Author: Slanted Fish

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Astro-Knights Island, Sneak Peeks

Binary Bard and the Rocket on Ice

Slanted Fish

Note: Due to the fact that too many people keep talking about a new post on the Creators’ Blog before we even mention it, the PHB had decided, at least for this post, that we will not be giving “credits” since people are just using them the wrong way.

Also: The stories mentioned before these two sneak peeks are works of fiction. They were made up just to entertain you readers, so make sure you don’t go roud telling everyone about crashing rockets!

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Custom Rockets
Zing! A decorative rocket zips through space at breakneck speed. Binary Bard desperately punches in 0’s and 1’s, trying to control his machine as it tosses him left and right. Royal blood detected, the screen flashes suddenly. “We must be getting close!” yells the bard triumphantly, just as the rocket swerves itself violently, crashing right into an icy landscape.

Blog Post Title: Custom Rockets
Description: 0100100001100101011011000110110001101111! On Astro-Knights Island you’ll be able to build your own custom rocket to explore space!
Image URL: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bqXCl2IJBSo/SbbFYkUSMfI/AAAAAAAAAAM/FpS3T-3nyvE/s1600-h/astro_rocket.JPG
Image Name: astro_rocket.JPG

Yep, we’re gonna design our very own rockets on Astro-Knights Island! Isn’t that cool? 😛

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Ice Fishing
“Oof!” Binary Bard crawls out slowly, not wanting to hurt himself too badly. The rocket was quite badly damaged. “Man, there’d better be an AstroZone nearby. It looks like the nueroplasmic space calibrator is broken. And besides, I wonder where I am.” He groans, but also scans the scenery around him, seeing only ice and water. Not knowing what else to do, he gingerly picks up his feet and slowly steps on the ice.

Then it happened. A fish springs out of the water, and with a big “chomp”, it snaps at Binary B., and was gone. “Wow… what just happened there?!” The bard was so surprised he almost lost his footing, nearly falling into the surrounding waters, but catching himself in time. His bright orange-and-purple clothes were now wet, thanks to the fish who had splashed on him. “That was the strangest fish I’ve ever seen!” Binary Bard exclaimed. “Was it just me, or did it look exactly like my uncle’s old helmet?!”

Blog Post Title: Ice Fishing
Description: Ice fishing is not a safe sport on this planet!
Image URL: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AkTCxo8C1Ys/Sbf9lFkSHtI/AAAAAAAAAFY/4BChJRbZVik/s1600-h/chomp.jpg
Image Name: chomp.jpg

Yikes! Looks like Astro-Knights Island may have a few dangers in store for us.

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Binary Bard
As some of you have noticed, Binary Bard is another Poptropica Creator that made his first appearance on March 10, 2009 on the “Custom Rockets” PCB post. He is the mysterious robot jester shown in some previous sneak peeks, includingavatar image the Astro-Knights information page on Poptropica.com, where it shows his full costume, complete with a guitar-like instrument in his hand, possibly to entertain the king and queen: he is a jester, after all! Here’s the etymology of the name “Binary Bard”:

Binary: Mathematics. Of or pertaining to a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2. The decimal number 58 appears as 111010 in binary notation, since 58 = 1 × 25 + 1 × 24 + 1 × 23 + 0 × 22 + 1 × 21 + 0 × 20.
Bard: (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems, often while playing the harp, lyre, or the like.
Taken from Dictionary.com

There you have it – a basic introduction to the Poptropica Creator’s Blog’s latest worker, Binary Bard. What a name! 🙂

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Other Recent Posts
When You Wish Upon A Star
Smiling in the Light
PHB Sneak Peeks: The Little Wooden Boy

Reality TV Island, Sneak Peeks

Smiling in the Light

Slanted Fish

Comic Kid looked up at the torch. He smiled, in deep admiration for the beautiful island he was on. I’m just like a moth, he thought to himself. It was dark all around him, night had fallen. He gave the glowing light a last glance and turned, heading back home through the silent, shadowy forest to post yet another lovely sneak peek for the Creators’ Blog he was working at.

