Our brand new Signature Endangered line launches this month with the Signature Endangered Bengal Tiger, and we’ve got a special contest to celebrate. We want to hear your top ten favorite Endangered Animals!

Entering the contest by telling us your top ten favorite Endangered Species will give you a chance to win the Animal Rescue Prize Pack, which includes both an Animal Rescue Jacket and Animal Rescue Jeep. These special items are available only on the Ganz eStore!

The contest opens at 12:00 am EST on March 10, 2010 and ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 16, 2010. For details on how to enter the contest and the official contest rules, click here.

Visit the Ganz eStore this Surprise Saturday and Super Sunday for some great new items, exclusive pets, and special deals you can only find on our store!

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These are just some of the many items on sale this weekend. This weekend’s sale also hosts the debut of some new items for the Avante Condo theme. The rest of our deals follow after the break.

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We’ve got some exciting news! Webkinz World™ has been awarded the “Best Virtual World Site For Kids” award from About.com! Here’s what About.com had to say about our site:

Congratulations to fan favorite, Webkinz World, winner of the 2010 Reader’s Choice Award for Best Virtual World for Kids. The subscription-based website is unlocked through the purchase of a Webkinz stuffed animal. From there, kids are invited to care for their pets, play games, earn coins and decorate their own in-game homes. Webkinz World is a closed community with a nice suite of parental controls. It is highly regarded for quality entertainment and a safe environment.

We here at Ganz are very proud to receive this reward from About.com. Now in its fifth year, Webkinz World has been and continues to be a fun, child-friendly place for parents and their children to play, and we’ve got some great new features planned for this year to make Webkinz World even better!

Thanks to everyone who voted for Webkinz World; we appreciate the support, and we look forward to providing you all with more great plush pets and fun online games!

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Send your Webkinz pets through a portal to the past with the Persian Palace theme! Enjoy the elegance of an aged era’s most prized possessions. Here’s a preview of one of the items from the Persian theme, the Takht Throne:

From the pointed steeples that top the set’s spectacular bed to the decorative patterns etched on the set’s priceless urn, the Persian Palace theme is an exotic dream that will turn any room into a palace fit for a Sultan! This new rare Persian Palace theme will be coming to Webkinz World this week!

Our first Communal Contest has run its course. Last week, players voted to win 500 KinzCash as the prize for our first contest, and the challenge was to score a whopping 6,000,000,000 points collectively in the game. Sadly, the goal wasn’t reached. But not to worry! There’s another chance to win great prizes this week with our new Communal Contest!

We’ve been paying close attention to the challenges, and we realize we made this first challenge way too tough. We’ll be making this week’s challenge much easier, and going forward, we’re going to be carefully watching this new feature and balancing the challenges to ensure that the Communal Contest is tuned just right!

Looking to give us more feedback on the Communal Contest feature? Head over to the “Feedback Friday” post, and let your voice be heard!

With a great line-up of fun features, sweet eStore items, and the introduction of the Love Lion, February followed in the footsteps of January as yet another big month for Webkinz World. March is now upon us, and we’re not slowing down one bit! We’ve got a huge month ahead. Here’s a quick glance at what’s going on in Webkinz World this month:

Webkinz World Updates

• We’ve got a brand new Arcade game coming this month. Here’s a hint: it’s a sequel to one of our current games!
• After asking you which retired games should return, we’re bringing one of the most-requested retired games back!
• There’s a new, special St. Patrick’s Day event coming to Webkinz World this year!

Physical Products

• Our featured pets for March include the Peace Puppy, the Bubblegum Cheeky Cat, the Shar Pei, and the Ferret.
• The Signature Pig joins the featured pets this month.
• Our new Signature Endangered line kicks off with the Signature Endangered Bengal Tiger!
• Our new Small Signature line starts with the Small Signature Beagle!

More details and a few teasers about what’s to come this month follow after the break.

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