Here at Kinz-Land, we like to keep up with all the lastest goings on in Webkinz World!

Lets start with the Winterfest 2009…

Thanks goes to Cuddleyone for sharing this information with us…..

Winterfest will be coming to WKW on January 12-January 18th. If you see a floating snowflake, click on it! There will be all kinds of prizes to win - some you’ve seen before and some totally new! **Pic thanks to WA**

Trading in the Webkinz Clubhouse…

Here is a news article from Webkinz.com

A New Webkinz Theme…

Ganz have made a new theme for Webkinz. It’s called the Ichiban Theme and is available to buy in the W-Shop! Why not check it out and really treat your pet to a new amazing new room!

Enjoy!

Kellykinz

Webkinz Weekly! issue #2
Created by MyNacho

Winter fashion!
By: Tara1234

So winter is on its way so it’s getting a bit colder. Today’s fashion, we’re going to talk about warm ‘n’ stylish! So for girls we love fleeces.
With so many wonderful colors to choose from! Add some nice pants, shoes and a wonderful hat and it would be great!! For boys you could put on a nice sweater, like perhaps a red or blue hoddie! You could also wear the dude or snowboarding hat!

Fashion tip: Belts are wonderful to wear with matching tops!!!

So that’s about it for today’s fashion, so ember to dress warm, but don’t forget to be in style.

Real Life News!
By: Splish-Splash

Music>>>songs for this week

Here are the top 20 songs:

20 “Fireman” - Lil Wayne
19 “I stay in love” -Mariah Carey
18 “Superhuman”-Chris Brown
17 “I kissed a girl”-Katy Perry
16 “Just a dream”-Carrie Underwood
15 “Keeps gettin better”-Christina Aguilera
14 “Trading places”-Usher
13 “Better in time”-Leona Lewis
12 “Disturbia”-Rhianna
11 “When I grow up”-PCD
10 “Miss independent”- Ne-Yo
9 “Single ladies(put a ring on it)”-Beyonce
8 “7 things”-Miley Cyrus
7 “hot ‘n cold”- Katy Perry
6 “Burnin’ up”-Jonas Bros.
5 “Womanizer”- Britney Spears
4 “Can’t believe it”-T Pain
3 “Love story”-Taylor Swift
2 “So what”-Pink
1 “Whatever you like”-TI

Look at this>>>Today’s coolest phones

It is no surprise that the official slogan of the iCEphone is “the changing shape of mobile communications”. After all, it is common to see a mobile device that can fold out with one hinge, but this iCEphone has two hinges.
So, this three-sectioned phone is a four-in-one device. Not only is it a quadband 3G touchscreen cell phone, a PDA with a QWERTY keyboard, a games console with a controller pad, and a GPS navigation system.
All of these features, except for the games console, are all designed to help doctors. The iCEphone is billed as “the medical phone”, and it comes with on-board first aid software, medical history storage, and caller collect international emergency helpline.

Motorola RAZR phones are thin, compact, and full of features. Now Motorola can make another claim to their popular cell, it is bulletproof!
Or, at the very least, bullet resistant. Apparently, Motorola subscriber and Louisiana resident R.J. Richards was mowing his lawn and felt an odd sensation, and thought he was hit with a tiny rock. This always seems to happen to me when I mow my lawn. Mowers tend to blow pieces of debris and hit my legs all the time.
Richards then took out his RAZR phone, only to have it fall apart in his hands. He soon discovered that it had been hit by a .45 caliber bullet. Don’t worry, nobody tried to kill this man, but apparently there was a “hunting accident”. Di.ck Cheney must have been visiting Louisiana that day.

I am not certain if Samsung has created an industry first with a folding screen cellular phone, because I am most certain that I have heard of this application being tried out before on some underdeveloped concept phone of some type. I’ve always wondered what mobile phone company was going to perfect the folding screen tech first, and how much money they would make off of it.
The FPD International 2008 tech conference was host to the first (but probably not first ever) folding cell phone. This phone is brought to you by our friends at Samsung, who love to bring us new display technology like the virtual windows display and sky v virtual skylight.
Yes, the folding screen is a flexible OLED developed by Samsung SDI, and it is clearly positioned to revolutionize the world of mobile phones as we know it. No more running applications on a tiny screen anymore. Now you will have a display that will be at least one fourth the size of your normal computer screen.

