P-A-R-T-Y-Y-Y!-!-!

Lewisrae's party this Sunday!

Hi Monkeys!

Lewisrae is hosting an official party on MiniMonos this weekend!

You'll all be able to do something special on Easter weekend, so this is definitely the time to party with everyone! I will also be there with my Go Bananas power, ready to rock!

Here are the details:

When:

UK time: Sunday 8pm

US Western: Sunday 12pm

US Central: Sunday 2pm

US Eastern: Sunday 3pm

NZ time: Monday 7am

Where:

Lewisrae has a poll on his MiniMonos News, Cheats and Glitches site! Here it is:

Thank you for voting!

Long beach 23% (3 votes)

The lagoon 15% (2 votes)

Outside the cloud game! 62% (8 votes)

Total Votes: 13

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Keep an eye on the comments here and we'll let you know where the party will be!

Beta!

This Thursday MiniMonos is going into beta!

We're so excited about MiniMonos moving from alpha to beta on April 1st (US time)!

There will be gifts for everymonkey!

If you are a Top Banana Gold before April 1st, you will get an extra special rare item!

PLUS you will have the Go Bananas power at your treehouse! So if you're thinking about getting a Gold membership this week, make sure it's before Thursday to be able to rain bananas when people come to visit you.

And here's another surprise for all Gold members -- On April 1st you will haveopen chat! Woohoo!

A lot of you voted on what secret gift the First-50 Top Banana Gold monkeys will get. We're still keeping that one secret until Friday! Hehe!

For Top Bananas and Mini Mods, your Top Banana and Mini Mod status won't expire! Yippee!

Every single monkey who has joined MiniMonos before beta will also get aspecial treehouse item! So if you have any friends who haven't checked out MiniMonos yet, this week is a great time to do it. That item will one day be rare!

And if that's not enough -- when we launch into beta you will also be able to do some very cool Easter activities!

From the MiniMonos team we want to say a huge thank you again. You have all supported and helped us so much and

NEW BABY!

Say hi to our new MiniMonos baby, Monti!

Isn't she so cute?

Monti was rescued by International Animal Rescue (IAR) and brought to the emergency rescue transit centre in Ketapang, West Kalimantan in Indonesia, last November.

An anonymous caller had contacted local forestry workers, saying that a family had found a young orangutan baby all alone in the jungle and had been taking care of her ever since. But the truth is quite different to this and far more horrible.

Someone had killed Monti's mother to get to her. An orangutan mother would never voluntarily give up her baby. A young orangutan baby can fetch up to $50 which is 2 months salary for a farmer. Then, if she survives, the criminal wildlife trader who has bought her for $50 could sell her for as much as $50,000 overseas!

Monti is still very small and needs an enormous amount of love and care -- just like a human baby! For now she's drinking lots of milk and sleeping a lot, which is normal for an orangutan her size. As she grows she will begin to explore and make new friends, such as Sigit, Malky and Bunga.

What would have happened to Monti if she had not been rescued by the IAR team? She could be dead....or worse: She might have become an illegal pet for a wealthy family in a big capital city of Indonesia. Or she may have been smuggled out of the country and forced to perform a humiliating show for tourists in some animal park in Thailand. Thankfully Monti was saved.

Monti's fate is now in a lot of people's hands -- Orangutan Outreach will do everything they can to work with IAR to make sure Monti has a future -- and that she will have a forest to go back to when she is ready to do so. I'm glad we are also helping her!

Below is a video of some other orangutans who Orangutan Outreach help. Kesi is in this video! I have just found out that Kesi is now 5 years old.

Because it was so hard to decide between Kesi and Monti, here's how we can manage to adopt Kesi too: From today, if we get 250 Gold memberships (of any length) we will also adopt Kesi for a year!

We're really glad we can help Monti have a better life now that she has been rescued.

Let me know if we should help adopt Kesi too!

Recylers!

Here are our recycle legends this week!

