Disney Club Penguin Review

It's free to use... up to a point whereby you can then purchase a membership to unlock areas and certain items. Membership is not as crucial on this site compared to other kids community websites I've seen, so I would highly recommend it still as a free online resource for kids. Membership is there more to open up things like unlimited wardrobe choice to dress your penguin or to decorate your igloo anyway you wish or to get extra puffles to adopt. But if you're not fussed with those kinds of things (as my son wasn't) there's heaps of great things to do in Club Penguin world for FREE!

Part of the free experience includes the opportunity for your child to collect enough coins (by playing games & activities) to buy a Puffle pet which they then have to feed, play with, walk and give enough rest... for the puffle to survive and stay with them.

And there's usually special optional tasks for kids to do via the community page. Club Penguin is always growing and evolving.

The Club Penguin Ninja Card-Jitsu Dojo Card Game is a feature inside the game. It's a game within the game.. and many kids go to Club Penguin just to play the Ninja Card-Jitsu game at the Penguin Dojo! I have to admit that even I enjoyed having a few goes of the problem solving ninja card game and am impressed by Disney for coming up with such a unique online experience.

Kids can either play it by chance or play it with skill. They play against another penguin of similar skill level (which is funny to think it's another kid on their computer somewhere in the world) and you play cards against each other till the first to get three of the same colours in one suit or three different suits in different colors, wins. (there's other little tricks to the game which you can learn by looking at the Sensai's tutorial before you play).

Kids keep playing to move up and get their consecutive coloured ninja belts.. just like karate. Then once your Penguin get's a black belt you then fight the Sensai to try and beat him to become a NINJA (and that's not easy... trust me... I know) :)

And there's another clever merchandising avenue of this Card-Jitsu online gaming experience that Disney have integrated into this site. Any time you buy a Club Penguin toy in shops you get special coin codes to unlock new clothing etc within the game. And you can also buy Ninja card packs & toys that unlock new ninja card moves in the Card-Jitsu game... that I have to admit even I got sucked into buying. I bought a few Penguin figurines to get the codes to unlock new moves in the ninja game! :)

Have a go with your kid... I bet they'll love it! (and you won't be bored out of your brains) :)

My son absolutely loved to read the books in the library that are interactive... if you haven't checked them out already then do!

You have to type out the story to get on to the next page so it's great typing practise as well as a fun story... AND you can find hidden coins within each page!!

You need to click somewhere on the page to find hidden coins... some are easier to find than others. I won't give away how to actually get the coins... but now you know there are hidden coins I hope you'll go and get them!

It's upstairs in the Town Coffee Shop on the shelves... go find em and have fun.

Puffles are the adorable pets of all the penguins. You can adopt your own puffle from the town pet shop.

You have to look after them though... to make sure they don't get their levels too low (just as you would a real pet... of course just not as intense).

Puffles first entered the game in 2005! Apparently the first sighting was of a small ball of fluff spotted at the snow forts. Soon after little fluff balls were turning up all over the island! There was a contest to name these cute little furry creatures from which PUFFLE was born!

Funny & cute Puffle FACT - Puffles might have telekinesis, because they seem to be able to make items appear and pick them up without arms.

DID YOU KNOW that the Puffle logo contains all the colors of the puffles available to adopt!?

Apparently the newest brown puffle (seen in the photo above) was meant to be a black puffle but a typo on Toys R Us's part meant a brown puffle was born!!

Here's just a few examples of the awesome Club Penguin Wallpapers you can download for free!!

Find all the Club Penguin FREE Wallpaper Clip Art/ Jpeg's to download here - {Club Penguin FREE Wallpaper Downloads}