The Webkinz Newz community recently chose the Treat or Treat Street theme as this year’s Halloween room theme and today, I am excited to show you the first set of concept drawings!
I really like how this theme is turning out, but there is still some time before the artists start modeling each item in 3D. This is your chance to leave feedback in the comments section below. Tell us what you like or don’t like about each item or how you would make them better. We will be reading each comment carefully and take all your suggestions into consideration before making the final items.
Here is a look at the homes that will be included in this theme. You will be able to add the homes to the border of an outdoor room to create the feel of a neighborhood that is decorated for Halloween. There will be three different homes, each featured in a unique color. You’ll be able to mix and match colors or set up a neighborhood using only one. Do you like the colors we used?:
We added the road tiles that you could collect playing SPREE to the W-Shop and now you’ll have sidewalk pieces to match them. I think they will be perfect to use as pathways leading to each house as well. The paw prints are a nice touch but you don’t need to use them if you don’t like. The sidewalk tiles will change slightly when you rotate them in your room:
This lamp post is beautiful and I love that it will glow purple when it’s turned on. The Trick or Treat banner is also the perfect touch. What do you think?:
The last concept drawing I have to show today is a hedge that is decorated for Halloween. The concept drawing features a giant spider decoration resting on top of the hedge, but it will change with each rotation, giving you lots of design options:
Don’t forget to leave a comment letting us know what you like or don’t like about each item. You could have a hand in how the final pieces will look! We will be taking every comment into consideration.
Stay tuned for some more concept drawings coming soon. I plan on posting them on Saturday, Aug 17th.
These concept drawings look amazing! The artist did a fantastic job :) For the houses, I think the colors are great. I agree with some of the other comments in that the houses could have more variation in their decorations and height/shape, but I don’t think we should make the colors more muted or like the Christmas houses that have a more “realistic” brown color. Halloween is a bright time with lots of vivid colors, decorations, and fun, so the way the houses are now really shows that spirit. Brown or natural colored houses may be more versatile to use in other rooms or technically be more like the houses one would see in their neighborhood, but they wouldn’t be nearly as creative or exciting and would better resemble a regular outdoor autumn theme. The sidewalk tiles are really cool! I really like the paw prints. I also love how the lamp post has the trick or treat banner and will glow purple when turned on. Colored lights are much more unique and look amazing, especially outdoors at night. The hedge is spooky yet really cute! I’m excited to see how it will change when rotated. Hopefully one of the rotations will feature a cute black cat. I can’t wait to see the next round of drawings and of course the final product!
I did not vote for this theme, and if this is what it’s going to look like, then I’m glad I didn’t. IMO, improvements would include: Making this look more like a REGULAR neighbourhood – with separate houses structured differently – DECORATED for Halloween (blinking lights at a couple of the houses would add a nice touch), not these decrepit/run-down things. Also, please lose those hideous Mansard roofs (leave one if you must – every neighbourhood has its Adams family – but that’s plenty). More items to decorate the yards with would be nice. I like the idea of that bush, but not necessarily the spider, so a rotation where there would be no spider would be good. Even better, would be a cob-webby bush where bats fly out of it (kinda like the butterflies that fly out of the Floral Fox’s flowerbed). Other yard decoration ideas – gravestones (rotatable for variable designs), a car (or garage door) with a pretend arm or leg hanging out of it (or stuck “under” the door), leafless trees with ghosties/ghoulies hanging off them, Jack-o-lanterns (rotatable with different designs), black cats, skeletons (that jump out of coffins) and witches flying around, to name a few. The tiles are nice, as is the lamppost (include a non-Halloween rotation to it).
