In the summer of 2010 we launched the Mazin’ Hamsters line of plush and section within Webkinz World. Since then, players have enjoyed building and exploring mazes, participating in daily activities and winning prizes. Mazin’ Hamsters can also be dressed, fed and played with like any other Webkinz pet.
Recently more and more players have been unable to access Mazin’ Hamsters. The Mazin’ Hamster section requires the use of the Unity Web Player. Unfortunately this plug-in is no longer supported by browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari, blocking access. As a result we regret to inform you that we will be closing the Mazin’ Hamsters section of Webkinz World on September 9th, 2015.
On August 19th, we will remove the Mazin’ Hamsters button from the Things to Do menu, but players will still be able to access the section through the building on the Map of Kinzville. On September 9th, it will be closed for good and will no longer be accessible.
Mazin’ Hamster owners will continue to be able to play with their hamsters in their pet’s room and clubhouse.
If you have points to spend in Mazin’ Hamsters, we recommend that you get all of your prizes before the section closes, as you will not have access to those points after it is closed.
Finally, if you haven’t done so already, any Mazin’ Hamster code can be registered in Amazing World, whether or not it was used in Webkinz World.
We hope that you have enjoyed playing Mazin’ Hamsters and continue to care for your cute little hamsters in Webkinz World!
***UPDATE 09/09/2015***
Mazin’ Hamsters has now been removed from Webkinz World. Remember that entering a MAZIN’ Hamster Feature Code at the Code Shop will still add the hamster to your Webkinz World account. You can play with hamsters in your pet’s room just like any other Webkinz pet! You can also play with your hamster in Amazing World, a 3D game from the creators of Webkinz! Visit www.amazingworld.com to sign up for a free account!
Why don’t you move the mazin’ Hamter prizes over to the W-Shop so we cant still buy them. Since we can’t access the area at this time. This would be helpful and fun for all.
That would be cool…
Yes that would be AMAZING!!
Yes Yes Yes!!!!!!!! They can have it be a memorial to Mazin’ Hamsters.
That would be amazing!!!!!!!
I’m all for it. Please do this for us!
I was never really into it even though I bought a couple hamsters. I think I only played it a few times at all. Webkinz is the only thing that ever held my attention for any amount of time. Spin-off sites never quite capture the fun and enjoyment of webkinz world for me. It’s great that you continue to work and improve WW. Keeping a solid customer base happy will keep the site safe from going the way of the hamsters and other sister sites. I would really hate to see that happen :(
I know they are lowering prices on deluxe but, if they don’t want to lose any users why are they taking stuff away from us? It’s bad enough I can’t watch the kinz TV!
ugh, I just barely got it working yesterday!!!!!!
Will yo still sell the ones in estore? if not in Webkinz, PLEASE sell the estore hamsters in the AW part!
Would you please make the items in the Mazin’ Mall available in the WShop? Just used 2 of the Hay Wagon Beds in a “Hobbiton” room, with the Kinzville Valley wallpaper. Looks Mazin’.
Aww, that’s sad, hopefully everyone who plays sees this and makes sure to make the most of their last moments
Absolutely!! We have not been able to play it since X cam about – - but will actively search for a computer that it works on until the end – perhaps the library or the cousins? We will really miss playing in the mazes and the hamlet though :`-(
Aw man! I loved Mazin’ Hamsters, although I do agree that it’s been hard to access lately. Plus I’ll get a headache if I play it too much. I’ll have to play Moolah Mountain every day so that I can get as many of the prizes I like as I can. The checkered plant is my favorite, it looks good anywhere.
ARGH THAT WAS THE BEST PART!!!!!!!! Dang.
I mean webkinz world not webkina world
wait so does that mean I cant register any Mazin hamsters well what if I get one well I have one but if I get another one it wont work only amazing world takes it or what can I still adout a mazin hamster on webkina world
You will still be able to register a Mazin’ Hamster on your account once the Mazin’ Hamsters area is removed from the site. You just won’t unlock access to Mazin’ Hamsters BUT you can still play with your hamster in your room (feed it, dress it…) just like any other Webkinz pet!
