Slanted Fish

Advertisements, Reality TV Island, Sneak Peeks

Beautiful Sea Life

June 14, 2009June 18, 2009 Slanted Fish

There’s an advertisement building for 6 to 8 year olds on Main Street (any island). It’s a Kellogg’s Froot Loops adventure, and this time it is up to you to rescue the toucans from the FrootOctopus! All you have to do is find 8 flashing red spots on the octopus and jump over it to “tickle” it. When you are done you will be awarded a yellow Froot Loops Costume and a FrootOctorizer (both temporary items).

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Comic Kid flicked through his sketchbook. He smiled at every little doodle he’d ever drawn, thinking of the adventures it came with. But today he thought that one particular image stuck out to him: the little fishies. Then he got an idea.

Half an hour later, he’d reached the ocean next to Reality TV Island and was happily swimming underwater. He dove deeper, passing by schools of fish and a bunch of coral, until he finally saw the ground. There was one medium-sized green fish down there, grinning at him. Cute, thought Comic Kid, whipping out his underwater camera. He snapped a picture for memories and headed back on shore to put into his blog later. Amazing!

Blog Post Title: What Lurks Beneath
Description: Remember the pictures of fish that I drew awhile back? Well I thought I would go back to where I first saw them and show you what they look like in their surroundings. Amazing, huh?!
Image URL: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q9BePaDQLzI/Si6Tjba3KMI/AAAAAAAAAEs/ACaeLJB6ODE/s1600-h/underwater.jpg
Image Name: underwater.jpg

Magazines, PHB Specials, Web Development

Poptropican’s 911: Issue #1

June 7, 2009August 5, 2012 Slanted Fish

The first Sunday of June 2009 is here! You know what this means… don’t you? That’s right, it’s time for our first issue of the PHB newsletter! (If you have no idea what’s going on, click here to read about The Monthly Surprise, then come back here.)

But before we give you the link, you probably want to know what the newsletter’s name is. Which names won the vote? Well… *drumroll*… here it is in a nutshell (top 3 listed):

PHB Newsletter Name: Part 1
Option | Votes
Poptropican(‘s) | 582
Poptropica(‘s) | 498
PHB(‘s) | 333

PHB Newsletter Name: Part 2
Option | Votes
911 (For all your Poptropica emergencies!) | 304
Gazette | 142
Times | 122

And the winning name is… the Poptropican’s 911! Congratulations! Thanks, Fearless Paw and ♪CheerfulPanda♫, for suggesting the brilliant name!

Ok, with that aside, here is is!

Venture forth to Issue #1!

It’s definitely worth taking a look at. There you’ll find the answers to stopping Dr. Hare from taking over PHB (sorry, the competition is over… so it’s not cheating this time), how to play on Astro-Knights without an Early Access Pass, and much more!

Reality TV Island, Sneak Peeks, Web Development

Hey armadillos, the Poptropica Store is open!

June 3, 2009 Slanted Fish

Shark Boy worded the great update very well on the Creators’ Blog:

Today is a BIG day for Poptropica; we have opened the doors to our new online store where you can buy awesome outfits, abilities, and more! To purchase anything in the store you need Poptropica credits. You get 100 credits FREE for every island you complete, or you can purchase more with a credit card.

Quick Tips:
*Some outfits allow you to change their colors!
*Some outfits have special abilities. For instance,you just press the SPACEBAR key on your computer, and the Rock Stars will rock out on their guitars!

Thanks, Shark Boy!

So, log in and spend your credits! There’s lots of cool and exciting things with this new update. Firstly, to access it, click on the 3-dimensional star icon on the top-right corner, next to the Inventory. If you would like to, there is now an option to change your password! Therefore, please don’t post any more accounts on the Poptropica Talk page as they most likely will be stolen.

As mentioned above, you will get 100 credits for each island you complete! If you haven’t already finished all of them, check out our handy Island Help guides. Alternatively, you can also buy your credits with real world money using a credit card. Thanks to Grey Flame for the image found at http://poptropica.com/store_info.html:

Poptropica Store Info

Some costumes have a special action, such as Robin Hood. To perform this action, wear the costume and then press the space bar on your keyboard. For example, the Robinhood Outfit will cause your character to shoot an arrow with the bow. These actions could be useful for making videos!

By the way, female characters (girls) have more options in the “Special Costumes” area. There is more stuff they can wear there that boys don’t get to purchase, such as the “Fairy Queen” or “Geisha”!

To access these purchased items, go to your Inventory, and click on the scroll bar at the top. Click on the gold words, which say “Purchased Items”, and you’ll be able to use your items! Also, you may have noticed the Games button to be gone. Well, don’t worry too much – right underneath “Purchased Items” is “Games”, where you can see all your game cards. And as some of you have seen – right underneath Games is Astro-Knights! They’re probably just preparing for the island’s release, but there’s another hint that it’s coming really soon.

And Poptropica’s homepage has slightly changed! The buttons at the bottom of where you log in have now been formed into a bar, which looks much nicer. Thanks again to Grey Flame for taking this picture for us:

Homepage Bar Buttons

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It was a beautiful Monday morning. Ned Noodlehead decided to take the day off to visit his favorite vacationing spot, Reality TV Island. The sun was shining down his back, and he loved how it felt. He strolled through the forests quietly, admiring nature, gasping at every little leaf. And suddenly, out popped an armadillo, big and brown, but with a friendly smile. It looked up at Ned. Ned shyly smiled back and waved. “Isn’t he cute?” he said aloud.

