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Pop’s Littlest Return to Normalcy 🖥️

Gentle Dolphin

Good day, PHB readers! After the shutdown hoax raised concerns about Poptropica’s future, the Creators gave the site some minor updates.

The first update can be found just by going to Poptropica’s homepage. You can once again access Pop’s different web pages. It’s nice that the website is working properly again.

How’s the game itself? Log in to find the second update: Home Island has skipped winter and gone back to its original summery state. While Home Island is in a new era, Adventure Outfitters is still stuck with its nautical November catalog.

Walk to the right to find the third and final update: a new ad for Littlest Pet Shop on Roblox! While it’s a simple video ad with no prizes, it’s a small sign that Pop is still kicking — or at least, its spin-off studio is.

The new Littlest Pet Shop game on Roblox is another creation from Suit Up Games, the Roblox studio formed from diverting resources formerly allocated to Pop. Looks like it’s full steam ahead for Sandbox’s Roblox projects, while Poptropica sticks around as its advertising platform…

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

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Shop and pups, even for little ones 🐶

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans — pop in for a shop and some pups! 🐾

For the fall season, Adventure Outfitters brings a slew of sweaters and hoodies to its latest store rotation. Plus, September is Poptropica’s birthday month, so be sure to log in for birthday freebies and join in the PHB’s art collab to celebrate! 🎉

There’s a new mission on the map: an ad “island” for the upcoming “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie“! Head inside the building and you can play two mini-games for a few prizes.

Talk to Liberty the pup to help find the six pups hiding around the headquarters. Simply click on their shadowed images peeking out from various equipment, and they’ll pop out. You’ll win a Super Suit and Skye Power (with floating action by pressing space bar) for your efforts.

You can also talk to Ryder, the boy, to help him and Chase through a city race. Move your cursor to control your vehicle, avoid crashing into cars and puddles, and grab the purple orbs to power-up and zoom through the streets. Make it to the end, and you’ll gain a Patroller Follower!

The PAW Patrol ad games are also available on Poptropica Junior, Poptropica’s website for Pre-K kids launched last year. You don’t need a Pop account to play on Pop Jr. Plus, the “Activities” section of the site has also added PAW Patrol-themed coloring pages, a recipe for shortbread cookies, plus guides for mask-making and handprint art.

A year after its launch, Poptropica Junior hasn’t seen much fanfare, adding just a handful of activities, but barely updating its own social media page. It’s interesting to see it get a bit of attention from the parent brand’s latest sponsor, but will the site keep growing and possibly nurture a new generation of Pop players? We’ll have to see.

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Cabin Fever with TMNT Turtle Mayhem 🐢💥

🌸Smart Icicle🌸

Hey everyone! Shortly after Survival Island, Ep. 3 finally re-released for all last week, here comes Ep. 4: Cabin Fever — for members only.

Who knows when it will release for everyone, but at least it’s good to know the Pop Creators are still active. Be sure to check out our Survival Island Guide if you get stuck!

🎵 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heroes in a Half-Shell — Turtle Power! 🎵

It’s time to hang out with the Turtles on their new home base on the map or through the billboard on Home Island, promoting the new TMNT Turtle Mayhem movie. Talk to Raphael and you’ll be taken to New York City! There, he’ll give you all the TMNTs’ masks along with Katanas (sadly, none of the other turtle weapons).

Go down to the sewers, talk to Mikey, and he will challenge you to a race in the skate park. Beat him to get his Nunchuks!

Next, go up and talk to Donatello. He tells you to go inside the Pizza place. There, he challenges you to a pizza mini-game. Beat him to win a Pizza Van.

That’s a wrap! What did you think about the new ad and episode?

By the way, don’t forget to submit your vote for the Poppies! See you later, Poptropicans.

~🌸Smart Icicle🌸

Advertisements, Fan Art Features, Social Media

Teenage Kraken goofing around under orange skies 🦑

Slanted Fish

What’s part of Poptropica’s world this week? Move over, The Little Mermaid: Home Island is now promoting Dreamworks’ upcoming animation — Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken! 🦑

Inside, where you’ll swim instead of walk, Ruby needs your help retrieving a trident. 🔱 Click to jump to dodge sea creatures and tap the space bar to blast water, which knocks things out of the way. But you can only do one action at a time, so balance your moves carefully!

Upon completing the chase, you’ll win a Sea Dog Follower and purple Kraken Tentacles, which glow pink when the space bar is pressed.

Maybe it is better down where it’s wetter. Up on land, you might have seen the news last week of New York City covered in orange skies, a sign of poor air quality — which Poptropica quickly likened to the dystopian future of Time Tangled Island in a meme on social media. ✴️

And the Creators are staying cute talking about a “Poptropica summer” popping with activities — but besides the ads, when will we be getting new content to enjoy? The Baron’s ship has been gone half a year…

Much of the Pop Creators team is a mystery these days, but we’re still getting cool content from Jonathan Pitcher, who recently posted a selfie showing him working on Goofball Island. Keep going, Jon!

Rounding off this update, here’s the latest in fan art features from Poptropica’s Instagram stories. Enjoy! 🎉

Pick one island by @happyclonetrooper
Rinqueen as a Poptropican by @bibi.6423

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Mixing it up on Elemental Island 💧🔥

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! It’s been a hot minute two years since Pop last dropped an ad island, but the upcoming Pixar animated film has inspired a new one on the map: Elemental City. Let’s wade in!

Tapping on Elemental City on the map will take you to — not the city yet, but a billboard on Mythology Island. From there, you can enter through the button. Upon arrival, you’ll be greeted with a glowing gift box, which gives you Fire Power. This little handheld flame comes with a space bar action that burns you up! 🔥

Head upwards and you’ll find the Cyclone Stadium, where you’ll be invited to a basketball game that involves whizzing around purple clouds and avoiding opponent air-people. When you make it to the net, tap to score! You’ll win an Air Follower, which can cry rain. 🌧️

Catch a ride from the fountain to go further up, where you’ll find the Game Phones building. Here you can play a match-3 game featuring the elemental characters. Click and drag to swap faces to make matches, and when you rack up enough to fill the bar, you can click on your pulsing avatar to get a big boost in points and time. At the end, you’ll win Water Power, with which you can summon a wave! 🌊

Besides all these games and prizes, you can also explore the island to discover some other fun stuff, like meeting various characters from the movie. If you climb the tree building to the very top, you’ll also find a shiny red button, which activates spurts of water that grows flowers. 🌼

That’s all for Elemental City Island, but it’s not the only Disney shindig going on in Poptropica right now — don’t miss the promo for The Little Mermaid remake! 🧜‍♀️ What do you think — is this one to rem-ember? 🕯️

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