A couple of trophies and some Thoughts from the Treetop: May 2, 2017

Sometimes the real world keeps me busy and I get behind on my Webkinz blogging. 🙂  I’m having an easy day today, just enjoying the beautiful weather and watching the birds at the feeders on my back deck.

I’ve got some fun news and some random thoughts to share, so I figured I’d do a Thoughts from the Treetop post and just collect it all in one place.

First I want to share my exciting news (well, it’s exciting to me, anyway) – I finally got a Pet Party Parade trophy! 🙂 I got the trophy a few days ago on my TreeHuggerJess account, and it’s really cute.

When you complete all 30 levels of the game, you’ll see this message:

Then because it was my first time winning the whole game and earning a trophy, I got this message:

Last, here’s a look at the trophy in my Trophy Room:

Have you won the Pet Party Parade trophy yet? How many levels have you been able to beat so far? Do you have any tips for winning Pet Party Parade?

It’s the beginning of a new month, and that means a new Deluxe Monthly Challenge. In order to meet this month’s challenge, you’ve got to earn 150 kinzcash playing Color Storm.

I’ve actually got some tips for playing Color Storm. To read the tips, click here for the blog post I wrote during the Color Storm Trophy Challenge.

Speaking of trophies, I finally won the Candy Bash 2 trophy – and I won it on both of my accounts!

The Candy Bash 2 trophy looks like a chili pepper:

Here it is in my trophy room:

(And there’s my Grumpy Cat giving us a photo bomb!)

The Candy Bash 2 trophy is actually pretty easy to win once you know the secret/trick to unlocking it. The trophy is awarded randomly, BUT the only way you can have a chance of winning the trophy is by first getting “4 in a row” while you’re collecting the falling candy.

That means “catching” four of the same type of candies/sweets in a row, like this:

Once you’ve collected four in a row, keep playing and wait for the cat (named Gato Loco) to float by across the top of the screen. If Gato Loco is holding a trophy, hit him with a bean – the trophy will fall, and if you catch the trophy before it hits the ground, then congrats! You now have the Candy Bash 2 Trophy! When you catch the trophy, you’ll hear Poncho say “Arrrrrribe!”

The random trophy counter will reset after each appearance by Gato Loco. So if you see the cat but don’t get the trophy, you need to do another four in a row in order to have another chance at the trophy.

Have you won the Candy Bash 2 Trophy yet?

I’ve adopted a couple of pets recently. One of them was the Baby Bunny. The Baby Bunny was a special pet in the month of April because Baby Bunny owners got a extra activity each day. (Like the Reindeer Games in December and the Lovely Fox bonus activities in February.)

I named my Baby Bunny “Gidget,” and I think she’s a cutie:

Here’s Gidget wearing the Farmer’s Wife dress you can sometimes find at the Ganz eStore. (The clothing selection changes frequently.)

If you want your own Baby Bunny, the plush is still available at the Ganz eStore.

The Flower Collection Event just kicked off – if you want some tips on collection event success, click here for a blot post with advice on how to collect flowers quickly.

I’ll wrap up my Thoughts from the Treetop with a picture of the Super Token I recently won – this Super Token was worth three wish tokens!

Have you ever had a Super Token? What did you win? (Deluxe Members get to spin the Wheel of Wishes every day!)

Well, I guess that’s all for now. Thanks for reading and for visiting my blog. I hope you have a wonderful day and a fantastic week!

 

A Brand New Bake Sale Has Arrived!

Today is the start of the brand new Webkinz bake sale celebration! From now through April 30th, you can collect different baked goods and combine them on a stove to “cook up” one of 10 awesome prizes.

Last year’s Bake Sale was so much fun! I’m really excited that Ganz brought it back with new prizes and goodies! I have a few tips for Bake Sale success that I posted last year – click here to read the post and see how you can make the most of this bake sale fun.

Let’s start with the basics – if you want to cook up prizes, you first need to collect the ingredients. The ingredients are 5 different kinds of baked goods, and there are actually 5 different ways to collect them!

