Arcane Rares and Infobuses

[DJ_Shadow]

Hello,

I've been trying to locate the whereabouts of these items in the hotel and working on compiling a list for the Habbox Wiki (found here) (http://habboxwiki.com/Arcane_Rares). Does anyone know where they can find any of the following items of furniture or know anyone who owns them?

Amber Floor Rug (http://habboxwiki.com/Amber_Floor_Rug)
Army Plasto Chair (http://habboxwiki.com/Army_Plasto_Chair)
Infobus Poster (http://habboxwiki.com/Infobus_(Furni))
poster_0_name (http://habboxwiki.com/Poster_0_name)
'Zon' Parasol (http://habboxwiki.com/Parasol)

Thanks :-)

[A4R0N]

there's 2 infobus posters in believemesafetys arcade

http://www.habbo.com/room/65710602

- - - Updated - - -

chidiva also has one i'm not sure what room it's in though

[DJ_Shadow]

Oh thanks, added them to the list!

I have added Chidiva, haven't seen one in her rooms though.

[MilksAreUs]

Sold my Amber Rug for 18c to Mr-Trainor; when I needed credits really bad :/ regret it so much now as they're worth 2t.

[andoo89]

is that a rug really worth 2 t?

[DJ_Shadow]

is that a rug really worth 2 t?

They can sell up to 400c

[MKR&*42]

Hey sorry this doesnt answer your thread directly but in regards to the poster_0_name it ALSO exists because some old posters (much like the "comedy poster") were effectively deleted from the hotel and users were left with that as a result, this was a very long time ago though.

[DJ_Shadow]

Hey sorry this doesnt answer your thread directly but in regards to the poster_0_name it ALSO exists because some old posters (much like the "comedy poster") were effectively deleted from the hotel and users were left with that as a result, this was a very long time ago though.

I was under this impression originally too, that the poster_0_name was the remnants of some deleted poster from way back. However I don't think this is the case. I will take this time to discuss how I think they came about. Hope you are sitting comfortably.

Pre-marketplace all posters were added under a single ID in the furnidata, <furnitype id="4001" classname="poster">. Then I believe the individual posters are then defined by a row of text in the product data, for example ["poster_1000","Comedy Poster","The Noble and Silver Show"]. Yes the Comedy Poster is still in the data, it wasn't deleted - but replaced. In earlier versions of the Hotel the Comedy Poster was originally ID 1 in the productdata, so we assume that it was indeed the first poster. However in V7 the IDs changed for and the Ancestor Poster replaced the Comedy Poster as ID 1 in the productdata. This meant that any existing Comedy Posters would change into Ancestor posters, in effect 'deleting them'. (read more) (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=462343)

Going a little off topic here, but this original way of adding posters proved problematic when the marketplace was released. Since all of the posters were added under a single furni ID, the market treated them all the same when it came to their averages, trade volumes etc. This is why posters such as the Infobus have impossibly high trade graphs, because it uses the combined data from all the old posters under ID 4001. New posters have since been added straight into the furnidata to avoid this problem.

Now going on to the the poster_0_name. When you select old posters on the Habbo iPad app, they appear in the poster_x_name format for some technical reason. For example the Himalaya Poster (poster ID 15) would appear as poster_15_name etc. So you could assume that because the poster_0_name is called so, it was once a poster with ID 0. Though not exactly true.

I noticed that the loading box is different for the new posters and old posters. Old posters stored in the productdata load like a 3D black box, much like how floor furniture does. Whereas the new posters in the furnidata have a flat 2D loading box, like the poster_0_name. We had already established that the poster_0_name has the furni ID 4001, then found out that it lacks that second ID the other old posters have to define them. Without this its just displays the flat loading box and takes its generic name.

Though how did such an item come about?

After talking to NotMiceElf about this he said that it 'shouldn't exist' and I would guess is most likely a result from scripting, similar to how the Army Plasto came about. I don't believe there are any plans to remove this either, as that would probably involve deleting ID 4001 and relocating all the old posters somehow..

Thanks for reading :-)

[B]

I was under this impression originally too, that the poster_0_name was the remnants of some deleted poster from way back. However I don't think this is the case. I will take this time to discuss how I think they came about. Hope you are sitting comfortably.

