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LINKS TO MY OTHER SITES
(Last Updated: 5 August 2004)
This is not my first Web site. In fact, it’s my fourth! Below you will find links to two of my other Web sites (the third is closed; explanation further down). Each is about another collectable, so if you collect that too, go check out my site for it!
This is the granddaddy of all my Web sites, and the most sophisticated, with pictures, comprehensive variation list and many other features besides. It is now five going on six, having first “gone to air” on 12 December 1998. My Yowie site has many of the same features this one has, but an additional attraction is the Yowie Zoo, which divides the Yowie animals into the six main groups: Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Invertebrates, Mammals and Reptiles. There is scientific information about the real animals, statistics of how many animals of each type appear in each series, and, most importantly for the collector, variation lists. These are divided between mould, paint and paper variations. A down side to the Zoo is that is hasn’t been updated since October 2000! Other sections of the site are kept updated though. Another very useful feature on this site is a section providing basic lists of each series and offering some points of note. For instance, you can find out which is the only series never to have had special characters released with it, which series has the most variations, and so forth.
It's hard to evaluate one's own site, but I'd say the main strength of the NZ Yowie Collectors' Site is information. Until recently, its biggest weakness was a lack of pictures, but that has now changed. I’m not sure of the exact number of hits the site has had, but I guess it must be 20,000 plus by now. Anyway, if you're into Yowies or would like to learn more about them, them click on the above link, and Yowie power to you!
NZ Kinder Surprise Collectors’ Site
My second Web site, this went online on 28 March 1999. It has a lot of good information, plus a handful of pictures in the “Personal Kinder Surprise Collection“ section. The biggest sections are those listing my personal KS collection and what I have to sell or trade. But the Links section is also comprehensive, listing a wide range of Kinder Surprise sites organised by country. The latest feature is a page of Kinder news from other countries, for all my international visitors. It is one of only three Kinder Surprise sites in New Zealand, and if I may say so, the biggest and most informative. It had had more than 9,000 hits when it turned two (at the end of March 2001; the page counter broke down soon thereafter), so I‘d say it has surpassed the 20,000 or even 30,000 mark by now.
I did have a third site, the NZ Whitman’s Looney Tunes Collectors’ Site, but that has been closed down owing to the fact that no one visited it (its failure reflected the failure of the product) and that I have lost interest in Whitman’s Looney Tunes now. That’s All Folks!
At some stage in the future, I hope to do a site about my favourite PVC figurines, Smurfs and Kiwi Folk. There are no NZ sites for Smurfs, and no sites whatsoever for Kiwi Folk. If and when such a site eventuates, you’ll see a link to it right here!
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