Club Penguin Christmas Party 2008 Started

The Christmas part on Club Penguin has begun. Go party down! There will also be some new items in the Treasure Book on Monday 22nd.

The Christmas Party has arrived in Club Penguin! We want to know what you think about the decorations, the new books, Coins For Change, Rockhopper, and any other surprises you might find. Let’s make this the best party ever by showing our holiday spirit all around the island!

In Other News: There’s going to be some brand new stuff in the Treasure Book on Monday, Dec. 22, and I’ll try to find you an image of some of the exclusive items. Check back tomorrow for an update!

The team can’t wait to hear what you think about the Christmas Party, so let us know!!

Until then…Waddle on!

-Club Penguin Team

Cars Online Patch Details Dec 08

Cars Online has had a patch and there are some pretty cool things, but nothing too interesting. At least they are doing some things. But I can’t wait till they release the world to us

Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, and Happy New Year!

Wow, who doesn’t love the holidays?  I know we sure do!  None the less, there is no amount of snow, holiday cheer, or delicious egg nog that can keep us from what we do best, and that’s making this project better for you.  Now don’t think we don’t love egg nog (because I certainly do), we just love Cars more!

So as you can imagine, we’ve got all sorts of good things going on around here.  If you’ve logged on today, then I’m sure you’ve already seen some of the changes we’ve made.  That said, how about I stop talking and start posting those patch notes?

Good idea, here they are:

Patch Notes (12.18.08):

• Race Code Update: We’ve updated ALL the Race Codes that will be released to the public. This means that you should now be able to redeem ALL of your codes for a special collectible badge, some car coins and some special consumables for racing.
• NOTE: If you redeem a code and get a PLACEHOLDER image, don’t panic, that badge hasn’t been “officially” released, you’re one of the lucky few who got a Car early. When that particular Car is “officially” released, we’ll update the artwork!
• Race Codes: What’s This Pop-Up: Added a graphic showing the back of the ticket
• Enter Race Codes Pop-Up: Added Congratulations screen after entering a code from the landing page, made the Race Code input 4 fields of 4-digit boxes (like entering credit card info), and replaced the fanfold of race tickets with graphic of back of the ticket
• Verbiage: Several copy changes throughout the site. We do it because we love to proofread. We also do it because we sometimes don’t get enough coffee in the morning
• Garage: Replaced green and blue shades with different shades of blue and green; renamed “Yellow Shade” to “Not-So-Mellow Yellow”, very original
• Garage: Also add the following new functionality: camera angle change when you are customizing your car–that way you are not relying on the buttons that spin your car, you will see the correct view based on what you are adding to your car
• Garage: Removed the locked tire and paint job in the Workbench
• GUI: Made GUI visible on 1024 x 768 monitor. Added “Game Trailer” to GUI. Changed “Racetracks” to “Race”. We reworked those visual styles to be much more race-worthy
• Send Us Your Comments: Added an updated “Send Us Your Comments” form accessible from the Envelope icon on the upper right side of the GUI. Now you can send us your comments AND questions, as well as let us know your name and e-mail address. Talk about exciting! We’re out of control over here!
• Leaderboard: Click the RSN icon in the upper-right corner of the Garage–it’s totally tricked out!  Send us your feedback using the previously mentioned “Send Us Your Comments” form
• Help: Updated some of the copy to make the Help even more helpful; replaced “Contact Us” hyperlink with our hyperlinked e-mail address (memberservices@worldofcars.com) for those of you who don’t have an e-mail application installed on your computer
• Landing Page: New loading animation featuring everyone’s favorite little “Pit Stop!” hero, Guido!  Honestly, this is the best part of this week’s update
• Landing Page: We also updated the “About Game” copy. It was REALLY long before, and now our awesome Marketing mechanics have completely re-tooled it, added a cool fin, some rims, and pretty much gave it more horsepower
• Game Trailer: Added to GUI, made the trailer MUCH larger, which rocks, of course
• Racing: Added track difficulty selection to each of the tracks. Now you can play at your level of skill. We’ve also got leaderboard rankings for each level of difficulty. If you’re just getting started you might want to check out our…
• …Training Track: Yup, we’ve added a special Training Track for all our new and young players alike. Test your keyboard skills on the giant oval of pavement
• Create My Car Button: The “Race” button has been changed to “Save” in the Create My Car process since you have to save your Car before you race it! Go figure
• Congratulations Pop-Up: Updated the Congrats Pop-Up after creating a new Car for the first time, it’s awesomesauce
• Last But Not Least: All sorts of mysterious behind-the-scenes magic!  Because that’s what we do best here at Disney

