Webkinz didn’t have all these pay to play and premium shit back in the day, and I don’t entirely blame them for implementing them. I’m sure it keeps them from going under. But, as one of those kids who had over 30 ‘Kinz as a kid, I’m both proud and ashamed to say that I did start paying for the premium when I logged back on as an adult. 😅
Sounds my like experience with neopets. I went on a neopets binge about once a yesr after becoming an adult™️, and especially the two weeks after operating out all 4 wisdoom teeth were filled with neopets. Good times.
Back in my day the Deluxe option wasn't really that bad! In my opinion it was mostly out of site for normal players and legit felt like a really cool exclusive club you can join at any time for a pretty penny. But now it feels like a solid 1/3 of Webkinz is exclusively for deluxe and feels like the site goes out of its way to point it out to you :c BTW I got 45 webkinz and growing lol, I friggin loved the plushies as a kid and died when I learned the online site
Just a pro tip from a player, your pet sleeping doesn't stop you from playing the game at all, you can still do everything you could before as if they were awake; whether they are or not doesn't make a difference, it just halts their occasional requests and it bugs out the energy meter and stops it from going down. And considering the energy and hunger meters deplete like crazy if you do ANYTHING, it's best to _keep_ your pet in bed, as well. Either that or they look depressed the entire time. The older stat system was much more manageable since they only depleted periodically.
The forced downtime is definitely new. I played this game for hours on end as I kid and I never remember having to stop playing because my pets were sleeping. Either that, or I just had enough pets that it was never a problem.
Back in the early years, the "sleep" meter was rather a "Health" meter. You filled it with vitamins, exercise items in the room, and taking it to Dr. Quack. They re-vamped the game for the 10th anniversary ("Webkinz X" update), replacing the need for Heath and Dr. Quack with sleeping and "Family Score Points" where your pet asks you to do certain site activities for points.
@@BlackLabsLikeRuleDog Yeah! The health meter! I remember freaking out when my pets had low health because I thought they were gonna die lol. That explains that, then.
I freaking LOVED these things when I was a kid. I was in early elementary school right during the boom. I had a bunch. They were expensive at the time so having a bunch was a big time deal. You have NO Idea how many little mean girls we had running around due to rich parents and "the biggest collection in the world."
My sister, my cousin, and I, all got separate one's for Christmas one year. It was great. I got a monkey and I remember naming him Coconut cause I thought oh he's brown and white like a coconut.
i remember before the whole "starter pet" thing where you had to get a webkinz stuffed animal before u could play at all, and before the estore and deluxe account exclusive things literally made it impossible to play unless you've bought both a webkinz and had a deluxe subscription and bought in-game money. i've seen the horrors of capitalism with my own eyes. also the corona topaz was the only gem in the gem mining game that i never found (if you got them all youd get a crown, it was random chance, my brother had one), and i played that game literally every day from 4-8 years old so i'd like to consider that a prophecy about my disease resilience
I vividly recall getting a Moose as a gift from a friend so we could play together. I still have that moose, even though I lost access a year later. Our houses were super rad though.
I remember my local Cracker Barrel has a section full of Webkins and sometimes the section changed with seasonal Webkins. I got my black cat one when it was close to Halloween that I named Binx (after the cat from Hocus Pocus and my own cat Binx I)
Same, I was so distraught when I found out they were retiring the Samoyed and you can believe how happy I was when I found one in CB! I got my Signature Spot Bunny at CB too
@@meredith6050 no, the old ones i don't think are coming back. You can still find them in eBay, Mercari, ect. Thank goodness i got my webkinz before they closed it. And yes, I still like webkinz.
its about the equivalent of tellin ur kids 'dont worry ur pets just sleepin' becuz theres no way to get the pets 'back' when theyre 'up for adoption' u can't even use the same code to get em back theyre dead son
I remember getting my very first Webkinz (it was a golden retriever) and it did come with a code but the code for whatever reason didn't work, i recall clearly that i was typing everything in properly it's just that the code for some reason didn't work
They were INCREDIBLY easy to steal and basically everyone did it back in the day. If you could push the pamphlet open enough to see the code you could write it down and steal the code without ever buying the stuffed animal, or you could just RIP the tag off when no one was looking and stuff them in your pants like a real little shoplifter. I didn’t do it because I was TERRIFIED of getting in trouble but I definitely wanted to. 😔
Heck yes I do Where Did You Get Those Stripes, It's Good to be the King, I Love Being a Spotted Frog, Hug a Pug, I Wanna Run, etc. They were all straight fire.
I remember being obsessed with Webkinz from 2007-2009, and I was one of those people who had over 50 pets. Also, I totally remember the Webkinz killer rumor. If I remember correctly, you could visit your friends’ houses, and my friends would always call me and tell me that one of my pets had died.
ahhh haha that killer rumour!! when i go to my watch later list and choose "date added - oldest" option, i have a video regarding starving a webkinz to death on the list
I remember these things being so expensive but that didn't stop me from loving them. Cut to several years later and I've been able to find webkinz in dollar tree and Ollie's for a dollar. They used to be all over the place, especially at Cracker Barrel! Still love 'em, so nostalgic!
