#skell speaks

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Got the kiwi.

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Can I ask why your profile picture is Lightning McQueen from hit Pixar movie Cars (2006)?

I've been dying for someone to ask. It's an in-game promotional item. You can actually have Lightning McQueen IN YOUR HOUSE.

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Big thrift store score today.

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A few polls will be late but you see I have a very good reason.

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GET READY FOR... 1 poll a day. Remember when it was hourly? Yeah that was months ago. We've cut down quite a bit, but don't worry, this is the slowest rate I'll ever post polls at. Rounds will be 1 poll per day from here on out.

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I genuinely love that even though this is a Webkinz blog, in your bio in all caps you basically say IF YOU ARE NOT PRO-CHOICE GTFO 😂🙌iconic🙌

Yeah, I had one pro-forced birth Christian reblog something ages ago which put it in front of more of the worst kinds of Christians. I think I blocked and warded pretty much most of them off after that, but I had another surface in my notes later and I just got too lazy to remove it from my bio after that. I've come to realize that the cool Christians are the ones that don't put 'Christian' in their bio, so if I see that word there, I search "abortion" into their search bar and it always outs their worst takes. So far only one clearly labelled Christian has passed this test.

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just found this blog and HI HELLO???? I STARTED A QUEST ON MAKING EVERY WEBKINZ INTO AN OC LIKE LAST YEAR AND I DON'T OWN THEM ALL ON TOP OF MANY BEING GIVEN AWAY BECAUSE I WAS A CHILD WHO DIDN'T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THOSE STUFFIES WERE!!!! wanted to get some Tumblr Pros who I'm sure owed some webkinz before to see if they could help out with how they played with their own webkinz,

I was HORRIBLY consistent (my whimsical dragon webkinz dated/married most if not ALL the guy dragons my older sibling owned who were also webkinz; she's settled down now with a Very Pretty Splash Dragon who was her bestie since Getting) so I was wondering if they might be able to share their webkinz childhood- or just silly gameplay from their childhood- for this oddness?/nfaa

(I have a LIST so far on everything and dynamics but I know my older sibling and I did NOT have enough to cover everything until 2015 when we stopped seeing them in Cracker Barrel, but I can recognize that I do NOT have 1000% brain power to cover making everyone as fully fledged as I would have as a child locked up in my bedroom playing with the stuffies without anyone else to assist the cotton candy bunny trying to convince jelly bean puppy and cherry soda puppy that they needed to maim the pink horse.)

I meant to respond to this and then I forgor. I'm trying to give my Webkinz more personality now as an adult, and it is a struggle even though I still have them all. I probably give my Webkinz 1000x more love and appreciation as an adult then I did as a kid, online game included. As a child, I played with my Webkinz plushes here and there, but I never developed strong personalities or storylines for them, or any of my plushes for that matter. I had many unnamed stuffed animals. All of my brain power for that got dedicated to my Littlest Pet Shop toys in a similar way to your Webkinz, albeit in a less violent way.

I had over 80 LPS animals and I used to remember all of their names, and most of them had personalities, some had jobs, adopted kids, had their own wallets and handmade cash, storage spaces rented under their names, and some had entire families and marriages. They would go through things like lawsuits, divorce, opening a family business, putting on plays, and so on. I think the absolute peak of their lore was when the king of the kingdom, King Fluffy the Hamster, divorced Queen Booker the Scottish terrier (owned by my sister) when my sister moved out of my bedroom into her own. He then remarried a supermodel cat named Princess. This made my younger sister unreasonably angry.

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Before running across this poll I assumed every webkinz had a physical plush, so I'm just really shocked/baffled too see how many are just virtual pets.

It's unfortunate, but a company must do what it must to keep afloat. I'll bet they had to discontinue Webkinz Classic plushies due to all the costs involved, and to focus on Next, but it wasn't an immediate switch. I feel like they were slowly leading up to that transition, as they were selling virtual-only pets long before then. The last plushies were released in 2018, with the very last one being the 2018 version of the Narwhal. The game was launched in 2005, and the first virtual-only pet, as far as I can tell, might've been the Magical Retriever in August 2008, the code for which came from trading cards. So that's about 10 years of plushies and virtual pets coexisting. Most people probably didn't notice because the plushies were the main appeal when they were active players, and because the virtual pets were fewer and farther in-between in those days.