These monkeys sure have worked hard! Really awesome job by:

Our number one legend recycler....Morty!

Our second in charge recycler.....Phillies!

Our number three on the honor roll recycler....Hi!

Here is the recycle scoreboard! Let us know if the results were what you expected:

Monkey Flyers!

Yippee!!

Well done to our high flyers this week!

First place goes to viper!

Second place was won by Clone!

And third place was won by Limey!

Here's the high scoreboard!

Well done guys! Whoever said monkeys can't fly???

Mini Monos Power OFF!

MiniMonos is switching off for Earth Hour

At 8.30pm on 27 March 2010, people across the world will turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This is an easy way to save energy and if done by many many people all around the world it will make a big difference to our environment!

This year people will also be asked to think more about the earth in their everyday lives and make a pledge to start doing something bigger. At MiniMonos Island we know that many of you are already taking better care of the world around us.

So we thought you would understand why we think everyone should turn off their computers for an hour! Instead of playing online, you can maybe go kick a ball, climb a tree, fly a kite, play cards, play a board game, tell a story, look at the stars.....

How to get involved

You can take part by switching off all lights and appliances that are not super-important in your home at 8.30pm on Saturday March 27. That is, at 8.30pm your time, wherever you are!

The MiniMonos family of monkeys thought about what we could do – and have decided to turn off all the power on MiniMonos Island for an hour. Since most of our monkeys live in the USA, we decided that the most meaningful thing to do would be to turn off for an hour at 8.30pm PST.

Here's something everymonkey can do - take the time to go around your house now, and turn off appliances in the house that are not being used. You may not know that they still use power even when they are on standby! By turning them off at the wall you will save your family money, and reduce carbon emissions by reducing the need to generate more electricity.

You can create a virtual lantern here or make a real one!!! Here is mine!

Earth Hour is a message of hope and action. Imagine what we can achieve when we all act together!
Don’t Join us on Saturday March 27 PST at 8:30pm for Earth Hour 2010! LOL

To sign up for Earth Hour click here.

Explore the Earth Hour map to see what is going on in your area.

After this weekend, tell us what you did for Earth Hour!

Adoption!

03/22/2010

We're getting a new baby!

Hey Everymonkey!

Remember how we said we'd adopt a baby orangutan for our whole MiniMonos community if we reached our First 50 Top Banana Gold memberships?

Well now is the time for us to choose who we want to adopt!

After doing some more research we have now decided to support Orangutan Outreach to adopt our baby, for the following reasons:

• Orangutan Outreach support lots of orangutan adoption organizations so we can find out heaps from them about what is happening around the world with orangutan rescues
• They like to keep the adoption process green by handling it all online. No paper, no envelopes, no cardboard adoption certificate. More money for the orangutans and less waste!
• We will get updates about our adopted baby several times a year, with photos and maybe even a video!
• Orangutan Outreach give lots of information about what we can do to help save rainforests. We want to talk with you more about that and what we can do!

So we have 2 gorgeous orangutan babies to choose from! Although our donation goes to the chosen orangutan we want to adopt, it also gets shared with other orangutans in the nursery or forest school she belongs to. We think that it's great that our donation is shared with our baby's adopted brothers and sisters!

Here are the 2 orangutans for us to decide on:

Monti

At only about 6 months old, Monti is the smallest orangutan of the dozen now living at the West Kalimantan rescue center in Ketapang, Indonesia. She was brought to the center after an anonymous caller contacted the local Ketapang forestry officers and told them some rural people had found her all alone in the jungle, but the truth is something different. She wasn't 'found' in the jungle. She was kidnapped!

Kesi

Kesi had her hand chopped off when plantation workers killed her mother with a machete. Now she is older, and the top pupil in Orangutan Forest School at Nyaru Menteng. Champion tree-climbing and nest-builder, Kesi is an excellent role model for newly arrived orphans.

So now it's time for us all to choose!

Monkey of the Week!

