Hello SanrioTown members! Today is the start of the Scrapbook Contest’s BATCH TWO! Here’s batch two’s video. Identify which characters are they by the clues given on each slide. After identifying them all, write your answers using your SanrioTown email (following the example we made in submitting entries) then send it to sanriotown_event@hellokitty.com. Good luck everyone!

(Batch 2 entries will be accepted until May 31.)

Three winners will be drawn for this batch and the prizes will be:
A Limited Edition Hello Kitty 1GB Memory Stick!

E-MAIL ENTRY EXAMPLE

From: kayleecheung@mymelody.com
To: sanriotown_event@hellokitty.com
Subject: HELLO KITTY’S SCRAPBOOK CONTEST BATCH TWO

slide 1 - Hello Kitty
slide 2 – Pochacco
slide 3 - My Melody
slide 4 - Little Twin Stars
slide 5 - We Are Dinosaurs
slide 6 - Dokidoki Yummychums
slide 7 – Cinamoroll
slide 8 – Mimmy
slide 9 – Pandaba
slide 10 - Minna no Tabo

Hello SanrioTown members! Today is the start of the Scrapbook Contest! Did everyone familiarize themselves already with all the characters Sanrio created? Here’s the video for batch one. Identify which characters are they by the clues given on each slide. After identifying them all, write your answers using your SanrioTown email (following the example we made in submitting entries) then send it to sanriotown_event@hellokitty.com. Good luck everyone!

(Batch 1 entries will be accepted until May 24. Batch 2 will begin on May 25 2009, 11:59 P.M. EST.)

Three winners will be drawn for each batch and the prizes include:
Limited Edition Hello Kitty Shirt and Bag

Limited Edition Hello Kitty 1GB Memory Stick

E-MAIL ENTRY EXAMPLE

From: kayleecheung@mymelody.com
To: sanriotown_event@hellokitty.com
Subject: HELLO KITTY’S SCRAPBOOK CONTEST BATCH ONE

slide 1 - Hello Kitty
slide 2 – Pochacco
slide 3 - My Melody
slide 4 - Little Twin Stars
slide 5 - We Are Dinosaurs
slide 6 - Dokidoki Yummychums
slide 7 – Cinamoroll
slide 8 – Mimmy
slide 9 – Pandaba
slide 10 - Minna no Tabo

(note: For batch 2, please change the word “BATCH ONE” to “BATCH TWO”)

Brand new calendars and wallpapers are now available to brighten up your day! Enjoy new designs of Hello Kitty wallpapers and a refreshingly new Hello Kitty and Friends themed calendar!

Be sure to check out our new icons and forum avatars too!

Log on to your SanrioTown account and grab these freebies! Remember, if you don’t have an account yet, you can always sign-up with us for free!

Check out the latest game of SanrioTown!

Adorable hamster CoroCoroKuririn has gotten himself a load of treasures, but he needs your help in stashing them! Open the right hole where each item should go into by clicking the lid or typing the appropriate number on to your keypad. Make sure you cover the holes after the item falls into it, or you might end up stashing the wrong item! More and more hamsters will roll with their loot as time progresses, so be sure to have your wits about you when you play the game!

Hello Kitty Online is now officially launched in Indonesia!

A press conference was held last week, 22 April 2009, in XXI Sarinah to officially launch arguably one of the biggest MMORPGs to date in Indonesia. There, Sanrio Digital and GOGAME, a game publishing company based in Jakarta, Indonesia, signed a symbolic cooperative agreement, making their partnership official, as well as making GOGAME the official publisher of HKO in Indonesia.

Among the changes made by GOGAME to HKO are the following: the Housing system, wherein players can build their own house that they can access through the Farm Manager in London; an advanced farming system that already has an irrigation feature so that players won’t have to worry about asking help from their friends to water the crops; and the consumable loyalty points that they can get via using the services of SanrioTown. Mr. Teguh Sanjaya, GOGAME’s Marketing Director, has stated that  players should expect that in-game events would be focused on cooperating and working with other players, such as building houses together.

Patrick Setiawan, Chief Executive Officer of GOGAME, described HKO as “an online game product that is closely linked to a community portal, which also use a well known brand like Sanrio are the first of its kind in the world,” stating that Indonesia is the first country in the world that was able to launch a publisher-operated version of HKO.

The press conference was also the chance for the invited press people to have fun, as they were able to have a friendly competition with each other through the Sanrio mini-games, with the winners being awarded prizes for their efforts.

Congratulations and welcome to the SanrioTown family, GOGAME!

Hello Easter Egg Hunters! Good job in finding who the Mysterious Egg Thief is! Here are the first three Egg Hunters who solved the main puzzle and all subpuzzles correctly! Congratulations to all of you!Grand Winner: Amanda Gingrich <plie@hellokitty.com>

You get a Hello Kitty Plush Recorder!

First Runner Up: <wing_janice@hellokitty.com>

You get a Hello Kitty Travel Kit!

Second Runner up: “Jensine Junus” <jezzy_dez@hellokitty.com>

You get a Hello Kitty Journal!

