Congratulations to all the winners and all the participants of “Travel the World Event” contest, Round 2! We’ve really enjoyed reading your stories and seeing those amazing pictures you took of your travels.

Here’s a slideshow of the images of the winning entries for this round! Check it out below! If you can’t see it, please click here to view it on Dream Studio.

If you haven’t participated in “Travel the World Event” you still have time! The third round will be until the first week of next month, so submit your entries now! For more information about the event, please visit the official blog by clicking here.

Here are the winning entries of Round 2! The winner of the Grand Prize will receive a Hello Kitty Travel Item and a Hello Kitty USB Memory Stick while winners of Merit Prizes will all receive a Hello Kitty USB Memory Stick each! All of the winners will receive an email notification within one week.

SanrioTown’s Travel the World Event has started its Final Round! In this round we have a treat for all of our bloggers - new Participants’ and Winners’ Icons! If you want to get an official icon on your blog, don’t hesitate to join the Final Round of our event. More fabulous prizes are coming, so start writing your entries!

P.S. Hope you all like the new look of our blog!

Grand Prize:

My Macau Sky Jump adventure

florzelech@hellokitty.com

(http://blog.hellokitty.com/florzelech)

Merit Prizes:

New York, New York

dominicanmami89@hellokitty.com

(http://blog.hellokitty.com/dominicanmami89)

Unforgettable China Experience

lynne0607@hellokitty.com

(http://blog.hellokitty.com/lynne0607)

Honeymooners Log 8: New York

alpha7@hellokitty.com

http://blog.sanriotown.com/alpha7:hellokitty.com

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Thank you to all those who’ve participated in Founders’ Beta! We’re very happy that you enjoyed playing the game, and we hope to see more of you here on Sanriotown!

Now, just because Founders’ Beta has ended doesn’t mean the fun will: in fact, more things are happening at its closing, and it’s not just in anticipation of the Open Beta!

Crop Circles

Show off the precision of your landscaping skills!  Nothing is more refreshing than a day in a beautifully landscaped garden.  Use your farm to arrange your crops to grow into shapes or patterns, make colorful combinations, or draw a picture made of crops! Click here to see more details on the HKO Event blog.

Blog For Thought

Share your Hello Kitty Online story!  Use your SanrioTown account blog to write about your experiences in the game, your best or funniest moments, the friends you met in the game, or anything related to HKO.  Creativity is king here!  Add photos, videos or music to make your blog post better. Read more about that on the HKO Event blog.

A Day With Hello Kitty and Friends

Got a talent for art?  This one is for you!  Draw your avatar together with Hello Kitty and her friends. Your drawing must be about something you have done in Sanrio Land – for example, planting your farm, cooking for charity, running back and forth on quests, or anything else you enjoyed doing in Sanrio Land! Click here to see more details about this event!

Hi everyone! The November downloads are now available for you to grab! We have wallpapers, calendars, and e-cards featuring your favorite Sanrio characters for you to grab, use, share to your friends, whatever you want! The only condition is, that you have fun with it.:D

Also, we have two new blog layouts for you to design your online journal with, just in time for Thanksgiving!

We hope you like them!

Finally! All those keys you’ve been holding to for the longest time will finally realize their potential! First of all, this is a GUILD EVENT so you better start getting to know people in your neighborhood.

At around 10pm EST, GM-Neverender will make an announcement asking for 1 representative for each guild. Once they reach the designated place, he will give each representative these items:

• Statue of Liberty House Certificate
• Empire State House Certificate
• Grand Central House Certificate

In exchange, they will have to give me:

• Liberty Key
• Empire Key
• Grand Central Ticket

Once that’s over and done with, each guild will now have now have to start building the house in a farm. To use the certificate:

1. Go to a farm, right-click on the certificate. So basically, each guild will need three farms because one farm can only support one structure.
2. Collect required materials
3. START BUILDING

Once you’re done with send an email containing:

1. A screenshot of the finished structure (Empire/Liberty/Grand Central) with members of the guild (doesn’t have to be all of them) standing in front of it.
2. Do the same for the other structures as well. In total, you must send a total of three emails.
3. THE GUILD REPRESENTATIVE SHOULD BE THE ONE SENDING THE EMAIL AND NO ONE ELSE.
   

Send screenshots to hkoevent[at]hellokitty.com.

Remember: Only the FIRST 2 emails will be entertained for each structure and will be declared the winner for that building. For example, “Neverender Guild” and “Abby Guild” were the first two guilds who finished the Liberty House but “Bacon Guild” and “AVA Guild” were the first two guilds to finish the Empire House.

If your guild is one of the first two guilds who has finished a New York Monument, we will contact your guild leader and ask for the THE NAMES OF ALL THE ACTIVE GUILD MEMBERS ALONG WITH THEIR EMAIL ADDRESSES. Let the Guild Members decide who’s active or not based on member activity.

For the rest of the players who have collected the keys, hold on to your keys for they will be reimbursed. We just have to get this event done

Got it? Good. Open Beta glory is at stake Good luck, guys!

Sanrio’s figurehead Hello Kitty celebrates her birthday today, along with her twin sister Mimmy! Make sure you send in your birthday greetings to her at hellokitty@sanriotown.com to get the chance to be featured on Hello Kitty News and the official Chinese blog of Sanriotown! It can be anything and everything: from simple wishes and greetings and e-cards to hand-drawn pictures and more! Exercise your creativity and show your love for Hello Kitty by creating your very own birthday greeting for her!

We’d like to wish all of our members a Happy Halloweeen! We hope you have a great time trick-or-treating, going to Halloween parties, bobbing for apples, and having fun on this fun holiday!

The recently-concluded “Be Nice, Guys!” event was a success! Players worked hard to give GM-Salvador his request for newbie items (the complete wardrobe, no less!) before the time ended. The “social experiment” had a mix of results: from a sudden change in the bartering system to the shift in economy in Sanrio land. The result: numerous leopard glasses were handed out, while new members of Hello Kitty Online were pleasantly pleased with the exchanges they made.

Here’s a screenshot of the players lining up to trade their items with GM-Salvador:

Greet Hello Kitty on her birthday! Send us your birthday e-cards, photos, fan art, or a simple “happy birthday” to the white feline and we’ll be posting them in Hello Kitty World and the official Sanriotown blog in Chinese!

If you want to create a video to greet Sanrio’s most famous cat, you can upload movie clips, pictures, and music in Sanriotown’s very own Dream Studio!

Email us your greetings at hellokitty@sanriotown.com until early November to have your birthday greeting displayed here on Sanriotown!

Hello everyone! Are you all excited about the latest game Sanrio has to offer? To whet your appetite, we’ve created a special video for you on Dream Studio to give you a sneak peek at some of the things you’ll be seeing when you play “Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams”, which comes out exclusively on the Nintendo DS.

If you don’t know what the game is about but curious to find out more about this exciting new game, please click here for more information. You can pre-order here and even get exclusive discounts when you avail of the game with your Sanriotown account.