I was absolutely Obsessed with Webkinz growing up, and i actually check in on my account once a year. Ganz has really done a nice job continually updating the sight. Ps. The googles was based on a platypus but it is Ganz own design, the google existed before Webkinz. you can find old plushies of it from before webkinz.
I remember loving the Curio Shop and making smoothies for my pets! My sisters and I got our firsts from our gramma for Xmas 2006. I remember during recess a classmate was bidding off his Crown of Wonder lol
I belonged to Webkinz insider...it was a bunch of 20 something's and up karens and Karen in trainings. (I didn't know what Karen's were 11 years ago). We all mapped out malls where to buy the new releases and stuff
I've been waiting for this! I've actually been on the down-low working towards figuring out how to back up Webkinz assets, and I'm slowly, but surely, getting places. EDIT: Wait, you actually found a store selling Webkinz? Damn. The only ways I've found any in the past year or so are Goodwill or the Internet.
Back in the day, you got full site access with a pet's code. I still remember that. I think it lasted a year or even a few months before it pestered you to get more pets. But what you see now is nothing how it used to be. I still remember being in school and playing webkinz on school computers when the teacher wasnt looking. Also to add on. When webkinz launched, you didn't get a free pet. That started only a few years back i think. But you had to buy them.
Anyone here remember Littlest Pet Shop VIP? It was quite similar concept wise. I never had a webkinz or neopets but I remember having two LPS VIP plushies.
that game style was quite popular in the early 2000's. other games that were pretty much exactly the same include toss the turtle on newgrounds and flight of the hamsters on the cartoon network site. i am curious to know which one actually was the very first, but maybe it really was the neopets version.
@@Namingway248 Before Toss the Turtle and Whack-a-Kass there was Nanaca†Crash, which is a parody spinoff game based on the visual novel Cross†Channel. It came out around 2004/2005. And there was a game called Kitten Cannon that came out some time before that, maybe 2000/2001 which seems, at least to my knowledge, to be the origin of launch/toss games.
Ummm...ACKTYUALLY It's Kass Basher now. It was changed shortly after Kass was defeated in the Champions of Meridell plot. I apologize. I'm not this much of a nerd most of the time, I swear.
Oh gosh I had over 20 webkinz,,, I still have all of them actually :,) Nothing is more nostalgic then the intro to the curio shop! Stopped playing once they started pushing all that premium membership bull shit,, the free pets and membership weren't always a part of the game btw! Edit: They retired minigolf?!? That was one of my favorite games ;_;
Yeah, I used to play a lot to until they pushed that premium membership stuff. Although I only have, like, 10. Or more like 11, I guess? 1 of my Webkniz was only virtual and 1 of my Webkinz didn't come with a code.
I have 48 Webkinz currently, but I think I had only 30 or something in the game cuz I also stopped playing when they added Premium. Then I just collected Webkinz with my other stuffed animals
Tristan Melody my parents made me donate mine when I turned 10. Been like 9 years. Still mad about it. I love my plushies lol. That’s how I made friends when I was a kid
Same, like when they started pushing the premium and games/items that I was once able to play/buy with a normal account were suddenly locked away I kinda stopped playing. It just lost all the fun since it felt like it was trying to force me to pay.
I haven't realized until now that the frog plush I've had since I was 5, which was a good 9 years ago, that a friend gave me for my birthday was a webkinz until I watched this video and saw the exact same frog
@@RAT-ui8ow That they did. In my case I don't even fully remember my username - it was something like Reapermon### (maybe my birth year?) - it was before I figured out my go-to username XD
@@RAT-ui8ow Yeah mine is most likely gone which is kinda sad because I had a bunch of animals lol. I kind of remember my username and password but I don't remember all of it
Me: Mom, can I PLEASE have a Webkinz?! Mom: You already have too many stuffed animals that collect dust. Me: But these ones are different! They come to LIFE. Mom: *My daughter is officially nuts.*
Webkinz used to be so different now it’s changed so much honestly pretty sad. I remember I quit playing after the added the deluxe membership. Like I already bought a webkinz why would I pay every month for a membership now?
I used to play Warbears with my sister & I really hope you cover it on your channel because it just seems so obscure nowadays and I like your in-depth explanations and perspectives
Omg yes Webkinz glad you're talking about it! I just checked up on my Webkinz that I last saw ten years ago last week and I am super surprised it's still alive XD...the outfits I made them and my house is an utter mess and disappointment tho haha kid me had no fashion sense :,)
you should've seen the names i gave to mine lol, i had an orca named Blackie Whitey, and a horse named Horsey runner and those were the best names out of most of them. Then there's waterplies which was the result of child me tried to spell Water Police lol, it was one of those weird not-platypus things
I went insane over webkinz when they first got big. I think it’s why I enjoy hoardin-collecting things now 15ish years later. They really improved the website and what you could do in game from what I remember back then
I was a sick kid and I had to have weekly treatments. For being “so brave” every week, my parents bought me a webkinz each treatment. This continued for 4+ years. I still have my stash of like 300+ webkinz. I had no idea at the time how much they were and how impoverished my family was but looking back, it makes me cry thinking my no matter how broke we were my parents ALWAYS got me my weekly webkinz. My favourite was a sheepdog I affectionately named Bozo.
