Exclusive Items

     

 

Webkinz Insider members are puzzled by a recent Announcement in Webkinz Newz.

 

Webkinz Newz is announcing the Retirement of the following Exclusive Items: the Elephant Statue, the Wading Pool and the Farm Tractor.  These three Exclusive items will be retired on February 1st, so get them while you can!

 

You can obtain Exclusive items in five different manners:

 

The controversy surrounds the announcement of the Elephant Statue as an impending retirement. The statue pictured in the Webkinz Newz announcement is the Stone Elephant Statue. This exclusive was introduced in 2005 and retired in May 2006. In April 2009, it was offered for purchase at the eStore as a Replica.

 

There is no item in Webkinz World with the exact name of "Elephant Statue".

 

It is not known what kind of error is involved here. Can a retired exclusive be retired again? Or does Ganz mean the Elephant Fountain, another current exclusive?

 

Stay tuned for clarification of this mystery.

 

UPDATE (1/14 @ 10:30pm EST): Webkinz Newz has updated their original announcement. The image of the Elephant Statue has been removed, and replaced with the Elephant Fountain. The Fountain will retire along with the other exclusives mentioned above on February 1st.  

 Webkinz has released five new exclusive items available through the Wish machine, or new pet adoption gifts. These items are the Ancient Aztec Stone Statue, Classic Car Booth, Egyptian Tomb Window, Salt Water Aqua Table, and Snack Cart Stove.

 

 

Along with the release of these five new exciting items, three exclusives were retired.  These include the Ambulance, Grandfather Clock, and Ribbon and Bows Tree.

 

       

When five new Exclusive items were added to Webkinz World during the last scheduled site maintnenace, many players were distressed to discover that one of the items, the Clown Car, was not avaialble in the Wish Factory.  Today, the programmers at Ganz have fixed the programming and the Car is now there with the rest of the Exclusives.  You can now buy it with Wish Tokens, or, if you're lucky, win it with just a wish!

 

 

During maintenance this morning a new Super Bed was added to Webkinz World. If you have been saving up your Super Bed Boxes you may want to get the Bed in Breakfast Superbed!!

 

You will receive a Super Bed box with your tenth pet adoption in Webkinz World. Every fifth pet adoption after that point will also earn you a Superbed box. Thanks to Webkinz Insider member blessedx5 for alerting us to this exciting addition.

In some correspondence with the Webkinz Creative Director today, he revealed the following:

On Feb 2 we’ll be releasing the next set of Exclusive items and will be retiring another five. In those retirements, three of the four oldest Exclusives still on the site will be going away. 

Based on the information in our Webkinz Wiki, the following 4 exclusive items (shown below) are the oldest: Rockin' Robot Digital Clock, Elephant Fountain, Sparkle Plant, Zingoz Bubble Blower.