UB Funkey playing party this Saturday at 11 am Eastern time

Let's have a party this Saturday, Feb. 20, at 11am Eastern time (8am Pacific). That is the time currently ahead in the poll. Keep voting and perhaps we can add another time so someone isn't left out who would like the opportunity to play against other people.

I've added a new poll so you can indicate which Chat Funkeys you have so that you have access to that chat room. Please vote for every chat funkey that you have.
Holler's chat room will be the main meeting place since that is so easy to get to in Funkeystown. Rom's chat room can be the secondary room to go to if you don't have a Holler.

If you don't have any chat funkeys, that's okay, you don't need to meet up in chat room in order to add buddies to your list. You can also try typing names in your buddy list to see if they're on-line. Please leave a comment with your Unique Funkey name if you want to share itor put it on the Funkey Fan Forum.
I'll list the ones I have before Saturday.

Here is a list of what time it will be in other time zones:

Central (US): 10am
Mountain (US): 9am
England & Ireland: 4pm
France: 5pm

Unfortunately, it will be in the middle of the night in Australia (3am), New Zealand, so we'll need to set up another time if there are players who want to join in at a better time.

Please vote in our poll: When can you play funkeys with everyone else?

Note added on Feb. 12: We plan to be online tomorrow playing Funkeys at the times listed on the poll (10am Eastern time, and 7pm). Looks like we'll wait until next week to call it a party. That will give us time to email old friends who haven't played in a while, and for you all to spread the word.
For tomorrow, if we don't see any Funkey names that we know on at the same time, we'll check the Rewind Chat Room.


I've put up a new poll on the right side bar of this blog. If you would like to join us for another UB Funkey Multi-player game party, please vote for when you can be online to play. You can choose multiple answers (even all of them!)


This is what we mean by a "party" - - There will be many different players on-line at the same time for you to play against. There are different ways to go about "meeting up":



~ You can request to add a buddy to your buddy list while in the UB Funkey game. Then you'll see who is on-line and you can challenge them to play, or even just to visit each other's cribs. There are many Unique Funkey Names listed out on my last blog post, and in the Funkey Fan Forum. We can list more prior to game time. And you can add yours in the comment section here.



~ You can go to a chat room (to be determined) and find other players there who are on-line. Some may want to chat, some may add you as a buddy. You can use the chat function to see if anyone wants to play a game or visit your crib.

Is there a Multi-player funkey that you don't have? Please let us know when you post your Funkey name and someone can challenge you.
Multi-player Funkeys are: Lucky (soccer), Snipe (billiards), Dyer (like funk-jong), Sprocket, and Hidden Realm games: Funkey Fighters, Sushi Showdown (chinese checkers)


Here are some images from when we set up a party last weekend.
It could have been just coincidence that these other players were in the ROM chat room at the same time, not sure how many came for our "party". But it was fun.






Part of the fun is changing your Funkey image. I thought it was funny that everyone in the chat room turned into a Native or Pineapple King.




We were invited to Rebsingh's crib and got to see him as Dot. My Funkey cell phone wasn't working, so we couldn't invite anyone to ours unfortunately.

UB Funkey party today!

Hello everyone!

** Just want to say sorry to everyone who wanted to come to my crib today....the Funkey cell phone wasn't working so I couldn't invite anyone in. Just want to let you know I didn't do that on purpose! **

UPDATE:
We'll be back on Funkeys playing 2:00 Eastern time this afternoon (for just a little while) and then again around 5:00 Eastern (2:00 pacific).

We can't stay long for 2:00, but maybe there will be others to play against. We have 26 inches of snow and it's still coming down! So we have a lot of shoveling to do and I haven't started my part yet! I'll try to post pictures later...they are calling this the Snowmageddon.

Here are the Funkey names to look for and play against (add a comment if you want us to find you as well or you can add it to the forum so it shows up immediately funkeyfanforum:

Pteprocks is Pteprocks

neos is neos123141

jairo is jairom1242

Rebsingh is Rishi517

Tiger190 is Daydreamoasisportal

carabu is carabu

Liam & I will take turns on Funkeysrfun

We can try the web chat on Rebsingh's web site to chat simultaneously: http://www.funkeyplanet.com/ubf-blog.php . There is more of a party going on in that chat box then on UB Funkeys!

Also, we can use ROM's chat room for anyone who wants to meet there if we don't have your Funkey name listed.

Hope to see you on-line!

UB Funkey party tomorrow, anyone?

Hi everyone! Let's have a Funkey multi-player game party tomorrow, Sat. Feb. 6.

There are 2 ways I can think of to do this - Either list each other Funkey names and we can add each other when we're on. OR meet in a chat room, but that would require the particular Funkey, right?

