Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Invisible Ring. Enjoy!

Once upon a time, a pauper Poptropican had the honor of writing special parchments for the Kingdom of Poptropica. Among them were two parchments: one comparing Fairytale and Arabian Nights Island, and one comparing Goofball and Jade Scarab Island.

These were the Dream Islands, designed by players in Poptropica’s Create Your Dream Island Contests, and I was that parchment maker. Now, I have returned to share with you two NEW Dream Island parchments, starting with this one: Fairytale vs Goofball.

Comparisons

Fairytale and Goofball were the first two Dream Island winners of the 2020 Dream Island Contest.

Both of these newer islands have astounding, artistic, and colorful new scenery, and both islands also have inhabitants that looked and behaved differently than the inhabitants of any classic island.

Furthermore, they both have teeny-tiny little blimps like the one that was on Shrink Ray Island!

Contrasts

However, when you look below the surface, you’ll find that the quests of the islands are shockingly different from each other.

Fairytale Island is made up of mini-quests, and each mini-quest in question is a fractured fairytale; perhaps the most fractured kind of fairytale anyone’s ever SEEN! …That means it’s quite possibly the shortest, easiest, and silliest island of all Poptropica. How did THAT happen?

Perhaps Dr. Blandston —or should I say Dr. Gramston — got to Fairytale Island just as they did Goofball Island.

In my opinion, Goofball Island lives up to Poptropica’s ancient traditions of action, adventure, and mystery.

It is not three mini-quests, but one BIG quest, and an original, more challenging one at that. Not just a challenge to play, but a challenge to fully understand, for only when you find the secret subway journal like a true detective do you realize where the Dr. Blandstons came from in the first place!

This brings me to the greatest Fairytale-Goofball difference of all: the villains.

Rumpelstiltskin is the villain messing up Fairytale Island, but he gets away and you never catch him.

Dr. Gramston is the original villain of Goofball Island, but during the quest, the horrors are carried out by the Blandstons. You see, long ago, Dr. Gramston found a way to transform others into Dr. Blandstons, and it’s spread like a disease since. But the Blandston curse is temporary. So once the Blandstons returned to normal, some of them teamed up and found a way to break the curse once and for all, and fully restore balance (or dullness, or goofiness) to Goofball Island!

…Isn’t that a happier ending than Fairytale?

…I guess Fairytale has kind of a happy ending, too (Rumpel bonus quest aside). But however you slice it, that island’s story never comes full circle like Goofball Island’s does…

That’s why I’m gonna get to the bottom of it in the second part of my legendary pirate movie coming up.

Conclusion

To wrap it all up, my favorite of these two Dream Islands is Goofball Island. What about you? Feel free to share in the comments below!

P.S. I won’t judge if you like Fairytale Island better. I still kinda like that island, too!

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Invisible Ring. If you did, you might also enjoy watching her full-length Poptropica fan movie, Battle Morale!

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Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: Stranded 🪵 Part 2

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Fearless Goose. Enjoy!

Log Files: Always be sure to keep a backup.

(Continued from Part 1)

Fearless Goose looked around him. “There must be a way to get out,” he thought to himself. “I know, I’ll pretend I’m sick — that will surely make them come here!”

He then reminisced about his beastly cousin, Slinky Goose, then… it’s better we skip this part, but his plan had worked. The old man let him out and had a look at him.

“You should be better soon,” he said.

Fearless Goose angrily said, “Okay, okay, but why did you lock me up in a room?”

The old guy then proceeded to tell him a long and boring story about how he was lonely and needed friends.

After a fierce negotiation, FearlessGoose was set free. And after what seemed like a while, he stumbled across the remains of the blimp. He examined it.

“Bullet holes? This must mean I’m being hunted! I must get out soon, the old man told me civilisation is miles away. If I will get out, I need a car.” He ripped a piece from where the blimp was shot.

He kept walking and spotted a mansion with three cars. “A mansion in the woods? Never mind that, I must ask the owner to give me a ride to civilisation.”

He knocked on the door of the mansion. The owner came out and Fearless Goose asked to be taken to civilisation. He then proceeded to list what had happened to him. The home owner agreed and said he was heading out tomorrow to town and Fearless Goose could join him then.

The home owner agreed to let him sleep over, and Fearless Goose quietly prayed this home owner wasn’t as crazy as the last one.

When he woke up, the home owner was sleeping. So, like the curious person he was, he explored.

He found out the home owner had a shed outside. He opened the door and found a gun, which he fired at a tree. Then he compared the bullet holes of the tree to the bullet holes of the balloon. They were identical.

When the owner woke up, he searched for Fearless Goose and found him near the shed with the gun in hand.

Fearless Goose asked, “Why did you do this?”

To be continued…

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Fearless Goose. If you did, you might also enjoy their ‘My Place in Poptropica’ story.

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Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: Stranded 🪵 Part 1

April 21, 2024 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Fearless Goose. Enjoy!

It was a cloudy day in Poptropica and Fearless Goose was feeling quite bored. He decided to hop into his blimp and explore the world to make friends and memories, although in the end, he got a bit more than he expected.

As he picked up speed and gained height, a storm was gaining strength. Instead of going toward the Pophamas, he ended up going towards an isolated forest, where civilisation was scarce, although he did not know.

