An exciting sneak peek is on its way to Club Pogo. Introducing a whole new way to express yourself and be unique on Pogo... Pogo Minis!
What's a Pogo™ Mini?
A Pogo Mini is a picture of a small person that represents YOU on Pogo. There are lots of items you can get for your Pogo Mini to dress it up and make it your own. Choose from shirts, hats, pants, dresses, costumes, and funny facial features. Choose a background setting for your Pogo Mini that resembles a slice of home or a vista of a far-off land. Other objects and surprises are on the way. We're just getting started!
Where do I see my Pogo™ Mini?
Your Pogo Mini will appear in your profile, and in the chat area of the games. From chat, you may browse through the Pogo Minis of everyone in the room!
That's not all! We've worked Pogo Minis into Jungle Gin, Texas Hold'em Poker, Canasta, and Casino Island Blackjack so you can see your Pogo Minis in action. Your Pogo Mini will "chat" and react to what happens in the game!
OK, how do I get a Pogo™ Mini?
When we launch Pogo Minis, every Club Pogo member will get their own basic Pogo Mini automatically. Pogo Minis are exclusive to Club Pogo members! Change your look every day, every hour, or every minute — the possibilities are up to you.
You can:
Make your Pogo Mini look just like you
Make your Pogo Mini look nothing like you
Use tokens to collect new outfits for your Pogo Mini
Be a Pogo Mini guy or gal – it's up to you!
Interact with your Pogo friends in a whole new Pogo Mini way!
finally something are tokens will be useful for!!!
You beat me to it! Just saw it on the main page. I think this will be awesome since I play Jungle Gin ALL the time! I don't like the prices for some outfits (I saw 50,000 tokens for one outfit and 100,000 tokens for another)! Guess it's time I learn to play Turbo 21!
-=There is no Saint like Saint Hippo
lol what next resturants to take these minis too lol
Cool, something constructive to do with my tokens other than the prize drawings.
sounds pretty cool. atleast our we will have something to show for our tokens besides wasting them in prize drawings that no one ever wins. ;)
Ohhhhhhhhh no. This is gonna crash the servers. ::)
i love the idea of this,have seen this type of thing on other siters.that will be great!!!!!! O0 O0 O0
i was just looking on pogo at that. it looks kinda cool but what would be the point of it if it is only good in 4 games. i hope they make it work in most games that would be cool. then more people would be interested in it and more people would be willing to spend their hard earned tokens on "buying" outfits and stuff for it. but oh well. what can i say. we are talking about pogo now and alot of things pogo does dont make sense.
maybe they are trying out 4 games 1st to how it goes and probably expand if all goes well
if that is the case then they should try it out in some of the more popular games. just my personal opinion.
Hehehehehe
What a GREAT way to dump tokens to help ward pff snitches O0
My little guy will be stylin baby ;D
lol. only you would be the first to say that capt.
This is cool...Being in the UK my tokens aren't worth zip anyhow so this will be a good way to spend my millions LOL....WTG Pogo ;D
It would be nice to use them in the popular games, but then we would have more trouble with those games runnin (well more than we already do).
Mine will definately be styling, wonder if they have Abercrombie and Fitch clothes...I have tokens to burn. lol
It would be pretty neat if they could add tri peaks solitaire to the list of games so our mini mes can run across the top instead of that silly old man. Just a thought.
It seems to me that the minis are only being added to multiplayer table games. Maybe they won't add them to the regular games.
I think I brought this up in chat one night but the only way a Pogo Mini would accurately reflect me is if it looked like the female version of Marilyn Manson. You don't know how bummed out one can get when you are in the Village of the Damned at Ozzfest and someone comes up to you and actually thinks you are MM. Anyway, I think it could be kind of interesting to see what Pogo has planned for these and it might actually give me a good reason to dump some tokens.
Yea it is about time where you can get something out of the tokens you when!!
Age only matters if you're cheese. Don't forget wine too ;D
did pogo buy out yahoo now also...oh boy, there goes the neighborhood.....these pgo minis are already out there "on the morket" as yahoo avatars...there you also have different clothes and acessories to chose from and different backgrounds as well, so it seems to me, that pogo went and copied what someone already, for a awhile.
Quote from: shadowlands2 on June 14, 2005, 12:41:29 PM
This is cool...Being in the UK my tokens aren't worth zip anyhow so this will be a good way to spend my millions LOL....WTG Pogo ;D
I Agree we get a bum deal over here in the UK with no chance of winning anything more than a wallpaper. Hence why i dont worry about using an auto as theirs no way im going to win any cash or item prizes.
This must be a busy month for peoples subscriptions, Pogo thought they better offer a little more.
