U.B. Funkeys: To Buy or Not To Buy?

This post is for those who are searching for more information about the U.B. Funkeys virtual computer game before buying it as a gift for someone.

When you are ready to buy UB Funkeys, here is a guide of where to find them: Where To Buy UB Funkeys

First, you can find an on-line demo at Mattel's official UB Funkey website: UB Funkeys Demo

(Thank you FFM for sending me the email link)

To further help with the decision of buying the UB Funkey game or not, I have my own list of Pro's and Con's. I'll try to keep this as an evolving list where I add what others have to contribute as well. Please leave comments and I'll do my best to add them to the list.

Pro's

• Although they are collectibles and you need more pieces (Funkeys) in order to play more games, they are affordable, even for the kids to buy with their own gift money or allowance ($4.99 - $7.99 in the retail stores, depending on where you can find the ones you are looking for)

• The game is fun for the whole family. You can have up to 8 login names. Parents like it too, and it can be a bonding experience for the family as they share fun together.

• The game is continuously growing, Mattel has been putting out updates and enhancements every few months and it keeps the game interesting.

• Parents can be sure that their kids are safe playing the game. Even though the multiplayer Funkeys enable play against other people, and there is chat capability, it is all safe in the way that communication is not "free chat". The phrases are all pre-set.

• You don't need to be connected to the internet in order to play the game, although you will need access to the internet for the periodic updates that will come as downloads.

• There are learning opportunities within the game. I especially like the lesson of saving coins to buy something more expensive later, rather than spending the coins on little things as soon as the kids earn them. My son, Liam, has come a long way since he began playing. In the beginning he would buy hundreds of bugs just because he wanted to spend his coins. But now he does save up to a couple thousand at times.
  
  
  

Con's

• The game is addicting, and you may find yourself wanting to collect them all, or at least one of each tribe!

• Sometimes they are hard to find and you may be tempted to pay a lot of money buying on Ebay for the new releases (but you can control yourself, and do know that in time they will be easier to find in the stores.)

If there are any more questions, you are welcome to leave a comment here on the blog, or join in on our Funkey Fan Forum . There are lots of great Funkey Fans who can help answer quesions!

UB Funkey Plush

Here's a picture of Akaabbey's Funkey Plush collection:

Even though they've been in the Target stores for a while, I haven't seen any yet. Although now I realize I might have been looking in the wrong place because Akaabbey found them "in the Christmas stuff...the aisle with all the little goodies, on the bottom row. "

Has anyone else seen them at Target yet?

UB Funkeys coloring creations

The name of Liam's recent Funkey creation is "Sound"



If you're having yucky weather like we are today, it's a good day for kids to do some artwork. Liam has fun using the application Paint. Here's a link to create your own Funkey http://ubfunkeysarefun.blogspot.com/2011/01/ub-funkey-coloring-page.html . You can either print it or copy & paste it into an application like Paint.

Here are some of Liam's creations. Since this is Liam's blog too (and I "stole it from him", as he once said to me!), I'll post some of his creations today.

Liam named this one, "X Vr"

Liam wanted me to add a note that some of these are not complete, the ones with white still showing. He asked me to label each one "complete" or "not complete", but I don't thing that is necessary! :) I think you can tell by looking!

"Tt"

"NuJu"

"Eco"

"Beast"

"Scab"


"Berger with shoes"

"Aqua Waggs", he's a superhero!

"Samurai Lucky"

"Spockbot"

This last one is not related to UB Funkeys, but I thought it was cute & funny, so I wanted to share it!

Liam calls it "Pet Alien"

(but I think it looks like a pickle in a blue suit! hehehe)

UB Funkey blogs to check out

Just a quick post to say hello to all the regular visitors and to say I'm still here, but busier than usual. I have some things to share so I'll try to post more soon. We did find Berger and the Funkiki Island Adventure pack. Oh, I should mention that Target is having a sale on the Funkiki Island Adventure pack coming up tomorrow (sunday) and running through the week. The sale price is for around $17. And Toys R Us is also having a sale now on the starter kits and the singles, which puts the price more in line with Target's regular prices (maybe even close to Walmarts! But I'll double check on that)

I wanted to point out some other UB Funkey blogs that you can check out when you're looking for the most updated Funkey information, especially when there are lulls in the posts here as in the past 2 weeks! The comment section of the latest posts here are very active, almost daily, so you can always check those too when you don't see anything new here.

Here are some blogs of some my regular visitors. Check them out if you can, and also vote in their polls while you're there!

Steven has posted some pictures that show evidence that there could be a Speed Racer adventure pack (see his post dated Oct. 22). You can visit his blog at ubfunkeysinfo.blogspot.com

Pteprocks has all kinds of information. He has lots of Funkeys and plays often so he's always one of the first to find out new things. He also writes about Club Penguin.
www.pteprocks.blogspot.com

(note to pteprocks - I just noticed your polls have reached their closed dates, so you can open them up if you want the new visitors to vote too! Thanks!)


FFM, who you may recognize as a regular contributor in the comments sections, has a great sense of humor and I always enjoy reading her blog! But beware, her humor includes some joking around, so don't be mislead!
funkeyobsession101.blogspot.com


Here are a few new ones:

thefunkeyblog.blogspot.com by Neonmaster
funkeysforever.blogspot.com by MFunk04
funkeysrock.blogspot.com by thegman12
funkeysfun.blogspot.com by Roco
goofystarsblogdefunkey.blogspot.com by goofystar
neofunk5000.blogspot.com by Xweetok

We found an Adventure Pack with Mayor Sayso, Master Lox, and a Henchman

I was excited to walk into a K-Mart and actually see the UB Funkey Adventure Pack with Mayor Sayso, Master Lox, a Henchman and Bones. I didn't include Bones picture because.......well, do we really care about Bones anymore?

