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The Avatars that Make the Zones

Believe it or not, until the birth of Avatarwares, VZones (or Worldsaway at the time) only gave members six avatars to choose from, in all its worlds. Heres the timeline for the release of avatars worldwide...

Pre-Worldsaway

As you know, before Worldsaway, before Habitat 2, we had Club Caribe. CC only had two avatars availiable:

The two avatars shown here are the Male and Female avatars, the only difference being, breasts on the female. Arms/sleeves were paintable to create the t-shirt effect so new clothes could become accessible, in addition to colors, with a simple paint code.

1995

The birth of Dreamscape and Habitat 2. The members of DS were given six avatars to choose from:

Athletic Male
Athletic Female
Medium Male
Medium Female
Portly Male
Wholesome Female

Habitat 2 members were given an two anime-like avatars in addition to the DS six, for members to choose from:

Anime Male
Anime Female

Being a land of mythology and legend, DS/Hab2 had their own storylines and oracles, much like the DS of today. The oracles had their own unique bodies, with the head oracle, Brother Echo, having a slightly different one to the others.


Brother Echo


Regular Oracle

1999

Yup, until 1999, those avatars were the only ones we had... or so we thought. It appeared that another two bodies were being worked on at the time. When Honolulu opened in New Radio World, these two bodies were unveiled:

Tarzan
Jane

Although not immediately availiable to the public, they were used by the cast members in an event for the Honolulu opening. They were later released in the body machines, late 2000.

2000

The year 2000 saw the birth of Avatarwares, the tokens-for-pixels business that has effectively changed the way we think about items inworld... and the same goes for bodies. The Anime Male/Female bodies were publically released in the Dreamscape body machines for the summer, then put into the Avatarwares catalog for newHorizone. Soon after, the Anime bodies were taken out of the DS Body Machine and put into their AW Catalog too.
December 2000 saw the unveiling of the most popular bodies yet... the Tiny bodies!


Tiny Body

2001

The Tiny Bodies were finally released as Avatarwares in March 2001, bringing about the revolution of irritatingly small ankle-biters inworlds.
May 2001, two brand new bodies were released (also in AW) called Bonnie and Clyde.

Clyde
Bonnie

June 2001, of course, marked the opening of the controversial, yet strangely compelling Seducity. Two naked bodies were created just for this world:

Adam
Eve

2002

2002 saw a flood of new avatars created, including the characters from the newly opened Second Kingdom. Eight new avatars were created specifically for use when this world opened in April 2002.

Male Villager
Female Villager
Troll
Warlord
Faerie
Sorcerer
Noblelady
Dorran

July 2002, even more avatars were added to Second Kingdoms lineup.. the pets:

Kitty
Puppy
Mouse
Spider

The spider body was actually an enhanced, animated version of the spider knicknack that was previously used as a 'body' at halloween and other times. It was released shortly before in DS/nH as Avatarwares.

A new Sorceress avatar was used in a quest for SK:


Sorceress

August 2002, Artcher's Yvonne body was released into Avatarwares.


Yvonne

October 2002, even more pets were released into Second Kingdom, and pet accounts were made availiable in DS/NH.

Bear
Squirrel
Dragon
Ferret
Frog
Toucan

A new body was introduced for certain staff members in Dreamscape, the Pan body:


Pan Body

A month later, another pet body was released in all worlds:


Bunny

December 2002, a Second Kingdom Quest saw the unveiling of a new Wolf avatar, a far howl (get it?) from the cutesy pet avatars.


Wolf

three more member-art bodies were released, Scott, Male Toga and Female Toga.

Scott
Female Toga
Male Toga

2003 kicked off with yet another body release, the Jami body:


Jami

Going back to Habitat 2, some very tall new avatars were released there:

Whether or not they will make it to VZones is unknown.

Rarities

The TestAvat was momentarily used by Robert during a beta test in another world. No one knows what it was used for.


TestAvat

Another strange body is Beta, a version of the Anime Male with a big questionmark on his chest.


Beta

This unfinished version of the Wholesome Female, was perhaps the original version from the concept stages of Worldsaway. These days, its used as a scenery item, such as Mrs Clause at christmas.


Wholesome Female 2

 

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