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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!

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

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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

Everyone knows the story of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” whereby a fictional character named Willy Wonka has a chocolate factory filled with chocolate lakes and chocolate waterfalls. He has many little helpers who run around and make all the chocolate bars that the factory makes.

The Willy Wonka chocolate factory is a factory which no “normal” person has seen inside or even heard about what happens within. The factory is kept an utter secret and is the source of huge debate within the community it serves.

If you can remember the story, the Chocolate factory is one which so many people want to get into that Willy Wonka holds a “golden ticket” contest whereby he put several golden tickets into his chocolate bars, which could then be won by kids all over the country.

Well, for those of you who are intuitive, I guess you know where this is headed… but look at what we have on our hands with Webkinz:

We have kids all over the country looking for Webkinz and are buying them by the handful. They are so popular that shortages are sometimes a problem, but not so much now. Ganz, the parent company of Webkinz, are keeping all their Webkinz statistics a secret, in that they will not reveal how many Webkinz have been sold, etc.

This has created a sense of mystery and wonder with Ganz and what they do. This, in turn has made many Webkinz lovers actually want to see where all the Webkinz are made and where they come from - purely out of interest.

Now Ganz are in Canada and are a pretty “shy” company to put it one way. Especially with their Webkinz Stuffed Animals Toys, Ganz are looking more and more like the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory which is so alike the Webkinz factory.

This has lead me to come up with a great idea for Ganz! Willy Wonka realized that kids everywhere want to see the Chocolate factory and gave out a select few Golden Tickets in order to make that dream come true for a few kids.

Ganz have a similar situation right now. They have a product which kids LOVE and are buying lots of and have a factory which almost none of their market have seen. Hey? You know what - why don’t Ganz offer a secret Ticket Contest to go and see their factory!?

Ganz could include 5 special secret Webkinz codes with their stuff animals or Webkinz Charms, or whatever and then when those secret codes are registered on Webkinz World - the winner is notified with a message on screen!!

The contest could be an expenses paid trip for the winner and their parents / family to visit the Webkinz Factory at Ganz’s headquarters and see how Ganz operate and Webkinz are made!

Ganz could even give the winners every single Webkinz for free on their contest winning visit - which would be extremely generous of them!

I personally think it would be a greatidea. Webkinz lovers everywhere will be snapping up the cute stuffed animal toys like wild fire, thus creating more Webkinz World players, as well as giving 5 lucky Webkinz fans the chance to meet the people who make Webkinz!

What do you think?

 Tags: Webkinz, Ganz, Willy, Wonka, Contest