Beware Webkinz®

**Erisianmonkey** · 19th February 07, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

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

I'm jealous!

I intend to have all the Animaniacs that get released by the time we have kids. I fully expect one of them to come to me and tell me that they think someone needs to be a "special friend" when that person has been really obnoxious.

**Dreadbelly** · 19th February 07, 05:37 PM

You should get them NOW. These are limited edition prints. Season three may not even see the light of day. Amazon still has 1 and 2 I think, but I can't say how much longer. Once they are gone, that's it. Warner Bros didn't even want the darn things released at all because they were afraid they wouldn't make money from it. (All of the episodes are traded heavily on peer to peer sites)

They are fully restored and uncencored. There are a few words restored, and other things, like Minerva Minx's bust line, and some of the gags like in the Thanksgiving episode, when the hunter wants the turkey, he says "GIVE ME THE BIRD!" The reply... "We'd love to but the Fox censors wont allow it." All of the original burps, farts, and crude gags have been restored.

If you don't get them now, you may never get them. If 1 and 2 don't sell well enough, 3 and the rest will likely never be made.

**starbkjrus** · 19th February 07, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by ccga3359

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!

Animaniacs aside (which I love but if I had kids would never see the light of day) this is is just disgusting. I will not go on a rant about the effects of marketing on western culture but......er.....Ok. I'm supposed to be fairly responsible on this website......Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Probably more than enough said. Whatever happend to kids having a sandbox? Or even a pool? Hotwheels, erector sets - LEGOS for Pete's sake?! Let the companies market those - Good toys ya know....

Sorry, I get worked up.

**ccga3359** · 19th February 07, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by starbkjrus

Animaniacs aside (which I love but if I had kids would never see the light of day) this is is just disgusting. I will not go on a rant about the effects of marketing on western culture but......er.....Ok. I'm supposed to be fairly responsible on this website......Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Probably more than enough said. Whatever happend to kids having a sandbox? Or even a pool? Hotwheels, erector sets - LEGOS for Pete's sake?! Let the companies market those - Good toys ya know....

Sorry, I get worked up.

Lego have you seen the price of those "sets"? Could easily drop $100 Harry Potter or Star Wars theme set. You can't seem to get the imagineering sets that we played with 30 years ago.

**cloves** · 19th February 07, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

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

Helloooooooo nurse!

**Erisianmonkey** · 19th February 07, 06:26 PM

I had some Legos as a kid. I also had Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs. My favorite by far, however, was always the good old Erector set! As a kid, if it was a rainy day, I either read or played with my erector set. (Okay, I'll admit it, I did more reading.)

**Dreadbelly** · 19th February 07, 06:31 PM

I made a working xbow with an erector set. My cousin had to go to the ER to have a pencil jammed all the way up to the eraser pulled out of his, er, buttcheek. I wasn't allowed to play with the erector set stuff any more.

In my defense, he dared me to shoot him saying it wouldn't work because I was a nerdy stupidhead. When he was walking away, he called me a coward. What else could I do? I had to prove him wrong.

**Erisianmonkey** · 19th February 07, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

I made a working xbow with an erector set. My cousin had to go to the ER to have a pencil jammed all the way up to the eraser pulled out of his, er, buttcheek. I wasn't allowed to play with the erector set stuff any more.

In my defense, he dared me to shoot him saying it wouldn't work because I was a nerdy stupidhead. When he was walking away, he called me a coward. What else could I do? I had to prove him wrong.

That, er, smarts! I bet he never doubted your abilities again.

**Dreadbelly** · 19th February 07, 06:45 PM

I wish.

We settled it like men. In the back yard. With nunchaka made from table legs, nails, and lamp shade chains. I was still in the single digit ages, I think about 9. He thought he was lord and master of all creation at the age of 12. Or as he liked to call it, "pre-thirteen."

I whooped him good that day too.