Liam is very anxious to get exploring with the addition to our collection, so I am to get off of here and let him do that. But then I'll come back later and share what we find, and maybe post some screen shots.

Meanwhile, this is what Sneck shared with us on the FunkeyFanForum after she got the Adventure Pack yesterday:

Henchman can steal a coin from funkeys but its kinda tricky gotta be directly in front of them and you only get a coin (Berger gave a piece of cake when my 12yr old played).

Villain's Den is pretty cool the game takes 20 coins to play you catch
coins and have to avoid the black ones before times up got about 42 coins the one time I got to play.

Master Lox and the henchman can't get into anything but the villain's den. With Master Lox basically you can go around and scare people (this was what my 12 year old told me).

Adventure Pack with Master Lox, Mayor Sayso, Henchman

Pteprocks has just reported on his blog, pteprocks.blogspot.com, that he saw Master Lox, Mayor Sayso, and a henchman in someone's crib. Check out his blog to see the picture. And while you are there, take a minute and take his polls!

The word on the street is that K-Mart will carry the new adventure pack as an exclusive. Sounds like it's time to start checking the K-Mart stores. Has anyone seen them yet?

Akaabbey & Dino24's Funktastic Funkey Collection

Wow! I thought I was a Funkey Fanatic until akaabbey came along. If there was an award for Funkey Mom of the year, she would win! And I say that with admiration.

You can see a bigger picture on the Funkey Fan Forum

UB Funkeys 3.2 Exclusive Characters Update

Everyone seems to be talking about Quests, and we're left out! We're still busy playing with the newest multiplayer Funkeys. Now I know what our buddies are doing when they don't want to accept our challenge, they're busy on the quests!

Supposedly we got the 3.2 update last week, but we didn't see any changes.
Now I'm hearing all about the update that just occurred in the past couple days. If you haven't read the comments in the previous post, there's a lot of good stuff on the quests. I'll work on transferring some of them over to this blog post for you to see a bit later.

Also, if you want to know more, there's a spoiler thread started on the FunkeyFanForum. Instead of posting any answers to the quests here in the comments, let's put them over in the spoiler part to keep it a surprise for those who prefer that.

Here's what Neonmaster had to say about the Quests back on October 7th. Please see his picture at the top that shows the shield:

Today the 3.2 update hit me and it is amazing! firstly, there's QUESTS!
Man, this has to be the best improvement yet. To start a quest, there's starting points that are the Funkeys walking around. If they have a shield above them, then you can click on them and they will give you a quest. (picture 1 is attached) Some quests require funkeys like Berger and Fallout, while others have certain requirements. They also reward you with items (they are in a special section in your inventory labeled 'Quest') Such as the mini coin creeper, (which sadly doesn't give you coins) or they can pay you.(as far as I know, I got 100.) There are 4 known quests that I have found. One in the Nightmare Rift, one in Funkeystown, one in Funkiki Island, and one in daydream oasis.

Secondly, you can save your progress! I wonder if this will link up to
being able to log on to any computers with hubs.

Now I'm off to figure out how we can get that 3.2 update to work. I'll report back in case any of you are having the same problem.

It appears a glitch in the game was fixed with the 3.2 update. Here's what Chris wrote in the comment section of the last post:

Hey guys try going to your crib and play any game that is not the game of the funkey you are playing as. If you got the 3.2 update then access is denied. If I didn't have a rare or very rare of a certain funkey, I would just go to my crib and play the game with another rare or very rare, and now you can't. Try it if you got the update.

UB Funkey Multiplayer Games are a whole new level of fun!

If you thought UB Funkeys couldn't become any more addicting then they already are.......think again! I just played all 4 multiplayer games with Pteprocks. And Pteprocks does rock. OMG, he's good at all the games. I believe that was his first time playing Dyer's Jongg Challenge, and he won the trophy! So it looks like you can win a trophy just by playing against someone who has a multiplayer funkey. {This has been confirmed on Pteprock's blog}

What was I thinking challenging him to any games? I think he has every single trophy, and look at all the gems he has, that's a sign right there that he knows what he's doing!

[To Pteprocks ~ Liam played the first few games of Jongg Challenge with you, then that was me on the last one, I took over when Liam went to bed. That was my first time playing Lucky, Snipe, and Sprocket, so that's why I wasn't so good at them! I was figuring it out as we went along!]

The Snipe game is much more fun that I thought it would be. It is very similar to a real game of pool (or billiards!). As I was playing it on the computer, I realized that I could just go downstairs and play it for real. But the Funkey game was better because you have a little help lining it up.

I thought the "taunt" choices for chatting during the game were funny. Here's a screen capture of it:

If you haven't seen our pictures of our newest multiplayer Funkeys yet, please see this post

We hit the UB Funkey jackpot! Dyer, Snipe, Sprocket, and Tank!

It was a successful UB Funkey hunt today and we added these guys to our collection today. Now we are only missing Berger.

We scored a very rare Dyer, rare Snipe, normal Sprocket, and a very rare Tank.



I've included pictures of all the Dream State Funkeys (one of each tribe except Berger)

These are our Funkeys that go to Daydream Oasis:
normal Lucky, very rare Dyer, and very rare Tank. (Berger is missing)

Our Nightmare Portal Funkeys:

normal Vlurp, normal Ptep, rare Snipe, and normal Sprocket.

Our Chat Funkeys: Gabby, Holler, Rewind, and Rom

Our Dream State collection that includes rare Waggs and rare Drift.