1. “Today’s Annoucements” – you get one baked good just for logging into your account.
2. Spin the Wheel of Yum – make sure you head over to Today’s Activities to spin the Wheel of Yum and collect another baked good. (and maybe even win a Blueberry Prize Pie!)
3. Looking for floating baked goods in Webkinz World. Keep your eyes open for the floating baked goods all around Webkinz World – you can collect up to 5 per day!
4. Floating gift box on Webkinz Newz. When you’re doing your daily activities on Webkinz Newz, be on the lookout for the floating blue and white gift box. Click on it to send a gift box back to your Webkinz account – it will contain one baked good!
5. Keep checking Today’s Activities – throughout the day there will be random baked good giveaways, so check the Today’s Activities list to find out when.

As I mentioned above, in total there are 5 different types of baked goods (and they all look so yummy!):

Even though these foods look super yummy, remember that you must cook a specific combination of baked goods on a stove in order to get the prizes – simply feeding them to your pet won’t work. (All of the recipes are available in a cookbook that you get for free just for logging into your account!)

The prizes for this year’s Bake Sale are a little different. There’s no particular theme like last year where you could build a sweet shop or a school cafeteria. This year is a mixture of furniture and accessories that will work with many different themes. There are 10 prizes total – are you going to try to cook up all 10?

Don’t forget about the Grand Prize! Feed your pet a slice of Blueberry Prize Pie for a chance to win this awesome nautical-themed bunk bed:

You can purchase a piece of Blueberry Prize Pie in the Ganz eStore for 2500 eStore points.

Or, if you’re lucky, you might win one when you spin the Wheel of Yum!

I purchased one slice of Blueberry Prize Pie and won another through the Wheel of Yum this morning. Take a look below to see what prizes I got:

Here’s a peek at 3 of the prizes I’ve collected so far:

First is the Mega Modern Carpet, which actually has two different styles/designs depending on which way you turn it:

(This carpet is in a room that I’m building for my Blue Avenue Pomeranian!)

Next is the Campkinz Lake Tile, which is smaller than I thought it would be:

I’m hoping I can make enough Campkinz Lake Tiles to fill up the ocean scene I’ve been working on:

You can see that I’ve used the Cozy Yacht Bed and several items available exclusively on Vacation Island. (Vacation Island is only available to Deluxe members!)

Last up I have the Fancy Hotel Dining Chair:

I’m really excited about this prize because it’s a perfect fit for the Hotel Theme. As you can see, I paired the Fancy Hotel Dining Chair with the Fancy Hotel Dining Table you can buy with Wish Tokens in the Wish Factory. (Remember that Deluxe members can earn tokens each day by spinning the Wheel of Wishes!)

Which of the Bake Sale prizes are your favorites? What’s your plan for collecting as many Baked Goods as possible? Let me know in the comments, and I’ll send you a prize from last year’s Bake Sale! 🙂

Wish Factory Prizes: Letter W

Well, here we are – at the end of the list! We’ve made it all the way to Letter W, and that leaves us with five Wish Factory prizes left to look at.

First up for Letter W is the Water Tower Chair for 100 Wish Tokens:

The Water Tower Chair, like the Moolah Mountain Window and Flowing Ribbons Four Post Bed, is a prize from Mazin’ Hamsters. Now that the Mazin’ Hamsters area of Webkinz World has been retired, Ganz is making some of these items available again by putting them in the Wish Factory.

As you can see, the Water Tower Chair looks like a barrel of water sitting on top of a tall wooden platform:

Because it’s a chair, your pet can sit in this item:

The Water Tower Chair is an unusual item, but it’s one that I’ve been able to use in a few room designs. For example, here is a Water Tower Chair in a “Carrot Paradise” room:

Up next is another water-related item, the Water Treadmill:

The Water Treadmill, which costs 100 Tokens, was a prize available during a collection event leading up to the release of Webkinz X. The Sport Soaker Tub, which we’ve already looked at, was part of this same collection event.

I like the Water Treadmill because it has such a high tech look to it. It’s so different from the plain blue treadmill you can buy in the WShop.

The Water Treadmill is also very useful. Give your pet a workout on this piece of gym equipment, and you’ll help fill their heart!

Now let’s take a look at the oh-so-cute White Chocolate Fountain:

The White Chocolate Fountain costs 100 Tokens. It was first available as a prize you could earn by playing Webkinz Friends. A few other prizes in the Wish Factory were originally from Webkinz Friends, like the Giant Rafflesia Plant and Millie’s Slide. Webkinz Friends, as I’ve mentioned before, was a Facebook game where you interacted with other Facebook players to build up your own Webkinz town. The game has since been retired.

