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Hey Poptropicans! You’re familiar with the signature big yellow blimp that ferries you around from island to island… but have you ever imagined holding this icon in your hands? A couple of fun new pieces from fan artists accomplishes just that—including one you can own!
Image credit: Invisible Ring
The Poptropica blimp pin by LittleBink features the iconic villain Dr. Hare in the passenger basket, and is available for US$8 at their online shop here. The small shiny pin is made with acrylic and includes a rubber clutch so you can attach it to bags or anything you like! ✨
And if you like this one, you may also like the Poptropica trinkets from another unofficial merch maker—Dizzy Leopard Shop, which offers lots of fun pieces including a snazzy Shark Boy/Shark Guy enamel pin. 🧷 Plus, discover more goodies in our Poptropica Merchandise Guide!
Another fan artist—wildcatfish1 on Reddit, aka mibatown on Instagram—recently shared a cool creation featuring the Poptropica blimp: a model made from polymer clay, which now sits on her nostalgia trinket shelf. This one’s not for sale, but it’s super cute! 💙
Enjoying the Poptropica creativity? Come join in on more of the fun in our Discord server, the Poptropica Help Chat (PHC), where Poptropicans share fan art, meet friends, and hang out in a kid-friendly space. We’d love to have you! 👋
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Invisible Ring, showing us a new Realm of hers inspired by Planet Namek from Dragon Ball Z. Enjoy!
“You who have summoned me! I am the Maker of Dreams, and I shall grant you any three wishes within my power.”
Wow! I actually did it! I summoned my own Namek dragon! …But I’m STILL not finished building this Namek Realm. Oh, how I wish my Realm was complete already. I just HAVE to complete the tour before Frieza decides to blow this planet up with the REST of Poptropica!
Porunga: “Very well… That wish is within my power and shall be granted.”*ZAP!*
This guest post from HPuterpop/Andrew Wiles offers an alternative way to experience Poptropica. Introducing: Poptropica Legacy!
Hey fellow Poptropicans! In response to the slow fade of Poptropica, I’m super excited to announce the next step in Poptropica’s history: Poptropica Legacy, a fan-made desktop version of our favorite game.
⚠️ Note: Poptropica Legacy is in active beta development, and there are still many bugs. If you find any, you can report them in-game via the menu. 🪲 Not all islands are finishable yet, with progress noted on the website.
Like the Flashpoint curation of Poptropica, Legacy is a download where you can enjoy the old islands of the game, including both AS2 (earlier) and AS3 (later) islands, plus the sandbox game Realms — but with some major changes and improvements. This includes:
🎵 Sound & music for AS2 — The earliest Poptropica islands (AS2, pre-2013) were not made with sound, but Legacy has retroactively implemented sound (including some previously unused music from Poptropica’s files) for an enhanced experience. Have a listen:
Yes, that’s Amelia in Early Poptropica! Just an example of a unique twist found in Legacy.
🖼️ Visual improvements — AS2 originally had a smaller screen size (viewport) and was built for 31 FPS (frames per second), but Legacy has expanded the viewport for a cinematic experience that allows you to see much more in a frame at a time, and has bumped it up to 60 FPS to match the AS3 version. Plus, the resolution from the original game has been upscaled to full HD (high definition) for crisp visuals that match modern gaming standards.
➡️ Account import — You can login to (import) your original Poptropica account directly into Legacy using your original username and password! Your island progress, inventory, and costume are preserved. Flashpoint curation save files are also compatible.
🌀 Ad Preservation — Thanks to Pop veteran Evtema3 (aka 64mcy, the original creator of the Poptropica Ad Transporter), Legacy houses over 140 ad campaigns from Poptropica’s almost two decades of history. Sadly, many are incomplete, but you can still play through many of them, and get the original rewards.
🛍️ Original Store — Access all the original costumes and item cards from the OG Poptropica Store for free, without membership limits.
…and there are plenty of exciting extras, including a fully preserved Creators’ Blog archive, functioning Avatar Studio, Daily Pop (with games, comics, sneak peeks, and celebrity clips), an interactive explorer of Dr. Hare’s Travels, and a costumizable Look Book. ✨
More extra content is planned for the future, including archives of the Island Tours, Mews Foundation website, and Funbrain (Mom & Kids Playground & the Funbrain Arcade). Staying tuned is easy — Legacy will auto-update to the latest version on startup (you can opt out in settings, but it means missing future updates!).
Ready to play? 🥳 Download the game now at PoptropicaLegacy.com — available for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers! (For Mac users: If blocked, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.)
P.S. Pop Legends is still in development, but it’s on hold for now so we can get Legacy up and running. Excited to share more with you all soon!
Hope you enjoyed this guest post by HPuterpop/Andrew Wiles. If you did, you might also enjoy the Poptropica curation on Flashpoint, an alternative Poptropica preservation with features closer to the original game.
The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you!
This is a guest post from Lucky Fish sharing their My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!
2014-2016 | From Mobile App to Computer
Hey Poptropicans! My name is Lucky Fish. I’ve been a Poptropica fan for about as long as I can remember. I started playing around 2014-2015 during my years of preschool and a little before. Why did I start playing when I was literally 4? Well, my dad had downloaded it to his phone so I could play it when I was bored. He figured it was just another app about getting kids to learn. I soon realized it was more than that.
I have absolutely no idea what that account was, but I do remember my favorite part of playing is making characters (I had a lot). Around 2016, I began actually learning to play the islands! Of course, I could not do it without the help of Thinknoodles’ walkthroughs.
Friendly Folk: All so nice and polite, for a while at least.
Speaking of Thinknoodles’ walkthroughs, knowing how to watch them meant I was able to learn that there were more islands than just the mobile ones. I realized it was also a computer game, so I asked my parents if they could lend me their computer to let me use Poptropica there. I was then able to discover loads more islands that were just waiting to be clicked on.