i remember my sisters had webkinz and were always afraid of them dying. And one time out of a whim they logged in after years and they really were dead
Dude I’m so glad I stayed subscribed to you for a while before you even started making vids on web browser games but now that you make these vids the amount of repressed memories you’ve brought back into my head is hilarious and this webkinz episode is giving me too much childhood nostalgia so thanks man I really enjoy these style video’s so keep up the work man
WEBKINZ WAS MY CHILDHOOD MAN! One vacation back in the day I had a very limited budget for a souvenir I chose a Webkinz dog... Instead of something actually relating to the place we we're at... And I don't regret it he's a dog and his name is Harry and he's flipping adorable.
Toys to life. What a novel idea that got destroyed by corporate greed and over flooding. Never heard of webkinz but since they were the pioneers of toys to life this should be interesting.
man, I remember webkinz so fondly. i was like maybe 7 or 8 when I got a calico cat, so very originally named Kitty. Kitty was my favorite, I was lucky enough to have the code still on her since I had found it in a garage sale one summer. I remember begging my mom for more so eventually I had a black cat named Clover and the "googles" named Ducky. I lost Kitty one summer at a camp sight never to be seen again but I still remember my stuffed animal so dearly, I later got the tiny version but it was never the same again..
“Mini golf is my cultural heritage” All the Pirates Coves and Congo Jungles came flooding back to me in a brief flash of PTSD. Also that glow in the dark one at Festival Bay/Artegon (RIP)
none of the pets in that pic are. but a webkinz video without grossly incorrect mistakes that would take a lil bit of googling? lmao send it my way when u find one they're all shit
I have Zoo Tycoon 2 and all its expansions, I don't remember any "killer penguins" in it.... I know ZT1 the animals would attack guests if they got loose, and I think, even kill them. ZT2 animals sorta just.... aggrssivly played with the guests?
yeah thats pretty lame, u can even get it out of bedplus you can raise energy with other exercise things. a treadmill only costs 100 kinzcash and theres no limit and u can get right back to playin another video with misinformation™
I remember going to goodwill as a kid and looking through the bags of stuffed animals in the toy section trying to find any webkinz that still had the tags attached. If I found one, I'd make sure nobody was around then rip the bag open just enough to be able to get it out XD
"You were either into Webkinz, Gia Online, or Club Penguin." Replace Gia Online with Toontown Online and that was my childhood (minus now closed game like Monkey Quest, Pet Pet Park and Amazing World)
I still have a bunch of my old webkinz from when they first came out. I didn't mind the weird fabric they used as it made them very different from other plushies I had at the time. Couldn't tell you how many I ended up with in the end, I had a lot.
I wanna see you talk about Coolmath the website where tons of my classmates would go & play games on in the Computer Lab when we were supposed to be working.
I’m so old that webkinz didn’t have a deluxe membership when I played. You bought the plush and you had free reign of the entire site. Also cash cow was my game along with go fish
When I was a kid I got pissed when they introduced paid memberships cus it restricted stuff that was previously open, so I begged my mom for two years til I got a membership
There is no forced down time... sleeping doesn’t stop you from doing stuff. And plenty of games had daily activities. The Wheel of Wow is like a Daily Spin.
My sister and I had over 100 webkinz together. Were in and out of the hospitals frequently for ourselves, our mom, or our grandparents and whenever we went to the hospital, we went to the gift shop to get a new webkinz. I think my grandma still has a bunch of them in a tote somewhere.
Webkinz was my jam and Ill say it: membership was the start of it being ruined. It used to be full access with just the purchase of a plush, and then they slowly took away all the best stuff or put it behind a membership pay wall. Then they changed the map. I played it once in 2018 and havent even thought to open it again since
exactly cuz they stopped makin features for it after that time n their excuse has been to make a shitty bootleg game in that period of time with the most ass-backwards excuses u could ever imagine. saved yourself the time honestly
I remember being obsessed with my Webkinz when I was a kid like I used to go on the family computer in the living room for hours just having all sorts of adventures with my webkinz...morbidly enough I wonder how they are doing now...
This was such a trip! I had never realized how extensive the craze was. I realize this is kind of outside of the wheelhouse but maybe do something on Gogo's Crazy Bones? I just remembered those were a thing my friends and I were really into way back when.
I'm so old when webkinz first started they didn't have a free pet option.
I remember as child before getting on randomly putting in numbers and letters to get a code (ofc didnt work)
Or Deluxe Membership! Fuck that!
ajzeg01 lmao same before that deluxe spread all over webkinz I remember you could go to vacation island for just $500
@@jayzeljomy6786 Yess!! Or using "giveaway" codes that probably worked for absolutely no one. Lmao.
