P-p-pink?! Ewww…….

February 14, 2010February 17, 2010 Coskit

New PCB post, everyone! This one’s simply called Pink. (Ew, I hate pink…..) It is posted by Dr. Hare and is in honor of da big V-Day (Valentine’s Day) tomorrow. I don’t know about you, but I have my valentines picked out. ♥ Anyway, here’s the post.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Pink

Look, it’s my favorite color! And just in time for Valentine’s Day.

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DR. HARE

It looks like a heart costume and a love potion. Hmm, I wonder what the love potion will do. Will it make the nearest Poptropican fall in love with you? Coooooool.

In other news, I’m changing my name! I’ve decided to drop the name DaVinci because it has too many things associated with it – AND, people keep misspelling it. (It’s not DaVinche, DaVince, DaVench, or DaVanchie.) Yes, people have spelled my name DaVanchie. So, I’m changing my name. My new name is……..

Coskit

I know, it sounds weird, but the name is made out of different words that symbolize parts of me. So the entire name means a lot to me, so I hope you all can get used to calling me that.

Ciao, everyone!

Coskit is…..outa heeeere!

Also, Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Chinese New Year to all of our PHB readers! ^_^

poptropicalove — We hope you spend your holiday-filled Sunday with lots of fun. 🙂

Ya know, since I’m getting so many comments about how my name is “epic fail” (inspired by the PHF thread to this purpose), I’m thinking of changing it back to DaVinci. If you figure out this message, post a comment about whether I should change my name back to DaVinci, leave it at Coskit, or change it to something entirely different. Ciao, peoplez.

Store, Web Development

THE SACRED MIDAS TOUCH!

February 9, 2010February 9, 2010 Smockers

Have you ever wanted to channel King Midas’ famous power — turning everything into GOLD?

You do? Well, that works out handsomely, because you can just waddle into the Poptropica Store right now, and pick up your very own Midas Touch for the low price of 250 credits. Of course, if you’re wise like myself, you can get it for absolutely FREE!*

*membership required

Speaking of Poptropican membership, here’s a video of me testing it out:

Pretty sweet, eh? After you’ve seen this video, does your opinion change about membership in Poptropica at all? Do you find yourself on the verge of insanity unless you get your membership? Or, are you not impressed, thinking that you could spend your money on something more useful? Let us know in the comments! ^_^

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I know this doesn’t have much to do with Poptropica, but I would appreciate it if you guys took the time to vote in the Best Virtual World for Kids poll on About.com.

http://familyinternet.about.com/od/resources/ss/readerschoice10-voting_4.htm

Shamefully, Poptropica isn’t on there, but another great virtual world, The Travels of Wiglington & Wenks, is! Hijuyo, Coderkid, and I all have accounts on there… so it’s bound to be good, right? 😀 I urge you guys to check it out for yourself (CLICK HERE! You know you want to move your cursor over here. ;D) and to vote for it! We’re in 2nd place right now only bested by… *thunder crashes* WEBKINZ WORLD! UGH (no offense to Webkinz World players)! Of course, I don’t want to force you to vote for The Travels of Wiglington & Wenks; make your best judgment on what virtual world you want to pick (hint: The Travels of Wiglington & Wenks ;)).

Thanks again, everybody!

~Smockers

Magazines

EMERGENCY! Oh wait, it’s just 911.

February 8, 2010 Slanted Fish

In just about a week, Valentine’s Day – February 14th – will come by. But you don’t have to wait to show your love for the Poptropica Help Blog! All you have to do to show your appreciation right now is…

Stop by for Issue #9!

…and check out the amazing talent that Poptropicans all over the planet have put out there for the rest of our community. Awesome. 😛

Our ‘Poptropica Poll’ widget to the right side has been updated! The current question asks, ”What do you think of Poptropica’s membership?” (Now’s your chance to let the Poptropica Creators know just what you think of this major game update!)

