Ella McWoof here! With your help, I’ve sniffed out some important information about the X-citing new project, Webkinz X!
Now, in my EXCLUSIVE SCOOP, here’s more information straight from the TOP SECRET documents!
While some new features like the Pet Care Heart, Family Score, or Pet Requests will give you a whole new way to play, some of the updates for Webkinz X are refreshing many of the old elements with a new look!
One of the new looking elements is the Dress Your Pet window. Here’s a preview of what it will look like when you log in later this summer!
Current Version
New Version
You’ll be able to access the Dress Your Pet Window by clicking on the clothing icon next to the Pet Care Heart. As we continue to make further improvements, you will be able to Dress Your Pet in more and more places all around Webkinz World!
We have also moved the Pet Buddies button out of My House and into the Dress Your Pet Window. However, at launch Pet Buddies will only work in the Clubhouse, with a temporary button being added there to allow you to switch them. We will be adding Pet Buddies and the ability to switch them everywhere around the site soon!
Stay tuned to my column on Thursday, June 25th and I’ll reveal MORE about the exciting secret project, Webkinz X!
So, fellow detectives, what do YOU think about Webkinz X so far? Let me know in the comments below!
Want to know MORE? Check out our Webkinz X Newz Article Archive here.
I hope one of the places we can change our outfits is the Kinzville Park!
That would be so helpful!
Ya me too cause it gets annoying to have to leave every time you want to change
I hope so too
Me tooooo. I also hope we can use our actions in the park.
that would be neat! I’d love to be able to wave to a fellow player, ♥CUTE♥
I love all the new graphics. Look at the doors in the background- movable?? I hope haha
Ya, I hope you can move the doors. That would be a great update for Webkinz! :D
It would also be nice if you could move, and remove rooms, that would be the best!!! :D :D :D
removable doors . . . that would be total AMAZINGNESS!!(and YES that is a word I checked!) And the move and remove rooms would help so much, really the moving rooms would be the one I picked if I could only have one because I’ve always wanted to arrange my Webkinz house where there was the bedrooms on one side, and fun rooms on the other :D The reason for that is so I can find my pet’s bedrooms or other rooms way faster :)
I know right? My sister was freaking out cause’ she couldn’t see her eat in kitchen chair because of the door.
When will Webkinz X officially be released?
We didn’t really need a new Dress Your Pet window but it looks pretty good! I guess we needed a new one because the rest of Webkinz X is looking very different so the Dress Your Pet window had to be different too. Will we be able to dress our pets without having to go back home? That would be nice!
I think so NMKID4527, or at least I HOPE so :D :D :D and ur right about it not really “needing” to be done but ur right how with all Webkinz being remodeled even the smallest things like that make the website seem new awesome!
Woah! COOL! I wonder what the plus sign means!
I hope that the plus sign means that you can add new outfits and when you add them you can name them.
That would be cool!
The plus sign just opens up the whole “casual, fancy, sleepwear, sporty, swimwear thing.
What do y’all mean? I think the plus sign is, well, you know when you dress your pet and you can make a casual outfit or a sleepwear outfit, and then click on that and it will dress your pet in that outfit? Wow that was a horrible way to explain it. Hmm. If you look at the current dress your pet window, at the very bottom next to the button for buying clothes at the kinzstlye outlet, there is a button marked “sleepwear”. Then there is a down facing arrow so you can chose your different outfits. I think the plus sign is how you can change to the different outfits. It would be cool if you could name you outfits, to! :) God bless, Silvermist03
agreed silvermist03 :) I think It’s just a new little sign for changing the “casual, fancy, sleepwear, sporty, and swimwear :) just a new look :D P.S. Love the sentence u put at the end of ur comment silvermist03 :) same for u♥
Glad we’re on the same page with the last sentence. It’s a good habit to get into too.
defiently SignatureIsland :)~GODbless♥-playnowpuppy☺
Not too bad, a little too modern. But hey, the world is modern now. I would not exactly call this an improvement though. I would love it if pets could wear things like a dress with leggings or something like that.
