Month: June 2025

PHB Parties

Come and celebrate with us at the Poptropica Pride Party! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💗

LJ

Wazzup, Poptropicanos! 🤟 It’s Pride Month: that special time of year when we shine a light on the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community while also honoring the significant contributions they’ve made throughout history. ✨ Let’s joyfully celebrate the acceptance and pride of the LGBTQ+ community and how far it’s come. 🌈

Like the real world, our online Poptropica community is home to a diverse array of awesome LGBTQ+ people who have greatly heightened the fandom with their contributions. What better way to celebrate this amazingness than by throwing a party in the Party Time Tower on Time Tangled Island? We’re proud to invite you to join us there!

  • 🥳 WHO: Only the coolest people are on the guest list, and that includes all of you, LGBTQ+ and allies alike. Some of the PHB staff will be hanging out too!
  • 👑 WHAT: Common room parties on Poptropica and chatting it up, creating art, and more all on our Discord chat server, the PHC. Don your most funky and dazzling rainbow outfits to increase your chances of being featured in our recap!
  • 🦄 WHEN: Saturday, June 28 — starting at 4PM PST / 5PM MST / 6PM CST / 7PM EST. (Tip: Search your location on this time converter to see what time it’ll be where you live.) Drop by when you can!
  • 🪅 WHERE: Join us for some fun and games at the Party Time Tower on Time Tangled Island, plus our Discord server, the PHC.
  • 🎊 WHY: To recognize and respect everyone’s inherent worth — and to have fun, of course!

For those who are unfamiliar, LGBTQ+ is a term that encompasses individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. Learn more about LGBTQ+ identities in our post that explores this topic with some very cool Poptropica fan art! 💥

Sadly, members of the LGBTQ+ community often face a lack of respect regarding their sexual orientation or gender expression. However, that will never be acceptable in the Poptropica community! Keep your spirits high during these particularly challenging times, friends. 🫶

🎉 See you there, Pride-tropicans! 🎉

– 🌈 the PHB 🌈 –

Poptropica: Legends

Poptropica: Legends Demo Releases July 2025 🎮🗓️

Gentle Dolphin

Hey, Poptropicans! We’re excited to share some updates on the anticipated fan game, Poptropica: Legends. Let’s get the biggest news out of the way: the game’s demo is set to release in July 2025!🎉🎮🗓️

That’s right! The Poptropica: Legends demo is releasing next month!

Get ready to rediscover, recollect, and reignite in the Meridian’s Lighthouse Beta! Patrons get early access to the Lighthouse beta next month, then everyone gets full access to the polished version released sometime after that. Here’s what to expect in this playable preview:

  • 2 Sidescrolling Scenes
  • 3 Top-Down Scenes
  • Soundtrack
  • Dialogue
  • Inventory
  • Achievements
  • Sound Effects
  • ~30 minutes of gameplay

The game’s creator, HPuterpop, wants to celebrate the game’s demo release by sharing some new progress on the project.

First up, we have a curated collection of assets: cursors, items cards, backgrounds, character sprites, and even the main menu! These assets clearly take inspiration from Poptropica’s while putting a unique pixelated spin on them. By the way, that character sheet may look familiar to those who have read HPuterpop’s How to Draw a Poptropican essay. ✏️

You may have also spotted a “Free Play” section on the main menu. While you explore the world as Meridian in Story Mode, you can create and play as a custom character in Free Play Mode, just like in OG Poptropica!

Now, here are a couple of new faces joining the story: an ancient spirit named Booga, who is inspired by the Shark Tooth Island temple keypad, and two organizations called the Bureau of Heroic Poptropicans (BHP) and the Poptropica Espionage Network (PEN) . Hmm, that BHP sounds a little familiar… 🤔

Finally, check out this video preview of an in-game conversation between Meridian and Puck! It’s a neat look at how you interact with NPCs, complete with detailed sprites and 10/10 voice acting. 😜

Big thanks to HPuterpop for sharing these with us! If you want to stay updated on the game’s progress, check out the Poptropica: Legends website and follow the game’s social media accounts. You can also contribute to the game on its Patreon, the Creators’ Blog!

That’s all for now! We hope you like this look into Legends’ development. Stay tuned for the demo this July, and stay in the know with the BHP PHB!

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

Social Media

Grad caps and gamer lore 🎓👾

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! It’s grad season, and at least one creative graduate has decorated their mortarboard with Poptropica art! 🎓 Reddit user ottomicbomb recently shared their grad cap featuring a bedazzled Dr. Hare and blimp, and it reminded us of a couple other artful pieces from years past, by Azia and happyclonetrooper. Check them out below, and if you’re a new grad too, congratulations! 🥳

by ottomicbomb
by Azia
by happyclonetrooper

While graduation (and their fancy hats) mark the end of an era, it also invites us to look back at our beginnings. A new meme by TeamTheorist on Instagram, of the famed Theorists YouTube channels including Game Theory, referenced Poptropica among a carousel of 2000s–2010s virtual worlds, each captioned “Where my gamer lore started.” Specifically, it features the Hydra scene from Mythology Island:

Whether you’re currently celebrating the start or end of a chapter, or are just bumbling along in the middle, thanks for being part of our journey! If you’d like to join a community of Poptropicans, you can always find new things happening in our PHC Discord server (open to ages 13+), including plenty of art and memes. We’d love to have you!

~🐠

Comics

Poptropica Fan Comic: The Bucky Stops Here 🚁🍺💥

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! Remember Bucky Lucas, the washed-up contest winner on Reality TV Island? Poptropica fan artist Cherry (cacaocheri) recently made a comic imagining his life after coming home from losing the game show, and with their blessing, we’d love to share it with you!

(Content warning: Contains references to alcohol.) Enjoy the comic below:

Aww, you’ll be okay, Bucky! 🥹 Speaking of comics, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our Poptropica comic strip collection with better quality visuals, courtesy of HPuterpop. Enjoy all the adventures with Oliver and Jorge from our Comics page! 💥

~🐠