Hi everyone! Screenhog here!

Sensei is going to show up in the Ninja Hideout, and it got me thinking that there are many of you who may not know how Sensei made his first appearance on Club Penguin. It was just after Halloween 2008, and storm clouds had darkened the island. The storm was fiercest on the mountaintops, and the snow-covered Dojo was struck by lightning!

Lots of you worked with hardhats and jackhammers to repair the hole and shovel off the mounds of snow. Some of you noticed a strange figure clothed in a brown, ragged cloak who helped to clear the snow away. A couple of weeks later Sensei revealed his identity; He had been living on Club Penguin, and had finally chosen to make himself known!

Were you there when Sensei showed up in Club Penguin?

In other news: Check out the fireworks today. Lots of you are celebrating different things this time of year so enjoy!

Until then…Waddle on!

-Club Penguin Team

¡Hola Penguins!

We’re really excited to let you know that after a lot of people asking, and some hard work to make it happen, we’ve got another language joining our community! Over the past year we’ve given the Portuguese and French languages big Club Penguin greetings, and now we’d really love for you to help us welcome Spanish.

We’re still in the beginning stages, so there still might be some bugs to fix, but we knew you’d want to be the very first to help say hello (hola)!

If you log in and choose the Spanish language at the top right of your screen, you can help let our brand new community know how excited we are that they’re here.

Hello! -¡Hola!
Welcome! -  ¡Bienvenidos!
Congratulations! – ¡Felicitaciones!
Waddle on! – ¡A pingüinear!
You’re cool! -¡Eres genial!

Let us know what you think!

¡Sigan pingüineando! (until then…Waddle on!)

-Club Penguin Team

Hello Penguins!

Starting today, members can head to the Night Club to purchase exclusive tracks to take into the DJ3K game! We’ve been hearing that yellow puffles are excited about the game update… If you’ve got one of these artistic creatures, you may want to try taking it into the game with you!

In other news: Check back on Monday because we have something really special to announce! And keep your eyes to the skies because there are going to be some fireworks happening sometime soon. As always, we’d love to hear from you so let us know what you think.

Until then…Waddle on!

-Club Penguin Team

Hello Penguins!

The team loved hearing about your favorite music in Club Penguin last week! All the responses were awesome — here’s one that we liked a lot:

Puffyjc said:
My favorite music in Club Penguin has to be the music played at Music Jam 08.From pop to hip-hop, there was music for everyone. I had a great time playing with my all-time favorite band, The Penguin Band and taking center stage and pretending I was actually in a band! We also made our own music with DJ3K,a game launched for the party, which was also very cool.

Thanks, Puffyjc!

Some of you have been asking about Sensei’s upcoming visit, so we wanted to ask: What’s your favorite part of training to be a ninja?

Leave your comments and we’ll pick an answer to feature on next week’s blog! Try to keep your answers between 50 – 75 words. That way, we’ll have room to show more of them.

Until then…Waddle on!

-Club Penguin Team

Greetings Penguins!

With the groovy music updates coming to the DJ3K game and igloos this Friday, I thought it’d be kinda cool to talk to someone on the team who does a lot of the musical stuff around here…

Q: There’s a lot of music in Club Penguin. How you do decide what music goes where?
A: We’d like the music to support the feeling of the areas and the party themes.

Q: What’s your favorite part of making music and sound effects?
A: Working with music and sound effects (sfx) is creative and fun, and we hope it adds another dimension to everyone’s experiences on the island.

Q: At last year’s Music Jam party, I seem to remember music called  “bubble pop” – is that short for bubble gum pop? Are there other kinds of candy music?
A: With that song we were originally inspired by the Bubblegum Pop style of music. But with music this sweet, it’s all candy.

We’d love to know what you think about the sfx all over the island!

Until then…Waddle on!

-Club Penguin Team