I like how the accessories are on the right and the regular clothing items are on the left! That’s pretty nice!
That would be amazing! However, it might not take place until later in the future! Hey, maybe after the 15-year mark! :D
Me too! Cause’ some dresses curl up a little making them shorter than they should be… modesty is important for webkinz too!
Yuppp.. I think leggings and dresses would be great. Also skirts with belts… What’s wrong with that? I mean that would be awesome and I don’t see why they can’t do that. Dresses with belts would also be nice.
I want dresses with belts and leggings too, I’ve actually been wanting it for a long time now and speaking of dresses and skirts . . . I HOPE OUR UNDERWATER FASHIONISTAS WILL BE ABLE TO WEAR THEM SOON TOO! and I so agree with u SignatureIsland, my parents are always like, “What? no no no ur not wearing that in public here wear this instead!” and We’re parents to our pets so that should be concerning to us too as parents :) ok that was weird, I just sounded like my mom lol :D
lol! I know what you mean. You’re my friend on webkinz right? I’m husky1s.
thx SignatureIsland, and yes ur my buddy on webkinz as husky1 :) I’m playnowpuppy on webkinz and webkinz newz btw :D
I agree.
So far I love all the new features. I’m excited for Webkinz X!
same, this is so amazing and I’m happy to see this update is very easy to understand whereas in the last arcticle webkinz fans were asking hundreds of questions a day, well maybe not that much but that article comment page was pretty crazy :)
I love the new look! It must have been hard to make all of this, Thanks you so much Ganz! :D
I like how you can dress your pet anywhere you like! That’s really cool! :D
I was wondering if we could dress our pets without having to go back home! I guess you’re right monkeyfun15! Yay!
Love the new design! And thanks Ganz for working so hard on this ;)
Yeah I’ve gone to the park before and REALLY wanted to change my outfit but If I wanted to I’d have to go back to my pets house, by the time I got back I couldn’t go to the same park I was in before that I had been having fun with specific players there :( This will help A LOT!
Yeah because it was always such a pain to have to go back home when you want to change! (:
Not bad! I kind of like it. I like the idea of being able to change my clothes in the park. Although, please make it so we can use our actions in the park! I realllyy want that. It would be really great.
I know right? It is so CoOoOoOoOL! Plus you can now use belts with skirts! ^.^
Yeah I am loving that update! The belt with skirts will help my pet’s outfits look totally complete 2 alaska267 :D LOVING it :) I’m happy to see how u use it is not different from the present version, glad It’s not very complicated, In fact I am surprising myself by being so pleasently surprised with this change, I am SO warming up to Webkinz X and am SO happy about just the fact I’m not a nervous reck about these changes anymore!
WHAT!? I’M MISSING ALL THE NEW UPDATES! WHY IS WEBKINZ STILL DOWN PLEASE HEEEEEELP! Maybe my sister will be nice and I can check webkinz on her laptop. Maybe…. I don’t know if that will work though. Please get webkinz up and running. PLEASE!
I love it ,too. I can’t believe this is happening because it’s great!!!!!!! It’s amazing to see new things who make WW better and more fun, and I want to say thanks to Ganz for all the hard work done for us!!!! :D :} :D
Webkinz! your websight has been shut down for 2 days on my computer! i am missing the berry festival and the prizes and tons of stuff! why is it closed?! please help!
Hi cheyabella. Try this link, it worked for me: http://www.webkinz.com/come-in-and-play This also goes for anyone who’s main page is shut down. There should be a blue “log-in” button on the right of the page.
Yes, SignatureIsland, that link has worked for me hundreds of times! ;)
thanks , and cheyabella i could send you a goo berry or polar berry, just friend fisher420wk
yay! i’m in!
