WATERLOO -- You might say they're Beanie Babies with byte. Or you could say they're the Tamagotchis of the new millennium. Here in the Cedar Valley, though, kids have one ...

All sorts of stuffed animals come with their own “online playgrounds” — Shining Stars, Kookeys, My E-Pets, to name a few. There are even plans for Tracksters, a line of die-cast cars that ...

Webkinz care givers can also create and furnish rooms, and buy more food and clothes for their virtual pets. They make all of these purchases with KinzCash. Each toy includes 2,000 in KinzCash.

The Lakeland 10-year-old started helping customers at Ambiance, his parents' gift shop, when he learned about Webkinz six months ago.Webkinz, a mix between Tamagotchis and Beanie Babies, are the ...

These kind of fads absolutely amaze me: Webkinz “the interactive, collectible plush toys that have generated the same frenzied fever as Beatlemania and Beanie Babies.” Started by the Ganz gift company ...

It's Friday afternoon, and I've called 12 toy stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. All have the same frustrating answer: "We're sold out of Webkinz...sorry. We hope to get a shipment soon." I ...

MOBILE | Kaelyn Horn spent $8,000 on a TV. She’s spent thousands more on furniture and accessories to decorate her 35 rooms. She even bought a bowling alley. But, lucky for her mom, the 8-year ...

Photo: Todd Tankersley What hath Webkinz wrought? When this plucky line of stuffed animals launched in 2005, it had a unique feature: Each creature (like the goldfish above) comes with a code that ...

A Plymouth father and his two daughters are scoring big with a popular podcast about the all-the-rage toy animals. Minneapolis. 35°F. eEdition. Minnesota News You Can Use. The Latest.