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Announcing the Official Poptropica Fan Art Contest!

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You are an artiste,ย dolphin, and so is our Poptropica community! Calling all of the Poptropica artists! Make sure to ready your pencils, pens, markers, coloring materials, and drawing tablets because Poptropica is holding an official art contestโ€”and wants you to be in it!

You got really excited, eh? What if I told you that if you win, you could get some membership? Now, let’s move on over to the contest details (You can also read it on the official blog)!

The contest runs from June 30 to September 5, so you’ll have a lot of time to create the ultimate Poptropica masterpiece! Before joining the contest, you must use the hashtag ย #PoptropicaArt on any of Poptropica’s social media accounts, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in order to be included in the contest! Another thing to remember before joining, make sure to read the contest rulesย and make your artwork public, so that the Creators can see your work!

NOTE: To those players who doesn’t have any social media accounts, you can ask for an adult to post on yourย behalf, so you can enter the contest. ๐Ÿ™‚

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After September 5 (Labor Day in the US & Canada), Poptropica will pick 3 of the best artworks and will be awarded 1, 3, and 6 months membership! How awesome is that? If you need some inspirations, why not draw your favorite character, your Poptropican or maybe your favorite Poptropica island?

You don’t have to wait any longer, start creating the Ultimateย iPad Expert er, Poptropica Masterpiece! Stay awesome! ๐Ÿ™‚

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-SR ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐ŸŠ

Stolen Snapshots

Stealing more snapshots! (Round 3.1)

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What you seize is what you get. Am I right? Well, the thief has struck once again and stole some snapshots along the way! Before I begin, I have to share today’s news headline:

STOLEN SNAPSHOTS NOW BIWEEKLY

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Two weeks ago, Poptropica detectives have agreed to do double-time in the search for the stolen snapshots, and the search will now be done biweekly. Thanks to Poptropica’s Police Headquarters Bureau, the search will be on full swing.

Welcome to another round of Stolen Snapshots! This is our third round, first for the month of June! Once again,ย Stolen Snapshots is basically a hide-and-seek gameย that tests your knowledge of Poptropica scenery, where you guess where it came from!

Last time was quite fun, I believe everyone had fun guessing where it came from! With no further ado, here are the answers for last month!

Answers for May 2016:

  1. Home Island,ย a toy car in the store from the Poptropica app (I took a picture of it before it was patched on the web version, sorry for that!)
  2. Cryptids Island, the window of the convenience store in New Jersey.
  3. Super Power Island, one of the edges of The Daily Paper building
  4. Game Show Island, the blinking light above the door of the Robot Museum.
  5. Arabian Nights Island (Episode 3), the bowl in front of the secret passage in the hall. (painting)

Now, let’s see how everyone did! According to my record, everyone got at least 50% correct on the snapshots; thanks to everyone who tried guessing! Now, the results! Only one of you got all the answers correct, and that lucky Poptropican is…

๐ŸŒŸ Dr. Suriv! ๐ŸŒŸ

Dr. Suriv sure is one lucky guy! He will be immortalized on the Stolen Snapshots page shortly. Congratulations!

Now for the momentย that you’ve all been waiting for…the first 5 snapshots of this month’s hunt! It’ll be a set of 10 each month, so 5 snapshots every two weeks!

Stolen Snapshots: June 2016 (Part 1)

The mechanics and theย reward of the game are posted below. Make sure to read them, do your best, and get on to guessing! Go!


Mechanics:

  1. You are only allowed to have 1 answer for each picture.ย You may leave your guesses in theย comments of the post or the PHBโ€™s Stolen Snapshots page.
  2. If you think the answer is wrong, you can try and comment again.
  3. Answers will be revealed each round in the post, not the comments section.
  4. There are 5 winners each round, to be featured in the next post.
  5. Anything unrelated to the snapshots will not be accepted.
  6. Of course, enjoy the game!

Reward ๐Ÿ†

Check back next month to see if you made it to the Hall of Famers! All of the winners will get a chance to be immortalized on the Stolen Snapshots page, right here on the PHB!

Y’all stay awesome, okay?
-Slipperyย ๐Ÿ’ฆ

Popular Poptropicans

Community Celebrities: Mighty Gamer

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Hey guys, Slip here!