Source: Cars Online Forums

Toontown Enhanced SpeedChat Plus

Enhanced Speedchat in Toontown. Wow! VERY VERY VERY cool. This will help alot. I’m off to go play Toontown and start talking

SpeedChat Plus Is Now Available
The players of Toontown have asked for more ways to chat in-game, and we’ve listened. The Toon Council is excited to announce our newest addition to Toontown — SpeedChat Plus! This new feature is available to all players and allows you to chat with other Toontown players by using approved words from the Disney SpeedChat Plus dictionary. Words that are not in the Disney SpeedChat Plus dictionary will be highlighted in red. You then have the opportunity to choose alternative words prior to sending your message. Now you can really express yourself in Toontown like never before!

Click Here to activate SpeedChat Plus for your account!

Click Here to get all the details on this Toontastic new feature — including a walk-through on how to activate it for your account.

With the addition of SpeedChat Plus to Toontown, we would like to remind players to follow Disney’s House Rules while chatting. Never give out personal information, such as your name, address, or phone number and always keep your password safe — even from your friends! If you are unsure of a situation, be sure to grab a parent for help. Also, the Toon Council is always here to help, so feel free to Contact Us if the need arises. Be a Responsible Toon, and help keep Toontown a fun and safe place to play. Remember — a safe Toon is a happy Toon!
Posted by: ToonCouncil

Source: ToonTownCentral

Toontown Winter Holiday Extravaganza

This years (2008) christmas decorations are up on Toontown , go have a look

Toons are having a jolly Winter Holiday as Toontown receives a seasonal Toon-up this year with brand-new decorations! Explore each neighborhood to see all of the Toontastic holiday trees and street lamps which are sure to warm the hearts of Toons all over — and maybe even a Cog or two. (Well, Toons can hope, can’t they?)

Clarabelle is joining the holiday fun with some “a-moo-zing” Cattlelog items — including complete winter outfits, fireplaces to keep Toons toasty, and a bevy of Winter Holiday Estate decorations — including an interior wreath, seasonal moldings, and a Winter Tree to top it all off.

Plus, there is a very special Estate snowman gardening statue for Toons to enjoy, which requires a gardening shovel skill of one point to plant. If you haven’t started a garden, now is a great time to get your Gardening Kit from the Cattlelog, plant a flower (Hint: use a green jellybean), then wait one day to pick it to earn one shovel skill point — then you can purchase and plant your snowman. So be sure to get one … before he melts away!

Posted by: ToonCouncil

Source: Toontowncentral

Pixie Hollow Free Chat Activation

Pixie Hollow now requires you to activate your account to have free chat.

ISSUE #1: I used to be able to chat freely and now I can’t!

We are always trying to improve safety in the Hollow, so this week we have a new validation process for Fairies who wish to use Speedchat Plus. If you used to be able to chat freely and now cannot, make sure you choose Speedchat plus on the new Chat Preferences screen AND check your e-mail for additional validation steps.

ISSUE #2: Wow, love your new safety features, but I’ve already validated and am still seeing the Chat Preferences screen.

Gee whiz, that is weird! I’ll ask the tinker-talents to have a look, and we should have it sorted very soon. Thanks for your pixie patience, fly safely Fairies!

Club Penguin Igloo Decoration Contest.

Club Penguin is having an Igloo Decorating Contest, You can will an amazing 25,000 coins or 10,000 if you are a runner up. P.S. go find the hidden pin as its your last chance.

It’s that time again - Club Penguin’s Christmas Party starts tomorrow and goes until Dec. 29th. As you’re getting ready to celebrate, we don’t want you to forget about the igloo decorating contest. There will be 10 Grand Prize (25,000 coins each!) and 10 Runner-Up (10,000 coins each) winners selected during the party. Judges will look for creativity and originality, so use your imagination as you decorate! Winners will be announced in the Jan 1st newspaper.

In Other News: If you don’t have the pin that’s hidden right now, today is your last chance to find it. Try asking other penguins for help if you’re having trouble. A new pin will be hidden tomorrow! Do you have any tricks for finding pins? Let us know.

Until then…Waddle on!

-Club Penguin Team

Tinker-Talent, New Area’s and Quests.

