The time has come. For 10 days, you guys have submitted artwork to my email for the HPuterpop Fan Art Contest. And now, I have chosen three winners…
Third Place
I debated myself about this quite a while, but I had to go with BlazingAngel123‘s icon – it’s just awesome. I love her style and how she made it a square ratio (which is half the work in this case!).
Second Place
I can’t help but make this second place: Spotted Dragon‘s pic is epic. I love the style, the line art, the color – it’s a good blend and just portrays my Poptropican well. Good job!
(and no, I have no regrets for making one of the PHB authors a winner :p)
First Place
The first prize goes to Muzzki! This piece shows my Poptropican (as well as some others) as I would imagine him. The colorful background and overall quality of the piece is to be expected from art by Muzzki, and this instance is no exception!
From the giant light bulb balloon and the overall whimsical feel to this piece, this is definitely my pick. And she even included a pic for my recent birthday!
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Thanks to everyone who entered in this contest! I had so much fun receiving art – we got 18 pieces of art in whole – from people I never would have thought to make them! I didn’t expect this contest to be such a hit, but I’m glad it did! We may do something similar to this in the future.
For the winners, you can contact me at [email protected] describing what you want your profile picture to be. I’ve added the winning pics to three different profiles – on my WordPress, Google, and Gamepedia.
Read more for all the entries (I added my thoughts on each one!)
So my Wikia profile on the Poptropica Wiki is my pride and joy – it tells my whole story organized beautifully and I just love it – but there’s a ‘fan art’ section there that’s pretty lacking. No, not my own fan art – artists’ fan art of me. And so for the next couple weeks, I’m going to have a little contest! Details are below.
It must contain yours truly in the costume to the right – it can contain anything or anyone else you choose.
It must be a square ratio – the winner gets their art as my profile picture!
Send in your art to [email protected]. The deadline for submissions is the 20th of August, so you’ve got plenty of time to perfect your craft!
The winner and two runner ups will get a special profile picture drawn by me! The winner’s drawing will be my profile picture for a good amount of time as well. 😀
Hey Poptropicans! SFish here with the latest Poptropica happenings.
There’s currently an advertisement building for the Shaun the Sheep movie (in theaters August 5) on Main Streets. Inside, you can customize two fluffy sheep costumes, interact with other players like in common rooms, and grab two prizes: the Woolly Blow, a gun that adds a poof of sheep hair to the heads of characters you point at, and the Sheep Belch, which makes you belch comically.
(Thanks to Slippery Raptor for the ad pics!)
The Shaun the Sheep ad is on the Poptropica mobile app as well, but the prizes are a Timmy Follower (Timmy being a sheep character) and a sheep piggyback item. (Thanks to Anonymous for the tip!)
Meanwhile, the Creators haven’t posted many Daily Pop sneak peeks this month (slackers 😛 just kidding), but a more recent one gives us a peek at the name of the prison facility in the unnamed prison island: Pelican Rock – possibly modeled after the Pelican Bay State Prison in California.
Well, we’ve seen seaside jails on Ghost Story and Super Villain Island, and they haven’t worked out too well… wonder how this one will hold up. 😉
Supercell: Knock your block off.
Blocked: See you between the bars.
Pipe Dream: This corridor holds some utility for you.
Hey Poptropicans! Didn’t we look snazzy on that header? Well, the first ever Poptropica awards show, the Poppies, is now over, but we hope you had a blast at the red carpet! Thank you to everyone who made nominations and voted – you guys made an impact in the results for the event, and for that, you can enjoy this Poppies Participant paper-craft trophy created by Spotted Dragon! Here’s the link.
If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Blake’s PHB post for the announcing of the winners, which includes HPuterpop’s livestream with several others on the PHB staff. During the party, we also had several Multiverse rooms filled with impeccably dressed Poptropicans, and the PHC (our chat) was pretty lively in anticipation of the winner announcements. Check out the recap montage! 😀
To give everyone a better chance at being able to make it to the celebrations, we hosted an after-party as well, about half a day after the first one. In addition to the Poppies, we also celebrated the PHB’s 7th anniversary. Happy birthday to the Poptropica Help Blog! The Multiverse rooms were filled with balloons, soda pop, and lots of lag. But at least we were having fun!
Also, thank you to everyone who voted for me as Best Author; I’m deeply honored. :’) Spotted Dragon even sent me a foldable Poppie for my award, and it looks pretty Oscar-esque! ❤
If you can prove your Poptropican name is Golden Dragon, the winner of the Best Poptropican Name category, SD will personally send you your own Poppie. 😉
If you enjoyed chatting on the PHC (Poptropica Help Chat; our official PHB chat hangout), remember that you can always come back to it any time (not just during official parties!) to hang out with other Poptropicans and have fun (within the boundaries of the chat rules listed on the page, of course). The link is xat.com/thephc, or you can access it by going to the “Chat” page from the navigation bar up top.
And no awards show would be complete without a few shout-outs: here’s to Jeff Heim, possibly the first Poptropica Creator to ever comment on the PHB – and it was in the spirit of the Poppies!
