Hoo-hoo Kinzville! It’s me, your mayor—Dr. Quincy Quack! I’m here again to tell you all about what’s new in Webkinz World today! Let get started, shall we?
- There’s something NEW for players just joining Webkinz! After creating an account, new players will visit an Adoption Center Clubhouse room, complete with Ms. Birdy! Along with a new tutorial, they will receive their choice from 1 of 3 themed rooms to help them get started! Also, the pet gift boxes will now be awarded once the player completes a simple pet request.
- Look for some NEW prizes the next time you take your pet for recess at the Kinzville Academy! You’ll find a new assortment with each activity, just waiting to be won! You might also find some fun new food items in your packed lunch afterwards! For more information, check out our earlier Webkinz Newz articles about the New Merry Go Round Prize, the New Buried Treasure Prizes, and the New Recess Food!
- A new Acorn Collection Event is coming to Webkinz World September 1st and runs until September 30th! Visit your map of Kinzville during those dates and click the acorn collection icon. You can then send daily requests to your friends for acorns! When you collect each milestone amount of acorns, you’ll win a prize! You can check out what you’ll win this year in our earlier Webkinz Newz sneak peek story!
- Catch the School Bus and win! From Friday, September 1st to Friday, September 8th, watch for the floating school bus! When you click on it you’ll win a random prize from some of our previous school giveaway events! And this floaty fun is just the beginning in September!
- A new Apple Picking event is coming soon! Watch for floating apples on Webkinz World and the Webkinz mobile app from Saturday, September 9th until Saturday, September 16th! When you click on one, you’ll receive a random apple-themed prize, including the chance for some NEW Apple Farmer outfits items!
- Speaking of thing floating in the fall, our latest Fall Fest event returns the week of Friday, September 22nd until Saturday, September 30th! Click on floating leaves to receive even more Apple Farm themed items! Keep watching Webkinz Newz for more information about this exciting upcoming event!
- Don’t forget that during Fall Fest you can visit the WShop or the Ganz eStore to pick up cases of Fall Fest Soda to feed your pet and win prizes! Once again, the prize pool of items will be unique from the floating Fall Fest prizes, but still feature items that will work together to make the ultimate Apple Farm!
- My next Meet the Mayor event runs from Monday, September 18th to Sunday, September 24th! Visit the Kinzville Park during that week and click on me, Dr. Quack, to receive a gift box containing a random special prize! Stay tuned here to Webkinz Newz for the official announcement!
- DELUXE MEMBERS: Your next Deluxe Monthly Challenge begins on September 1st! When you complete all of the tasks, you’ll win a Classic Waitress Dress AND the ALL NEW Diner Dishwasher!
- At the start of each month, Deluxe Members receive a gift box containing some special prizes, including a unique piece of clothing that can’t be collected from anywhere else! The special piece of clothing in this September’s gift box is a Pop Princess outfit!
- We’ve updated the Dock to now sort all items within the tabs from A to Z! Use each tab to help filter down the item types, or see everything listed together in the AZ tab!
- If you love spinning wheels and winning, you’ll be excited to learn that we’ve once again updated the prizes on the Wheel of Wow for web and mobile, along with the Wheel of Deluxe!
We’ve also fixed more features and items! To see all of the items we’ve fixed each week, you can check out our list by clicking here.
Well now, this sure was fun! Stay tuned to Webkinz Newz for more exciting announcements!
Take care, Kinzville!
I can’t wait for the new fall themed events! I Fall prizes are my favorite!
Pretty cool! Not the best update ever, but I like it!
Nevermind. I do not like this update at all.
Well…. the fall-themed activities sound cool! I do look forward to those… I’m sure they’ll be fun! :) The Meet the Mayor event sounds neat as well… I am looking forward to doing that. Now…. as for the negatives of this update…. to be honest, I’m not really a fan of the whole ‘do a pet request to get your gift box’ thing. I mean, granted, it’s only one request… and possibly an easy-ish one, but still. I’m not really a fan of pet requests in general, and the fact that I now have to do one to get my pet’s gift box doesn’t thrill me. I’m not quite sure what the point of it is…. I don’t want to sound rude at all by any means… but like some others have said, I kinda wish that they’d fix things that have been promised for a long time/need fixing… Rather than adding these little features here and there.. some of which are probably not even all that popular (such as the gift box thing) However, that is just my two-cents…. being a longtime, nostalgic player, I don’t like too much change coming to Webkinz in general, so maybe I’m just biased :P
Also, I’m just wondering, but for the new thing with the pet requests and he giftboxes…. does the request appear immediately/ shortly after you adopt your newest pet, or do you have to wait for it? And also, what happens if you decide not to do that request? Do you lose the chances of getting the gift box… or will you just have to answer another request later on to get it? (If that makes sense)
Ah, I meant to say ‘the giftboxes’, not ‘he giftboxes’, and, I didn’t mean to add the word in between ‘wondering’ and ‘for’… in that first sentence… sorry!
I definitely agree with you, TaffyKitty! I wasn’t too thrilled to find out that now you have to do a pet request to get your pet’s gift box. :/ I don’t know, I just don’t really like it…because before I always felt like, when you buy a pet, you automatically have those items, but now you have to do a pet request…what if you were just adopting a pet real quick and then logging off? Would you randomly get the gift box next time you do a request? Also, like you said, if you don’t do the first request, will you not get the gift box? Because that would be terrible! Really the only pet request I don’t do is when they want to play SPREE (because I’m like, one space away from the mall and I don’t know what I want to get yet), so if they asked to do that and I didn’t, would I not be able to get the gift box? Anyway…but yeah, I’m not the biggest fan of that new update, either. :P I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way, though!
