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🎪 The PHB’s 15th Halloween Costume Contest: The Show Must Go On 🎪

🌸Smart Icicle🌸

🎵 Come one, come all / It’s the PHB Ball!
Where the creatures of the dark / Gather answering the call 🎵

Hello fellow Poptropicans, and welcome back to another Halloween Costume Contest with the PHB! Cue the excitement, and most importantly the theme… The Show Must Go On! 🎪

This year, we’re looking for circus wonders, from trapeze artists to clowns, animals, and characters from carnivals in the media. And there’s one more twist: your costume must include a handheld item! ✍️

Marvelous Mermaid by Gentle Dolphin

☑️ Rules ☑️

  1. 💙 Create your costumes on Poptropica! You may create as many as you like for the competition. To qualify, it needs to have a handheld item and belong in a circus.
  2. 📸 Take a screenshot. For the backdrop, we recommend either the character customization screen or the Costumizer window on PoptropiCon. Here’s how you can take a screenshot. Please crop it to focus on your costume.
  3. ⬆️ Upload your pic to the internet. You’ll need a web link for your pic to share it with us, which you can get by posting it to sites like Imgur, Discord, or Instagram. Then, comment on this post with the link.

Sinister Sword Swallower by LJ
Macabre Monarch by Purple Paw

🗺 Tips for Creating Your Costume 🗺

Squid Sorcerer by Slanted Fish
Startling Serpent by Sporty Boa

🌟 Prizes 🌟

  • 🗓 Deadline: The contest closes on Saturday, October 26.
  • 🎃 On Halloween (October 31), we’ll post our favorite costumes on the front page of the PHB for all to enjoy.
  • 🥇 First place will win a copy of Poptropica on Steam (valued at US$20), which includes 17 of the newer classic islands.
  • 🥈 Second place will win a Poptropica merch item of their choice from Zazzle (up to US$20).
  • 🥉 Third place will win a Poptropica merch item of their choice from Zazzle (up to US$10).
  • 💎 Winning costumes will be immortalized in our Look Book, but we’ll also have honorable mentions for just the post, not page.
Jack ‘O Lantern Queen by Smart Icicle
Demonic Barney by Smart Bubbles

Good luck! We can’t wait to see your wonderful costumes.

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Published by 🌸Smart Icicle🌸

Hey, I’m Smart Icicle! Join me and my pet, Kovy, as we explore the endless possibilities of indie animation. A little about me is that I like to draw doodles to brighten everyone’s day. I also am a former author of the PHB and run my own animation channel on YouTube called Smart Icicle Animations. ~Profile Picture drawn by my friend, blue_brio on X ~Background from Wallpapers.com

39 thoughts on “🎪 The PHB’s 15th Halloween Costume Contest: The Show Must Go On 🎪”

  1. 🎃 𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓱𝔂𝓹𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮… 🎃

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  7. I have another one:

    “Time-Warped Warrior” – https://imgur.com/a/time-warped-warrior-gim2QmU

    (If you are wondering how he would be in a circus, I figured that he would be of great interest to viewers. This is because he would be fun due to his way of speaking and lack of modern knowledge. At the same time, he could serve to inform visitors of first-hand knowledge of the US Independence, being as he suddenly appeared in 2024 from the 1770s. Don’t worry, I’m sure he’s well paid)

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    1. I honestly feel like the Berry Delicious smoothie works better, for obvious reasons, but I’d be happy to share the cane version if you like.

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  10. “Carnival of the Aquarium”

    https://imgur.com/a/jRBybTl

    This might be a stretch, but I made this look based on Saint-Saëns’ ‘Carnival of the animals ~ VII Aquarium’ which sounds so mysterious and magical (to me at least), perfect for Halloween!

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    1. If you need a handheld fish item, i’d either recommend Posiden’s trident from Mythology, or the fish from Shark Guy’s ASG outfit.

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      1. Thank you, yeah I did see that but I was having some trouble with the ASG machine. I’ve worked out how to do it now, but I already submitted that costume lol.

  17. I have some more submissions to add 😀

    https://imgur.com/a/pcq215y “Carnival Goer” Played some of those carnival games and won a Shark Boy Plushy.

    https://imgur.com/a/Z4oPAoz “Ringmaster Outfit” Just an outfit I liked for a ringmaster lol.

    https://imgur.com/a/vaKLRol “Sword Magician” based on those acts you see at a carnival that choose an audience member and throw, throwing knives at them or do other crazy acts with them. Don’t try at home kids!! XD

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  20. I read on a recent blog post that Poptropica maybe shutting down. If this is the last Halloween Costume Contest then I might as well go out with a bang so here’s two more of my entries.

    Pinata Mascot
    Fire Eater
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  22. Dear audience, I present to you the artists of this wonderful circus!

    First we have…

    Kassandra “Bellademon” Killoran – Trapeze artist and acrobat, will blow your mind in seconds with her deadly jumps and stunts!

    https://imgur.cm/bIJuiUU

    Erik “Frostbite” Killoran – Bellademon’s partener in acrobatics, as well as her brother, Frostbite can perform many of the best acrobatics in the whole world.

    https://imgur.com/OoDW5xz

    More later! 👋🏻

    (i hope this works…)

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  24. Here’s my submissions (don’t know if I can beat least year’s)

    Festival Goblin (축제 도깨비)

    Headless Hero of the Night

    Steampunk Jester

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  25. Hello, and welcome back!

    Today, we present to you, for the third circus artist…

    Nagini, the fascinating Maledictus, The Snake Woman. She is very beautiful but she is also very kind, unlike the other artists.

    https://imgur.com/v1umTj7

    And last, but not least, we have…

    …wait, what?…the next one…where are they?…

    …hmmm…they might’ve- oh! there they are!…

    *clears throat* we have…

    Mr. Glitch!

    https://imgur.com/38FhfBY

    The wonderful, fantastic – dang it. He disappeared. Again.

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