January 2010’s poll question read, ”How long have you been playing Poptropica?” Here are the results:

Option | Votes | Percentage
2+ years – Experienced | 1,264 | 47%
Almost 2 years! | 420 |
Almost a year! | 281 |
2 – 5 months | 168 |
12 – 15 months | 167 |
16 – 19 months | 114 |
6 – 9 months | 100 |
Just Joined Recently – Newbie | 93 |
Less than a month. | 76 |

Wow, looks like the vast majority of us are old-timers here! According to the poll, around half of those who voted have been around Poptropica for over 2 years. Nice. 🙂

Live. Laugh. Love.
Because life is cheesy!

Bonus Items, Contests, Store, Web Development

Coderkid’s Colossal Contest – Prize Updates

February 7, 2010October 12, 2011 coderkid

UPDATE! Thanks to DaVinci we have now confirmed 100% for sure, that EARLY ACCESS WILL NOT be purchasable with credits. Some of you may have already known this, etc., but for those who haven’t, you can now officially begin running around and acting like an insane person, since we all know that this means the end of the world. Good luck, and watch out for those meteors.

On a less sarcastic note, I also just put up a page (http://thephf.com/projects/) which will let you see and stay updated on the current statuses of projects. This way, I don’t get tons of messages asking when’s this and that gonna get done. 😛

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Hey guys!

I’m REALLY REALLY sorry about the delay with the accounts. I finally got to them after finishing my homework early and setting aside some time. Took about 2 hours, LOL. Anyway, I finally got them done. Here they are! (These are just the usernames, the passwords for each were sent directly via email)

Each account is equipped with 1025 credits, and the custom name you specified.

DaVinci
Username: davinci_phb
Pawsrent
Username: pawsrent_phb
PostopiaLucy
Username: plucy_phb
Moonlight91
Username: mlight91_phb
MuddyDragon
Username: md_phb
Friendly Beetle
Username: fb_phb
BraveHero270
Username: bhero_phb
Cool Wing
Username: coolwing_phb
Squeezy Sinker
Username: ss_phb
Mastermime212
Username: mm_phb

I feel so free now that that’s off my plate, LOL. I’m gonna go dance in the rain or something else equally overrated. 😛

If you didn’t get your email, or there is something wrong with the account, leave a comment FULLY describing the problem, and I’ll try and get back to you. Also, I may have gotten the genders wrong on some, so you’ll need to randomize (Ctrl +Shift + R) to fix that.

Hasta la vista,
Coderkid

Bonus Items, Sneak Peeks

Full of Hot Air

February 6, 2010February 7, 2010 Coskit

The Creators just posted this new and very tantalizing sneak peek on their blog.

Alot of Hot Air

Yesterday Vlad showed me some sketches he made of one of the strangest islands yet. These can’t possibly be real, can they?

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HAZMAT HERMIT

The one and only Hazmat Hermit at 10:43 AM

Like it? I do. The name of the picture is StructureSketches. I believe this is the birth of a NEW ISLAND! Also, this is the first reference to another Creator in a post. This is the strangest island I’ve seen yet, with strange buildings I don’t know what to make of. Also, the Creators misspelled “a lot”, spelling it instead as “alot.” This is a VERY common mistake. It’s 2 WORDS, people.

I’ve gotta rush to dinner (mmmm……), so DaVinci out!

Update: The Creators have fixed their mistake! On the post, instead of “Alot of Hot Air”, there is “A Lot of Hot Air.” This may be another proof? that the Creators read our blog…….or that one of the Creators is grammar-savvy.

Very nice, Codien. Nice to meet you, finally. I’ve heard a lot about you. I agree with your “hunch” about the name of the island. Don’t worry, I’ll stay quiet. It was nice to meet you.

Stay Quiet. This is Codien. Long time no see. I’m taking over the rest of the post. Can you keep a secret? I have a feeling this new island could be called Cloud Island or Junk Island. Keep it quiet. For those who thought otherwise, I’m not dead guys, just floating around in your posts. I figured Christmas had past well and truly by now, so i ‘unfroze’ the header.