Category: Contests

Contests, Hellos & Goodbyes

Take care, Poptropicans. (Also: Results for Cobalt’s Contest!)

Spencer

Hey folks, it’s Cobalt, no, Spencer here, with some saddening news, and a lot of commas.

I was here for what, a month, a bit longer? Yeah, I know. I’m sorry if you all became somewhat attached to me. But listen, I’ll never forget this. Any of this. I’ll never forget being Cobalt, and I’ll never forget you. I’ll be 90 something, 100 or more if I’m lucky, on my deathbed and I promise, I swear, I’ll have this place in mind. You won’t know when I die, any of you online pals or fans, but if I were to get in a car crash tomorrow, I want you all to know I died loving you all.

Sorry for getting a tad personal, but I want my goodbye to be genuinely from the heart. I’ve always downright hated my environment. My school, my home life, my family hardships and so forth. I always wanted something just otherworldly to happen to me. Like, turn into The Flash or get a letter to attend Hogwarts. I never got struck by lightning, or an owl flinging himself against my window with an invitation to a wizard school. But, I did get an invitation to work here. The opportunity to work on a blog you’ve been a fan of for roughly half your life? Yeah, that’s pretty otherworldly.

So, why am I leaving? Why am I abandoning this community and game altogether? Well, there really is no way to word this without it sounding like a sob story, but here I go.

I need to work on myself, and pursue other interests and move on. I was the kid in 4th grade that blew his homework to play Big Nate Island on its release day, diss going outside on a hot Spring day to play Mythology Island, and beg my Grandma to buy me membership so I could obtain the limited edition golden renegade robot store item. I’m just not that kid anymore, and sadly, I got what I wanted, but what the young Spencer wanted, not the older Spencer. Does that make sense? At all? No? Okay.

Thank you for the privilege, Slanted Fish. HP, Sam, UIPE, Fishy, Blake, BT, Slip, and SD… thank you for being my buddy pal amigos who embraced my love for circles, and becoming my part time therapists. I won’t be on Discord anymore, nor the comment section. But, I plan on keeping contact with the staff of the PHB, and I’ll still be lurking this place. So, I’ll still be speaking with them, they’re my buddy pal amigos after all, and I’ll be happy to be in the Poppies, along with voicing Cobalt in Orb Legend. Because well, sometimes in order to move forward, you have to look back.

But, what’s next for me? Well, with the help of a buddy pal amigo, I will be attempting to make rap music. So, that’s pretty gnarly.

Guess what else? It’s been a week since the little PHB 24 million hits contest, and I promised to announce the winners. My co-author UiPE will be getting the accounts to the winners, so if you won, stay tuned. Anyway, here they are:

Never-Seen Ninja: Cuddly Knuckle

Rock and Roll All Knight: Funny Ant

More-Dred’s Mace: Some Guy

Pretty Pistol: Short Feather

Secret Samurai: Crazy Sinker

To read their entries, check out the comments section of the contest post: Top Five Unreleased Items, Unleashed! Great entries, guys. Do great things in life. All of you.

Play the game, don’t let the game play you.

–Spencer JD

Take care folks.

Contests, Forgotten Islands, Monkey Wrench Island

The Forgotten Monkey!

Slippery Raptor

Hey guys! Slip here.

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I’m sorry for not posting for a while, I was just busy and, a bit under the weather. Enough with the drama, let’s head on to the news!

THIS IS JUST IN: A monkey was seen rampaging through the streets of Eastman last night. It dropped a few blueberries and is said to have become a zomberry! Please stay inside your lovely houses.

As you may remember,  monkeys have escaped from Monkey Wrench Island and are now roaming Poptropica. Now, the second monkey has landed on Zomberry Island! You can get your own Berry Scary Monkey follower in front of Joe’s Donut Hole (left of the Cinema).

This thing gives me the creeps and I feel uncomfortable with this follower. Just look at this monkey jumping up and down like a lunatic. Creepy right? It doesn’t make it cute with its purple hue. Still scary. Yikes.

Moving on from a nightmare, dreams do come true! In addition to the Mystery of the Map giveaways, Poptropica is also doing another sweepstakes for membership! Visit bit.ly/PopSweeps and enter for your chance to win a 1, 3, or 6-month membership!

sweepstakes

That’s not all – for those of you who have wanted the Forgotten Islands game (walkthrough here), available on iOS devices and Nintendo 3DS, we’ve got good news! The game is currently 50% off ($9.99 on Nintendo and $2.99 for iOS)! Grab the game as soon as you can, because we never know when the sale ends. Buy go(ld), bye!

Also, our very own Brave Tomato was featured in a Creators’ tweet with her sketch of Mya and Oliver! Looks awesome, BT!