I really like the White Chocolate Fountain because of it’s sweet pink colors, and it just looks so yummy! 🙂 I was lucky to be able to trade for a White Chocolate Fountain in the Trading Room. The White Chocolate Fountain is for decoration only. It’s not interactive or animated.

Our next prize is another throwback to the days of Mazin’ Hamsters. It’s Willow’s Tree, and it costs 100 Wish Tokens:

As you can see, Willow’s Tree is actually a willow tree, but it’s special because the front of the tree is decorate with a golden hamster face. You can turn your Willow’s Tree in all four directions to get different looks.

During my years of playing Mazin’ Hamsters I was able to collect quite a few Willow’s Trees. Here’s a garden I made using some of them:

 Last up in our list of Wish Factory prizes is the Wooden Garden Archway for 150 tokens:

I have a Wooden Garden Archway, but I just can’t seem to find it anywhere! Look closely and you can see that there are potted flowers at the base of the archway. It’s a really pretty item for any garden, but I think it would look especially nice in a Zen Garden or Japanese Garden.

Like many other items on this list, the Wooden Garden Archway was a Mazin’ Hamsters prize. I guess it just goes to show that you can never tell when an item is going to become extra valuable. 🙂

Now that we’ve looked at all of the special prizes that were added to the Wish Factory, do you know which one is your favorite? Are you saving up your tokens for one of these expensive items or do you prefer to buy the items that cost 10 or 15 tokens? Let me know in the comments for a chance to win an Exclusive Item through the Kinzpost!

Wish Factory Prizes: Letters R and S

Hello my Webkinz friends! I’m back with a look at a couple more prizes in the Wish Factory. These are the more expensive items – not the ones you get when you adopt a new pet and the ones that max out at 15 tokens.

We’ve been working out way through the alphabet, and now we’re up to the Letter R (there’s no items starting with P or Q). The Letter R brings us to Raziel’s Slide, which costs 300 tokens.

Raziel is a dragon that lives in the caves underneath Adventure Park. You encounter Raziel when completing certain Adventure Park quests.

Raziel’s Slide was an item you could win during a mega collection event way back in 2013. It’s an interactive item – your pet can slide down it:

Here is another picture of Raziel’s slide so you can see its size in relation to other slides:

Let’s move along to Letter S. There’s only one item beginning with Letter S, and that’s the Sport Soaker Tub:

The Sport Soaker Tub costs 100 tokens. It was a prize you could earn during a collection event called “I Love My Webkinz.” This collection event featured other items you can use to keep your pet happy and healthy, such as a treadmill and a blender. These items were helping to lead the way for the transition into “Webkinz X,” which is the version you’re now playing (family scores, filling hearts, etc).

As you probably guessed, you can use the Sport Soaker Tub to give your pet a bath:

The Water Treadmill, which I’ll talk about in the future, was also part of the heart collection event. Both items fit very well with a fitness theme and would look great in a gym-themed room.

That’s all for Letters R and S. Are you planning to save up for Raziel’s Slide or the Sport Soaker Tub? Let me know in the comments! 🙂

Want to spin the Wheel of Wishes every day? It’s one of the perks of a Deluxe Membership! Deluxe Memberships are available exclusively at the Ganz eStore.

A Closer Look: Trapdoor

Today I’m going to take a closer look at the last of the three new Exclusive Items that were recently added to the Wish Factory. We’ve already seen the Messy Room Floor Tile and the Salad Bar Fridge, so today we’re going to check out the Trapdoor.

The Trapdoor, like the other two new Exclusive Items, costs 15 tokens. It looks like a wooden door with a metal ring for a handle and a ladder inside leading down:

To me the Trapdoor has a farmhouse feel to it. I think it works well with wood flooring, and the ladder made me think of the Jumbleberry themed rooms you can make with prizes from Jumbleberry Fields.

Here’s the Trapdoor in one of my Jumbleberry rooms. This room, which is still a work in progress, is a kitchen for making jam. (If you like the Jumbleberry room items, you can fill your jars faster by purchasing berry seeds in the Ganz eStore!)

The Trapdoor is interactive, but not in the way that you expect. Instead of providing storage for clothes or food, the Trapdoor “transports” you to a map of all your rooms. Take a look at what I mean:

So what do you think of the Trapdoor? Do you like this interactive feature? Which of these new Exclusive Items is your favorite? Let me know in the comments for a prize via Kinzpost! One lucky commenter just might get an Exclusive Item!

