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!
Ganz- the dock update is THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AWFUL!!! If I want to find a pair of shoes, I HAVE TO LOOK THROUGH MY WHOLE CLOTHING DOCK. I hate this! Webkinz is starting to become, well, not as good as it used to be. >:( I miss “old webkinz.”
Sorry if I got too mad but- You shouldn’t just do these sorts of things. We should have a choice if we want this or not done to our dock. It is so hard now. My pets probably will wear the same outfits for a LONG time.
Mrs. Birdy and the new adoption room are an adorable WELCOME to new Webkinz players. Thank you for giving established players a gift, too! She is so sweet! OK, so the dock issue..I totally see why you would try it, particularly for items that all have the same beginning word/theme such as “bloomin” or “city”. This works for me, in the case of food and even the furniture. For clothing and decorations, however, please add my vote to the majority of what I’ve read here…too disorganized and chaotic. In the real world, I don’t keep all of my black clothing in the same drawer just because it starts with “b”. The order of the civilized universe is that shoes live with shoes, hats live with hats etc. Hopefully someone there in intergalactic headquarters is reading what your fans are saying and you guys will consider some sort of revision or compromise. Thanks for listening! :D
I’m excited for all the events! Those acorn collection prized look awesome! But as for the new dock, putting everything in alphabetical order is only really useful when you know the exact names of all your items, which I’m sure most people don’t. I know I forget them all the time. I’ve been working on reorganizing my pets’ wardrobes, and it’s probably going to be a lot tougher now.
I am really disappointed so far with this update, the dock is mess, I hate having to wait for a pet request for my gift box, and half my stuff still doesn’t work. I was happy with Webkinz before Webkinz X and somethings are cool, most are frustrating and making this harder to play. I have unopened pets that I have yet to log in, and yet I don’t really want to due to the pet requests. I just want you guys to know that we all LOVE Webkinz, we really do! It just would be easier if you guys listened to us when you guys updated.
GUYS The old dock was in ABC order, calm down. Now if you’re looking for costume pieces, they’re all there in one spot instead of three. If you don’t know how to dress your pet, you can see all your options instead of wondering if you want skirts or have too scroll all the way to the dresses. It’s all there, right where you need it. I like the new update. It’s a piece of old Webkinz that came back.
I just wanna say that the dock system is not working out for me. The a-z part is cool and all, it’s just the clothing I have a problem with. If I knew the name of every item it would work, but if I need a shirt that I forget the name of, I have to look through my entire and almost endless dock to find it. If anything, please change the clothing part back. But keep up the hard work! The good intentions are appreciated. :)
UGH! Are you kidding me??? The new dock, especially the clothes, is a huge nightmare! What were you thinking? Back when you introduced Webkinz X, so many things didn’t work right or were missing entirely. You told us all the glitches would be fixed within a few weeks. Well, that was over TWO YEARS AGO and you still haven’t fixed them all. Yet you continue to make other changes to Webkinz Worlds and they are definitely NOT always for the better. Why don’t you fix ALL THE GLITCHES in Webkinz X first, then consider adding new things or making changes. I so love to play Webkinz, but how much do you think we can take every time you change something and it messes things up? Ganz, you really need to do some serious soul searching.
Well written! Those numbers given on the Incomplete are false. I have on my desk a list of 5 items that don’t show anywhere. I agree with ShanTilley fixed what you (i wish i could say what think) messed up before more new stuff.
I like the clothes like this! Now I can tell if I have the entire outfit; before, I had to go through the entire clothing dock to see if I had all of the different parts of an outfit. Also, now if my pets request shoes or a belt, it’s right there near the front, and not at the very end.
I’ve been a loyal Webkinz user who has accumulated AT LEAST 100 Webkinz, and I last counted 7 years ago! My main account that I managed to keep open for many years (There was confusion about adding multiple Webkinz to one account) even had Deluxe membership at one point. Honestly, Webkinz was more fair and fun BEFORE! People with older computers can’t enjoy Webkinz anymore. There are a lot of problems with the Webkinz film studio (Which I believe was cut out.) and Mazin’ Hamsters was cut out. Mazin’ Hamsters was one of the main reasons I played Webkinz so often. Also, it used to be if you put in a kinz clip code you could go zum sighting. It used to be unlocked for me, but now it’s only deluxe? I also remember games that I unlocked with the Zingos plush code. Those got deluxe locked too. People who buy your merchandise should also get to use the features like how it used to be. That one time I did go deluxe, there were problems and we had to call. The sleep and hunger meters go down way too fast… I like to collect a lot of food in webkinz, but now I’m having to use my doubles a lot because of that darn hunger meter! And most of the foods (even the Webkinz favorite) won’t fill the hunger meter that much. Also, some foods (like gak and the webkinz favorite or wrong webkinz favorite) would have special little messages that I’m pretty sure aren’t there anymore. I did like that you changed how the garden works… but that’s about it. Oh, and the little page where you could display your badges is completely broke, EVERY TIME I go to the Webkinz Stadium, the game says it can’t connect and crashes. You can’t do alyssa’s star challenge without putting the dock back (which I figured out by accident, If I didn’t I still wouldn’t have played star challenge.) And sometimes when I go to the wish factory the dock won’t show up and the game freezes. You can’t blame my computer for it either. When I used to do the log out carnival (which has always been glitchy) every time I popped the balloon I would get a prize. Now even if I popped all the balloons I may not get any prize. The same sort of thing happens with the pinata. You never explained how the clock game at the beginning works and to this day nobody has a clue.