I think I saw that Pteprocks planned a party on New Year's Eve (awesome idea)....how did that work out? Did meeting in a chat room work best?

Unless I post something different, how about we try to be on at 11am Eastern time (8am pacific), and again at 2pm (11am Pacific). And for those who can't make it, maybe just check in on the hour at different times tomorrow and hopefully others will do the same.

If you plan to participate, please leave a comment with your Funkey name and which game you want to play if you have a preference. And also if you have the Funkey for the game, or if you need someone with it to invite you to play.

Spread the word!

Index.RDF missing

If anyone else is getting this message, here is what I found out today from Mattel's customer service:

It usually means a file is corrupt after an update is interrupted (not verbatim, but that's what I remember he said). The solution is to uninstall and reinstall. You won't lose any data since your progress is saved on their server. So as long as you know what your login name & password is, you should be fine. You can download the software from their website: service.mattel.com

This install will get you to version 4.8, and then after you log into the game, it will check for updates and should update to 5.0, the most current version.

Please join the Funkey Fan Forum

There are a few regulars over on the Funkey Fan Forum and they're a little lonely over there. Please come visit and say "hi", or if you can answer any of the unanswered questions, that would be very appreciated.

Here's the link: Funkey Fan Forum

I know it's not as fancy as the Speakeasy forum, I can try to work on that sometime soon.
It's okay to visit both forums!

I need to say a huge THANK YOU! to Akaabbey for keeping up with the Funkey Fan Forum as an administrator. I haven't been around much but she's stuck with in and checks in to make sure it stays kid-friendly and helps to answer questions.

Thanks everyone!

If anyone has any news on the future of the Funkeys, please share! I haven't been looking for news lately, but I plan to start digging up what I can soon.
THANKS to Daffyjeeps for his email. He emailed me about the UBFunkey official website closing. I hadn't heard that yet.
I'm sure there must be buzzing over at the Speakeasy, but I haven't checked there in a very long time. And if you share information, you can say if you heard from over there and I'll post that too!

UB Funkey Rastro Costume

Here are some pictures of a Rastro costume sent in by Judi C. of Indiana. Her 6 year old son, Aaron C., is a fan of UB Funkeys and really wanted to go as Rastro for Halloween. His mother was up for the challenge even though she's not a seamstress, but she's made his costumes for him in past years.

If you're curious about how Judi made this, as I was, here is what she wrote: "I don't know how many hours I put into it, but the head did take the longest. It was paper mache using a punching ball as the base. I used a pattern for a super-hero costume for the body, just altering it a bit for the belt, arms/hands, and the feet. I probably would have used a pair of sweats as the base but couldn't find the darker gray. It probably would've saved some time."

Aaron has already told his mom he wants to go as Nectar next year, so I wish her good luck on that! ;)
We'll look forward to seeing more pictures next year!

Master Lox Costume

Here are some awesome pictures sent in by Jennifer L. of Troup Texas. Her 7 year old son, Alex L., was Master Lox for Halloween.

His dad put in about 20 hours making the mask. They used football pads for the large shoulders and different black capes they had from previous halloweens, other than that he was dressed in a black jogging suit.




That was a great costume, Alex!

If you all want to see another Master Lox costume, you can visit Frogboy's blog where he posted a picture of his brother's costume from a previous year's Halloween.

Please check back in the next day or two because I will be posting pictures of a Rastro Halloween costume.

Funkey Fever Clearance Sale

Tristan F. sent me an email about Funkey Fever closing. I didn't know that! That's sad news. They are closing on December 30, 2009 and are having a clearance sale on their UB Funkey merchandise.
Here's the message posted by Tamara, the owner:

Due to loss of interest from children and collectors, we are closing our website for good. I'm sorry to those of you who still show interest and help support our site but we cannot afford to continue. We will officially close December 30, 2009 and we will be selling all products cheap!! everything left will be on ebay after that date. I'm very sorry!

Goodbye and I will miss you all!

Tamara

What's up with Zhu Zhu Pets?

I just read an article that these little pet hamsters called Zhu Zhu Pets are flying off the shelves of Walmart and ToysRUs, they are hard to find, and that people are buying them for higher prices off of Amazon.com and eBay. Sound familiar? It reminds me of UB Funkeys after every new release!


Just saw on eBay, I think it's worse than UB Funkeys because there are pages & pages posted every day! Walmart supposedly sells these things at $8 and they are selling on eBay for around $26 and up. But eBay is so flooded with, I wonder how soon it will stabilize and the winning bids will be only .99 cents.

These are cute little critters and Liam does want a pet! :)