Pre-marketplace all posters were added under a single ID in the furnidata, <furnitype id="4001" classname="poster">. Then I believe the individual posters are then defined by a row of text in the product data, for example ["poster_1000","Comedy Poster","The Noble and Silver Show"]. Yes the Comedy Poster is still in the data, it wasn't deleted - but replaced. In earlier versions of the Hotel the Comedy Poster was originally ID 1 in the productdata, so we assume that it was indeed the first poster. However in V7 the IDs changed for and the Ancestor Poster replaced the Comedy Poster as ID 1 in the productdata. This meant that any existing Comedy Posters would change into Ancestor posters, in effect 'deleting them'. (read more) (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=462343)

Going a little off topic here, but this original way of adding posters proved problematic when the marketplace was released. Since all of the posters were added under a single furni ID, the market treated them all the same when it came to their averages, trade volumes etc. This is why posters such as the Infobus have impossibly high trade graphs, because it uses the combined data from all the old posters under ID 4001. New posters have since been added straight into the furnidata to avoid this problem.

Now going on to the the poster_0_name. When you select old posters on the Habbo iPad app, they appear in the poster_x_name format for some technical reason. For example the Himalaya Poster (poster ID 15) would appear as poster_15_name etc. So you could assume that because the poster_0_name is called so, it was once a poster with ID 0. Though not exactly true.

I noticed that the loading box is different for the new posters and old posters. Old posters stored in the productdata load like a 3D black box, much like how floor furniture does. Whereas the new posters in the furnidata have a flat 2D loading box, like the poster_0_name. We had already established that the poster_0_name has the furni ID 4001, then found out that it lacks that second ID the other old posters have to define them. Without this its just displays the flat loading box and takes its generic name.

Though how did such an item come about?

After talking to NotMiceElf about this he said that it 'shouldn't exist' and I would guess is most likely a result from scripting, similar to how the Army Plasto came about. I don't believe there are any plans to remove this either, as that would probably involve deleting ID 4001 and relocating all the old posters somehow..

Thanks for reading :-)


You might as well be the Sherlock Holmes of solving historical inconsistencies of Habbo furniture. Love what you're doing here with tracking + preserving old school intricacies like this.

I can see the skepticism in an item that doesn't load. As theres a level of cool factor and 'collectible' appeal to a poster like this that simply looks like a glitch, there's also a huge risk factor of Habbo correcting this error and simply removing them from the server at some future point??

Just some thoughts.

[MKR&*42]

I was under this impression originally too, that the poster_0_name was the remnants of some deleted poster from way back. However I don't think this is the case. I will take this time to discuss how I think they came about. Hope you are sitting comfortably.

Pre-marketplace all posters were added under a single ID in the furnidata, <furnitype id="4001" classname="poster">. Then I believe the individual posters are then defined by a row of text in the product data, for example ["poster_1000","Comedy Poster","The Noble and Silver Show"]. Yes the Comedy Poster is still in the data, it wasn't deleted - but replaced. In earlier versions of the Hotel the Comedy Poster was originally ID 1 in the productdata, so we assume that it was indeed the first poster. However in V7 the IDs changed for and the Ancestor Poster replaced the Comedy Poster as ID 1 in the productdata. This meant that any existing Comedy Posters would change into Ancestor posters, in effect 'deleting them'. (read more) (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=462343)

Going a little off topic here, but this original way of adding posters proved problematic when the marketplace was released. Since all of the posters were added under a single furni ID, the market treated them all the same when it came to their averages, trade volumes etc. This is why posters such as the Infobus have impossibly high trade graphs, because it uses the combined data from all the old posters under ID 4001. New posters have since been added straight into the furnidata to avoid this problem.

Now going on to the the poster_0_name. When you select old posters on the Habbo iPad app, they appear in the poster_x_name format for some technical reason. For example the Himalaya Poster (poster ID 15) would appear as poster_15_name etc. So you could assume that because the poster_0_name is called so, it was once a poster with ID 0. Though not exactly true.

I noticed that the loading box is different for the new posters and old posters. Old posters stored in the productdata load like a 3D black box, much like how floor furniture does. Whereas the new posters in the furnidata have a flat 2D loading box, like the poster_0_name. We had already established that the poster_0_name has the furni ID 4001, then found out that it lacks that second ID the other old posters have to define them. Without this its just displays the flat loading box and takes its generic name.

Though how did such an item come about?

After talking to NotMiceElf about this he said that it 'shouldn't exist' and I would guess is most likely a result from scripting, similar to how the Army Plasto came about. I don't believe there are any plans to remove this either, as that would probably involve deleting ID 4001 and relocating all the old posters somehow..

Thanks for reading :-)

I actually read it all and I admire your passion for discovering such things like this :P

[DJ_Shadow]

You might as well be the Sherlock Holmes of solving historical inconsistencies of Habbo furniture. Love what you're doing here with tracking + preserving old school intricacies like this.

