Throwback Thursday: The Original Wishing Well!

 

Many fans of Wishing Well 2 have asked, “What did the original Wishing Well look like?”  While the core gameplay of matching rows has remained the same, we wanted to update the design to make it look more like an actual Wishing Well.




Make sure you visit the Webkinz Arcade once a day to get your 5 wishes and win some KinzCash!

 

112 Responses to Throwback Thursday: The Original Wishing Well!

  1. leacea says:

    wow so cool. I started in I think 2007 and I never saw it.

  2. abbysweet83 says:

    I always wondered why it was Wishing Well 2. Did they stop using it because it crashed or something?

  3. passwordn2 says:

    my brother always asks me about Wishing Well 1 and now i know about it!

  4. True2MyWord1 says:

    Aw! I wish I had been on when this was still in the arcade! It’s so cool and different! -T2MW1-

  5. pjessie says:

    that is so cool they should name the new one wishing well and the old one wishing well 2 and put them both into webkinz world

  6. JesusismyLord830 says:

    Hmm I want to say I remember this, but I started in April 2007, would I have been on during the time? (I was like 6 years old so I’m not positive that I remember that) It would be cool like for Webkinz Day if y’all brought this back just once a year along with other retired games like Bamboo Break…..

  7. Br0cktree says:

    I barely remember this. I started in December of ’06, so I knew it, but just barely. Thanks for the memories!

  8. CountryKinz17 says:

    So that’s why its called wishing well 2! BTW the old menu background looks pretty cool! :)

  9. kkat says:

    Love the Wild Card! Wish we had that back…..

  10. pingpongkitties says:

    Thanks for showing us this. I started playing in late 2007 so it has always been the Wishing Well 2 for me. And WOW am I seeing the prize amounts right? Looks like with the original game you could win up to 10,000 kinzcash? That’s a LOT of cash. Granted if it was anything like the new Wishing Well 2 game, you would never win that because I have been playing that game almost every day for years and have only won the three wells in the middle once and the 1,000 maybe a couple of times. So rare that it is sad really to think how many times I have played for so little return. Oh well. Still it is fun to see how this original game looked.

    • CountryKinz17 says:

      Man it would be so cool to get that much kinzcash!!

    • heidivike says:

      hey pingpongkitties, i have gotten 3 wells on bottom or top row. Did you get to have your choice when you got the middle row? Ps what did ypu choose?

      • EEVSPEAK says:

        Hope you don’t mind if I answer instead. You get your choice of an exclusive item from the Wish Factory. I won it just last week and chose the chocolate couch. Good luck on getting the prize, too! :)

      • pingpongkitties says:

        Hi heidivike – Yes, I got a choice of an exclusive item and I chose the swan boat car because it was when it first came out and I didn’t have one at the time. Thanks for asking and good luck to you for a middle row win!

    • eileen1963 says:

      Actually, that’s 100,000 kc for 5 wells.

    • SmoresOfScotland says:

      Yeah, it has always been Wishing Well 2 for me, too. I think I’ve gotten three wells twice, and on one of those I actually won an exclusive item, which was cool. I’m glad to see what the first one was like, I was beginning to wonder if it had even existed! Wouldn’t it be cool if they brought it back, if only for a short time?

      • ImaPepper says:

        Yeah, that would be great, SmoresOfScotland. Great idea–they could have a REAL throwback Thursday and bring back one vintage game. . . or item . . . or clothing piece! That would be fun, wouldn’t it?

      • Glitter37603 says:

        A REAL Throwback Thursday would be AWESOME!!! ANYONE could play original games, & if the throwback was an item or furniture, any one could get it. but I’d only like this idea if free players could get it too. I mean, I’m a full player, but still. But if you do this & you wanna do it aas a Deluxe, PLEASE just don’t do it at all.

      • mariegaga123 says:

        they should do throwback webkinz thursday like make retired webkinz

    • itsadventuretime23 says:

      pingpongkitties, I agree. I have only been a member since 2013, but i have 16,321 and usually have more ;) :P so i need that 10,000. The old wishing well opening is better, and the prizes are better. Also pingpongkitties, do you have the webkinz day dress? If you do, friend princesskitty0608.

    • kaye10 says:

      It’s like walking through Arte’s shop and seeing an old arcade machine! Only it’s Wishing Well–how cool is that? It does in fact look more fun than 2…As for three wells in center row, good for you! I have played many years now and still have not hit three wells center (only top) but at least have all the new and old exclusives and over 100 wish tokens (just in case they intro lots of new exclusives at once ;) I once thought I would play Wishing Well 2 until one of two things happened: I won an exclusive or I got zero kc. Of course I did not really expect to ever get zero kc–but I did once–(and yes, I still played after that anyway (haha) though I have not for awhile now. Have fun everyone :)

      • pingpongkitties says:

        I agree, it is very cool! I have won zero kc a few times and was very surprised, but I keep playing anyway (you win some and lose some right?) – I have lots of wish tokens too and am thankful for that. Thanks for sharing and good luck on that rare three wells center win!

      • RosyKitten says:

        I have only received the 3 wells twice (once on each account), and I have gotten 0 kc before, 3 days in a row. I just put it up to just having bad luck that week. :)

    • natalie13 says:

      I agree No one ever gets 3 wells for an exclusive hardly ever, I think Webkinz should fix that?

    • Stealthstorm says:

      I remember the original wishing well!! I started a few days before they introduced the new one. It was so cool!!! I remember getting TONS of KC!! ~SS

    • rachel1179 says:

      I was always wondering why it was called wishing well 2, and now I know, but the mystery really is why thy got rid of it. second, theres like soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much more kinzcash!

    • CONNIE10 says:

      I started playing about a year after webkinz came out, I’ve never won the wishing wells in the middle! I do remember everything about the old webkinz, the loading docks were super cool and so was the background for rooms you have in your house. A lot of the updates they’ve done are pretty cool, I mean there are a few things I wish they hadn’t changed but the new wishing well one of the okay changes.

      • kaye10 says:

        Thanks for the info…can you remember any of the wallpapers to describe them? What a great idea…Yoohoo Ganz: may we please have a throwback to visit the original wallpapers? I missed out on the early years but have been able to snag most older things through diligent trading efforts ;) Year one remains my toughest challenge…But older wallpapers would have been lost when a room was redecorated (I guess unless anyone had the foresight to buy and keep extras, and it has been only somewhat recently that we have been able to store paper and floors in a room.) Well thanks :)

    • spotrocks99 says:

      yea, so true. I’ve been playing most every day since 2006 and even I have never gotten 3 wells or any amount that great

    • LadyPancakes222 says:

      I think it says 100,000 kinzcash!

    • 03mjm says:

      that looks cool why would anyone change it?

    • eyestone123 says:

      I have only ever played wishing well 2 as well and in that one you could actually win 100,000 kinzcash!

    • BABWPrincess says:

      My mom & I were on Webkinz for the original Wishing Well & as you can imagine, we never got anywhere near those crazy high prizes but it was a lot of fun! It took a while to get used to the 2nd one after seeing the 1st one for so long but I enjoy them both! It sounds to me like you’re doing pretty well on Wishing Well 2! I’ve only gotten 3 wells in the middle once & never the 1,000, my mom has gotten the 1,000 only once or twice, & my sister has never gotten either big prize. We’ve always wondered if there will ever be a Wishing Well 3.

    • MollyMooMoo says:

      You can actually get up to 50,000 kinzcash in the original

    • sockmonkey says:

      I have been playing for five years and have never gotten three wells.

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