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Hey Poptropicans, we’re approaching the end of the month, which means it’s time to announce another lucky Poptropican to win our monthly membership giveaway! 🎁
Congratulations, Young Rider — your new membership status lets you play various island episodes including Survival, Ep. 2: Hook, Line, and Sinker, along with other exclusive quests! Plus, you’ll also get to enjoy premium store items, member gifts, and other perks.
If you’re not a member, you still have the chance (or many chances, in fact): the PHB is hosting a giveaway every month, and it’s easy to enter! Just comment on the Free Poptropica Membership page and leave at least two other comments around the PHB within the month to be entered into that month’s giveaway.
We’ll announce a winner sometime in the final week of each month. If you don’t win, you can always try again for the next month! Full details »
Congrats again to Young Rider! Keep on popping on! 🚴♀️
Hey Poptropicans! We hope you enjoyed the extravaganza of our Pop fan awards this month — be sure to catch the whole Poppies recap on our blog, including a surprise visit from Official Poptropica! 🏆✨
Following that big buzz, this update is short and sweet. Enjoy the latest hits from Pop’s Instagram stories, including a makeup reel, vivid drawing, and a meme from a mobile game studio Poptropica follows. 🎨
As July wraps up, it’s almost time to say goodbye to many of the summertime styles in Adventure Outfitters! Find out more about this week’s costume rotation and the exiting items on the Creators’ Blog.
Thanks for popping in! 🌟 If you haven’t already, do settle in for just a bit longer to admire all the honorees at the Poppies, including the most voted “Coolest Wallpaper,” highlights of nostalgic memories, and a glorious gallery for all the “Best Fan Art” nominees chosen by you all.
Greetings, Poppie-tropicans! We’ve come to the end of another sparkling Poppies — our eighth year of Poptropica fan awards. 🏆✨
Thank you all for joining in on the festivities throughout the month! We received over 160 votes in the polls to determine this year’s winners, announced via a livestream hosted by Slanted Fish, Sporty Boa, Gentle Dolphin, and Lucky Joker. Catch the spectacular slideshow celebration below, or scroll down to directly see the winners of the 2022 Poppies!
Don’t miss the intermission show by Smart Icicle where you can enjoy a “pop down memory lane” through seven years of Poppies past. For even more mems, check out our Poppies playlist! 🎥
😂 Funniest Tweet: “i wanna do a poptropica concert” by @LilNasX, now deleted (runner-up: “More of this, please!” by @Poptropica, now deleted, in a response to Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden for US president)
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the 2022 Poppies! The spotlights are well deserved. 🥳🌟
This year, the Poppies had a special visitor on our Discord server: Official Poptropica! At least, it seems to be — our hunch is that it’s legit. Appearing after the show for only a few minutes, the new account dropped by with just one short and sweet message of thanks plus some hype for “more Discord appearances.” Will we get to interact with the current social media manager like in the days of Skinny Moon? Maybe we’ll find out soon. In any case, it’s an honor to have Pop stop by! 🤩
(UPDATE – DEC 2023: The Discord appearance has been debunked as not representing the real Poptropica. The PHB apologizes for the error.)
“Best Fan Art” Nominee Gallery
Feast your eyes on this year’s glorious gallery, chosen by the people:
“Babysitting” by sleepybiker“Careful what you wish for” by Lucky Joker“Carnival” by XMzhier (*WINNER!*)“Full-power Betty Jetty” by AdventurersNHunters“Nervous Star & Blueberry Cake” by Bunnies_N_Bowties (*RUNNER-UP*)“Radiation (REMA- wait a minute…)” by BlazingAngel123“Saint Patrick’s Day Smoothie” by TillyMeowJings-ARSB“Zomberry Comic, Part 1/2” by Tough Spinner“Zomberry Comic, Part 2/2” by Tough Spinner
From nominating to voting to tuning in live, thanks for joining us at the Poppies blue carpet, bearing with technical difficulties, and celebrating the Poptropica universe, fandom, and PHB’s 14th blog birthday! 🥳💙
Hey Poptropicans, pop in for dinosaurs and doodles!
Home Island has a new ad building for the Netflix show Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, with a chase game that’s a bit of a challenge! Your goal is to run away from a dinosaur, jumping over obstacles until you reach the end — but if you hit three obstacles, you’ll start over.
If you’re successful, you’ll win a Camp Cretaceous Merch cap and Camp Cretaceous Raptor Tooth necklace (which comes with an audible roar, and makes you sweat when you tap the spacebar).
Thanks to Dizzy Feather for contributing to this segment!
Here’s the latest in Poptropica’s Instagram stories! In addition to bodacious fan art features, the Creators also launched a Pop poll with the help of the Little Miss/Mr meme to ask about device preferences for playing Pop. It’s not the first time they’ve popped this question, but just like before, desktop (at 85%) wins over mobile by a long shot.
Last call for voting in the Poppies! 🏆 Polls are open until this Friday, and we’ll be announcing the winners of our Poptropica fan awards this Sunday at 7pm EST in a spectacular slideshow. See you there! 🥳
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Dizzy Feather. Enjoy!
Dizzy Feather again, continuing with my theory about the Red Baron and Amelia. (Read part one on why the Baron is not the Queen of Fairytale here!) Anyway, in this post I will be discussing how I believe Amelia is a villain. I know it sounds ridiculous, right? But trust me, it’ll make sense.
Let’s start in Amelia’s clubhouse. Right at the doorway lies my first piece of evidence: the deed to Home Island. Although she says she got it to set up her shop, let’s think about it: who else owns a whole island? I can’t think of one in all of Poptropica, and if you ask me, owning an island sounds like something a villain would love.
On the shelf, we see a tea box with a silhouette of E. Vile, the villain from Legendary Swords. It’s probably nothing, but could it also be a hint of its return? Anyway, let’s get back on track…
In her home, we also see a picture of Amelia holding a trophy, with an angry Baron waving a wrench behind her. Another photo shows Xavier and Amelia flying in the plane we rode on in Monkey Wrench Island.
But look the way Amelia’s looking at Xavier and smiling… is it just me, or does she look nervous, like she just did something she doesn’t want him to know about? I think these two pictures are telling a story: Before we came along, Amelia’s co-pilot was Xavier, and one year during the great race, Amelia threw a wrench in the Baron’s plane, which is why the Baron threw one in Amelia’s later on. If I’m right, could that have been what started their rivalry in the first place?
Now over at the Baron’s cabin, there is a picture of the Baron throwing money from a bank down to a group of Poptropicans. If the Baron was a full-on villain, then why wouldn’t she keep the money for herself? Perhaps the bank was stealing money from the people and the Baron was returning it?
My final piece of evidence is in the Baron’s dialogue. After you complete the Baron’s Crusade, you can ask her three questions. When you ask if it’s just her and Ack, the Baron responds, “Mate, when you’ve been in the game as long as I have, you find trust is hard to come by.” I believe she is referring to Amelia breaking her trust at some point.
The Baron has been labeled the villain in the rivalry, but I believe that is wrong. As it once was said in Mocktropica: “There should be an enemy who’s been hiding in plain sight, but who could it be?”
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