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 like that the parts of the outfit are now together
UGH! The new dock is absolutely horrible. I was hoping it was some weird glitch – I can’t believe you actually did this on purpose! It is ridiculously hard to find anything! Now to just simply find a hat, or change a wallpaper we have to go through the ENTIRE section of clothing or decorations? This makes no sense whatsoever. I hate it so much I literally just made a Ganz World account so I can comment here on how bad it is. Ganz, you really messed this one up, change it back!
After reading the previous and older comments, I was afraid to go to WW. Well, I did and oh what a mess that dock is. At least we knew where things were, now there is nothing but a jumble. Exactly what were you thinking to think this would be better or easier. Did you make this change due to requests from people who actually play webkinz world? Wow, sure hope this changes back to the way it was before you changed it. Excuse me, I need some aspirin.
At the VERY LEAST make it so we can go BACKWARDS in our docks! Let the arrows loop so we can go back to “S” (Z-S) rather than all the way from A-S. Seriously, this is SIMPLE LOGIC!
How hard is it to add a search feature to the dock??????????? I mean every freakin’ site and game in the world has search function. It CAN’T be THAT difficult. Some of us have 10′s of THOUSANDS of items in our docks. This is just POOR PROGRAMMING!
I think it would be nice if we could toggle the alphabetically ordered dock on and off whenever we choose. It seems handy to me, but other people might not like it.
WOW!……….I’ve been reading everyone’s comments, and….all I can say, is…… (taking a deep breath, here….) WOW! There are a lot of passionate posts here, guys! I’m looking forward to logging into my WW accounts in a few minutes to see what’s going on with docks and pet requests, and…things that should be or haven’t been or need to be fixed…. On my end: First, I want to tell Dr. Quack that this newest update is fantastic! I love all the events for September, and can’t wait to get started with the collections and the floaty/clicky events! Second: I love the Wheel updates—I think the prizes are great. (I had a few years lapse when I wasn’t able to play WW, so all these school-themes prizes are kind of ‘new’ to me, and I’m really excited about my pets getting them.) Third: I logged in this morning to do my Daily Activities–(spinning wheels, Gem Hunt, Kinzville Academy, etc), and I did not even notice our docks have been changed! (And I dressed two pets, so go figure my powers of observation, right?!) But I did not check my gardens—however, in the past when gardens have been kind of ‘messed up’ (for lack of better term), Ganz has always fixed that pretty quickly so that we can all harvest according to our schedules, so…here’s hoping that will be true after today’s update.) Fourth: I think it’s really a cute idea that new accounts get their choice of rooms when they adopt a pet—–(wish I would have known that feature was coming, since I just opened a new account three weeks ago, but oh well, what are ya going do, right??) It’s still a neat idea. Fifth: I might be missing something, and I don’t want to minimize others who are unhappy with the new “pet request for PSI”…….but I’m not really understanding why this is a problem. Again—I’m truly not trying to disregard or minimize others concerns, but this seems like a small issue versus, for example—-the TVs not working for the last two years. On that, I am in 100 percent agreement that Ganz needs to fix that, and I’ve seen so many fans post—beg!!—for that to be fixed, so yes: please Ganz: it’s been two years, fix the TVs…….But as far as pet requests go, and answering a pet request to obtain the PSI..I don’t know: I just personally don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Again: maybe I’m missing something, but…to my thinking, eventually, you will fill the pet’s requests, so why not just fill it right away, and then get the PSI, and everything is a done deal. I’ll add that, in general I happen to like the pet requests (so maybe that’s why I’m not thinking it’s a big deal), I think the pet requests kind of add a little more of a ‘humanization’ (again: for lack of a better word!) to the game. I feel more connected to my “pet” when it asks me for things, and for me, it’s actually kind of fun when any of my pets ask me, if for example, we could make something with a blender——it makes me laugh, and even though I have to scrounge around to find the cookbool!! (lol), I like doing it. It’s part of the game, it makes me happy, because it’s a fun thing to do–versus the real world, so many things are not fun at all. (One thing I would love see return—-when WE, the players, the fans, could ask out pets do things!!! That was really fun. I first started playing in 2006 and I remember we were able to ask out pet if its hungry or if it wanted to go to the W-Shop—and now that feature is gone–it would be great if that feature came back.) In general, I think change of any kind is always difficult to deal with, (I personally don’t like change; really, I don’t!), so I understand why fans are troubled by the new changes…and I definitely DO think, we as fans should always offer honest feedback to Ganz—many of us have multiple accounts and hundreds of pets–and Ganz should listen to our concerns—(especially glitches–glitches are the worst!!)–but I do think in time we will all adjust to the small changes. Play and have fun and enjoy our pets and try to just be chill about it. In the great scheme of things—it’s all good in WW.
Wow! Well said! :D
The thing I do like about the new is that outfits are together and you don’t have to look all over the dock for them. Not sure how I’m going to like all the clothing grouped together. I have so many clothes and I don’t know the name of most of them!
Ganz, I for one like the new dock system. Thank you for all of the updates and keeping us happy, you really are amazing! There’s nothing wrong with the new dock system, it’s perfectly usable! It will just take some time for everyone to get used to. Thanks for all you do for us, Ganz! (And an FYI, I love the new homescreen with the Pom Pom Kitty. It’s on of my favorite Webkinz!)
I really liked the old system where items were in alphabetical order. It was so much easier to dress my pets in complete outfits rather than the new X system. Can we please go back to the original system? It takes forever to find each piece of a set of clothing ( hats then glasses then shirts etc.etc.etc.
OOPs!!! Just logged into Webkinz World, my wish was answered!! Thank you Ganz, my pets will all look wonderful now.