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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! For anyone who’s ever had a Poptropica island idea—you can now make it happen for real with IslandEngine, a new tool by the developer of Poptropica.love! 👀🩵
IslandEngine only works on Windows computers, and the Poptropica islands it makes can only be played offline. 🪟 You can create your own islands or copy from an existing AS2 or AS3 island, which use their original scripts and XML. (This refers to ActionScript 2 or 3, the Flash coding languages used to develop most Poptropica islands.)
As the developer, No-Departure242 aka 42-AH shared on Reddit, “You can make a new AS3 or AS2 island with rooms, characters, dialogue, items, and puzzles, then export it as a Windows app.” ⬆️🎁 The instructions are on IslandEngine’s GitHub page and are a bit technical, but covers everything you’ll need to know, from download and setup, to building islands with existing assets or writing your own code, and exporting your masterpiece once it’s ready to be played. ✨
42-AH also notes that his name as shown on GitHub is Andrew, but bears no relation to the Andrew who made Poptropica Legacy. However, IslandEngine does use game files from the Poptropica archive on the Internet Archive, which is linked by the Poptropica Legacy maintainer.
For any issues, 42-AH hopes you may be able to code your way around them. 🪲 But as always, please report feedback and bugs to [email protected] so the project can keep improving.
We’ve yet to see any custom islands created from IslandEngine, but we look forward to checking them out when the time comes! 🤩
For island ideas, check out our My Dream Island series here on the PHB. And if you’ve made anything or found any good ones, share with us in the comments or on the PHC, our Discord server! 🏝️🖱️
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post from Invisible Ring. Enjoy!
Happy Halloween, Poptropicans! This year, I’ve drawn and colored an 8-page comic book combining three of my favorite things ever: Halloween, Super Mario, and Poptropica! It’s inspired by Poptropica’s graphic novels, Nintendo’s Super Mario movies, and Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics. (And maybe the Super Mario Adventures fan comic series, too.)
Join grown-ish Mya, Oliver, and Jorge as they take on a new age of tricks and treats, and meet some familiar faces from the award-winning PoptropiCon Saga! Together, they are determined to show the world that you’re never too old for Halloween fun. Read Poptastic Halloween!:
Have a spooktacular fun season, everybody! 👻
Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Invisible Ring. If you did, you might also enjoy her PoptropiCon Saga comic series, which won “Favorite Poptropica Fanfiction of All Time” at our 2026 Poppies Awards.
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Hey Poptropicans! Poptropica.love, the Poptropica revival project launched just last month, announced on October 3 that it was officially out of beta and mostly functional. And now, it’s got another big update: live multiplayer on Realms, Poptropica’s world-building sandbox! ⚡️
This means you can now play Realms with others in real time. To access Realms on Poptropica.love, click on the menu (crate icon in the top-right corner) and click on the blue hammer icon.
This huge update includes a player list with viewer and editor permissions, ban and unban controls for realm owners, shared progress preserved across sessions, and more you can read about in the developer’s Reddit post. Realms can function both online and offline.
It’s super exciting to see this revival for Realms. Now let’s go forth and make some cool stuff! And if you’re looking for a buddy (or several) to build with, try our PHC Discord server. 💪🥳
Curious about the possibilities you can create with Realms? Check out the many Realms tours we’ve featured here on the PHB. 🗺️
Keep on poppin’ on!
This is a guest post from Hyper Berry sharing her My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!
Thanks to the PHB staff for the warm welcome! Anyway, to set the stage, here’s a quick lightning round of My Place in Poptropica!
Hiya, fellow Poptropicans! The name’s Hyper Berry, and I’ve been a Poptropica fan for as long as I can remember (and long before I could speak full sentences!). Throughout my childhood, Pop was one of the few online games I frequently came back to, despite not knowing how to fully complete an island quest (I was a naïve kid when it came to understanding Poptropica). Fast forward to early 2025, when I replayed it on Flashpoint, just to relive nostalgia from years past.
Little did I know, that playing for nostalgic reasons would make me hyperfixated on Poptropica, and throughout 2025 and this year, I’ve bought many Pop merch items, such as various books, one of the Jazwares plushies (Cool Boy to be exact!), and custom plushes of Oliver Hartman (from the graphic novels and comics), Ned Noodlehead, and Director D (these are just a few of the Pop merch I own, I have lots more!)
Some Poptropica-related facts about me are that my favorite islands are Night Watch Island and Back Lot Island, and my favorite Poptropican is Oliver Hartman (I relate to both his comic and graphic novel counterparts), and if we’re talking about in-game Poptropicans, it’s Ned Noodlehead (I know Ned is hated, but I still like him anyways).
Let’s get the elephant (or Poptropican) out of the room, and move on to the meat of this post!
Here’s an early version of the first strip of the Poptropica comic strip by Paul Gilligan and Kory Merritt, where Oliver and Jorge get teleported into an island inhabited by monkey people. It looks just like the final strip, but there’s one visual difference.
Jorge has his orange hair here! As shown here, and in the concept art of the scrapped animated series. I’m not sure why they changed his hair color to black, but I assume it’s to avoid clashing with Oliver’s hair color (which is somewhat similar enough from Jorge’s original hair color).
And to answer the question y’all have been thinking while reading this, how did I come across this early version of the first strip?
Well, the answer is quite straightforward. A few months ago, I was looking for obscure info/images of Oliver Hartman (and the graphic novels in general) online, and came across former Poptropica web developer Paul Chapman’s now-deleted website directory for the promotional site for Mystery of the Map, some miscellaneous ads for Pop in the mid-2010s, and a handful of the comic strips. As I dug deeper into the comics section, I found this piece of Poptropica lost media, and as a lost media enthusiast myself, I genuinely felt enthralled finding a piece of media that probably hasn’t been seen since 2014.
Poptropica as a whole means a lot to me. On top of that, I was at Hot Topic a month ago (to buy spiked cuffs) and when I went to checkout, the cashier noticed the plush keychain (basically a tiny shaped pillow) of Ned Noodlehead that I had hanging on my bag, and the cashier immediately said “IS THAT A POPTROPICA KEYCHAIN?!” out of excitement, and soon after, we started chatting about what our favorite islands were (her favorite was Poptropolis Games). She quickly called over one of her coworkers to look at my Ned keychain, and we all said “POPTROPICA IN 2026?!”. During those moments, I lit up like a bunch of holiday lights, and it also adds to why Pop means a lot to me.
Anyways, this concludes the post. Until my next guest post (if that happens sometime in the future), toodles, folks!
Hope you enjoyed this “My Place in Poptropica” story! If you did, you’ll probably enjoy our other MPIP stories here on the PHB.
If you haven’t already shared your story, we invite you to send in your own. Interested in writing for the PHB under a different Pop-topic? Take a look at our Write for the PHB page for ideas, guidelines, and more!
Heyo Poptropicas, it’s Magic Kid. 😀
Recently, the developer of the Poptropica.love website released a new Poptropica island that they created as a fan! And, as I am also a Poptropica fan, I excitedly decided to play through. Turn on your radio and tune in as I experience the mysteries of…
💀 DEAD AIR ISLAND 📻
It starts off with a chilling synopsis: “A shuttered mountain station is broadcasting a dead man’s warning. Follow the signal and find out who is really on the air.” We LOVE the spooky vibes here, and honestly the concept is very intriguing. Honestly, if I didn’t know beforehand, I probably would have just assumed it was an actual Poptropica island that I just was previously unaware about, but let’s get into it!
