Curio Shop

 

When doing her ZUM challenge this morning, WI member Kingwebkinz noticed a new item to the memory game. Could this be a new Dracula Wig that will be a Curio Shop Only item?  Many WI members are excited about this, and waiting for it's arrival.  Thanks for the picture from her account.

 

UPDATE:  Many of you have commented saying you believe the wig spotted in Zumwhere is the Rockin' Pompadour from the Curio Shop.  Here is a comparison of the two items side-by-side.

 

 

With yesterday's announcement that the Space Theme is retiring from the wShop to the Curio Shop, Ganz has announced on their Webkinz Newz site that the Moon Lamp will be officially retiring.  That means this item will be the only item from this theme that wiill not be returning to the Curio Shop.

After much anticipation over the last few months, we are happy to report that the Colossal Movie Screen has made its first debut appearance in the Curio Shop! 

It is available on Deluxe accounts at 8PM Kinz Time on 31 July.

Many of us have been diligently saving Kinz Cash funds in order to purchase this new Rare item.  A few lucky Webkinz Insider members have been fortunate enough to be awarded this Rare with pet adoptions in their bonus box shortly after this Rare was announced.

 

 

 

The price is 40,000 KC - the most valuable Rare that Arte has offered.

Webkinz World players with Asian accounts can purchase this Rare first.

The Colossal Movie Screen fits in a large room only, and plays an exclusive animated surprise.

We hope that Arte will offer this again on Regular accounts soon.

 

The recent Curio Shop update seems to have confused poor old Arte.  As we all know, he doesn't seem to handle programming changes well, and this week's update was no exception.

 

When the Asian accounts hit 4pm just a few minutes ago, a time that Arte had been indicating he would have a Rare item for sale, members with regular Webkinz accounts discovered that they didn't have a Rare item in their Curio Shops.  Members with Deluxe accounts, however, were able to find the Rare item, Manic Monitor, in the special Deluxe section of their accounts.

 

It seems that when Arte gives out his Rare information, he doesn't pay attention to whether the account is a regular account or a Deluxe account.  As a result, he is telling players with regular accounts about Rare items that they won't get a chance to buy.

 

Hopefully the programmers at Ganz wil be able to sort out this glitch soon.  In the mean time, please check out the Rare notice in our forum.  We will bring you the latest information on what time Rare items will be for sale, which Rare items will be for sale, and whether the Rare items will be available on regular accounts or only on Deluxe accounts.  You can even follow our Rare notices on Twitter @WIDOTCOM.

Webkinz Insider was contacted by the Webkinz Creative Director this evening regarding the recent problems players have been having with the Curio Shop.  According to him "The logging-in-and-out randomness was a bug, not intended.  It should be fixed now.  Regular members will see the same 12 every time, and the Deluxe bonus items will only be available to Deluxe members."

 

As of the 10pm KT rare this evening (Wednesday) on American accounts, we were still getting reports from members that Arte was telling them they had "come at the right time" for a rare, but there was no rare in the Curio Shop.  Some were able to get the Egyptian Vase to show up after logging out of Webkinz World and back in again, but many were not.  Hopefully the Creative Director's statement means that the programming has been fixed, and we will see the results after this evening's maintenance.  

 

At this point, we are not certain how, when we ask Arte for the rare time, he will let us know what rare items will be available to everyone, and what rare items will only be available on Deluxe accounts.  We will continue working on this mystery and will bring you the latest information as it becomes available.  

 

UPDATE (Thursday morning):  We are hearing from our members that the "bug" has not been fixed.  Members with Asian accounts are reporting that Thursday's 12pm, 4pm, and 10pm rares showed up in the "Regular" section for some players and in the "Deluxe" section for other players.  Logging in and out is still getting the items to move around.  And, even if you have a regular account that doesn't show a Rare item, Arte is still saying he has a Rare item for sale. 

 

 

Thank you to WI member theacate for these pictures of Thursday's 10pm rare on her accounts.