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I saw someone asking this on the neoboards and I thought it was an interesting question :P.

So, what would you want? I'd personally like to get my hands on a Gummy Striped Ixi It's one of the cutest items on Neopets in my opinion, and I'd love to add it to my gallery!

Darigan Sword of Death would be sweet too It'd be cool to find out how much damage it deals once and for all.

1 hour ago, LunaS said:

Quite an achievement after a month of trying, finally made my biggest sale yet and earned 10m np in one day 

Wow, that's a lot of money :o Congrats! May I ask what did you sell?

Hi! I'm looking for Sophies Collectors Lantern Staff:

I'm offering anything from my trade list. Drop me a NM if you're interested? :)

This year I tried to find them on my own. Took me about 20 minutes

I never open goodie bags though, it just feels... wrong to me. I just put them on my SDB and let them sit there forever. If the items they give out are good, I consider buying them from someone else.

Looking at this year's prize pool , I'm mostly interested in one of the items the TDMBGPOP goodie bag can give you:

Look at it! It's so cute! I will buy one for sure  

Sooo happy right now! I managed to complete another run of Jhudora's quests thanks to everyone on the Trading/Auctions board!

Looks like TNT posted a message on their board explaining why this is taking so long:

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Hello Fellow Neopians! Scrappy here!

I'm here to level with you guys and let you know what's the deal here! As you may have noticed, Fyora is a little slow in assembling her troops to respond to the events at the Faerie Festival. Believe me, Scrappy (and the rest of TNT) wants the battle to begin more than anyone!!

However, due to happenings in the TNT offices (the acquiring previously mentioned), priorities had to shift slightly. Don't get me wrong, it is a GREAT thing! We have so much excitement happening here and there are soooo many things in the works for you guys! But sadly, that took us slightly off schedule.

So, Fyora is waiting on our word, which I promise you is coming! Then, the battle will begin! I understand any and all frustration due to the delay but in the long run I think it will be worth it! So, remain the wonderfully patient Neopians that you are, keep training and you will be rewarded :)

Stay cool, my friends!
-Scrappy

P.S. Don't forget to go check out Haunted Hijinks :)

Being a pessimist I really doubt the acquisition will change anything on Neopets, but eh, at least they are explaining why they are dragging this thing out.

Looking to buy a Green Kacheek Morphing Potion. If anyone has one, please neomail me

Anarchy, disorder... those are very... interesting pet names

Edited the first post to include all the new artists we found on that Reddit post Will update it as/if we find more.

15 hours ago, Nielo said:

Edit: I Googled "Neopets artists" and the 2nd result was this Reddit post, which actually has a list of artists (and it was only posted 10 ago). No idea how accurate it is, but I checked some of the names, and from what I've seen there's definitely some Neopets stuff in these artists's portfolio's, but for some artists I can't really find the Neopets connection. (I haven't spent a lot of time going through their work though, so I could've easily missed it.)

Oooh, thank you so much for the link! Apparently the person who posted that list found those artists by checking the art credits from TCG rule book. Clever!

 I'll look through their portfolios and link to all their Neopets-related artwork below in case anyone is interested:

Claire Hummel: Check out her Neopets tag.

Dave Steen (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (there were way too many on his page, so I just chose these 14)

Anthony Conley: (1)

Maeve McGrath: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)

Zim McCurtis: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Josef Calvento: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)

There were other artists mentioned in the Reddit post, but I couldn't find anything related to Neo on their portfolios :(

14 hours ago, Rometus said:

if you go to deviantart.com you'll find a lot if you search neopets! a lot of the google image results come from DA if you search for specific pets and stuff haha

Oh, I know, but I was referring to official Neopets artists, as in artists who were at some point part of The Neopets Team

One of the main reasons I played and loved Neopets for so long was the art. In my opinion, the site is filled with tons of gorgeous and memorable artwork. I remember I always looked forward to pet days to see what new marquees they'd add to the frontpage because most of them looked so cool. I remember that when JN released their image emporium, I would look up random words just to see what would come up and if I could find artwork I hadn't seen before.

I also remember that I hated how there was no way to know who were the people behind the beautiful art on the site. I was so curious about that kind of stuff! I wanted to know who were these artists I admired so much, but there was nothing I could do to find out. I only recognised them by their artstyle, not by their names.

So imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon one of these artists on Tumblr! Claire Hummel used to work for Neopets and was one of the main artists there. Apparently she got the job when she was 15? That's crazy!   Sometimes she posts her old art from working on the site on her blog. You should check out her Neopets tag to see some of the things she drew. I discovered she drew some of my favourite art pieces on Neo!

There's one specific post on her blog  that caught my attention, one where she redraws a couple of images from her early days at Neo:

It just blows my mind!

So this got me thinking. Does any of you happen to know the names of some of the artists who worked at Neopets? If so, would you like to share what you know?

UPDATE: More artists below!

Dave Steen

Anthony Conley:

Maeve McGrath:

Zim McCurtis

Josef Calvento

Huh, I've been on Neo for years and I think I've never heard about this. Interesting!

