Newz. It does not show all of the events yet, but it will be updated.

Do note that not all of these dates and times are set in stone. Please try to remain updated with WKN, Webkinz Insider, Let's Talk Webkinz, and by calling the locations the day before the event to make sure that the Van is still stopping there.
The Van is scheduled to visit Georgia five times, South Carolina once, North Carolina twice, Virginia twice, Pennsylvania three times, New Jersey twice, Massachusetts once, Maine once, New York three times, Ohio three times (and then to stop at the Ohio State Fair), Minnesota four times (and then to stop at the Minnesota State Fair), and Texas once (then to stop for almost a full month at the Texas State Fair) this year, with a possibility for even more states and events to be added later on.

Georgia

Tuesday, May 1--Woodstock
Melissa's Hallmark, 5-7 PM

Wednesday, May 2--Marietta 
Learning Express, 4-6 PM

Thursday, May 3--Cumming
Parsons, 4-6 PM

Friday, May 4--Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill Pharmacy, 3-5 PM

Saturday May 5--Rincon
Curiosity Shoppe Jewelers, 1-3 PM

South Carolina

Tuesday, May 8--Myrtle Beach
Toys and Co., 4:30 PM-6:30 PM

North Carolina

Thursday, May 10--Garner
Peggy's Hallmark, 4-6 PM

Saturday, May 12--Kitty Hawk
Grandma Sushi's Closet, 1-3 PM

Virginia

Tuesday, May 15--Portsmouth 
Children's Museum of Virginia, 3-5 PM

Wednesday, May 16--Richmond
Mackenzie Grace, 3:30-5:30 PM

Pennsylvania

Saturday, May 19--Harrisburg
Strawberry Patch, 1-3 PM

Sunday, May 20--Elysburg
Knoebels Amusement Park, 1-3 PM

Thursday, May 24--Havertown
Ruth's Hallmark Shops, 5-7 PM 

New Jersey

Wednesday, May 23--Marlton
Joy's Hallmark, 5:00-7:00 PM

Sunday, May 27--Absecon
Browserama of Historic S[there isn't enough room for the title so I don't know] 1-3 PM


Massachusetts



Tuesday, May 29--Shrewsbury
Herberts Candies, 5-7 PM

Maine

Sunday, June 3--Kennebunk
Best of Everything, 11 AM-1 PM 

New York

Thursday, June 7--Webster
Schutt's, 5-7 PM

Saturday, June 9--Williamsville
Raff and Friends, 2-4 PM

Sunday, June 10--Arcade
Domes Gift Shop, 2-4 PM

Ohio

Tuesday, June 12--Howland
Gorants Candy, 2-4 PM

Wednesday, June 13--Cleveland
American Greetings Card S[cut off again; assuming it says "Shop"]
10:45 AM-1:45 PM

Thursday, June 14--Cleveland
Nicky Nicole, 1-3 PM

And then the van will stop at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus from Wednesday, July 25 to Sunday, August 5.

Minnesota

Friday, August 10--Rochester
Ashley's Hallmark
 
Sunday, August 12--Minneapolis
The Park at the Mall of America

Tuesday, August 14--Burnsville
Ficus and Fig

Friday, August 17--Maple Grove
Maggie's Hallmark

Then, the Van will stop in St. Paul for the Minnesota State Fair. The Van will stay there from Thursday, August 23, to Monday, September 3.

Texas

The Van will be stopped in Dallas for the State Fair of Texas from Friday, September 28, until Sunday, October 21.

Thursday, October 25--Houston
Texas Children Hospital, 1-3 PM

Today is Webkinz Day!

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Today, we celebrate 7 years of Webkinz World!

Players who log into their accounts today shall find a gift box in their dock...or not. Instead, a fairly large number of players are receiving two gift boxes instead of one. Upon clicking the button that allows you to see your full dock, the second gift box appears. It's unknown whether or not this is supposed to happen, or if it's just a glitch, but hey--double the gifts. The downside to this is that this means the Year 7 gifts might be worth a bit less for trading due to their increased quantity. I'm only going to open one gift box and see what happens to the other in a few weeks, but do whatever you want with your extra one.

Also, don't forget to spin the Super Wheel! This is an event that lasts all day, but it only appears on certain occasions, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween (but not last year, for some reason) and Webkinz Day.

Demo accounts do not get to spin the Super Wheel!

This here is the Super Wheel for Webkinz Day 2012:

Players who spin the Wheel today can win one of the following items.
  1. 750 KinzCash
  2. After Party Serving [Station?] (an eStore item)
  3. Kinzvision Plasma TV
  4. Golden Apple Tree (an adoption/Wish Factory exclusive)
  5. 500 KinzCash
  6. Fast Food Recycling (Curio Shop exclusive)
  7. Wraparound Computing Chamber (animated W-Shop item that costs 3,215 KinzCash)
  8. Time Warp Clock (adoption/Wish Factory exclusive)

I won the Wraparound Computing Chamber. Did you win anything really cool? Feel free to leave a comment!


But enough talk; I suppose you guys want to see what the gifts are this year, huh? To keep the prizes from being spoiled for those who'd rather not know yet, check after the break.



This year, your pet can enjoy a slice of scrumptious Webkinz Day Year 7 Cake! After sending their Wish Token to the Wish Factory, they can display the Webkinz Day Year 7 Trophy with pride, near their Webkinz Day Year 7 Group Print hanging on the wall!