#mazin' hamsters

[everywebkin]

if you're including mazin' hamsters (which it's fine if you're not!) could you draw presto ?

presto, released july 2010

[g0rdvend0me]

ive starting playing webkinz again after like nearly 10 yrs or something and oml i miss mazin' hamsters 😭 I need it back rn as like it's own game or something. And no doctor quack?? Sobbing

[goobersplat]

Webkinz Mazin Black Hamster Plush Holding Pumpkin

[generation-fucked-nostalgia]

Old Webkinz <3

🪑 || 🐷 . 🛁 || 😺 . ☂️ || 🛝 || ⚽ . ⭐

[1999babi]

mazin hamsters

source 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

[webkinzwrld]

Finally Spooky Season ☆彡

[jarokinz]

a sketch i did way back of my hamster, Cheese

[teratotally]

[doyouhavethisplush]

Do you have this plush?

Sparkle 'Mazin Hamster, by Ganz

[webkinzislife]

The Pet of the Day for December 14th, 2023, is Petunia, the Mazin' Hamster!

This pet has an unknown release date, but it was likely released in 2009.

[sanitizarium]

id literally fucking kill a man to play mazin hamsters again

[neonbug2]

Slime Rancher and Mazin Hamsters

I think I love slime rancher 1 and 2 so much because they remind me of mazin hamsters ❤️

[pumpkin-mice]

oooughhhh..... webkinz nostalgia...😞

[webkinzwonders]

Mazin' Hamsters

Since Webkinz has been around since 2005, some changes have been made to the game. Some additions and sadly, some cuts. One deleted area of Webkinz that was close to my heart was Mazin’ Hamsters. 

Mazin' Hamsters was a region where players could play with their smaller hamster pets, established in October 2010. Mazin' Hamsters was accessed through Webkinz world but felt like an entirely other game. Players would have to download another application to play since it was built in Unity Web Player,¹ no other sections in Webkinz world had a feature like this.  Mazin' Hamster plushies could only be registered to play with in Mazin' World for the first couple of months of its release.

The look of Mazin' Hamsters was unlike the rest of Webkinz Classic. Webkinz classic stuck to a 2D art style but Mazin' Hamsters was 3D. There was a different currency system used also, Webkinz utilizes “Kinzcash” mostly while Mazin' Hamsters used “Moolah”. 

Mazin' Hamsters had two areas of play, the hamster hamlet and the mazes area. In Hamster hamlet players could do daily activities like Moolah mountain, Key Craze, and Gift Grab.¹ There were also Challenge Zones, which were different explorable maps with timers and parkour. The maps had various themes like forest, mountain, and lagoon zone. Here is a link from the Webkinz youtube channel of some gameplay. I can still vividly remember wandering around the lagoon zone.

The maze section had customizable plastic hamster tube mazes. Which were very fun to play around with and run through other players’ mazes. Here is another link to some gameplay. My brother and I could spend hours building mazes. Some days we would log on to just play with that and ignore the rest of Webkinz World.

Mazin' Hamster eventually shut down in 2015 because of the Unity Web Player. Having to download another application complicated the game, especially when most browsers stopped supporting the plugin.¹ This led to the game being shut down. The Mazin' Hamsters area was so immersive and well made it was a shock to many players, myself included.

On the Kinzville map, you can still see the maze icon where you would be able to access the game, but when you click it a pop-up comes up:

When you go to AmazingWorld.Com all that comes up is a white screen with the text "403 Forbidden | nginx/1.14.2."

Such a sad and confusing end to such a thoughtfully crafted virtual world inside another virtual world.

Thank you to the webkinz historians at Fandom.com for this information

[lunathewafflelord]

I’ll never understand why Webkinz shut down Mazin’ Hamsters just because it didn’t work on *some* browsers, rather than trying to fix the issues that made it crash or just disable it on those browsers they decided to shut it down for everyone 😭 I miss it so much

I was one of those users who used a browser that crashed with Mazin’ Hamsters (Internet Explorer) but it’d only happen *after* I closed out of the game! The main game ran fine, except for some occasional lag due to older hardware.

I’m sure with modern computer technology the game should be able to run fine on most PCs nowadays, hopefully (though I doubt it) it might be brought back someday? If not, maybe some fans will recreate it like people did with Toontown. I loved exploring those open world areas and I’d come up with detailed stories while exploring them.  I miss it so much ;-;

[tigergendermoved2tigergender]

I was gonna make a post casually referencing something from Webkinz Mazin Hamsters and holy shit batman there are like almost no archives of ANYTHING from this game. I just wanted a screenshot of one of the rooms you could build with even if it was crusty as fuck but I can't find anything anywhere. Not even like some 13 year old video of a 5 year old playing the game and recording the screen or anything. I feel an urge to email GANZ just to ask if they still have the 3d renders for the rooms because I know they had at least some renders for the webkinz news.