Author Archives:
POTM Music Video: A Dog With A Bow In Her Hair
Terriers aren’t your average dog; aside from being extremely energetic, they’re also very loyal, friendly, lovable! The White Terrier is February’s Pet Of The Month, and this pretty pooch is ready to steal your heart with its brand new Pet Of The Month video, “A Dog With A Bow In Her Hair“! Adopt the White Terrier any time in February to get a Pet of the Month loot bag, filled with prizes and a surprise you can’t get anywhere else. After you adopt the Pet Of The Month, you can download the MP3 of the song from Music Starz, the Webkinz Music Hall of Fame, within Webkinz World! You can also purchase the song and video on the Ganz eStore! But that’s not all! We have more surprises related to A Dog With A Bow In Her Hair coming this month! Stay tuned!
In Room: Signature Pig
The Small Signature and Signature Endangered pets for March 2010 may be getting a lot of attention at the moment, but there’s also a special Signature pet coming next month: the Signature Pig! The Signature Pig comes with a Homemade Apple Core Pie and the Muddy Marsh, which is pictured below: You’ll love rolling around in the mud with the Signature Pig! The Pig is the perfect porky pal, as it’s always ready to head outside to play—rain or shine—in its messy Muddy Marsh. And when you’re all tuckered out from a day of play, you can sit back and make your pig pal happy with a Homemade Apple Core Pie!
This Week In Webkinz World
Each week in Webkinz World, there are a variety of different Daily Activities, sales, and more that make each day special! Here’s are the highlights happening in Webkinz World this week starting tomorrow: Monday: Take a shot at the Prize Klaw between 4 and 5 pm KT! Tuesday: Get 25% more KinzCash from Cash Cow 2, the Game of the Day! Wednesday: The Enchanted Chest is 25% off between 6 and 7 pm KT! Thursday: The Academy T-Shirt and Mary Janes Shoes are on sale in the KinzStyle Outlet today! Friday: Deluxe Members: get 65 KinzCash from the Daily Activities between 5 and 6 pm KT! Saturday: Elegant Exposed Brick Walls are on sale for 25% off between 3 and 4 pm KT! Sunday: Our two Quick Draw events for the day are Valentine’s-themed! Win a Sweetheart Symphony Piano and Cupid’s Shimmering Spring! These are just a few of the special events happening this week! For the full list, be sure to log into Webkinz World each day to see the schedule of Daily Activities, visit the W Shop for daily sales, and more!
eStore: Super Sunday Sales
Visit the Ganz eStore this Super Sunday for some great new items, exclusive pets, and special deals you can only find on our store! Love Kitten Love Letters Hat Sweet Surprise Costume Heart On The Sleeve Outfit These are just some of the many items on sale this Sunday. This weekend’s sale also hosts the debut of some special items to celebrate both Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Years with. The rest of our deals follow after the break.
In Room: Ferret
Leading the pack of our Featured Pets for March 2010 is the fun-loving Ferret. The Ferret comes with a Foot Long Feast and the Relaxing Longtub, pictured below: Standing tall with a long, lean neck and a beautiful brown coat, the curious Ferret is always on the lookout for a snack when it’s not sound asleep. You’ll often find the Ferret hiding about, but feed him a Foot Long Feast before fixing him a bath in his Relaxing Longtub, and you’ll find yourself with a friend for life!
Vote For Webkinz As The “Best Virtual World Site for Kids”
We’ve got some exciting news! Webkinz World has officially been nominated as one of the ‘Best Virtual World sites for Kids’ at About.com! Here are the details: Reader’s Choice nominations for the 2010 Best Virtual World for Kids included worlds with monkeys, dinosaurs, pandas, historical characters, robots, penguins, dogs, bears, cats and more. Parents and kids visited in droves to share why their virtual world was the best. With nearly 40 sites in the running the competition was fierce. The top 5 in this category were selected largely based on the number of nominations received. We’re extremely proud to have been nominated, and now we need your help to win! Head over to About.com’s website and vote for us by clicking the “Webkinz World” link on the page. Voting is now open and will run until Feb. 24, 2010. Let’s keep Webkinz World at the top!
eStore: Surprise Saturday Sales
Visit the Ganz eStore this Surprise Saturday for some great new items, exclusive pets, and special deals you can only find on our store! Love Kitten Love Letters Hat Sweet Surprise Costume Heart On The Sleeve Outfit These are just some of the many items on sale this Saturday. This weekend’s sale also hosts the debut of some special items to celebrate both Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Years with. The rest of our deals follow after the break.