I can see the skepticism in an item that doesn't load. As theres a level of cool factor and 'collectible' appeal to a poster like this that simply looks like a glitch, there's also a huge risk factor of Habbo correcting this error and simply removing them from the server at some future point??

Just some thoughts.

Haha thanks! :-) Although I love the elusiveness and the sense of mystery surrounding this poster and other such items, somebody needed to get to the bottom of it and find out what it actually was. So many different stories floating around, its a bit of an Urban Legend.

I can understand your concern about the possibility of it being removed in the future. Though I have a certain reason to suspect that it won't ever happen. I believe this because Habbo has consistently mainly focused on bringing out new features and new furniture and have a terrible track record of fixing and maintaining items they released even a few years ago. There are a plethora of anomalies ranging from incorrect Info-Matic icons for the ICMs and Fans to ‘Greep Carp’.

The only way I can see the poster_0_name disappearing is if they actually confiscate them from our accounts, a practice they haven’t done with scripted furniture for many years now. This is because they would find it very challenging to dissect it from the data. In order to erase poster_0_name they would need to delete ID 4001, which also acts as a reference point for all the other posters added between 2001 and 2010. So I logically if ID 4001 gets removed, it would effect majority of the posters on Habbo. Unless the devs have a way of actually changing all the posters in-client to point to a different set of data, I think this will either be impossible or too time consuming.

As NotMiceElf said, ‘posters suck’!


I actually read it all and I admire your passion for discovering such things like this :P

Thank you :-) I’m still trying to get to the bottom of the Zon Parasol and Amber Floor Rug, which is proving somewhat more challenging to do.

[MKR&*42]

Haha thanks! :-) Although I love the elusiveness and the sense of mystery surrounding this poster and other such items, somebody needed to get to the bottom of it and find out what it actually was. So many different stories floating around, its a bit of an Urban Legend.

I can understand your concern about the possibility of it being removed in the future. Though I have a certain reason to suspect that it won't ever happen. I believe this because Habbo has consistently mainly focused on bringing out new features and new furniture and have a terrible track record of fixing and maintaining items they released even a few years ago. There are a plethora of anomalies ranging from incorrect Info-Matic icons for the ICMs and Fans to ‘Greep Carp’.

The only way I can see the poster_0_name disappearing is if they actually confiscate them from our accounts, a practice they haven’t done with scripted furniture for many years now. This is because they would find it very challenging to dissect it from the data. In order to erase poster_0_name they would need to delete ID 4001, which also acts as a reference point for all the other posters added between 2001 and 2010. So I logically if ID 4001 gets removed, it would effect majority of the posters on Habbo. Unless the devs have a way of actually changing all the posters in-client to point to a different set of data, I think this will either be impossible or too time consuming.

As NotMiceElf said, ‘posters suck’!



Thank you :-) I’m still trying to get to the bottom of the Zon Parasol and Amber Floor Rug, which is proving somewhat more challenging to do.

Good luck with the Parasol, I tried bloody hard to find the origin of that a while back and it's dead ends almost everywhere you look :P

[Alkaz]

Absolutely fantastic work Harry! I personally don't have any more information to add on this subject, however I wish you all the best in trying to get to the bottom of the origins of these rares. If you need any assistance, please contact me :] +rep

[Brad]

If you enjoy researching things like this, I am trying to compile a group of writings for our Articles Department with this sort of information!

If you feel up to writing a guest article on your pursuing of "habbo history" and "artifacts" (let's be real, with the amount of hidden furni in the hotel, there could be a lot of discovering) then you are more than welcome to send me one.

If you decide to, I'd be able to post it for ya on the front of habbox.com. :)

Your post was very in depth and a great read. Sometimes you forget about these sort of things until some one posts about them. :)
+rep for you, DJ_Shadow;

[DJ_Shadow]

Good luck with the Parasol, I tried bloody hard to find the origin of that a while back and it's dead ends almost everywhere you look :P

I know what you mean. I’ve managed to track down eight of them and published a list on the wiki, some of the owners have had it since it was the original white parasol elcarz. I have pinpointed an approximate date it was added (mid-2007 at the latest), though it is appearing to be more puzzling than the poster to solve. If Sulake didn’t erase the habbo.ca articles from before the merge it would shed some more light on how it came about. I’ve heard there were sightings on .co.uk, .sg and original .com too, but there is no solid evidence of this. Though this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpZ78x2MAA) confirms that it was at least on Habbo.ca and was white up until 2009. HotelEmo (the user in the video) is still active on .com but chooses to appear offline. Efforts to contact him have been in vain.. :-(

I was reading through some old threads about the Parasol and found this this thread from 2012 (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=753920). I noticed that you were a major contributor in it, and so were some of the other people that have viewed this page. Its interesting to read about its glitchy past and this echoes exactly what I have heard from past owners and .ca veterans.

