Category: Merchandise

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Adventures…on a blimp!

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Everyone knows the Poptropica Blimp, the yellow floating vehicle with the Poptropica logo that flies around and takes you to certain islands. You can use it for your many various travels in the game of Poptropica

Well, I bet a lot of you also heard news that the blimp has been made into a toy! Yep, you can now purchase an inflatable toy version of the blimp-your very own authentic Poptropica blimp! Cool, huh?

Well, this new post on the Creators’ Blog is all about that new toy. Here’s a new pic of Jeff Kinney holding one of these toys…pretty big if you ask me.

But wait…hold your horses. If we carefully scrutinize the photo…zoom in, you’ll see that there are some things to be noticed in this photo. First off there’s a standing poster of a Poptropica rock star, unseen before, yet possibly a future product. You’ll notice their office is located somewhere in a tall building because of the look out the windows, and also by the window counter appears to be a fossil track mark, a school bus, and an almost unnoticable similar standing poster. Except this poster is of Shark Boy. Hint…hint…

Anyways, the blimp comes with a special code for you to play a special game on the virtual world of Poptropica! With the blimp comes this unique code. Here’s a video on the PCB demonstrating the game!

The basic plot is that an evil genius named Dr. Cumulo Nimbus has come to conquer these lands in a weather balloon. He begins to “go insane” and strike lightning with his weather balloons on the land. In this adventure, you must go around in your balloon and extinguish the flames by pouring water from a bucket tied to the water balloon. Then you win when you successfully put out the fires igniting in a fiery inferno on the villages, which are placed on islands.

EP out!

Merchandise, Sneak Peeks

The guide is coming

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So guess what showed up on the PCB today? Well, a new post, and this isn’t just any new post ;). Look back in your mind to all those months ago when the creators showed us…eh, some new book. Remember that? You could pre-order it on Amazon, but it hasn’t been released yet. Well, that release date is close to coming according to the PCB!

This book is titled Poptropica – The Official Guide! It was mentioned in  a previous post and sounded pretty big. After all these months, we haven’t gotten any info on this book…until now.

The picture from the PCB (above) was snapped apparently at their office. We learned that the book is 190 pages of color and art and even island guides. I can’t wait to see how they wrote their island guides, probably different than the ones here. And there’s more, even a fold out map, that could be found no where else, is included in this guide They announced the official release date is October 13th. That’s just about a month away!

Will you get this book? Comment below and share your thoughts!

Bonus Items, Merchandise

Skin it, just skin it

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😈 Happy Halloween! 😈
A creepy Halloween experience is in store for you at Hijuyo’s blog:
http://hijuyo.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/tweak-oh-tweet/

For all you hardcore electronic gadget users out there, you’ll be pleased to know that Poptropica has teamed up with SkinIt.com! (Thanks for the news update, Pufflemon.)

Skinit sells decorative skins for all kinds of devices, like laptops, cell phones, music players, and lots more. Did I mention calculators, too? 😛

🙂 Buy ’em now! 🙂

At $14.95 US dollars each, they may seem a little expensive, but it may be well worth it to show off your love for Poptropica! On the left image below is a laptop with its cover decorated with the awesome Shark Tooth Island scene, and over on the right side is a display of an iPod with Ned Noodlehead’s Super Power Island comic shop!

 And here’s a young Aztec warrior on the Time Tangled Island skin:

Remember, buying merchandise products from Poptropica is going to help keep the game running! 🙂

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In other news…

  • Happy Halloween! Twick oh tweat!! 😈
  • Codien has designed us a wickedly awesome blog header for Halloween!
  • Poptropica Help Blog now has 2.2 million hits. Bring on the CHEESE cookies!
  • Motionman95, one of our staff members, recently changed his nickname to Coderkid.
  • The next Poptropican’s 911 is coming out this Sunday, November 1st, 2009.
Bonus Items, Merchandise, NPC Popularity Contests, Web Development

Wear Me!

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Or should I say, wear us!

Thanks to Cheerful Claw for the update: yesterday’s T-shirt design poll is over and the winning shirts are now available for purchase at Poptropica’s online store. That’s right, not just one shirt, but two!

Here’s Shark Boy’s explanation.

We have a winner! Since both the 1st and 2nd place designs were close we decided to make T-shirts out of both. So check out our store to get your own Secret Agent shirt. Thanks to all who voted!

Bring it on…

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Poptropica Life Size Wall Prints

The T-shirts weren’t the only merchandise section to update! The Poptropica Creators’ Blog‘s “Poptropica Life Size Wall Prints” widget also experienced a change. (See the picture on the right to know what it looks like now!)

The new widget image reads, “7 feet of pure Poptropica awesomeness <Ned Noodlehead’s picture> Poptropica™ Life Size Wall Prints Click Here available through LTLprints.com”. As usual, clicking on the picture brings you to another one of Poptropica’s online stores, and this one is located at LTLprints.com. The title of the online store now reads,”Poptropica Official Partner – Buy Your Favorite Poptropica as a Life-Sized – Removable and Reusab[le]”.

On the Poptropica LTL (Larger Than Life) webpage, there are new advertisements showing how the wall decorations are, “Self-Adhesive, Removable, Reusable, Durable, Easy to Install. Peel-it! Stick-it! Repeat!” They also offer free shipping with laptop prints!

On the LTLprints blog, there is a post about working with Poptropica’s merchandise, and it includes a video. You can check it out here: http://www.ltlprints.com/blog/poptropica-teams-up-with-larger-than-life-prints/. Click the link below to watch the video:

[http://www.viddler.com/explore/LTLprints/videos/18/73.433/]

Blog Post Title: Poptropica teams up with Larger Than Life prints
Description: We are pleased to announce our partnership with Poptropica.com.  Poptropica is a virtual online world in which kids can travel, play games, customize their character, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely with each other.  Larger Than Life prints is now offering over-sized wall graphics made from popular Poptropica characters.  Please checkout our Poptropica catalog page and watch this short video for more information.

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Bonus Items, Merchandise, Uncategorized

Bigheaded Agents

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The title is not quite what you might think it means! Agents should not be ‘bigheaded’, but on April Fools’ Day, everyone was!

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Celebrating April Fools’ Day: On Poptropica!
If the PHB didn’t fool you, maybe Poptropica will, with the help of VladtheViking’s latest YouTube video!

…And that’s a visual summary of what happened on Poptropica for April Fools! Everyone’s head got bigger (players and non-player characters!), the Poptropica logo on the homepage was backwards, and when you loaded the Poptropica page, a bunch of Poptropicans in goofy glasses would come out. The Creators also included a special picture of Dr. Hare with their blog post (aprilfools.png):

Even the evil bunnies have fun! 😆

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T-Shirt Design Voting: Secret Agent
Remember the Poptropica Popularity Contests a couple weeks ago? We all know the secret agent from Spy Island Headquarters won, and he’s going to get a T-shirt made just for him! Bet he feels really special waving his gun-thing around, as shown below. These are the 4 options:

To vote, visit the Poptropica Creators’ Blog and look for the poll widget to the right. Choose the number you are voting for and click the white button just below option #4 to submit your vote! Currently, design #2 is winning, but I do like #1 more. Oh well… bring it on! 😀