Webkinz Insider

valleygram · 06-02-2008, 10:21 AM

Welcome to our second house thread! Our old thread drew more than 85,000 views - a WI house record at the time - before it became too large and unwieldy and had to be retired. Now our second thread has over 525,000 views so our house has been viewed altogether more than 610,000 times - amazing!! Thanks, everyone! Kick off your shoes and stay awhile! We hope that you enjoy your visit, and please leave a comment or rate our thread if you are so inclined! We'd love to hear from you - and be sure to come back and visit us again!

In this episode of "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?", our hero, Ann Tickwittee, has traveled back in time to the Aztec Empire in 1519, where Montezuma’s Royal Headdress has been stolen. If he doesn’t wear it at the Fire Ritual this evening, the sun will burn out and the world will be forever in darkness. Can Ann find the headdress and save the day?

Valentina, our Love Spaniel, loves Valentines Day, and the decorations in her house definitely show it. If it is heart shaped or has a heart on it, she'll find a spot for it in her room. And after all, candy … chocolates … flowers – what’s not to love about Valentines Day!

Kerry has always loved snow globes, and she has a number that help decorate her room, but who could believe that she could actually find a snow globe bed! Just look at her – asleep in her perfect dream world!

"There is just no way! I am not dressing up as Wonder Woman and going to a comic book festival with you guys!" Poor Penny! When she entered the room and saw the floor cluttered with techie superhero gear and her four geeky genius friends – Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj – all dressed in superhero costumes, the wisest thing for her to do would have been to run back across the hall to her apartment and lock the door!

"Hey, you two – take off your helmets and come on in! The others will be here soon!" Daphne is hosting a meeting tonight of the secret "Nafaria Insider Club" and her friends are just starting to arrive. These girls really like Nafaria and her mischievous ways. I wonder what interesting items are on the agenda this evening!

It’s Christmas! Misty, our little Mistletoe Mouse, has just jumped out of bed on Christmas morning and stares in wonder. "Wow! My stocking is stuffed … and look at all the presents for me under the tree! I’m glad that I was such a good girl this year!"

Greer and her friends walk by this little park nearly every day without giving it a second glance, but this evening the streetlights shining on the freshly fallen snow in the park made it appear simply enchanting. "Oh, look! There are some friends building a snowman in the park. Let’s go help them finish!"

Greer and her friends enjoy caroling each Christmas season, and one of their favorite homes to visit in Kinzville is the Kringles’ house. After a round of Christmas carols, Mrs. Kringle always invites them in for some delicious fruitcake and eggnog! Scrumptious!

"This can’t be the right place!" Rose was supposed to meet her friends at a club on Drury Lane, but her GPS led her to this place – 1313 Dreary Lane, it says on the sign! "Now how do I find my friends? Maybe those two guys over by that tombstone can help me!"

Okay, I’ll admit it, I watch "Storage Wars"! Any fan of the show knows that Barry is a collector, so there was no way that he was going to lose this locker to Dave or Darrell or any of the others! The bids ran high because of all the furniture in the room, but only Barry realized that the real value in the room was not in the furniture but in the clothing articles that the mannequins were wearing. Those WZ jeans alone will bring Barry a pretty penny!

It’s busy in the Arcade today! Bo Jangles, our Guinea Pig, has been hanging out at the pool table with his pal Cho, waiting for a chance to try out the awesome new Galactic Computing Chamber, but some guy has been in there playing it all afternoon. He even brought a space suit to wear while he plays it. Give me a break!

Al Chemist, our hedgehog, has been working late in his lab all week. Does this mean that Kinzville is about to be blessed with another "strange pet" – the fruits of the labour of this diabolical genius? Not this time – Al is actually trying to solve the Boiled Wyvernacle recipe before anyone else does. He desperately wants to win a coveted recipe trophy!

It’s Fall Fest! That’s the cue for Plymouth, our Turkey, to head south across the border to visit his cousin Captain Peckhard in upstate New York for a few weeks. Thanksgiving comes early in October in Canada, and Plymouth wants to be nowhere to be seen while that celebration is on! He can’t wear out his welcome at his cousin’s, however, because a month later it’s Thanksgiving there. It sure keeps a turkey hopping!

It’s Harvest Fest, and the crowd is starting to gather. Delicious home-grown and home-cooked food, some good ol’ country music, coupled with friendly down-home hospitality – what better way to spend a Saturday! Clem and Pandora have attended these fests for years and always enjoyed the Bluegrass music, but this year the young guns on the committee brought in someone named Blake Shelton to play. They just hope that he doesn’t play any of that loud, clangy rock music!

