I have recently heard this:

It’s been rumored for a while that Montgomery & Co. is representing virtual world Club Penguin in a sale transaction. It looks like the company is locked in talks, possibly exclusive, with Sony, and the price is “at least half a billion” says a source close to the deal.

We mentioned Club Penguin last month when a competitor launched from IAC called Zwinktopia. The company is killing it – projected revenues of $65 million in 2007 with $35 million in profit. Having nearly 50% bottom line margin is exceptional. The company has around 500,000 active users.

A stumbling block in the negotiations appears to be a disagreement over charitable contributions. Club Penguin donates a significant portion of profits to charity and wants this policy to continue post-acquisition. Sony reportedly isn’t hot on the idea.

Club penguin is a virtual world for young kids. Sony may see significant synergies by tying it into their Playstation platform. Other bidders that were in talks until very recently reportedly include AOL, Disney and Viacom.

This is good news for Club Penguin’s virtual world competitors as well – which broadly includes Second Life, Runescape, Gaia, Habbo Hotel, Cyworld, Neopets, Webkinz and others.

This can not and must not happen! No mater what! Club Penguin donates to charity, and Sony® does not want to!

Heres another report from gigaom.com:

Update: Hollywood and media giants have a newfound affection for virtual worlds for kids, and are willing to spend big dollars on communities like Club Penguin and Webkinz. The latest rumor floating around is the Sony is interested in buying Club Penguin for about $500 million, according to PaidContent…

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We must stop this! Lets create a team to stop this! Tell everyone about this! Get everybody to help and create a team to protest against this. Why? Their are kids out there who are counting on this money from C.P. Sony might change the rules and ruin the fun for all of us!

Great news! The igloo contest is here! The new catalogue is full with fish bowl stuff!

The new pin is a Mine Cart. I can’t take the pictures of them right now, but the pictures are on my other website, http://www.freewebs.com/clubpenguin_bbfreeze.

I just heard that the Water Party is being expanded until Monday! Woo hoo! Sorry I had to do that. Also, my blog has 45 hits and it’s only 2 days old! Holy Moly!

The mine and pool are open again! Now I can get me some more coins on cart surfer! The only bad thing is… THE WATER PARTY IS OVER! No more fun in the splashes, no more anything!