I’m very sad to see it go. I think that you should let hamster owners continue to have access to the Mazin Mall items even after it is gone. I see no reason why you can’t let us buy the stuff with KC. You have deluxe only items and pet specific foods, why not hamster only items? The ganz groupies will no doubt attack me for saying this, but I think it would be the decent thing to do since you have decided to pull the plug on it and since it hasn’t worked for some time now. Not to mention the fact that it has long been neglected even when it was working like so many areas of WW. Lets face it ganz has a tendency to start something, push it and then put it on the back burner. Think, Mazin Hmasters, Adventure Park, Magical Forest, Zums… there’s a pattern of neglect. Oh and I guess we all can give up the dream of getting those hamlet prizes you attempted to put in years ago and failed at and have never bothered to fix, remember those? They were snow globes right? How sad. :(
I also have to wonder what will become of Amazing World since it too requires Unity Player? How long till you pull the plug on that one? Soon it too won’t be supported.
Oh man I forgot about Zums until you mentioned it. I miss them! ;_; My first Zum was the yellow Peeking Zum with an orange spot on its eye, I forget her name but she was one of the first released Zums. We had like a whole bunch of Zums and I always gave the plushies to my brother and sister because they loved playing with them so much. They always used to give them different names like “Puffy” or “Zippy” and stuff. I didn’t really like the online version with the Zum rooms but the plushies were adorable!! (Sorry this has nothing to do with Mazin’ hamsters, but your post just triggered a bunch of Zum memories and I don’t know. :’D)
Yup, I know Fracktail! I always just randomly click on pet buddies to look at my Zumz, because I never use them.. Poor little guys. I never play with them in Zumwhere (lol, zumwhere.. I always thought that was funny.) and don’t really use them as buddies either.. Too bad. I am looking forward to getting the Morgan or whatever Fairy buddy though from the Family Score Prizes! Those boy fairies were always my favorites ;] I just need a Nafaria buddy now. lol
NAFARIA BUDDY??? SIGN ME UP! Nafaria is m favorite fairy ever so if we could have her as a pet buddy I’d be super happy. I don’t usually use pet buddies (they tend to be distracting for me), but if Nafaria was one then I’d totally use her.
Nafaria would probably make your pet sick :p
Haha, I bet she’d be all mad if she was a pet buddy. “BUDDY?! I’ll have you know that Nafaria is buddies with nobody! I am the great and powerful Nafaria, queen of Bad Fairies and harbinger of DOOM!!! There’s no possible way I could be…wait, what are you doing? It that the pet buddies settings?? Oh, no, I’m on the list!!! NOOOOO” XD
I hope they add Zum care to the mobile version. Zums take so much time to care for to earn the zummies. But it would be great to do on the go, say while waiting to be called at the doctor’s office. :)
I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED AT ALL IF GANZ JUST GIVES UP ON IT ALL AND DECIDES WEBKINZ X IS JUST TOO MUCH TROUBLE TO FIX AND TELLS US: “SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE, BUT OH WELL, BYE AND THANKS FOR ALL THE REAL MONEY YOU WASTED HERE.”
Mamajo18x2, I seriously don’t think they will just give up like that. They want us to play, and we want them to keep up the site! So between our suggestions and their inventive new ideas, I doubt Webkinz is going out all of the sudden.
That concerns me, too. One reason I am trying so very hard to cope with all the horror and sheer frustration the change has created is the scary amount of very real money I have sunk into this hobby that greatly love(d). It’s very hard to love right now. But I don’t want to lose it, and I sure don’t want it stripped away like the Hamsters are going to be. I would have been playing Mazing Hamsters, but every time I logged in, it would crash my computer. I wanted to play it, just couldn’t with my equipment. I also agree with those saying a new way to support things like the Hamsters, and Amazing World needs to found, instead of just doing away with games people are invested in.