It is a bit of a drag being a late bus student, but at least the second trip kinz get an extra twenty minutes or so of free time playing in the gym after school. The students have their choice of activity, and besides playing safely and having fun, the only rule they must follow is the gym teacher’s golden rule: "If you get out the equipment, you put it back!"

Cayla has always been an outdoors kind of girl, one who loves canoeing, camping and hiking and those types of activities. Her job as a forest ranger fits her to a T, as does the out of the way mountain retreat where she lives. Out here she can live as one with nature, but never let her get far away from her iPhone!

It’s a bear family tradition! Every summer the whole family gets together at a family member’s house for a backyard picnic. A game of volleyball, a dip in the pool, eating tantalizing s’mores heated over hot coals, or just sitting for a chat with a cousin you haven’t seen in a while – it is all part of a cherished and fun annual family reunion!

Whooah! Cassie is a bit taken aback with her first look at the new penthouse apartment that her agent has found for her in the big city. She is a country girl who had never really been off the family farm outside Kinzville until her country ballad starting rising up the music charts. She is not sure that she is going to like it here at all! Like the song says, "You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl!"

Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Lazy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, and Grouchy Smurf are trying to spend a quiet evening smurfing in the park, but with Gargamel and his cat, Azrael, lurking close by, there is bound to be trouble brewing.

To help pay her way through Mrs. DeBoat’s Acting School, Tootsie, our Bubblegum Cheeky Cat, works part time as a waitress at the Kinzville Diner. The pay may not be great, but she always finds lots of time to meet and chat with her friends who drop by. Doesn’t she look cute in her new waitress outfit!

Hope that you enjoyed your visit through a part of our mansion. Check the next post for some more of our rooms!

valleygram · 06-02-2008, 10:33 AM

Here are some more of Valleygram's rooms. Enjoy!!

Plymouth, our turkey, is not impressed! Granted, he did drop in on his friends unannounced, but he certainly did not expect to find them ready to sit down to a Thanksgiving turkey dinner. His friends are birds – just like him! Don’t they realize that that could be his cousin Tom Turkey spread out there on the table! Unbelievable!

Midas, our Golden Dragon, wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but rather with a gold one. Although his home furnishings tend to be a bit elaborate, he wants to fit in with his friends and tries hard not to be too pretentious about his wealth. He still has a ways to go, however. When his friends asked him to join their bowling team, he showed up with a new solid gold bowling ball!

Stardust, our Golden Pegasus, is looking forward to a relaxing bath after her long and tiring flight this afternoon. She has been away visiting some of her friends in Kinzport, a picturesque little seaside village far to the east of Kinzville. It is so nice to be home!

Moonberry, our Blueberry Cheeky Dog, loves to visit his friend Carmelle, the Brown Cow, in her cozy little corner of the barn every morning. She always has a delicious treat to share with him, and this morning is no exception, as she has a jug of pickleberry juice and a tray of yummy sugarberry muffins laid out on the table. She tells him that he might be able to sneak a piece of that freshly-baked jumbleberry pie on the counter, but the birthday cake is off limits. That is for her daughter’s birthday party later this afternoon!

"You’re not going to tear around this room in that roller cycle of yours today," Petunia informs Presto. "I’m having friends over this afternoon, and I just spent the last hour cleaning up the place. Perhaps you could go outside and do a little yard work!" Poor Presto! Petunia always gets rather testy when housework takes her away from her computer for long!

Valentina, our Love Spaniel, was secretly hoping for a quiet evening at home to celebrate Valentine’s Day, but Sprocket surprised her with dinner reservations downtown. She cannot be upset with him, though. He brought her a beautiful box of chocolates, plus a gorgeousValentine bouquet. Now where can she find that perfect spot to put it!

Oh! Fiddlesticks! Keri, our Okapi, is busy tidying up her yard, as she is having some friends over for an afternoon picnic. She just got the tractor and wagon out to pick up her golden apple drops when she felt different kind of drops – raindrops! Oh well – she and her kinz pals won’t let a few raindrops spoil a fun afternoon!

Candy, our Rainbow Zebra, loves colors. Bright colors or pastels, she loves them all! Her coat is a spectrum of colors, and she loves to decorate her room in every color of the rainbow – and she even has a few rainbows tossed in for good measure!

