Category: Guest Posts

This is the My Place in Poptropica story of DJScratchStep, a Poptropican who recently rekindled his love for the game after finding it again and now has his own Poptropica blog. See the bottom of this post for details on sending in your own MPIP!

So… I see people telling their stories about how they became a Poptropican with the My Place in Poptropica series on the PHB. And, well…

*unsheathes sword*

Let’s do this.

Early 2008 | Early Poptropican

It all started in first grade, on a weekly class trip to the computer lab. We were all on Funbrain, and most of us were playing the arcade. As me and a few of my friends finished, we saw an ad for Poptropica. I looked at it thinking, “What the flip flap potato tap is this?”

I clicked onto it, made a character, and started playing. I started off playing Super Power Island and jumping around, not really progressing on it at all. I was about to make some progress, actually, if the teacher hadn’t told us to log off right then. Luckily, my family had gotten a new family computer, and I started playing on it for a few weeks doing nothing but making new profiles and jumping around.

Late 2009 | Help Books

One day I had gone to my cousin’s house in a city about two hours away from mine, and showed him Poptropica. He and I had fun playing Poptropica. (We still do, playing Roblox and Xbox and all.) A few weeks passed, his birthday came around, and we celebrated at a local Chuck E. Cheese’s. He opened all his presents, and his final one was a book on how to beat the Poptropica islands, the Poptropica’s Official Guidebook.

I found it so cool that every time I came over, I’d get out that book and actually try to complete a few islands. Then I finally figured out how to make a new account, and thus, a new Poptropica legacy was born. For my username, I just put in two things I could recognize, plus a number – my username being bbgunlight100. Angry Thunder.

Early 2010 & the next five years | Abandonment

With Angry Thunder, I went around completing islands left and right. First Early Poptropica, then Super Power, and then Shark Tooth. And I would’ve completed Big Nate Island before it became members only if it didn’t glitch every time I tried!

I stopped playing Poptropica for a while, then I got back on a few weeks later. When my birthday came around, I got a Nintendo Wii, with lots of games, like Wii Sports, Mario Kart Wii (an all-time favorite), and Wii Play. More time passed, and I got many other gadgets to play with as well. I was so interested in those games that I completely abandoned Poptropica for 5 years. But I still had it in the back of my mind, as just a tiny speck.

Late 2015 | One Simple Spark

The start of 8th grade – and my, how I hate it so far. I got into a semester of A/V, and my group had all finished the project. We had lots of free time, and me and my teammates were bored of all the sites we had been on. Then I had an idea, and I said, “Wait!” I typed in the URL for Poptropica while my team watched, and they were astounded.

I still remembered my username and password, so I logged in and saw that Poptropica had changed a lot. And I thought, “If it changed, I might as well, too.” So I refreshed the page, and made a new account, starting off on Home Island. I didn’t do that island, because I moved on to Super Power Island, but I got all my friends to make characters too. We were Purple Bird, Maroon Moon, Smart Skull, and then mine, the one and only Trusty Bear.

Early 2016 | Poptropica Help Island & Island Completion

I had been on my account once almost every day, playing Poptropica on my mom’s or stepdad’s computer at work before walking to school. I had been getting on the PHB all the time, commenting on new posts, reading the guides, and even having a meme face drawn by UiPE on PMFM!

I decided I would make my own Poptropica blog too, and I had already made a personal blog on WordPress, so I just added a site, and I created Poptropica Help Island. “Bringing you Poptropica Help when you need it!” I had quite a bit of fun with that. Then, on February 23rd, I finally completed all the islands (excluding member-only islands like Big Nate and Wimpy Boardwalk). At last!

I posted on PHI that I was going to make a series called The Adventures of Trusty Bear. (The title is a semi-reference to Giant Hawk Adventures, but I couldn’t come up with a more creative title.) I am starting up the first episode as I go, so if you follow the PHI, check it out! Otherwise, I’m still doing all I can, and having fun while doing so!

This has been Scratch Step, aka Trusty Bear, and this has been My Place… *sheathes sword* …in Poptropica.

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Hope you enjoyed this “My Place in Poptropica” story! Feel free to send in your own (please include a minimum of 550 words, type with good spelling and grammar, divide it into labeled sections, and include your username). Look out for more community MPIPs in the future!

~the PHB.

This is the My Place in Poptropica story of Grumpy Wolf, a longtime Poptropican with an affinity for glitching. See the bottom of this post for details on sending in your own MPIP!

Who am I? Well, let’s take it back to when I was a young boy…

Fall of 2008 | Discovery

Back when I was much younger, there were many kids in my after-school program who had a great liking for the game Poptropica. I had an interest in technology and computers even then, and I decided I’d like to give the game a go. Every time I played the game, I would make a new character.

The first few times I played, I just went in to common rooms, walking around, maybe chatting a bit and playing a few games. However, I eventually decided maybe it was time to step it up a notch and try an island. The first island I ever played was 24 Carrot. I never made it very far into the island, but I still enjoyed it a bunch. Eventually, I branched out to new islands, but again, never really progressed far.

