Popspiracy: Mystery of the Mini Blimps

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Invisible Ring. Enjoy!

For years, I’ve wondered who shrunk the yellow blimp I was riding on, and I have returned once again to share my air-headed thoughts on such a small mystery.

For example, the first mini-blimp like this was on Shrink Ray Island, which leads me to believe that the culprit was armed with a shrink ray. After all, those ray-guns certainly flooded the market back in the day…

…But if this is true, then who put those shrink rays to such a devious use? Some may automatically blame the classic ray-gun villains, like Dr. Hare or Director D. But I think that the most likely suspect would be Dr. Blandston, zapper of blimps! After all, I saw the doctor from Goofball Island with my own eyes; firing that blandston-ray at my blimp. Who’s to say they didn’t fire a shrink ray too?

However, the blimp mystery may not be as simple as all that. For back on Home Island, I found not one, but TWO mini-blimps!  Almost as if someone used “Twin Power” on them!

…Either that, OR somebody might’ve found a way to split a large classic blimp into two smaller blimps! That doesn’t explain where the “Poptropica” logo disappeared to, though. (Unless those blimp vandals took the logo off first!)

But this isn’t too much of a problem, because there are still plenty of classic blimps to go around, thanks to the Monkey Wrench Island monkeys.

…Although, there are a few islands that don’t have blimps at all! And those islands are the episodic adventures. Survival Island: Episode 1 is surely to blame for that. After that blimp destruction, there’s no blimp on that island, nor on any OTHER episodic adventure! 

Thank goodness for the Monkey Wrench monkeys, to have built us new blimps for the islands that came after those multi-part islands, like this one on Pelican Rock!

Of course, we can’t forget the most common blimp Popspiracy out there: The mini-blimps are only on the newest islands, from 2021-now. Fairytale, Goofball, Jade Scarab, and the newest Home Island have the small blimps, and the rest of the islands have classic blimps.

Maybe Glowbhax shrunk the blimps! …haha, just kidding! I’m sure you all would rather say that the 2021 mini-blimp is just a modern design that’s only big enough for stuffed bunnies… but what if that modern design was ALSO done by the monkeys? Perhaps the Monkey Wrench monkeys were trying to keep up with the times, so they made big blimps for the old islands and small blimps for the new ones!

But one small catch… What if you travel from old islands to new islands, or vice-versa?

…Well, THAT answer is probably as wild and crazy as all the Poptropica storms we fly through! Imagine crossing over a modern island like Fairytale, when a shrink ray hits you and turns your classic blimp miniature! Then when you fly on outta there and exit that atmospheric layer of shrink ray waves, your blimp turns back to normal! …Either that, or Rumplestiltskin’s magic is at hand. Who knows?

One thing I do know is that it’s lots of fun to formulate all these deductions like a detective from Mystery Train Island. The sky is literally the limit!  But regardless of whether you’re on a train, in a blimp, on foot, or in the real world, my advice to you is to keep on adventuring, and keep your eyes to the skies. And keep asking questions and making guesses, too, because that is exactly how we all learn!

(This Popspiracy—Poptropica conspiracy—was brought to you by my early Blimpy Trance posts from Pop Fan Kids.)

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Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Invisible Ring. If you did, you might also enjoy watching her full-length Poptropica fan movie, Battle Morale!

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