Our little hamsters, Presto, Honey, and Petunia ventured to Wonderland to find their friend, Alice. A dormouse told them that she might be having tea with the Mad Hatter in this room, but if not, to look for her down the rabbit hole or perhaps through the looking glass. Strange, huh!!

ChiChi, our pink Chihuahua, knows that her Mom is only trying to help, but REALLY! She told her Mom that she was doing her new apartment in pink, so nearly every day, her Mom drops off a piece of pink furniture for her. The big gaudy wardrobe and the pinkish locker weren’t too bad – she always needs more storage room, but a boombox recliner? And who in the world needs a pink bubble blower! ChiChi needs a hot cup of cocoa to help her relax!

It will soon be Easter, and Lavender, our little Purple Chick, can hardly wait! She is so excited that she keeps driving around her room, trying to figure out the most likely spots where the Easter Bunny will hide her Easter eggs. She does not want to waste any time finding them all on Easter morning!

Shelley and her friend Chrissie are staring at the Emerald Eye Pyramid that suddenly appeared in the middle of Shelley’s room. Shelley is telling Chrissie, "I don’t know what it does, or why it is here. It was dropped in here by some crazy lady who kept babbling, ‘I got the last rare key! I got the last rare key!’ Strange, huh!"

Cheerio, our Budgie, loves his job at the theater. Not only does he get all the popcorn he wants for free, but he gets to screen all the latest movies. Here he is watching "Dex Dangerous and the Lunar Lugbotz", the latest from the Webkinz space superhero, Dex Dangerous.

Volitan, our Lionfish, loves to spend time playing with his underwater Webkinz friends, but strangely they rarely come to visit him without a lot of coaxing. Perhaps they are a bit wary of the deadly poison that he can shoot out through his venomous spines in the grooves of his fins! That would do it for me!

The streets are quiet now. The hustle and bustle of the Christmas season is gone for another year. Soren, our Snowy Owl, has taken down the tree and packed away his presents, but he hopes the friendly holiday spirit of caring and sharing will last all year in Kinzville.

Splash, our Orca Whale, has found a room with a spectacular view right here on the bottom of KinzVille Ocean.

Space … the final frontier! Captain Kirk, commander of Space Station Alpha, is about to launch two brave astrokinz into deep space, on a mission to explore the Delta Quadrant. They are excited to boldly go where no kinz has gone before!

Welcome to our Medieval Room. Come in and meet Diablo, our Black Fresian and Rusty, our Brown Arabian. Sit down in front of Ye Olde Moving Picture Box and enjoy a movie:

Heidi found a massive treasure in this room deep inside an Egyptian pyramid, but was so exhausted from treasure hunting that she feel asleep on this gorgeous ornate bed - could it once have been Cleopatra's?

Relax and bowl a few strings in our Bowling Alley, the oldest room on the thread (made in June 2007):

Scroll down to the next post for some more rooms!

valleygram · 06-02-2008, 10:36 AM

Check out a few more of Valleygram's rooms, including our Trading Card rooms from each of the four series of Trading Cards:

"Tell us another story, Papa Smurf!" All the smurfs love to visit Papa Smurf’s house! Gathering with friends to listen to stories and play with toys – what a fun way to smurf away the afternoon!

Moonberries are ripe!! Each year all the citizens of Kinzville rush out to Jumbleberry Farm to buy moonberries as soon as they are ready for picking. They all think that every food made from moonberries – moonberry pie, muffins, juice or jam – is just to die for!

Baltimore and his friends love to visit the aviary. There not only do they get to see lots of interesting and exotic birds, but they also get to play with each other in the park. Baltimore is thinking that it would be great fun to go on a Zingoz balloon ride around the park. Perhaps one of his friends will join him!

The championship game in the Kinzville "Soccer Challenge" Tournament is about to begin, and a good crowd is on hand to cheer on the hometown Terriers against the neighboring Kinzport Schooners. The fans are hoping that they get lots of opportunity to hear their venerable announcer, Fred Rover, yell "GOOAAALLLL!" throughout the match!

Cleopatra, the Queen of the Nile, is visiting her friend, Sheik Yabuti, in neighboring Persia. He has certainly provided her with an elaborate room for her stay – it is even complete with a throne. You could say her room was "fit for a queen"!

Janis, our Hippie Hippo, would probably be described by her friends as "unconventional" or "a free spirit", but they all love her to pieces. When she is not out on the road in her hippie van, singing at coffee shops or clubs, she loves to entertain in her "cool pad". Parties at her house are always a blast!

