It’s me, Fiona, back for another round of fan mail! As always, for my past answers, click here! If you miss me, you can always head to KinzPost and send a letter or a package, and I’ll deliver it for you!
Hi Fiona, could we please have Dr. Quack as a NPC that we can add to our friends list? And – will there be a bunch of new full member (not deluxe) quests soon? I’m almost out of quests. We could use some easy, medium and difficult/long ones. A while back we had % off food items – is that coming back? I miss it – it helped me get ingredients for recipes. And are there new recipes and ingredients coming soon? Thanks! :D – Sugarcookie9
Lots of great questions, Sugarcookie9! You will be able to add Dr. Quack to your friends list very soon — stay tuned to Webkinz Newz for more details about that and Dr. Quack’s campaign promise… you’ll have some new recipes soon! There aren’t any immediate plans to add quests to Adventure Park, but it is possible that new things will be added once Adventure Park is added to the mobile app. I’ll put in a good word about those ingredient sales — with any luck, you’ll be seeing them again in the future.
Dear Fiona, When will the reading room return? I enjoyed reading and re-reading all the stories that were featured, and really miss it! – kakenta
Thanks for writing, Kakenta! The Clubhouse rooms have been switching up a bit, but I’m sure the Reading Room will be back in time for the Leprechaun Chase in March. (Did you know that if you wait long enough, he’ll appear in the Clubhouse room you’re waiting in? Be sure to keep your sound on so you can hear when he arrives!)
Where are our badges being shown? Thank you. ♥♥♥foxpaws♥♥♥
Hi, foxpaws! You can find your badges by clicking on the Options button at the top of the screen (little gear with the question mark) and going to My Profile. If you edit your profile, you can cycle through the available badges that you’ve earned, and pick the one you want to display. Once the new achievements section is launched, it will be much easier to see all of your badges at once.
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Dear Fiona, I feel the need to clarify one of your responses above: “Thanks for writing, Kakenta! The Clubhouse rooms have been switching up a bit, but I’m sure the Reading Room will be back in time for the Leprechaun Chase in March. (Did you know that if you wait long enough, he’ll appear in your room? Be sure to keep your sound on so you can hear when he arrives!)” If you wait long enough in a Clubhouse Room the Leprechaun will eventually show up in that Clubhouse Room. The Leprechaun will not show up in your pet’s actual room.
Fair enough. It was referring to the Clubhouse room you were waiting in :)
Oh yeah, I thought she meant he’d actually appear in our pet’s room. That was news to me. XD
Has anyone else noticed that when they play Quizzy’s Corner that their Webkinz “clock” rolls back anywhere from 5-30 minutes?
Hi Fiona! Before webkinz X at the bottom of your dock it showed you how many items you had all together I really liked this feature because I felt like I had a ton of items. My real question is will that feature ever come back? Thanks for being awesome! -rksovis443
So, GANZ? I have a question. when Fiona replied to foxpaws, she said this: “Hi, foxpaws! You can find your badges by clicking on the Options button at the top of the screen (little gear with the question mark) and going to My Profile. If you edit your profile, you can cycle through the available badges that you’ve earned, and pick the one you want to display. Once the new achievements section is launched, it will be much easier to see all of your badges at once.” When she says go to My Profile in the beginning of her answer, well, I think many people are confused by this. You all see, the My Profile and My Page are 2 different things. You are still able to freely visit and edit My Profile, even though My Page is closed and will be replaced soon. I hope that this cleared any confusion, if anyone was wondering. Thanks, ~PrettyPikachu~
Wow! All of these are really good questions! Congratulations to everyone who got their questions featured!
Dear Fiona, Why do you retire pets? There are so many great pets in the club house that I look up only to find out they retired years before I knew about Webkinz. Do you think that you could unretired the virtual versions so that those of us that didn’t know about Webkinz years ago can get them in some form? It would be nice to be able to get the plush as well, but I understand that you probably don’t want to remake the physical ones again; but it just doesn’t seem fair that we can’t get Webkinz in some form that came out before we knew about it. Thank you for your response.
sometimes in Kinz Park a berry or chocolate? shows up in the upper left corner….what does it do????
