SM's Bonju Hunt since 4/30/09 The Bonju Avatar was released, or "released" as it were, by TNT on August 8, 2006. There have been no confirmed sitings of the avatar yet. Does this mean that no one has it? Possibly. Hopefully this page will provide some clever ideas of how one might get the avatar. We will not rest until Bonju has been unlocked! I'm not very good at designing webpages... so please excuse the messiness. This page will not be styled in the typical way. Rather than being separated by category, ideas will be listed in journal form and dated. A second page is currently in the works to list these ideas in category form. I will link it to this one when it is complete. I am currently seeking affiliates, listings and ratings. Neomail me if interested. Sister Sites Affiliates Listed In Reviewed By Link Back <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~scarletmarguerite"><img src="http://i44.tinypic.com/554jmc.jpg"></a> Button made by http://www.neopets.com/~YellowPineApple321 <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~scarletmarguerite"><img src="http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u28/cutiepiemhe/buttons/Boju-1.gif"></a> Misty's Buttons made the above button for me! <a href="http://www.neopets.com/~scarletmarguerite"><img src="http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv263/The_Requester/Bonju1.gif " border="0"></a> Button made by Mystique Graphics. Scarletmarguerite's Bonju Diary 6/27/2009 So, I now have some ideas to send Starrynessie of what she should do with the swabby. To foster more ideas, I will be creating a board tomorrow on the avatar chat to come up with Bonju ideas. It shall be titled SM'S BONJU HUNT EXTRAVAGANZA- CAN WE FIND THE AVATAR? because I think that title is pretty snappy. I'll be starting it in the morning tomorrow and bumping it at intervals during the day. Please join the board and give some input, or just bump it up so that other people can see it. Thank you so much! 6/22/2009 I have now found someone to lend my Swabby too! Starrynessie has volunteered to attach my Swabby to her Pirate Peophin, Shiliwa. I am asking her to name the swabby Chef Bonju. Beyond that, I am still slightly unsure as to what it is I want her to do. I am trying to generate a list of ideas, but, as usual, any input would be greatly accepted. Sometime during the next week I will have a thread on the avatar chat start up to discuss this. More to come when I decide the time. Thank you so much! 6/19/2009 I have now bought a Swabby! He's attached to my Hissi/ Lab rat Garudalor. I was dumb and totally forgot to write down who had a pirate pet and would be willing to use the swabby for my theories about it, so I am going to wait until I save up enough to paint morgan, my lutari, pirate like I wanted to anyway. Perhaps this will shed some light! Anyway, Bonju does like to clean... 6/18/2009 NOW ACCEPTING AFFILIATES!!!!! If you want to be an affiliate, neomail me and send me your button. I will send you mine! Yay! Let's spread the search for Bonju! I also have another great petpage, of Funny HC Topics of the Day, that would love to be your affiliate. Thank you! 6/17/2009 Still... no discovery of Bonju. I have been valiantly trying to figure it out, still. I have created a gallery of items that are commonly used (and uncommonly used) in the magical cooking pot/ mysterious cooking vessel to try and get the avatar. If anyone has ideas of other items that I should add, or would like to add items to my gallery for the benefit of those trying to figure out possible items to use, that would be fabulous. Neomail me! I have also created a blumaroo on one of my sides, and I intend to paint her orange very soon. I need to save up a bit right now. I'm short on funds... erp... Thanks again for reading! I'm sorry that it has been ages since I updated, I've been working full time. Keep searching!!! 5/10/09 from korky 1996: I was reading yout page, and when I typed http://www.neopets.com/blumararoo it took me to the blumaroo info page. I tried www.neopets/com/blumaroo/all the endings I saw on your page, but none of them work. Thank you korky! In response to that, I have now tried... chefbonju chef bonju blumaroo blumaroochef chefblumaroo whereisbonju bonjuavatar avatar blumaroochefavatar therealbonju showmebonju culinary concoctions culinary concoctions secretavatar therealblumaroochef orange orangeblumaroo blumarooorange orangechef bork borkbork borkborkbork on ALL the Shenkuu pages, pizaroo and Skarl's Castle. I'm planning to next test this on all of the pages of the Cyodrake's Gaze comic, a shop with bonju as the shopkeeper, both my own shop, someone else's, and the stock part of the shop. I am also planning to try it with different combos of the blumaroo gummy dice (released on the same day as the avatar) in my inventory and in my shop. I also now have an orange pet, the lovely Eliziabetta the koi. So we will see where this goes :) austin1 tried... neopets.com/chefbonjuavatar & /mayipleasehavethechefbonjuavatar from stardust 310: So here's what i've just been trying (singular my/nose as well): /itsrightunderournoses /rightunderournoses /underournoses /ournoses & /mayihavethechefbonjuavatar. from angryblackcat: It is rumoured that Snarkie has the avatar. She has never said that she has it, nor has she ever used it. this is a RUMOR. However, if she does have it, she has had a Swabby petpet attached to a pirate pet for a really long time. The Cyodrake's Gaze was a ship, like a pirate would have. And Bonju enjoyed cleaning. Perhaps you have to have a swabby attached to a pirate pet and then do something. If ANYONE has a pirate pet and would be willing to test this, I will lend you a Swabby. Thank you!!! NM me about it. from george10_9 Maybe you have to try certain types of food from Faerieland, Shenkuu, and