I have looked in the externals of other hotels and discovered an equivalent of the Zon is present on all of them that I’ve checked, but they’re not necessarily in circulation. For example on the Spanish Hotel they have an rare green parasol. But contrary to public opinion this is different from the Zon on .com. It’s identical as our normal green one (id="289”) but is called the ‘Sombrilla Verde’ instead. This has led to substantial confusion.

However a 5th Parasol exists in the .es gamedata with a similar ID to our Zon. This is their equivalent of our Ultra Rare Parasol, not the ‘Sombrilla Verde’.

.com
<furnitype id="2122" classname="rare_parasol">
<name>Parasol</name>
<description>Zon! Zon! Zon!</description>

.es
<furnitype id="2120" classname="rare_parasol">
<name>Sombrilla Rosa</name>
<description>¡Sol! ¡Sol! ¡Sol!</description>

Thats basically all I know, and we’ve still got a long way to go before we finally solve this. But if you think I have missed anything mentioned above or dispute anything we should have a proper conversation about this (we should anyway!) :-)

You haven’t even got me started on the Amber Floor Rug!



Absolutely fantastic work Harry! I personally don't have any more information to add on this subject, however I wish you all the best in trying to get to the bottom of the origins of these rares. If you need any assistance, please contact me :] +rep

Thank you! All I ask is that if you find out any more information on these items or sightings I have not recorded on the wiki to either post here or let me know. It would be very much appreciated :-)



If you enjoy researching things like this, I am trying to compile a group of writings for our Articles Department with this sort of information!

If you feel up to writing a guest article on your pursuing of "habbo history" and "artifacts" (let's be real, with the amount of hidden furni in the hotel, there could be a lot of discovering) then you are more than welcome to send me one.

If you decide to, I'd be able to post it for ya on the front of habbox.com. :)

Your post was very in depth and a great read. Sometimes you forget about these sort of things until some one posts about them. :)
+rep for you, DJ_Shadow;

Yeah, its a shame these intriguing items disappear into obscurity and the average person never hears of them. I will take you up on your offer of a guest article or two on the origins of some of these items, maybe it will make them more known among users and increase their popularity. I will work on an article when I have some spare time (and after some more research) and send it to you.

Thanks for reading :-)

[MKR&*42]

I know what you mean. I’ve managed to track down eight of them and published a list on the wiki, some of the owners have had it since it was the original white parasol @elcarz (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=20698). I have pinpointed an approximate date it was added (mid-2007 at the latest), though it is appearing to be more puzzling than the poster to solve. If Sulake didn’t erase the habbo.ca articles from before the merge it would shed some more light on how it came about. I’ve heard there were sightings on .co.uk, .sg and original .com too, but there is no solid evidence of this. Though this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpZ78x2MAA) confirms that it was at least on Habbo.ca and was white up until 2009. HotelEmo (the user in the video) is still active on .com but chooses to appear offline. Efforts to contact him have been in vain.. :-(

I was reading through some old threads about the Parasol and found this this thread from 2012 (http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=753920). I noticed that you were a major contributor in it, and so were some of the other people that have viewed this page. Its interesting to read about its glitchy past and this echoes exactly what I have heard from past owners and .ca veterans.

I have looked in the externals of other hotels and discovered an equivalent of the Zon is present on all of them that I’ve checked, but they’re not necessarily in circulation. For example on the Spanish Hotel they have an rare green parasol. But contrary to public opinion this is different from the Zon on .com. It’s identical as our normal green one (id="289”) but is called the ‘Sombrilla Verde’ instead. This has led to substantial confusion.

However a 5th Parasol exists in the .es gamedata with a similar ID to our Zon. This is their equivalent of our Ultra Rare Parasol, not the ‘Sombrilla Verde’.

.com
<furnitype id="2122" classname="rare_parasol">
<name>Parasol</name>
<description>Zon! Zon! Zon!</description>

.es
<furnitype id="2120" classname="rare_parasol">
<name>Sombrilla Rosa</name>
<description>¡Sol! ¡Sol! ¡Sol!</description>

Thats basically all I know, and we’ve still got a long way to go before we finally solve this. But if you think I have missed anything mentioned above or dispute anything we should have a proper conversation about this (we should anyway!) :-)

You haven’t even got me started on the Amber Floor Rug!