JAISOUL once i took a code i had and just changed a few numbers at the end and it worked and I felt so guilty i immediately exited out
I remember when you didn’t have to have a deluxe membership for complete access to the site. Oh the nostalgia. Cash Cow was my favorite game
I was SO GOOD at cash cow
In the pie throwing game i held the world record with like 4 hours of constant playing, in one game i even got a trophy
Polar plunge was my favorite
Webkinz didn’t have all these pay to play and premium shit back in the day, and I don’t entirely blame them for implementing them. I’m sure it keeps them from going under. But, as one of those kids who had over 30 ‘Kinz as a kid, I’m both proud and ashamed to say that I did start paying for the premium when I logged back on as an adult. 😅
Sounds my like experience with neopets. I went on a neopets binge about once a yesr after becoming an adult™️, and especially the two weeks after operating out all 4 wisdoom teeth were filled with neopets. Good times.
Same. Some of the deluxe perks were actually pretty good
same, also i may or may not have sunk a couple of bucks today just to get the deluxe membership and a new pet...
Back in my day the Deluxe option wasn't really that bad! In my opinion it was mostly out of site for normal players and legit felt like a really cool exclusive club you can join at any time for a pretty penny. But now it feels like a solid 1/3 of Webkinz is exclusively for deluxe and feels like the site goes out of its way to point it out to you :c
BTW I got 45 webkinz and growing lol, I friggin loved the plushies as a kid and died when I learned the online site
I'm not the only adult who still plays! I'm not alone!
Just a pro tip from a player, your pet sleeping doesn't stop you from playing the game at all, you can still do everything you could before as if they were awake; whether they are or not doesn't make a difference, it just halts their occasional requests and it bugs out the energy meter and stops it from going down. And considering the energy and hunger meters deplete like crazy if you do ANYTHING, it's best to _keep_ your pet in bed, as well. Either that or they look depressed the entire time. The older stat system was much more manageable since they only depleted periodically.
The forced downtime is definitely new. I played this game for hours on end as I kid and I never remember having to stop playing because my pets were sleeping.
Either that, or I just had enough pets that it was never a problem.
Dr Quack always told me my pets needed more sleep, so
I think I just neglected them
Back in the early years, the "sleep" meter was rather a "Health" meter. You filled it with vitamins, exercise items in the room, and taking it to Dr. Quack. They re-vamped the game for the 10th anniversary ("Webkinz X" update), replacing the need for Heath and Dr. Quack with sleeping and "Family Score Points" where your pet asks you to do certain site activities for points.
@@BlackLabsLikeRuleDog Yeah! The health meter! I remember freaking out when my pets had low health because I thought they were gonna die lol. That explains that, then.
There was no deluxe paywall when I played either. Does anyone remember the dice rpg game?
Expendable Indigo Omg yes Dicekins!!!
I freaking LOVED these things when I was a kid. I was in early elementary school right during the boom. I had a bunch. They were expensive at the time so having a bunch was a big time deal. You have NO Idea how many little mean girls we had running around due to rich parents and "the biggest collection in the world."
My sister, my cousin, and I, all got separate one's for Christmas one year. It was great. I got a monkey and I remember naming him Coconut cause I thought oh he's brown and white like a coconut.
For what they were, they were WAY too expensive. That and Shining Starz/Stars[spelling?], if anyone remembers those.
I literally had 25-30. And I bought every single one with my allowance.
i laughed way harder than i should've when i saw the joe exotic ad on the side of the webkinz site
You know who the Webkinz killer was? CAROLE F****** BASKIN!
I thought it was a meme at first
Haha I thought that was funny too, I didn’t know who else realized. It was a good subtle move 😂
Same LOL! 😂😂😂
They’re going to put all your Webkinz you aren’t taking care of down with a shotgun and burying them in their zoos lmao
i remember before the whole "starter pet" thing where you had to get a webkinz stuffed animal before u could play at all, and before the estore and deluxe account exclusive things literally made it impossible to play unless you've bought both a webkinz and had a deluxe subscription and bought in-game money. i've seen the horrors of capitalism with my own eyes.
also the corona topaz was the only gem in the gem mining game that i never found (if you got them all youd get a crown, it was random chance, my brother had one), and i played that game literally every day from 4-8 years old so i'd like to consider that a prophecy about my disease resilience
I'm surprised they have starter pets now, honestly.
I vividly recall getting a Moose as a gift from a friend so we could play together. I still have that moose, even though I lost access a year later. Our houses were super rad though.
"You were either into Webkins, Gaia Online, or Club Penguin"
*Cries in Maple Story*.
*cries in that one LPS mmorpg I played for a short period of time*
Whimpers in Neopets
I played Neopets till mid high school.
