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Featured Article
New World, New War? Plots and plans for new worlds in Neopia.
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Featured Site Gemele.com
General News
Neopets
Merchandise is going on sale at Claire's
on the 11th July, not only in the US, but in Canada too.
Starting in August it can also be found in Claire's stores in the UK.
The store locator has also been updated. The Claire's
merchandise will center on petpets. (July 2, 2002)
There
is a new game available to celebrate the arrival of merchandise at Claire's.
In Extreme Herder
you play the role of a simple Kacheek who has to get his Petpets to safety
before the evil Balthazar eats them. (July 2, 2002)
A Beta
Test version for the new plushie manufacturing simulation game, Plushie Tycoon
has been released. You have 50,000 Neopoints to manage your own store,
and try and become the best plushie company in the whole of Neopia. (July
2, 2002)
The Healing Springs now stocks a couple more potions,
and even a few snowballs to get you started in the Battledome. (July 9, 2002)
The nefarious
Count Von Roo has been added to the Gallery of Evil. (July 9,
2002)
Neopets
added a new Neopedia Entry about the poor over-worked
Chef in charge of the Kitchen Quests on Mystery Island. (July 9, 2002)
Another
pointless, but profitable, product placement: Check out the new game, Tarzan and Jane - Vine Climb.
(July 11, 2002)
Many new
questions have been added to the Help
Section, but remember you can only search for one word at a time.
I suggest that if you have a problem or are curious about anything on the
site that you should start by either neomailing one of us Newbie Guardians or asking
in the Newbie Chat or Help Chat. (July 18, 2002)
Ever wondered
what petpet you are like the most? Well take this quick quiz
and find out…at this point, everyone is a SLORG! I wonder if it’s
a bug or if it’s just another one of the weird sense of humor issues
at Neopets. (July 19, 2002)
Every
three hours you can play Krawk Island's newest addition - Treasure of
the Black Pawkeet. (July 22, 2002)
There
were a lot of new items, games, and teasers for the new Medieval World released
this month. Here is a brief rundown on them:
- An old favorite has returned
to Neopets with a slightly new look. Travel back to medieval times and play
ye olden game of ULTIMATE
BULLSEYE. Using the Turtum, fire the arrow and see how close to
the Bullseye you can get. (July 12, 2002)
- Yes, with the Ixi came
a new puzzle game... Shapeshifter.
(July 15, 2002)
- The new game, Cheeseroller
has been released. Neopets describes it as: “a great action-packed
game incorporating the commerce aspect of purchasing cheese from a shop
combined with the excitement of rolling the cheese at high speeds down a
hill!” (July 17, 2002)
- The latest “medieval”
themed game is Potato Counter.
The faster you count them, the better your score. (July 19, 2002)
- The plot introducing the new
Medieval-themed world was introduced. The story starts in a small school
in Neopia Central, and ... also in a land that you will be quite familiar
with soon enough. Click
here to watch the first episode. (July 23, 2002)
- Yes, the latest activity from
the far away (and soon-to-be revealed) land of Meridell is Guess the Weight
of the Marrow. (July 24, 2002)
- Meridell has been added to the
Map of Neopia,
along with, finally, Neopia Central. (July 30, 2002)
- Finally…the news you all
wanted to hear - MERIDELL
IS HERE. (July 30, 2002)
- NEW SHOPS - Yes Ye
Olde Petpets and MERIFOODS
has just opened up. (July 30, 2002)
- ILLUSEN'S GLADE has just been launched. It’s
the Earth Faerie equivalent of Jhudora…and she wants you to bring her
an item. If you fancy helping her out why not pay her a visit.
(July 30, 2002)
Four pets
celebrated their “special day” this month. As usual, there were
new pet-themed items released for these days:
- July 3rd - Flotsam Day
- July 11th - The Ixi arrives in Neopia
- July 12th - Tuskaninny Day
- July 17th - Kiko Day
- July 26th - Peophin Day
Pet Changes
v You can now paint your Uni Shadow (July 2, 2002)
v Want a purple puppy? You can now have one if you take your Gelert and a purple pb to the Rainbow Pool. (July 10, 2002)
v Get hold of a Fire Paint Brush and you can now paint your Kau at the Rainbow Pool. (July 10, 2002)
v Ready for a new pet? The 46th pet, Ixi, is now available as a limited edition. (July 11, 2002)
v Now you can paint your Draik White. (July 11, 2002)
v Ixis now come in White and have a pop-up animation. (July 12, 2002)
v You can now paint your Tuskaninny Purple, or Spotted. (July 12, 2002)
v Now you can paint your Nimmo White. (July 16, 2002)
v Neopets has two new Kiko paint brushes - Island and Cloud. (July 17, 2002)
v If you are lucky at the Lab, Kikos are now available in ROBOT. (July 17, 2002)
v The Koi has been added to the How To Draw pages. (July 18, 2002)
v You can now have your very own Baby Grundo. (July 18, 2002)
v If you have an Ixi, you can now paint it Brown. (July 19, 2002)
v Drop by the Rainbow Pool to paint your Uni Purple. (July 19, 2002)
v The newest addition to the How to Draw section is the Draik. (July 22, 2002)
v There is now a Shadow Ixi. (July 22, 2002)
v You can now paint your Draik Purple. (July 23, 2002)
v Another Neopet has been added to the How To Draw pages; this time it's the Krawk. (July 23, 2002)
v You can now paint your Ixi Cloud. (July 29, 2002)
v Not to be left out of the baby boom, you can now own a Baby Kougra. (July 30, 2002)
v Note that Ixis are no longer limited editions…but Draiks are. (July 30, 2002)
v You can now have an Island Tonu. (July 31, 2002)
PetPet Changes
q If you own a Greeble, Poppit, Puppyblew or Harris you can now paint them even more colours at the Petpet Puddle. (July 1, 2002)
q If you are the lucky owner of an Anubis, you can now paint it Cloud. (July 8, 2002)
q Scamanders, the newest petpets, are now available at the Desert Petpet Shop. (July 10, 2002)
q If you own of Pet Rock, you can now paint it lots of pretty colours at the Petpet Puddle if you really want to, that is… (July 10, 2002)
q If you have a Primella, you can now paint it a variety of pretty colours at the Petpet Puddle. (July 29, 2002)
q Take your Khonsu to the Petpet Puddle and you can paint it Red, Green, Cloud or Spotted…not that you can really see a difference under all those bandages…(July 30, 2002)
TNE News
Certain people are trying to convince me that the site needs
its own domain…what do you think?