O0 still it gets the thumbs up from me! O0
It would be cool if we can add our own Pics as our Pogo minis!
that i think could get out of hand...i know this cause there are alot of people that dont need to be on pogo now..i think allowing your own pictures could get out of hand and very offensive.
BUT.....with those specified games... if you use an auto, don't you think that pogo is going to be trying to notice the ones that are getting higher ammount of tokens to target the auto users? I personally think that pogo is up to something on that end. But who knows, it just could be me tho too.
I really am excited with the new minis. It's a fun idea and just adds a nice 'ummmph' to pogo. From the screen shots you can only see the women's clothing line. Looks like the most expensive item is the leather jacket for either 1 or 2 hundred thou. It's been a few hours since I looked so can't remember.
I think most of us will be able to afford the buy out the stock and have plenty of leftovers. I think it did say that 'other surprises' or items was coming too. I can see them charging 1 million or two for something really nice. No problems
I want them to offer a nice chocolate bunny. Nice and expensive so I can buy one for Barbara :)
Yes, all in all, I am very happy with this mini move. Pogo's been doing good things lately. Can we play penguins yet? lol Þ
Thanks Sweetie, I would let you bite the ears off and then I would go at the rest of it like a pit bull. We'd enjoy the molar buzz and then go right back to playing Poppazoppa.
i dont think pogo isnt up to anything underhanded,i just think they are dragging pogo further into the new age.i personally think this will be a fantastic scheme and will be very popular with everyone.characters on chat rooms are the norm these days.so big thumbs up to pogo O0
Hey All This Mini THing SOunds Cool And Looks Cool....But The Thing Is Isn't It Gonna Take A Longer Time To Load THe Games Then...Cause The 3D Minis...Well I Just WAnted To Blabber Something Too....LOL....Ignore This...lol....i just wanted to talk too
Quote from: Barbara on June 14, 2005, 03:42:57 PM
Thanks Sweetie, I would let you bite the ears off and then I would go at the rest of it like a pit bull. We'd enjoy the molar buzz and then go right back to playing Poppazoppa.
LMAO. I only wish I had a sweet tooth, but don't. I couldn't even handle the ears. But....if that bunny was filled with Captain Morgan's we could do some serious damage :P
I'm up to rank 23 in PZ and the game isn't even getting the slightest bit boring yet. It's putting quite a damper in my little rank 17 squelchies. I just can't seem to sign on to pogo lately without clicking PZ.
Yes, I think pogo will be making a nice profit from this move. The emoticons came and were just 'There'. They have their uses I suppose. I prefer the ones right here in this forum though.
People are going to go nuts over this.
One question though. I barely had the chance to look at the ss. I saw the camera icon in the top right corner. Is that for avatar's or just an image selection tool?
Quote from: Adric on June 14, 2005, 04:00:17 PM
LMAO. I only wish I had a sweet tooth, but don't. I couldn't even handle the ears. But....if that bunny was filled with Captain Morgan's we could do some serious damage :P
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If that bunny were filled with Captain Morgan, I'd just poke a hole in it, drain the juice and then toss the bunny.
That Camera I Read Today They Said It Was To Like Take A Snapshot Of Your Mini..And i guess email it or something ;D
And I'd let cha!
oh lord we have to buy r mini outfits..lol they better make some good ones i want some sexy clothes jk..lmaoo maybe there trying to get the minis up ..and thats y pogo went boom on its butt who knows..lol
Sounds cool to me. Finally the tokens aren't totally worthless.
Wooooooooohoooooooo Pogo Minis!!!!!!!!! There is something to look forward too. . . . . and I agree now I have something constructive to do with my tokens because I don't enter drawings because I know i will never win LOL. . . . . Makes me all the more happy that I got club pogo!!! ;D
Quote from: Roseybud333 on June 14, 2005, 10:40:57 PM
Wooooooooohoooooooo Pogo Minis!!!!!!!!! There is something to look forward too. . . . . and I agree now I have something constructive to do with my tokens because I don't enter drawings because I know i will never win LOL. . . . . Makes me all the more happy that I got club pogo!!! ;D
lorl. that is funny but true. oh so true. i just hope that they make them work in most games and not just the 4 thats mentioned.
So if we play in the "uncensored" room does mean the mini can be naked?
In that case my mini will need some surgical enhancements.
too funny too funny capt. morgan
To funny lmao
;D You made my day capt. that was sooo funny lmao
where is the info on pogo minis? I don't see anything on their homepage. Thanks.
The information on the Pogo Minis is on the home page of Pogo, smack dab in the middle. I finally got around to reading about them and now I know what they are. They are going to "react" to what happens in the game? I can't play Pogo with someone who has a silly, giggling cartoon in the chat area, cooing and saying "wtg" in squeaky little voice. This is going to make badge day unbearable when we depend on the chat area to check our progress. Instead of Pogo giving more members the tools to be annoying, they should work on allowing the members who wish to play privately, the option to keep someone from adding us to their friend's list without our consent.
