Hey Poptropicans, what’s up? 🎈 Are you going batty 🦇 from the lack of updates on Poptropica yet? LOL, aren’t we all! 😂
Well, for those of you with iOS devices who text with iMessages, there’s at least one update on the horizon. The Poptropica Stickers app will be getting an update in September, which is in about, um, two weeks (yay!). And you’ll get to send messages like the one above, because those phrases are featured in the winning designs of the #PoptropicaStickers contest!
“What’s Up?” by poptropillustraticans
“Going Batty” by phs_animations
“LOL!” by kawaii.99_
Congrats to poptropillustraticans, phs_animations, and kawaii99._ on Instagram for having their sticker designs chosen!
Feeling artsy? 🎨 Here on the PHB, for the month of August, we’ve got two Poptropica art events going: the PHB Header Design Contest and Community Creations (this month’s theme: science). We’d love to see what you come up with!
Now, we want to give you the chance to design our header. That’s right: the PHB is announcing its first ever Poptropica Help Blog Header Design Contest! To get you thinking of ideas, here’s a selection of some of our past headers:
The contest ends on August 31, so no entries submitted after that will be considered eligible to win.
Submit as many entries as you like!
Your header graphic should have a file size of 1180 (width) x 160 (height) pixels, or a ratio equivalent. Otherwise, it may get cropped.
Your header graphic should include the words “Poptropica Help Blog” somewhere. Other elements you may choose to include, but are not required, include: a witty tagline (or use ours), our logo, our Poptropicans (you can grab images from the Avatar Studio, and find our usernames on the Friend Finder), the VIP logo (which you can grab from the sidebar) or other images from the game (the Poptropica Clip Collection and napstachill’s Digital Wallpapers are great resources for Poptropica graphics).
You can create in any medium, whether digitally through illustration, typography, photo manipulation; or traditionally, with pencils, pens, cut-out shapes, and so on; or a pastiche of whatever. If you’re not creating digitally, be sure to retain quality by using a scanner or decent camera in good lighting.
And don’t feel too pressured to make it look like any one of our past headers — be creative! We’re just looking for something that catches our eye.
One winning entry will be selected to be featured as the PHB’s main site header for the entire month of September. We’ll also feature our favorites in a post on the blog.
🍀 Good luck, Poptropicans! 🍀
Have fun! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Hey Poptropicans, you’ll want to stick around for this…
Earlier this month, the Pop Creators announced the Poptropica Stickers Design Contest, with submissions closing on July 25. Now, they’ve announced on Instagram: “We’ve had so many great designs for the #PoptropicaStickers contest! The Poptropica Creators are reviewing all the entries and will be picking their top 3!”
The post came with a gallery of six of the #PoptropicaStickers entries:
“What’s Up?” by poptropillustraticans
“E = mc^2” by phs_animations
“Going Batty” by phs_animations
“See You Soon!” by happyclonetrooper
“Hare We Go!” by PoptropicaHare (that’s us!)
“Logging off!!” by kawaii.qq_
It’s possible that these six are finalists, but from the caption of the Instagram post quoted above, it seems like these are just a sampling of the many great entries received, all of which are still being considered. The top 3 designs chosen will be included in the next update of the new Poptropica Stickers app for iOS Messages.
Hey, notice the Dr. Hare sticker? That entry is from none other than @PoptropicaHare, the PHB’s new Instagram account! Seriously, you should follow the fuzzy pink bunny for more hare-raising adventures… 😉
By the way, don’t forget: today’s the last day to grab your July Member Gifts! If you have an active membership, you’ll automatically receive them when you log in.
It's the last day of #NationalIceCreamMonth🍦and the last day to get your July Member Gifts, including Ice Cream Rain🍦! Remember, monthly member gifts are only released once and won't be available ever again! 🍦 pic.twitter.com/3Xq1hUEHYf
Anyway, be sure to check out the hashtag #PoptropicaStickers on Instagram to peruse all the other pop-tastic entries from the contest! Which one’s your favorite? Share your thoughts in the comments, and keep popping!
Ten years since a little girl of 11 (me from the past) discovered the untaken WordPress URL that started this blog — poptropica.wordpress.com. Ten years since the release of Super Power Island, the fifth Poptropica island, and the first island to get a guide on the PHB. Ten years since she started blogging about a then-small game and clicking publish, many times over—the words traveling from an apartment in Hong Kong to reach millions of kids all over the world. The rest, as they say, is history.
Perhaps it sounds clichéd, but it’s much more than I dreamed of when I first started blogging. I simply started out of a desire to write—to help others with the power of words, which I put into guides that, back then, didn’t even have pictures; to share a joy for a simple game that I watched become a pretty big and beautiful enterprise. I couldn’t imagine where it would go, and I still don’t know where it will go. And that’s okay.
Ten years ago a kid who’d just finished elementary school started a website for fellow kids to share in a common joy. Today I’m just a couple of semesters shy of an English degree, in part because this community gave me a platform to nurture a little creativity and love for the written word. And I hope it’s been a place of joy for you, too.
Thank you to every Poptropican out there who’s been a part of the PHB journey. It’s been pretty great, and 32 million views later, we’re still making history. There is good in the world, and we can all be a part of it. Here’s to a poppin’ decade. ❤️
Slanted Fish
Editor-in-chief, Poptropica Help Blog
During the party, the PHB staff hosted a livestream to announce the winners of this year’s Poppies. You can revisit it in the video above, or look down for the results:
That’s 10 for 10 years, folks! Thanks for all your nominations, votes, joining us at the party—and, even if you didn’t do those things, thanks, at least, for being a part of the Poptropica community and our PHB adventures. We’re glad you’re here. 💙
Best Fan Art nominee gallery
One visual representation of the wonder of the Pop community is the fan art it produces. To celebrate that, we’re including this gallery of this year’s “Best Fan Art” nominees:
“Alice and Fierce Fox” by POP-whitewolf
“Train to Zomberry Island” by ANNE14TCO
“i bet y’all weren’t expecting THIS” by napstachill
“Pisces” by ArtisticAsianBunny
“The Flight” by happyclonetrooper
“The day he lost everything” by epiphxny
“Black Widow” by Happy Lobster
“POP: .:S A V E T H E W O R L D:.” by criaha
Thanks for popping by on the Poptropica Help Blog!
The voting poll is now closed. Join us at our livestream party to hear the results!
Come, all you people… The Poppies are in town, and it’s time for the voting round!
Not sure what’s going on? You should probably get caught up on what the Poppies are!
As I was saying, your nominations in the previous round have been tallied up and the 2018 Poppies hype intensifies as we enter the…
VOTING ROUND!
In this round, you, the awesome fans and viewers, will get the opportunity to vote for who or what you think deserves to take home an epic, golden Poppies trophy! How exciting!
Okay, here’s how it goes down: You’ll have 10 categories, each with several of the most popular nominations as options to choose from. Note that a couple categories (Best Poptropica Worlds Island and Best PHB Author) have been automatically set, so you may not have caught them in the Nomination Round.
The Voting Round ends next week, on Wednesday, July 25. So without further hesitation, open up our poll and vote, vote, vote!
Then, start putting together your snazziest outfit and mark you calendars for the party of a lifetime on July 26, 7 p.m. Eastern time, in which we’ll be announcing the winners via livestream while celebrating the PHB’s 10th anniversary on Poptropica and the PHC! (More details about the party here.)
So until then, stay tuned for more Poppies news, and don’t forget…
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