Yeah I was wondering that too Taffy. I would also like to know how this is going to work if you adopt a pet on the mobile app. There is no clubhouse on the app, so do we get our giftboxes instantly like before?
Sally stated it’s only for new accounts. And I imagine it’s only for the first pet adopted. I wish they would fix all the items that have not worked the last 2 years, since Webkinz X. Still so many not working or not even showing I have it. So disappointing.
CLOTHING – JUST needed to be seperated into HAT,GLASSES then TOPS, PANTS , SKIRTS , Shoes Belts , FULL OUTFITS . YOU THINK we can remember the NAMES OF THOUSANDS OF ITEMS of clothing . OK CAN YOU REMEMBER ALL THERE NAMES. Make it SIMPLE ! This way is far TOO HARD. Clothing we NEEDED a SEPERATE TAB for each TYPE OF CLOTHING. SIMPLE .
Love the update! Excited for fall to come!;)
UPDATE: OMG what did you do to my clothing dock? I can’t find anything cause all the clothing is now higgedly piggedly arranged? :(((( And now neither one of my Zangoz gumball machines work! :-(
Oh my god, NONE of my special treat/food trees and fruits and veggies in my pet’s garden are working!! I can’t harvest anything!!!
My garden and dock are both messed up now. Can’t harvest, and dock is all out of order.
Prior to this morning’s maintenance, dock items in Decorations were grouped alphabetically by category; i.e.: wall items, placeable items and rugs. It was fairly easy to find things. However, after this morning’s maintenance, I noticed that the dock displayed items in strictly alphabetical order. This makes it very difficult to locate items unless you know the item’s name. Would it be possible to change it back, or create additional tabs for more categories. Thanks, Ganz.
You didn’t mention anything about changing the order of items in the dock. I can only hope it’s not an intentional change and that it will go back to how it was. I will never be able to find anything with it like this, it was bad enough before. Now you truly would need to know the name of every item to locate it as there are now sort of sub sections within each category. It’s all just mixed up by name only.
Never mind, I see it now, it is an intentional change. :(
I don’t like the idea of starting in the clubhouse. I avoid the clubhouse since you display our family score for all to see now. The idea of being forced into a no doubt room full of people does not thrill me. I also don’t like the idea of having to do a pet request to get our PSI. That is ridiculous. It’s part of the pet, it should come with the pet, no strings attached. Sometimes I freeze when a pet request pops up, then what? Sorry but I do not like pet requests and was hoping one day we could turn them off. Now you go and do this. I’m not happy. I wish you would stop tinkering with nonsense things and start doing the things you promised… like working tvs, pet buddies working in rooms again, removable doors, movable or removable rooms, working animated wallpapers, my pets clothes actually fitting on their bodies again… etc..etc…
I definitely agree that Webkinz needs to work on the things you mentioned. However, I don’t actually mind them displaying our family scores. Usually when going to rooms with dispensers, people don’t always bother to look at family scores since they may only be there for the items. The only time people may actually look at family scores is in rooms like the trading room. On the other hand, I think it may be a good idea to add an option to hide your family score.
I agree 110% percent.
Eventually I’m sure that the minor things that we are all waiting for will happen. Such as the TV’s working again, moving rooms and editing doors. In the mean time, give the new setup a chance. Pet requests are so easy in the first place and a simple request like a new clothing piece and feeding them is good practice.
I don’t consider my enchanted goats PSI clothing not fitting (her hat floats in the middle of her face) minor. Same goes for items that are still missing or no longer working. Dressing my pets and decorating my rooms are what I enjoy about the game. It’s nice for you that pet requests always work, for those of us who have pet request lock up the game more often than not, it’s not so simple. As for giving it a chance. I’ve been playing webkinz for 10 years, 2 of them have now been spent waiting for fixes to Webkinz X. I agree with the person who said this may all be nice for new players but will get old fast to those simply adopting another pet. We don’t need the practice or added hassle.
I don’t think you can consider moving/deleting rooms or editing doors as ‘minor’. As a long-time player (almost 12 years, with 400+ pets), these are things I (and MANY others) have been waiting LONG time for. If they were so ‘minor’, Ganz would have found a way to implement them ages ago. Also as others have stated, the idea of having to fulfill a pet request in order to get the pet’s PSI is galling (whether or not the request is ‘simple’ IS irrelevant) . A pet’s PSI and PSF are intrinsic to it and no further hoops should be jumped to have that awarded.
I kind of agree with you. I don’t really like the idea of having to do a pet request just to get the PSI that comes with your pet. I like it when it appears immediately in your dock, especially since opening it was part of my adoption routine thing of sorts, (a few certain things I always do after adopting a pet.) :/
agree with this. and do not like the pre-set rooms. webkinz is about working your way up & designing your OWN rooms!
The Clubhouse room is nice for new players, but for us people who’ve been playing for 8+ years, not so much. I like the idea of greeting new players with this option, but not the idea of having to go over room tutorials all over again even though we already know how to do it. Also, the idea of having a pet request to get the gift-box is a little….strange, I guess? Personally I find pet requests annoying, but mostly when they require going somewhere if I’m already doing something intriguing or spending lots of money (e.g. buying a new bed, sink, tub, etc.) I just wish there was a “turn off/on” pet requests when I want them. Other than that, the update is great! =^^=
I always wish there was an on/off option for pet requests as well. For me they do not work right most of the time and actually freeze up the whole game. I end up having to log off just to go back to what I was doing before the request popped up and froze everything.