2009 | The PHB

Well, eventually, after I was tired of doing nothing productive with Poptropica, I searched up a tutorial on how to beat 24 Carrot. Guess what site I landed on? Yep, ’twas ye old PHB. Funny thing is, I’ve always preferred reading island tutorials over watching them. I know, call me crazy. But after I had beaten 24 Carrot, I was ecstatic, because it had been unfinished for such a long time, and now I had completed it.

I didn’t comment on the blog at the time, but I enjoyed reading up on the island tutorials that were available on the website, even without a WordPress account. For a while, I got bored of Poptropica, so I strayed from it for about a year.

2011 | Membership & My 1st Account

Well, one day, minding my own business, Dr. Memory knocked on the door of my head and sparked the idea center of my brain into remembering Poptropica again. I hadn’t played it in a while, as stated before, so I thought I’d give it a go once more. This time, however, since I was older, I understood the concept of writing down a username and password. So I created my first Poptropica account and decided to get membership for it.

Although this was not my current Grumpy Wolf account, it was the account that I got membership for and that I liked for a long time. Considering there were many new islands released, I headed back over to the PHB, (surprised at the major changes to the site) and looked up more island tutorials. I played for a long while. Sadly, yet again, I left Poptropica one more time.

2013 | The Return & Poptropica Glitches

At this time, I was on vacation for the summer, and Dr. Memory, again, sparked that same old idea again. Since I had brought a laptop with me, I hopped on Poptropica again. But this time, I discovered Keith Sammut’s Weebly site and became completely fascinated with the concept of Poptropica glitches. I remember emailing him in the beginning asking for ASG usernames.

Keith asked me to join him on this chat website called Xat (which is also home of the PHC), which is why I am still on there talking to a few different friends even now in 2016. Anyway, Keith let me in on one or two ASG usernames to start me off, and so began my trail of trading to obtain other glitches and grow my closet to an interesting, fun assortment of brightly colored costumes that were not intended for people to have.

The following year (2014) continued on that path. The only things that happened were me continually expanding my glitched closet and making new friends. I also found out about a bunch of other games that I like to play today.

2015 | The Friend CEG and “The Method”

First, to clarify, CEG means Customize Everything Glitch. Second, to clarify, I will not be talking about how to perform these actions in-game as they are very private secrets. 😛

In mid-2015, I learned from my old friend Keith Sammut (who’s stuck with me for 3 years and counting) about how to do a glitch called the FCEG, or “Friend Customize Everything Glitch.” The glitch allowed you to customize anything off of anyone, as long as they are in your friends list. Alas, the glitch is patched now.

Towards the end of 2015, I was recruited as one of a few people to help out with the PHB’s Avatar Studio Gift while it was in progress. The PHB had been given a secret method by a retired player called Dr. Snowball that allowed one to get any clothing item in the game, and could even given custom names, which is what was used to start the Name Genie. Using this method, I along with a few others worked to make more ASGs available to everyone.

2016 | And Beyond?

Since I discovered the secret method only weeks before the start of 2016, and since this year is very young, there isn’t really much to talk about. However, what lies beyond is a great mystery. I can’t wait to see what the PHB has in store for the future, and also what Poptropica has for us in the coming years.

I hope you all enjoyed reading this very much (I put a lot of effort in this! 😛 ), and I encourage you to post Your Place in Poptropica too!

Peace,

Wolf

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This is the My Place in Poptropica story of Tall Cactus, a Poptropican who has only been playing for a little under a year, yet is very active in the community, and even has her own fansite! See the bottom of this post for details on sending in your own MPIP!

Hi! It’s Tall Cactus, and today I am going to share my story of how I found and joined Poptropica. But before we begin, I just want to say that I’m not a longtime Poptropican compared to Slanted Fish and many others. In fact, my story is different from most. You’ll see why. Anyway, let’s just begin already!

Spring 2015 | A Game Called Poptropica

It was another boring day of school towards the end of March. It was raining outside, so we had indoor recess. I started wandering around the classroom, looking for something fun to do. I decided to watch the kids play on the computers. However, they weren’t playing the games I usually saw them playing. They were playing… you guessed it, good old Poptropica. 24 Carrot Island and Virus Hunter Island and PoptropiCon – although I didn’t know that at the time.

I asked them what they were playing, and you know the answer. I guess they saw how interested I was, so they told made I should make an account, too. I refused. Yeah, seriously, not kidding. I REFUSED. Fortunately, we had indoor recess again a few days later, and I did make an account, the same one I still play on today. The username is macandcheese520.

With that, Tall Cactus was born. I started completing islands in April, the first one being Mythology Island, with the help of the PHB’s awesome walkthroughs. I finished about 10 islands by the end of April. But, it was just something I did when I was bored. That all changed in May…

Summer 2015 | Poptropica’s Biggest Fan

Super Villain Island. That island was what got me obsessed with Poptropica. After playing that island, I realized that Poptropica was more than just some random game. It was one huge universe. The stories are what made me love Poptropica. I continued playing islands, this time enjoying them more and more.