Thank you! All I ask is that if you find out any more information on these items or sightings I have not recorded on the wiki to either post here or let me know. It would be very much appreciated :-)




Yeah, its a shame these intriguing items disappear into obscurity and the average person never hears of them. I will take you up on your offer of a guest article or two on the origins of some of these items, maybe it will make them more known among users and increase their popularity. I will work on an article when I have some spare time (and after some more research) and send it to you.

Thanks for reading :-)

You sure it was added mid 2007? From this post by a Canadian hotel user > http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=753920&p=7623969#post7623969 it seems it was around in at least early 2006. Sorry if I read your post wrong haha! :P

[DJ_Shadow]

You sure it was added mid 2007? From this post by a Canadian hotel user > http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=753920&p=7623969#post7623969 it seems it was around in at least early 2006. Sorry if I read your post wrong haha! :P

Yes, there still seems to be some ambiguity as to when they first appeared. Though by examining the furnidata and looking at what was added before and after the Zon (ID 2122) we can get an estimation as to when it was added, but not necessarily when it was released. Everything added between IDs 2106 and 2121 were Romantique furniture which did not feature until V12 in 2007. Then there were a few Valentines items (suggesting that this might have been early 2007), then followed a mix of items released that year and more Romantique before starting to see some Habbowood items for September 2007. So I'm pretty certain it wasn't around in 2006.

You can find this all here (http://www.habbo.com/gamedata/furnidata_xml/3e1020f35a04ffb186b970159bad9345cca4d549) :-)

[MKR&*42]

Yes, there still seems to be some ambiguity as to when they first appeared. Though by examining the furnidata and looking at what was added before and after the Zon (ID 2122) we can get an estimation as to when it was added, but not necessarily when it was released. Everything added between IDs 2106 and 2121 were Romantique furniture which did not feature until V12 in 2007. Then there were a few Valentines items (suggesting that this might have been early 2007), then followed a mix of items released that year and more Romantique before starting to see some Habbowood items for September 2007. So I'm pretty certain it wasn't around in 2006.

You can find this all here (http://www.habbo.com/gamedata/furnidata_xml/3e1020f35a04ffb186b970159bad9345cca4d549) :-)

Jeez I can't believe I've never actually thought of using the furniture IDs to figure out approx date of addition lmao. Nice one :!

[tpittman-11]

I had a Zon! parasol a couple of years ago and sold it to a friend. He doesn't play often anymore, but I've left him a couple of messages in hopes that he sees it in soon.... I'ma get that parasol back omg.
Basically what happened was they gave out parasols with the purchase of credits.... there was a coding error (the paras were silver for a couple of days), then they made then non-tradable and you can no longer open/close them; they're stuck in their position foreveerrrrrr.
Also they certainly came out AFTER 2007... more like summer 2008! I'm positive of that because I had the glitch when I bought it (and I didn't start playing til 2007)

[DJ_Shadow]

I had a Zon! parasol a couple of years ago and sold it to a friend. He doesn't play often anymore, but I've left him a couple of messages in hopes that he sees it in soon.... I'ma get that parasol back omg.
Basically what happened was they gave out parasols with the purchase of credits.... there was a coding error (the paras were silver for a couple of days), then they made then non-tradable and you can no longer open/close them; they're stuck in their position foreveerrrrrr.
Also they certainly came out AFTER 2007... more like summer 2008! I'm positive of that because I had the glitch when I bought it (and I didn't start playing til 2007)

Oh wow! Can you see if he has it in any of his rooms?

Interesting, I had never thought about it being given out as part of purchase of credits. Was it anything to do with a Credit Action campaign? Because thats how some Rares such as the Gold Plasma gate was released, or was it just buying a certain amount of credits? I would have thought there would have been more of them around in this case.

The Youtube video in my earlier post was from 2009 and it was still white then, yet there are some account of it only being white for a short while.. Weird that they would release another green parasol though, surely it would have made more sense to keep it as white? They fixed the glitch about it being stuck 2 years ago and its fine now thankfully - and its tradable.

Best of luck trying to find this one! :-)

[tpittman-11]

Oh wow! Can you see if he has it in any of his rooms?

Interesting, I had never thought about it being given out as part of purchase of credits. Was it anything to do with a Credit Action campaign? Because thats how some Rares such as the Gold Plasma gate was released, or was it just buying a certain amount of credits? I would have thought there would have been more of them around in this case.

