Webkinz Ganz Website Animals

I got my own Webkinz bat today.  I have been playing Webkinz with my daughter’s account for over a year but today I decided to get my own account so I could keep up with the latest in Webkinz world better, experience care of a pet first hand and not have to worry about messing up my daughter’s webkinz world. 

The bat is so cute.  Here is a photo:

We are thinking of names for him.  Here is our brainstorm list for Webkinz Bat names:

• Velvet
• Darky
• Blood Dorcula
• Midnight
• Weeny (Short for Halloween)
• Bloody
• Fruity
• Smiley
• Toothy
• Bob
• Fuzzy
• Blacky
• Fang
• Dracula
• Count
• Night Shade
• Demon
• Obsidian
• Black Hole
• Godzilla

I decided to go with Fang since it reminds me of a Jack London book I like. 

My daughter has decided that she wants the bat, so I made an agreement with her that if she finished a book I want her to read by the end of the week, she can have the bat and I will get a different new Webkinz pet.

I saw the Cocoa DInosaur webkinz at the store today and I think that may be my next choice.  Here is a photo:

Some names we thought of for the Webkinz Cocoa dinosaur are:

• Cocoa
• Chocolate
• Dino
• Deeno
• Raspberry
• Little Foot
• Spots
• Scales

The Webkinz Manatee is Soooo cute and is now available for sale by some sellers.  They are going for about $11 not including shipping.  You can get them for less if you bid and win!

Here is more info about him from Webkinz World:

As you can see, he is grayish white, has cute little whiskers sticking out and has soleful black eyes.  You know you want one! Why not get one today?

In October the webkinz of the month is the Hippo Webkinz.  The Hippo Webkinz is still available for sale on Ebay.  These lovable blue hippos will get special treatment this month in Webkinz World. 

Here is info about the pet of the month from the Ganz Webkinz site, in case you are not familiar with it:

When you finish adopting your Pet of the Month, and you go to your pet’s room, you will receive a Loot Bag. Click on the Loot Bag and it will open to reveal your prizes! You will receive:

• One random Pet of the Month Item not available anywhere else!
• One of our latest special recipe foods. Many of these recipes are still undiscovered!
• A W-Shop Coupon to use however you’d like
• Between 500 and 1000 KinzCash as a special bonus!

If you choose to adopt the Webkinz Pet of the Month during their featured month, your adoption will include special online gifts, including bonus Kinzcash and one of the new special Pet of the Month virtual items. The Webkinz Pet of the Month items are hard to find after their month is over, so they do become quite exclusive in local stores.

 

Other Webkinz Pet of the Months are:

August: Bullfrog

September: Pug

New in Webkinz World this week is a travel agency and spa that allows you to buy trips and spa retreats for your virtual Ganz Webkinz pets.  My first reaction to this news is that the inventor of this feature must have had a long summer entertaining kids, like I have, and felt a need to celebrate back to school.

The first week back to school, stay home parents often take a “staycation” and even treat themselves to a spa retreat.  I know I have been relishing the relative calm that surrounds my house during this week.  Even when my daughter is at overnight camp, life is not as calm feeling as when she is in the regular rhythm of school. 

Here is a nice article about the feature: http://www.kinzblog.com/50226711/webkinz_travel_agent_tropical_island_vacation.php

Ganz Webkinz has done it again and set up an online store where Webkinz stuffed animal owners can buy virtual items for thier online pet with real money.  Here is an example of a type of item from the eStore:

Animated Items

To use these items you must have an account in Webkinz World. These items cannot be sold back to the W Shop, traded or sent via KinzPost.

The items for sale cost a whopping $4 to $10…almost as much as a Lil Kinz.  Previously, Ganz has made purchases of Webkinz items a way to get extra kinz cash and bonus virtual items: you had to buy real Webkinz stuffed animal clothes, Webkinz trading cards and Webkinz charms that come with a code that unlocks extra kinzcash and bonus items.  Now they have made it even faster for Webkinz owners to spend extra real cash to buy special items that other owners cannot buy by earning Kinzcash by playing games.

My daughter, of course, wants to buy the special items, but so far has not used any of her allowance to do so.  Since she plays Webkinz with her friends often, having a special item online is almost as good as having a real item in terms of envy rights.

I guess the purchases go to good use paying for more fun games at Webkinz world.  I know my daughter often loves these games more than any other she plays online or off.

I just learned that the Webkinz Parakeet is due out in November.  You can buy a Webkinz Parakeet here when they are available.

The Parakeet is an example of another type of pet that you can actually get at the  real pet store.  My daughter and I were discussing yesterday which was better, exotic Webkinz or “regular pet” Webkinz.  She said the regular pet Webkinz, such as dogs, cats, and birds, were boring.  She preferred the exotic pets, like manatee, bat and toucan. 

I pointed out that regular pets were good since they allowed kids to get the feel of having a kind of pet they wanted that their family did not have.  She agreed and realized she wanted a Webkinz cat.

I just found out the way to make your pets live online for more than a year.  The key is to only make one Webkinz account and keep adding new Webkinz adoptees to your account over time.  At the minimum, you need to add a new one before a year is up on your first one. 

My daughter found this out accidently by creating two accounts with her first two pets.  She was inconsolable when it first happened and now I can see why.  Her pink pony Webkinz has moved on to virtual pet heaven.  I guess she can buy a new Pink Pony Webkinz  and add it to her collection of 9 animals.  One more and she gets a bonus for having 10.  Someone at Ganz is a marketing genius!!

My daughter and I went to Nordstroms today for back to school shopping.  We found out they even were selling them there!  At the Hallmark store, they had a buy one item get a second one (of the non-popular Webkinz) at half off.  I guess Webkinz went a little wild with bringing out new items this summer.   I think they are getting better with the more exotic and cute animals now though.

One really cute item is the Lil Kinz Hummingbird.  My husband is obsessed with hummingbirds and feels they bring good luck.  Maybe the webkinz hummingbird will bring good fortune to it’s owners.

My daughter now has 9 webkinz plush toys including the Webkinz Clydesdale and the Pink Pony.

Wow…I was just adding the new webkinz from the beginning of the summer to my Ganz Webkinz store and realized that some of them are retired already!  I have been busy keeping my Webkinz loving child busy all summer and so had not had much time to update my site.  I keep up with webkinz news with the Google blog email system, so I knew a lot was going on, but having the snake retired already???  I guess Ganz Webkinz finally figured out that a small supply creates demand.

My daughter and I went to look at Webkinz in person today and they really have a nice selection.  She was eager to get the Webkinz bat, which I guess is the Halloween offering, but they did not have them in stock yet. She settled for 2 horses and a webkinz toucan.  She is a horse nut so she has 4 webkinz horses in all now.

I originally limited her to 5 webkinz, telling her that she could not care for more.  She has become very adept at caring for virtual animals now that she is 10, even enlisting help from her friends (not always a good idea since one of them changed the password when she was in a fight with her….luckily she could use the Webkinz secret code to get back in and change the password again), so I told her she could buy as many as she could afford.  I told her the virtual animal cops would come and get her if she did not care for them.  She is old enough to get my jokes now, fortunately.

I started this blog since talking about Webkinz has gone beyond the static format of the original Webkinz website I created last year.  This format will allow me to add more articles and news items more easily.  Thanks for visiting and please check out the Ganz Webkinz Ebay Store I have.