Also around this time, I read countless Poptropica fan blogs, most of them inactive, looking back at old posts and fan fictions. I never commented though, even though I had an email and everything. I was a proud non-member, even though I could have just asked for a membership if I wanted to. I thought that becoming a member would make me not like the game as much and take it for granted.

Then came July. The Creators went and made 7 islands members only. I was furious. I had only completed 3 of those islands. So, I quit my dream of completing every island. Instead, I went to common rooms and tried getting cool outfits.

By the end of the summer, I had completed about 25 islands.

Fall 2015 | Membership and More

School started back up again. I thought it would make me stop playing Poptropica, but instead it made me play it even more. On September 4, I got membership. At this point, I started to complete islands again, knowing that I could play them all. My goal of getting every medallion was back. I finally did this at the end of November when I completed Astro-Knights Island. I was so proud of myself!

I continued reading Poptropica blogs, but still didn’t comment. I have no idea why.

Finally, on December 29th, I couldn’t take it any longer. I made my first comment on the PHB. It was on the Avatar Studio Gift page, where I found and shared ZeusASG. After that, I started commenting on every post, and on island guides where I helped people. A couple weeks later, I started commenting on other Poptropica blogs. Eventually, I wanted to start my own.

2016 & beyond | Blogging

On Janurary 16th, 2016, I finally did it. I founded Tall Cactus’ Poptropica Blog (tallcactuspoptropicablog.wordpress.com). A few days later, I became an author on Cuddly Knuckle’s Blog and Explore, Collect, Compete. It’s been really fun.

I have a lot planned for my blog. And I’m very excited for the future of Poptropica and its community. I want to thank the PHB authors, Mighty Gamer, Cuddly Knuckle, and everyone else who is reading this. For helping me have a place. A place in Poptropica.

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This is the My Place in Poptropica story of White Gamer, a Poptropica explorer with a story to tell. See the bottom of this post for details on sending in your own MPIP!

Sharing Accounts With Sis

It was around 2007 when I was first introduced to the game. My sister and I had just finished our homework (I was in second grade back then, so I didn’t have very much). She told me that there was a game she was interested in that other kids at school were playing called “Poptropica”. We found it on Funbrain, a website we were familiar with.

That day, we made an account together, with the username apples2928. (If you friend our account, please don’t judge on our fashion sense. We were new to the game!) We weren’t quite sure what to do until a few days after we made our account. Then, as we figured out how to explore Poptropica, things got pretty exciting.

Getting My Own Account

After a couple of months, I started getting a little tired of Poptropica, so I thought I would make a new account, just for myself. This was partly because at the time my sister and I, playing on our one account called Purple Wolf, didn’t know how to take different outfits off and put new ones on. Now, I really don’t remember the username or in-game name of the new account I made, out of the many I’ve made.

Anyway, from then on, I started to love Poptropica more and more! I had about two pages of Store items, and was slowly making my way up to getting island medallions. I changed my outfit almost every time I got on the game, which was about every other day at least.

Soon, I started looking up a few game guides and Thinknoodles quickly became my top choice – that is, until I saw the Poptropica Help Blog! For the first time, I was seeing Slanted Fish, Brave Tomato, HPuterpop, Samwow5, Spotted Dragon, and the rest of the crew. PHB was the best. I started checking updates on the website every time I got on the computer.

Becoming White Gamer

Sadly, I took a break from Poptropica for a while, and forgot my username and password. Ahhh! I made a new account, woodstock436, and with that, White Gamer was officially a player of Poptropica. I chose the name because I’m a Poptropica Gamer.

For a long time, I tried to find a signature outfit for myself, but I couldn’t find one. I’m sorry to say that I even copied Slanted Fish’s outfit for a little while. By the time the PHB’s 2015 Halloween Costume Contest came around, I still hadn’t found one. I know: that’s a long time to be thinking about an outfit, but I’m all about fashion.

PoptropiCon Island had recently come out, and I saw the gray planet shirt and red jacket. At first glance, I didn’t really care, but later I thought, you know what? That’s cool. I’m going to use that. I used the shirt and jacket, and combined that with angel wings, headphones, a polka-dot belt, and jeans. Yay! Now I’m officially a Poptropica Explorer with Fashion.

In 2014, I mostly spent my time in Poptropica Common Rooms – probably a little too much. Like, that was all I was doing on Poptropica besides the new islands like PoptropiCon, Survival, and Arabian Nights. Those were awesome too.

I am still doing a lot of islands, and now have 30 medallions, plus I’m keeping up with PHB as best as I can. I hope you enjoyed My Place in Poptropica! Thank you!

–White Gamer 🙂

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Hope you enjoyed this “My Place in Poptropica” story! Feel free to send in your own (please include a minimum of 550 words, type with good spelling and grammar, divide it into labeled sections, and include your username). Look out for more community MPIPs in the future!

~the PHB.