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The phone calls begin to pick up in early afternoon, after school gets out. Often, it’s kids. But sometimes, say the managers of The Wishing Well in Cherry Hill, N.J., parents are among the 20 to 40 ...

If you’ve ever cared for or encountered Webkinz, the plush stuffed animals and their online counterparts that were all the rage in the mid-2000s, you may on occasion wonder: Are my Webkinz still alive ...

Put down the frog: There's no need to do anything rash. That'll apply to you, reader of a very specific age, if you were thinking of throwing out your old Webkinz—the toys-to-life plushie that was ...