I’m still working on the tour, every time I think I’ve
almost finished with an area, something gets added.
The game reviews,
bands, and books pages have been updated.
Even though the original newsletters for March and
April did
not have hyperlinks, the archived versions have links added to help with navigation.
Someone sent me a snippet of code for the Neopian calendar.
I’ve temporarily placed it on the main page, but I noticed that there
is a © notice on it and I’m trying to track down the creator for permission
to use it. If I can’t find the owner (or can’t get permission from
the owner) I will be taking it off. If you know anything about this, please
let me know.
Featured Article
New World, New War? Plots and plans
for new worlds in Neopia.
Almost every new world on Neopets was introduced by a special
storyline.
In August 2000, we were introduced to Mystery Island...just
in time for Sloth to create the Virtupets Space Station and try to take over Neopia
later that month. This was the first time that you had to have something special
to enter an area...without a Mystery Island Totem, you could not "hire"
a boat to get to the island.
In honor of the first Halloween on the site (Neopets was
started on the November 15, 1999) Neopets had several "spooky contests"
which were put together to form Halloween World (now known as Haunted Woods)
by the middle of October 2000. We were also sent on a quest to find Professor
Chester Chiapot (and the long lost BattleDome). While searching for the elusive
Professor, we are introduced to Chiazilla...and Maraqua. Not sure what Maraqua
is? Not surprising since it was destroyed almost a year ago…
In November 2000, Neopets started on a Christmas/Winter themed
world since Halloween World was such a success. Later, it was changed from
"Winter World" to Happy Valley. Once more, in December, an area
was introduced that could only be accessed with a special item...you needed
an Ice Totem to enter the Ice Caves.
In January 2001, Neopets started work on Faerieland...which
did not have a storyline attached to it, but did require Faerie Totems to
be able to travel to it.
On March 20, 2001, a gigantic earthquake struck Neopia and
caused a huge chasm to form in the Ice Caves...leading to the prehistoric-themed
new world of Tyrannia. This time, there were no special items needed to access
all the areas. Neopets had a different plot in mind for this world: invasion.
Tyrannia was invaded shortly after its discovery (April 26,
2001). Brave Neopians rushed into battle in the Tyrannian Arena to fight the
thousands of prehistoric Korbat invaders who started to pillage and loot Tyrannia's
village, Tyrammet. We fought off the Korbats, then faced the Chia Bombers,
Fire Grarrls and harder invaders until the final showdown: Monoceraptor.
This boss was only defeated when everyone began fighting him.
On June 12, 2001, Brucy B won his first ever Cheat tournament...which
opened the plot
that that would introduce the Lost Desert. By the end of this storyline, Dr.
Sloth returned and released his armies to try to take over Neopia...again.
This time, the final boss was a super-tough Rock Beast who terrorized Sahkmet
along with the easier opponents like the Grundo Troopers, Mechanoid Warriors,
and Evil Sloth Clones.
August 17, 2001, was a partial introduction to
the pirate themed Krawk Island, which led to the destruction of Maraqua by
a whirlpool the next day. Neopets never finished the story, and had this to
say on November 2, 2001: KRAWK ISLAND UPDATE - Well, we did
mean to continue with the Krawk Island story and the destruction of Maraqua,
but unfortunately... erm... our server was uhhh... transformed into slime
by a band of pteris which... ummm.... was bad. Anyway, we have decided to
not continue with the story (we may do it at a later date we aren't sure yet),
but instead finish working on Krawk Island and start on the new world very
soon. There are two things left to go on the island, and they will go up soon,
but anyway, sorry about the change of plan and we hope you enjoy what we have
planned for the coming months.
With the arrival of the new world, Neopets has announced plans for another war. The plot line that we've seen so far indicates that there may have a "neoquest" themed war for Meridell. The Tyrannian Invasion more or less set the path for wars in Neopia. What basically happens is that invaders will arrive in "waves" starting at fairly easy and ending with the Killer Boss. For a short time, Neopia will be united against the common enemy (even BDers and NCers will declare a shaky "truce", believe it or not.) and everyone seems to want to help. Almost everything is suspended and put on hold until the battles are over. Those who battle are given trophies...the more battles you win, the better the trophy.
Whatever happens, though, it will be nice to have a new world to conquer.
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