ZooPals.com

**zoopals.com** was the official website for the ZooPals brand which was first created in 2002. It's URL was www.zoopals.com. Nowadays, trying to enter the website will redirect you to Hefty's website announcement of ZooPals returning. Contents of the old website can be accessed here and here.

## Sections

### Loading Screen

When you first entered the website, Sushi the Panda Bear was rolling as the loading bar loaded. This featured stayed since the website was founded until the shut down notice in 2014.

### 2003

Back in 2003, there was a short animation of Wrinkles the Elephant jumping from a diving board onto a see-saw where Rusty the Fox is thrown onto a slide, whooshes by a pinwheel causing it to spin, before they slide down and knock a torch over, lighting a rope that causes a cannon to shoot out with the ZooPals logo with the word "Welcome" on top in a pink and purple gradient. In the background, there are ZooPals plates released at that time watching the show on brown bleachers.

### 2004

The introduction was the same but instead it contained New ZooPals plates on the bleachers, and Wrinkles the Elephant and Rusty the Fox were replaced by Gogo the Gorilla and Monte the Moose.This feature was removed in 2006.

### Home Page

#### 2003-2012

The home page included Punky the Monkey and Eddy the Eagle sitting on leaf's while Sushi the Panda Bear wearing a safari hat was holding a yellow flag that contained the ZooPals logo. Their were buttons that let you watch the original Zoopals and New ZooPals commercial, a button for parents, a button for kids, and a button that let you meet the ZooPals.

### Kids Area

The kids area included the Mismatch Game, Adventures & Stories, Tic Tac Toe, Meet the ZooPals, Puzzles, Coloring, and the Memory game.

### Grown Ups

Clicking the Grown Ups button redirected you to Pactiv's homepage, where it described ZooPals plates. Pictures of Curly the Pig, Sturt the Peacock, and Monte the Moose were on the left side of the website.

### 2011

The home page was updated, adding a plate of Cha Cha the Cheetah, a cup of Curly the Pig, 3 pieces of tableware from the Funtensils line, and ZooPals Bowls. Punky the Monkey and Edgy the Eagle were no longer on the home page and the flag that Sushi was holding and the buttons to watch the original and new ZooPals commercial's have been removed.

### 2012-2013

The home page was updated to advertise the Safari Collection. It also had a button to check out the new "Do Da Dip" commercial. There was a button that let you print out your own calendar. The calendar can be accessed via the Internet Archive, but it only contains the 2011 December version.

### 2014

The home page was mostly the same as the 2012 one instead it was updated to advertise the Rainforest Collection.

### Shut down notice

In August 7, 2014, the website was updated to inform viewers that ZooPals were being discontinued. While it still had the old homepage, the kids button was removed and you could no longer click on the plate, cup, tableware, and bowl.

The message contained the following:

> "Good-bye, Zoo Pals friends!
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> The Hefty brand has made the difficult decision to discontinue the line of Zoo Pals tableware (plates, cups, bowls, and utensils). We thank you for your support and we enjoy thinking about the many times Zoo Pals helped to "make eating fun!" for many parents and kids over the years.
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> Select retailers will carry the product in stores until their remaining inventory runs out.
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> Box Tops for Education coupons from Zoo Pals packages will continued to be honored through this translation period, and we will continue to support the Box Tops program on our other Hefty tableware products.
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> Should you still have Zoo Pals products in your cabinets... we ask that you use them instead of saving them. Get them out for a snack or a meal and enjoy the interaction's with your kids.
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> Farewell and bon appetit!"
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> On the bottom left side of the message, Sushi was holding a red sign that said "GOOD BYE" with white text, and another Sushi appeared at the bottom of the page telling viewer's to check Hefty.com for information about their current products.
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1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20020523090756/http://www.zoopals.com/
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040505032543/http://www.pactiv.com/HeftyPals/ZooPals/index.html
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060315115439/http://pactiv.com/HeftyPals/ZooPals/grown/grown\_ups.html
4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110209210758/http://zoopals.pactiv.com/