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!
GOSH I HOPE Ms Birdy STAYS in the CLUBHOUSE forever BUT PEEPS MUST LEAVE FAST after getting gift !! It slows to a crawl if peeps do not leave !!
Seriously? You’ve just turned the dock into a nightmare! I liked the grouped items within the dock, especially the clothing dock! It made things easier to find. Now I have to wade through my entire collection of clothing every time I want to find something to put on my pet, and have to do so for each clothing item! And it’s amazing how every time you guys institute some huge change, that a myriad of things go wrong. You still have thing that don’t work right, yet you institute these sweeping changes instead of fixing them. Now my planted garden won’t harvest! The item disappears but does not go into my dock, only to reappear when I log out and in again! I’ve always hated the pet demands, but now they’re worse! I played today for about 20 minutes and had to deal with no less than 6 pet demands, two of which wouldn’t even work! When a pet demands for food made on a sandwich maker or blender, making said food item does not satisfy the demand. I have to log out and in again to get rid of it. And, I’m sorry, but making a player satisfy a pet demand to obtain his/her PSI? You already pay good money for the pet to get the PSI and, yes, I know, it’s only 1 pet demand, but it’s the principle of the thing. The PSI was a little reward for buying the pet and putting it on the website. Now you have to satisfy a pet need to get it. And I’ve never approved of the pet demands, in the first place. It teaches kids that only satisfying their own demands shows that someone cares about them. Nice message in this age of entitlement. I’m weighing whether or not to continue to play at this point.
Oh wow on the PSI nonsense! Ugh. That hasn’t happened to me ….yet, but I haven’t been on much today. And more gardening nightmares, great. I agree with you on the pet demands in general. And the dock is jarring with altering the gift boxes and coins and stuff, too as the first thing seen. But so far I’m still glad to see the clothing alphabetical like it used to be again. I hated it when they switched that to sections, it made getting to the end items like pants or shoes completely impossible before a request timed out.
I’m sorry, but I don’t like the new order of items in your dock. Not at all. I don’t mind the A-Z, food, and furniture too much, (since the last two mentioned are the same, as far as I can tell), but I really don’t like the new order for the clothing and objects! I liked it when the wallpaper and floors were first, then the wall items, then the other objects, then the rugs. And I definitely liked the old order of the clothing better, because now it’s all jumbled up, and I have no idea what half those things are called to find them! I don’t like to complain, and I’m sorry if I’m sounding rude, but I liked it all better the way it was before…if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, is what I say. :P
Ah, it’s okay, ilovemoonie! I’m not liking the new dock order, either XP I liked it way better when clothing was sorted out by hats, shoes, etc. but now, everything is all mixed up!! I don’t even know where to find half of what I need >.< And don't even get me started on the objects section…… I guess I'll eventually get used to the new A-Z thing…. but I wish it didn't change in the first place. Oh well… nothin' we can do about that, I'm afraid
A-Z isn’t really the same, I have part of my coins appearing first thing before gift boxes start, and that’s annoying and awful because I want all my coins together (and all the gift boxes together and in proper, previously available order)…however I do have to admit I’ve wanted clothing and items out of those stupid sections and back to alphabetical again ever since those sections popped up.
That’s awesome for the new players! I don’t really like making a new account and getting the boring kids theme. The new dock system is strange. I logged on without checking webkinz newz and I thought my account was glitching!
Not liking the new dock system.
I don’t like it either.
Me neither! Please change it back to they way it was.
This new tab system is a nightmare.
Totally agree! Wish it was still the same.
Oh my gosh, I REALLY don’t like the new order in the dock! I can’t find anything! How are we supposed to remember all those goofy names? It’s like having to learn a new language. PLEASE put it back the way it was!
Who thinks it would be nice if there were a sound on/sound off option? ;) I’d especially find that helpful if I want to listen to my music or I’m in an online class.
Yes please! I have been wanting that since they added the yawning sound.
Yes, that would be amazing!! :D I like to listen to music while I’m on Webkinz, but it’s hard to hear it sometimes when the game is making noise.
That’s one that’s been on my wish list a long time, but I’ve pretty much given up hoping it’s going to happen. Instead, I play (when the game will allow me to) on Firefox where I am able to turn the sound off for Flash. This shuts off the sound on Webkinz, but still allows me to listen to my music or the talking and/or sounds from other sites I may simultaneously have running.
I’ve begged for this for years, too. They don’t listen. I don’t see why, we’re not asking to have sound disabled for every account out there, just an option for those who want/need it.
If you right click the top of the window in Chrome, you can switch to “View as Tab” — then you can right click the top again and select “Mute Tab” — that will mute all of the sound in Webkinz World.
Thanks for the tip, but is there a way to do it on Safari? I don’t use Chrome, so it doesn’t help me.
Don’t have Safari myself, but it looks like you might be able to go to View and pick “Show Tab Bar” — then you should be able to click the speaker icon to mute sound.
Sally, this actually does not work on Chrome. When you do this, you mute the tab for the webkinz.com tab. When you play, a new tab is created for the game. Also, try fixing TVs while you’re adding a mute button.
If you right-click the top bar of the pop-up window that Webkinz World loads in, you can select “Show as Tab” — then it converts into a tab, which you can then mute. TVs haven’t been forgotten.
Ah, thanks Sally! I use Safari as well.
the girf boxes aren’t opening when send something via Kinzmail. Item goes in new items in dock ok. also the food dispensers I’ve bought at estore no longer give out daily food after today’s update.
the food dispensers are now working again. Thanks.
Mine aren’t. Not on all my accounts. I saw this before I logged in earlier, so I checked, and in one UK account, it worked, but not in the other two. I noticed the package thing, too, but honestly, that’s a relief. The boxes unpack the items, and no unnecessary nonsense bogging things down. But also, uuugh, back to having to wait until all the wheels come to a stop before the prizes pop into the dock. GAH.
I noticed on mine, if I went to another room then came back, my estore food dispensers then worked, while they didn’t the first time I tried them.
I think I may have done something wrong I adopted a new pet and did not get the princess room I would have liked.. I got the old room Think it will be awhile before I adopt another pet
Those new rooms are just for new accounts, not when you adopt another pet on an existing account.
Is it only the very first room that’s special? I thought you would get to choose one of the three rooms for all ten of your first pets on the new account; but I created a new account, and the room with the pet they make you get before you can adopt a pet with a code I got to choose, but when I adopted my second pet with a code, it just gave me the old room that we always got. So are all ten freebie rooms supposed to be choosable, and it glitched on me, or just the first one? Thank you for your response.
It’s only the first room :)
Thank you for answering.