Pets
- Kind
- The virtual animals of Webkinz World
The pets of Webkinz are virtual animals, each the online form of a plush toy. The site's tour describes Webkinz World as the place "where your plush pet comes to life".[1]
Toys and codes
The tour names two lines of toy, Webkinz and Lil'Kinz.[1] Each came with a Secret Code, found inside the tag attached to the toy, which let its owner adopt the pet online.[1] See Adoption Center. The tour encourages owning many: "there's no end to the number of pets you can add to your family. Collect them all!"[1] The files do not say how Lil'Kinz differed from Webkinz.
Care
A pet had a room, and three meters showed how it was doing: Happy, Health and Hunger. The tour says that "Playing, feeding and exercising your pet daily will help keep these meters high."[1] Food, clothes and furniture were bought with KinzCash.[1]
Kinds of pet
The preserved files contain no list of the pets. The nearest thing is a list of nine names inside WebKinz Pool: Cocker Spaniel, Golden Retriever, Black and White Cat, Basset Hound, Black Bear, Gray and White Cat, Gold and White Cat, Cheeky Dog and Cheeky Cat.[2][2][2][2] The file does not say what the list was for.
In the games
Pets appear as the pieces of two Arcade games. In Home Before Dark the player gets "your Webkinz pets" home before sunset, and Rockerz Backstage Run does the same with "Rockerz pets".[3][4] In Webkinz Mini Golf each player picks "your Webkinz player".[5] The titles the Flashpoint Archive gives to the music videos name many animals, a pug, a spotted frog, a pink pony and a koala among them, but those titles are Flashpoint's and the videos' files do not say whether each animal was a pet that could be adopted.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The game file
Webkinz Site Tour 2008/content/www.webkinz.com/XML/L10N/US_EN/siteTour.xml, as kept in the Flashpoint Archive (Flashpoint Ultimate 14). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The game file
WebKinz Pool/content/assets.webkinz.com/swf/item/1676/sfunction.swf, as kept in the Flashpoint Archive (Flashpoint Ultimate 14). - ↑ The game file
Home Before Dark/content/www.webkinz.com/SWF/ARCADE/GAMES/inst_Home_Before_Dark_hack.swf, as kept in the Flashpoint Archive (Flashpoint Ultimate 14). - ↑ The game file
Rockerz Backstage Run/content/www.webkinz.com/SWF/ARCADE/GAMES/inst_RockerzBackstageDash_hack.swf, as kept in the Flashpoint Archive (Flashpoint Ultimate 14). - ↑ The game file
Webkinz Mini Golf/content/www.webkinz.com/SWF/ARCADE/GAMES/minigolf_hack.swf, as kept in the Flashpoint Archive (Flashpoint Ultimate 14).