A shout-out also to Captain Crawfish, or shall I say The Award-Winning Captain Crawfish? Not only did he win the Best Creator category, he made a subtle reference to it in today’s Creators’ Blog post about the Daily Pop-In! We may like to nom crawfish here, but we love you too, Captain.
It’s been a great event, and we here at the PHB hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Thanks especially to Slippery Raptor for the initial idea, for turning the annual PHB birthday celebrations into something more. Again, check out Blake’s post and HP’s livestream for a list of all the winners.
⭐ Thanks for popping in, and have a stellar day! ⭐
Hello, Poptropicans. Welcome to the most fabulous night in Poptropica, maybe even awards, history. Tonight, your winners will be revealed for the first ever Poptropica awards ceremony, The Popp- oh, it’s already the day after the show? Okay.
Anyway, what’s popping, Poptropicans? Blake here, with no Poptropican news this time; more of a recap. As you can see by the title, today I’ll be recapping the winners from last night’s awards phenomenon, the Poppies. Let’s head straight into the awards, shall we? Please welcome, to present our first award, Thinknoodles and- wait, what do you MEAN none of our presenters were invited? I’m going to have to announce the winners BY MYSELF?!
Well, as you know, HPuterpop did also host a livestream announcing the winners, along with several other PHB authors, which you can view here…
But if you don’t want to sit through two hours of talking, don’t worry – Blake’s here to announce the winners right here in one post. For the first award, Best Creator, please welcome Blake!
*room full of snazzily-dressed people clap*
Thanks, it’s great to be here tonight with all of you.
A Creator is someone who puts everything into their work. Zeus, Captain Crawfish, they all work to keep Poptropica running. Tonight, we honor one of those Creators with the first Poppie ever. And the winner for Best Creator is… *opens envelope* Captain Crawfish! Your Poppie, along with everyone else’s, will be along to you sometime soon. For our next award, Best Dialogue, please welcome Blake (again)!
Thank you, it’s nice to be invited. If anything shapes an Island into a classic, it’s the dialogue. And tonight, we determine the best dialogue of Poptropica. You guys have voted, and tonight the winner of Best Dialogue is… *opens envelope* “And you! You set me up! Man, I can’t stand anyone in this room.. well, except for me. Me, I like,” spoken by your player on Counterfeit Island!
Now, in typical awards shows, you don’t have time to announce every single category with a presenter and everything. So, to imitate these award shows, I will now rapid fire seven winners in one go. Seriously, there are like 18 of these.
The winner for Best Dressed NPC (Male) is Director D!
Poptropicans voted Aphrodite for the Best Dressed NPC (Female)!
Best Island, with PoptropiCon Island winning over Mystery Train by a single vote!
Golden Dragon was your pick for Best Poptropican Name! If anyone can prove to us their Poptropican name is Golden Dragon (via screenshot, Avatar Studio link, or username), let us know and we will send you (via email) a Poppie paper craft made just for you!
The soundtrack Poptropicans everywhere voted into the winner’s circle for Best Soundtrack is the Monster Carnival Main Theme!
You guys spoke, and we listened. Ghost Story Island is your winner for Best Storyline!
It’s so good to be bad, and Zeus proves it by winning Best Villain!
Now, onto our next award, Best Fanart! The winner for this category is… MasterPinpey’s “Poptropican Villains” from Issue 23 of the Popcorn!
Only 7 more categories to go, and next up is Best Fansite Outside of the PHB! Now normally, you would all vote for us here at the PHB, but you chose… hey everyone, it’s your friend Thinknoodles!
Now, on to Best PHB April Fool’s Prank! And the winner is the Omegon Takeover!
Now for another rapid fire! Categories 14-18 coming at you, and then I’ll see you back here for the final award, Best Author!
The votes are in, and Issue 23 was the fan-favorite issue of The POPCORN!
Readers like you voted Poptropican as the Best Wiki Article!
Don’t tell anyone, but I actually agree on this one. Galactic Hot Dogs Island was voted as the Worst Island!
Poptropicans decided on Big Belly as the Worst Poptropican Name!
Everybody seems to hate many moments on Poptropica, but it was decided that 7 Islands becoming Members only was the worst!
And now, for the final award. The role of an Author is to be loved by many, and to be angered by few. To work and make the blog the best it can be, and to have fun doing it. Tonight, we honor the BEST of us seven with the Best Author award. And the winner is…
IT’S ME, EVERYONE! Just kidding, it’s actually Slanted Fish! You deserve it, Fishy!
Well, that’s all the awards we have to give out!Click here for further Poppies-recapping, with pictures from the party (and after-party), right here on the PHB!
Okay Timmy, now that that’s over, call Francisco to cut me out of this tuxedo.
*Sorry boss, but Francisco’s out for the day!*
So I have to stay in this for tonight? I already lost a bet that I’d win Best Author, and now I have to wear this dang princess outfit for a week longer!
It must contain yours truly in the costume to the right – it can contain anything or anyone else you choose.
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