Congratulations to sgiles53, a member of our forum, on her first place win in the Beauty Pageant. Here is a picture of her Black Cat, Ebony, dressed in her winning outfit, posing next to the First Place Medal (on the wall). Along with the medal, Ebony also won a prize of 9000 KinzCash. Good work sgiles53 and Ebony!
Ebony credits the win to all of the hard work she has done in the KinzVille Academy. She has managed to reach Level Eight in the Fashion Class. Remember, it's the work you do in the Academy that affects your score in Stadium competitions.
On this first day of June, we've confirmed the first known adoption of the last "unadopted June Webkinz", the Webkinz Striped Snake! A new member to our forum, garlex mom, was the first Webkinz Insider user to activate and report her adoption to WI!
Here's a couple of pictures of Silly Snake!
She did tell us that there was a hiccup with the adoption and that she didn't receive any of the adoption gifts, so for those of you with Striped Snakes over the next few days, you may want to wait until the next update to Webkinz World before activating the Striped Snake. Here are the pictures of the Gift Box, "Seasoned Mole Dariole" Pet Specific Food and the "Bakin' Snake Stove" Pet Specific Item!
Keeping with their tradition of always keeping us guessing, Ganz unexpectedly retired the Webkinz Rhino and the Webkinz Black & White Cheeky Dog today! Both of these Webkinz have only been out for a few months, so it is quite a surprise to see these relatively new Webkinz retiring already!
We know that it is hard to believe, we had trouble believing it ourselves, but we have confirmed the information with Ganz!
Congratulations to kbamomea, a member of our forum, for the first known adoption of a Webkinz Lemon-Lime Gecko! The only unadopted June Webkinz is now the Webkinz Striped Snake!
Here's a picture of her newest Webkinz, Acklay, along with its PSI, the "Lemon-Lime-Time Clock" and PSF "Locust Leckerli"!!
The Webkinz Cares Program has officially kicked off in Webkinz World. You may remember our report a couple of weeks ago about the strange red tags some of our members were finding on Lil Kinz at Walgreens. We have learned $1.00 from each sale of these special Lil Kinz goes to support the Webkinz Foundation, an organization created by Ganz which "is dedicated to improving the welfare, development, health, and safety of children."
These special red tags contain a code that can be used in the Code Shop. Activating a code will win you a Secret Recipe, some KinzCash, and one, two, or more of the new W-Cares Prizes. It will also unlock a W-Cares Game that you can play once a day for five days. The game gives you more chances at winning some of the W-Cares Prizes and some other Webkinz World items.
For every prize you win, an identical prize will be awarded to a random member in Webkinz World. It could be someone you know, but most likely it will be someone you don't know.
Congratulations to leopardgirl314, a member of our fourm, on having the first known adoption of a Webkinz Siamese Cat and of a Webkinz Pink Googles.
It looks like the programming for the Pink Googles hasn't been fully updated, so "Blush" is invisible right now, but we are able to show you "Queenie" posting next to the Siamese Cat's Pet Specific Item, the Stylish Siamese Settee and next to the Pink Googles' Pet Specific Item, the Googles Gem Zen Garden. Also, the special foods for the Siamese Cat and the Pink Googles are Succulent Tureen Of Sardine and Jumbled Googles Caboodles.
Wow, that was quick!! This is confirmation that the new recipes that we told you about earlier today are already activated in the system! The most recent solution is for Pickapakora, which was discovered by harmonym93 of Webkinz Classifieds. Here it is:
In Webinz World today, Ganz announced a new "Ad Policy" that will affect the appearance of third-party (non Ganz) advertisements in Webkinz World. Some of you may remember the two ad campaigns that have run in WW, one for the Bee Movie and one for the Alvin and the Chipmunks Movie. Even fewer of you may remember our story about this option appearing in one of our moderator's (morganannie at the time) account nearly a year ago! In the policy statement, Ganz reaffirms it's commitment "to being responsible in [its] approach to advertising and the advertisers that [they] allow on the site." You can read the complete policy statement in Webkinz World.
Also, a new "Opt Out" Choice has been added to Webkinz World accounts. If you don't wish to view these third-party advertisements, you can now choose to have them be blocked from your account. This option can be found next to the "Daily KinzCare" tab in the "My Pets" window. Once you select this option, the advertisements will be turned off. If you change your mind, you must wait at least 30 days to turn them back on again.
Also New on Thursday:
New Questions have been added to Quizzy's Corner.
A winner was selected in the WW Haiku Contest: Man with Bubbles
Harvest Strawberries now sell back to the wShop for 6 KC instead of 7 KC.
There's a suspicious new tree now growing next to the Clubhouse tree.
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Wow! Ganz pulled a fast one on all of us. 