Cries in RuneScape
Cries in Sploder (or whatever it was called)
I remember my local Cracker Barrel has a section full of Webkins and sometimes the section changed with seasonal Webkins. I got my black cat one when it was close to Halloween that I named Binx (after the cat from Hocus Pocus and my own cat Binx I)
Wtf is cracker barrel? We don't have it in the UK but it sounds like a pop culture shop hybridised with a restaurant
Jodi Pearson it’s a gift shop/Southern comfort restaurant, there’s actually one in London
Same, I was so distraught when I found out they were retiring the Samoyed and you can believe how happy I was when I found one in CB! I got my Signature Spot Bunny at CB too
@@jodipearson567 Cracker Barrel and pop culture in a sentence together is something I never thought I’d hear
My black cat webkinz was a present from a friend for my 13th birthday (I think) that I named after my real life black cat. Ah, memories.
webkinz was the goat
@@picachugirl2036 theyre bringing back the toys? Or just the weird looking webkinz next ones
@@meredith6050 no, the old ones i don't think are coming back. You can still find them in eBay, Mercari, ect.
Thank goodness i got my webkinz before they closed it.
And yes, I still like webkinz.
@@amiserablewreck8786 rip 🥲
@@meredith6050 y E a H.
WTF THEY PUT MY PETS UP FOR ADOPTION?????
its about the equivalent of tellin ur kids 'dont worry ur pets just sleepin' becuz theres no way to get the pets 'back' when theyre 'up for adoption' u can't even use the same code to get em back
theyre dead son
OOF
???
Rip same
WHAT MY CHILDREN
I remember one time I got a Webkinz but it didn't come with a code.
That was the worst day of 5 year old me's life.
Rough :/
I remember getting my very first Webkinz (it was a golden retriever) and it did come with a code but the code for whatever reason didn't work, i recall clearly that i was typing everything in properly it's just that the code for some reason didn't work
They were INCREDIBLY easy to steal and basically everyone did it back in the day. If you could push the pamphlet open enough to see the code you could write it down and steal the code without ever buying the stuffed animal, or you could just RIP the tag off when no one was looking and stuff them in your pants like a real little shoplifter. I didn’t do it because I was TERRIFIED of getting in trouble but I definitely wanted to. 😔
Ray i remember stores would remove the tags from plushie and give them when to you when you payed so they wouldn’t be stolen.
Tahlia damn!! I never saw that before, that’s crazy! I always bought them from Target and they did not give a shit.
When you didn’t mention Poptropica in the “Pillars of Broswer Games” 😔
SpagEddie8113
Or Toon Town-
@@lupinsredjacket3191 toon town isn't a browser game tho you had to download it to play
Yea cause its a browser game my g
a Tree
True...but still. 😢
RIP Toon Town.
Anyone remember Fantage?
Billiam: "Turtle good.... *GASP*.... T-rEx VeRy GoOd!!!"
Can you blame him?
We all want a T-Rex as a pet
Anyone else remember those music videos they used to do for the Webkinz of the month?
Heck yes I do
Where Did You Get Those Stripes, It's Good to be the King, I Love Being a Spotted Frog, Hug a Pug, I Wanna Run, etc. They were all straight fire.
They're saved on Spotify and I listen to them and they make me nostalgic and sad :(
@@Scootch WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE STRIPES WAS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE
I want "Nine Lives" played at my wedding
IF I HAD NINE LIVES I WOULD LIVE THEM ALL WITH YOU 😭
"Gaia online * shows Hot Topic*"
Me: I'm feeling personally attacked here
Jesus Christ the super inflation in that game. You want a cute outfit? Better be a quadrillionaire
@@thisaccountisntreal107 yeah I had a shock when I went back in the mid teens out of curiosity, it's a weimar republic
Oh please. Subeta beat Gaia in Hot Topicness by miles.
Well, did you shop at hot topic?
@@AuxCart I just found subeta for the first time and it while it looked edgy Gaia had a special anime & Emo edge to it that made it very hot topic
"Just months before the release of the Simpson's Movie"
I am unsure of how this knowledge is relevant to the story, yet somehow it is
I remember being obsessed with Webkinz from 2007-2009, and I was one of those people who had over 50 pets. Also, I totally remember the Webkinz killer rumor. If I remember correctly, you could visit your friends’ houses, and my friends would always call me and tell me that one of my pets had died.
ahhh haha that killer rumour!! when i go to my watch later list and choose "date added - oldest" option, i have a video regarding starving a webkinz to death on the list
I remember these things being so expensive but that didn't stop me from loving them. Cut to several years later and I've been able to find webkinz in dollar tree and Ollie's for a dollar. They used to be all over the place, especially at Cracker Barrel! Still love 'em, so nostalgic!
8:52 you thought we wouldn't notice you there huh joe
I noticed that too
There's something hilarious about seeing Joe Exotic's mug popping up on the Webkinz website.
5:55 lmao the ad on the bottom right
Seriously wth 😂
Gotta love that mullet
"Hey kids, if you like Webkinz, then you'll love this show about tigers mutilating people!"
Ironic
I was absolutely Obsessed with Webkinz growing up, and i actually check in on my account once a year. Ganz has really done a nice job continually updating the sight.
Ps. The googles was based on a platypus but it is Ganz own design, the google existed before Webkinz. you can find old plushies of it from before webkinz.