So, I did some research (instead of finishing my college assignment) and apparently there's not much you can do. No tricks or tips whatsoever. It is possible to catch them, but it's extremely rare. Found some helpful editorial answers that confirm this:

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Sometimes a mysterious entity known as the "Scamander-in-chief" will donate Scamanders to The Money Tree. Is catching a Scamander at all possible (since every attempt seems to end in the Scamander wriggling out of reach and running away), or is this Scamander-in-chief fellow running a clever scam? Please remove my username. ~username removed

It's quite possible -- just very, very difficult. Scamanders are squirmy little things, and catching one is no small feat!

5 hours ago, LunaS said:

I just wanted to start back up on my Neoquest 1 game (after only 3 days of not playing) to find the only option being 'Click here to start a new game in Normal mode'

But I don't want to start a new game!!! 
Help?!!

I believe that can be fixed. From TDN's guide:

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If you change active pets and click back in to NeoQuest you will then be prompted to start a new game for whichever pet you now have active. This is particularly important because NeoQuest games usually take more than a few days, especially the first time you play. To get back your original game's progress simply activate the pet you began the first game with.

I just love how Fyora kinda tells the Battle Faerie to shut up for a moment

6 hours ago, jellysundae said:

The battle faerie looks bizarre in that dialogue

Now that you mention it, she does look kinda odd, doesn't she? I suppose it's her facial expression. Jumpstart is not very good at modifying old art.

1 hour ago, Aquamentis12 said:

I just checked the ruins map where old Maraqua once was. And the Darkest Faerie statue is not in this map. I thought for a bit and remembered that after the Battle for Maraqua war event happened. That the new maps of both Maraqua and the Ruins, didn't have the darkest faerie statue in them.  Now I'm wondering if her statue isn't guarded by the giant sea slug in the Ruins of Maraqua. More speculation, but who knows where TNT will take this new plot they are hinting at?

Her statue is still there though, right below the Whirlpool sign. It's also important to remember that the statue doesn't really mean anything anymore. It's just a nod to her whereabouts before the events of the PS2 game took place (right at the beginning of the game, she escapes from her stone prison, as you can see here ).

It would be great to see her again though. She has always been my favourite Neopets' villain.

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I notice that on that art only Illusen looks the same as always to me, all the other faeries seem to be new art which is nice (nice that it's not re-used art, not nice that they don't look quite right)

 Actually, all of it is reused art Most of the faeries we saw at this year's festival and the ones in the image of the first post come from the Faerie Festival of 2010 (which had already used old art, but at least they updated it and there was new artwork too). Some others come directly from the Faerie Quest page.

Now that the festival has been cancelled, I'm still wondering if this is gonna be a new event or the plot that Scrappy said would take place in November.

Today I won at Wing It for the first time too, and I also just got neopoints I really want that that wing flower foreground.

According to JN's guide, Wing It works like Kiko Pop, meaning that no matter where you click, whether you win or not is gonna be random. So yeah, don't even bother trying to follow the pattern

To be honest I expected this event to turn out like this. Jumpstart has no resources and they either have no idea what they're doing or they simply don't care at this point. They are just trying to get a few bucks from the small handful of people who still play Neopets.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss Viacom.

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So what's your opinion on the potential reality of everyone getting another pet slot?

I'll eat my shoes if it ever happens It would take so much work to change lookups to be able to display another pet slot.

Also, I too find Scrappy a little annoying. She's one of the reasons I stopped reading the editorial.

The Marble Ixi looks amazing! I don't know if I'd paint any of my Ixi though; I'm not creative enough to come up with a customization that'd look good with that colour.

As for pastel... I don't like pastel colours in general, so I've got nothing say

I was hoping my Ixi gallery would win the spotlight this year, but that was just wishful thinking on my part. I'm still missing quite a few items and my gallery layout is a premade one. I should also work on the description, but I'm too lazy

I was surprised to see that no one on the forums has mentioned this yet!

So... two weeks ago, a staff member called Scrappy held a Q&A session on the neoboards. In that Q&A session, she confirmed that TNT are working on a new plot!:

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Yup there's a new plot coming...

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When I say plot I mean plot. I can't give you details because I'm really not sure if I'm allowed and don't want to get in trouble but come on guys. What would a plot be if we couldn't fight off some bad guys?

What do you guys think? :)

Personally, I'm gonna keep my expectations pretty low. I just can't trust Jumpstart anymore. Besides, with how limited their resources are, I doubt they'll be able to pull off a decent plot, but maybe that's just me being overly negative

I totally forgot that to get a trophy (and not a participation medal) you had to get to Rank 1 at least, so I just played one single game of yooyuball and called it quits. Now I'll always have that ugly medal on my lookup to remind what an idiot I am

6 hours ago, Scoobert_Doo said:

Is it still happening? If so, when you tried another browser, did that browser do the same thing? Off-hand, it looks like Firefox isn't displaying most images. Sometimes that happens to me, when my Internet access is being slow. The page(s) take way longer to load, or don't load at all. When they do load, I don't always see the graphics and I see a lot of "text" hyperlinks and the page doesn't look formatted as it should. There are things you can do with Firefox, but if it happens to both browsers, then there are other things I'd check.

Thanks for commenting, but it looks like it has fixed itself :). I think restarting my computer did the trick?

So I've been having this problem since morning. Neopets just doesn't seem to load properly. Whenever I enter the site it looks like this. And off-site, neopets images don't seem to load either. Here's a screenshot of what JN's IDB looks like to me right now.

Anyone else having this problem? I tried clearing my cache and using another browser, but it solved nothing.