The elves here on Marapets are all getting a little overexcited, and will be giving away rare items over the next couple of weeks to random people who are showing signs of holiday cheer! We'll be warning you in advance in the news of what they're looking out for, so make sure you check...

Tomorrow (6th December) 10 Glowing Seasonal Eggs will be given away randomly to people who are online and have any christmas, snowy, or icy item in their gallery!

It's wintertime, and the temperature in Biala is even lower then normal. This Seasonal Viotto looks like he's nice and warm though...

Maybe this Poera should have thought to wear a nice warm cloak too - he seems to have turned to ice!

Is that reindeer bells I can hear in Biala? No, it's not Blitzen having a tantrum, it's this year's prizes being delivered to the Advent Calendar!

We apologise for the late start, but the advent calendar will continue until the 2nd of January to make up for it so you won't miss out :)
Don't forget to visit every day this month to pick up a special advent item, mp, or other prize. The prize changes every day and they will all retire at the end of December!

Please remember that you are only allowed one account on marapets! Anyone caught using more than one account to do the advent calendar (this includes accounts for 'brothers' that don't really play etc) will have ALL their accounts banned!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. originalicebaby is the winner of the 2,566,500MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 6, 21, 9, 13, 19 and 10! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. Ashleye233 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 44982! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

The December Account Upgrades have now been released. They are following a Christmas theme and are now avaliable at the account upgrades page. If you would like to send someone some credit as a gift, email us to arrange it before you purchase the credit. Here are some of the rewards:
There is a new Elf Costume and four pets are already avaliable in this colour!


There are also male and female Santa Character Costumes for you to dress up your character in!

A new minipet, Tinsel is also part of the december upgrades...

A new stamp, book and cd are also part of the upgrade.

There is a new December Checklist for you to complete. You can win an Xbox 360!

The September & October Prize Giveaways have now been drawn! Account Upgrade credit will be with you shortly if you won, but other prizes are not being sent out until January. The lucky winners are:
September Nintendo DS Lite
dooge
1GB Ipod Nano
ck5000
$50 Account Upgrades credit
Gwynnifer, Uniquisis, Uzmutt, karenarp, Sappi, alezma2, busybee, hunnie
$15 Account Upgrades credit
DeviousWoman, sweetpea5253, indygo, falconfan54, asheydawg, grownup, TERESAIS2TALL4U, SSFM, mistressluna, Thissle, whitenymph, grandfraggle, Spektyr, zelda0509, Gwynevere, starfire92545, Katlover4ever, wigglegirl
$5 Account Upgrades credit
KaiTheInvader, mistynana, moflowr, benben1129, _ushundas_rule_everything, dragmom302, Sinder311, UnicornLvrsRus, film, Vandalin, CHARS586, ffrankblu, NaderniuGold, nurselilp, krazykid100, Rottielover62, hazelrah, AngelRain, KevinWP, Foxy37356, TheChevysR4Life, snowflake1089, calin2175, Sidney1, thenoble1, lilysleepingsoundly, Mypets67, jofa, joyeus77, lvlistyeyes
October
2GB Remastered Ipod Nano
sirensong, mafefe727
$50 Amazon Voucher
fire_23
$20 Itunes Music Downloads Voucher
Sparkie
$50 Account Upgrades credit
DaddyRuss, indigomoss, lilmomma, Kimster13, doccat5, punkin61, justincase
$15 Account Upgrades credit
SoulCorruptor, XKIZMET, Scotchies2010, Shaggybear, ShadowNetwork, j101010, I_Like_Kidney_Beans, guildofrock, catcatboots, aquariuslady, ravegirl12345, mafenanda, hawaiian~pearl, tailmon2, kingsy313, beerski, ixney11, wildoaktree, Bandit8294, Watzuke
$5 Account Upgrades credit
brokenheartedmuse, chickibaby611, Abby033, muimui, deadgirl, paddingtonbubbles, southerngaljr61, Pandaisbored, treesaregreenandtall, jeangrey, lightening, dheriot, vicki32, inttelling, Agataaleksandra, LiquidRaver, hawaiianpattie, lovesdragonflies, Zombiegal, shroud98, Kayteebaybie, dadof4girls05, wild_child01, karenfromohio, kaoskat, AmbitiousAmbition, princessana, hubbabubblegum, Grace951, kalarulz02

If you didn't know already, Laimay is getting married next week and will therefore not be around for the next two weeks. As this is very special event for her, something that she has been saving up for months, I have released a Ball Dress Female Costume and Tuxedo Male Costume in the limited edtion account upgrade items, where a percentage of the revenue will go to Laimay for her honeymoon! If you would like to give Laimay a gift from us all, you can purchase one. There is also a new Seasonal Pearl.

The new Renat pet is now avaliable in Royal, Baby and Princess!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. Sn0wQu33n06 is the winner of the 992,300MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 2, 14, 11, 13, 22 and 18! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. BeastlyHeart is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 15163! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

A brand new pet has just been discovered! The Renat can now be created! And yes, finally, its not a limited edition pet!!


Today's winner of 1,000,000MP is rikku199! Congratulations!

The Account Upgrades are back to normal now. Sorry for any inconvenience caused to you while its been unavaliable. The Pumpkin Ed minipet has been retired and replaced with 'Christmas Treasure Map 6'. You can also buy some more pieces to this new Treasure map for RP at its island shop. When completed, you will gain access to the Biala Cave where you will get pet stats and/or MP every day for free.

