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Featured Article-Rare Item Codes: What they are, what to do with them,
and how to keep from getting scammed.
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Site- ShirKhana’s
Honest Neopians
It’s been a busy month in Neopia. On March 4, they reduced the price of Scratch Cards to 600 NP.
March 5
saw the unveiling of three EXTRA LARGE pizzas at Pizzaroo, which are good for
up to 6 meals.
On March
6, Gelert Day, Neopets hit the 27 MILLION
OWNERS mark.
They slightly increased the quality of the items that the Esophagor gives out, and introduced the Rainbow Swirly Potion at the Magic Shop on March 7
Edna's Quests received a similar makeover on the 20th
and the Snow Faerie Quests did on the
21st. They also introduced a new Battledome Challenger, the Mighty
Highland Chia.
This year,
Gadgadsbogen arrived on March
12, which is the annual Fruit Festival on Mystery Island. All sorts of new fruits
are now available.
On the weekend
of the 16th, Limited Too stores across America began selling Neopets merchandise.
Many of these items had rare item codes that can be redeemed at the Grundo
Warehouse.
Neopets
increased the max rarity of items you can search for on the yellow bar search
box to 98. Which makes it a lot more practical.
Two new
games were released, Usuki Frenzy (March 25, 2002)
and EVIL FUZZLES FROM BEYOND THE STARS
(March 30, 2002). The first is just another version of the unlamented “DivaStarz”
game. . Sally the Usul is going on holiday and just HAS to have all her
Usuki sets… so you go around the house and collect them as fast as possible.
The second is a shooter game where you blast invading fuzzles. “Help protect
the Virtupets Space Station from these mutant invaders” is the game’s
tagline.
Neopets
has mentioned that the next new world will be “Jelly World”…it
ought to be interesting…
Sadly, not all the news was good news. Neopets was forced to take dubloons away from Deckball and Deckswabber because too many people were cheating to get them. They have promised to add more ways to earn them soon, but like NeoGardens, “soon” is a matter of subjective opinion. Treasure Hunt, and other popular games have also been removed. It does not appear that Neopets will be bringing them back any time soon.
Between the Rainbow Pool and Kauvara'
Shop, lots of pets received changes this month.
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The Fire Krawk became available on March 5, 2002.
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You can now
paint your Gelert Electric at the Rainbow Pool! (March 6, 2002)
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The Cloud Bruce is now available at the Rainbow Pool. (March 8, 2002)
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The Fire Tonu became available on March 12, 2002.
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The Mutant
Kiko was given a makeover on March 12, 2002.
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You can now
paint your Acara with a Brown Paint Brush.
(March 13, 2002)
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You can now
paint your Jetsam FIRE. (March 15, 2002)
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The Fire Aisha is now available at the Rainbow Pool. (March 20, 2002)
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More Bruce
Morphing Potions were released. (March 21, 2002)
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The Wocky can
now be painted Rainbow colour. (March
26, 2002)
The Petpet Puddle is sure to be crowded after all the new petpet
paint brushes that were released this month.
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Alkenore can now be painted Pink, Blue
or Green. (March 5, 2002)
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Robot
Angelpuss, Buzzer, Uniocto or Snorkle are now available.
(March 7, 2002)
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You can now
paint your Melvie Pink, Blue or Yellow.
(March 8, 2002)
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Halloween Pinklets
and Warfs are now available. (March 12, 2002)
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Spirkle can be painted Black or Robot! (March 14, 2002)
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Babaa can be painted Red, Blue
or Yellow. (March 19, 2002)
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Take your Boween
to the Petpet Puddle and you can paint
it Red (March 20, 2002)
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Ultra Pinceron can now be painted
Faerie, Pink or Grey. (March 22, 2002)
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Kookith can now be painted Pink, Green,
Blue or Grey (March 25, 2002)
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You can paint
your Krawk (petpet) Cloud and
Faerie, and Neopets has hinted that
they turn into painted adult Krawks too (March 28, 2002)
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Boween and Meekins can now be painted
Robot, Blue or Green.
(March 29, 2002)
This month, I have been preparing to switch over to the new
format. My help site now has a name (The Neopian Educator)
rather than just “my help site”, and you are reading the first newsletter
for the site. Plans are in the works for improvements, and as always, your comments are always
valued. As some of you may remember, Baylor University’s servers went down
earlier this month. The new servers have a slightly different URL, so if you
link to my site, be sure you have the updated links.
Rare Item
Codes: What they are, what to do with them, and how to keep from getting
scammed.
Neopets is now selling merchandise in the “real world”
in the form of plushies, stickers, note pads, etc. at stores across America.
Many of these products have the coveted “Rare Item Codes” that may
be redeemed at the Grundo Warehouse
for random prizes. These codes are single use items, like paint brushes
or books…meaning once they are used, nobody else can get anything with
them.
To get a
code, you first need to find a store that sells the neopets merchandise. Use
the handy Store Locator
Map to find the one closest to you. Find one? Good…next step, go to
that store and buy at least one item that has the seal: RARE ITEM CODE INSIDE.
(Note that plushies do not have these codes because there was no way to secure
them.) For the sake of discussion, we’ll buy a note pad. Now, rush home
and take over the computer. Naturally, since your homepage is set to http://www.neopets.com/ all you will need to
do is login and go to the Grundo Warehouse
(it’s on the Virtu-Pets Space Station). Open your note pad and find the
rare item code. On a note pad, it’s inside the front cover. Carefully type
the code into the box, and be sure to include the “ – “. Congratulations,
you are now the proud owner of a Massive White Aisha Cake, Chia Comb, or other
fine rare item.
On a sad note, I’ve seen some less than honest users offering to sell/trade these codes. Please remember that these codes are single use items. What they don't tell you is they've probably already used the code and thus have rendered it useless to you. You may be giving away valuable items for nothing. I suggest being patient, Neopets will soon have more places to buy merchandise and then you will be able to get a Rare Item Code that you know has not been used.
This month’s Teachers Pet Site Award goes to ShirKhana’s Honest Neopians
When ShirKhana’s owner first started Neopets, she was scammed, leaving
poor ShirKhana to fend for herself. With help, ShirKhana and Daytonakit were
reunited, and they put together a list of traits an honest Neopian will have…and
dis-honest Neopians will not. Drop by and take a look.