Category: Advertisements

Hey guys! If you head over to some of the Main Streets on Poptropica (like Night Watch), there’s a new Kart Kingdom advertisement from PBS Kids! Similar to the recent Teen Beach 2 ad, it only requires you to watch the video to get the Kart Kingdom hat prize.

Haven’t we seen that hat somewhere? Oh, the 7th Birthday costume (with the “7” replaced with “Kart Kingdom”)! When you press the spacebar, the hat will take you up in the air and you’ll be floating uncontrollably like Balloon Boy (you won’t fly for days, though)!

On another note, Poptropica added brand new chat options to common rooms! You now ask new and different questions every time you go to a common room! Some of the new questions include, “Star Trek or Star Wars?” or “Would you rather spend the night in a cemetery or a haunted house?” This makes chatting with other players more fun! 🙂

Last but not the least, many have noticed the brand new island completion screen after you finish an island on Poptropica. It has a new sky background, features your player’s name, has two new buttons for taking you to the Store and the Map, adds the bonus quest and of course, acknowledges the recent raise to 150 credits!

What do you think of the recent updates? Leave a comment!

By the way, the newest issue of The POPCORN magazine is now available! Check it out!

-Slippery

Percy Jackson fans rejoice: on Main Street of Mystery of the Map Island, you can enter Camp Half-Blood to meet some characters, take a quiz, and collect a couple of prizes!

If you head down the road inside the ad building, you’ll find the Cyclops Power, a glowing red eye on a pyramid. Now what else do we know contains an eye enclosed in a triangle? There can only be one conclusion: Illuminati confirmed on Poptropica.

Now, with this cool Illuminati Cyclops Power, you’ll have the eye floating above your head, and when you press spacebar, you’ll turn other characters around you into one-eyed beasts!

If you venture further down to the “underworld” area, you can pick up a Pen Sword, a handheld item that changes into a pen or a sword every time you press spacebar.

Do you see the two triangles on the pen’s pedestal? Hmm. And the triangles that form the tips of the “get prize!” arrows? What about the fact that Poptropicans’ eyeballs are such a prominent feature, while noses and ears are unheard of? Be illuminated: Poptropica favors the same symbols as the Illuminati.

Just kidding. What conspiracies could Poptropica be up to?

Lastly, to all recent graduates (because it’s about that time of year): congratulations! Here’s to the population of PHB readers who have been with us since the beginning, who started off as young pre-teens (as many Poptropicans do) and have found themselves becoming young adults in the process. Enjoy a little Pop graphic made in your honor, and if you’re still in school: you too can make it!

Stay popping, Poptropicans. 😉