Yes, roachiesmom1, but that’s the pattern. Sell products & then discontinue them so they can sell something else. My response to this is to stop spending, permanently.
tkkac has a serious point, here! Amazing World requires Unity Player too. Plus, I think GANZ should have made it more obvious that Mazin’ Hamsters codes can be used in Amazing World. I’m pretty sure I threw the tags away after I signed up my hamsters… :-(
Awwwwww…………… THAT HAPPENED TO ME TOO…… But tthere was one on a different account, i had the Blue one.
I agree with tkkac about letting us still buy hamster items. I still have yet to finish my collection of items from there and im one of the people that can still play it.
Will Mazin’ Hamster plush still be sold, or will they be retired?
Hey Ganz, I know this is way of topic, but can anyone tell me where the Be A Deluxe Designer Gallery is in the Share Center? I can’t find it, and I have submissions ready. Thanks, and please respond.
thanks,
Thanks Michael and I got a pet a few days ago and put it on my account but I went to play the maze it said nope doesent work then I saw this post a few days ago.
What?! NOOOO!! I loved mazing hamsters. :( That was one of my favorite parts about webkinz…
Guys, mazin hamsters still works on internet explorer. And I agree with squish frost, why can’t you guys just make mazin hamsters like an arcade game???? And I hope the plushes aren’t discontinued themselves….
MY COMPUTER IS WEIRD SO I CAN’T. I HAVE A SAMSUNG. I WANT A NEW IDEA HERE FOR THIS TYPE OF COMPUTER
:’( I haven’t been able to use mazin’ hamsters because of the unity web player, but this is still really sad for people who could still play.
Same here 9dogmolly :P I tried to join a couple of times but I did not want to download that unity web player thing. Yeah, I do feel bad for the people who enjoyed this and are not going to be able to play anymore. So, § does this mean that the Mazin’ Hamster plushies will become discontinued or retired like the signatures? Just wondering ‘cuz I have no clue how the Mazin’ Hamsters line works. I have never really gotten into it.
OH NO!!!! Mazin’ Hamsters was so fun! :0 :(
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I NEVER GOT ONE BUT I REALLY WANTED ONE!!! I saw one ONCE, in a prize claw machine. IT WAS SO ADORABLE!!!! And I loved playing the free version thing small maze, even though it crashed all the time. WHY?!?!?!?!?!!!!??? Couldn’t you just update the Unity player thing? And where could I get one?!? Soon?!?
I wanted to try it out as well, but was a little scared of going to another site to load it so I never did. I would like to see if they could work out some way to have a version of it in site. We will have to wait and see and change with the times I suppose.
This is so sad to me! I was a Mazin Hamster owner! I had petunia and cinnamon! Mazin Hamster was so much fun, I am sad to see it go :(. However, I wasn’t able to access it because for the Unity Web Player like the article said. Thanks GANZ for the 5 years we were able to enjoy Mazin Hamsters!
me too i have like 4 Mazin Hamsters and now i cant play those games with them and i spent some kinzcash in that place. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I think Amazing World is taking over……
(I think better than AW)
You can still access and play Mazin’ Hamsters in Chrome and Internet Explorer if you install an older version of Unity Web Player on your computer (PLEASE NOTE: I was NOT able to get this to work in Firefox).
Step 1: Uninstall any current versions of Unity Web Player on your computer.
Step 2: Visit this link: http://unity-web-player.software.informer.com/download/
Step 3: Make sure you SCROLL DOWN until you see Unity Web Player VERSION 2.6 listed. Click the “Download” button for version 2.6 to download it.
Step 4: Visit Mazin’ Hamsters in Webkinz World using either Chrome or Internet Explorer. It should load normally (if you have any issues try clearing your cache before logging in again).
