Quick post — Monster Carnival Island is now out for members! I am overwhelmed with the great magic boom boom joy of it! 😆 Also, non-members can play a demo of the island! Let’s go! 😀
update #2: Looks like the public access date for non-members will be March 20, 2014 – this is seen at the end of the demo, though the 2 is likely a typo since that day would’ve already passed:
update #1: Sam and I have finished the Monster Carnival Island Guide, as well as a walkthrough for the bonus quest! You can find it here on the PHB. 😀 If you want to listen to the full island soundtrack, check it out on the Behind the Scenes page! Also, I was the #10 finisher of the island:
UPDATE: Considering how late it’s getting in this time zone, I don’t believe that MCI is releasing Thursday anymore. Instead, I think it’s coming Friday.
UPDATE #2: Samwow5 here! I just wanted to let everyone know that the members-only Raven Swarm item is in the store! Use this to call up a swarm of birds at your will!
Now back to BT’s post!
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Once upon a Friday dreary, while you pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious island of wonderous lore, While you nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at your bedroom door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” you muttered, “tapping at my bedroom door-
Only this, and nothing more.”
Ah, distinctly you remember it was two months past December,
And each separate dying minute wrought its tick upon your mind.
Eagerly you wished the evening;- vainly you had sought to dreaming
From your islands surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Monster Carnival –
For the rare and radiant island whom the Creators named Monster Carnival-
Thought nameless here for evermore.
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Open here you flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the circus days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched beside your bedroom door-
Perched upon the desktop just beside your bedroom door-
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
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By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
“You remind me,” you said, “of an old Island I dreamt to explore,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the islands’ shore-
Tell me if I should wait for Monster Carnival anymore!”
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the very desktop just beside your bedroom door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a ringmaster’s that’s dreaming,
And the spotlight o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And the island we have long so waited for
Shall be hidden- nevermore!
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Hey guys, BT here. Yeah, I just parodized a few stanzas from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”. Hey, the Ringmaster’s based off a raven, so why not? Now before this island comes out, I’d like to say a few words. Who’s excited for this island?!
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Well, I’ll take it some of you just said or thought that you are. Now, I’m gonna guide you to the posts and places to check out before the island finally comes out…
To get up to speed on the ins and outs of this long-coming island, check out HPuterpop’s Monster Carnival Files:
Up until Monster Carnival is released, I’m going to post a series of “files” that go into detail about certain elements of the island as we know it. The fourth file will be about the attractions of the Circus of Bizarre as we know them.
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You’ve probably seen that picture of Monster Carnival Island’s island microcosm before. It was in the third Monster Carnival file, and is also featured on the Mystery of Monster Carnival page. But we need to take another look at it, because this file is about the attractions of Monster Carnival, and this picture is the first time we ever got a glimpse of the attractions.
Behind the “Coming Soon!” sign, we can see a Ferris Wheel, and a dark tent with two devilish eyes peeking out from within. In the teaser trailer, similar looking curtains and devilish eyes are seen.
The Ferris Wheel in the picture will be used in the upcoming island. We first saw a glimpse of the new Ferris Wheel as the page background of the island tour. The page also has a desktop wallpaper that shows an evil version of the carnival, including the Ferris Wheel, at night! On February 15th, I posted about an unreleased poster that has been showing its face around Poptropica — the Monster Carnival “Now Out For Members” poster! On it, we can see yet another alternate view of the Ferris Wheel, at a different time of day — afternoon. It seems that we will be watching the carnival morph into madness as the sun goes down…
Now that we have covered the Island Microcosm, and the attractions that are shown there, we can take a look at the Haunted Amusement Park island ideas page, where we can find even more of the possible attractions. In the page, many attractions are listed. I’ve copied all of them into a list below, and commented on the points that we know about;
Long list, eh? We still aren’t done. Let’s go into detail about the Carnival games.
We first became aware of the Carnival games from the Haunted Amusement Park page, of course, but we knew which ones made the cut by the Daily Pops.
Van advertising “pop the balloon” and “weight guessing game”
“Junior was here”
Possible carnies for the Duck Game
Duck game
In the first Daily Pop listed, there is a truck with three names of the games we will be playing — the Duck Game, Pop the Balloon, and the Weight Guessing Game.
On FunBrain, there are numerous ads for Monster Carnival, one being a high quality image of the attractions (Thanks Aang for the lead)! On the picture, we can see what the Duck Game and Pop the Balloon attraction will look like, along with a refreshment booth!
Lastly, lets talk about the Tunnel Of Love. It is probably the first Monster Carnival element to be shown on the Daily Pops. In the background of many of the posts, there is a “No PDA” sticker on the background. What is the PDA? It may stand for a heart disease, or perhaps a digital assistant. “PDA” simply means “public display of affection”.
The attraction was confirmed as part of the island in the print out poster for Monster Carnival. We also know what the evil version of it will look like from the desktop wallpaper.
This is all we know about morphing, refreshing, broken, buttery, and lovely attractions of Monster Carnival Island — I’ll be updating this post when the island comes out, so check back when that happens! 😀
This is the last addition to the Monster Carnival Files — see you at the show! 😀
First of all, I want to thank all of you guys for liking and commenting on my posts. I just reached 200 likes on this blog! That is amazing, and you guys are responsible — I’m going to bet that you can’t make it over 10 likes on this post. If I lose, you guys will get a prize. Let’s see who wins. 😉 BTW, I know I’m sorta overloading everyone with posts at the moment, but that’s just how it’s gonna be when a new island is in the air. I hope it’s not too incredibly annoying. And now, back to the scheduled programming. 😛
Many posts of mine are predictions, petitions, and things that are left unanswered. There needs to be a follow up to all these posts, and so from time to time, I’m going to make a follow up post, which closes the cliffhangers of the posts that we now know the answers to.
I just wanted to mention a few of the possible preliminary workings of Poptropica Labs from Jordan Leary’s (Dr. Hare) blog. First, he posted a land mass generator (probably used for the land generator for Lands):
Lastly, he posted a poogle gallery— creatures that look very similar to the “pet rocks” that appear in Lands. He calls them “Poogles”, however, which is a pretty neat name, and probably the correct term for the pet rocks. Yay for hacked terminology. 😛
In this post, I theorized that Monster Carnival may be released as the classic pop, and not be a SUI. But according to Jeff Heim’s Facebook, he has made a soundtrack for the island, ruling out this theory.
And BTW, this post is where I got the fact that MCI was coming out mid-February; so ha, naysayers! 😛
In this post, I theorized that the Mythology Island SUI would come out February 7th. Obviously it didn’t come out then — perhaps because the Creators wanted to trip me up. I said in the post that I didn’t really care. 😛
In this post, I theorized about Mocktropica’s plot. I said that Gamer Guy might be the villain, trying to get revenge on Poptropica for firing him. This is obviously not the case, but I still have a feeling that we may be seeing Gamer Guy in the future…
You may know him as Comic Kid, you may know him as the writer of the Wimpy Kid series, but whatever you know him as, let’s wish him a happy birthday! Jeff Kinney is 43 today!
If you’re wondering who he is, Jeff Kinney is the main creator of Poptropica (he came up with the idea), along with the other titles I listed above. There is a contest being held by Pizza Hut’s “Book It” program, where you can win the full Wimpy Kid book set! Find the details here. 😀
I thought it was appropriate to make a birthday card for Jeff, so here it is! 😛 Comment here with your name and message on this post to sign it! 😀
You may know him as Comic Kid, you may know him as the writer of the Wimpy Kid series, but whatever you know him as, let’s wish him a happy birthday! Jeff Kinney is 43 today!
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