Hello Kinzville! Today marks another update in Webkinz and I’m here to talk about what’s new.
- Days of Play are coming to Webkinz World starting August 28th!
- Ms. Cowoline is handing out prizes until September 4th. Don’t forget to log in and get your prize each day for the Super School Give-A-Way!
- The Acorn Collection Event is returning during the entire month of September! Visit your Map of Kinzville next month and click on the icon to collect Acorns. Collect all 50 to win Grand Prize!
- Player Appreciation Week is coming on September 7th – 13th! Log in during that week to get a gift box full of never-before-released Daisy Doe’s Diner items!
- Don’t forget—you have until the end of August to win a Wacky Jet Backpack, Giant Zangoz Plushy and WackyER Zingoz Arcade Unit! Play the Wacky Zingoz Celebration Challenge by clicking the icon on your Map of Kinzville!
We’ve also made MANY updates to Webkinz X to get it working better! Here are some of the highlights:
- More item fixes!
- NEW arrow button to hide/show bottom UI (Pet, Dock and Things To Do menu)
- Added support for shorter screen sizes (no more scroll bar)
- Fixed bug preventing some pet requests from being completed in the Arcade
- Improved performance in Clubhouse and Kinzville Park
- Added sounds for feeding and dressing pets
- Improved “Zzzzz” above sleeping pets’ heads in the room
- Permanent Log Out button added to top right corner of screen
- Fixed KinzPost bug which didn’t allow multiples of the same item to be sent
- Improved cache system (less need to always clear your browser cache)
- 77 various other technical fixes
To see all of the items we’ve fixed each week, you can check out our list by clicking here.
(Although we’ve made improvements to our cache updating system, if you are experiencing a technical glitch you can still try to clear your cache to see if it resolves your issue.)
Mayor of Kinzville
Awesome!!!!!
Hm. That rug is just a color variant of the old one. Well, I suppose it’ll still go well with my other acorn items. And I hope these updates really are great improvements, because Webkinz needs it right now.
Do you like pokemon
Yeeeaaaahhh……
wow! I love the september collection prizes! I’m so glad you decided to make more items to match last year items! (Which were also awesome!)
Great job Ganz! Thanks for always working so hard! And that acorn collection event looks like is has wonderful prizes, I can’t wait!! :)
Me too..I love this kind of events a lot, they have really awesome items, so I can’t wait to collect them!!! :D :) :D
I checked my pets before I checked Newz, and when I saw one of my broken items was fixed, and the ‘hide dock’ button. I realized ” There’s an update” and when I checked Newz, there was!
I can’t log in for some reason!!! the screen turns green when I click to log in on the home screen!
Sorry that happened when I hit the “play” button
Great! I can’t wait for the acorn collection, and these new changes look great too. =] I’m excited to see what the days of play are.
OMG!!!!!!! the acorn collection prizes are must haves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and the adventure park backpack- boy I can’t wait!!!!!!!!
One of the best updates yet! Can’t wait for the acorn collection and the days of play! And we can hide the dock now??? Awesome! Now I’ll finally be able to play Scrambled without any problems. Speaking of Scrambled, where did the sound for that game go? There’s no sound whatsoever. That makes it kind of boring….. But I’m happy so far with the updates! Thank you Ganz!
thanks Ganz for the fixes.
Awesome! Thanks Ganz! Also, first comment. xD
Never mind! xD
Love the new fixes, especially the hiding dock feature and lack of scrolling!! Thanks Ganz!!! ☺§
Yeah! Acorn collection! :D
I am so excited for the new acorn items!!
COoOoOoOoOoOoOoOOoOoOoOL!!!!!!! Wait what was that thing they did last year!? ummmmmm Webkinz Fun year!? What?! It gave us 5000 G coins!
It was called One Webkinz World. =] I hope we can get some points again!
what’s a UI?
Anyone have an extra give away from yesterday? The keep saying, “Campain Expired.” Thanks!
I’m really happy about all these fixes! Especially the scroll bar, it’ll be much easier to play now. And it looks like they’re going to fix the rooms, too, seeing that they’re improving the “zzz” bubbly-type thing! Oh, and I know I’ll appreciate the dressy sounds. I haven’t heard ‘em yet, but I always love those little sound effects.
