Do any of your Webkinz speak French? How about Italian? Spanish? Well even if can't speak a foreign language now, within the next few months they may just start.

Looks like Ganz is expanding Webkinz to the rest of the world. Over the next few months they will be translating parts of Webkinz World to other languages and opening a global Webkinz online store.

Of course, I say good for them. Having a global presence will definitely be great for the Webkinz bottom line but I hope that this expansion doesn't cause the existing users any problems. As it is now, it's hard to log on sometimes. Lots of times during peak hours, we aren't able to log into Webkinz World and the sad part is that we don't even get a Server Busy error. It just says that the logon information is incorrect like the wrong password was typed in.

Webkinz World uptime has definitely improved since my son and I joined a few years ago so I know they aren't sitting back and just trying to milk their cash cow. But some more work needs to be done.

"Sorry but there's too many people logged into Webkinz so you can't play now" is not a fun thing for a parent to say in any language.