Nobody:
Someone on the internet:"Let's make this child friendly product and make dumb creepypastas "
That same someone: "What an original idea! I bet no one has thought of this before!!"
Why the fuck are you in literally every comment section I look at?
Aren't you the guy who gave caddicarus George of the jungle?
I remember loving the Curio Shop and making smoothies for my pets! My sisters and I got our firsts from our gramma for Xmas 2006. I remember during recess a classmate was bidding off his Crown of Wonder lol
I belonged to Webkinz insider...it was a bunch of 20 something's and up karens and Karen in trainings. (I didn't know what Karen's were 11 years ago). We all mapped out malls where to buy the new releases and stuff
omg i used to read the news on that site
I remember going into justice when I was 11 and my mom letting me pick out a webkinz from the giant wall of plushies
I've been waiting for this! I've actually been on the down-low working towards figuring out how to back up Webkinz assets, and I'm slowly, but surely, getting places.
EDIT: Wait, you actually found a store selling Webkinz? Damn. The only ways I've found any in the past year or so are Goodwill or the Internet.
you hero ,,,, there's like NO archives of this stuff it's scary
Webkinz are sold at the dollar store where I live
i went to so many stores a couple months ago looking for some and i couldn’t find any!! does anyone know any stores that still carry them?
@@wwewomendevotee8508 they were stopped being created at 2019
Back in the day, you got full site access with a pet's code. I still remember that. I think it lasted a year or even a few months before it pestered you to get more pets.
But what you see now is nothing how it used to be. I still remember being in school and playing webkinz on school computers when the teacher wasnt looking.
Also to add on. When webkinz launched, you didn't get a free pet. That started only a few years back i think. But you had to buy them.
"The peak of gaming, we should just stop trying, 625 Sandwich Stacker"
aah,,, a fellow man of culture
Y'all remember the Magical Retriever you could get from the trading cards? Got that FIRST PACK as a kid
I remember Webkinz. I use to play it when I was like 7
Anyone here remember Littlest Pet Shop VIP? It was quite similar concept wise. I never had a webkinz or neopets but I remember having two LPS VIP plushies.
7:48 is a reskin of Whack-A-Kass from Neopets, literally exactly the same game
that game style was quite popular in the early 2000's. other games that were pretty much exactly the same include toss the turtle on newgrounds and flight of the hamsters on the cartoon network site. i am curious to know which one actually was the very first, but maybe it really was the neopets version.
@@Namingway248 Before Toss the Turtle and Whack-a-Kass there was Nanaca†Crash, which is a parody spinoff game based on the visual novel Cross†Channel. It came out around 2004/2005. And there was a game called Kitten Cannon that came out some time before that, maybe 2000/2001 which seems, at least to my knowledge, to be the origin of launch/toss games.
Ummm...ACKTYUALLY It's Kass Basher now. It was changed shortly after Kass was defeated in the Champions of Meridell plot.
I apologize. I'm not this much of a nerd most of the time, I swear.
But what about that Sasquatch Shoot game from USA test prep?
They're all copies of Yetisports
Real ones remember when you literally couldn't play without buying a plush, and deluxe memberships didn't exist
You could get a free cat back in like 2008.
Oh gosh I had over 20 webkinz,,, I still have all of them actually :,) Nothing is more nostalgic then the intro to the curio shop! Stopped playing once they started pushing all that premium membership bull shit,, the free pets and membership weren't always a part of the game btw!
Edit: They retired minigolf?!? That was one of my favorite games ;_;
Yeah, I used to play a lot to until they pushed that premium membership stuff. Although I only have, like, 10. Or more like 11, I guess? 1 of my Webkniz was only virtual and 1 of my Webkinz didn't come with a code.
I have 48 Webkinz currently, but I think I had only 30 or something in the game cuz I also stopped playing when they added Premium. Then I just collected Webkinz with my other stuffed animals
Tristan Melody my parents made me donate mine when I turned 10. Been like 9 years. Still mad about it. I love my plushies lol. That’s how I made friends when I was a kid
Same, like when they started pushing the premium and games/items that I was once able to play/buy with a normal account were suddenly locked away I kinda stopped playing. It just lost all the fun since it felt like it was trying to force me to pay.
I haven't realized until now that the frog plush I've had since I was 5, which was a good 9 years ago, that a friend gave me for my birthday was a webkinz until I watched this video and saw the exact same frog
I played webkinz since 2006 and I still have my account login to this day XD very nostalgic
Nice I stopped played around 2010/11 cause my subscription ran out and I got addicted to Roblox 😅
I'm pretty sure webkins deleted all accounts that weren't active in the past 12 months back in 2019
pretty sure mine is gone them lmao
@@RAT-ui8ow That they did. In my case I don't even fully remember my username - it was something like Reapermon### (maybe my birth year?) - it was before I figured out my go-to username XD
@@RAT-ui8ow Yeah they did which is why I occasionally log in to mine just so it stays XD
@@RAT-ui8ow Yeah mine is most likely gone which is kinda sad because I had a bunch of animals lol. I kind of remember my username and password but I don't remember all of it
Me: Mom, can I PLEASE have a Webkinz?!