Bananalicious Monkey of the Week picture by Kokeeto

Hey Monkeys! This is Hi!

I just wanted to announce the monkey of the week!

Now the monkey of the week is... Blasty!

Blasty has been very nice and awesome this week! He has been helping monkeys, and just setting a good example for other monkeys!

So thanks Blasty for being a part of Minimonos and helping monkeys! If you guys see him around the island he would love to be your friend!


Once again I just say thanks Blasty for helping Minimonos be a better place for everyone! :-)

-- Hi

Yippee! Congratulations for being Monkey of the Week, Blasty, and thanks heaps to Hi for writing this post and also being an awesome friend to all monkeys!

~Tech pretty cool congrats blasty!

Beta Testing!! WOOP WOOP!

Hi Monkeys! OK, this is a loooong post, so here’s what’s in it:

1. What you’ll get if you’re a member when we enter beta
2. An important survey for you to vote on
3. The new pricing for Top Banana Golds when we enter beta
4. Something NEW coming up for Top Banana Gold members!
As you know, MiniMonos has been in alpha since you joined. Alpha is a really early stage of development, even before beta, and you’ve been the very first monkeys anywhere in the world to be a part of it!
Well, on April 1, we’re officially entering the next phase of development: MiniMonos is entering beta! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for being part of the alpha stage! You have made MiniMonos awesome!

What will happen on April 1?

When we go into beta, two major things will happen:

All our existing monkeys will get special gifts
The special discounted price for Top Banana Gold memberships will end
What are the special gifts?

To thank you for building MiniMonos with us, we’re giving all our monkeys some special things on the 1st of April:

Top Banana Gold First 50 Monkeys
MiniMonos Top Banana Gold First 50 are the First 50 Gold Monkeys ever on MiniMonos! You are leading the way for all monkeys to come, so we want to recognize you for that! On April 1, Top Banana Gold First 50 monkeys will get:

A special alpha item
A new Top Banana Gold item, and...
A top-secret, special gift just for First 50 Top Banana Gold monkeys!
There are only 2 spots left to be one of the First 50 Top Banana Golds, so if you want this special gift, you’d better act quickly! Because it’s top-secret, we can’t tell you what the special gift is yet. What do you hope it will be? Vote now!
!
Another RARE item for your treehouse! 0% (0 votes)
A special First 50 logo for your t-shirt! 79% (11 votes)
Bonus 5000 banana chips! 21% (3 votes)
Total Votes: 14
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Top Banana Gold Monkeys
All monkeys who have Top Banana Gold status on April 1 will get:

The special alpha item, and...
The new Top Banana Gold item!
Top Banana and Mini Mod Monkeys
All monkeys who are Top Banana or Mini Mod on April 1 will get:

The special alpha item, and...
An extension of your Top Banana or Mini Mod status until the end of April!
All Monkeys
Everymonkey who is signed up before April 1 will get the special alpha item!

What’s the regular price for Top Banana Gold memberships?

Right now, Top Banana Gold memberships that last until September 30 are available for US$21. This is a special introductory discounted price (it’s 41% off the regular price!), and it only lasts until April 1! From then on, we’ll have three options for Top Banana Golds:

1 month for US$5.95
8 months for the price of 6, only US$35.70 (25% off!)
18 months for the price of 12, only US$71.40 (33% off!)
What do you get as a Top Banana Gold member?

