Slanted Fish

January 24th is fast approaching, and you know what this means: Poptropolis Games Island will be sinking back into the sea. We don’t know why the Creators would take down the tribal tournament island, or if/when we’ll ever see it again… even the Plant-a-Statue isn’t too happy about the news.

The island’s description says that this ancient Poptropica capital rises “once every 100 years”… but what does that mean? If we’re to take that literally, we’d all be old or dead in a century. Some might think Poptropica years operate faster than Earth’s, but then what about the annually-updated time device on Time Tangled that reflects the current year here?

You may have noticed your Poptropolis item cards saying “Poptropolis Games 2012” at the top. Another theory is that perhaps the island will rise during Olympic years – after all, Poptropolis Games opened around the same time as the 2012 London Olympic Games, so maybe we’ll see the island again for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Itching to throw one last javelin? Be sure to check out our Poptropolis Games Island Guide!

Hotel Transylvania ad: Clean up this mess!

January 23, 2013 Slanted Fish

There’s an ad for Hotel Transylvania on Poptropica Main Streets for the Blu-Ray Combo Pack and DVD coming out on January 29th. You can find it on islands such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Thanks to Loud Shark for the video walkthrough and Samwow5 for his help on the written guide!

You can use the video above to help you, or read the written walkthrough here:

Go inside the ad building. Dracula is at the door, and he’ll tell you that the place has to be cleaned up before dinner. Enter through the door with the paw prints on it. The instructions tell you to find the wolf pups and clean up in there. When you get inside, the pups are making a mess everywhere! Run around the restaurant and click on all 8 pups before all the plates break.

Now you have to clean up the mess they made. Click on all the places where the pups were dropping plates and pans (don’t forget the table and floor stains!) and you win a Werewolf Pup Costume and a Dracula Costume (boys) or Mavis Costume (girls)!

Cryptids Island, Lunar Colony Island, Merchandise

New Poptropica Books for 2013

January 20, 2013January 20, 2013 Slanted Fish

Amazon now lists four new titles of Poptropica books, which we can expect to see this year! The first two, Cryptids Island and Lunar Colony Island, are novels based on their online counterparts, and the cover art is already up! Look at that furry Bigfoot! He sure has some Bighands. Now let’s see the Jersey Devil. 😛

Island Creator Kit, which shows how an island gets created from scratch, sounds very promising – Creators, REVEAL YOUR SECRETS! And look, it’s written by Hades (Mitch). Lastly, Friends Handbook sounds like one to be shared with your best buds.

Read on for more info… Continue reading “New Poptropica Books for 2013” →

Peter Pan, Diamond Edition: Poptropica Ad

January 15, 2013January 15, 2013 Slanted Fish

Peter Pan in Poptropica

Why is Peter Pan always flying? (answer is at the bottom of the post)

There’s a new Poptropica ad for Peter Pan, Diamond Edition – on Disney Blu-Ray combo pack & HD digital, February 5. Thanks to Sticky Clown for the tips and help with the walkthrough:

Go in and talk to Peter. After a short cutscene, you’ll start flying to Neverland in a fashion similar to the RTV minigame hang glider. All you have to do is to avoid the obstacles and make it there. Stay up to avoid roofs, chimneys, trees, and birds. After you go past the clock tower, cannonballs will burst out of clouds randomly, so the easiest thing to do is stay down.

When you’re done, you’ll win Pixie Dust Power (sends you flying in the clouds with Tinkerbell for a few seconds) and a new costume: Captain Hook (for boys) or Tinkerbell (for girls)! Before you head back to London, you can fly around with Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Wendy, John, and Michael using Tink’s pixie dust. The ad can be found on Main Street on islands such as Zomberry.

Because he Neverlands.

Daily Pop Sneak Peeks

All Poptropica’s a stage, and all the players merely puppets

January 13, 2013January 13, 2013 Slanted Fish

A couple new sneak peeks suggest the possibility of a theater/stage performance theme! Perhaps a new island idea? This one’s called “Wild West – Nope, not a sequel. Something new!”

Wild West

The guy with the Legendary Swords skull mask is apparently SteveCreator, who appears in some Daily Pop sneak peeks. (Another is the character who looks like Gamer Guy from Zomberry Island.) Thanks Elphangor! Check out this sneak peek as well: “Cheap Seats – Sit too close and you’ll go cross-eyed.”

cheap seats