Mom: You already have too many stuffed animals that collect dust.
Me: But these ones are different! They come to LIFE.
Mom: *My daughter is officially nuts.*
Webkinz used to be so different now it’s changed so much honestly pretty sad. I remember I quit playing after the added the deluxe membership. Like I already bought a webkinz why would I pay every month for a membership now?
That explains why i couldn’t log in last year. I hadn’t played it since I was like 7 and I’m now 22
8:52 made me choke on my drink
I used to play Warbears with my sister & I really hope you cover it on your channel because it just seems so obscure nowadays and I like your in-depth explanations and perspectives
Omg that platypus needed some serious redesign. 😂🤣😂🤣
I loved him
I still do
Nothing is better thant the platypus
Just got one of them from a surplus ans god...their one of my comfort plushies🥺🥺
Yes... the googles. What a glorious creature. I only wish I had one.
He's beautiful....
Omg yes Webkinz glad you're talking about it! I just checked up on my Webkinz that I last saw ten years ago last week and I am super surprised it's still alive XD...the outfits I made them and my house is an utter mess and disappointment tho haha kid me had no fashion sense :,)
you should've seen the names i gave to mine lol, i had an orca named Blackie Whitey, and a horse named Horsey runner and those were the best names out of most of them. Then there's waterplies which was the result of child me tried to spell Water Police lol, it was one of those weird not-platypus things
Oh dear lord, I remember 10 year old me was so concerned about the webkinz killer that I was convinced I needed to write to the mayor to get his help
Lmao @ 5:33
Can’t tell if that’s a mullet or a wig.
Either way; hah that man has a superb mugshot
I went insane over webkinz when they first got big. I think it’s why I enjoy hoardin-collecting things now 15ish years later.
They really improved the website and what you could do in game from what I remember back then
I was a sick kid and I had to have weekly treatments. For being “so brave” every week, my parents bought me a webkinz each treatment. This continued for 4+ years. I still have my stash of like 300+ webkinz. I had no idea at the time how much they were and how impoverished my family was but looking back, it makes me cry thinking my no matter how broke we were my parents ALWAYS got me my weekly webkinz. My favourite was a sheepdog I affectionately named Bozo.
i remember my sisters had webkinz and were always afraid of them dying. And one time out of a whim they logged in after years and they really were dead
You should revisit that Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends MMO. It popped out of the back of my mind the other day
Omg, you just brought back so many memories
I've never heard of it and now i'm morbidly curious
Dude I’m so glad I stayed subscribed to you for a while before you even started making vids on web browser games but now that you make these vids the amount of repressed memories you’ve brought back into my head is hilarious and this webkinz episode is giving me too much childhood nostalgia so thanks man I really enjoy these style video’s so keep up the work man
WEBKINZ WAS MY CHILDHOOD MAN! One vacation back in the day I had a very limited budget for a souvenir I chose a Webkinz dog... Instead of something actually relating to the place we we're at... And I don't regret it he's a dog and his name is Harry and he's flipping adorable.
Okay but I’m pissed bc I had to buy a plushie one order to become a member and now kids can literally pick a pet😭
I’ve actually been playing Webkinz and Club Penguin again for the past month. The sound effects never change... I love it.
well in the case of the latter its mostly just rewritten stuff so they probably remade em. but yeah no real different
Toys to life.
What a novel idea that got destroyed by corporate greed and over flooding.
Never heard of webkinz but since they were the pioneers of toys to life this should be interesting.
Nice to see you here
NEVER HEARD of webkinz?! you’ve gotta either be very young or like 35
YGS I’m pretty sure it wasn’t so popular the whole world knew about it
I mean some people don’t know Spongebob either
@@mavintosh damn that's crazy to think about
YGS I mean they will always be people like that
It just part of life
Joe Exotic ad at 5:55 caught me off guard lol
Yayyy, Billiam is back! I was secretly into webkinz but I was "too cool" for it too
Love the joe exotic mugshot ad at 5:54
man, I remember webkinz so fondly. i was like maybe 7 or 8 when I got a calico cat, so very originally named Kitty. Kitty was my favorite, I was lucky enough to have the code still on her since I had found it in a garage sale one summer. I remember begging my mom for more so eventually I had a black cat named Clover and the "googles" named Ducky. I lost Kitty one summer at a camp sight never to be seen again but I still remember my stuffed animal so dearly, I later got the tiny version but it was never the same again..
“Mini golf is my cultural heritage”
All the Pirates Coves and Congo Jungles came flooding back to me in a brief flash of PTSD. Also that glow in the dark one at Festival Bay/Artegon (RIP)
Who remembers when the deluxe membership wasn’t a thing and you could do everything freely :(
9:52 I know you didn't just put my mans Key Lime Dino as "virtual exclusives." I have the plush of him and he is a stud, first Webkinz I ever got.
none of the pets in that pic are. but a webkinz video without grossly incorrect mistakes that would take a lil bit of googling? lmao send it my way when u find one they're all shit
10:57 I now want a killer penguin, which just makes me think of Zoo Tycoon 2...
