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Year 11: 2009

Year End Summary

• 1 new colour for Neopets
• 1 new colour for Petpets
• 8 events occurred
• 1 new land discovered

• The Quizara's Curse game was released
• Petpet Park was launched
• Neopets turns 10!

January

• 9th - The About Us page is updated for the first time since Viacom's take-over of the site
• 28th - Voting begins for the first annual Neopies Awards

February

• 3rd - "Five Score February" is announced. You can now send five game scores per day instead of three during weekends in February
• 18th - The colour Onion is announced for the Chia with the release of the Onion Chia Pop

Never before have Chias been in such a pickle...

March

• 1st - The third annual Daily Dare and the first annual NC Mall Daily Dare Challenge begin with a new feature - Double Dare
• 11th - The Neopets: Quizara's Curse Leapfrog Didj game is released
• 28th - The Terror Mountain Maps are revamped

April

• 1st - TNT introduces Neoplants and Neopians are so confident that it is this year's Prank, they fall like rocks for the real one - a major economic crisis in Neopia
• 1st - The Neggtacular Springtime Celebration site event begins
• 2nd - The Neopian Stock Market crashes
• 3rd - The prizes for March's Daily Dare are released
• 3rd - The Neopian Pronunciation Guide is updated
• 13th - The Neggtacular Springtime Celebration site event ends
• 28th - Petpet Park closed beta testing sign-ups begin

May

• 2nd - "May Mayhem" is announced. You can now send five game scores per day instead of three during weekends in May
• 8th - Petpet Park enters open beta testing
• 29th - Altador Cup IV sign-ups begin

Finally petpets can do something other than say 'Brrrflp'!

June

• 2nd - The Altador Cup III Prize Shop closes
• 3rd - Altador Cup IV begins with a new game - Shootout Showdown
• 3rd - A Neopets Tutorial is launched alongside Nilo, the tour guide
• 3rd - The Maraqua Maps are revamped
• 4th - The first annual Altador Cup NC Challenge begins
• 13th - The final Faerie Caves Spotlight is awarded

July

• 3rd - The Altador Cup IV Finals begin, with Krawk Island, Shenkuu, Lost Desert and Kreludor battling it out for the Cup
• 6th - The Altador Cup NC Challenge ends
• 8th - Krawk Island wins the Altador Cup and the Prize Shop opens
• 9th - The New Game Challenge and the New Game NC Mall Challenge are introduced with the release of the game Dice of Destiny
• 21st - TNT is at Comic-Con for the week
• 23rd - The first Mysterious Morphing Experiment, an NC Mall exclusive item, is released
• 31st - Neopia's first annual Style Showdown begins

I should really stop being so predictable.

August

• 5th - The TNT artists take the day off with disastrous results

September

• 11th - Neopia's Style Showdown announces its 2009 winner - _____Vincent_____
• 17th - The Faerieland Maps are revamped and The Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity (TDMBGPOP) becomes a new daily
• 18th - The Faerie Festival site event begins
• 22nd - The Faerie Festival site event ends
• 23rd - The colour Electric is announced for Petpets with the release of the Electric Petpet Paint Brush

October

• 15th - The navigation bar is updated and Neovision is removed from the site
• 16th - The Atlas of the Ancients Plot debuts
• 31st - Trick or Treating returns across Neopia.

Now what are we going to do on Friday nights?

November

• 6th - Neopets' 10th Birthday Celebration begins
• 13th - Moltara City is discovered during the Atlas of the Ancients Plot
• 15th - Neopets celebrates its 10th birthday
• 20th - The Moltara Caves are discovered during the Atlas of the Ancients Plot
• 25th - The Atlas of the Ancients Plot officially concludes
• 25th - The fourth annual Games Master Challenge begins
• 25th - TNT announces that you can now send 10 game scores per day instead of three during December in honour of Neopets' 10th birthday

December

• 1st - The Games Master Challenge ends
• 2nd - The Winter Wonderfest site event begins
• 4th - The Atlas of the Ancients Plot Prize Shop opens
• 8th - The first annual Stocking Stufftacular NC Mall event begins
• 15th - The Magma Pool opens in Moltara and the colour Magma becomes available even though it is not announced

This page was written by noileh and last updated on March 3, 2021.