Beware Webkinz®

**ccga3359** · 19th February 07, 04:10 PM

Be aware of things called webkinz. The are made by Gund® and appear that they are mearly stuffed animals, they are not! Attached to each and every one is a secret code. For a week I heard "Daddy can I get a webkins" I finally broke down on Sunday a let my two spawn get these webkins. Well they get them home and all of a sudden both of my younguns are ighting over my laptop. Not only do you register to adopt them (remember Cabbage Patch Kids?) but they set up a whole litte world for them online. Now they have to feed the thing and buy it furniture and play with it and get a online play job to make webkinz money to buy it more food and crap or this thing will shrivel up and die, then you have to but the kid another webkins to get another secret code.! It's like the hamster in the furnace again and it took days to get the smell of of the house (does smouldering rodent ever leave your nostrils?) but I digress.
These scraggly looking stuffed vermin may sound innocent but they are not. I have two computers, two offspring and two of these freaking Webkins. They consume all of my availiable online xmarks time. Ensure this does not happen to you!
Oh I hear one of them now. screaming for me to get off of the internet so that they can go clean up online poop that their new little online pet has done all over it's little online room.
I shall be back to xmarks in about a year when these friggin things die!

**Dreadbelly** · 19th February 07, 04:14 PM

Those interactive web toys are brilliant. The website causes intentional death after a certain amount of time to make sure that you rush out and by your screaming child another toy. There's been several blurbs about this online. Buyer BEWARE!

**Dirka Skene** · 19th February 07, 04:28 PM

Yeck! Yet another reason I'm glad I do not have children yet. But alas, by the time I do have little ones, the toys will be much much worse.

**Rusty** · 19th February 07, 04:37 PM

Wow!! Grant don't hold back now...... tell us how you really feel

**ccga3359** · 19th February 07, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

Those interactive web toys are brilliant. The website causes intentional death after a certain amount of time to make sure that you rush out and by your screaming child another toy. There's been several blurbs about this online. Buyer BEWARE!

Thank you for telling me this now! Oh gotta go the kids are screaming at me again.

**McMurdo** · 19th February 07, 04:42 PM

Thankfully my little one is a bit to old for such things, but I remember the dreaded tamaguci if that is how you spell it.

**ccga3359** · 19th February 07, 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Thankfully my little one is a bit to old for such things, but I remember the dreaded tamaguci if that is how you spell it.

Oh we have tamagachi's as well.

**Erisianmonkey** · 19th February 07, 05:01 PM

OI! Another thing to add to the long list of things that my wife and I shall be banning from the house when we have kids. The list so far includes Cabbage Patch Dolls (creeeeeeepy!), broadcast/cable television (all idiot box watching will be from dvr/dvd/vhs that is prescreened by us), anything remotely related to Barney, any kind of state-controlled education, and now these things. As the infamous Pinky (of Animaniacs fame) would say, "NARF!"

**Dreadbelly** · 19th February 07, 05:02 PM

Animaniacs... I have the season one and two DVDs. Best kids show ever on television.

**ccga3359** · 19th February 07, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Erisianmonkey

OI! Another thing to add to the long list of things that my wife and I shall be banning from the house when we have kids. The list so far includes Cabbage Patch Dolls (creeeeeeepy!), broadcast/cable television (all idiot box watching will be from dvr/dvd/vhs that is prescreened by us), anything remotely related to Barney, any kind of state-controlled education, and now these things. As the infamous Pinky (of Animaniacs fame) would say, "NARF!"

Whoa Barney was quite enjoyable after being subjected to Tetetubbies for two years!