I hated when they changed the map! I don’t like change on webkinz and i am dreading this change!
SAME HERE! You’re spot on; I agree completely!
For the past 2 days, I have only been able to load Webkinz on Safari, the worst browser I have. It’s slower than the 7 year itch! But today, the site is “unavailable” on all browsers. Hope they get the work done quickly, we’re missing the Berry Festival.
We’re under scheduled technical maintenance. The site should be back up around 3PM EST (June 22).
Thanks Gennelle. A LOT of people appreciate Ganz responding. At least they’re fixing it today.
Thanks, Gennelle!
Yeah its good your telling us but I really wish we could play sooner
me too
Hooray! Thanks for the update, Gennelle!
Really? I am so glad the same thing was happening to me! See ya in ww! ✌
it’s not back up yet :-(
Thanks Genelle although mine still doesn’t work and now it’s even shut down Chrome. Fire Fox doesn’t work either and Internet explorer is full of viruses. I tried the link SignatureIsland suggested and it didn’t work either. PLEASE HELP! It’s been down all day!
I’m sorry it didn’t work! Maybe you should call Ganz… it just might work..
Yes be nice enough to tell us what is going on.
The new display is cute, wish it was not purple. How about a nice green like in the heart? I hope you will also fix the way clothing fits, or doesn’t, especially on pets like dragons and the hamsters.
Yes It gets annoying when you put a dress on your pet bird it it curls u or something and makes your pet look fat…. :D
I really like this new look for the Dress Your Pet! It looks more up to date, and very user friendly! Also, I think it’s perfect that Pet Buddies will now be in Dress Your Pet. I’ve always wanted to change my pet’s outfit in the Kinzville Park, now it looks like I will be able to do it in lots of places :) ~Horsegirl~
i wish the background behind the pet was still going to be white. i think the blue background will make it harder to get an accurate idea of how the colors will look together. maybe the purple part could be blue and the background behind the pet could be white? otherwise, i like this. thx, Ganz! love to all! :D – Avzora ♥
I agree the background should be white so he color doesn’t drown out your pet
I agree, I really wish they would keep the background behind the pet white. Some outfits might really clash or be difficult to see well on the blue background. The comment about the purple I am not sure about – the current color scheme is purple, they aren’t changing that. I am really excited that we’ll be able to change outfits somewhere besides our house – like packing a suitcase to go – how fun! One question Ella, can you try to sniff out when will ‘X’ start?
Did anyone notice the skirts are different? Or just me? XD
I agree. I think a neutral background like white would be much better. Especially with a blue-colored pet like the 10 Year Magic W Pup, a blue background might make seeing how the clothing looks together more difficult.
I love the new, more modern dress your pet window! Great idea Ganz!
They should add a feature to the KinzStyle so that when you press the preview button, you can see YOUR pet that you are playing instead of a random pet wearing the clothing item. I think it would help a lot of players choose what to buy and what looks best on their pets. (;
I agree CaramelKisses33
that would be A-W-E-S-O-M-E, CaramelKisses33! how ’bout it, Ganz? thx!
That’s actually a current feature on the mobile app. You can preview clothing items from the mobile WShop on your active pet. I’m sure this will eventually also make its way onto the web version of Webkinz.
I really like that feature of Webkinz Mobile. You get to see how the clothes look on the pet before you buy them.
I hope that does happen to regulare webkinz because I barely play on Webkinz Mobile if at all, I usually play on the computer more for Webkinz and thats where I would enjoy that feture most :) thx for replying Steve!☺
Oh cool! Thanks Steve webkinz. Also how come webkinz has been down all day? Is it just my computer? I was using chrome that didn’t work now it’s shut down completely and now I’m on firefox and it let’s me log in then goes green and says it’s unavailable.
Thank goodness!!! I don’t really buy clothing that much on my mobile device, so it would be more useful to me on the internet!