What’s up in KL?
By Tara1234

Popular places in kinz-land!!

Because of all these holidays going on, things have been pretty busy.
Here are some of the most popular sites on kinz land that you might want to see:

Contest:

Hosted by iluvpuppies, we have the [OFFICIAL] KL Cafe Contest!!
Here, you must make rooms and show them off, each round; you must show a different themed room

How to guides:

Made by blue0345 How To: Take Pictures On Your Screen (Mac Style)
Just a helpful thread!

Siggys / profile shops:

Made by Color myy world: Sup Siggys?
A great place for great siggys!

Made by broadwaystar428: My Profile Background
Shop
A very simple place to get picks for you profile!

If you enjoyed this paper and want to be a part of it, we have open slots! Please become a member and post on our thread.

I would just like to thank our Webkinz News Team for putting this paper together for Kinz-Land! Well done to everyone who was involved!

Enjoy!!

Kelly. x

Hello everyone

I would like to wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I hope 2009 brings you all lots of luck and is your best year yet!

Remember to keep logging on to Kinz-Land for fun, catching up with friends and lots of tips and ideas to help you with your Webkinz pet!

Enjoy!

Kellykinz

Some of the members of Kinz-Land have got together and made a newspaper for fun!!

So……Here is the news!!

Webkinz Weekly Issue #1
created by MyNacho

Fall Fashion
by tara1234
It’s fall, and here comes the fashion!!!
Here is your simple guide to all fall colors and outfits!!!

For girls we have a super cute kilt skit (95 kc) which has all the perfect fall colors.
I think the mod top (110 kc) goes wonderfully with the kilt. I find no need to have a hat with this outfit, but feel free to add one, for shoes, I would say the flip-flops(30 kc) In total, this outfit would come to 234 kc!
For boys we have the maroon hoody (40 kc), I like this because it’s warm which is good with fall weather and the color is perfect!! The bottoms would be brown corduroy pants (65 kc) I find for shoes you can either have the black or red sneakers (both are 45 kc)
So in total it would be 150 kc!!

Fashion tip:
For girls, any swimsuit top with pants or a skirt, always looks cute!
If u have an idea for any fashion, please PM tara12345! Thanks!

Ashes Turned into diamonds?
by Splish-Splash

its true! Scientist found out how to change your loved ones ashes into diamonds. At a high price of 10,000 dollars, you can wear your loved ones “diamonds” on a necklace ring or other accessories.

Rent A Pup
people around the nation now rent dogs.
is it right? Is it wrong?
here is our guest speaker “Grama Splish-Splash”

i think it is wrong to rent dogs, because it may make the dog confused, and they would get used to the people, then have to give them up.

our other “Anonymous” speaker says:

i think it is a good thing to rent dogs, it will help them learn to travel, if someone buys him and goes on a vacation. I would rent a dog.

Short series of the week
by Nintendo13

It was a cold November day. Hank was downstairs in his kitchen. Hank has an older sister, Catie who is 15, Hank is 10. Hank’s dad is an author and his mom is an interior designer. Hank has three Webkinz, Lance the Lemon Lime Gecko, Polly the Parrot and Danny the Dachshund. Hank have eating a heaping bowl of Fruit Loops. While Hank was eating his colorful Fruit Loops something was going on upstairs. Something Hank doesn’t know.

Learn more about Hank, his family and his Webkinz in the next Webkinz Weekly Newspaper!

Webkinz Newz
by MyNacho

So new, I couldn’t recognize it!

The number one thing in our world besides Kinz-Land you ask- Webkinz world!

Webkinz has been very busy with new features, and NEW kinz! I am very happy to report there is a new game in the arcade called, “Pizza Palace!” It is a fun game where you get to fulfill Webkinz’s orders! Check out Uni’s thread. There is many helpful tips on it so you can make tons of KC! (Kinz-Cash!)
Also, the charm forest is now the “Magical Forest”. It also has its own theme music, it is bound to get stuck in your head! Now you can use arrows to choose what game you want to play. They have added more and you know what that means- more toys for you to buy. Some ask, “Is Webkinz too much days? “ A lot of people say no, but some say it is way to much.
The Fire fawn is out- and its hot! The stores are selling out of them quite fast, so pick yours up soon and show it of to your friends!
This has been a Webkinz News report by MyNacho!