Mystery Island? That's where they went on the Cyodrake's Gaze. Krawk Island, of course, but there's not any food to buy from there. from helba Helba thinks that the 8 dots under Bonju's chin may have something to do with an arrangement of items in one's inventory. Interesting idea. I have no where to go with this. If you have any ideas, NM me! from streamergirl Another petpage with info: http://www.neopets.com/~Colleen_girly from ic0ldx_ A Count Von Roo Pinata to try different things with. Thanks Jenny! from shinning123 Bonju blows things up in his pot... so why not make it really exciting with explosive items! I put in exploding snowball, exploding snowflake, and radioactive snow. Didn't work. Oh well. XDD Any ideas? Want to try it? Neomail me! 4/30/2009 I now have a bunch of people on board with me! Thank you! I haven't been keeping a list of all of you as you join me, so if you see this, if you could neomail me with what you've been doing and what accounts you could be found on for questions, that would be great! If you're interested in joining up, neomail me! I have now tried all of the possible previously shown links on the bottom of my page with all of the codes that I said, plus a few more. I'm starting to wonder about that idea, but I'm going to keep trying. Trust me, anything I brainstorm, you will know. Also, before you neomail me asking me about certain theories, I highly recommend that you check out the following pages... SN's Bonju Site (which I am hoping to team up with) http://www.neopets.com/~Jumpels http://www.neopets.com/~bonju_info http://www.neopets.com/~Graukol http://www.neopets.com/~Maanam http://www.neopets.com/~Ryan_Jr91 (really good one) http://www.neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?section=416915&week=356 Those are just a few. There are more... there was one I really loved but I misplaced the URL to. If you find others, let me know! (Found it! Thanks munk3ygurl!) Thanks again everyone! Let's beat TNT on this one! ~Marguerite PS. I'm often on the HC if you need to find me. Or Neomail me. THANKS EVERYONE! Neomail me with questions! And feel free to friend me to save this page. Just nm me and tell me that's why you're friending. I've gotten 100 hits today alone. 4/4/2009 So I've been killing myself for forever trying to mix any combination of things to get the avatar. I realized today that there are other blumaroo chefs. There is the pizzaroo blumaroo, and then according to the Yellow Draik Egg TC released in 2004, Skarl also has a blumaroo chef. In addition, the orange blumaroo on the Culinary Concoctions page NEVER SAYS HE IS BONJU! An imposter? Here are reasons why I think this: 1.TNT said, at the release of the avatar, "If only there was a Blumaroo chef around to help you find the new Avatar..." They did NOT say that the avatar had to come from Chef Bonju. Only that it came from a Blumaroo chef. The Pizzaroo Shopkeeper is a Blumaroo, meaning that it might be him. Also, Skarl has a chef who is a blumaroo, according to the Yellow Draik Egg Card. 2. Does it have anything to do with orange? Not necessarily. Once again, TNT didn't say that it did. 3. On the Culinary Concoctions page, the character is only introduced as a "a rather surly looking orange Blumaroo. Judging by his clothing, you guess he's the cook on this ship" He never says that he is a chef, rather that he is a "master culinary artist". He also never says that his name is Bonju. Could the real Bonju be hiding somewhere else on Shenkuu? Or in Neopia?? 4. No one has successfully cooked anything in his magical cooking pot. So magical that it doesn't work! People have been trying different combinations for more than 2 1/2 years now. I give up on that theory, someone would have accidentally done it by now. 5. The "Wocky-Snow Day" avatar (my current avatar) is gotten by looking at one's own snowy pet. NOT spefically at a Wocky. Wocky is in the name... but that's not necessarily how you get it. I got it from my snow Grundo. Given this logic, why did we all assume that the Bonju-Blumaroo Chef avatar came from Bonju?? Or even from an orange Blumaroo? So there are some of my reasons... I hope they make sense. I've been trying a few different ways to test these. No luck yet, but if I could get some other people on the bandwagon, that would be great. First off, in the stores I am trying the code idea. Remember the codestone code in Hubert's Hot Dog's in the Lost Desert Plot? If you don't, then that's okay. If you entered *pas s wo rd= codestone (without the ___s... TNT is no longer allowing this word on webpages) to the end of the Hubert's Hot Dog URL, this happened: http://www.neopets.com/objects.phtml?type=...sword=codestone Perhaps there is a similar situation with the avatar? TNT specifically stated that the avatar is not from a source code... but they didn't say anything about a URL. (thank you degrassigirl13000 for this idea!) So, I've been trying that at Pizzaroo, Merifoods, Remarkable Restoratives, Exotic Foods, Wondrous Weaponry, and Fanciful Fauna. In the areas that are not stores, this automatically takes you to the TNT 404 page. Which is pretty funny. But totally not helpful in finding this avatar. So, my theory there is that maybe it's just a page extension, such as: http://www.neopets.com/shenkuu/chefbonju.phtml or http://www.neopets.com/shenkuu.phtml/blumaroochef Neither of these work, but I tried some on the pages for Shenkuu, Culinary Concoctions, The Meridell Castle, Meridell, Neopia Central, and the Lunar Temple. Some of the endings I tried were chefbonju chef bonju blumaroo blumaroochef chefblumaroo whereisbonju bonjuavatar avatar blumaroochefavatar Though I DID NOT try each one of these on each page. Anyone believe that I might be on to something and want to try and help me out with that?? Thank you! smile.gif ~Marguerite