The Youtube video in my earlier post was from 2009 and it was still white then, yet there are some account of it only being white for a short while.. Weird that they would release another green parasol though, surely it would have made more sense to keep it as white? They fixed the glitch about it being stuck 2 years ago and its fine now thankfully - and its tradable.

Best of luck trying to find this one! :-)

It was a long time ago, so I may be mistaken about how long it was white! However, I'm almost 100% certain I got the parasol for buying credits from Shoppers Drug Mart or Walmart hahahah! He does have it in a room, but it's locked. You have to go through a tele in one of his other rooms to get to it. See the picture below!

http://i61.tinypic.com/25z5p2u.png

[DJ_Shadow]

It was a long time ago, so I may be mistaken about how long it was white! However, I'm almost 100% certain I got the parasol for buying credits from Shoppers Drug Mart or Walmart hahahah! He does have it in a room, but it's locked. You have to go through a tele in one of his other rooms to get to it. See the picture below!

http://i61.tinypic.com/25z5p2u.png

Saw the room and added it to the owners list on the wiki. Thanks :-)

Was it originally like how it was in this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpZ78x2MAA)? With no icon and it having the same name and description as the normal one? I wonder why they would intend to give out a slightly different Green Parasol. A white one would have been a much more appealing gift!

Also when they came out do you remember these Parasols being quite common at the time? Because I believe there were slightly similar credit campaigns going on at roughly the same time across most hotels, and the Rares obtained from them are considerably more common now compared to the Zon.

Though maybe the amount given out was limited in a similar way the Aqua Slurpee (http://www.habboxwiki.com/Aqua_Slurpee_Machine) was during the 7-Eleven campaign. How that worked was users had to redeem a Habbo prepaid card bought from a 7-Eleven and hope they were one of 7 daily winners of the machine. This seems feasible but there are probably over 10 times more Aqua Slurpees than there are Zons, so they could have made it more unlikely to win a Parasol from redeeming a prepaid card - which would explain why so few are around now. Does this sound vaguely familiar to you?

I guess it would be fitting for them to release a Parasol during the summer :P

[tpittman-11]

Saw the room and added it to the owners list on the wiki. Thanks :-)

Was it originally like how it was in this Youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpZ78x2MAA)? With no icon and it having the same name and description as the normal one? I wonder why they would intend to give out a slightly different Green Parasol. A white one would have been a much more appealing gift!

Also when they came out do you remember these Parasols being quite common at the time? Because I believe there were slightly similar credit campaigns going on at roughly the same time across most hotels, and the Rares obtained from them are considerably more common now compared to the Zon.

Though maybe the amount given out was limited in a similar way the Aqua Slurpee (http://www.habboxwiki.com/Aqua_Slurpee_Machine) was during the 7-Eleven campaign. How that worked was users had to redeem a Habbo prepaid card bought from a 7-Eleven and hope they were one of 7 daily winners of the machine. This seems feasible but there are probably over 10 times more Aqua Slurpees than there are Zons, so they could have made it more unlikely to win a Parasol from redeeming a prepaid card - which would explain why so few are around now. Does this sound vaguely familiar to you?

I guess it would be fitting for them to release a Parasol during the summer :P

Yes! It looked exactly like how it looked in the youtube video, with the "No Icon" ... I can't quite remember if the description was different or not. I remember the "glitched" paras were only given out for a few hours - that's why they're so rare! After that short period of time, they put the gifting on hold and fixed the glitch before resuming the gifting process.
No, I definitely remember the green parasol was a guaranteed gift for purchasing the prepaid card; you didn't have to be a lucky winner.

[Zak]

DJ_Shadow;

ActiveZ. has two info buses in his room (not sure who owns them)

http://www.habbo.com/room/67873578

[DJ_Shadow]

DJ_Shadow;

ActiveZ. has two info buses in his room (not sure who owns them)

http://www.habbo.com/room/67873578

Thanks Zak! :-)

I asked in room and apparently it is ActiveZ. that owns both of them. They have now been recorded on the owners list.

[Zak]

Thanks Zak! :-)

I asked in room and apparently it is ActiveZ. that owns both of them. They have now been recorded on the owners list.


I saw another one in some guys rare shop earlier (sorry the name escapes me)

Curious to know though how you know if a user still has the item or not? It's easy with my pink dragon search as they all have numbers.. but if say I sell mine to some guy and you record that one as well.. and you don't know about mine.. that's 2 recorded but only 1 infobus :(

[Samantha]

I saw another one in some guys rare shop earlier (sorry the name escapes me)

Curious to know though how you know if a user still has the item or not? It's easy with my pink dragon search as they all have numbers.. but if say I sell mine to some guy and you record that one as well.. and you don't know about mine.. that's 2 recorded but only 1 infobus :(

I think that's the same shop I saw one in, again I forgot the name. I went in the other day and asked about his Streets Of Bobba Guitar unfortunately it wasn't for sale, but there was an Infobus there.

