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Are you wondering why the Poptropica map doesn’t have more islands than it does? If you’re an older player, you may recall a time when Poptropica had wayyy more islands on the map—more than 40, even! Where did they all go, and how can you play them again?
Continue reading “Pop Protip: Play the old islands with Flashpoint 🏝🔦 (Windows and Mac)”Hey Poptropicans! In this update, we’ve got a fun lore video, update on a Poptropica revival, and even something to get your creative juices flowing. 🥤 Let’s pop right into it! 💥
YouTuber Tahliaisnotcool from New Zealand recently dropped an hour-long video exploring Poptropica’s rise and fall, complete with a murder board with screenshots from the game and articles from her research. And it already has 122K+ views within its first week up! Watch below:
Tahlia cites quite a bit from the PHB as well, and we’re happy to have played our part in it! 💙 Just to clarify a few of the items she brings up: Slanted Fish (that’s me) did go by Scary Tomato in the early days of the PHB, and our Discord server does have a name—the PHC! Also, she doesn’t mention Poptropica.love, another Poptropica revitalization project, probably because it literally launched a day after her video.
Which brings us to… the latest from browser-based Poptropica.love! Its developer No-Departure242 has shared another update on Reddit to announce that multiplayer is now in beta—including common rooms, friends, and Realms. Plus, the project is no longer relying on Flashpoint’s code, and photos have been added into the game as well. Let’s go! ⚡️
Last but not least, we’ve stumbled across a Poptropica Comic Studio where you can create your own Poptropica-based comic strips using various stickers, templates, and text of your choosing. Though the options for visuals are a bit limited, your creativity doesn’t have to be! ✨
Keep on poppin’ on!
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Hey Poptropicans! For years, Poptropica in its full former glory has mainly been accessible only through a download via Flashpoint, the Flash game preservation project. But now we’ve got a new player…
Enter the website www.Poptropica.love, which brings the classic game to your computer web browser—no download required! 💖
Poptropica.love was built by No-Departure242, who shared on Reddit that it was ported from Flashpoint’s Poptropica, with some help from AI. The whole project is still in beta, and players are welcome to make accounts, test things out, and share any found bugs and feedback to [email protected] so it can continue to improve. 💪🦺
So far, the game includes most of the old classic islands from both the AS2 and AS3 eras, plus beloved features such as the Costumizer and a previous iteration of the Store (with more free shop items to come). 👕
It doesn’t work on mobile yet, but you can create an account to play on multiple devices without losing progress. There’s a bit of lag on Home Island, but other islands seem to run normally. 🏝️
The developer is currently working on more features to come, including multiplayer common rooms and designing their own island. We’re looking forward to seeing what’s next for this exciting new site! ✨
Welcome to the Poptropica Help Blog! My name is Gentle Dolphin, I’m your host, and I’m here to invite you to the most game-changing, art-making, BIRTHDAY-CELEBRATING artistic collaboration you’ve ever laid your eyes upon! The theme for our fourth annual Poptropica birthday art collab is… 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Our previous birthday parties were sweet, nostalgic, and mysterious. It’s time to let loose and have some silly fun before Poptropica turns two decades old next year.👴 We’re asking you, Poptropica fans, to step right up and draw characters having some good old-fashioned fair fun! Make sure to read the rules before going on this ride:
🧑🎨Draw a character having fun at the carnival! They can be a canon Poptropica character, a Pop OC, or a character from another piece of media. Please save your drawing as a transparent .png image so it can be easily added to the collage. Here’s a picture of Gentle for an example, although she may not be having fun in this moment:
🖼️Upload your image to the internet. Post your drawing to a website that supports transparent images such as Imgur, Discord, DeviantArt, and Twitter/X. You may send us a maximum of three images.
💻Comment on this post with a link to your drawing. Copy and paste your image link to a comment on this very post so we can see it. Along with the link, please add your Poptropican name and/or one social media username that you want listed in the artist credits.
We will be accepting submissions until Tuesday, September 29th @ 11:59 pm EST, so don’t miss your chance to join. Per tradition, we’ll gather everyone’s art and put them into a colossal collage! We hope you can join us for Poptropica’s 19th birthday celebration, and let’s hope that won’t be like the last carnival to grace Poptropica. 🎪
Thank you for reading, and have a good day!
—Gentle Dolphin🐬
Hey Poptropicans! We’ve featured Poptropica tattoos before (part 1 and part 2 here), but get ready to feast your eyes on the biggest one yet…
Kaidezz has commemorated their longtime favorite island, Twisted Thicket, as their first ever tattoo, and it’s glorious! The forearm half-sleeve features iconic creatures including a troll and elf, and scenery elements like a mushroom and shrubbery. 🍄🧝 Kai shares that shading and color are on the way and plans to give an update when there’s more added. We’re definitely looking forward to it! 🤩🍃
Meanwhile, the PHB’s very own Magic Kid has been cooking up a henna tattoo of the Secret Society mark from the Poptropica graphic novels. While henna tatts aren’t permanent, it definitely makes for a fun and iconic piece of art to enjoy for a couple weeks! ✴️
That’s all for now, but we’re always keen to appreciate some Pop art, bodily or otherwise! If you’ve got any, or spotted some good ones, we’d love for you to share with us on our Discord server, the PHC. ✨
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Hey hey, Poppie-tropicans! ✨ Roll out the blue carpet, it’s time to announce the winners of this year’s Poptropica fan awards—brought to you in the video below by our hosts Magic Kid and Gentle Dolphin.
Thanks to everyone who joined in on the nominations, voting, and celebrations on the PHC, where we reminisced about Poppies past. 🥹 Happy 18th birthday, PHB—welcome to adulthood! 🧓1️⃣8️⃣🎉
And the Poppies go to…
Enjoy this selection of top-tier Pop fan art, chosen by the people.
And our celebrations wouldn’t be complete without a poppin’ after-party… so we’re hitting the dance floor… as genies! 🪔 What a way to represent how the time just flies by, like wisps of smoke. 💨
Thanks to all who joined our Genie Dance inspired by Arabian Nights Island, and a huge shout-out to Lucky Fish for hosting this community art collab—click to enlarge the collage above! ✨ Let the credits roll:
Before we call it a wrap, we’ve got a few more awards to give out…
Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you all for coming out to the blue carpet to celebrate Poptropica’s enduring magic, and the PHB’s big, all-grown-up 18th birthday. 🪩 We love you all! 🫶
POP ON, POPTROPICANS! 💖💨
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