Great news for Disney's Club Penguin Fans: a new sticker collection!

If you are a Disney's Club Penguin fan, I'm sure you were awaiting the launch of a new sticker collection from Club Penguin with impatience. Finally it is here.

New Sticker Collection for Disney’s Club Penguin

Sticker packs featuring favourite characters give kids access to items to collect from the snow-capped virtual world’s Treasure Book

London, UNITED KINGDOM, 14 May 2012 – Disney’s Club Penguin today announces the launch of a new sticker collection featuring popular characters from the snow-capped virtual world.

The collection of 204 stickers, including 36 specially designed glitter stickers, is produced by Panini UK. Sticker packs, containing five stickers, will hit the high-street on Tuesday 15 May priced at 50p each. Collectors will also be able to pick up a starter pack - including a Club Penguin sticker album and 3 sticker packs - for £1.99.

Be careful not to throw away the backing of the sticker once you peel it off, one of the stickers in the pack has a code for Penguin Club. I am not sure if it is one per pack or one per sticker. The information in the album says "a special code on every sticker", however, I opened one pack and found only one code. The free stickers that came with the album had no codes at all.

As with all Club Penguin toys, books, videogames, apps and the Disney Club Penguin magazine, the sticker packs will connect to the virtual world. Every pack comes with a unique code and while most will unlock coins to use in the virtual world, a select number of special sticker packs will bear a code that will give access to Club Penguin’s Treasure Book where fans can select one item from a range which includes clothing, puffles and more coins.

Lucy Woodward, Director of Disney Online Studios for The Walt Disney Company, Europe, Middle East and Africa says: “We are delighted to add another creative and colourful product to the Club Penguin entertainment portfolio. We are always looking for new ideas and engaging ways for kids to interact and play. The sticker collection is a really great way for kids to collect all their favouriate Club Penguin characters as well as being able to get something extra that they can then use in the virtual world.“

Club Penguin is also releasing a range of mini figure blind bags. Each foil pack comes with a collectible penguin and puffle micro figure as well as a coin which allows kids to unlock one item from the Treasure Book. The Club Penguin mini figure blind bags are on sale in all major retail outlets from Friday 1 June for £1.99.

Launched in October 2005, Club Penguin has seen more than 175 million registered users pass through the site. With its imaginative play environment, word filtering technology and live moderation, award-winning Club Penguin has built a solid reputation as a safe and secure online destination that provides fun for kids and peace of mind for parents.

So, what exciting pages are there to be found in the new sticker album? There are lots of your favourite characters, penguins and puffles, having adventures on board the Migrator or Underwater, relaxing in the Community Garden or showing off their favourite outfits.
The sticker album is produced by Panini and is exactly what you would expect from any themed sticker album with an added bonus of the special codes. What will you do? Unlock coins online? Or even get access to the Treasure Island?
Happy stickering!

Club Penguin and Earth Month

Club Penguin Champions Real World Environmental Change Through Online Play

In Celebration of Earth Month, Players Learn About Endangered Animals and Play in the Virtual Environments They are Helping to Protect

London, United Kingdom, April 19^th – Club Penguin is celebrating Earth Month this year with the launch of new activities allowing players to learn through role play about endangered species and declining habitats. These in-world activities align with the real-world environmental efforts Club Penguin supports – allowing kids to impact social change through play.

Now – April 25^th players can dress up as endangered species such as Rockhopper Penguins, Andean Cats, African Painted Dogs and Snow Leopards and learn through role play in the Earth Month themed environments in game. Players can also decorate their igloo to create the perfect natural habitat for these animals and further extend their role play experience.

“Earth month is the perfect time to educate our players through original game play about the animals and environments they are helping to protect in the real world,” said Lane Merrifield, one of Club Penguin’s co-founders and executive vice president of Disney Online Studios. “Kids care about the planet and Club Penguin makes it easy for them to drive meaningful change.”

As part of Club Penguin’s Coins for Change program, an annual in-world event where the company matches the virtual coins players donate to real world causes -- players voted to give 37% of a $2M donation to support environment and conservation projects including: the Wetlands in China, Coral Reefs in the South East Asian waters, Penguin nesting sites in Argentina & Africa and ongoing educational programs that protect endangered animals living in community members’ environments around the world. These specific causes inspired the in-world game play featured on the site during Earth Month.

Club Penguin Ideas: Easter nests with a difference

If your kids are fans of the Club Penguin, they will love these nests with a difference

Chocolate Puffle Nests

Makes 12.