To the citizens of Kinzville, our Cheeky Cat, Cuddles, our Cheeky Dog, Hilary, our Pegasus, Flutter, and our Love Puppy, Precious, are simply their well-liked friends. Who knew that secretly they share double lives as the local superheroes Captain Webkinz, Dame Dash, Infinite Inferno, and Telepathy Titan! Here we go – a suspect has just been apprehended and placed in the Captured Criminal Chamber, and so Titan has rushed to the Computing Chamber to inform the local authorities to drop by for pickup.

The nightclub is quiet this afternoon, but Hopalong, who is in doing a sound check, knows that the place will be hopping this evening! All the young kinz will be packing into the joint to hear his popular band, "Cassidy", play its new smash hit, "Bunny, I Was Born This Way!" He can hardly wait!

Oran Hugh Tan, our Orangutan, loves the view from high atop the rain forest. From up here he can see for miles! He has built his bed and other furniture so he can get the best view possible when using them, but the very best view of the forest comes to Oran when he is bouncing way up in the air on his trampoline. He thinks this is a blast!

Donzella, our Donkey, is a lucky girl. She always liked the color of those shiny golden rocks lying around on the ground in her back forty, but then she found out they were worth a ton of kinzcash! Mining gold may not be the life for most girls, but Donzella enjoys it, and it does put oats on the table!

Lulubelle, our Love Lion, simply loves Valentines! Her BFF brings her flowers, candy, takes her out to dinner – what’s not to love! (BTW, this room won the prize of a Love Dino in WI's Best Valentine Room contest in February 2010.)

"Whoa! Where am I? What kind of place is this!" Safiya, our Sapphire Spaniel, was travelling along a country road when she happened upon a strange but beautiful scene – a street paved with gold, exotic trees and plants, and crystalline rocks. "Oh, look, there is a car up ahead getting gas at a service station. I can ask questions there! But wait … does that tree have eyes? Is that car floating on air?"

"Wake up, Dad! Time for hockey practice!" Rajah is eager to get going today – it is no time for Stripes to sleep in! Rajah got a brand new pair of rare hockey skates, and he is eager to get to the rink to try them out!

Give a big Kinz welcome to Starfire, our Magical Retriever. It took searching through a few boxes of trading cards before we could find him and bring him home, but now he is happy in his new room in Valleygram’s house.

Poor Dorsey and Isolde! They got caught outdoors during a rainstorm and ended up with a baaaaa…d cold, so Dr. Quack is having them spend the night in the Clinic under his watchful eye. Hopefully they will feel much better tomorrow!

It’s quiet now – the circus crowds have all gone home! Time for the performers to get some rest. Harley the Hedgehog is just taking one last sweep around the grounds before heading off to bed. His pal, Seasha the Sea Otter, is already there and is sound asleep already!

Lucky, our Monkey, appreciates all the collecting we did to complete his Trading Card Series 1 room. He is also happy that his room got a bit of an update recently.

Kaylee and Cody, our Dalmatians, donned their wizard clothing and moved into our Trading Card Series 2 Room:

Who are the lucky ones – Pandra and Pandora, our Pink and White Dogs! While we were searching through trading cards for our Magical Retriever, Starfire, we were able to put together a beautiful Trading Card Series 3 Condo room for them!

This has been Storm’s lucky day! She was taken from the "orphanage" – the place where my pets wait until they get their own room – dressed in new patchwork clothing (she’s happy!), and sent to live in her own special Trading Card Series 4 room. She just loves it!

Thanks for visiting! We add more rooms on occasion. Please come back and visit us again soon!

sambina73 · 06-02-2008, 10:38 AM

The family and I always enjoy visiting your house!! LOL! (wink wink.. lol)

chocl8rocks · 06-02-2008, 11:14 AM

Your house is amazing! How do you get all of those webkinz so quickly?

valleygram · 06-02-2008, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by rocker1994

Wow That's Amazing!!!!!! I Am Soooo Impressed With Your House!!!!

Thank you for your gracious comments ... and thanks for being the first post on our new thread!

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Originally Posted by sambina73

Congratulations on your new House Thread!!!

Thank you - and thanks for your special favour!!

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Originally Posted by chocl8rocks

Your house is amazing! How do you get all of those webkinz so quickly?

Thank you! We are very lucky to live in a place in Canada that magically seems to get the new Webkinz almost as soon as they are released! Hopefully our luck will continue!