Tail Towns

As many of you know, Ganz entered the arena of Facebook-based games in May of this year with both Webkinz Friends and Tail Towns Friends. Both games bear some similarities to well-known Facebook games like Farmville, with Ganz's own twist!

Now that both games and their user base are beginning to mature, Ganz is offering an ambassador program for both Webkinz Friends and Tail Towns Friends, and you can get great free stuff for participating including Free Webkinz and free Tail Towns Figurines!

 

Ganz wants to know what real-life players like yourselves think of their Facebook games and are offering a 6-week Game Ambassador Program for both games, where you will be a Game Tester for Ganz! We're also looking for input on Tail Towns Insiders and our Tail Towns Insiders Forums from avid Tail Towns Friends players -- we have many directions and features we can add to the site, we need to know what you want and would find useful!

In addition to the launch of the new Facebook game Webkinz Friends last week, Ganz has quietly launched Tail Towns as Tail Towns Friends on Facebook! We've briefly played the Tail Towns Friends Beta and, while Webkinz Friends is free-style play type of "Ville game" on Facebook, Tail Towns Friends has more directed quests with a storyline in Tail Towns.

 

Users have been waiting more than a year since the original projected launch of Tail Towns, and it is finally here! Tail towns was originally set to be released as a browser-based Unity3D game but was re-tooled as a Facebook game. It appears that the figurines that were originally shown to retailers and consumers WILL be used for the game, as there's an area called a "Figurine Collection (Coming Soon)".

We're excited that Ganz has released two brand-new games in a week, and it looks like it's going to be a big year for the company and for us here at Webkinz Insider and Tail Towns Insiders! We'll need your help in our Tail Towns Friends Forum and in developing sections in our Tail Towns Friends Wiki with the new game. Let's have some fun!

For those of you who are still unsure about Ganz's new project, Tail Towns, there might be a way for you to try out the full game for free!

 

I just got an e-mail from Ganz asking me to confirm my interest in Tail Towns and to apply to be a Tail Towns Founder. If you're approved, you'll be one of the first few thousand people with beta access to Tail Towns before the actual release!

 

Not only will you be allowed early access to the new virtual world, you'll also get a free Virtual Village code, which you'd normally have to buy a figurine to get! Simply go to the link it directed me to and fill out the beta application : http://www.tailtowns.com/beta.php.  

The other awesome thing is that Webkinz Insider and Tail Towns Insider made the "How did you hear about us?" selection list! Please make sure to select "Webkinz Insider" in the list! Thanks everyone!

We've been working hard on our new site, Tail Towns Insiders, and have had a bit of news over the past week. Each day, Ganz has been releasing official images of each figurine in Tail Towns Series 1, and each creature's virtual representation in the game!

 

Instead of updating you each time we had news, we figured that somewhat weekly updates about Tail Towns development (until launch) seemed to be the best idea for those Webkinz Insider fans who are interested in keeping up with Tail Towns.

To see each of the images in full size, please visit us at http://www.tailtownsinsiders.com! We now have a front page, a Tail Towns Wiki and a fully-functioning Tail Towns Forum, all ready to go!

In our quest to find as much information as possible about Tail Towns, the new virtual world from Ganz, for Tail Towns Insiders we've stumbled upon an image on the Ganz Retailer site. It appears to contain three of the "woodland creatures".

Each seems to have its own personality, as well. We will continue to bring you any significant news about Tail Towns up until the site launches, as we know that many Webkinz Insider members are interested in keeping up with the new world. Less-significant information and anything after the launch will be covered on our new Insider site Tail Towns Insiders. We're right in the middle of building the site and will have a forum soon!