Valentine's Day! Show Your Colors!

Across the land, 
across the sea,
Friends forever 
we will always be.

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my Pandanda Pals! I hope you are having a great time with your friends in Pandanda today. Maybe you and your friends can dress alike in red and pink clothes. You could even add in some purple - it goes great with red and pink (plus, it's my favorite color!)

By now you have probably gathered enough Friendship Bracelets to trade to Lucy at the Fishing Hole for some of Friendship Festival prizes. She has a bouquet of red flowers for 25 bracelets, a pair of cool animated heart sunglasses for 50 bracelets, and a funny coiled hat with a heart on the top for 50 bracelets. There are white and purple "I Heart PD" tshirts for 75 bracelets each. And for your treehouse, you can get some extremely cool heart-shaped chairs in red and purple for 75 bracelets!

Just for fun, I've put up a Valentine's Day Color poll for you to vote on. Check it out over there on the right side of the page!

Thanks for being such great friends!
Henry

Valentine Red and Pink Color Day Tomorrow!

Hello friends!

This is going to be an exciting week in Pandanda land! The Friendship Festival is still going on, of course. And tomorrow is Valentine's Day, a special day to celebrate with your best friends. Make sure to dress up in Valentines colors of red, pink, and white tomorrow.

This Friday, the 17th,  I will be celebrating with the Super Questers who have reached Level 75! There will be two party times, so pandas from all over the world can be there. The first party will be at 10am Pandanda Time and the second party will be at 6pm Pandanda Time. You can click on each of those links to see what time the parties will be where you live. Pandas who live in Australia, New Zealand, and other countries around that part of the world will probably want to come to the 6pm party, since it will be on Saturday morning and early afternoon. Just check those links!

Then on Saturday, we are having another super-fun Game Day. You will have a chance to win Panda Gold from Moderators in games of Bunny Chase and Ghosts of Misty Hill. The Mods will be hosting as many games as they can fit into their shifts, giving you lots of chances to win Panda Gold. Instead of awarding 25 Gold for 1st place and 10 Gold for 2nd place like they usually do, they will award 250 Gold to 1st place and 100 Gold to 2nd place!

Also, every multiplayer game will award double Coins on Saturday. That means every time you play Pen the Pig, Line 4, Ghosts of Misty Hill, and Bunny Chase, you will receive twice as many Pandanda Coins as you usually do. There is no limit to the amount of Panda Coins you can win! I'll have more info about Game Day as we get closer to Saturday.

Have fun!
Henry

It's Friendship Festival Time!

A circle's round, it has no end.
That's how long I will be your friend!

The 2nd Annual Pandanda Friendship Festival has finally begun! Rainbow-colored friendship bracelets are scattered all over Pandanda for you to find and collect. Visit Lucy at the Fishing Hole to check out her selection of cool prizes, and when you've collected enough bracelets, you can trade them to her for a prize!

This is also a great time to get ahead on your Quests, because there are 2 extra Quests each day, for a total of 11 daily Quests. The extra Quests have a cool friendship theme that I think you will enjoy.

Along with the heavy snow that has returned, the Friendship Festival has some of my favorite decorations of the whole year! There are so many nice places to hang out, sit, and chat with your friends old and new. And if you don't feel like chatting you can just listen to the Festival music and enjoy the scenery.

Friendship Festival Starts Friday!

I am so excited about the start of Friendship Festival on Friday that I can't get a song out of my head. Maybe you know it: 
 
Make new friends, but keep the old.  
One is silver, and the other, gold.

Friendship Festival will be a time to celebrate with the friends you already have, and to make new friends. There will be delightful decorations, extra Quests, and, of course lots of colorful Friendship Bracelets scattered all over Pandanda for you to collect. When you have enough Friendship Bracelets, you can visit Lucy at the Fishing Hole to trade them for special Friendship Fest prizes.

And don't forget, the Pandanda Forecasters predict we will have another heavy snow just in time for Friendship Festival. So don't pack away your warm clothes just yet!

New Account Management Features!

Hi, Panda Pals!

I am excited to tell you about some new Account Management features we have added to the Pandanda website. You can follow that link to get there, or go to the Membership page, then click on Manage Account in the menu. You do not have to be an Elite member to use Account Management. This is for everyone!