Soon after posting, Comic Kid went off to explore again so he would have content to put in his next sneak peek. He’ll be back soon! Meanwhile, a very alert lizard had been watching, and immediately informed everyone about this gorgeous landscape – and that was none other than the great Grey Lizard! Blog picture below:

Blog Post Title: Like a Moth
Description: Have I ever mentioned that I’m drawn to light like a moth? This island had some cool torches that I couldn’t help but admire for awhile.
Image URL: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q9BePaDQLzI/SbV4WFjyCqI/AAAAAAAAADM/C8jsIrsilIs/s1600-h/glow.jpg
Image Name: glow.jpg

Hmm. Did he say torches? I hope the rest of them are just as interesting as this one is! And isn’t Comic Kid standing on a rock there? Maybe we will get to do that someday too. Many say that this is a Reality TV Island sneak peek. I’m not sure, but I sure hope it is! 😀

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Other Recent Posts
PHB Sneak Peeks: The Little Wooden Boy
Zazzle T’s and More Blog Updates!
Say Roar, Cool Tiger!

Advertisements, Web Development

Zazzle T’s and More Blog Updates!

Slanted Fish

Need some new clothes? Now’s the time to update your wardrobe!

Poptropica has created some awesome T-shirts you can buy on Zazzle.com. Thanks for the update, Jake – interested in getting one? Zazzle.com is a website where you can buy real-life merchandise from many companies, and now Poptropica itself has an account there! Check out their online store here: http://www.zazzle.com/poptropica. Here’s a picture of Shark Boy in his “Brief Encounters” shirt!

There’s a lot to choose from: I’m B.A.D., Poptropica Logo, Poptropica Laugh, and many more! Did you buy one? Tell us about it!

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Want the Golden Touch?

This Golden Touchlets you turn every Poptropican you want to into gold! Thanks for this update, Mood Claws. It’s similar to the Pink Painter, which you can learn about here:

https://poptropica.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/another-big-nate-comic-and-pink-panther-2-mission/

Find out how to get the Golden Touch in this post:
https://poptropica.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/pirates-have-landed/

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Both the Creators’ Blog and the Poptropica Help Blog have received a few updates. Let’s start with the Creators’ ones:

The one and only
After a Poptropica Creator finishes their post, it usually ends with, for example, “Posted by Shark Boy at 2:36 PM”. This has now changed to (using the same example): “The one and only Shark Boy at 2:36 PM”. Cool! 🙂

Love it, Like it, Not interested
You can now vote about your reaction of each and every Poptropica Creators’ Blog post! Under where it says, “The one and only…” (details above), there’s a line where it says, “Reactions:”. Next to it are 3 options, each with a box beside it: Love it, Like it, Not interested. Click on the box beside it to vote that option! Currently, you can vote for as many as you want (you can even vote all 3). If you want to take back your vote, simply click on the box again! There is also a number in parentheses beside each option, which shows how many people had voted for that option. 😛

Zazzle Widget
On the side of the Creators’ Blog is their new Zazzle widget! This currently displays some of the T-shirts they are selling, and at the top, written in white with a blue background, are the words, “Poptropica T-shirts and More!” There is also a bright star next to it, and there’s one for the “Blog Archives” section too. It looks a lot nicer that way! 😀

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Now for the PHB’s updates!

600,000
Believe it or not, we have already reached 600,000+ hits! Less than a month ago, we’d reached 500,000. Amazing! I’m finding it pretty hard to believe myself, but it really is true! 😯 Check out this post for the 500,000 milestone news: https://poptropica.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/our-first-half-million-jeff-kinney-and-shining-crystals/.

Buttons
You may have noticed: We have 4 new buttons in one of our widgets on the right side! Let me explain them.

