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?
- The Adoption Center has a whole new look! The always-lovely Ms. Birdy has simplified the process for both adopting a new pet and for opening a new Webkinz account! In response to popular demand, players will now have the option to start a new account without adopting a free pet. Watch for these Adoption Center updates to also appear soon on the Webkinz mobile app!
- Keeping your pet clean will once again be lots of fun now that the bath and sink activities have been updated! When your pet hops into a bathtub you will now be able to see that same bathtub in the activity, along with a number of other fun fixes. Pet grooming with the sink activity also has a whole new look and updates to make it easier and entertaining to use! Our next update to the Webkinz mobile app in the coming weeks will include all of these activity improvements!
- Thanksgiving is tomorrow! Don’t forget to log in to get your 2017 Thanksgiving Gift Basket, filled with wonderful prizes that are sure to find you feeling thankful!
- DELUXE MEMBERS: Starting in December, the It’s Fun to be Young Gift Box will be replaced with the NEW Cozy Condo Gift Box! Each month, you’ll be able to choose an item from this cool new cozy theme!
- Along with the Cozy Condo Gift Box, Deluxe Members will also receive their monthly special piece of clothing that can’t be found anywhere else! This month’s Deluxe outfit is a Short-Sleeved Jumpsuit!
- Also for Deluxe Members: Your next Deluxe Monthly Challenge begins on December 1st! When you complete all of the tasks, you’ll win a Chrome Sparkle Car!
- December is also the month to collect Candy Canes! Visit your Map of Kinzville each day during the month of December and ask friends to send you Candy Canes! You’ll earn some fabulous flashy Christmas furniture along the way!
- Speaking of Christmas, the Countryside Christmas theme will be returning to the WShop during the month of December! We’ve also added four new items to the theme and retired one! Visit the WShop on December 1st to see what’s new!
- If you have the Webkinz mobile app, you’ll also find the Home for the Holidays theme available in the Mobile Zone for a limited time! Make sure you visit the mobile WShop before the end of the month to pick up this happy holiday theme! Also, watch out for two items that won’t be returning!
- SantaKinz returns to the Clubhouse on December 1st! Your pet can sit on his lap and tell him which gift they want to receive on Christmas Day! Afterwards you’ll receive a candy cane and a postcard from SantaKinz himself! Don’t delay—SantaKinz heads off to the North Pole on December 24th!
- If you’re looking to host a holiday party this season, visit the WShop and pick up one of our Christmas Party Packs! They’re only available until the end of December!
- The Countdown to Christmas begins on December 14th! Visit Ms. Birdy in the SantaKinz Room of the Clubhouse each day until Christmas to receive a happy holiday prize!
- For those players who celebrate the season of Hanukah, you’ll find a NEW Wooden Menorah in the WShop during December! We’re also bringing back the Brass Menorah and the Glass Menorah for the whole month!
- Sophie Stockwell is coming to the Kinzville Park! Watch for her to make an appearance from November 23rd to November 26th! Each day she’ll be giving out a Coupon Gift Box. Inside, you’ll receive a random WShop coupon worth up to 90% on any KinzCash item!
- 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!
Well now, this sure was fun! Stay tuned to Webkinz Newz for more exciting announcements!
Take care, Kinzville!
I like the new look to the sink and tub, and I love the new funny sayings at the sink. Only thing I’m going to really miss is how adorable it was when my pets would sneeze away the bubble bath in the old tub. I loved that.
WOW you really nerfed the food apples used to increase the pet by 32 points now it is twelve points. We are going to need to feed them a lot more food now : ( By the way cupcakes should increase them more then a nice healthy apple and it does.
Whoops that should be shouldn’t increase their health more then a nice healthy apple. My bad. Oh and feeding 79 pets is going to take a lot of food I will have to garden even more then I do now.
If you were hungry, you wouldn’t expect to feel full after eating a single apple. Try feeding your pet a bigger meal like a burger, some spaghetti, or even some pancakes to fill them up faster.
I grow farm fresh food because I don’t want to spend all my kinz cash on food for my 31 pets you know how much kinz cash that will take!?!?! more than I have that will cost 1000 or more kinz cash for my pets a day but you guys lowed the food level for fresh food and I agree why is a cupcake more food increasing than a apple its like your teaching little kids that not to eat fruits and vegetables and eat cupcakes instead
But if you were a rabbit, an apple WOULD fill you up. So would a carrot. These are pets we are talking about, not teenage boys that eat you out of house and home.
noi all my kinzcash is used to feed pets now no more shopping for anything i want anymore ; (
Hi Steve!!!! Yes, it’s me again……….. Ugh; this kills me to have to respectfully disagree with you again, because I adore all of the Ganz staff to pieces, but…………..Actually: Yes—IF the apple is a SNACK, a person (or Webkinz) should feel full after eating an apple: an apple is a highly fibrous fruit with a good amount of water content. (Side note: As a society, we are waaaaay too consumed with food in the U.S.A., which is why so many of us are carrying extra weight, and don’t realize that an apple is an appropriate snack to stave off hunger. ) However: If we ONLY feed an apple as a MEAL, then I totally agree with you–an apple is certainly not enough food to satisfy a person (or a Webkinz) as a meal. The food choices you suggested for a meal are totally appropriate for all players to feed and satisfy their pets. That said, I so wish I had paid attention to the point valuation or percentages on the hunger meters, because I have to offer my opinions in the abstract, and that doesn’t seem very helpful for me trying to advance my point! (LOL). But my perspective is this: assuming a player feeds a balanced meal to their pet after Ms. Cowoline’s school—-for example, I usually feed a hamburger, milk, and a growing garden food. (This always filled them up, then they would take their nap, and when I would get them up again, they would still be full, and only need a piece of growing garden food after playing an arcade game or exercising.) By contrast, after the update’s of Nov 22, I am feeding the same exact foods after the same exact activities, but I need to double it to keep them full, because they are not satisfied at all. So I can really understand why the players are posting how frustrated they are. I just find the new system unnecessary. Ok: I’m ending on a positive note here, because goodness knows I have hocked you enough for one day on this forum! LOL My positive: I happen to love the new grooming system–the bath features, the new design, all of it–I do think it’s easier and helpful! Signing off now, I have a feeling I have a hungry Webkinz that needs an apple! LOL Thanks again for listening.
