Check out these new Firework pets!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. dewd1991 is the winner of the 117,100MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 15, 10, 9, 3, 2 and 1! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. laffytaffy12495 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 1118! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Free Cell.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Running.
  

The Gobble and the Vixen pets are no longer avaliable in Account Upgrades. This is how the mummy, zombie, prison and mutant Gobble looks and the kamilah and midnight Vixen.

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Nat4664 is the winner of the 82,000MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 16, 12, 11, 23, 25 and 5! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. samsung2442 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 1210! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Mahjong.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Swimming.
  

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. PirateSophie is the winner of the 96,100MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 23, 3, 17, 9, 1 and 10! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. Jennyrose1120 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 5449! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Ushunda Invaders.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Hurdles.
  

The December 2010 Monthly Checklist winners have been announced and the prizes have been rewarded. Congratulations to all of those who have won. Don't forget, this is a monthly permanent feature that you can enter for FREE. If you haven't already, you should enter the January event!



1st Prize

8GB iPod nano with Camera
or
150 Account Upgrade Credit

2nd Prize

$50 iTunes Gift Card
or
100 Account Upgrade Credit

3rd Prize

$25 iTunes Gift Card
or
50 Account Upgrade Credit
Bonus Prizes

30 more winners of 15 Account Upgrade Credit
20 more winners of 10 Account Upgrade Credit
10 more winners of 5 Account Upgrade Credit

Click Here to see December 2010 Winners

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Brinco is the winner of the 145,000MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 25, 7, 8, 23, 3 and 12! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. kitty20456789 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 288! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Sindi Slide.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Weight Lifting.
  

ACCOUNT UPGRADES
Just over a week left before we retire all of the Christmas Account Upgrades. This is your last chance to get hold of a restricted Vixen pet - which is now avaliable in 5 new colours!

This Account Upgrade will *RETIRE* on Jan 8th!!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. ramirez6208 is the winner of the 119,500MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 6, 16, 12, 2, 18 and 22! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. july4girl is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 2831! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Football.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Running.
  

Merry Christmas

The staff at Marapets would like to wish you all a safe and merry Christmas. From here in Australia, Ocenia & Asia, we are already half way into Christmas day, those of you in Europe should be waking up soon on Christmas morning, and Santa is on his way now over to those of you in North and South America.

We hope you all have an amazing day with your family and friends, get everything that you want and if you don't celebrate, enjoy a quiet and less busy day on Marapets.

CHRISTMAS EVENT
We have just started a new Christmas Greetings event that will end on Jan 1st with all of the Advent events. If your character is dressed in a Chrismas themed Character Costume, you will be able to visit other players profiles and wish them a Merry Christmas! You will both receive a prize and they will automatically receive an Alert from you with a Christmas Greeting! You can only send one per person, and can only greet players that are online.




The male and female character costumes that will work for this event are as follows:
Jack Frost Costumes, Elf Costumes, Drummer Costumes, Mistletoe Costumes, Polar Costumes, Christmas Pudding Costumes, Reindeer Costumes, Tree Costumes, Christmas Tree Costumes, Gift Wrapped Costumes, Jack Frost Costumes, Santa Costumes

Can you find the Christmas 2010 Hidden Avatar?

NEW FEATURE
We have just released our new MaraTalk instant messaging service! You can now have a quick chat with any player on Marapets that will allow you to - or you can limit MaraTalk conversations to just friends or best friends. You will notice there are new Talk icons or links around the site which you can click on to start 1 on 1 conversations instantly with other players from your browser.

MaraTalk is FREE to use for everyone, however you will still have to pay 100,000MP to gain access to the MaraTalk Chat Room to chat instantly with the whole site. You can also use it for Group Chat. Simply visit your homepage and click the button to start a group chat. You will then be able to invite up to 5 other players into the chat and you will all be able to instant message each other in real time!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Faithlynchan is the winner of the 123,500MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 2, 4, 3, 12, 6 and 25! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. merry5 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 2333! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Thunder Card.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Swimming.
  