2019–2020 | White Cheetah and the end of Flash
Around 2019, on a family vacation, I was feeling very sick. I was about 7 or 8 at the time. It is here that I made my first actual Poptropica account that I could stick with. Introducing: White Cheetah. I used to think that this account gave me good luck, and it’s the account I first beat multiple islands on (like Mythology for example).
White Cheetah
In 2020, the pandemic hit, and I wasn’t playing Poptropica as much. But when I came back to it, I noticed that lots of the islands were missing. I went searching and found out about the whole end of Flash situation. That day involved tears… a lot of them. Soon, I stumbled upon the Old Island Directory, and it was useful until it stopped working.
2024–2025 | Flashpoint at the Library and Lucky Fish
In the summer of 2024, I started playing Poptropica lots more. It was just so fun again! When I found out about Flashpoint, a way to access old islands, I asked my parents if I could get it on their computers. They said no because one was for work, and one had no storage left. So after school, I began going to the library, and downloading Flashpoint every single day just to play the islands (everyday because the computers were wiped of all history each morning). I would stay there for hours, until one day they started blocking sites at the library, so I couldn’t play there.
I had been asking for a computer for a while, and finally on my birthday, I got one. The first thing I did was download Flashpoint and play Poptropica. I played there for about a month when I wanted to let my sister try it out. But when I hit “new player”, that account was wiped. So I started with a new character, Lucky Bean, where I completed lots of islands.
Power Load: Just watch me explode!
In the summer of 2025, on Flashpoint Poptropica, I wanted to try out the AS2 version to see if it was different. In doing this, my main AS3 data was wiped, and I had to start over. After shuffling names for a good while, trying to get Lucky Bean again, I came across Lucky Fish. I chose this one because it still had Lucky in the name, but “Fish” made it sound more water related. So, I stuck with it, and Lucky Fish is now my main Poptropica account. This summer, I also started my own site, The Poptropica Fan Blog.
Poptropica has been a huge part of my life, and taught me many things (including my rights!). I hope you enjoyed reading about my life on a digital web game. Thank you for reading!
– Lucky Fish
Lucky Fish
Hope you enjoyed this “My Place in Poptropica” story! If you did, you’ll probably enjoy our other MPIP stories here on the PHB.
If you haven’t already shared your story, we invite you to send in your own. Interested in writing for the PHB under a different Pop-topic? Take a look at our Write for the PHB page for ideas, guidelines, and more!
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by HPuterpop. Enjoy!
Hey fellow Poptropicans!
I’ve got a real head-scratcher for you today, one that takes us all the way back to the golden age of Poptropica merchandise. You might even call it a Kanji Secret. We all remember the awesome official plush toys that were released alongside the action figures, and super-fans may recall the unreleased early prototype plush toys that never saw store shelves… but there’s another plush toy waiting to be discovered, calling out to us from the past…
I wish we could go there!
Red Dragon Island marked the 19th island addition to Poptropica, a collaboration with the Magic Tree House series. Adapted from Dragon of the Red Dawn (Book 37 in Mary Pope Osborne’s series), the island transported players into Edo-period Japan. Among its memorable characters was Yokozuna, the towering sumo wrestler who served as one of the game’s most iconic boss battles. Players had to outmaneuver his charges and stomps until his own rage caused him to fall out of the ring. His design drew from authentic Japanese culture: his very name signifies the highest rank in sumo wrestling. Some fans even speculate that his look may have been inspired by WWE’s “Yokozuna”, Rodney Agatupu Anoa’i. Beyond the fight itself, the character was given nuance — fierce yet deeply adored by his fans.
Recently, a Yokozuna plush toy surfaced in an eBay listing, and it’s quite an anomaly. Yokozuna, remember, is the formidable sumo champion from Red Dragon Island, released back in 2011.
This sent me down a rabbit hole. I scoured the Poptropica Creators’ Blog archives, dug through old press releases from 2011-2014 (when the toys were hitting shelves), and searched for any promotional material. The result? Nothing. There is absolutelyno official record of a Yokozuna plush ever being announced, promoted, or sold.
Now, you might be thinking, “This (exorbitantly priced) plush toy was probably a fan creation.” But after getting my hands on it, I can confirm that the build quality is nearly identical to the official Poptropica plush toys from back in the day. It has the same distinctive felt details for the hair and clothing, the same fabric used for the eyes, and the overall professional construction that marked the official line of merchandise. A fan-made plush of this quality, especially for a less-mainstream character like Yokozuna, seems highly unlikely.
It all begins to make sense once the context is fully considered: Red Dragon Island launched in May 2011 for members (and June for everyone else), while Jazwares’ physical Poptropica toys hit Toys “R” Us shelves just a few months later, in August. The plush I found matches the official line’s quality but lacks retail tags: a hallmark of pre-production samples. And considering Yokozuna’s prominence as one of the Red Dragon Island’s bosses, it’s logical that the character would’ve been considered for a plush toy.
Sure enough, when I asked the eBay seller sweetsweet, they replied with exactly the information I was expecting:
(Shoutout to sweetsweet for the friendly and fast reply! Their store is a treasure trove of rare memorabilia, so check them out if you’re a collector.)
I’m really fortunate to own this rare piece of Poptropica (and Magic Tree House) history. The Yokozuna looks right at home along with the rest of his plush friends and The Dragon of the Red Dawn, the pages in which he first came to life.
Case closed… or at least, mostly.
– HPuterpop
Hope you enjoyed this guest post by HPuterpop. If you did, you might also enjoy reading more about his upcoming Poptropica-inspired game in development, Poptropica: Legends.
The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you!
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