Top Banana Gold members get heaps of cool stuff with their memberships:

Every Top Banana Gold membership helps a child get clean water! If you get a one-month membership, a child gets clean water for a day; with a six-month membership a child gets clean water for a week, and with a year membership a child gets clean water for two weeks!
You get a special, exclusive, non-repeating item – NOTE! This is only available to the first 50 Top Banana Gold members! RARE!
You get a special, exclusive “First 50” Top Banana Gold flag – NOTE! This is only available to the first 50 Top Banana Gold members! RARE!
You get a huge, 41% discount off the regular price for a six-month membership! – NOTE! This is only available to monkeys who sign up before April 1!
You get 2 fur colors only available to Top Banana Gold members!
You get 10 shirt colors only available to Top Banana Gold members!
You get 3 hairstyles only available to Top Banana Gold members!
You get an in-world currency bonus of 1000 banana chips!
Your six-month membership only starts counting down from the first of April, so you actually get more than six months! – NOTE! This is only available to monkeys who sign up before April 1!
You get a special Top Banana Gold icon next to your monkey name!
You get automatic Top Banana status for as long as you are a Top Banana Gold member!
COMING SOON: Top Banana Gold members will be able to have free chat in the speech bubbles!
If you or your parents have any questions, feel free to ask! If you’d like your questions to be private, please email them to minimonos(at)minimonos(dot)com

Best bananas! Kaila :-)

~Tech pretty cool right?

New Hair!

Hey guys the hairstyles have come out and the store has changed!

Here you can choose by the album on your bottom left

Pretty cool right? It costs 75 coins to change!
~Tech

PArty!! Woop!

Hey guys whats up There is a new update on the blog about a P-A-R-T-Y-Y-Y!!! Woop Woop! take a look at what it said!

(Awesome heading created by Kokeeto)

Hi Monkeys! Are you ready to have some awesome fun together on St Patricks Day?!

We're having TWO parties!

PARTY 1: This party time will suit Irish, UK and New Zealand kids! For Ireland, it will be the night before St Patricks Day so we want you guys to launch it to the world for the next day!!

Where: Landing beach

When:

Ireland/UK -- Tue 6.30pm
New Zealand -- Wed 7.30am

Irish Hosts: We have chosen BetaMonkey and Nanosmurf!

Geek, Jordanissac1, Bladesmith and Roubidoux are also from Ireland so we hope you guys can make it too!

PARTY 2: This party time will suit the US and elsewhere in the world.

Of course we'd love to see you at both parties if the time zones suit you!

Where: Landing beach

When:

US Eastern -- Wed 7pm
US Central -- Wed 6pm
US Western -- Wed 4pm
New Zealand -- Thursday 12pm

Hosts: MiniMonos staff

At the party you will be able to do something special! We know it won't take the Irish monkeys long to figure out how to make it happen -- which is why we want them to launch it to the rest of the world!

See you at one of the St Patricks Day parties, Monkeys!

New Ambassador!

Hey guys its Tech i just wanted to post about what Mini Penguitt said! Take a look at what it said!

Hey Monkeys! MiniPenguitt here! Just minutes ago, I was hanging out with Andrea when she introduced me to a new Ambassador, Johnno! He is really nice and fun to hang out with! Here is a picture of me and him hanging out.

He is awesome! He was wearing the same thing as Andrea which was kinda of funny. Check out this picture of his Player Card!

Lol this is cool! Andrea also asked me if I wanted to post about him on the Go Bananas blog! I’m so excited! Don’t forget to check my MiniMonos News blog for some more updates: http://minimonoscheats.co.cc/!

Best Bananas,

~MiniPenguitt!

Wow! That was really fun catching up with all you guys and thanks for the cool post about it, MiniPenguitt! Johnno says "Thanks for giving me such a great welcome!"

Monkey of the Week!

Hey guys i am Tech! I live in America and I wanted to post the Monkey of the Week! This Monkey is always very friendly and always talks to people! There is not one time I log in and not see this monkey not talking! His name is ......................... PHILLIES!

Phillies is always very nice he works really hard and is always on! Phillies is 1st in recyling to! Keep up the good work Phillie! Oh ya and check my websight out at minimonoshq.tk ! thanks guys! and check Phillies websight! minimonosmod.wordpress.com

~Tech

New Updates!

Hey guys TEcH here and i just wanted to show you some new updates minimonos has. First off there is a new room the long beach and traderz is open! woohoo!

~Tech