Ingredients:-

300g cooking chocolate

120g cereal – rice pops, cornflakes or shredded wheat (approx. 5)

1 pkt coloured ready to roll icing

50g white ready to roll icing

Black icing pen (optional)

Paper cases

Method:-

Place the paper cases into a bun tin.

Break the chocolate into pieces and place in a large heatproof bowl.

Add the cereal and mix well until it is fully coated with chocolate.  If you are using shredded wheat crumble them first with your hands.

Divide the mixture between the paper cases.  Make a small hollow in the tops where the Puffles will nestle.

If the mixture sets too quickly place the bowl back in the microwave for 30 seconds to reheat and melt the mixture or place it back over the pan of  simmering water for a couple of minutes.

Place the nests in the fridge to set.

To make the Puffles you will need some coloured ready to roll icing.  Working with one colour at a time, knead the icing briefly until it is soft and pliable.

Roll the icing into smooth balls between the palms of your hands.  You can make Puffles any size you choose.  One large Puffle to sit on top of each nest or two or three small Puffles to snuggle together.

With a small pair of scissors lightly snip the top of the Puffle’s head three or four times to create some spiky hair.  Gently smooth the snipped spikes with your fingers to make them more defined.

Once you have spiked all the Puffle’s hair it’s time to make the eyes. Take the white ready to roll icing and roll small balls in the palm of your hand using your fingertip.  Roll enough balls for all the Puffle’s eyes.

Apply a tiny dab of water to the Puffle’s face in position for the eyes using a small paintbrush.

With the tip of your finger press one white eye down onto the worksurface to flatten it.  It should stick to your finger.  Now press into place on the Puffle’s face.  Repeat for the second eye – overlapping it slightly with the first.

 

Once you have eyes on all the Puffles set them aside to dry out a little before finishing them off.

For the pupils of the eyes and the mouth – draw on with a black icing pen or use small dots and strips of black ready to roll icing, using a little water as glue.

Take the nests out of the fridge and add one or two Puffles to the hollows in the tops of each.

Disney's Club Penguin magazine launch

If you are a Club Penguin fan and member, I'm sure you were anticipating the launch of a new magazine with great enthusiasm.

Disney’s Club Penguin Launches UK Magazine

First print magazine from the largest virtual world for kids is the latest addition to its range of connected experiences

Disney’s Club Penguin has launched its first official magazine: Disney Club Penguin Magazine. Hitting newsstands across the UK and Ireland, from Thursday 9^th February, the new magazine will give kids another way to engage with Club Penguin. The four-weekly magazine will feature richly-illustrated comic stories, fact files, puzzles and activities themed on popular in-world games and events. As with all Club Penguin toys, books, videogames and apps, the magazine will connect to the virtual world through secret codes that allow kids to earn coins and unlock exclusive items offering a truly integrated entertainment experience.

Lucy Woodward, director of Disney Online Studios for The Walt Disney Company EMEA, explains: “Safety, great content and engaging gameplay drives everything we do and this new magazine will deliver children the same quality of experiences they demand in our virtual world. The two are also connected in order to ensure complete continuity.

“In the same way we reward our players online with coins when they complete challenges and quests, kids solving puzzles in the magazine will earn coins they can use to credit their online account. Kids playing our Nintendo DS game, Herbert‘s Revenge, or collecting trading cards, can discover codes that allow them to unlock special items in-world. This kind of connectivity can also be seen with our books, plush and apps and is really important in staying true to the quality of entertainment, narrative and mythology of Club Penguin outside of the virtual world.“

Disney Club Penguin Magazine, published by Panini UK, is launching exclusively in the UK and Ireland. Each issue will include two secret codes that unlock exclusive items online for use in-world and will be available in all major retail outlets priced at £2.99.

Launched in October 2005, Club Penguin has seen more than 150 million registered users pass through the site. With its imaginative play environment, word filtering technology and live moderation, award-winning Club Penguin has built a solid reputation as a safe and secure online destination that provides fun for kids and peace of mind for parents. 

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I have seen Club Penguin annuals in the shops before, and it is only natural that fans would want a magazine which would be catering to their hobby.

The magazine is very colourful, and the 1st issue comes with several free gifts including a free 7 day membership and two codes for two exclusive items. It looks like each issue will have similar free gifts of free membership and codes that you redeem online to receive free gifts.

The magazine costs £2.99, which is an average price for a children's magazine.

You receive 1500 bonus gold coins for solving the puzzles and missions in the magazine. There are free posters, comic strips and exclusive competitions - everything that you would expect from a chidren's magazine.

