Category: Contests

Contests, PHB Parties, Poppies

Recap: Poppies 2026 Awards 🏆🌟🧞‍♂️

Slanted Fish

Hey hey, Poppie-tropicans! ✨ Roll out the blue carpet, it’s time to announce the winners of this year’s Poptropica fan awards—brought to you in the video below by our hosts Magic Kid and Gentle Dolphin.

Thanks to everyone who joined in on the nominations, voting, and celebrations on the PHC, where we reminisced about Poppies past. 🥹 Happy 18th birthday, PHB—welcome to adulthood! 🧓1️⃣8️⃣🎉

And the Poppies go to…

 💙 Poptropica Awards 💙

  • 🦸 Best Superhero Character: The Player (runner-up: Piñata Man)
  • ⚡️ Most Enjoyable Power-Up Item: Jet Pack (runners-up, tied: Chameleon Suit and Poseidon’s Trident)
  • 🌈 Most Magical Character: Rumpelstiltskin (runner-up: Elf Queen)
  • 💀 Worst Island to Reside In: SOS Island (runner-up: Survival Island)
  • 🎭 Favorite Duo/Team: Oliver, Mya, & Jorge (runner-up: Super Power prisoners)
Name That Tuna: Let’s hope you’re not a chicken of the sea.

🔷 Community Awards 🔷

🖌️ Best Fan Art Nominees Gallery 🖌️

Enjoy this selection of top-tier Pop fan art, chosen by the people.

A Poptropica Canvas by Tough Spinner
Clay Blimp by Wild Catfish
Elyana print(“Salve, munde!”) by Smart Bubbles
Astro Knights My Beloved by snoopypilots
The Royals by lookingforcuteartsss
Poptropicans as Miis by happyclonetrooper

🧞‍♂️ The Genie Dance 🧞‍♂️

And our celebrations wouldn’t be complete without a poppin’ after-party… so we’re hitting the dance floor… as genies! 🪔 What a way to represent how the time just flies by, like wisps of smoke. 💨

Thanks to all who joined our Genie Dance inspired by Arabian Nights Island, and a huge shout-out to Lucky Fish for hosting this community art collab—click to enlarge the collage above! ✨ Let the credits roll:

  • Top row from left: Slanted Fish, Lucky Fish, Smart Skull
  • Middle row from left: Gentle Dolphin, LazyKid (1), P (OC: Niged), RainbowBrush (Tough Spinner), LazyKid (2 & 3), Magic Kid, Invisible Ring (OC: Nin-Genie)
  • Bottom row from left: P (OCs: Dandelion, 8u55l3 / Buzzle, & Ruby), Husky Alpha (|-|u$|<¥41ph4), Sporty Runner (OC: Lone Cheetah)

Before we call it a wrap, we’ve got a few more awards to give out…

  • 🧞 Most Creative Genie: Nin-Genie by Invisible Ring
  • 🧞‍♀️ Scariest Genie: Husky Alpha (|-|u$|<¥41ph4)
  • 🧞‍♂️ Cutest Genie: RainbowBrush (Tough Spinner)
Nin-Genie by Invisible Ring
Husky Alpha
Tough Spinner

Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you all for coming out to the blue carpet to celebrate Poptropica’s enduring magic, and the PHB’s big, all-grown-up 18th birthday. 🪩 We love you all! 🫶

POP ON, POPTROPICANS! 💖💨

Arabian Nights Island, Contests, Guest Posts

🎨 Poptropica Community Art Collab: Come Join the Genie Dance 🧞‍♂️🧞🧞‍♀️

Slanted Fish

This is a guest post by Lucky Fish. Enjoy!

Hey Poptropicans! I’m back here on the PHB with a new community art collab for you all. This collaboration is themed around the genies of Arabian Nights Island, where you get to draw your Poptropican (or anyone) as a genie! Feel free to give your genie a name, and even some lore. All of the submissions will be featured on a collage to be revealed…

And to add to the fun, at the end I will also announce the following awards: Most Creative Genie, Scariest Genie, and Cutest Genie. 🏆

Puffed Up: The smoke gets in your eyes.