[DJ_Shadow]

I saw another one in some guys rare shop earlier (sorry the name escapes me)

Curious to know though how you know if a user still has the item or not? It's easy with my pink dragon search as they all have numbers.. but if say I sell mine to some guy and you record that one as well.. and you don't know about mine.. that's 2 recorded but only 1 infobus :(

I actually just saw that one too, owned by ::PLYER:: in his rare shop.

Good question - the answer is that I am friends with all the Infobus owners, and also with all of the active owners of the other items I record. So it is remarkably easy to keep tabs on where they all are, given the small number of them. I try and make sure there are no duplicates by checking with any new owners I find where they got theirs from. A lot of the current owners know about the list, so they usually message me if they have passed theirs on, and to who. I also check the rooms every so often to see if they are still there.

What makes it slightly more challenging with the pink dragon is that there are 80 of them - if there were that many Infobuses I would struggle!

[Zak]

I actually just saw that one too, owned by ::PLYER:: in his rare shop.

Good question - the answer is that I am friends with all the Infobus owners, and also with all of the active owners of the other items I record. So it is remarkably easy to keep tabs on where they all are, given the small number of them. I try and make sure there are no duplicates by checking with any new owners I find where they got theirs from. A lot of the current owners know about the list, so they usually message me if they have passed theirs on, and to who. I also check the rooms every so often to see if they are still there.

What makes it slightly more challenging with the pink dragon is that there are 80 of them - if there were that many Infobuses I would struggle!

Yep ::Plyer:: was the guy! and you aren't friends with me :(

[DJ_Shadow]

::PLYER::'s infobus has just been sold to clash1 (see screenshot below)

-:Undertaker:- Should be featured in your Rare Values weekly


http://i.imgur.com/XhvcXki.png


Yep ::Plyer:: was the guy! and you aren't friends with me :(

Yes I am :-)

[Zak]

::PLYER::'s infobus has just been sold to clash1 (see screenshot below)

@-:Undertaker:- (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=24233) Should be featured in your Rare Values weekly


http://i.imgur.com/XhvcXki.png



Yes I am :-)

at least they're back up to where they deserve

as promised

http://i62.tinypic.com/219uu68.png
DJ_Shadow;

[DJ_Shadow]

at least they're back up to where they deserve

as promised

http://i62.tinypic.com/219uu68.png
DJ_Shadow;

Wow! Also those 7 golden tablets! When was this taken?

[Zak]

Wow! Also those 7 golden tablets! When was this taken?

May 2014

[Samantha]

at least they're back up to where they deserve

as promised

http://i62.tinypic.com/219uu68.png
DJ_Shadow;

Oh wow, that room's amazing.

Also, there was a poster in the Market Place for 500c do you know if it belongs to anyone on the list already? Was it one of yours Zak?
DJ_Shadow;.

[Zak]

Oh wow, that room's amazing.

Also, there was a poster in the Market Place for 500c do you know if it belongs to anyone on the list already? Was it one of yours Zak?
@DJ_Shadow (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=116216);.

It's mine Sam

[Samantha]

Managed to find a rare rug in sierk;'s room. Turns out he has a museum and in his rugs room he has a yellow one which is actually the amber one :P. Let's hope if he comes back he realises. Also found another Army Plasto Chair by searching Super Rares on the navigator and going in the first room I found. There are a lot more of them than I thought, it's a shame there aren't as many active ones.

[DJ_Shadow]

Managed to find a rare rug in sierk;'s room. Turns out he has a museum and in his rugs room he has a yellow one which is actually the amber one :P. Let's hope if he comes back he realises. Also found another Army Plasto Chair by searching Super Rares on the navigator and going in the first room I found. There are a lot more of them than I thought, it's a shame there aren't as many active ones.

Great find! Thank you for updating the wiki with the new examples, as I was struggling to find where his rug was before I noticed you had :P

Also I saw you changed the poster_0_name owner list. Congratulations on getting one! :-)

[DJ_Shadow]

Yes! It looked exactly like how it looked in the youtube video, with the "No Icon" ... I can't quite remember if the description was different or not. I remember the "glitched" paras were only given out for a few hours - that's why they're so rare! After that short period of time, they put the gifting on hold and fixed the glitch before resuming the gifting process.
No, I definitely remember the green parasol was a guaranteed gift for purchasing the prepaid card; you didn't have to be a lucky winner.