Welcome to a brand new Community Celebrity post!ย Community Celebrities is a series where people from the Poptropica community are interviewed so you canย get to know them more! Like Stolen Snapshots, it used to be on Slippery Raptor’s Blog, but will now be on the PHB instead.ย You can check out past celebrities here.

Anyway, welcome: Mighty Gamer! You may know her around the community from her MPIP story, her blog, or more recently, as a PHB author. Let’s begin!

Whatโ€™s the best Island in Poptropica? The worst?

I’d have to say Red Dragon is the best island. Or, at least, it is to me. Though, my opinion on this matter has changed quite a bit over times. Over the course of island completing, I’ve found myself enjoying islands like Astro-Knights or Counterfeit. But for now, Red Dragon remains my favorite.

As for the worst island, I’d have to say either Super Power or Virus Hunter. I can’t say which is worse, as I’d had equally the same frustration, but for different reasons. As far as Super Power goes, I find it too repetitive withย hardly any storyline. And Virus Hunter, well… I find it way too long and complicated. Not just that, but it was also very buggy and would lock up way too many times. It wasn’t very enjoyable, to say the least.

Whatโ€™s your medallion count?

My medallion count is 56 – I’ve completed all the islands, though. For some reason, not all my medallions areย showing. I’ve completed PoptropiCon – Episode 1. I’ve tried replaying it, but it’s still not showing up. Perhaps I will need to contact Poptropica. But yeah, I’ve technically beat all the islands.

Whatโ€™s your favorite game?

Poptropica! C’mon, Slip!

Really, though, my favorite game is actually that. I do play other games like Minecraft, The Sims 4, 60 Seconds!, Bloons TD5, Undertale, and other various games and apps, but I mainly play the game we all know and love today. I’ve come to love the game and its community so much, that I’m often either on the PHC or the MPC Discord server. Either that, or I’m browsing different blogs and its contents. I’m very active in the community!

Whoโ€™s your favorite villain?

As I said on question 1, at one point or another, Counterfeit was one of my favorite islands. And we all know what well-known villain was on that island: Black Widow, of course! I think that with a great island, a greater villain should be later revealed. And in this case, it’s our beloved art thief! The main reason I love this villain so much is because of her setting – Counterfeit Island. I believe thisย island has a good storyline and a good flow.

How did you find the Poptropica community?

The PHB. Generic answer, huh? But yeah, that’s how I got to discover the community. I never really interacted with those around me, though. I basically just read a few PHB posts when curiosity arose, and rarely commented on posts I found interesting. But thanks to joining Twitter, I began to interact with others. I’m not exactly sure of the date, but it was early November of 2015. I started commenting on the Creators’ tweets, and then I started following my fellow Poptropicans, and then I made a blog due to seeing how many other people have made them. And so much has happened since.

Do you have any hobbies?

I like gaming, reading, writing, drawing, and blogging! I also like collecting Snapple bottle caps (as weird as it sounds, they do have cool random facts on them), snow globes (I’ve spent quite a bit of money on them), and I’m always on the lookout for old books (I recently bought a children’s book from 1912 – it’s very worn, and was dusty when I found it). I collect a lot of things if you haven’t noticed by now. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Any extra information you want to share with the community? ๐Ÿ™‚

I’d like to encourage everyone to take a look at my blog, Explore Collect Compete, where several Poptropicans, including myself, post.ย We’re currently looking for just one more author – see this post if you’re interested!

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Thank you so much, Mighty Gamer, for taking time to answer this! Youโ€™re one awesome Community Celebrity! Stay awesome!

-Slippery ๐Ÿ’ฆ

Stolen Snapshots

Someone’s stealing snapshots… (Round Two!)

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Welcome everyone to the second round of Stolen Snapshots!

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For the newbies,ย Stolen Snapshots is basically a hide-and-seek gameย that tests your knowledge of Poptropica scenery, and itโ€™s up to you to guess where each picture is from!

I’ve seen that a lot of you had a hard time guessing those tricky snapshots that I’ve left last month. What’s more depressing is that none had perfected the snapshots! I wouldn’t want you to wait this long so, here are the answers for last month’s snapshots!