And for the lucky draw winners, here are the two, lucky Egg Hunters who will also get a prize.  Congratulations!

Lucky Draw Winner 1: Steffi Ciputra <darkntwisty@hellokitty.com>

You get a Hello Kitty Coin Bank with three-color LED flashing lights!

Lucky Draw Winner 2: <cating_328@hellokitty.com>

You get a Hello Kitty Memo Pad with Ballpoint Pen!

For the winners, please send an e-mail (using your SanrioTown e-mail) to marketing@hellokitty.com by April 30, 2009 with your name and address where you want your prizes to be delivered.

Hello SanrioTown! This post marks the end of the Easter Egg Hunt contest.  Participation emails will not be accepted anymore beyond this time.

Winners of the contest will be announced in the SanrioTown main blog on April 17 so stay tuned!

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the contest! We had so much fun monitoring the contest as everyone searched for all the subpuzzles! We hope to see you all again in the coming contests.  Here in SanrioTown, we promise to deliver you more fun and exciting challenges that will grant you exclusive prizes from Sanrio when you win, so make sure to keep posted by visiting the SanrioTown main blog regularly!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest!

Hello Kitty and her friends have finally caught the culprit! The “Mysterious Egg Thief” who stole Hello Kitty’s Easter Eggs is none other than…

Aww…Minna No Tabo didn’t mean any harm! He just wanted to have a little twist with this year’s Easter Egg Hunt! After being revealed as the Mysterious Egg Thief, he explained to everyone that it was actually his and Dear Daniel’s idea to make their Easter Egg Hunt a little bit different! Instead of hunting for eggs, why not hunt for the entire basket of eggs by searching for the one who stole it? Everyone then realized that they have been playing Easter Egg Hunt all along! After the hunt is over, everyone ate their share of the cute and colorfully-designed eggs.  Here’s an egg for you Egg Hunter! Congratulations! You solved who the Mysterious Egg Thief is!

Here are the answers to all the clues and puzzles:

DAY 1

Riddle Answer: Fire (http://blog.sanriotown.com/fire-2009:hellokitty.com)
Subpuzzle Answer: The pig in the middle
Keyletter: T

DAY 2

Riddle Answer: Beauty thread in the Forums (http://forumus.sanriotown.com/scripts/mb2/mb2.cgi?rm=show_topic&period=0&topic_id=39112)
Subpuzzle Answer: (Given)
Keyletter: A

DAY 3

Riddle Answer: http://blog.hellokitty.com/3danimation
Subpuzzle Answer: Shinkansen
Keyletter: N

DAY 4

Riddle Answer: http://blog.sanriotown.com/hellokitty_news:hellokitty.com
Subpuzzle Answer: Seven
Keyletter: N
Explanation: The question was “How many candles remain?” not “How many lit candles remain?”

DAY 5

Riddle Answer: http://video.sanriotown.com/video/5cf951550f4e0e0f
Subpuzzle Answer: KITTY
Keyletter: I

DAY 6

Riddle Answer: http://blog.hellokitty.com/welcometojapan
Subpuzzle Answer: One
Keyletter: N

DAY 7

Riddle Answer: Stamp (http://blog.sanriotown.com/stamp:kuririnmail.com)
Subpuzzle Answer: JUSTONEWORD
Keyletter: O

DAY 8

Riddle Answer: Dream shirt thread (http://forumus.sanriotown.com/scripts/mb2/mb2.cgi?rm=show_topic&period=0&topic_id=39175)
Subpuzzle Answer: A
Keyletter: A

Day 9

Riddle Answer: http://video.sanriotown.com/video/bd97b0516ffaa37a
Subpuzzle Answer: Hong Kong
Keyletter: B

DAY 10
Riddle Answer: Telephone (http://blog.sanriotown.com/telephone:mymelody.com)
Subpuzzle Answer: My Melody
Keyletter: M
Explanation: My Melody’s excuse doesn’t affect the alibi of Badtz and Cinamoroll.  So if only one is lying, it can only be My Melody.  The truth is, My Melody and Badtz ate it!

DAY 11
Riddle Answer: http://blog.sanriotown.com/blog_allstars:hellokitty.com/
Subpuzzle Answer: Pochacco
Keyletter: O
Explanation: Pochacco stole it because he knew that the sword was “old and reddish” even if it was still covered in “expensive silk fabrics.”

Did you get them all correctly? Winners of the contest will be announced in the SanrioTown main blog on April 17 so stay tuned!

Hi everyone! Just a reminder to all the Easter egg hunt participants: we’ll still be accepting your answers to the questions until 14 April 2009, 11:59 P.M. EST. We’ll be having a lucky draw for players too, so make sure you send us your e-mail to get the chance at winning great prizes!

Contest winners will be announced by 17 April 2009, so stay tuned for this!

From all of us here on SanrioTown to all of you, we’d like to wish all of you a very happy Easter!

Make sure to greet all of your loved ones a happy Easter by sending them adorable e-cards available exclusively on SanrioTown.com!