Once on the Account Management page, you can login with your Panda name and password to access the features. You can check your membership status if you are an Elite member. If you have a recurring monthly Elite membership it will tell you the date your membership will next renew on. You will also see a link to cancel your recurring membership.

If you have a non-renewing Elite membership (for example, a 6 or 12 month Elite, or an Elite bought with a Gift Certificate) it will tell you the date your membership will expire. Since it is not necessary to cancel a non-renewing Elite membership, you will not see a cancellation link.

Also on the Account Management page, you can see the email address that you used when you created your account, the date that you created your account, and the chat mode your account is in, either Safe or Filtered.

You can now change your chat mode yourself! Simply click the link where it says "To change your Chat Mode preference". An email will be sent to the address your account is registered to. That email has a link that you must click to complete the Chat Mode change. If you changed your mind, and don't really want to change your Chat Mode, you can just delete that email, and your Chat Mode will remain the way it was.

If you change your mind after you have already clicked the link in the email, don't worry! You can log back into your Account Management page and change your Chat Mode again!

If you need to contact Customer Support with any questions or comments about your account or about Pandanda, you can click the link where it says "To contact Customer Support".

Sheriff Steele has a bit of important advice he wants to share with you. Take it away, Sheriff!

Sheriff Steele here! Pandanda Citizens, it is very important that you keep your Pandanda password completely private. Remember, when you tell someone your password, you are letting them go on your account and do pretty much anything they want. Is it worth taking the chance of having them sell all of your things, or even getting you banned? Your account is YOUR responsibility. Keep it safe! Sheriff Steele, signing off!

Thank you, Sheriff, for those words of advice! Pandas, I will have some more information about using the new Account Management features this week. And don't forget, the fantastic Friendship Festival will begin on Friday. I can't wait!

Henry

More Snow is Forecast for Pandanda!

Hey there, friends!

Well, the groundhog saw his shadow on Groundhog Day, which means six more weeks of winter. The Pandanda weather forecasters had thought things were warming up in Pandanda, but they now agree with the groundhog's prediction. The new weather forecast is for heavy snow to hit Pandanda again late next week, just in time for the Friendship Festival!

Maggie is so excited for more snow that she is now selling Sled Companions, along with her Horse and Pony Companions. Head over to Farmer Ned's Barn to check them out! The sleds come in 3 color combinations, and will be just the thing for getting around Pandanda after the snowfall.

And here's some great news for those of you who love to shop - you can now buy MORE Vault space! You can buy up to 500 more spaces, for a total of 1000 spaces. The Vault is a great place to store your summer clothes, holiday decorations, or anything else. Putting things in your Vault lets you free up space in your closet and treehouse storage for new clothing or furniture.

I've got some more cool stuff to share with you all, but I will save that for my next post. Talk to you soon!

Henry

Fantastic February!

Wow, have you checked out the Pandanda February Calendar? We've got lots of things planned to help make the shortest month of the year one of the most fun months of the year!

Right off the bat, there was an awesome update in the Clothing Catalog. Lots of cool Valentine's-themed clothes and accessories; a hockey uniform, hockey stick, and skates; new player card backgrounds, and more! And you can still buy football stuff for the Big Game on Sunday. Go Team!

Zing will be leaving this Sunday, so make sure you have collected 10 Golden Tickets and traded them to him for his 4th and final prize. Once he leaves, his prizes are gone forever!

We will celebrate the power of friendship during the Friendship Festival, which begins on February 10th. You'll have 18 days to collect friendship bracelets to trade for cool Friendship Fest prizes. And on Valentine's Day, the 14th, we will have a Red and Pink Color Day.

I've got some special parties planned for Super Questers this month! On the 17th, all pandas who have reached Level 75 will be able to party with me on Palm Server. Then on the 24th, everyone at Level 50 and above will get their chance to party! There will be two party times on each of those days, so pandas all over the world should have a chance to participate.

Game Day returns on the 18th, with double coins on multiplayer games, and lots of chances to win Panda Gold from me and the Moderators in Ghosts of Misty Hill and Bunny Chase.

Dress up in purple, green, yellow, and gold for Mardi Gras Color Day on the 21st, then end that week with a super Free Elite Member Day!

February is going to be fine!
Henry