I don't think it will be quite that bad, Barbara. Can you imagine the server load if they added audio to it??? Gak!
I have a feeling it will be more like the Yahoo Messenger avatars. (That's what the setup looks like anyway.) Their facial expressions will probably react to what you type or whether you win/lose the game.
Either way, I am not too excited either beyond the fact that it will be a great way to spend extra tokens. I had issues with Spike leering at me all the way through Pop Phooey. ;D Add 20 more pair of eyes and the heebie jeebies will be rampant!
Spike was pretty creepy with his jammies on and his hair plugs, pointing straight at you as you played. **shivers**
Pointing? I thought he was flippin' me off! Who knew? ;D
I totally agree, Barbara. I can't believe that Pogo felt this was needed. I know how bad people spam the emoticons throughout chat, I'm just hoping they really don't have "control" over what their mini's do besides the clothes they wear. God forbid they add audio to it. I used to play games at a site (can't remember it, but I think it was flipside) where there were audio things that you could cue up like a smiley. It got brutal.
my mini is gonna be equipped with hand grenades lol
Quote from: Barbara on June 15, 2005, 06:28:30 AM
The information on the Pogo Minis is on the home page of Pogo, smack dab in the middle. I finally got around to reading about them and now I know what they are. They are going to "react" to what happens in the game? I can't play Pogo with someone who has a silly, giggling cartoon in the chat area, cooing and saying "wtg" in squeaky little voice. This is going to make badge day unbearable when we depend on the chat area to check our progress. Instead of Pogo giving more members the tools to be annoying, they should work on allowing the members who wish to play privately, the option to keep someone from adding us to their friend's list without our consent.
LOL....Barbara....Thats True I Dont Wont No One Talking To Me While I Try To Play A Game And Its On THe Game Area Being Silly And That Sort Of THing....LOL....If It Gets On My Nerves I Got A Mute Button On My Keyboard...LOL
all I see on the homepage is about the father's day poker marathon, nothing about the minis. Am I missing something or did they replace it?
Keep CLicking HOME till you see it O0
found it. every time I looked it wasn't there. just checked and it was. thanks.
I agree with Barbara. . . . there should be a way to keep people from adding u to their friends list or to sign in as invisible like on yahoo! That would be a good thing! O0
i totally agree. i would love the option of being able to sign in invisible. sometime i would like to "hide" from certain friends and instead i gotta not play in pogo just to avoid certain people or leave a game prematurely when they enter a room. :-\ :-\ :-\. i would just love to be able to sign in invisible.
Invisible mode? Hmm. Pogo couldnt think of adding that feature sooner. It will be cool to sign on invicible sometimes.
As for the minis, they sound fun. Cant wait to try them.
wouldnt it be cool if our minis would wear the badges like how we can chose one to show in chat and all that O0
when the pogo minis start and if anyone adds me to their friends list without permission and starts forwarding me petitions etc,my pogo mini could walk up to them in room and slap them until they are no more lol
I like your attitude!
me too. that sounds like a plan to me.
Does anyone know of a time of arrival for these beloved pogo minis?
I don't believe pogo has released an official date but I'm sure there will be many guesses between now and the time they do come out. ;)
2005 ::)
Hehe....good one. ???
before new years. ??? ??? :P :P :D 8)
i read some where on a website it is only a month away
oooooooooooooh. that would be interesting. i am still not sure if i like the idea of them or not. they will currently only work in 4 pogo games, and i dont play those game unless there is a badge for playing it.
The games that they have it planned for make sense. The only other club pogo game where you are playing head-to-head against a few players is Pinochle. All the rest of the games you have a roomful of players, so it wouldn't make sense to have 10 or 20 of those PogoMini's dancing around the screen... they'd take up the whole space! You minis are in your profile, so they're available for viewing in every game, it's just that in the head-to-head games like Gin and Canasta there's room to put them right there on game screen.
oh. ok. :(
If they open them up to all members, then there's a lot more games outside of Club Pogo Games that they'd be great for. O0
So if I buy clothes for my mini and they find out I used an auto to get the tokens to buy the clothes, will they take my clothes away from my mini and she'll be naked?
Maybe us lowly free members could buy a mini with tokens, since Club gets them free. That would be neat. (A whole new meaning to the term 'mini-me') Check my profile man, I got me a mini Fonzarelli. - Eeyyyy!