Blog Post Title: A New Little Friend
Description: When I’m traveling from island to island on my adventures I’m always eager to make new friends. This little guy was the latest to become my new friend. Isn’t he cute?
Image URL: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_q9BePaDQLzI/SiA5f7rrw0I/AAAAAAAAAEM/YMg5UAvD_kY/s1600-h/little_friend.jpg
Image Name: little_friend.jpg

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In other news, make sure you check out our super-rare monster giveaway contest in the post above! The entry deadlines are in one week.

Astro-Knights Island, Bonus Items, Web Development

Undercover Visitors

May 30, 2009 Slanted Fish

Don’t forget! Tomorrow (Sunday, May 31st, 2009) marks the date of our special surprise for all you readers in honor of our recent one million hits! Check the PHB tomorrow to more about this totally RARE oppurtunity. Be prepared!

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Need more visitors for your Poptropica webpage? Now that we’ve got at least 20 sites successfully listed in our affiliate site’s Blogroll page, we’ve decided it would be a great idea to move it here. Check out this updated version of Poptropica Links: PHB’s Poptropica Directory!

🙂 https://poptropica.wordpress.com/cool-stuff/poptropica-directory/ 🙂

Don’t worry, our Poptropica Links website (http://poptropicalinks.wordpress.com/) is still there, and you can still use it. But what’s great is that we’ve decided to move the Poptropica directory to Poptropica Help Blog too, so that people who have never heard of Poptropica Links will now have a better chance of viewing the advertised sites – through PHB!

You can now leave kind criticism comments to help people improve their sites, leave ratings, and much more. Remember, you can still go to the original Poptropica Links site to advertise. In fact, if your site gets approved, not only will it be shown on the new directory, but also the Blogroll page and widget on the original P.L. site! It’s a three-in-one offer; absolutely beneficial to other Poptropica website owners!

Considering that it’s the only area in this whole blog where you’re allowed to advertise (Poptropica-related content only, of course), it wouldn’t hurt to try it. So, without further ado, come to the PHB’s Poptropica Directory or the Poptropica Links site for more information!

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Poptropica Help Blog news: The Mechanical Fever, part 2

We all know how dangerous the multiplayer rooms in Poptropica are. And now we have news that it’s getting worse. The seriously infected Poptropican, who goes by the name of Binary Bard, has just visited the Coconut Cafe on Shark Tooth Island. The germs he carries are traveling faster and faster. But does he feel guilty about all this? Not at all! He’s been telling other Poptropicans the same story:

My visit to Shark Tooth Island today had to be under cover. It looks like Astro-Knights Island is so eager to be released that parts of it have started to sneak out into the main Poptropica population.

Blog Post Title: Mechanical Faces
Description: 01010011011101000110010101100001011011000111010001101000 [Translation: ‘Stealth’] My visit to Shark Tooth Island today had to be under cover. It looks like Astro-Knights Island is so eager to be released that parts of it have started to sneak out into the main Poptropica population.
Image URL: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bqXCl2IJBSo/SiBHkT_n7EI/AAAAAAAAABE/bVPNQfy1wdE/s1600-h/undercover.JPG
Image Name: undercover.JPG

So beware. Who knows when it will hit again? Take precautions by staying away from other ill Poptropicans!

For more information, visit: https://poptropica.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/the-mechanical-fever/

Store

Costumizer’s Sister: the Colorizer

May 29, 2009March 6, 2010 Slanted Fish

Meet the Customizer‘s sister, the Colorizer! Like “sisters”, they both serve a similar purpose – spicing up your Poptropican character! Similar to the Customizer, this new wowing peek from the Creators (Dr. Hare this time) shows something called the “Colorizer”, where you will soon be able to edit your character’s colors!

Blog Post Title: The Colorizer
Description: The Colorizer will make coloring your character a breeze… anywhere, any color.
Image URL: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AkTCxo8C1Ys/Sh6r1s3v_hI/AAAAAAAAAGI/QO9pNaCsqd4/s1600-h/colorizer.png
Image Name: colorizer.png

With this cool upcoming feature, we won’t have to use cheat codes or travel to faraway islands just to change our character’s colors! This sneak peek shows that we are able to color hair and skin with a never-before-seen shade of green as well as some other cool color tones to pick from. Maybe someday they’ll even let us change the color of our outfits! Speaking of outfits… the example character is wearing a really cool Robin Hood-like costume, complete with bow and arrows! I hope we’ll be able to Customize this on Astro-Knights Island, especially since it looks so medieval-themed!

Oh, and if you look closely at the background (which shows Main Street on 24 Carrot Island), you’ll notice a star symbol next to the Inventory, and the Games button is gone! Many think that the star button could either be the Colorizer or the Poptropica Credits thing from the post below, because the credits sneak peek also shows the star button there.

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There’s also a new poll on the PCB: Which are you most excited for? This time there are only two options – ‘The Poptropica Store’ and ‘Astro-Knights Island’. AK Island is by far winning this one, with 77% of all votes at the time of my posting this. Therefore, the Poptropica Store has 22% of all votes.

Learn more about The Poptropica Store in the post below: https://poptropica.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/poptropica-credits-stats-store-and-more/