I saw that last night, a micro-tiny chocolate! Makes me wish they’d make a new box of chocolates room item, this time with the fancy candies from the Cinnamon event. As to the Fiona letters, filling up the events with food sales? No. That sort of thing and too many other non-events take up space too often. I’d rather see the free items and furniture back, for both regular and deluxe members.
It’s a haunted truffle, my friends… o_O
Oh yeah, I forgot that we used to be able to get free furniture. That was great, although I often sold it for the KC :)
Hey Fiona, I was wondering: will the Green Leaf theme be returning to the wShop? It was retired back in 2015, but I believe I remember it being temporary. But… It’s been a while, and I really wanted to build a room with it. If so, will it be coming back soon?
I think I’ve seen it in the curio shop
I think I’ve seen it in the Curio Shop.
Really? Huh, I don’t think I have… Or at least, not recently. Still, I’d like to see it back in the wShop, along with some new items like they do for other returning themes. It’s kind of annoying to have to item hunt in the Curio Shop to complete a theme…
Fiona, or any other Webkinz reps, I’m having difficulty accessing most of the places in Webkinz. Why could this be? I know that before I log in, it says something about the “zoom” and how it could be messing with my “play experience”, but I’m not really sure what that means. HELP!!!???!!!???
Please contact webkinzsupport@ganz.com for more assistance
Dear Fiona, I hope this doesn’t sound self-centered, but on the design-a-pet contest that just wrapped up, i noticed that all of the finalist did theirs on paint or photoshop to color or draw. I used paper and markers and other art things. I put about an hour or 2 on drawing the confetti duck, and not even to get an honorable mention or a shout out, i feel that hour i could’ve used it for playing Webkinz. I felt like I wasted my time. I also noticed that i saw lots of good drawings made on paper, but they didn’t get mentioned either. Can you guys at Webkinz make a contest that only allows paper designs. Disclaimer: This is not meant to sound self-centered. I get that not everyone can afford a printer and/or scanner.
The Monarch Dragon, Webkinz W Butterfly, and Red Rose Turtle sure look traditionally done to me. So does the honorable mention, the Farm Fresh Egg. Anyway, I don’t think drawing something that doesn’t get much attention is a waste of time– if so, I would’ve wasted a lot of time. ¯\_(・౪・)_/¯ It’s practice. A lot of people worked hard and long, but didn’t get any recognition this contest… But only ten people can make the finalists. The Farm Fresh Egg got an honorable mention, I believe, because it would’ve been a finalist if Ganz had a good idea of how to make it (at least, that’s what I got from it).
Actually, on second thought, I think the Red Rose Turtle was done digitally. The off-white background threw me off; I thought it was on paper. Anyway, the Monarch Dragon and Webkinz W Butterfly (and the Farm Fresh Egg) are still traditional.
AS the diesigner of the Rose Turtle, i actually used a program called Art Rage, ALSO The designs were not purely chosen off of how technically perfect the art was, to my understanding, the concept and design of the pet was what the judges were being based off of. I;m sorry about your design not getting featured but there were over 900 entries! That’s a lot of designs! There will always be more contests, and you can always try again! Dont get discouraged,
Um, duckgirl? What you said doesn’t really seem fair to me. I think all of the designs are very good. I disagree with that idea. The contests should be for everyone and all of the drawing boards. I worked hard on my entries to,. but I thought it was fun, it’s not all about “The Best Pet” you know. And it’s for a Webkinz day thing! I saw your Confetti Duck and it was a very nice entry. The contest was mostly about having fun designing and having a Webkinzy Day thing for April 29th. Oh and by the way, you really need to capitalize your “I”‘s.
Hi, @duckgirl1118!!! While I understand your point, sweetie, there WERE finalists that used paper, so I hope that you noticed that. The finalists are GANZ’s decision, and, sadly we can’t factor into their final choices. I spent lots of time on 30+ entries, and I didn’t get in the finalists!!! And if GANZ made a contest with only paper designs, what about the people who don’t have a way to upload their pictures on paper? While I understand, again, you have to think about the Webkinz community as a whole. That kind of contest would drastically decrease the amount of players that are able to participate! And drawing in NO WAY is wasting time. You get practice, just take it from me. I hope you understand my point, @duckgirl1118!!! Hope to help, ~PrettyPikachu~