The Walee and the Phanty are avaliable as millionaires!

Today's winner of 1,000,000MP is tenshinoyokai! Congratulations!

Continuing the millionaire theme, the Millionaire's Lodge has opened in Jenoa. This shop sells rare items for millions of MP. New items include the Millionaire Costume and the One Thousand Dukka Coin!


Are you Rich enough to find this avatar?

Today's winner of 1,000,000MP is belilo! Congratulations!

Carrying on our party for this week, we have released a Millionaire Costume. You will soon find out how to get one. These four pets are avaliable as millionaires...


Today's winner of 1,000,000MP is steshii! Congratulations!

Can you find this Millionaire Avatar?

A few weeks ago, Marapets reached 1 Million Members and as this is such a huge goal for us, we are having a weeklong party this week to celebrate! Everyday this week, up until Saturday, we will have fun news relating to the million members party, avatars only avaliable this week and lots of prizes to be won!

The party is starting with our weeklong Five Minute MP event. Every five minutes that you are on the site, you will randomly gain MP. This can be anything from 1MP to 1,000,000MP! There will be a guarenteed winner of the 1,000,000MP everyday this week!!

Today's winner of 1,000,000MP is iIuvavatar! Congratulations!

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. skitscatkittycat is the winner of the 626,000MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 1, 18, 8, 25, 3 and 7! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. Mileyruafan is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 17566! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

The Pumpkin Hunt results have been maramailed to everyone that took part. Congratulations to punkin61, CanadasBabe, spudmoo, mummyali, Nomesy, imwright33, Silverash014, lynnzz, luv2win1949, norcalesm, jofa, tootpwns, victoriairene, Odysseus, Spongebud88, smiledaxe, kathyjuly, Momma2Be06, Kiyetay, cyberkitty, dreamlover11359, badgirlxxx, WonkyZooky and KellyKins who each won a Halloween Costume and 100,000MP.

All of those that took part should now have found the Pumpkin Hunt Avatar!

The Orange Knutt and Musical Doyle have just been released.

A new Editorial has just been released.

The Sponge Reese and the Gothic Fasoro have just been released.

Two new Avatars have been hidden!

It may be a little early, but its now Winter on Marapets. The day winter layout has now been completed and you should see it on the site. We will have the night time version released in a couple of days. We hope you like it!

The Oglue can now wear the Seasonal Costume.

Just to let you all know, our week long One Million Members Party starts this weekend. Make sure you're around for it!

A new Emo Costume has just been released and is restocking at the costume shop!

The Mordo and Xoi can now wear the new emo costume.

Our Network Sites have all had their maintenance completed. We would like to apologise for the problems you may have had recently, with Marasites, MaraJournals and MaraUploads. They are all working as normal now and you should notice that they are loading faster than before. All three sites will have more improvements later this week.

We have hidden two new Avatars and released the default Mordo avatar.

The Pirate Grint and Ninja Equilor have just been released.

They are a little later than usual, but the November Account Upgrades have been released and are now avaliable. The theme of this set is Devil.

You can get one of these three Enchanted Devil Plushies. There is a one in three chance of getting a limited edition Mordo!

You can get a Devil Costume which can be used on these pets.


There are also lots more Devil items in the upgrade, such as these...

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. darcevilneeleyone is the winner of the 627,800MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 23, 17, 24, 16, 7 and 14! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. milsberry1996 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 40798! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

We would like to apologise for the Maintenance we had yesterday. It was planned for next week but at the last minute it was changed and we had no time to warn you of it. Our servers were being moved to our new secondary network, to allow for future upgrades. Our old network was too difficult for us to work with as we have grown so quickly and it was never planned properly for this amount of players. Our network will now be easily upgradable to whatever we need without any future downtime. Sorry for any inconvenience caused and within the next 48 hours, everyone should be able to access and play the site as normal. It will take a few days longer for all of the network sites to be back to normal.

The Mordo is now avaliable in Super Hero, Hobo, Royal and Funky.


Just a reminder that will be removing the Pumpkin Ed from the Account Upgrades page tomorrow.

NEW MISSION
The long awaited Theatre has opened upstairs in Baspinar's Castle, by a Phanty called Trunx. This mission should have the same difficulty as Tarquin, as Trunx asks for CDs that your pet has listened to. Complete all 30 missions for prizes such as a limited edition pet Phanty Potion, a Princess Costume, Musical Pearl, Trunx Plushie, Theatre Stamp and more!


The Phanty pet is now avaliable in Princess, Ninja and Devil. The Devil Costume will be released as part of the November Account Upgrades.

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. starbuzz is the winner of the 10,900MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 5, 12, 21, 8, 18 and 25! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. ailz is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 200! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!
  

• The Lottery has been drawn for this week. hahausuck is the winner of the 3,114,600MP Jackpot with the winning numbers of 2, 6, 3, 4, 7 and 18! Congratulations!
  
  
• Last Week's Raffle has now ended. pieface99882233 is the winner of the Red DNA and 100,000MP prize with the winning raffle ticket number 8540! Congratulations! Make sure you buy your tickets for today's raffle - only 10MP per ticket!