Fashion
By Rainbow girl

Hey everyone! For this issue I will be showing a summary of what I will be focusing on for the next couple of weeks. I will be displaying certain items for the next little while; doing reviews and saying what I think are the goods J and the bads L of the following clothing/shoes/brands. Please remember that if you want to see a brand/piece of clothing/ pair of shoes in the next paper please PM me and I will more then likely feature your item!

Uggs:
See them in issue #2!

Converse/DC: Converse

DC
Coming after the Holidays!

Plaid:
I may as well do 2 issues on plaid since it proves to be so popular!
It should be coming our right in time for the Holidays!

Skinny Jeans:

These skintight jeans are a total A+ in the Style Aisle

I know I am going a bit out of my league by going as far as doing technology but hey, a little more never hurt!

Ipod:
Probably the most popular music player in the world and apples greatest product, it gives me much pleasure to bring you, the Ipod.

If you would like to join the Webkinz Weekly paper you have to join or be a member and post on our Webkinz Weekly thread!!!

*All papers have been edited by Dogloverer

As you can see, so much work has gone into making this fun newspaper, so a big thank you to everyone who was involved!!

Enjoy!

Kellykinz

This is Kinz-Land’s official newsletter. A new one will be posted every Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. It will give you the scoop on things KL and Webkinz.
Enjoy! Questions? Comments? PM Hazznoe today!

Kinz-Land’s Official Newsletter

Written by Hazznoe
Week of October 5, 2008
Issue 1.0

Current ACTIVE MEMBER COUNT: 217 as of 10.05.08 (UP from last week)

BREAKING NEWS: Earlier this week, one of our administrators, Cuddleyone, got accused of hacking a Webkinz account by another popular Webkinz forum. Sticking by her side, Kinz-Land staff is proud to report that Ganz has cleared Cuddleyone. IT HAS BEEN PROVED ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH THAT SHE HAS NOT HACKED A WEBKINZ ACCOUNT. While many may be in doubt of this news, again, both GANZ and Cuddleyone herself have confirmed the above information.

KL’s Member of the Month!
PLEASE CONGRADULATE THIS MEMBER FOR BEING MEMBER OF THE MONTH:

KELLYKINZ!

What’s Happ’nin This Week in Kinz-Land?

As you can see, Kellykinz is continuing to fix bugs and jazz up Kinz-Land because of our little “time warp” crash. She is currently trying so hard to make Kinz-Land a great forum for everyone.

Welcome Two New Moderators

Please congraulate Crazy4Webkinz and Mardela93 because they have recently been chosen to become two new moderators. They have been chosen due to their loyalness and their high level of responsibility. Not that all you members don’t have those qualities, but these two members really displayed it!

Webkinz News

Due to the spooky holiday of Halloween coming up, please notice that the HAUNTED HOUSE THEME IS BACK IN WEBKINZ WORLD!

Pet of the Month Update

IT HAS BEEN DISCOVERED THAT THE DECEMBER PET OF THE MONTH WILL BE THE POLAR BEAR! With that said, remember that the POTM for October is the PUG and the POTM for November is the HIPPO!

I NEED YOUR HELP!

I, Hazznoe, have a big decision to make. I need your help to find a solution. My grandma said she would pay for a trip to anywhere in the world for me either next year or the one after that. Only one problem…I don’t know where to go! PLEASE PM ME, ONLY HAZZNOE, NO OTHER STAFF MEMBER…to suggest where I should go. One entry will be randomly chosen to recieve a prize on Webkinz. Any PMs NOT SENT TO ME WILL BE INSTANTLY DELETED!!! PLEASE SEND THEM TO HAZZNOE and HAZZNOE ONLY! DO NOT POST THEM ON THIS THREAD! Thank you!

Questions? Comments? PM Hazznoe today!

Written by Hazznoe.
Copyright 2008 Kinz-Land Forum
Copyright 2008 Hazznoe/Spencer Productions & Doc.uments

Questions? Comments? PM Hazznoe today!
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Moderator

Hi guys

I am happy to report that Kinz-Land is back!!

We had a major crash and have lost a lot of the work, posts and even members who joined after September 2007.