CaramelKisses33, that is a GENIUS IDEA!!
Yes!!!! That’s just what I want!!! It’s only on mobile though….:(
When i put dresses on my webkinz bird it always looks weird… I hope webkinz will fix this in Webkinz X, too! I think the new dress-your-pet window looks good, too! Just it might look a bit better if it were all a nice green or blue… just my opinion of course…
Yeah FennecFox! When i put it on my Decade Dragon it looks sooooooo weird!
I know, right? I just bought the storm dragon and tried to put this t-shirt on him but it made him look like he weighed 800 pounds!
oh and i know this is like totally super random, but does anyone else notice in the new picture the door has hinges? I mean those aren’t normally there! Maybe they are re-doing the doors so we can put new doors in?! again with the super randomness….. But i just had to mention something! XD
I think the doors are from “Webkinz Mobile.” :)
I have had that problem with my seahorse.
I don’t dislike the dress thing I think the only difference in the old one is how it looks so I don’t mind that. I agree with what people said earlier about it looking kinda kiddish. But like I said it is a kids website.
Except a lot of kids like it the way it is. And don’t like things to look ‘kiddish’ even though they are kids.
Yeah, I like the older version, but it seems like I tend to be a sucker for nostalgia. :P
well I like the new version better than the old version but if they never even changed the old version It’s not like I would REALLY “care” :) New or old version, I like them both :)
Well, I’m well on my way into the adult world, working a job and planning for college. I’ve been around Webkinz World since early 2007 and the way Webkinz X looks, I’ll need some shades just to tone down those ridiculous colors! Yikes!
ii don’t like that either, and i wish you could dress fish.
the same w/ my sig siamese cat! anyone need a friend? coolkinz927(
The clothing on the birds don’t fit all that well either.
My frog is hilarious in hats or glasses because her eyes are at the top of her head!
lol yeah same for mine jbakcs789 :) hats look SO funny on them :)
Ooh yea and when I put hats (a fedora, for example) on my Fennec fox it covers his eyes! LOL
Wow I have not been here for awhile. I love the new design! Now gotta check out the others….
Welcome back elsa! I am soooo GLAD you are back!
Thanks! Its good to be back! :D
So um…Will the cloths your pets have on right now end up dissipearing with the updates…thats what happened to all my cloths saved on my deluxe files when i lost my deluxe membership. I couldn’t even find them in my dock…
Well, I guess so, because it happened to me, and crazy enough as myself, I put all of my best, rare, and valuable clothing in the deluxe section, and now they’re gone. I emailed support about it, and they sent me a link to solve a totally different problem :/ I’m going to purchase another membership just to see if they’re still there later on, but as well as you for now, I guess I’ve lost all of my good clothes….
Sorry that I haven’t been on in awhile, guys, but our internet’s been out. Consequentially, I’ve missed out on a lot of the Berry Fest stuff. Bleh. It just got fixed, though, so I should be able to get on now.
I totally agree! AND if they could make fish wear pants that would be even better!
Maybe not pants, but at LEAST dresses and skirts! You don’t need legs to wear either of those. My girl goldfish would appreciate it!!
Agreed, I spend SO much time and money trying to find clothing for my armadillo,
Yea I mostly agree I don’t mind purple but green would be better in my taste.
same here balloonfishy12 ☺
The link for the summer sensation prizes sneak peak is http://webkinznewz.ganzworld.com/carousel/sneak-peek-summer-sensation-prize/
Cool! looks very modern
I agree. I can’t dress my snake or Signature Dama gazelle because the clothing just looks… awkward. :/ Wish they’d make it possible to dress all the pets nicely.
Ew. When I saw the old one, I’m like, oh they’re not changing it, then I noticed that was the OLD one. I looked at the new one and honestly I was disgusted. It’s awful; I don’t like it a bit. Honestly I think some of the more recent changes have been not so good, like this one. I really, really, REALLY don’t like this one.