Well it's definitely a benefit to poker. Hoyle's Card Games use a personal profiler of their own so you can look and play like your actually there. Sometimes people use crazy combinations, but it's all in fun. Perhaps they could have special animal or cartoon mini's pre-made, so if you really like Godzilla you could have a mini-monster or a mini-toon. Possibilities are endless, but I would agree not to use real pictures of yourself. It makes for a plethora of problems, not to mention people breaking rules left and right.
Even if they're not offered to free members, there will still be enough envy to check out what Club members have.
I wonder if we'll have to feed 'em like those Giga pets from years ago. If that's the case, mine won't last a week
I hope not. I wasnt good with my gigapet
Quote from: Maelstrom on June 20, 2005, 06:37:20 AM
Maybe us lowly free members could buy a mini with tokens, since Club gets them free. That would be neat.
Club members get a basic mini for free. All they have is a T-shirt and a plain background. We then have to pay tokens for backgrounds, clothes, etc. I don't think non-club members will be able to get these minis at all.
I wonder if Max is going to dress his Mini the same way that he is dressed while he plays Pogo?
I hope they release it when the release battlephinx. Speaking of the game is there time fram for it to be realeased? ;)
now why did you all have to mention giga pets? i still have mine. all i need to do is put a battery in it. now you all going to make me go find it and put a battery in it, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. :-\ :P 8)
Do you mean Furby?
no. i never had a furby, thought they were cute but dumb. the little giga pets takes a small watch or hearing aid size battery. mine was in a green casing. :-\. oh well, beggers cant be choosy huh? lol.
I had two of the new Tamagotchis. I paused them for a few weeks, and the batteries ran out on both of them. They have both been eaten by my floor. They were fun cause you could get them to give one another presents, and if you got a boy and a girl you could get them to have babies! LOL. Imagine the Pogo minis dating and such! That would be amusing.
My Pogo Mini would be woefully shy, like me. No dating for her either, sigh.
that would be a little wild wouldnt it? :o
heres a website that has them already...you can practice for pogo mini's.
http://messenger.yahoo.com/avatars.php
dose anyone know when pogo minis will be out
when are the mini's suppost to come out? i read about them on pogo's home page but it didn't give a date. how can u see the things you can buy for them? also i am kinda curious if anyone has won anything from pogo other then wallpaper and screen savers? i have been playin pogo sense 11/01 and all i have won is one wallpaper!!! i don't really care about winning money i think the $30 for club pogo is well worth the money just for the games there isn't nothing better for a stay at home mom with a truck driver for a husband! ;D
Jen
2005 :o
I just heard mini's will be out on the 28th of june I guess we'll see
from pogo help page
Thank you for your interest in the upcoming Pogo Minis!
Pogo Minis will be a new feature available to Club Pogo members, beginning in a few weeks. Think of Pogo Minis as little self-portraits that you can outfit and decorate, and that others can view online. There's much more information in the Preview that's been posted to the site this week. We'll be putting more information in the Latest News and in the Spotlights as we prepare to introduce them.
We don't have the release date finalized yet, but you will be able to find out nore about that in the "Latest News" as well. You can also read the exciting preview, which can be found in the Club Pogo "Spotlight" and advertised on the free Pogo site as well.
C'mon Pogo, it's about time ;D
You are all toooooo Funny!!!! I can only hope pogo is not as cleaver as you all are... Or I may have a badge for the shortest mini lifespan..... My giga pet never made it a day ... ::) ;D
Looking forward to seeing were pogo goes with this. Should be fun!!
Quote from: ppd323bmw on June 27, 2005, 02:26:54 AM
You are all toooooo Funny!!!! I can only hope pogo is not as cleaver as you all are... Or I may have a badge for the shortest mini lifespan..... My giga pet never made it a day ... ::) ;D
Looking forward to seeing were pogo goes with this. Should be fun!!
Knowing Pogo Minis might be out in the year 100000000 When Pogo presses the button to release the Minis the world blows up! ;D
well the moment of truth will be here soon,pogos going down for weekly maintenance.so if pogo minis are released today,it wont be long for us to find out now O0
watch give em' 2 weeks and people will get sick of em already LIKE POPPAZOPPA ;D
Wow, they are in deed up! Neats.
mini's are here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah!!!!! Was just browsing through POGO and I saw them :D ;D 8) :o
Quote from: tvc on June 24, 2005, 04:42:44 PM
I just heard mini's will be out on the 28th of June I guess we'll see
yup today is the 28th guess I received some correct info
w2g tvc. i guess you were given some accurate info.
If you buy an outfit or background for your mini, then change your mind and buy something different, are your tokens refunded? Also, does it affect Lifetime tokens as well as Tokens To Spend?
Can anyone else see the "View my Badges" link. Mine is gone. How are we supposed to view our badges now?
Thanks.
you can access yr badges as normal.on main page just click where your badge and u will get yr badge page.also you can always access your badges as normal in every game.hope that helps u