With your help, we can make Kinz-Land bigger and better than it was before!

Please spread the word and tell your friends and family that KINZ-LAND IS BACK!!!!

I look forward to chatting with you all soon!!

Enjoy!

Kellykinz

If you cannot find the link to the forum just go here instead………

www.kinz-land.com/forum

Hope that helps!

-Jaclynnsmudge

Hey Everyone! Marsh here. I haven’t written in a while, but when the new webkinz spritz and lip gloss came out, I just had to write about them.

Personally, I dont think I will purchase Webkinz Body Spray or Lipgloss. I’m not interested in paying over $5 for “makeup” just because it has a webkinz label. They will be almost as much as lil kinz! I think the salon theme is pretty cool, but I wouldn’t buy these new products just for it. However, some people really want this theme. But it seems that Webkinz was a little gender specif when planning new products.

Boys are not going to want to be seen buying “makeup”. Members said this on the forum, and I agree, its not fair to the boys who play webkinz:

Memtab:It is unfair for all of us boys! But I still REALLY want the theme!

JordanKiesel: Im a boy too! and i like the theme too! But I dont want the stuff that you have to buy to get it! why dont they make boy stuff? its not just girls that play on webkinz. I was at some place and i was wearing my charm bracelet and someone asked me if i played on webkinz, i said yes and someone else said they did too! And there were only 4 people there including me! me two other boys and 1 girl, the girl and one of the boys played webkinz.

Hollisterco48: L deff agree!! i mean there is charm bracelets, necklaces, body spray, and lipgloss. I feel bad for the guys. They have no webkinz things that are just meant for guys!

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Also, I think Ganz forgot their target market. I thought Webkinz is supposed to be a place for everyone to enjoy, including younger children. I dont know about you, but I wouldnt want my 5 year old or even 9 year old strutting around with perfume and makeup.

Some people on the Kinz-Land have thought up some ideas which I think are much better than makeup:

IHeartWebkinz: They should make something more for boys. Like Webkinz Candy Bars that come with a feature code! LOL I am serious! It could unlock something from the Candy-Land exclusive room theme! Yay! LOL The feature code could be on the inside of the wrapper

Pinkwink4: I am a girl and I have cousins that are boys that plkay with webkinz and I think Ganz should make baseballs and soccerballs that unlock sport games and sport shops online and a soccer or baseball theme !

I really think Webkinz didnt think about the downsides to these new beauty items.

What are you thoughts? Please, PM me on the forum for some friendly discusssion about this.

-Marsh

Tags: makeup, lipgloss, spray, spritz, forum, marsh

Unlucky

Chapter 4: Friday the 13th of October.

Lucky was so upset. She never wanted to back to school. She hated everyone. She hated Bailey for making her go to school, she hated classmates, she hated her father for abandoning her, and most of all, she hated herself. She ran as fast as she could, and her legs lead her to an odd place: The W-Pond. It was night and a thick blanket of fog covered the pond, just as it did the night Lucky was born. It happened to be the same night, several years later.

Lucky threw herself upon the bench for an answer, any answer to her troubles. Nothing came. Lucky began to cry, and suddenly it began to pour. Lucky heard thunder and saw flashes of lighting. She decided she should return to Bailey’s, even though she had no desire to.

Along the way, Lucky had to walk down Main Street, the busiest street in Kinzville. The rain was still pouring hard. Lucky saw a figure walking in the rain. She strained to see what it was, then realized it was the monkey form class. Lucky wondered why she was walking in the rain alone.

Suddenly, a car swerved off the road, right toward the monkey, Lucky leaped and pushed her out of the way.

Once they were safe, the monkey spoke.

“You.. you just.. saved me..” she said slowly.

“Yes. Are you alright now?” asked Lucky.

“Thanks to you!! I’m sorry I was mean to you Lucky. You arent unlucky to be with, your lucky! I’m really sorry. Will you forgive me?” said the monkey.

“Yes.” said Lucky.

“Oh good! My name is Mary by the way” she said, just as the police came to the scene.

“This is what caused the accident I assume” said the cop, motioning toward Lucky. “The driver must have been so spooked to see her”

“She saved me!!!!!!!” shouted Mary.