Answers for April 2016:

  1. 24 Carrot Island, a recolored version of the carrot cake in the billboard in front of the factory.
  2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Island, one of the hanging pots inside the Inventing Room.
  3. Mocktropica, a painting inside the common room: The Blue Locust.
  4. Red Dragon Island, in East Edo, the bird on top of the shogun statue.
  5. Vampire’s Curse Island, inside a hole in the Great Hall (accessed by members only).
  6. Night Watch Island, near the shark tank inside Crawl Mart.
  7. Mocktropica, on top of the cheese factory.
  8. Shrink Ray Island, one of the windows in the cafeteria.
  9. Virus Hunter Island, Joe Stockman’s stove in his apartment.
  10. Monster Carnival Island, one of the crates in front of the big tent.

Here are *some* of the winners from last month. Since there was none who guessed them all correctly, here are the ones who guessed at least one correct answer! Congratulations!

  1. Tall Cactus with 1 correct answer!ย 
  2. Short Featherย with 1 correct answer!
  3. Pinku Randomnessย with 2 correct answers!
  4. Creepy Gooseย with 6 correct answers!

Another thing: I want to ask is that if you guys prefer to haveย this monthly or biweekly. I am considering this so that a lot of people can play Stolen Snapshotsย because if it’ll be monthly, the game could get buried underneath a lot of posts. If it’s biweekly, it’ll be quite hard when school gets busy, but it’ll be better for you guys. Would you like it to be that way or nah? Leave your suggestions below!

Now, let’s move on to this month. Ten snapshots might’ve been too difficult, so I’ve reduced the number down to 5 โ€” although, the number of snapshots mayย vary each month!

Stolen Snapshots: May 2016

Make sure to read the mechanics down below, as well as the reward for correctly guessing them all!

Mechanics:

  1. You are only allowed to have 1 answer for each picture.ย You may leave your guesses in theย comments of the post or the PHBโ€™s Stolen Snapshots page.
  2. If the answer is wrong, you can try and comment again.
  3. There are 5 winners each month, to be featured in the next post.
  4. Anything unrelated to the snapshots will not be accepted.
  5. Of course, enjoy the game!

Reward ๐Ÿ†

Check back next month to see if you made it to the Top 5! All of the winners will get a chance to be immortalized on the Stolen Snapshots page, right here on the PHB!

So, decide the fate of Stolen Snapshots by commenting down below and you can now start guessing in 3…2…1… GO! ๐Ÿ™‚

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-Slippery ๐Ÿ’ฆ

Guest Posts, Our Discovery Island

Our Discovery Island on mobile!

(Hey guys! This is a guest post by TechWizard, who wants to tell us about Our Discovery Island being turned into an app. Let’s check out some of the new stuff! โ€“Slippery ๐ŸŠ)

Hoi Poptropicans! TechWizard here not with a developer post but with something completely different!ย *cue booing*

Oh, hold your boos. Youโ€™re going to either love or hate this because I’ve found Poptropica’s educational clone, Our Discovery Island… on mobile!ย *more booing*

But wait, what’s so special about this? Well, it’sย calledย Poptropica English, despite other Poptropica English appsย in existence. However, it’s quite like desktop ODI!

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The app contains few, but significant changes from the desktop version:

  • In the desktop version, it’s called “Our Discovery Island” but now, the app is called “Poptropica English Island Game“. It is probablyย because of the change of management from Pearson to Sandbox.
  • In the app, everyoneย can now experience the game through a freeย trial. The trial ends after few scenes. If you have your account from the desktop version, you can also use it to play the full version.
  • You can also play the different games (Quiz, Match Cards, and etc.) from the menu!
  • Item names are now capitalized rather than in lowercase.
  • It now runs on the same game engine as the Poptropica app from the character customization and interface!
  • Although, the islands are still the sameโ€” from the quests, gameplay and to the voices.

You can check out the game on Apple or Android devices by downloading it from the App Store or Google Play.

Well, time to go crawl back to the hole I reside in! *cue piano music* We’ll meet again, don’t know where and I don’t know when! Oh, I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day!

-TechWizard

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Hope you enjoyed this guest post by a PHB reader! The PHB welcomes guest posting from anyone in our community if you have something to share, whether it be sneak peeks, My Place in Poptropica stories, or any other ideas you might have. We also encourage sharing on our subredditย and theย PHC.

If you have an idea for a guest post, send it in to [email protected]!๐Ÿ˜€