And if you want to earn extra Wish Tokens, take a look at a Deluxe Membership for a daily spin on the Wheel of Wishes! From now until March 24th, Deluxe Memberships are 25% off and come with a free pet, the Sheltie Puppy!

A Closer Look: Salad Bar Fridge

Webkinz recently release three new Exclusive Items, and one of those new items is the Salad Bar Fridge:

Even though the word “hotel” isn’t anywhere in the name, the Salad Bar Fridge fits with the Fancy Hotel Theme perfectly. In fact, the colors and the design are an exact match with the Fancy Hotel Dining Table.

As you can see, the decorative ironwork on the sides of the Salad Bar Fridge match the base of the Fancy Hotel Dining Table. You can also see a matching pattern and color scheme with the blue and white stripes.

Because these two items are such a great match, I wanted to see what it would look like to put a small cafe area in the lobby of a hotel room:

This room is a bit too small for a cafe, but I do think the idea could work with a bigger room, a few more Fancy Hotel Dining Tables and some type of dividers to separate the cafe area from the rest of the lobby.

I really like that Webkinz has given us another item to build onto the Fancy Hotel Theme. You can use it to mix and match with the hotel room you may have already built, or you can put together something entirely brand new with no hotel items at all.

Just as the name suggests, the Salad Bar Fridge is a refrigerator that stores 12 food items:

If you haven’t already done so, check out my post on another new Exclusive Item – the Messy Room Floor Tile.

Don’t forget that Deluxe Members get to spin the Wheel of Wishes every day. By spinning the Wheel of Wishes every day, you could add one or two Exclusive Items to your collection every month – and it will make it easier to save up for those expense Wish Factory prizes I’ve been cataloging.

Deluxe Memberships are available exclusively through the Ganz eStore – check it out today!

What do you think of the Salad Bar Fridge? Are you planning to buy one with your Wish Tokens? Let me know in the comments, and I’ll send you a hotel theme prize via Kinzpost!

A Closer Look: Messy Room Floor Tile

Webkinz recently announced the release of three brand new Exclusive Items! Exclusive Items are prizes that can be found in the Wish Factory. You get an Exclusive Item as a free gift each time you adopt a pet. You can also purchase them using Wish Tokens. If you’re feeling lucky, you can try the “Wish of the Day,” and maybe you’ll win the Exclusive Item of your dreams!

The three new Exclusive Items that have been added to the the Wish Factory are:

1. The Messy Room Floor Tile
2. The Salad Bar Fridge
3. The Trapdoor

To make room for these three new items, the Bubble Wrap Chair has been retired. If you’ve got a Bubble Wrap Chair, hold onto it – it’s about to become much more valuable in the trading room!

Today we’re going to take a closer look at the Messy Room Floor Tile, which costs 15 tokens.

I really love the Messy Room Floor Tile. Why? Lots of reasons! One reason to love the Messy Floor Tile is that it’s the very first floor tile to be added as an Exclusive Item. There aren’t many types of floor tiles in Webkinz World, but these are really great items because they allow you to decorate the floor of your room.

Another reason I love the Messy Room Floor Tile is that it’s just so cute! It looks like a bunch of pieces of clothing strewn around the floor, so it’s the perfect fit for a fun, messy, girlie room like this one:

(Notice the Messy Room Floor Tile in the lower left corner)

You can tell in the picture that the Messy Room Floor Tile is actually really big:

Another cool thing about the Messy Room Floor Tile is that it can be rotated to achieve different looks. Depending on which way you turn the Messy Room Floor Tile, you’ll see different types of clothing items:

Here’s another look at the same room but with the Messy Room Floor Tile turned a different way:

What do you think about the Messy Room Floor Tile? Do you plan to purchase one from the Wish Factory? Let me know in the comments. A couple of lucky commenters will get an exclusive item through the Kinzpost! 🙂

If you just can’t wait to get the Messy Room Floor Tile or one of the other new Exclusive Items, become a Deluxe Member. Deluxe Members now get to spin the Wheel of Wishes every day! That means a chance at one or even two Wish Tokens each day  you play Webkinz! (Deluxe Memberships are available for purchase in the Ganz eStore.)

Wish Factory Prizes: Letters M and O

I’m back with a look at a few more of the Wish Factory prizes that were added in addition to the Exclusive Items.