The driver stepped from his car. He was a Persian cat. He spoke…”It’s true sir. I swerved because of this rain, and the cat saved the monkey from her death, risking her own life.”

The Persian cat looked at Lucky. Suddenly, things clicked.

“Is that you???” he asked her.

The cops and Mary looked so confused, but Lucky understood. It was her father driving that car.

“Yes” she said, looking at her father.

“I thought I would never see you again!! It was so wrong what I did to you when you were younger. I’m sorry hunny” he said, running to hug his daughter.

THE END

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I hope you enjoyed it! Please tell me what you think on the Webkinz Land Forum!

-Marsh

Tags: tale, lucky, marsh, forum

Webkinz have become a blinding success in the two and a bit years that they’ve been around us. Now that Webkinz are a huge hit - just like most famous things, they are starting to get… errrm… similar coutnerparts.

Webkinz were created by Ganz in 2005 and have now taken America and Canada by storm! The latest Webkinz, the Black Cat Webkinz has been snapped up almost instantaneously. The Black Cat Webkinz was meant to come out for Halloween, but, as with most commercial products now, the Black Cat Webkinz has found its way onto our shelves and Webkinz Stores two months prior to Halloween. If you’ve already got a webkinz black cat, then you might want to name it with our 40 Names For Your Webkinz Black Cat article.

Because Webkinz have become so popular, many people are trying their best to take some of that “thunder” and use the now powerful Webkinz brand to their advantage. Many Webkinz sites online now have been a culpret of this, but are changing now.

One of the biggest reasons why Webkinz has become so popular is not only because of their amazingly high quality, or their extra cute designs, but because of how many people actually use and play on Webkinz World. Webkinz now has an estimated 4 million players. With that many other people has potential “friends”, many kids across the country are tuning in to Webkinz as a passtime they can enjoy with the majority of their friends.

4 Million people playing Webkinz World means that at least 4 million Webkinz have been sold, which acts as tasty bait for Webkinz rivals & competitors. One of the most well known Webkinz competitors is Shining Stars, which has been the source of a large debate in Our Webkinz Forum.

Shining Stars are, admittedly, almost a carbon copy of most Webkinz. With the same animal designs and the same idea of having secret codes used on a virtual Internet world, much like Webkinz World.

The only real difference that can be deduced between Shining Stars & Webkinz is the fact that Webkinz are generally better designed, with more elaborate and exotic materials being used on the Webkinz Animals.

Although Shining Stars are O.K, they are nothing special in my view. Their descriptions and prices all seem to suggest a weaker competitor to Webkinz and Webkinz World. Webkinz pride themselves on quality Webkinz Stuffed Animals at a price which reflects both the popularity of the Webkinz toys and the quality of the products.

Shining Stars, although they do look cute and adorable, don’t seem to be up to standard as far as quality is concerned. Webkinz also boast a bigger fanbase which is always going to win fans over to the Webkinz camp.

The biggest selling point for the Shining Stars is the fact that whenever you purchase a Shining Star, you get to name your own star, as well as have some proceeds automatically donated to charity - something that Webkinz currently does not do.

However the big sticking point with this, as any charitible business venture, is the fact that people buy a product such as Webkinz or Shining Stars because they like the product. If they wanted to doate to charity, I am sure they will take the time to do that seperately. The same goes for naming a star; whereby the star naming probably costs a fee for the Shining Stars company, which could be saved and passed onto the end user.

However you look at it - Shining Stars have performed a sure-fire marketing trait: Sell what’s already selling. Webkinz are currently HUGE and are also big business… something that Russ Berrie have seen and taken hold of with some pretty good results.

Shining Stars look to have started to advertise on TV, whilst Webkinz currently don’t need to delve into the depths of mass advertising just yet, with the huge popularity surge they are currently experiencing.

Personally - Webkinz are more appealing to me. Webkinz offers a more friendly, focused and popular Webkinz World to us, the Webkinz fans… whilst Shining Stars currently seems like a “gamble” to buy. By this, I mean they are the type of toy that you would probably buy once to check them out and see if you liked them… if you didn’t then it would be ony $15 down the drain.

Webkinz are the only stuffed animals for me - Shining Stars isn’t popular enough for me yet but still I will give them 10/10 for effort!

Tags: Webkinz, World, Shining, Stars