Pink Poogle Toy Forum

90,000k? man i bought a bunch of them at 1000 nps (or less) but sadly my account was stolen and my sister (who i gave a few) lost her password...
I miss when Y2K struck neopets and we lost everything and they made it up to us by giving 2000 np's and that was actually a lot. now 2k wont buy you much. (btw does anyone besides me remember the Y2K thing? i've never actually found anyone else that does)

I started playing a couple months after it happened, so no.. I don't remember anything. >.o

I do remember having a few of those helmets myself, but sold them when they were still fairly cheap. -.-;

I miss Poogle Solitaire.
I miss the old Help Chat, with its awesome regulars.
I miss the old Chat boards.
I miss the old sidebar
I miss the conspicuous lack of ads on the site
<s>I miss Doug Dohring</s>...nope, still not that desperate
I miss the staff who'd come post here

* Raises a hand* I remember! But do you remember the time when there was a problem with bank interest and the bank stopped giving interest for a while, and when they finally fixed it, they let us all collect 10 days worth interest in 1 shot?

I remember getting every single np I had in shop till and on hand and put it in the bank to get a higher interest before i collected....

and ... I miss the days books didn't go poof after reading and i could actually buy lots of books right from the bookstore....

I miss chia bingo (remembers bouncing bingo chias prior revamp drawings)....

I miss the days when the candy shop was a good place to get cheap chocolates for my pets and when i used to collect N&Ns (somehow i prefer them over neodrops).

I really really miss the days when we could get space maps easily, I'm a treasure map freak, I like the surprise element in treasure maps....

and i do wish they had kept up the planes of good and evil ideas, it sounded like fun

I think that overall, the site has really improved over time. I love avatars and sidebars. There are so many more site events now, and they've really managed to improve the balance so that now we have puzzles as well as just wars. I like how much more regular the news is...it updates every day, and there's even a weekend news update. The art is a little on the cute side, but here too I much prefer the new royal and maraquan paintbrushes to the old gold, stone, etc.

I'm amused that people miss both "x old way to earn a lot of np" and "pre-inflation cheap prices". I wish I'd picked up a few Hypno Helmets too, back in the day, but I'm trying to learn by hoarding new items now.

That said, I DO miss the old site format that focused more on embedded ads, and didn't put a giant banner across my screen and another ad at the bottom. I complained when they first came out, and got an autoreply. *sigh* Thank goodness for adblock!

I'll echo those who miss Poogle Solitaire. On a similar note, I miss being able to win magical plushies from games. They helped keep inflation down and gave more options for pet changing.

OMG, I totally had a couple of Hypno Helmets back in the day. What I wouldn't give to have them back. One for the Battledome and the others to sell.

I was looking at the Neo Archeology site under the Not Quite section(April Fools 2001 'redraws): Am I the only one who would totally love if the Kacheeks and Grundos looked like those joke versions (better drawn of course)?

no. you aren't the only one.
i thought that (at the time) as well.

I miss Chia Bingo too... It was the best and really fun to play. I quit for a couple of years and when i came back it was gone
I miss when this site was actually called pink poogle toy, it took me ages to find it when i went back to neo. I miss Poogle solitaire because it was easy money.

Ah... -wipes away a tear- I should have enjoyed it when I could have ...I've only be on Neopets for just over three years but I can remember plenty of things I miss from back in the day to rant on about so here goes - wish me luck.

I miss having no adverts, yes very shallow but they are one of my pet hates on the 'Net. I remember the days when pages would load relatively quickly thanks to the lack of adverts - the lay out may have been simpler back then but at least you didn't have to worry about getting Viruses or Trojan Horses (I swear I've picked up a couple...). Then again, its not like I knew what they were back then.

I miss when you actually submitted a problem or needed help you actually got it. When I signed up I wasn't sent my activation code and I got a response from a nice person (whom I think was called Jenny or Jennifer or something similiar) who activated my account for me. This was back when I was under 13 so to say she didn't get annoyed by a little kid whose lost her password frequently would probably be an understatement. I lost her email when my original email account got deleted when I was in hospital in '05... I wish I could thank her for all of the help. ;.;

Imagine my shock when after a year of not submitting anything (like bugs, password requests manually, ect.) when I got an autoreply. I was actually rather offended with what it suggested (Neopoints increasing bug... do they actually think I'm stupid enough to believe that a hacker got into my account and GAVE me Neopoint?). Sigh.

