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Hey Poptropicans! We’re burning with some bright news over here. Read on!

September has arrived, which means… the winning design from our header contest is up on the blog? More member gifts? Another round of Community Creations? All of these wonderful things, yes, but one more: it’s Poptropica’s birthday month!

You like that rainbow afro? That and more are in this month’s member gift pack. Not a member? Lots of cool stuff (many for everyone) recently arrived at the store—with rhinos, robots, and more—and one more, as you’ll see below.

Anyway. Happy birthday, Poptropica! We’re pretty thrilled to see Poptropica make it to its 11th year alive, and we hope for great things to come. In fact, that could very well be the case with some recent developments! But more on that in a bit.

To celebrate the occasion, you can now get a Birthday Candle costume for free in the store! But hurry—this candle will burn out of the store when the month is over.

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A couple of noteworthy insights from the Creators were also revealed in the comments of the Instagram post announcing this update.

One Instagram user, supertalkcam, asked if the Creators were abandoning Poptropica Worlds in favor of Pop Original. The Creators replied, “It’s a myth!”

Another user, chillzaj, asked, “Will Poptropica end up shutting down in 2020 due to Flash ending? So we have one more bday party left…?”

The Creators responded, “Poptropica isn’t shutting down – we’re working on new technology that will keep Poptropica around for a long time! #poptropicaforever”

This sounds like some of the behind-the-scenes work that has been keeping Poptropica quietly busy over the past few months at least. The Creators’ Facebook post from December 2017 explaining Poptropica’s relationship to the downfall of Flash, which we posted on the PHB in March, has even been gone for some time now.

Could it be that Poptropica Original will stick around even after 2020, as it gets moved to a newer technology so that it can survive post-Flash? This seems to be the Creators’ plan now, though one they’re still “working on,” so no solid promises yet.

Once again, happy eleventh birthday to our beloved Poptropica. Share your thoughts and congratulations in the comments, and keep on popping on, Poptropicans. 🎈🎊🎂

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PHB Sneak Peeks

Lost items for inspection

September 1, 2018September 4, 2018 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! It’s Slanted Fish here with a few fun glimpses into parts of Poptropica typically unseen, with thanks to Sleimok and idk for sharing these images.

First up are a couple of lost items of Poptropica! These items didn’t make it into the game, but the backgrounds clue us in on where they were intended: ~~the Petri Dish for Virus Hunter Island (was actually used in the bonus quest)~~, the X-ray Device for Counterfeit Island (which we do use in-game, just not as its own item), and the Snoozing Crepe, also for Counterfeit.

The crepe can be seen in the guard room (the room between the interrogation room and Black Widow’s art gallery). idk adds, “This room’s code contains unused code for a dog character. If I had to guess, this crepe would’ve been used to incapacitate the dog.”

Curious about other lost items of Poptropica we’ve uncovered? Check out this 2014 post and this 2016 post for more!

Can you guys guess where this next one is from?

geyser guess zoomout

If you thought of the Geyser Guess game from Reality TV Island, you’re absolutely right! This is a zoomed-out view, of course, that includes details out of view in the game, like the bird’s nest, or the fact that this geological feature is floating in air.

And one more, from SOS Island…

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Whale, that’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed this peek into the underbelly of Poptropica, and as always, keep on popping!

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Lego Island: not yet completed

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! Leggo see what’s goin’ on with Pop…

Checking in on my friends, polishing my island medallions—wait, hold up. What’s this? A new medallion?? That I don’t have yet??? Are we getting a… Lego Island????

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Thanks to Massive Monster for the tip-off about this!

Well, sort of. Our resident glitcher, idk (who also recently made a tool for the ASG), went poking behind-the-scenes into Poptropica’s files to see what was going on.

lego island

Here’s what he told curious Poptropicans on the PHC (our emphases added):

Poptropica will soon be advertising many different types of Lego products. So instead of creating disconnected ad rooms for each one, they’ve created a separate island to contain them all. And because every product line’s ads probably won’t be released simultaneously, it makes sense to create something which can be updated after its launch.

Lego Island just consists of a Main Street scene containing a door to an ad scene. It currently only contains an ad for Lego City, but there are a couple of unused item cards for Lego Star Wars. It doesn’t have a medallion so [I don’t know] why it showed up in the medallion list. The Main Street scene has an asset from [the canceled] Water Thrill Island though, so that’s neat.

The asset from Water Thrill Island, for the unreleased Lego Island

So, that’s all we know so far about Lego Island: it won’t be a full-fledged official island like we know of them, but just a series of ads lumped together on one (probably temporary) island, to come in the near future. And there might be a water slide.

In other news, don’t forget you have until the end of this week to enter our PHB Header Design Contest and our Community Creations for August! Leggo!

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Contests

Stick around for September’s sticker winners

August 18, 2018August 18, 2018 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, what’s up? 🎈 Are you going batty 🦇 from the lack of updates on Poptropica yet? LOL, aren’t we all! 😂

Well, for those of you with iOS devices who text with iMessages, there’s at least one update on the horizon. The Poptropica Stickers app will be getting an update in September, which is in about, um, two weeks (yay!). And you’ll get to send messages like the one above, because those phrases are featured in the winning designs of the #PoptropicaStickers contest!

“What’s Up?” by poptropillustraticans

“Going Batty” by phs_animations

“LOL!” by kawaii.99_

Congrats to poptropillustraticans, phs_animations, and kawaii99._ on Instagram for having their sticker designs chosen!

To see other entries that didn’t make it, but were still pretty cool, check out the #PoptropicaStickers tag on Instagram.

Feeling artsy? 🎨 Here on the PHB, for the month of August, we’ve got two Poptropica art events going: the PHB Header Design Contest and Community Creations (this month’s theme: science). We’d love to see what you come up with!

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Pop-over

PHB Pop-over Special: Night in the Woods

August 12, 2018August 7, 2018 Slanted Fish

nightinthewoods popover

Hey Poptropicans! We’re back with another PHB Pop-over Special!

In case you’re not familiar with the term, a “Pop-over” is basically a Poptropica crossover, in which we take characters from another universe and make them into Poptropica characters. This Pop-over features the gang from Night in the Woods!

You can add these Poptropican-ized characters with the usernames below and Costumize parts of their outfits. For the rest, use the ASG, MAP, or iPop.

Angus: Add him on Poptropica at NITWAngus. Get the glasses from the Rockstar costume (use ASG: Snowball9_ASG4), and bear ears from realms#6ASG.
Mae: Add her at NITWMae. Get the Werewolf costume parts from the ASG Holidays:Halloween:Werewolf, and Jack/Jill O’Lantern shirt from idk_JillOLantern_ASG. The bass guitar is from the Photo Booth.
Gregg: Add him at NITWGregg. Get the animal head parts from realms#2ASG.
Bea: Add her at NITWBea. Get the animal head from realms#2ASG, facial feature from realms#6ASG, and mouth from Rosemoji6.

Night in the Woods (or NITW) is a T-rated (for ages 13+) adventure game with a gameplay style much like Poptropica, in which you explore an interactive world full of vibrant characters and stories. (Learn more and get the game—or its two free supplemental games, Longest Night and Lost Constellation—on the NITW website!)

Poptropica fans who enjoyed the mystery of Ghost Story Island or the atmosphere of Monster Carnival Island might like this game—at least I did. 😁

For more game recommendations, check out our Off-Topica page. And for more fashion ideas, look no further than our Costumes and Avatar Studio Gift databases.

Hope you enjoyed this Night in the Woods x Poptropica crossover! Have you played NITW? How does it compare with Pop? Sound off in the comments below!

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