That’s all of the updates we have for now! Stay tuned for more monkey madness here at the PHB and make sure to enter the Monkey Membership Madness sweepstakes as well as the MotM Periscope livestream sweepstakes. You might win something!

So, got to go! Bye!

-Slippery 💦

gottago

Contests, Social Media

Announcing the Island Hopper Grand Prize Winner! (plus Twitter Roundup)

gianthawkpoptropica

Greetings Hawk-tropicans! This is Giant Hawk speaking, and today, I have returned, ready to share with you all the grand prize winner of the Island Hopper Sweepstakes.

If you recall, I was the author who originally posted about the sweepstakes’ announcement and initiation. And now, I get to round up the PHB’s coverage of the Island Hopper Sweepstakes via my post yesterday as well as this post! Isn’t that fitting?

Nevertheless, we’ve waited all this time for this news, so I best not dawdle. The grand prize winner of the Island Hopper Sweepstakes, who has won a 30 minute video call with Jeff Kinney, is…

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Comical Hamburger! Congratulations!

For all of us, including me, who did not win, remember to prepare for more community contests in the future!

As for Comical Hamburger’s chat with Jeff Kinney, expect an update on this post when the footage is released!

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And now, on to another edition of Twitter Round-Up!

TwitterRoundup

Now, you may have noticed (we here at the PHB certainly have) that the Creators’ Twitter page has been quieter than usual recently. Well, it appears that they may have something up their sleeves for us soon…

On a more depressing note, I’m sure you all have heard by now about the deaths of popular creative icons David Bowie and Alan Rickman. Well, I’m very happy to see that the Creators decided to Tweet out their respect to each man recently.

Plus, Spotted Dragon’s Snape costume, which the Creators linked to, can also be found on the PHB’s Costumes page.

And that’ll wrap up this edition of Twitter Round-Up! I hope this was a sufficient number of Tweets for this segment. After all, the Creators have some catching up to do, don’t they? 😉

Until next time…

— Giant Hawk

Contests

Announcing the Island Hopper Sweepstakes’ Second Prize Winners!

gianthawkpoptropica

Greetings Hawk-tropicans! This is Giant Hawk speaking, and today, I stand second-to-none in order to send the second place sweepstakes winners to you.

So, as you may already be aware, Poptropica’s Island Hopper Sweepstakes has come to a close. And before the Creators reveal to us the grand prize winner, they have kindly presented us with a list of the second prize winners, who have each won a six-month membership. The lucky ones are as follows:

Congratulations to Cool Spinner, Crazy Eagle, Crazy Hawk, Fierce Sword, Grumpy Sword, Happy Grape, Popular Dolphin, Purple Leopard, Sleepy Pear, and Speedy Chicken!

Are you all excited to finally see who will take home the grand prize? Because we here at the PHB are ready. Bring it on, Creators! 😀

In other news, the Creators have shared another pic of their new headquarters in Boston – featuring a Zomberry smoothie bar!

Until next time…

— Giant Hawk

Contests

Week 5 Sweepstakes Winners and Twitter Roundup!

Ultimate iPad Expert

Heyyo Poptropicans, it’s Ultimate iPad Expert here. The Creators announced the winners for the final weekly Island Hopper Sweepstakes winners! And here they are:

Congratualtions to Greedy Turtle, Happy Heart, Lucky Club, Skinny Tiger, and Sleepy Sky! 😀 If one of these Poptropicans is yours, you’ve just one yourself a one-month membership for Poptropica!

Be sure to tune in soon, because the Creators will be announcing the winners of the overall Island Hopper Sweepstakes including the winner of the grand prize, a 30 minute call with Poptropica Creator, Jeff Kinney.

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Now onto a little segment I like to call the Twitter Roundup!

TwitterRoundup

(Thanks to HPuterpop for help on the logo)

First off, the (currently unknown) Creator running the Poptropica Twitter account has begun a really cool “series” of tweets, in which they show off Poptropica fan blogs.

The PHB was lucky enough to be the first blog to be shouted out, which is a super big honor!

Even PHB author, Slippery Raptor, got a shoutout for his blog:

Also, apparently Poptropica has moved to a new HQ, while still staying in the city of Boston. The official Twitter has been tweeting out some images from the new headquarters, which you can check out below:

Speaking of Mystery of the Map, you may have noticed that the main trio is pretty racially diverse – according to Kirkus Reviews, Oliver is white, Mya is Asian, and Jorge is Latino. But Oliver and Mya are siblings – how does that work? Well, it turns out they’re half-siblings!

So, that about wraps up this post. Are you excited to see the winners for the overall Island Hopper Sweepstakes? What do you think about the  series? How about the new Poptropica HQ? Comment below.

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