How to Participate 🧞‍♂️

  1. 🧞‍♂️ Create or draw a genie of your choice. This can be a genie of your Poptropican, yourself, or anyone! Please save your art as a ✨png file with a transparent background✨; doing this makes it easier for me to add your piece to the collage. Besides drawing, you can also create a genie costume in Poptropica and share a screenshot, ideally with a solid color background.
  2. ⬆️ Upload your picture to the internet and share it with me (max 3 images). Post your art to a website that supports transparent images such as Imgur, then share the link in the comments of this post, or by messaging my Instagram @poptropicafanblog1.
  3. 🗓️ Submissions will close on July 21 (Tue) at 11:59pm EST, with the finished collage to be revealed on the PHB on July 26 (Sun) to celebrate the PHB’s 18th birthday! 🥳

I can’t wait to see all of the finished pieces! Thank you for reading, and have an excellent start to your summer!

Djinn and Tonic: One of these is the cure for what ails you.

~Lucky Fish

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Lucky Fish. If you did, you might also enjoy his My Place in Poptropica story about his Poptropica journey!

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!

Contests

The Ghostly Hunt for Winners of the PHB’s 16th Costume Contest 👻🏆

Gentle Dolphin

Happy Halloween, Poptropicans! It’s time to announce the winners of the PHB’s 16th Halloween costume contest! This year’s theme was Ghost vs Hunters, which opened the door for some spectacularly spooky looks. Without further ado, the winner of Team Ghosts is…

👻”Masked Maiden” by Creepy Boa👻

Put your hands together for the most gorgeous ghoul you’ve ever seen! This Masked Maiden’s voluminous hair and ballgown are eye-catching, and the half-skull mask provides a nice visual contrast with the bright makeup. Would you accept this ghost’s invitation to dance?

Let’s give a special spectral salute to Creepy Boa for making such a boo-tiful costume! But what’s a ghost without a hunter? The winner of Team Hunters is…

🏹”In-Specter” by Jean of Pop🏹

If there’s something strange in Poptropica, who ya gonna call? In-Specter!!! Not only does this costume have a perfect name, but it successfully captures the Ghostbusters vibe with the uniform and tech. Those heat vision goggles are sure to track any cold spots created by ghosts. Good luck with your ghostbusting ventures, In-Specter, and nice work securing the win, Jean of Pop!

Along with their costumes being immortalized in our Look Book, our winners can choose whether to receive a copy of Poptropica on Steam or a Poptropica merch item of their choice from Zazzle (up to US$20). They will also receive portraits of their Poptropicans from any PHB author of their choosing! 🏆🎮🎨

🎃Honorable Mentions🎃

Before we go, we want to share some more costumes in our Honorable Mentions segment! Let’s start by appreciating some awesome apparitions from Team Ghosts:

“Captain Nautica” by Lucky Fish
“Powergeist” by Jean of Pop
“Fiery Whisper” by MelonBobber
“Opposite of Cupid” by Lazy Kid
“The Black Lagoon Spirit” by Smart Star
“La Catrina” by Jean of Pop

Now we must return to the land of the living and check out some slayers who slayed from Team Hunters:

“Inexperienced Ghosthuntress” by Lazy Kid
“Missy Star the Ghost Hunter” by Smart Star
“Swift Starlight” by MelonBobber
“Librarian” by Creepy Boa
“Lazy Kid hunts ghosts!!” by Lazy Kid
“Ghost Luster” by Jean of Pop

Thank you for joining us for this year’s PHB Halloween Costume Contest! You can find more ghostly getups in the comments section of our contest post, and you can see all of our previous costume contest winners in our Look Book.