PLEASE NOTE: If you’re using Chrome, you may still need to enable NPAPI. If you haven’t already done this, the instructions can be found in an earlier article here: http://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/announcements/mazin-hamsters-important-update-for-chrome/
Will you replac the button from
the Things To Do page with something else
Steve & Ganz Crew you guys rock!!! ♥ I’ve been trying and trying (and trying..) to get into Mazin’ Hamsters but nothing worked- I started thinking it was because my computer was so old, but after I broke that one for good even a new one wouldn’t let me in. I followed the instructions you gave us, and waited for the Monday fix, and it finally worked!! I can’t even tell you how thrilled I was to get to play again, thank you for your very clear instructions and all the work the whole team has been doing. I can see more and more changes almost daily and I know you are all working really hard. We truly appreciate all that Team Ganz is doing to make the game better, easier, more fun and more rewarding for all of us! I hope Mazin’ Hamsters can stick around a little longer now that you’ve found a temporary fix for it, or at least until Unity forces it to close so some of us can really take advantage of the fix! Thank you again!! We’re very lucky to have such great people working on the game for us C: (P.S. Love that your responses are in color now too, so much easier to find!!) Keep up the great work!! ♥ KCKisses
Hi Steve. Do you know if webkinz will bring the amazing hamster prizes to webkinz world, so that we might be able to get them?
Dear Steve Webkinz, will we be able to access Mazin’ Hamsters if we have Internet Explorer after they shut down? Please reply. -Wolfy126
No, we are removing Mazin’ Hamsters NOT because we want to. We have to remove it because ALL web browsers will stop supporting every version of Unity Web Player in the next month or so.
Steve Webkinz, If all web browsers stop supporting every version of Unity Web Player in the next month or so, then doesn’t that mean that Amazing World, which uses Unity Web Player, will also cease to function?
I spoke to the technology lead of Amazing World to get a clarification about what they are doing about this issue. He said the game will still be available through Steam, and will be available in September on mobile devices (iOS and Android) through an app. They are also working on a conversion to HTML5 for web browsers.
Thank you for your reply. But, I’m a little lost in the tech, not familiar with Steam. Is HTML5 a type of platform replacing Unity Player for games? Are you saying we will no longer be able to play Amazing World on laptops or desktops due to the Unity Player issue?
Dear Steve Webkinz, I have been experiencing a problem with Mazin’ Hamsters. When I click the building to go there, I get a blue screen. How do I fix this? Please reply. -Wolfy126
We’re aware of this issue affecting Mazin’ Hamsters and are investigating.
Thank you Steve Webkinz.
Dear Steve Webkinz, so sorry to bother you, but I am still experiencing problems with Mazin’ Hamsters. I still get the dark blue screen when I try to log in. Any reccomendations to solve this issue? Please reply. -Wolfy126
We plan to push a fix for this on Monday.
If you are making an amazing world app can you also make an amazin hamsters app? Or perhaps add amazing hamsters zones to amazing world? I will miss moola mt and going to the castle and lagoon! The hamsters are cute plush and as webkinz and zings. ( I collected all of them!)
And what of those of us who play Amazing World yet do not use Steam (too much spyware with Steam) or who do not own a cell phone and thus cannot access the app? We’re just supposed to wait around in limbo until the HTML5 version is ready? Yeah, that’s not happening. I am cancelling my two paid yearlong memberships to Amazing World. Why bother to pay for membership if I can’t access the website, you know? :(
YAYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COWCATCHER RULES!!!!!!!!!! Cool, dude (Invisible fist pump)
Also, at what point to you plan to inform the Amazing World community of the fact that they will no longer be able to play the game? I’m noticing a distinct lack of any sort of information being given on the Amazing World blog. :(
Dear Steve Webkinz, thank you so much to replying to my comment the other day. I really appreciate the fact that you actually read these comments. :) Wolf on! -Wolfy126
Does this also affect Amazing World? I thought it also uses Unity Web Player. I hope not, I love that game.
Sorry, just saw answer below. And it’s great news. Amazing World is so fun and a great successor to Mazin Hamsters. The Easter Egg Drop was the best. I hope we have more events with things dropping out of the sky. :)
okay, so if you don’t want to and we don’t want you to….why can’t mazin’ Hamsters also be re-written to be kept alive?? It is soooooo much fun!!!!
Dear Steve Webkinz, I think you guys should do a blowout sale in the Mazin’ Mall for all webkinz items. What do you think? Let me know. Please reply. -Wolfy126
Hi Steve I have read all your articles have cleared my cache about 100 times downloaded the 2.6 web player and each and every time when I try to load the hamster site get the screen to download the utility. I have 3 accounts and want to USE what ever MOOLA I have. I am using chrome but did also try IE with all the same results repeatedly. This is so frustrating and just one more thing I am Deluxe for or may I say was Deluxe.
