Slanted Fish

Pumpkins in mind

October 5, 2010October 8, 2010 Slanted Fish

Halloween is approaching, and it seems that pumpkin heads are all the rage around Poptropica – whether fashionably fitted onto your head, or if you’re just thinking about that pumpkin patch on Great Pumpkin Island, which recently released to paid members and will be available to everyone on October 14.

But in all the excitement, the Creators wanted to highlight one very special “Pumpkin Head” costume from the Poptropica Store. Maybe you’ll like it so much yourself that you’ll wear it for our blog’s Second Annual Halloween Costume Contest!

Since "Great Pumpkin" is already taken, we'll call this one a very good pumpkin.

Want to share your Poptropican’s Halloween costume to us and have it judged? Win up to 1000 credits by joining our costume contest! (In other news: Results from the “PHB Loyalty Giveaway” [celebrating 4 million hits and 2 years] will be announced VERY SOON now that the PHF forums are back up, and winners will have their prizes sent soon.)

Good grief, Pumpkin Island!

September 29, 2010September 29, 2010 Slanted Fish

Today on the Creators’ Blog, Captain Crawfish revealed the Great Pumpkin Island map – or some of it, anyway. We still don’t know much about the island, but there are seven areas – a lot less than most other islands, but still pretty cool! Here’s the image below. What places do you think we’ll get to visit?

https://i0.wp.com/3.bp.blogspot.com/_NKJNSBJeC0c/TKDmUYhbo8I/AAAAAAAAAVE/qHoxp7gNDZk/s1600/greatpumpkinmap.gif — Good things do come in small packages, after all.

And at the end of his PCB post, Crawfish hints that there are plenty of mini-games and adventures on GP Island that don’t appear on the map, so it’s more than it looks! The PHB has also updated its Island Help page to include resourceful links about Great Pumpkin Island, so be sure to check those out! 🙂

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Lucy: no match for Pair of Kings

September 21, 2010January 10, 2015 Slanted Fish

Over on Great Pumpkin Island, one of the girls from the Peanuts gang – Lucy van Pelt – has decided to come join the scene… but she’s standing away from the others, complaining to anyone who will listen about how her brother Linus is ruining her reputation.

Meanwhile, if you talk to the boys, Charlie admits that he kind of admires Linus for standing up for what he believes in – the Great Pumpkin – while Linus himself is feeling more and more certain that this coming Halloween, the Great Pumpkin will be choosing this very pumpkin patch. 😛

In other news, older players currently have access to a new advertisement game themed on Pair of Kings, a Disney XD show. The objective is to make it through a cave maze and eventually reach the two kidnapped kings, who are stuck inside a cage.

Upon rescuing them, you will be awarded a Pair of Kings Outfit and Volcano Totem (which rains down volcanic rocks when used!). If you need help, check out Loud Shark’s video walkthrough below:

The PHB doesn’t just rock…

it boulders. 🙂

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The party don’t stop, oh

September 18, 2010September 18, 2010 Slanted Fish

That’s right – DON’T STOP PARTYING! O:

Why? WHY? You must know why! The nice guys at Poptropica have decided that they aren’t going to leave any player out of the b-day celebrations. If you’re having absolutely no luck at all in finding that sneaky rare 3-balloon, it’s okay.

You can still get something (ooh! a present? for me? *squeal*) – orange balloons with a blue “3” on them are being given away for FREE at the Poptropica Store! It’s free, fun, and keeps you happy! 😀

So come on and

LET’S KEEP THIS PARTY GOING!

And while you’re at it, don’t forget to sing a song to your favorite computer game!

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Poptropica
Happy birthday to you

…and many more (:

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It could’ve been so different… :O

September 17, 2010September 18, 2010 Slanted Fish

Update: For reasons unknown, the post mentioned below has been removed from the Creators’ Blog! Kind of weird… and nobody knows why! (Thanks for noticing, Explorer Bronze.)

Do you know what Poptropica may have looked like in its early stages of development? The Poptropica team sure had some different styles of designing back then! Check it out:

Poptropica’s embarrassing baby photos

Do your parents ever like to embarrass you by showing your baby pictures to your friends? Mine sure did, until I got even. Oh, did I get even…

Um, anyway, it turns out that Poptropica has some embarrassing baby photos of its own. You already know that when you start a new game, you can customize your Poptropican any way you’d like. It looks a little something like this.

Way back when we started planning Poptropica, we knew we wanted to let you customize your character. But, er, this is how we initially sketched it out.

Yikes! Of course, it was never meant to look this way for real. We just wanted to demonstrate how changing your character would work. Still… yeesh. I can’t believe we used to look like that. How embarrassing!

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