Thank you for reading, and have a Happy Halloween!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

Contests

👻 The PHB’s 16th Halloween Costume Contest: Ghosts vs Hunters 🏹

Gentle Dolphin

🎃 Submissions are now closed. Check out our winners here! 🎃

🎵Night falls on a spooky scene, Pop fans dressing up for Halloween! In a spooky fog, on the Pop Help Blog… For our contest, there’s a ghostly theme!🎵

Welcome, everyone, to the Poptropica Help Blog. It’s time for the 16th PHB Halloween Costume Contest! Inspired by how Poptropica ghosted the fandom and the game, we’re returning to an older format for this year’s theme: Ghosts vs Hunters! 👻🏹

For every ghost wandering the earth, there is a hunter searching for it. For this year’s costume contest, we’re on the hunt for the spookiest specters and the coolest catchers. You may stand firmly for either Team Ghosts or Team Hunters, but you always have the option to play both sides. 😉

To get in the spirit of things (pun fully intended 😜), the PHB split between the two teams and made some costumes to inspire everyone!

“The Pale Impaler” by Slanted Fish
“Magic the Friendly Ghost” by Magic Kid
“The Lucky Specter” by Lucky Joker
“Spectral Bride” by Smart Bubbles
“Gentle Gravedigger” by Gentle Dolphin
“Vampiric Vanguard” by Purple Paw
“Sporty Boo-a Bowman” by Sporty Boa

👻Rules👻

  1. 🕵️Create your costumes on Poptropica! You may enter as many costumes as you’d like for either or both categories, and you may create them on any version of Poptropica (desktop, Steam, Flashpoint, and such). However, each person is eligible to win just once per category.
  2. 📸Take a screenshot! We recommend that you take your screenshot on either the character customizer screen or the Costumizer window on PoptropiCon. Here’s how to take a screenshot. Please crop the image to show just your character.
  3. 💻Upload your picture to the internet! Upload your picture to image-sharing websites like Imgur, Instagram, Twitter, and Discord. Once you’ve uploaded your picture, comment on this post with an image link so we can see it! Also, let us know which category you’re entering and any additional information like the costume’s name.

🪦Tips for Creating Your Costumes🪦

🏆Prizes🏆

  • 📆You may submit your costumes until Monday, October 27 @11:59 p.m. EST.
  • 🎃On Halloween (October 31), we’ll post our favorite costumes from each category on the front page of the PHB for all to enjoy.
  • 🥇A grand prize winner will be selected for each category. Each grand prize winner will win a copy of Poptropica on Steam or a Poptropica merch item of their choice from Zazzle (up to US$20) as well as a portrait of their Poptropican from a PHB author of their choice!
  • 🤵Winning costumes will be immortalized in our Look Book, but we’ll also have honorable mentions for just the post, not page.

Special thanks to Magic Kid for drawing the banner and PHB header for this year’s costume contest! 👩‍🎨

Good luck to all of you ghoulish ghosts and hardy hunters in Poptropica! We can’t wait to see your boo-tiful costumes! Now log in and slay! 💘

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

Contests

The Poptropica Kahoot Challenge Recap!

LJ

Howdy, Poptropicanos! 🤟Last month, over on the PHC, we had our much-anticipated Kahoot game, and it was such a fun time! We had a packed house with 10 players (maximum without Kahoot!+ ☹️) playing the game. A big thank you to everyone for joining and helping make this a success. You guys were awesome!

I thought I’d have to awkwardly fill the silence in the voice chat, but it turned out that wasn’t the case whatsoever. Everyone was full of energy and enthusiasm as they attempted to guess the answers to the 21 questions in the game. How many do you think you can get right?

Sleepy Biker rose to the top by answering 15 questions correctly, earning first place! Just behind were Lazy Kid and Cherry, who each answered 14 questions correctly, finishing in 2nd and 3rd places. Shoutout to runners-up, Magic Poptropican & Bony Bones, as well!

While I was chatting with Sleepy Biker, she remembered that I had drawn her Poptropican not too long ago. As a result, she generously offered her Poptropica Portrait prize to the second-place winner! Here you go, Lazy Kid. I hope you like it. Your character is awesome!

I had a blast putting this together! I’m sorry if some of the questions were a little too tough but just know that you’re all true fans in my eyes! (I know some of you joked about feeling like fake fans. 🤣) I can’t wait for our next game night, whether we play Jeopardy, Family Feud, Gartic Phone or something else.