This should have been fixed yesterday to work with the older Unity Web Player. If it still isn’t working for you, try contacting webkinzsupport@ganz.com and see if they can troubleshoot your settings.
Huh? That’s funny I was able.
That’s too bad, Mazin’ Hamsters was fun. Although since I use Safari, I haven’t been able to play it for a long while, so I understand why it’s leaving. Now to reminisce about the Hamlet memories…although, I’d say that Amazing World is the spiritual successor of Mazin’ Hamsters (you can even register your hamsters in it!), so not all is lost!
Except, of course, for the fact that Amazing World also requires Unity player, and is probably about to be shut down, too…
I wonder if the GANZ staff even read these?
Amazing World is fine. It uses the latest version of Unity. Mazin’ Hamsters uses the first version of Unity, which will no longer be supported by web browsers. This type of issue is also partly why we did Webkinz X. We needed to update the site and all of the items to Action Script 3 for Flash Player in case the day comes when Action Script 1 and 2 are no longer supported.
how about moving the hamster mazes to an arcade game my hamster misses playing in his maze
I think that’s an excellent idea squishfrost! Things like Moolah Mountain could join the current daily activities & running in mazes could be an arcade game. It could even be similar to Spree where you run the maze a little each day, collecting Moolah and then have the chance to buy things. I had the opportunity to play Mazin Hamsters for a little and am happy I did, but I never got to buy everything in the store before it stopped working :( Would it be possible to make part of the 365 days of giveaways a week of Mazin Hamster prizes? Or perhaps make it a separate giveaway with the wallpaper, flooring and furniture that used to be available in the Mazin Hamsters store?
I agree with squishfoot!
I would love that. I never had a Mazin’ Hamster but I always wanted one! I would love if Ganz could somehow put some of the Mazin’ Hamster games in the Arcade, or items in the Wshop!!!
excellent idea!! I was so sad to hear they are closing Mazin Hamsters special little world and prizes. Maybe they can make a game out of it and we can win Kinzcash and/or spin a Hamster Wheel at the end to win the Mazin’ prizes we still need to collect. Or sell a Hamster room theme with tube furniture and with the prizes for sale. Just a thought. Thanks for listening, Chrissysranch
Than change it as you did Webkinz world. Don’t just give up on it. I’s one of the most exciting things about Webkinz World. Please find a fix! Don’t do this to us. I’ve been here for 8 years. Please don’t take this away from us.
I agree with you
So…it was more that just a fresh new look! Makes sense.
i;’M SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAD!!! But what happens if you adopt one?
Hi Steve, question for you: I play Mazin’ Hamsters on two different accounts, both on the same computer. Everything works perfectly on one account, but on the second account, Key Craze is completely glitched (I open the chest but I get a message saying the key didn’t work, and this happens with every key until the timer runs out) and I can’t purchase anything at all from the Mazin’ Mall. Since I have 16,000 Moolah on the second account, I’d like to spend it before Mazin’ Hamsters is pulled, but unless the glitch is fixed, I will not be able to. I’m assuming that since you are pulling Mazin’ Hamsters completely that no glitches will be fixed. How, then, will I be able to spend my Moolah on account #2? This is not the sort of question I can ask through the email customer service system, so I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks! :) P.S. Sooooooo sad to see Mazin’ Hamsters be retired. It is one of my most favorite parts of Webkinz. I will miss Moolah Mountain the most. :(
GRANDMA: IT WOULD BE EASIER TO ELIMINATE “X” WITH MANY TOO MANY PROBLEMS! FOR WHAT DID I PAY FOR THOSE HAMSTERS FOR MY 3 GRAND KIDS?
Yeah, Amazing World IS kind of the successor of Mazin’ Hamsters. I was wondering if this would ever happen to Mazin’ Hamsters, though, since they stopped updating it and so I went much less often. But Amazing World will be it’s extension I suppose, and the hamsters can still be their cute little selves in Webkinz World, or in AW in 3D! So I think that this isn’t a total loss.