Ever since the new update i have not been able to load the main page past a white background with a green W. I am on a laptop and not mobile and have not had this problem before.
It sounds like your Flash plug-in may have turned off. You’ll need to make sure that’s turned on.
My flash says Allow and even then, when i had needed to turn it back on or double confirm it it would let me log in and THEN click flash allow. Now i cant even get to the point where i would normally allow it.
Are you clicking on the lock by the URL? Sometimes the browser will disable individual sites. Others who have experienced this issue have re-enabled (say always allow instead of “ask”), then reloaded the page, and the page loaded properly.
The lock by the URL says Allow on flash
What version of (Chrome?) are you using?
Google Chrome 62.0.3202.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OK, that’s a newer version than I’m running. Have you tried a hard refresh (CTRL – F5) or clearing your cache? Have you tried quitting Chrome and re-opening it? If you’re using a bookmark, could you try manually typing in the address?
None of those things worked. Still only getting the white background with the green W.
I’m out of ideas. You’ll need to contact webkinzsupport@ganz.com
When my pets bathe their heart meters don’t go up. Please fix this.
In the updated version, you have to actually bath your pet to get the benefits, you can’t just hop in and hit done.
This update is CRAMMED FULL of exciting development! I am thrilled with just about everything in it! I always interact with my pets so that is no issue for me. But I do love the way that the look in their tubs. Now that the tubs and sinks are item/background consistent! You went all out on this one, I must say! Time … is relative, LOL it will get fixed, I could care less about time, I will play when I play. The fact that you are bringing back the all access play thrills me to no end! I was so hoping you would see the benefit of it. And after reading the whole excerpt, I realize why the Home for the Holidays theme is not yet in the store. I mean that we don’t even have snow in our rooms yet, why am I thinking the themes would be in store already.
Oh, yes! I agree completely! It may take some getting used to, but I love the changes! =D
Does anyone know when the Sugar and Spice room theme bed is coming out?
Good question. Maybe Black Friday weekend?
Maybe…
I’m glad the candy cane collection is back. I LOVE the tree. The rest of the items are alright. I am hoping they look better when I get them in a room.
Oh deer! I did not get the “Fun to be Young” theme completed, I still need the Pink Convertible bed. I’m looking forward to completing the “Cozy Condo” theme though, it looks so cozy I like it.
Hi Mayor Dr. Quincy Quack. (I voted for you.) I really like the updates! I’m happy to see the arrival of the Cozy Condo Gift Box. Very nice! The Deluxe Challenge Chrome Sparkle Car will be a gift my pets will love to see under their Christmas Tree! I can’t wait to see Santakinz! (This year I’ll wait till after 9:00am to log on, so I don’t miss my Christmas boxes like I did last year, when I logged on around 2:00am. (Some of us just can’t wait to open our Christmas Presents.) I’m excited about the Candy Cane collection prizes! Well done. Thank you for bring back the Home For the Holidays Theme on Mobile; and for adding 2 new items. Yay! (I hope all the old items will be available, not just the ones pictured.) I’m also looking forward to adding the 4 new items to my Countryside Christmas room. So many things to look forward to! A new Menorah is a great idea. I’d like to see the traditional Hanukkah toy added also, large scale enough to see it, & animated so when you click on it, it will spin! I saw a Menorah made of Christmas lights advertised online. It is very festive! I’m sure the design team could come up with one to use as a wall decoration that would light up when clicked on, or a Hanukkah window with one of these that would light up when you click on the window. And how about a Hanukkah meal double place setting for in our rooms, like the Christmas ones? Maybe a Hanukkah dining table with place settings & a light-up menorah, like the Victorian Christmas one? I still like the baby blue Hanukkah sweaters from last year. I hope they will be available again. I noticed a change in the bathtub to include shower curtains, but my bathtubs have always indicated the one my pet was using, so does this update mean that showers will now be visable as well & count when our pet asks for a bath? The sink looks cute. (I hope the brushing your teeth feature will work again as before Webkinz X.) Now, as for that Deluxe Outfit for this month. What?! A Blue Short-Sleeved Jumpsuit? Really?!! Which by the way, isn’t a jumpsuit. It looks more like a warm-up suit, which you know won’t even be recognizable on a pet. How festive is that??? Is it for our pets to jog off those holiday calories? LOLOL. On that note, I wish our pets outfits showed on them at school. Especially when they’re on the treadmill or jumping hurdles. That would be so cute. A very long-winded comment, I know. But, I really wanted to suggest my Hanukkah items ideas; and I let you to know how excited I am about your report! Except for the December Deluxe Outfit. Why not something like the Christmas outfits that will be available in the e-Store? Well, Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow everyone!
I’d looove me some Hanukkah items! I’d buy tons of them.
oh gosh, i can’t wait for all this fun!