Valentine’s Day Contest
Love is in the air as Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and we’ve got the perfect contest for the heart-warming holiday. We want you to write us a romantic rhyming couplet about the Love Lion! The Love Lion is our newest Valentine’s Day seasonal pet, and there is no better way to celebrate its release than to put your words of love into rhyme! Never written a rhyming couplet before? It’s easy. A rhyming couplet is a pair of two lines where the last words of each line rhyme! Come up with a fun one about the Love Lion and love, submit it, and you could win! Winners will receive the rare Bed of Roses (the “prize”), which can only be acquired by registering a certain number of pets. We just gave a few away with our recent Twitter contest, so this will be the last chance to snag one of these superbeds through a contest for a while! The contest opens at 12:00 a.m. EST on February 10, 2010 and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on February 14, 2010. For details on how to enter the contest and the official contest rules, click here.
Feedback Friday: What Would You Add To The Park?
Welcome to the weekly edition of Feedback Friday, where we ask a question and look to our wonderful Webkinz members for answers that we will use to make Webkinz World better. This is your chance to influence the way that Webkinz World evolves! The always-popular Kinzville Park got a big update this week: members can now help to clean up the park in order to earn “Green Score” which can unlock special prizes! This great new addition will give you even more reason to hang out in the park with your friends! And while we working on a few other ideas to make the park more fun—including adding more trash to make collecting easier—we want to hear from you! This week’s question is… What would you add to the Kinzville Park? Would you like to see more slides and swings? More play areas? A mini-game exclusive to the Park? Give us some feedback by commenting now!
February’s Birthstone Pet: Amethyst Hound
Always anxious to play, the Amethsyt Hound will keep you warm in the cold of winter! This playful purple Birthstone Pet for the month of February is a great pal that loves the snow and is always on the go! The Amethyst Hound comes with an Amethyst Twist and an Amethyst Bed. As with our other Birthstone pets, the Amethyst Hound will be available every day on the Ganz eStore in the month of February, from the 1st until the 28th.
Bebop and the Beats are on YouTube!
If you can’t get enough of those jazzy Beats and their fantastically cool leader Bebop, now you can check them out on YouTube! Webkinz Jr. is proud to present Bebop and the Beats singing the Bebop ABCs! You can find this rockin’ tune on our official YouTube account, so be sure to check it out!
February’s Featured And Signature Pets
February is here, and with it has come a lovable group of new plush pets. This month, four new pets join Webkinz World: the Old English Sheepdog, the Tree Kangaroo, the Beaver, and the Signature Dutch Bunny! Could a Beaver and a Tree Kangaroo share a tree? Would an Old English Sheepdog share a plate of fish and chips with a Dutch Bunny? Find out for yourself! Look for these pets at your favorite Webkinz retailers this month!
eStore: Webkinz Wednesday
What better way to start off spring on the right foot than with a Webkinz Wednesday? We’ve got some great content on the Ganz eStore this week, including the following: Violetwing Butterfly Green Seadragon Purple Floral Fox You’ll also find the month’s Birthstone Pet, the Amethyst Hound, on the store this month. Head over to the Ganz eStore for these sweet sales!
New Theme: Galaxy Collection
Send your Webkinz pets into space in style with the gorgeous Galaxy Collection theme! This new theme will be added with the Webkinz World update coming tomorrow. Here’s a preview of one of the items from the Galaxy Collection theme, the Navigation Control Center! With this week’s update, we’ll be putting out a good chunk of the new theme. The rest of the Galaxy Collection items will be coming soon, so start collecting the set right away! The new theme will let you create a room that is truly out of this world!
Winterfest Contest Winners
We’ve got some exciting news! After much deliberation, we’ve arrived at a list of winners for the two different Winterfest Contests. Thanks to everyone who entered the contests! Now, let’s see who is walking away from Winterfest a winner! Webkinz Newz Contest Winners We would also like to offer congratulations to Monica, Miranda, Danielle, Lee, and Wendy for winning the Webkinz Newz Winterfest Contest! Each of you have won a Build-A-Snow-Fort Siege Tower! Your codes have been emailed to you! Twitter Contest Winners We received many new followers on our Twitter account during the week, and we’ve randomly selected three winners. Congratulations to Mikaylah, Michelle, and Laura! Your Feature Codes have been sent to you as direct messages on Twitter! The winning entries have been posted on the “Winners” page. We hope you’ve enjoyed our various Winterfest-related contests, and while we’re sad to see Winterfest go, we know there are plenty more great events to come in the rest of 2010!