Greetings From U.B. Funkey's Funkiki Island

Funkiki Island is up and running. We had some minor set backs during the process of updating, but the Radica support folks think it's because we're running Windows Vista as our Operating System. We changed some of our security settings, but I'm not sure that's what let the update go through. All is well and working now, and it was worth waiting a day. The Funkeys for Funkiki Island aren't even supposed to be released yet anyway, so we can give the Radica/Mattel folks a break if any of it was due to the not-quite-ready updates!

Funkiki Island has been very fun. Liam has been playing on it whenever he has a spare moment all day yesterday and today. Today we added Flurry, but it's game wasn't easy to figure out on the first try, so we lost interest and went back to Webley's game. I won a trophy for Liam's game room with a score of 5,434. That was complete luck since it was the first time I played it & didn't know what I was doing! The next two times I played, I got very low scores and earned ZERO coins. Also won a web shooter with a score of 3,830, but I think it was the moves that won it. The game said my moves were "fly" (the game is about trapping flies). The web shooter is very cool, it allows you to get through dead-ends by covering it with webs so your Funkey can cross. Liam was able to fill in 2 breaks in the broken bridge and cross over.

I have more to comment on about these new updates, some are puzzling, some are very interesting. But I'll add more tomorrow.....kooties, washing stations, natives, coconuts, and map features are some.

(update - Liam went back to Flurry's game & figured it out all by himself, and he just only turned 6!)

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Flurry's Game Hectic Half-Pipe

Sol's game Sunshine Links

Webley's game Fly Catcher

Nibble's game Pearl Diver

UB Funkey Facts

U.B. Funkeys, UB Funkey, Funkiki, UB Funkey Flurry

The Rare and Very Rare Funkeys

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). Sprout is one of my favorites. Flurry Rare Green UB Funkeys Funkiki Island by Radica. We don't have Flurry yet, but that will be our next one because we can't wait to have the Fun "key" to unlock Funkiki Island. We haven't been there yet!