Black Friday Sale – check back for details!

Black Friday sales at the Ganz eStore will start in just a couple of days, and I don’t know about you, but I am really excited!

So what are the sales going to include? I don’t know! That’s right – I have to wait and be surprised just like you! 🙂

The one thing we do know for sure is that a special pet is coming: the Turtle Dove!

The Turtle Dove will only be available during the Black Friday Weekend. After that, this beautiful golden bird will be gone forever! The Turtle Dove will cost 10,000 eStore points for Deluxe Members, 12,500 eStore points for non Deluxe Members.

Be sure to visit my blog – Crazy 4 Webkinz – this week to get the scoop on the Black Friday sales as they’re announced by Ganz. You can even set an alert so you know when I publish a new post!

Let’s get ready for a fun week!

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.

New Prizes in the Wish Factory: Letter B

Not long ago, Ganz made a pretty big change to the Wish Factory. Instead of just exclusive items, like the Gumball Lounger or Airplane Window, the Wish Factory now offers retired items from past challenges and events.

For example, there’s the Campkinz Pool, which was part of a Marshmallow Collection event in 2013. There’s also the Flowing Ribbons Four Post Bed and the Moolah Mountain Window, which were prizes that could be won by playing Mazin’ Hamsters, a section of Webkinz World that is no longer available.

Another big difference you’ll notice with these recently added items is the cost. Rather than 10 to 15 tokens, these items cost anywhere from 70 to 300 tokens. Even if you’re a Deluxe Member, and you get extra opportunities to win Wish Tokens, it’s still going to take quite a long while before you can save up 300 tokens. You’ll definitely want to be sure that the item is worth all those tokens before you use the Wish Machine.

Thinking about all of this gave me an idea. I’ve been playing Webkinz since 2007, and between my two accounts, I have almost every one of the retired items that have been added to the Wish Factory. I decided to give you a closer look at all of these items to help you make your choice once you’ve saved up all those tokens.

By my count there are 19 of these retired exclusives in the Wish Factory. Going through all 19 right here and right now would be a really, really long blog post! 🙂 Instead, I’m going to break up the project into several shorter posts. The Wish Factory lists the items in alphabetical order, so that’s what I’m going to do, too.

None of the new prizes start with “A” so we’ll begin with “B.”

First is the Blue Fall Season Window for 100 tokens.

I do have at least one Blue Fall Season Windows. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find it in either of my accounts, so I don’t have a picture for you.

Next is the Blue Flowery Greenhouse for 200 tokens.

Here’s an up close look at the greenhouse:

And here’s my greenhouse in a spring garden:

The Blue Flowery Greenhouse contains storage space:

The Blue Flowery Greenhouse might look familiar to you. That could be because there is also a Yellow Flowery Greenhouse and a Purple Flowery Greenhouse. Besides the difference in colors, the three items are exactly the same.

That’s all for the letter “B.” I’ll be back soon with the letter “C” and the two Campkinz prizes!

What do you think about the new prizes in the Wish Factory? Are you saving up your Wish Tokens for a retired prize?

A Closer Look: Fancy Hotel Dining Table

Today we’re taking a closer look at the last of the three new exclusive items that have recently been added to the Wish Factory: The Fancy Hotel Dining Table.

The Fancy Hotel Dining Table costs 15 Wish Tokens, and it matches perfectly with the hotel theme that was recently added to the WShop.

Here’s a look at the Fancy Hotel Dining Table inside of a hotel-themed room I put together when the hotel theme was first released:

One cool thing about the Fancy Hotel Dining Table is that you can make food appear and disappear by click on the table:

So far I haven’t really figured out what type of chair would look best with this table. What chair would you pair with the Fancy Hotel Dining Table?

How would you use the Fancy Hotel Dining Table – would you add it to a hotel lobby or hotel bedroom? Or would you use several to make an upscale restaurant?

A Closer Look: Purple Bumper Car

Yesterday we took a closer look at the Airplane Window, one of three new exclusive items available at the Wish Factory. Today we’re going to check out the new Purple Bumper Car.

The Purple Bumper Car is a lot like the red bumper car, which was also an exclusive item. The old bumper car was retired, though, when this latest batch of new exclusive items were released.

Purple is one of my favorite colors, so I was excited about this new bumper car, and I also think it will be pretty cool in my arcade rooms.

As you probably expected, your pet can ride around in the Purple Bumper Car:

Here are a couple of different views of the Purple Bumper Car. Here I have it placed in an arcade themed room:

Are you going to save up your wish tokens to get a Purple Bumper Car? Let me know what you think about this new exclusive item!