Hasbro launches Littlest Pet Shop interactive pets
Ganz just had to go and start something with their Webkinz. First one company starts an online virtual pet/real life toy combo and then everybody else has to do it too. The latest group to jump on the bandwagon is Hasbro with an extension of their Littlest Pet Shop line. On November 14, 2007, Pileated Pictures announced it has teamed with Hasbro to create Littlest Pet Shop VIPs microsite at the Littlest Pet Shop website. The VIPs part stands for Virtual Interactive Pets. Littlest Pet Shop VIPs is a browser-based pet raising game.
Littlest Pet Shop VIPs are essentially identical to Ganz Webkin. You pick up the $14.99 stuffed animal in a store, selecting from a cat, dog, panda, penguin, or turtle at the moment. Then you take it home and register it on the site. After you do all that, you can play with the pet online, engaging in games to earn virtual money and using that virtual money to customize the pet. Currently the Littlest Pet Shop VIPs toys are only available in New York and online, but they will be available everywhere in February 2008.
There are 10 activities and 16 mini games that the VIPs can engage in online at the moment. More pet designs, online clothes, and mini games are planned. When the line officially launches in February, 18, 2007, additional plush pets will also be available. If kids (or parents) want to give the game a try, they can create an account and borrow a pet from the adoption center to take a look around the virtual Littlest Pet Shop world.
The pets from Littlest Pet Shop aren’t cute anymore. Know when they were cute? When they came out back when I was a kid in 1995. Then they looked like real little animals and they had cute, realistic pet mannerisms and actions triggered by magnets, levers and such. These newest Littlest Pets look like they escaped from some animal testing lab. They have bulbous eyes, set in freakishly huge heads, which bobble on necks that can’t support them and come in acid-trip colors. Not cute.
If you really feel you need a virtual pet for your kid, then send the kid to the Neopets site. Sure, it involves a bit of legwork to get a pet empire started there, but its free. Or pick up one of those $9 Ganz Little ‘Kins Webkinz toys. At least the Webkinz look cuter. (I refuse to confirm or deny whether or not I own a Webkinz pet.)
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how or were can you get free littlest pet shops and if you cant what are the cheepest littlest pet shops and were can you get them??
on February 3, 2008 at 05:23 PM - LINKIf you’re looking to buy Littlest Pet Shop items, try looking at Amazon.com or ToysRus.com. Both sites have a large selection of Littlest Pet Shop toys and carry the interactive pets.
on February 3, 2008 at 06:38 PM - LINKvery interesting…
on March 5, 2008 at 10:52 PM - LINKIt does look like an interesting option for kids, doesn’t it pet supply and accessory? Based on the images and sampling what the site has to offer, it seems like a nice casual game alternative to Webkinz and Ty 2.0 for kids.
on March 5, 2008 at 10:56 PM - LINKdogs.cat.and bunnys.are so cute
on August 14, 2008 at 06:40 PM - LINK