Oh, and when my pet was low on happiness and hunger, it said that he was too full for the miracle drink, but not too full for the other food?
If a food is extremely filling, the pet must be very, very hungry to eat it. Otherwise it’s too much food for it :)
I agree, it’s a nightmare.
I know right!? I still have broken items from the update! Items that I paid for with estore points, and now are just a flashing pink glitch. Get this fixed webkinz! Also I still did not get my helper gift… It has defenetly been a week now… I am waiting…
Please contact webkinzsupport@ganz.com
Sally, That doesn’t seem to work very well. I emailed Ganz in June that the Jumbleberries I had in fridges and fruit stands were missing (of course it was during the Jumbleberry Contest to fill jars). I received an reply and as usual the answer was “We are working on it”.
The new dock system is terrible. Webkinz, you want us to be happy right? You want us to contribute to your guys’ paycheck? Then fix actual problems, don’t create more. Fix the Webkinz X items that were promised to be fixed two years ago. Fix TVs so new players can watch them for the first time. Fix these and a whole lot of other stuff or I can guarantee you that I won’t be playing this in the years to come.
I miss TV’s so much! Ever since i first made my account i made sure each webkinz could have a TV in their room, just so they could all watch the cool cooking shows and fan-made skits! now that i’ve gotten more and more webkinz, the tradition is starting to die out since they don’t have anything to watch! Webkinz X has potential (I like the addition of showing the accessories we put on onto the pet) but a lot of stuff is missing now :/ It’s really sad
I really dislike the new dock system. When I want to specifically find a pair of shoes, instead of wading through just the shoes, I now have to go thru ALL of clothing! This is super frustrating and time consuming. No one can remember all of the ridiculous names of the items and look them up that way. What ever possessed you to change this? Of all of the things we have been asking for that could make things better, you went and changed something for the worse, not to mention that you continue to ignore things that aren’t working properly for months and even years. You are not hearing us GANZ! What a continuous disappointment!
CLOTHING ROOMS /PET REQUEST – When a REQUEST is shown it is a PICTURE ;) no name given so requests will be TWICE AS HARD for a clothing item. WE can’t remember all the names. PLEASE ADD TABS FOR EACH clothing item TYPE ! HAT, TOP, PANTS, SKIRT, BELTS and SHOES. A tab for each PLEASE !
I agree, that would be very, very useful!! Whenever I give my pet an outfit, I usually just sort through all of a specific type of clothing to find, for example, what hat my pet should wear, but now they’re all spread out! If they’re going to keep the dock this way, they could at least add tabs for the different items. Also, like you said, pet requests will be harder now. :/
Yeah, but generic clothing requests past hat (“I’d like to wear shirt”) were a nightmare for me…by the time I could GET to the shirt or pants or shoes section, it would time out. So having all the clothing back like it used to be is something I’m glad to see. But pretty sure my pets ask for some clothing by specific name. One of the things that annoys me most about pet requests (other than they exist!!!!) is how some requests you can only see ONE TIME, upon asking, and then the bubble won’t pop back up again if you need to review.
You should be able to click on the bubble part that’s still visible to show the entire message again.
Keep in mind – Your pet has to be awake for the bubble to show up again, as wall.
Oops – ‘well’, not ‘wall’. ;)
Yes, I agree ~1955tiny! That was going to be my question for Fiona! There are tabs for each of the different types of clothes on the mobile app, and having that feature on webkinz.com would make clothing requests TONS easier! I remember the team saying that the end goal was to make them both exactly the same. I look forward to enjoying the finished product once all of the growing pains are worked out!
You are right. I was so looking forward to Webkinz Trendz & now getting my pet dressed at all is a PAIN. Forget about trying to design an original outfit, ganz apparently now wants us to just use items together that all start with the same word! And of course you have to remember said word to find any of it. Horrible development for pet fashion design, there goes Webkinz Trendz before it even starts.