BANG! The air balloon popped and Fearless Goose was plummeting to the ground. Luckily he had a parachute just in case. As he neared the ground, he slowly realised that there was no way he wasn’t going to get hit by the trees, so he decided to brace for impact.

After what seemed like a day, Fearless Goose woke up and looked down, only to see he was high above the ground. It was either he cut the rope and face the possibility of DOOM, or stay up there, to be pecked by birds all day. He was feeling hungry and thirsty.

But his daydreaming was cut short as one of the parachute straps broke off. Then he heard a shuffle in the bushes, getting closer and closer. Could it be a bear or a wolf, or could the Minotaur have finally tracked him down after ‘The Incident’?

It turned out to be an old man who was rummaging through the forest for berries. Lucky he stumbled upon him!

The old man invited Fearless Goose into the comforts of his home, where he offered him food and water. Fearless Goose gobbled up the food and drank the water faster than he had ever done before.

Fearless Goose felt sleepy though, and he fell asleep at the table. When he opened his eyes again after what seemed like an eternity, he saw a bed, but when he turned around, he saw a stone wall and a locked metal door. He was trapped!

To be continued…

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Fearless Goose. If you did, you might also enjoy their ‘My Place in Poptropica’ story.

The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you!

Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: The Chronicles of Friendly Thunder 🌩️ Chapter 5

April 20, 2024 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Serious Heart. Enjoy!

Hi there, everyone! It’s Serious Heart with the next chapter of The Chronicles of Friendly Thunder. You can catch up on the last chapter here, or start from the beginning here. Now, let’s get started!

TIMMY FAILURE (continuing to brag):
That kind of advanced detective technique is why I was able to solve this case in the first place, totally unassisted.

NARRATOR:
In the background, Icy Snake is making a disgusted face at the polar bear eating trash.

FRIENDLY THUNDER (automatically):
Wait just one minute. You didn’t solve this case by yourself.

DIZZY CLAW (confused):
He didn’t?

TIMMY FAILURE (arrogantly):
Of course I did! I’m the greatest detective alive. My case notes prove it.

FRIENDLY THUNDER (speaking so automatically, he’s confusing himself):
That’s not how I remember it. Not how I remember it at all…

NARRATOR:
Suddenly, the dream guardian from the prologue, so long ago, I almost forgot him, comes out of nowhere — but only the trio can see him!

DREAM GUARDIAN (apologetically):
Sorry. I have to do this.

NARRATOR:
Quickly, he transports the trio back to shortly before the events they are seeing now, happened!

ICY SNAKE (dazed):
Where are we…?

NARRATOR:
The trio stumble over to the left — to encounter Timmy Failure himself!

TIMMY FAILURE:
You three there! Newcomers! Step lightly. There are evil doings afoot!

DIZZY CLAW (remembering Dr. Hare and hilariously comparing it to him):
Such as?

TIMMY FAILURE:
Someone stole my pants!

ICY SNAKE:
We’ll… be careful, I guess.

TIMMY FAILURE:
You three’ll need to be more than that. Since you three are new around here, you’re the only people I can trust. Will you help me collar the criminal?

FRIENDLY THUNDER:
Far be it from us to stand idly by while a pants thief terrorizes this fair city.

DIZZY CLAW (chirping up):
Plus, we once stopped a villainous pink bunny that wanted to take over the world! You can trust us!

TIMMY FAILURE:
Great. We’ll have to split up, but I’ll leave pages from my detective log around to help you out… To start with, you may want to investigate my former business partner. (dramatically) His loyalty is in question.

FADE OUT.

And — let’s wrap this chapter up! Will Timmy Failure find his pants, with help from Friendly Thunder and company? Who is the mysterious Dream Guardian? You’ll have to tune in to find out!

अच्छे समयों के लिए चियर्स,
Serious Heart

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Serious Heart. If you did, you might also enjoy other fanfictions we’ve shared.

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Mythology Island, Pranks

Descending Mount Olympus: April Fools! ⚡️

April 3, 2024 Slanted Fish

Fear not, folks: Zeus’s reign of terror with Mount Olympus is over, and the Poptropica Help Blog is back to steal his thunder. April Fools! 🗻🌩️😶‍🌫️

Zeus took over the PHB on April Fools’ Day.

For a while there, it looked like Zeus had managed to conquer both the PHB and PHC, demanding loyalty from Poptropicans everywhere in his freshly extended kingdom of Mount Olympus. But just like his previous domination attempts in Poptropica, we’ve once again thwarted Dr. Jupiter’s plans by regaining access to our site and kicking him off.

Even though Zeus is going to have to admit he can’t force his way to the top spot of the Favorite Poptropica Island Tournament, the Greek god of thunder sure enjoyed his moment of glory in the comments and chat! This Grandpa Thunderpants, as he came to be known, even received fan art from some of his followers (or haters?) on the PHC. Check them out:

A round of thunderous applause for all the Zeus Zealots! 👏👏

We had a lot of fun bringing you a taste of the second-best Poptropica island on this occasion, and hope you enjoyed the shenanigans celebrating Mythology Island (Classic). (Play it on Steam or Flashpoint!)