Also, I feel like I owe the Webkinz team an apology for being so critical of Webkinz X now that I know why they did it (namely, because Flash is pretty much history at this point). I guess I wish they would have told us the real reason in the first place instead of changing everything on what seemed at the time like a crazy whim, but I am partly to blame also because I already knew Flash was dying, I just forgot that Webkinz ran on it and didn’t put two and two together. But what I do know is that it’s admirable how they were able to adapt like this to keep afloat when they used Flash for years. One of the things that makes Webkinz so successful is its ability to adapt and evolve to different needs, and so it was able to rise when other sites would have failed. So with that being said, I would like to say sorry for being a cantankerous curmudgeon about the whole ordeal. Even though some of the changes still aren’t my cup of tea, now I know that the transition was a necessity that needed to be done. I wish this site many more years of success!
That’s super nice of you Fracktail!♥
Vry well said Fracktail if they told us, we would’ve understand and now some people quit without knowing why it was done.
i am confused about this – my computer still shows that webkinz still running on flash – - – ?
Well said
A sure sign of good character is the ability to apologize. Bravo Fracktail! I am proud of you!
These new fixes should help tremendously. I hope my musical items stop disappearing and my animated wallpaper gets lively again! It’s good to know that improvement is well on its way. :)
I can finally log in on Chrome again… ^^ Less flash crashing like it always does on IE. Still can’t get Firefox to work, but it’s nice being able to play longer than five minutes reliably without getting kicked off. I probably upset a lot of people in the tournament arena in two player games because it kept crashing on me and cutting the game short. Only problem with Chrome, and this continues from before Webkinz X, the graphics tend to lag, so certain games are impossible to play, and I can’t do the agility or strength courses at the academy because the graphics lag, then jump to catch up and I’ve already missed it.
I’m right there with you on not being able to do strength or agility courses at the academy – same reason. frustrating since I had a pet near graduating…would really like to finish! maybe it will get fixed soon. :)
I know, little sounds effects are awesome :) !!!
I have some things fixed ,my main concern is getting all my missing items back and my rooms fixed. CMSROCKZ
I was excited to read about the new fixes, but when I went on Webkinz it was worse than ever. Everything kept freezing and I noticed that none of the glitches I have were fixed. I will clear my cache AGAIN but this is incredibly frustrating.
Has Ganz fixed Webkinz Day Countdown yet? Mine looks weird.
Oh I love the prizes from the acorn collection XD They will go great with the prizes from last year!
Oh and please tell me the all mighty chat bar is fixed (◑_◑)
No it isn’t.. They probably would have announced that. =[ I also checked and I couldn’t even see the chat bar on my screen. Anyway, I tried typing and nothing happened…
Well it finally works for me. O_O
do you ever get so bored…that you go on kinzapedia…and you comment on every pet…but then you get bored of pets…so you start commenting on items that nobody even looks at? …it’s been one of those days.
I can’t say I can relate to that….sorry Fracktail. Hope your day picks up. :)
Oh, it has. Between that post and now, I have pet a puppy, saved a kitten, become a firefighter, won a Nobel Prize, befriended a dragon, and become ruler of a kingdom. Okay, I lied about all of that. Except I did pet a puppy.
Wow, that is so interesting Fracktail because I thwarted en evil plan against a province, became a ninja, started my own business and won a billion dollars between that post and bow. But of course, I lied about that too.
Between that post and NOW, not bow. Lol.
Well dang, that might have been my evil plan you hypothetically thwarted. Now I’ll have to tell my hypothetical cohorts to hypothetically reclaim my hypothetical throne. D:
Oh, LOL, Fracktail! I get those type of days, too! :D
Well, no news is better than bad news, I suppose!
XD I’ve been tempted. I don’t do it on every pet though. I made one on the Webkinz Rockerz Leopard and said who I would name one after if I adopted one -not that anyone will see it, but just for fun. I saw what they did there with that Rockerz Leopard – Def Leppard. ~Northwestern
Cool! I don’t listen to rock and roll, so I didn’t get the reference, but that is pretty clever!
LOL Fracktail! Next time you get bored you can check out MidnightQueen’s newsletters on the forums, Webkinz General section. Their two latest newsletters are on page 111, and a new one will be coming Monday! :D
Wow, I didn’t know MidnightQueen did a newsletter! I’ll have to check it out.
It is funny what a person will do when bored. One can get pretty creative.
You bet. Now I’m working on the pet foods…
Oooo thanks! LOVE this!!!
LOVE the acorn collection :)