Over at the Pixie Hollow Blogs they have mention of a few different things, basically there’s some new area’s open, some new quests and lots more. I’m off to go explore! Why don’t you!

Fly with you Fairies, and welcome to all the new tinker-talents! If you haven’t flown by Cottonpuff Field today, it’s time you did — Tinker Bell finished clearing the path to Tinker’s Nook! You’ll be able to find Tink there, as well as Fawn over in her hideout in Maple Tree Hill and Silvermist in her grotto in Dewdrop Vale. All of them have things to talk to you about and adventures for you to go on, so stop by for a visit! And when your wings get warm from all that flapping, fly on over to Winter Woods to cool down in one of the two new meadows!

In other news, you may have noticed getting to the Hollow just got faster! We made some behind-the-scenes changes to get you in quicker — so much quicker, that you might get there before your Friends List or your Leaf Journal! If that happens to you, don’t worry — your Friends List, Chat Bar, Leaf Journal, Pouch and Access to your Fairy Home will all appear as soon as they are ready.

PSST! Secret tip! A little change was made to Spider Stitching in the tailoring nooks. Now you place your stitches when you let go of the mouse button, instead of when you press it down. Give it a try and let us know if you like the change!

Source: Pixie Hollow Blog

Pirates Online Winter Holiday & Competition

Pirates Online have some details on their new Winter Holiday Decorations in Game, honestly they are pretty cool, log in to the game to see now! They are also reminding us to enter their competition for a trip to a Disneyland Resort.

Winter Holiday Comes to Caribbean December 17 2008

Introducing Updates, Improvements and Holiday Cheer

We’ve just published a release that will fix the bug for ships stuck at sea, plus many other issues Pirates have run into. We’re working to improve the game on a daily basis based on your feedback, take a look at Release Notes for the
latest updates.

You’ll also find some interesting notes about some holiday updates that should warm you up this winter season. Too eager to log into the game and see for yourself? Stop by Port Royal or Tortuga to discover how the Caribbean is getting ready for the Winter Holiday!

Enter Now - Contest Ending Soon! December 16 2008

Win Big in Our Live the Pirates Life Contest

We’re still looking for entries for our one year anniversary Live the Pirates Life Contest. It’s your chance to show off your Pirate savvy (or scurvy-ness) by showing us how you live the Pirates life!You could win a trip to the Disneyland Resort, a chance to meet the Pirates Online crew, an Apple MacBook, and much, much more!

Just send us a video showing us how you live your life like a Pirate! The video can be of yourself, your family, the family dog, neighbors, co-workers, anything that tells us you’re a Pirate! We’ve uploaded a few sample videos to give you an idea of what we’re looking for, click here to view them. Be sure to review the rules before shooting a video and then be creative, go wild, and most of all - have fun!

Pirates Online Release Notes - 16 Dec 08

Pirates has done their yearly update before the festivities, they have added the holiday decorations, the code for the new years holiday event and fixed a few bugs which is always a good thing.

Swashbuckler II over at Pirates Online Forums mentions: “Some people will be kinda mad about the Velvet rope status. If you dont know what it means. It means Basics will not beable to use unlimited skills”

• Added Winter Holiday decorations
• Added New Year’s holiday event
• Resolved the majority of the issues regarding stranded ships
• Fixed a bug where players could sometimes not take the wheel of their ship
• Fixed a bug where players were occasionally dying repeatedly in jail
• Fixed a bug where some skills displayed the wrong values on mouseover
• Fixed some issues with NPC and ship movement
• Chat text should now be hidden when F12 is pressed
• Fixed a frequent client crash on logout related to special effects
• We now prevent Lookout access while in the Black Pearl boss battle
• Players who have been reverted to Velvet Rope status will no longer be able to use the number keys to access premium skills or ammo
• Enabled /time command for players
• Fixed a crash in Make-A-Pirate

Source: Pirates Online Forums

Toontown UK Boxing Day Competition

Toontown UK is giving away some free WALL-E DVD’s and some Toontown notebooks this boxing day, details below. On top of all that they are enabling all the game features to free players so they can participate in the competition and explore all area’s of Toontown for that day.

Toontown UK Boxing Day Gifting Competition

Generous Toons are encouraged to really get into the holiday spirit by sending as many gifts as possible to Toons on their Friends List all day on Boxing Day.

The top three Toons who send the most gifts, will WIN a copy of Disney PIXAR WALL-E on Disney DVD and a Toontown notebook.

Source: Thanks to Enchanted Wood over at Toontowncentral

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