I came across an archive of old habbo.ca articles (http://web.archive.org/web/20080919180952/http://www.habbo.ca/articles/category/credit_promo) from 2008 and these particular ones caught my eye. Unfortunately the actual content of them were not accessible. Though these articles were posted at roughly the same time the Zon was added into the furnidata, making it more likely that it had something to do with this campaign.


http://i.imgur.com/oumTBWs.png

However I did manage to find some exact details about this on a Spanish fansite (https://habtium.es/news/1832/ca-eb-games-te-regala-un-parasol-verde). Apparently you were given a Green Parasol if you bought a $10 Habbo Scratch Card (worth 50 credits) from EB Games between 19th - 25th May. So you were right, that they originated from a forgotten credit promotion over 6 years ago - they just must have given out the wrong parasol for a very short time by accident.

Mystery solved! :-)

Intersocial

[lucaskf390]

Well done harry.

[KAIZHI]

I have a poster_0_name.

[tpittman-11]

I came across an archive of old habbo.ca articles (http://web.archive.org/web/20080919180952/http://www.habbo.ca/articles/category/credit_promo) from 2008 and these particular ones caught my eye. Unfortunately the actual content of them were not accessible. Though these articles were posted at roughly the same time the Zon was added into the furnidata, making it more likely that it had something to do with this campaign.


http://i.imgur.com/oumTBWs.png

However I did manage to find some exact details about this on a Spanish fansite (https://habtium.es/news/1832/ca-eb-games-te-regala-un-parasol-verde). Apparently you were given a Green Parasol if you bought a $10 Habbo Scratch Card (worth 50 credits) from EB Games between 19th - 25th May. So you were right, that they originated from a forgotten credit promotion over 6 years ago - they just must have given out the wrong parasol for a very short time by accident.

Mystery solved! :-)

Intersocial

;) I knew my memory wasn't completely shot as of yet! Glad I could be of assistance man.

[KAIZHI]

Bought 1 infobus, it's put in my Super Rare room.

[DJ_Shadow]

After some more hunting I found the content of the two articles I mentioned in my previous post.


Get a Parasol from EB Games!

Posted 19-May-2008 Special Offers

EB Games continues to give give give! This week you can land the exclusive ORANGE PARASOL!

Get ready for the beach, baby, cause starting today, Monday May 19, at 12.01am ET, you get the EXCLUSIVE Orange Parasol with every EB Games Prepaid Card you redeem!

You've probably seen them around in other colours, those fancy parasols. Here is your chance to land the orange one - completely hassle free! And it will never be sold in the catalogue!

Find the EB Games store nearest you, ask for a Habbo scratch card, pay $10, and in return, you will get 50 Habbo Credits AND an Orange Parasol! Once you have the card in hand, you can easily redeem your voucher code(s) right here >>

Please note that your Orange Parasol will show up in your hand the morning after you redeem it! If you redeem your card on a Friday or a Saturday, you will have to wait for Monday morning!

This promotion will last for a week, ending Sunday May 25, at 11.59pm ET.

- Puffin, wishing you a HAPPY VICTORIA DAY!


EB Games Parasol Alert!

Posted 21-May-2008 Special Offers

As many of you already noticed, there was something off with the Green Parasol! Sooo.. what say ye about getting an ORANGE one?

We were thinking, that instead of waiting around for the techies to fix the issues with the green parasol, we would simply hand out the orange one instead!

So if you want an Orange Parasol, you know what to do!

... check out this article right here >> (Links to above article)

- Puffin, switcha-roo!

[Zak]

After some more hunting I found the content of the two articles I mentioned in my previous post.

So it is an arcane because it's not supposed to be there :P haha that's so cool.

[DJ_Shadow]

Came across this old fansite news page from 2003 with images of a white parasol. There are also some other interesting articles about other rares being released at the time. I believe this is from Habbo UK.

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/tkilpatrick/tjkilpatricksplaceinspace/id13.html

[Zak]

Came across this old fansite news page from 2003 with images of a white parasol. There are also some other interesting articles about other rares being released at the time. I believe this is from Habbo UK.

http://mypeoplepc.com/members/tkilpatrick/tjkilpatricksplaceinspace/id13.html

Amazing that it has survived there for all those years. Good find.

Finding old websites would be a real insight and really help improve the content on the wiki. I might have a search later.

I wish I could remember all the things from Habbo I did 10 years ago! :P