Hey Poptropicans!ย Are you ready to get sucked into a swirling colorful portal, search for dwarves, and color the world around you? All that and more awaits within the Disney XD: Animacation ad building (which is also a common room) – but this ad, it seems, is only available for younger playersย (to see if you’re eligible, check the dropdown menu in your inventory and see whether there’s one forย “XD Animacation”, which should be in green). (Update: Poptropica has confirmed it’s only for ages 6-11.)
Anyway, after resigning myself to making a new account just for this purpose, I found the ad on Main Street of Cryptids and Monster Carnival. Upon entering, you’ll get to watch yourself transported in a swirl of cartoon characters… and inside, you’ll get to play 3 games and win some cool prizes!
To the left, you’ll find Mabel’s Water Race. All you have to do is pick a character, then keep your mouse aimed at the center of your character’s the dartboard while the character you picked races some other creatures at the top of the screen. If you win, you’ll get the Animacation Power, which colors other characters in your area either purple, blue, or yellow!
On your rightย isย the Fun House: here, you’ll have a time limit to jump, run, and bounce your wayย through fun house mirrors, falling watermelons,ย moving snake platforms, and more. If you make it, you’ll win the Steve the Llama Follower – and he’s half a head taller than your Poptropican!
Back in the Animacation common room, if you jump up to the “XD” sign, you’ll be able to reach the 7D Mines. Your task here is simply to get through the mines and click on all the dwarves along the way (check the bottom of your screen to see what they look like). Prettyย easy to spot – although Bashful was bashfully hiding behind a rock. When you catch ’em all, you’ll winย a Dwarf Costume, which actually comes in 3 variations, and they all have awesome hats!
If you win all three games, you’ll be awarded the Ultimate Prize: a Steve the Llama Bling Necklace! When you use this, your game screen will sparkle and be tinted yellow/blue/purple for a moment, then a black wave will wash over the screen and replace it with another one of those three colors, and then again until it’s back to normal. It’s all rather surreal.
Hope you made it through that bizarre world with your vision intact, and enjoy your prizes! ๐
*disappears through a swirling portal of greens, blues, purples, and yellows*
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I tought you were a girl :O
I am, but I made a new account for this ad because my main one (which is a girl) wasn’t eligible. I think the ad’s restriction probably had more to do with age than gender, though. ๐
When I started play poptropica, I was ten or eleven. Now i’m 13 turning 14 (in 4 months) I can acess this ad!!! lol
The game might have recognized your account as 10 or 11 (since that’s when you made it), not 13, so that’s probably why you can access it. ๐
Poptropica recognizes,my account as a 9 year old because I made it when I was 9. OuO
I think it’s because Disney channel is supposed to be for kids, not teens.
I was about to say, fishy what the heck happened to your hair XD I’m 11 but I haven’t seen the ad. Do I need to be 8 or something? My vision is already ruined! I have glasses. XD GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL, POKEMON!
The colors in this ad really are, as the beloved Captain Crawfish described, dizzying… and if you’re 11, you should be able to see the ad. Try Cryptids or Monster Carnival, and check for “XD Animacation” in your inventory’s dropdown menu to see if you’re eligible. ๐
I made my account older than my actual age (don’t ask), but I can still access it?
Poptropica just confirmed that the ad is only for ages 6-11, so if your account was created within any of those ages, you have been deemed special enough for access. ๐
Perhaps, there will be a ad for older poptropicians!