Interactive Webkinz keep kids glued to the computer. April 12, 2007 — -- Remember the Tamagotchi craze? Or Beanie Babies? Put them together and you've got Webkinz, the latest toy phenomenon ...

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The phone calls begin to pick up in early afternoon, after school gets out. Often, it’s kids. But sometimes, say the managers of The Wishing Well in Cherry Hill, N.J., parents are among the 20 to 40 ...

The Wonderful World of Webkinz: 2005-??? Born in the hazy, nostalgia-filled years of the early 2000s, Webkinz was nothing if not a product of its time. A 2D computer-based video game paired with a ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — My daughter’s ninth birthday is in three days. Please, please, please, do not let her get a Webkinz. I’ve heard the horror stories about the cute little stuffed animals, which live ...

If you’ve ever cared for or encountered Webkinz, the plush stuffed animals and their online counterparts that were all the rage in the mid-2000s, you may on occasion wonder: Are my Webkinz still alive ...

Back in 2005, Webkinz became a browser game, hitting its peak in 2009 with a player base of about 3.2 million. There was quite a charm about getting to the store with your family, finding a stuffed ...

These kind of fads absolutely amaze me: Webkinz “the interactive, collectible plush toys that have generated the same frenzied fever as Beatlemania and Beanie Babies.” Started by the Ganz gift company ...

Claim: Children's Webkinz are being murdered online. My children came home from school today, and all the talk in first and second grade was of some kind of webkinz malware. A black, red or yellow box ...

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I turn 20 this weekend. Hence, I’ve decided that now is the perfect time to take a nostalgic yet investigative look at my youth — to recognize that stasis and change are two sides of the same coin; to ...

Mattel's interactive vinyl figures and new virtual world may appeal to adults as well as kids too old for Webkinz. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts and bolts. Whether ...