It’s been a while since these prizes were added, and since I started cataloging them, so let’s talk a minute about what makes them different. Exclusive Items are items you can get two ways – you are awarded an Exclusive Item each time you adopt a pet, and you can also buy Exclusive Items with Wish Tokens.

These newer prizes are a bit different. First, they require many more tokens to buy. Some of these newer prizes can cost as many as 300 tokens, whereas the Exclusive Items max out at 15 tokens.

Another difference is that these new items were once available to Webkinz players in different ways. For example, these might have been prizes in a Marshmallow Collection Event or maybe a prize you could earn by playing with your Mazin’ Hamster. Ganz added these prizes to the Wish Factory to give everyone a chance to earn these cool items.

So far we’ve gone through Letter G. Now we’ll skip ahead to Letter M (there aren’t new prizes that start with H, I, J, K or L.)

First up is Millie’s Slide:

Millie’s Slide is a purple slide that costs 100 Wish Tokens.

Originally you could earn Millie’s Slide as a prize playing Webkinz Friends. Webkinz Friends, which I’ve mentioned before, was a Facebook game that involved building your own Webkinz town. Webkinz Friends doesn’t exist anymore, but some of the prizes pop up from time to time, such as this slide.

Millie’s Slide is interactive. Here’s a look at my pet playing on Millie’s Slide:

Next up is the Moolah Mountain Window:

The Moolah Mountain Window was a prize from Mazin’ Hamsters. Moolah Mountain was a place in the Mazin’ Hamsters world where your hamster could roll down the mountain and collect coins to buy prizes. The window is shaped like a hamster and looks out onto Moolah Mountain.

Here’s a look at the Moolah Mountain Window in a pet’s room:

As you can see, I have a few of these collected from the days when Mazin’ Hamsters was still available – almost all of the items in this room are Mazin’ Hamsters prizes:

The Moolah Mountain Window is available in the Wish Factory for 100 tokens.

Last for today is the Oak Tree Gazebo that costs 150 tokens.

Like Millie’s Slide, the Oak Tree Gazebo was also a prize from Webkinz Friends. Your pet can sit on the chair that’s inside the Gazebo:

That’s all for today. Next time we’ll look at Letters R and S!

If you want to earn these prizes faster, one way is to become a Deluxe member. Deluxe members now get to spin the Wheel of Wishes every day! Check out the Ganz eStore for more details on Deluxe memberships.

Floating Bake Sale Items: Everywhere!

The Bake Sale has been underway since June 1st, and I’ve discovered a couple of things that might be helpful – but maybe you’ve already discovered them, too!

According to the official Bake Sale directions and description, the best place to find the floating Bake Sale items is in the Clubhouse or the Kinzville Park. Well, I’ve discovered that these floating treats are popping all over the place!

If you’re a deluxe member, keep an eye out when you visit Vacation Island because I found one floating treat on the main page and another while spinning the Vacation Wheel:

Another surprising place I found floating Bake Sale item was at the Wish Factory when I was making my “Wish of the Day.”

You already know that you can spin the Wheel of Yum once a day to win Bake Sale items, but have you seen any Bake Sale items floating by before you spin? I’ve had them floating across the screen there a couple of times – and what’s extra cool is that two items came back-to-back…I clicked on one, and then another one came floating across!

One more place I’ve seen a floating Bake Sale item was when I was in the code shop:

And even though Webkinz has said that the Bake Sale items won’t show up in the Arcade, I’ve had at least one float by while I was at the main screen before I picked a game:

Last but not least, I’ve even seen a floating Bake Sale item when I was hunting for gems in the Curio Shop.

And don’t forget to pay close attention to the Daily Activities. You might just find a free Baked Sale item giveaway scheduled there:

So, you definitely want to be on the lookout for floating Bake Sale items just about anywhere you go on Webkinz – not just the Clubhouse or Kinzville Park.Like this morning, for instance, I’ve already found 4 floating Bake Sale items, and none of them came from the Park or Clubhouse.

For me this is great news because I get a little bored just sitting in the Clubhouse or Park waiting for some food to float by. 🙂

Have you found floating Bake Sale items in any unexpected places?

P.S. Don’t forget to visit Webkinz Newz each day to receive a free Bake Sale item (floaty clicky)!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

TreeHuggerJess