SITE UPDATE
The Frontpage of Marapets has been updated for all players that are logged into their account. It has now changed into a page which shows your character, pets, friends online and gives you quick links to some of the places you may visit often. This includes a new feature Friends Online.

ACCOUNT UPGRADES
We are retiring some of the Account Upgrades after this weekend. On December 20th, the Christmas themed limited edition items, Christmas Character Costumes, Sleepy Account Upgrade and Sleepy Battle Upgrades will all retire. These are your last 3 days to get hold of these!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. turkishcemre is the winner of the 106,700MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 7, 18, 21, 3, 9 and 11! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. MZANNAMAE is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 5290! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Shoot the Fatty.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Hurdles.
  

NEW FEATURE
The Ferris Wheel has just opened in Slater Park. Slater Park has some of the biggest and best rides in the whole of Marada for pets and minipets to ride on! This is the biggest ferris wheel ride in the whole of Marada. And this is a ride just for your Mini Pets. Take your minipet on this exciting ride for only 1,250MP once every 4 hours and receive a souvenir Plate with a picture of your minipet on it for you to collect.

NOTE - please note that some minipet colours and their plates currently have a broken image. We are working on this and they'll all show up within the next few days. As the items are already circulating around the site, we have to release this feature even though the item images may not show up yet.

NEW COMMUNITY FEATURE
We have released the first version of News Feeds, the start of a feature we will integrate more and more into Marapets in the future. It basically enables you to Subscribe to a player's blog, trades, pet trades, auctions and/or forum topics and you will receive a very detailed alert in your news feed next time they update! Its a great way to stay in touch with your friends, players you trade with a lot or a way for you to keep your friends/club members notified when you are auctioning cheap items!

The Blogs have also had a major update. They were very basic before while we decided if they were to have the same fate as MaraUploads. However, we decided to keep them and have been working hard to bring them up to the same quality as other major features on Marapets. They are now 100% customisable - you can use some html and css to design the blog exactly how you want it, and just use our extra codes to decide where you would like to place things. Players on your Block List cannot comment on your blog and you can view the newest blogs now on the Forums!

And finally, Forums had an update too! We replaced the Chibs emoticons with a newer version of our first ever Reese emoticons from when we opened in 2004. They no longer have a white background which makes glow fonts and blogs with backgrounds look a lot nicer! You can also post images and BB codes in forum posts and blog posts too!

As promised, we have released new Christmas Character Costumes this year in Account Upgrades. We will have a new Christmas event soon that you will need a Christmas costume to take part in! Be sure to enter the December Monthly Checklist this month - if you are a winner you will have time to spend your winnings on one of these before they retire!!

This Account Upgrade will *RETIRE* on Jan 8th 2011!!

If you are lucky enough to grab a Christmas Cracker item from the Biala Mountain Christmas Tree you may now find one these new prizes inside!

A new Christmas Account Upgrade has just been released. It is a unique upgrade pack as the main prize is a Restricted Pet Vixen. You will receive a christmas themed cd, book, dvd, pearl, costume, stamp, minipet and either a blitzen coloured Vixen or Fasoro Potion.

This Account Upgrade will *RETIRE* in only 5 weeks on Jan 8th!!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Doyouknow is the winner of the 127,700MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 12, 21, 16, 23, 14 and 6! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. MassPanic is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 7386! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  
  
  
• The Game of the Week has now changed to Phanty Rescue.
  
  
  
• This week's Olympic Event is Weight Lifting.
  

The Vixen pet is now avaliable in mutant, prison, zombie, mummy, minipet and blitzen costumes!

NEW PET
Introducing our 63rd species of Marapet. The Vixen is a restricted pet and will be released as part of a new Christmas Account Upgrade for December - it will never be released in Account Upgrades again!

ACCOUNT UPGRADES
We are retiring some of the Account Upgrades after this weekend. On December 6th, the Medieval Clothing Pack, Spy Account Upgrade and Spy Battle Upgrades will all retire. These are your last 3 days to get hold of these!


A new Editorial has just been released. All questions have been reset, so now is your chance to send in your questions, ideas, comments and suggestions to help improve Marapets!