It’s a lot creepier than I expected. I thought it was going to be cute little kid trick-or-treating stuff. The other theme choices that were not chosen were creepier and darker themes I thought. I like the idea of a blow up decoration on a hedge, but instead of the spider, a Webkinz character dressed up like a cute scarecrow or a big blowup of a pumpkin with a Webkinz character coming out of it. Fewer spiders. More cute than scary. The lamp is very colorful and pretty. I like the houses without the spiders and webs. The sidewalk is a very cute and imaginative idea. Love the colors
I asked for a SEAT so a pet can sit and a table next to them so we can add one of the blowup pumpkins or lit candle to be next to us , HALLOWEEN BAGS for candy would be an AWESOME idea like the shopping bags ;)
I agree! I wanted a cuter theme since all the old ones are scary
I really like the ideas so far, but in terms of the coloring I don’t care for the purple, green and orange together. I know it’s probably done to with the Goblin trio from last year in mind but I honestly think it would look so much better if you used more traditional Halloween colors, I picked Trick or Treat Street as my favorite because I loved the idea of a Halloween street all decked out for the season, falling leaves of red and orange, jack o lanterns and spiderwebs. I love the Goblins but I’d like a room that fits the season, not just those pets. With the houses, and other items, colored as it is it would be very hard to add other Halloween themed items to the room without them looking off. You guys work so hard and create such amazing items, I’d really love to see what you come up with for a Trick or Treat Street that’s actually inspired by the Halloween season as a whole. I’d love to see something similar to the Christmas town from some years back, normal buildings and houses that you’d see in any town but decorated in the spirit of the holiday. That way any pet, or item for that matter, with a Halloween theme can be used. Leaving it with the purple, green, orange makes it more of a Goblin theme then a Trick or Treat theme. Not to mention seriously limiting what you can do with the items. A lot of the fun of creating rooms comes with being able to mix and match items, something you really couldn’t do if the design is set to such a specific concept, like the Goblins. Don’t get me wrong I like the Goblins just fine and a room theme for them could be very fun, it’s just not something I’d want for a Trick or Treat Street.
OFF season if we cant seperate the houses its kind of SLUM houses, Someone mentioned more haunted feel not old city row houses that are rundown seperated spooky feeling houses are seperated to be able to fill a room. Bottom front corner can be a road with a spooky grass area and at least 1 of those spooky trees we can turn in a small space before sidewalk and the houses , Just a green or dead green area spooky venus fly trap area with a Ruffiala plant
I agree that the houses do look more rundown as opposed to haunted/decorated for Halloween. There is also no difference in the houses, each has the not just the same design but the same decorations. It could look so much better in my opinion if they had different houses of different styles all decorated in a unique way, one has black cats and spider webs, one has multiple jack o lanterns and one has a witch and orange lights for example. Also bowls of candy set out at each house would really give it the feel of a street set up for trick or treaters to come. As it is it has a rather unappealing look of, as you said, rundown apartment buildings that have been painted rather unfortunate colors. Besides not fitting the season, or each other, the colors take away from the Halloween decorations that are there. The Estore has several dispensers that look like Halloween door fronts, they have jack o lanterns and candy set out, that is the kind of look I’d love to see. Maybe even a few other buildings as well, a bakery with Halloween candy and cakes in the window or a costume/party shop would be perfect additions to a Trick or Treat Street
I agree with ALL of this
Really love the lamp post!
I think that the street lamp should not have the sign so that it is more versatile
When the hedge rotates, perhaps one of the options would be for no spider…. for people like me who are freaked out by spiders, even fun Halloween decoration spiders! Maybe just a pumpkin on the hedge?
How about a 2d bush with the Ghost Librarian or GHOST BUSTER SLIMER . A 3d Could be the Ghost Puppy turned to sit next to a Ghost Cat
A park bench would be nice also. Thank you. Also someone standing giving out candy.
Daisy Doe handing out caramel apples!
I would like the houses to be more realistic colors maybe stone or brick. Or if colored maybe black and orange. I agree the colors are too similar to the goblins and don’t really say Halloween to me. I really love the hedge. I would love to have some trees in this theme maybe decorated with Halloween colored string lights or little paper ghosts. Or Jack o lantern and ghost front yard inflatables. There could be so many fun possibilities with this theme. :)
These are such cute ideas and I agree about the colors!!
Halloween should be all year long! Love love Halloween. my fave thing is the lamp post, everything else is meh