Sol's game is a game of mini-golf on the beach. There are 18 holes. If you don't get the ball in after 10 tries, you're moved along to the next hole because "there are other Funkeys waiting to play"
Here are a couple things the parents might appreciate......... While I was playing Webley's game the other night, Liam said to me, "you're a great mom because you like to play Funkeys as much as I do!" Well, then, I guess it was worth all the time spent playing the games with him (and after he goes to bed sometimes!) One more......as we were driving in the car last week, before we had any of the Funkiki Island Funkeys, Liam asked, "Mom, what's a soul?" It was out of the blue, so I had to think a minute if he was asking me the harder question about an inner soul, or maybe a sole of a shoe? I wasn't sure what he would have heard recently to prompt the question, so I asked a few questions before answering. It turns out he was asking about SOL, the Funkey.
It's almost like a whole new game after the new portal for Funkiki Island was loaded. The first thing that happened was the kooties are making our Funkies dirty, but that's their way of showing affection. So I guess it's all good! First it was a bit annoying, now it's cute. There are washing stations all over Terrapinia now, so that's one of the major things making it different. It can take 5 washes to get all clean. First the mud comes off, then the flies, then the "smell", then the dusty dirt flying around (like "pigpen" of the Peanuts), then the dirty footprints.
There are no henchmen on Funkiki Island, but instead you have natives coming to take your coins or leave a coconut. I like this better. You at least have a better chance to keep the native from taking your coins. You have 3 tries to click on a spear that rotates around.
The maps have improved with the updates. I am not sure if this might have been an earlier update & we just weren't getting them due to our Vista problem, or maybe it is an update that came with the Funkiki Island updates. The map now clearly marks the location of the games, portals, washing stations, and stores.
Another cool thing is that each of the 4 Funkeys on Funkiki Island (Sol, Webley, Flurry and Nibble) can win something that will help them go somewhere they can't go now (like cross over the broken bridges, go over the lava, or piranha, or through the cave)
Everytime you pass a coconut tree, shake it to collect coconuts. You'll need them later in the game to use at the coconut store. First you'll need to get all 4 orbs (you'll get one for each special item you win from each game). If you want to know more after this, check out
I've posted another postcard above that is one of the 4 you can send from the game, but your recipient won't know who sent it. You might want to follow it up with an email from yourself so they know it's okay to open!
If anyone would like us to send you a postcard from the game, you can send us an email at ubfunkeysarefun@gmail.com.
[Here's an unofficial tip if you are running Windows Vista, or having an error loading the first time, you might want to back up your game file before you run the updates if you can.]
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I earned "Great Mom" points!
According to the Radica/Mattel support person I spoke to today, Target released the next generation (or Series 2) Funkies earlier than they were supposed to, before the updates were complete. She was right on, that we got our Funkiki Island Funkey at Target. She walked me through a few things to check like the firewall and administrator settings so that we could try to get the update to work. No luck, so she's passing the information to the engineers. It might not be until Tues., though, that they will get back to me. I wonder, has anyone had any success with any of the Funkiki Island Funkeys?
Oh, my. Why do I have a horrible feeling that Liam will want to collect all 50?
Well, we did buy another one tonight. It's our first Funkey to take us to Funkiki Island. There was a $3 off coupon in the Sunday paper a few weeks ago, so it was a great price. And like the Thomas trains that we collected when Liam was 2 - 4 years old, I like them too, so I'm a push-over mom sometimes. So we have added Webley to our collection tonight. But it was very disappointing that we couldn't get it to work. Usually we play without the internet connection, but we had to connect so new files could load from the UB Funkey site in order to add the new portal. After waiting for more than 20 minutes to see if there was "anything new in Terrapinia", and to download from the server, we got an error message that said to call technical support. Since the Radica/Mattel customer support line closed at 7pm, we'll have to wait until the morning to get this one resolved. Liam was very disappointed.
There are "rare" and "very rare" versions of the Funkeys that we have not seen in any retail store. We have found them through Amazon.com though. These just have different colors than the regular ones, but they do earn more coins when they play the games. Since Funkeys are generally hard to find and we love them so much, we decided to find a distributor and start selling them ourselves soon. We plan to set up a store on ebay and through Amazon, so stay tuned for that new venture. But until then, you can find some of the rare ones here: UB Funkeys "Sprout" - Very Rare (White)
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