Vote for me!
This button is from Blogtoplist.com, a blog directory. Clicking on that button will bring you to a page where you can vote for us, which can help us increase our number of hits and get more people interested. Vote now!

Blogtoplist
This button is also from Blogtoplist.com, like the one mentioned above. This shows our ranking within the “Internet” category of Blogtoplist.com, among the other Internet-related blogs that have signed up in the directory. The higher the number, the better it is! Check out the list!

TopOfBlogs
This button is from Topofblogs.com, and it is also a blog directory. Clicking on the button brings you to a page that shows the top rankings of the “Gaming News” category. Check out the list!

BlogCatalog
This button is from Blogcatalog.com, another blog directory. This simply proves that we are listed in the BlogCatalog website. Check out our profile there!

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Other Recent Posts
Say Roar, Cool Tiger!
A Very Red-Hot Planet
Dragon Dress-Up

And of course, remember to check back tomorrow for another PHB Sneak Peek, which only comes every Sunday!

Snapshot Series, Spy Island

Say Roar, Cool Tiger!

Slanted Fish

Say roar, Cool Tiger! Congratulations!

Yep, a new Snapshot Saga from Vlad the Viking. Thanks for detecting that, Oumer26! And of course, here is another one of Vlad’s amazing tales:

Finding my way around in the dark was easy. I just followed a mysterious red beam that occasionally flashed down from the sky, and found my way to the streets of a grand city. The first Poptropican that I ran into was walking down the street in front of the Hair Club. I had asked how they were able to build such tall buildings, when that same red light from before burst from the sky and struck him on the head! The Poptropican’s hair was vaporized in an instant, and I had to duck through the front doors of the Hair Club to save my beautiful locks from a similar fate.

To my surprise, many Poptropicans have also taken cover inside the building to save their own hair from the cursed beam of light! I met Cool Tiger there, and I think her name was very fitting, for she did not look in the least bit concerned about the hazardous hair removal occurring outside. Cool indeed.

I took her photo to add to my collection before she left to conquer the mysterious light on her own! A very, very cool customer.

That was definitely one cool photograph! Don’t forget to check out the post below for another one with Astro-Knights Island!

Astro-Knights Island, Sneak Peeks

A Very Red-Hot Planet

Slanted Fish

Cheerful Claw has found something…

The sight of the strange and distant landscape of a very red-hot planet on the Poptropica Creators’ Blog! Looks like volcanoes to me, the Poptropican thinks. Blog picture below:

Blog Post Title: The planets are aligning.
Description: This strange and distant landscape offers a great view… if you can stand the heat.
Image URL: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AkTCxo8C1Ys/Sa7hCY6EH1I/AAAAAAAAAFQ/hqWdKR9b57k/s1600-h/planets.jpg
Image Name: planets.jpg

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Again, here’s a reminder of how you should post around the PHB. Please take the time to read this!

You are not required to type in perfect spelling/grammar. You may use abbreviations such as “u” for you, or misspell a few words if you can’t find the right spelling, such as “spasifik” instead of “specific”. However, you need to keep your comments readable.

If you find that you or someone else used the wrong spelling or grammar for a word, phrase, or sentence, even though you/they didn’t want to, please don’t comment to correct the person. It’s not necessary. It will only waste comment space (there’s no limit, but it’s better to keep it neat), people will get off-topic to have a big discussion about it, and if you knew what they were trying to say enough to want to correct them, we’re sure everybody else will understand it too. So, please don’t  comment that way.

Also, when someone tells about a new post on the Poptropica Creators’ Blog, it’s not an invitation for everyone to start discussing it. The PHB will eventually post about the Creators’ new post, and when we do, that would be the time to talk about it. Not on the older posts, because it’s considered off-topic there.

Thanks for understanding! 😉

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Interested in another “super-special” costume’s sneak peek? Check this out:
Dragon Dress-Up