All in all, a lovely addition to the Club Penguin scheme, and a bonus for all Club Penguin fans.
Sasha liked the magazine, but he is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel recently every time I try to take his photo, so I wasn't able to do a snap of him perusing the Club Penguin magazine. But as he is interested in it, we'll be certainly buying it in the future.

Coins for Change (results)

You might have read my post about Coins for Change campaign last year (see here).

The results are out, and if your children participated in the campaign, they should be proud to have been a part of the good deed. Big well done! 

Club Penguin fans changing the world through online play

Virtual world celebrates fifth year of Coins For Change campaign by doubling donation

London, United Kingdom, 4th January 2012 – Thanks to the generosity of Club Penguin (clubpenguin.com) fans who took part in the fifth annual Coins For Change online giving campaign, more children around the world will soon have safe places to live, learn and play.

Each December, Coins For Change empowers the children who play Club Penguin to help change the world by donating virtual coins they earn playing games online to real world causes that matter to them. Kids can direct donations to provide medical help, build safe places or protect the earth. At the end of the event, the virtual donations to the three cause categories serve as votes to determine how a cash contribution from Disney Online Studios will be divided among charitable projects aimed at helping children, families and the planet.

This year, to mark the fifth anniversary of Coins For Change, Club Penguin doubled its overall cash donation to $2 million USD after players filled the virtual world's lighthouse with more than 10 billion virtual coins. Players donated to three causes: medical treatments, protecting the earth and providing safe places for kids.

“Our players are always looking for ways to make a difference and help others, and over the past five years they’ve embraced the opportunity to give through Coins For Change,” says Lane Merrifield, one of Club Penguin’s co-founders and executive vice president of Disney Online Studios. “It was especially exciting to see kids from 191 countries participate together to help change the world.”

As a result of Coins For Change 2011, Disney Online Studios will donate

· $640,000 USD to fund medical clinics, health care, surgical treatments and nutrition programs.

· $620,000 USD for schools, libraries, playgrounds, education programs and support, and a group home.

· $740,000 USD to support wetlands, rainforests and wildlife conservation programs.

Club Penguin is the number one virtual world for children with a reputation for providing fun for kids and peace of mind for parents. Millions of children and families play Club Penguin in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Word filters and live moderators monitor chat and activity on the site and work to prevent the sharing of inappropriate or personally identifiable information.

Club Penguin is free to play, however special features require a membership.

A portion of Club Penguin's net proceeds support organizations working to improve the lives of children and families around the globe. Through Coins For Change alone, Club Penguin has helped in excess of a million people in more than 40 countries. To find out more, visit clubpenguin.com/global-citizenship.

Club Penguin and Coins for Change Campaign

Club Penguin Empowers Players to Turn Online Play into Real World Change

5th Annual Coins For Change Campaign Promises Largest Donation Yet

December 8, 2011 – Fans of Club Penguin (clubpenguin.com) can unite this holiday season to use online play to enact real-world social change aspart of the fifth annual Coins For Change event. Coins For Change allows children who visit the snow-covered virtual world to donate virtual coins they earn playing games online to real world causes that matter to them. This year, kids will be challenged to fill the island lighthouse with donated coins. If this goal is reached, Club Penguin has committed to doubling its overall cash donation to $2M US.

Coins For Change is designed to inspire, encourage, and enable kids to make a positive difference in the lives of families around the world. Players can direct their virtual donations to provide medical help, build safe places and protect the earth. At the end of the event, which runs from December 15 to 27 2011, the players’ virtual donations will serve as votes to determine how the contribution from Disney Online Studios will be divided among pre-selected charitable projects aimed at helping children, families and the planet.

“I am continuously amazed by the commitment and passion our players have for helping improve the lives of others," says Lane Merrifield, one of Club Penguin’s co-founders and executive vice president of Disney Online Studios. “The Club Penguin community has already helped more than a million people all over the world through Coins for Change and I hope by doubling the donation, they can help even more."

As a result of the generous in-world contributions kids have made to Coins For Change, Club Penguin has helped in excess of a million people in more than 40 countries by funding schools, libraries, health clinics, clean water programs and more. To find out more, visit clubpenguin.com/global-citizenship/.

The results of Coins for Change 2011 will be announced on January 1, 2012.

 

P.S. This is not a sponsored post in case you are wondering. I just thought this is a worthy campaign, and if you kids are computer-crazy like mine, then it might be something they will enjoy doing.