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Habbo Finland announces future room bundles!

Habbo Finland has announced that at least five room bundles will be made available in 2014, with each bundle lasting seven days in the catalogue. The bundles will feature the following furniture ranges, in chronological order; Romantic (Venetian), Mystic, Steampunk, Pirates and HabboPalooza. Traders have voiced their frustration over the decision to re-release furniture ranges into the catalogue, with many upset that their profits will be impacted by the re-release. In an interesting move, the bundles can be purchased for 99 credits or directly via PayPal and Credit Card.

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Habbo's Christmas Campaign: The Review

This year marked another Christmas in which Habbo provided users with the worst possible idea for fun ever, with another round of Christmas quests. Unlike last years campaign in which Habbo's had to find users with corresponding coloured keys to unlock their presents (which quickly turned out to be nothing special, quickly destroying the short-lived excitement), this year a round of quests in the form of advent calendar has inspired Habbo's to save their precious snowflakes, for some pretty ugly rares. The idea behind the snowflakes is that Habbo's can earn some furniture if they complete the Christmas quests. Offering the incentive to save for a rare (valued at 40 snowflakes), many were excited for some potentially decent rares, the result?

Well, you be the judge. However, whilst the campaign revived some of the previous years collection s of Christmas furniture, what was most interesting was this years new additions. Which weren't all that bad compared to years gone by, the decision to create the first new stickies since the Valentines themed ones several years ago, has especially won me over.

Positives of this years Christmas campaign? The new furniture is promising of what Habbo previous dubbed 'a return to Old Habbo' and the new Gnome pets are also enjoyable. The thinkers behind Habbo have definitely tried this year, and they have succeeded in creating a sweet new line of furniture. The negatives? The furniture purchasable with snowflakes was not at all satisfying, and the quests were not fun. A new santa hat but no elf shoes or Christmas sweater? Perhaps next year will offer something more than nice furniture, we'll have to wait and see. Merry Christmas from all of us at Habbogardens.

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Snowflakes 2013

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The Future of the Habbogardens Tumblr Blog

It should be noted that Habbogardens did not start out as a Tumblr-based Habbo fansite, and was forced to operate from Tumblr due to financial restraints at the time. However, Habbogardens has grown on Tumblr and our following has motivated us to create a new basis for our Tumblr blog. Whilst we begin to establish ourselves on our own website again soon, we will gradually focus our Tumblr Blog on Habbo-related images, specifically the popular "flash-backs" and "spotted-on-Habbo" we currently do. Rooms that are innovative, popular and different will also be posted here, as we aim to create the finest Habbo-based Tumblr around, with occasional links to the news we post on our new website. Thank-you for your ongoing support, Habbogardens, xx.

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Announcing our new events department!

Following months of petty inactivity, Habbogardens today announces the formation of a brand-new events team, to cater to entertaining Habbo's and bringing the Habbogardens experience to Habbo. A warm welcome to Joanna (Pen) and Jacob (:.:.:Redd:.:.:) who will proudly lead the new team.

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'Bling' Furniture wins Christmas Poll

Puhekupla has uploaded images which suggest that the 'Bling' Furniture Range has won the Habbo user-poll to become this year's revamped furniture collection, just in time for Christmas. Earlier this Month Habbo's were polled by the Room Builders Group on which furniture range they most wanted to have 'revamped' in time for Christmas, with fansites such as Habbox suggesting that the 'Lodge' or 'Pura' ranges were the most-discussed on their forums. However the unfortunate (for some) outcome is that the 'Bling' range has been made white. Just in time for jolly old Christmas. Does it suit your tastes? Or does it look like a run-of-the-mill paint alteration of a Habbo furni line?

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Flashback Friday #13

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ThisHabbo follows trend of blacking out

Thishabbo.com has followed Habbosecrets.com's decision to 'black-out' their website today, over well, a fansite list. Yes the onslaught continues between the fansites again today, with the relatively temperamental fansite teams launching an attack on the Habbo staff, and in particular powertoo. In their new black-out disclaimer the fansite proposes a relatively absurd juxtaposition, telling users to grow up whilst also attacking their own fanbase: "So for anyone who thinks it's "funny" that our listeners are poor, it's quite pathetic that we can still beat you by streaming and refusing to do any work on listeners. Have fun. We'll be back to beat you after the strike, so grow up." Well we can't expect university-level journalism from a Habbo fansite, but we should expect some relatively level-minded discussions related to Habbo at least. Habbo Fansites should not be in competition with one another, especially when Habbo's user-base is dwindling. Happy Habboing, Habbogardens.

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Habbo Customer Service improvements!

A while ago we published an article on how some Habbo's were no longer able to request tickets on things such as bans, stolen furniture or phishing attempts. We're pleased to announce that users can anonymously publish tickets now, and the response times are exceptional. Luckily Habbo has appeared to have learnt quite a lot from its mishandling of customer relations in the past, and you can now expect a response within twenty-four hours. A mammoth upgrade from the previous response times of up to a single-week! To access this new ticketing system you simply head on over to: https://help.habbo.com/anonymous_requests/new Happy Habboing!

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Habbosecrets.com blackout?

Well well, Habbosecrets.com has reacted poorly to a decision by Habbo Staff member Powertoo, to refuse the fansite 'official' status. Habbosecrets has grown infamous for its decision to leak details and cheats to get badges and other 'helpful' advantages in Habbo's in-game competitions and campaigns.

Habbosecret's claims that "with one of the largest Habbo fansite communities around, the Habbo staff are not allowing us to expand and grow", claiming that not granting the fansite "official" status will halt potential growth. The site also alleges that 'fansites' that provided 'hacking' information are allegedly on a shortlist to 'official' status. Whilst we here at Habbogardens have no clue about what they mean but we're surely interested to find out. What's your view on this story? You can tweet #HSBlackout where Habbosecrets fans are apparently voicing their deep hurt at the fact their Habbo fansite and their cheats are no longer available. Crying poor or are they right in their cries of foul-play?

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Friday Flashback #12!

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In regards to habbo club

I still think it's really exclusive. Not to mention it's obnoxious when hc members make fun of you for how you choose to spend (or not to spend) your money. I like that the free members don't have to grovel for furni now. 

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Has Habbo Club lost its appeal?

Flash back only a few years, to a time when Habbo offered Habbo Club members the benefits of exclusive room-layouts, a wider variety in clothing and colour choices, exclusive diving, exclusive public-spaces, exclusive dance-moves, gifts, and on some hotels (such as Habbo Australia) the ability to meet every Wednesday with Habbo staff. Flash forward to today, where being a member of Habbo Club will gain you, exclusive dancing, "speech bubbles" in different colours, and gifts of little value, and a lacklustre expanded variety of clothes. The Public spaces, diving, meeting Staff, all a thing of the past. Has Habbo Club lost its appeal that made it once desirable?

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Friday Flashback #11

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Friday Flashback #10

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#Fact: Habbo.com was originally British

Despite what some may say, ignorantly claiming that the merge resulted in everyone transitioning to the American Hotel, the domain Habbo.com was originally used for the British Hotel, and even redirected to the British domain up until the creation of the US Hotel.

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One step closer to Forums!

No no, unfortunately Habbo still appears to be neglecting official forums for the English-speaking Hotel, however here at Habbogardens a new project has been unearthed with a new goal of creating a new Forum. We can't promise it'll be perfect, but we endeavour to try and bring you the best.