St. Patrick’s Day Giveaway: Patty Hamster!

I really enjoyed last month’s giveaway for a free Cinnamon Hamster, so I decided to give away another free Webkinz pet this month!

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I’m giving away a free Patty Hamster to one lucky winner!

Entering is easy. Simply send me an email and answer these two questions:

1. What would you name your Patty Hamster?
2. What would you buy if you found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?

Send your email to natbrownnat@gmail.com

The deadline for entering my free Webkinz pet giveaway for a Patty Hamster is March 14th at midnight. I’ll select a random winner from a drawing and email the winner with their code on March 15th.

Thanks for being such awesome readers!

Good luck and Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all!

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 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 Wish Factory Prizes: Letters F and G

I’m back with another look into the different type of prizes (not exclusives!) that Ganz added to the Wish Factory a while back. I’m going in alphabetical order, so in case you missed it, here are the links to my earlier posts:

Letter B

Letter C

Today we’re going to start with Letter F.

Letter F takes us to the Flowing Ribbons Four Post Bed.

Like several of the new prizes in the Wish Factory, the Flowing Ribbons Four Post Bed (wow – that’s a mouthful!) was originally a prize from the Mazin’ Hamsters section of Webkinz World. When the Mazin’ Hamsters area was retired, Ganz hinted that some of the prizes would pop back up in Webkinz World, and the Flowing Ribbons Bed is one of them.

I think the Flowing Ribbons Bed is really pretty, and I love the blue and pink color combination. If you ever checked out the Mazin’ Hamster prizes in the past, then you know that this bed is quite a bit different from the other Mazin’ Hamster room items.

Here’s a look at what most of the Mazin’ Hamster items look like:

The Flowing Ribbons Four Post Bed costs a whopping 300 tokens! Wow! I wish I had bought more of those with my Mazin’ coins because these beds are really valuable!

Next up – Letter G.

First is the Garden Mosaic, which is actually the only one of the new prizes I don’t yet have. (It’s what I wish for when one of my pets asks to make a “wish of the day.”)

Even though I don’t have the Garden Mosaic, I DO have the Lovely Garden Mosaic, which is the virtually the same item as the Garden Mosaic; it’s just done in different colors:

The Garden Mosaic costs 100 tokens.

Second, we have the Garden Patio Tile:

The Garden Patio Tile was a prize during the 2015 flower collection event. In the picture above you can see some of the other prizes that were awarded during that same event.

One really cool thing about the Garden Patio Tile is that if you collect four of them, you can cover an entire yard and/or floor – here’s a look at what I mean:

The Garden Patio Tile costs 70 tokens, so you’ll have to do quite a bit of saving if you want four of them!

Next up is the Giant Rafflesia Plant for 70 tokens:

The Giant Rafflesia Plant  is only for decoration. It’s not a chair like you might think at first. Originally the Giant Rafflesia Plant was a prize you could earn by playing Webkinz Friends, which was a Facebook game that involved building and growing your own Webkinz town.

Here’s a different view of the Giant Rafflesia Plant:

Last up for the Letter G is the Green Oak Leaf Chair for 60 tokens:

The Green Oak Leaf Chair was a prize that could be won during the 2013 acorn collection event, which is also where the Blue Fall Season Window came from.

The Green Oak Leaf Chair is a green leaf attached to a big acorn:

Just as you would expect from the name, your pet can sit in this item:

That’s all for letter F and G – next time we’ll skip all the way to letters M and O!

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?