I may have been a kid when I joined but even I could tell the site was smaller than it is now - and I miss that. I miss actually being able to battle in the Battledome at peak times. I miss the time when there wasn't a Red Pteri of DOOM... or at least when I didn't see it. I miss not being able to just surf the site because its got too big for its own good. I also miss being able to make the best 200 scores... thanks to the small-ness of the site and the actual existence of the feature. My first table entry was for Fetch... ah... -happy memories-

I remember when everything wasn't so kid-friendly, and even though I was a kid of the time... but it was better that way and I miss that. I miss the thought that my favourite character (Jeran) was going to die and feeling something for him. In all of these newer plots I really couldn't care one way or the other since the all seem and at least act all the same. It might be I'm getting more bitter and twisted at the ripe age of... er... 15 but it has changed.

I miss the old faeries. ^^ I may be a fan of proper Anime (not some cheap knock-off) but all of these cartoon-isc Faeries are not something I'm enjoying. I miss them before the re-draws (which I think happened in 2005/2006 but I'm not sure... heh) - and by re-draws, I mean the big chunky lines... like you'd expect on all the lame computer animated shows that are churned out by Cartoon Network by the dozen. I may like KND... but still... yuck. x.x

I miss the old games... I miss... I miss when you could actually surf the shops without thinking you'll get grabbed at every page. I miss when there weren't duped items and the only reason TNT freezes you now for owning them (be the worth 1 million or 1 np) is because after you they'll be about a dozen other Neopians to take your place. ¬.¬ I am bitter and twisted... I apologise for that out burst. I miss the days when paint brushes were affordable... among other things! When I started saving up for a Honey Potion it cost about 500k, when I eventually got it (a while before the next War) I'm pretty sure it cost 700k. It probably costs more now - I haven't checked.

I miss the lack of noticable and drastic inflation - War Inflation was bad back then... but a 4k Codestone going up to 6k was bareable... I think some of them cost 8k now. Sigh. Yes there has been improvements (whomever thought of the Random Contest should be knighted or something) but since the start of '06... it feels like Neopets has gotten worse. Sigh. The slip has been steeper since the summer of that aforementioned year. I'm annoyed today, I apologise.

After poking around the site it occured to me:
I miss the times when there wasn't just stuff lying around with no use. Really, has anybody gotten an ice cream ticket??

My favorite game of all time was the original Kiko Says. It was hilarious to click on the little pets and hear them scream. The "Chia" sound was my favorite.

I remember the video shop and how the items were useless and then TNT changed them and prices shot up.

I remember the suspense and excitement of the Battledome opening up, and how cool it was when it finally did.

I remember waiting for years for theme parks, and then TNT cancelling them.

I miss being excited for new plots and wars. Before everything was mechanical and predictable.

I just miss the old thing.

I just miss the 'feel' of Neopets when it was not burdened with ads, merchandise, sponsors etc.

Neo is slowly becoming a non-descript gaming site - it has lost it's edge. I remember being so worked up and excited by the news - now it is so ho-hum and downright boring on most days.

TNT used to include little blurbs about how the site was doing or if maitenance was going on. It felt more intimate - now it is just has a cold, unfeeling 'business only' vibe happening.

I wish the staff were more open to suggestions from people, as they seemed to be in the old days.

I wish some items were not so darned expensive. I don't think they staff want to influence the economy of neopia though. So if a certain paint brush or item grows to become worth millions, they just let it happen.

We need a new paintbrush color and also we need a new type of pet for the new year. I vote for something strange, like another bug, as we only have the buzz.
As for paint brush colors, I can go on and on with ideas for those!

Oh yes, I do miss old AD FREE Neopia. I don't know when the staff will learn that I am simply not going to click an ad. Adding more ads won't help, making them bigger won't help, making them flash won't help, and making them actually talk or make music won't help. I am not clicking them! I am afraid one day they will add a new add down the right side of the screen, where there is white right now. Then we won't be playing Neopets but Key Hole pets. It will be like trying to play while looking through a Key Hole.

I like some of the new art on the site.
But I hate how they have different artists for the site than for the trading cards. I hate how the artworks on the trading cards and even on the shop keepers look better than on my pets themselves! I mean, some of the pets look nasty but they look quite cool on their shop keeper version or trading card version. It isn't fair.

I hate how they have to make everything look babyish too. I know little kids play this game, but that doesn't mean the pets have to look so cute.
I just love some of the cute pets, but I miss the dignity that some of them had before their redraws. The way they held their head high and had a look in their eyes like "mess with me..I bite your head off." Now it is all
doe eyed cutesy pets that just look like they want a hug. Now that is fine for some, but I do wish they'd give some of them their dignity back. We don't all want cutesy. Some of use actually want the "I'll bite your head off." look.

What about the Ruki?



You mean Techo Says? It's still in the game graveyard if you want to play it. It was one of my favorite games, too.

I miss when they had all sorts of copyrighted images for shopkeepers. I remember my shopkeeper was Sailor Moon.