I have Zoo Tycoon 2 and all its expansions, I don't remember any "killer penguins" in it....
I know ZT1 the animals would attack guests if they got loose, and I think, even kill them. ZT2 animals sorta just.... aggrssivly played with the guests?
The forced downtime thing isn't entirely accurate, you can actually keep playing/shopping/decorating while your pet is sleeping
yeah thats pretty lame, u can even get it out of bedplus you can raise energy with other exercise things. a treadmill only costs 100 kinzcash and theres no limit and u can get right back to playin
another video with misinformation™
I remember going to goodwill as a kid and looking through the bags of stuffed animals in the toy section trying to find any webkinz that still had the tags attached. If I found one, I'd make sure nobody was around then rip the bag open just enough to be able to get it out XD
I’ve been collecting Webkinz since late 2007 (when I was 4) and I currently have 130+. I’m still requesting them for birthday/Christmas presents.
"You were either into Webkinz, Gia Online, or Club Penguin."
Replace Gia Online with Toontown Online and that was my childhood (minus now closed game like Monkey Quest, Pet Pet Park and Amazing World)
Same
I forgot about monkey quest!
The biggest mystery as a kid was the Googles... Nobody knew what it was, but nobody asked...
it wuz pretty much ganz's og character. google plushes existed before the game
“You were either into Webkins, Gaia Online, or Club Penguin.”
¿What about Runscape?
I still have a bunch of my old webkinz from when they first came out. I didn't mind the weird fabric they used as it made them very different from other plushies I had at the time. Couldn't tell you how many I ended up with in the end, I had a lot.
I wanna see you talk about Coolmath the website where tons of my classmates would go & play games on in the Computer Lab when we were supposed to be working.
I’m so old that webkinz didn’t have a deluxe membership when I played. You bought the plush and you had free reign of the entire site. Also cash cow was my game along with go fish
I had like 50 of the stuffed animals, all of them filling my online house to the brim 😅 I loved the game it brings so much nostalgia now
the “platypus” thing was one of my first ones and i remember leaving him at toys r us and panicking and my mom had to drive back and help me find him
When I was a kid I got pissed when they introduced paid memberships cus it restricted stuff that was previously open, so I begged my mom for two years til I got a membership
5:55 oh this is the perfect website for a advertisement for joe xD
5:57 why is there the tiger king on the right side of the screen?
GamingCola Productions It’s an ad
arthur had an episode about webkinz because so many kids logged onto their siblings accounts and redecorated their houses, causing conflicts
I was literally one of those kids who forgot my password every time I wanted to play
I loved that teen titans and 625 sandwich stacker
9:06 Yes, children obviously need to know about the 21 Spring Breakers who went too far
just got Joe Exotic, creepily staring at you as you play your game for kids.
5:33
Yep, that's unnerving.
5:33 Joe Exotic next to some virtual animals?? OH NO! 😭
I'm honestly surprised how fast you push these videos out yet keeping the quality great, I love it.
There is no forced down time... sleeping doesn’t stop you from doing stuff. And plenty of games had daily activities. The Wheel of Wow is like a Daily Spin.
My first Webkinz was a Husky who I named Happy Husky. I still have him.
Hey there Billiam, that was a really cool video! I remember Webkinz when I was younger, Keep up the good work!
My sister and I had over 100 webkinz together. Were in and out of the hospitals frequently for ourselves, our mom, or our grandparents and whenever we went to the hospital, we went to the gift shop to get a new webkinz. I think my grandma still has a bunch of them in a tote somewhere.
I still have my webkinz Ribbon Unicorn
I love her still
I have literally 51 Webkinz and I cannot be stopped.
Webkinz was my jam and Ill say it: membership was the start of it being ruined. It used to be full access with just the purchase of a plush, and then they slowly took away all the best stuff or put it behind a membership pay wall. Then they changed the map. I played it once in 2018 and havent even thought to open it again since
exactly cuz they stopped makin features for it after that time n their excuse has been to make a shitty bootleg game in that period of time with the most ass-backwards excuses u could ever imagine. saved yourself the time honestly
Oh my god the fact that there's a MUGSHOT OF JOE EXOTIC on webkinz has me deceased!
[Remember Joe Exotic?
Take a deep breath.]
I laughed way too hard.
you put your dog in a chocolate room!? YOU MONSTER
I remember being obsessed with my Webkinz when I was a kid like I used to go on the family computer in the living room for hours just having all sorts of adventures with my webkinz...morbidly enough I wonder how they are doing now...
Tiger King ad on a children's website. Good stuff 👍
This was such a trip! I had never realized how extensive the craze was. I realize this is kind of outside of the wheelhouse but maybe do something on Gogo's Crazy Bones? I just remembered those were a thing my friends and I were really into way back when.
My sister had the toys, but she was too young to use a computer, and my thought at the time was just "So it's like Neopets, except boring?"