Ok now I am mad! I had just ordered a hamster!!!!!!! AND YOUR CLOSING IT!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ako: *cries* Kakashi: what’s wrong? Ako: Now tails has a reason to quit! Kakashi: Oh Ako. She is not going to quit. She is just not going to play for awhile. All the pets: *CRIES* Kakashi *thinks* Why do I just make things worst?
And don’t forget all the custom mazes we created! Those unique designs will never be seen again! :(
Wow. that stinks… >.> Fortunately for me, I never got into doing Mazin Hamsters and never got myself a hamster. So yay for me and boo for everyone else..
Iridescence: “Don’t cry, Kakashi.”
Why can’t they update unity so it will be like aw?
I am pretty mad at webkinz cause my prize claw machine which is one of the items that need to be fixed, disappeared (there’s no grey square anymore) from my room. I have looked in my dock multiple times but it is not there either. please tell me how I might be able to fix this, or if you can please do!!
I am talking to webkinz…….
This is terrible…. My two friends, who I just introduced to webkinz this year, JUST GOT MAZIN HAMSTERSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!! >:O
Really disappointed that the hamsters are leaving, especially after collecting every plush hamster. For a long while, it was my favorite part of Webkinz and I’d go on just to play it. Ah well. The Mazin’ Hamster Webkinz room ideas should be available in the WShop, as others suggested. I spent my Moolah mostly on tube patterns, which will be useless now that the hamster game is going. It would be nice to be able to finish up my Hamster room.
*items, not ideas. . .
You can play your hamster in Amazing World. It’s 3d as well and is great fun. :)
I can’t believe it… I loved Mazin’ Hamsters. :,( It was a great game! I did have the Unity Web Player and enjoyed playing. Winning the trophies was awesome! But now everything seems to be leaving. First Dice Kinz, one of my favorite things, and now Mazin’ Hamsters. The best things about Webkinz are disappearing! Please don’t take away anything else! I hope some day there will be a game somewhat like Mazin’ Hamsters! And thank you for giving us notice, I have a lot of points to spend!
Can anyone send me some prizes from Mazin’ Hamsters? My username is mailytrainor476, and I can get you some extra 365 Days of Giveaways items.
I haven’t been abel to get in to amazin hamsters ether
Me too, but I have a Mazin’ Hamster and this should be sad for him, but yeah, those people who could still play it for sure are really sad. :’(
Hey! NO fair I never knew you could use your hamster tags for Amazing World! I threw all of mine away! :c
WOW! It’s awesome (sarcasm alert!) to finally have time to get on WKN on the way back from vacation and then what is the first thing you see????? “Mazin’ Hamsters Closing September 9th.” What is wrong with that????? I only have a few heartfelt words to say plus one question. Ganz…… I totally understand. Mazin’ Hamsters was/is amazing. After it closes I will never forget it (part of te reason being that I own 4 Mazin’ Hamsters). You did a fantastic job making this feature. I know that you worked hard and I’m sure that you are also disappointed to let it go. I used to love building mazes, unlocking rooms, and the Moolah Mountain especially. Moolah Mountain was my main highlight. My one question is – Ganz, will you continue to sell the Mazin’ Hamster plushes? Those things are so adorable and FLUFFY! I will never forget the first time I got a Mazin’ Hamster and playing on the game. Thank you Ganz. You did a great job as far as it went.
I have one but it said i needed to update something!!! I’m crying!! *wah*
EARN the trophies! They can’t be traded. You will NEVER get them again! You have this chance!
I hope they’ll consider putting in some of the seasonal challenges before it closes. And also allow us to earn moolah without a limit.
Step 1 of what Steve? What else is unity used for? Outside webkinz?
mostly games you have to log in to play
and 3D games
HELP! PLEASE! :,( I couldn’t find yesterday’s prize, the blue birthstone lamp, I looked EVERYWHERE!!!! I have every other lamp in my collection! Please send me it, I am nataliecatty Thanks, I know I can always count on my Webkinz Newz friends! Missed you guys! ;)