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This is a guest post from Hyper Berry sharing her My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!

Thanks to the PHB staff for the warm welcome! Anyway, to set the stage, here’s a quick lightning round of My Place in Poptropica!

Hiya, fellow Poptropicans! The name’s Hyper Berry, and I’ve been a Poptropica fan for as long as I can remember (and long before I could speak full sentences!). Throughout my childhood, Pop was one of the few online games I frequently came back to, despite not knowing how to fully complete an island quest (I was a naïve kid when it came to understanding Poptropica). Fast forward to early 2025, when I replayed it on Flashpoint, just to relive nostalgia from years past.

Hyper Berry rocking out on 24 Carrot Island

Little did I know, that playing for nostalgic reasons would make me hyperfixated on Poptropica, and throughout 2025 and this year, I’ve bought many Pop merch items, such as various books, one of the Jazwares plushies (Cool Boy to be exact!), and custom plushes of Oliver Hartman (from the graphic novels and comics), Ned Noodlehead, and Director D (these are just a few of the Pop merch I own, I have lots more!)

I commissioned these guys through the custom plush site iDooodle (not an ad). They look a bit wonky (Director D especially since his face has an “whatever, I’m too slick to be a marketable plushie” expression), but that adds up to the charm of these plushes.

Some Poptropica-related facts about me are that my favorite islands are Night Watch Island and Back Lot Island, and my favorite Poptropican is Oliver Hartman (I relate to both his comic and graphic novel counterparts), and if we’re talking about in-game Poptropicans, it’s Ned Noodlehead (I know Ned is hated, but I still like him anyways).

Let’s get the elephant (or Poptropican) out of the room, and move on to the meat of this post!

Here’s an early version of the first strip of the Poptropica comic strip by Paul Gilligan and Kory Merritt, where Oliver and Jorge get teleported into an island inhabited by monkey people. It looks just like the final strip, but there’s one visual difference.

Jorge has his orange hair here! As shown here, and in the concept art of the scrapped animated series. I’m not sure why they changed his hair color to black, but I assume it’s to avoid clashing with Oliver’s hair color (which is somewhat similar enough from Jorge’s original hair color).

And to answer the question y’all have been thinking while reading this, how did I come across this early version of the first strip?

Well, the answer is quite straightforward. A few months ago, I was looking for obscure info/images of Oliver Hartman (and the graphic novels in general) online, and came across former Poptropica web developer Paul Chapman’s now-deleted website directory for the promotional site for Mystery of the Map, some miscellaneous ads for Pop in the mid-2010s, and a handful of the comic strips. As I dug deeper into the comics section, I found this piece of Poptropica lost media, and as a lost media enthusiast myself, I genuinely felt enthralled finding a piece of media that probably hasn’t been seen since 2014.

GPS: You’ll never get lost, unless you already are.

Poptropica as a whole means a lot to me. On top of that, I was at Hot Topic a month ago (to buy spiked cuffs) and when I went to checkout, the cashier noticed the plush keychain (basically a tiny shaped pillow) of Ned Noodlehead that I had hanging on my bag, and the cashier immediately said “IS THAT A POPTROPICA KEYCHAIN?!” out of excitement, and soon after, we started chatting about what our favorite islands were (her favorite was Poptropolis Games). She quickly called over one of her coworkers to look at my Ned keychain, and we all said “POPTROPICA IN 2026?!”. During those moments, I lit up like a bunch of holiday lights, and it also adds to why Pop means a lot to me.

Anyways, this concludes the post. Until my next guest post (if that happens sometime in the future), toodles, folks!

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My Place in Poptropica: Lucky Fish

December 12, 2025 Slanted Fish

This is a guest post from Lucky Fish sharing their My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!

2014-2016 | From Mobile App to Computer

Hey Poptropicans! My name is Lucky Fish. I’ve been a Poptropica fan for about as long as I can remember. I started playing around 2014-2015 during my years of preschool and a little before. Why did I start playing when I was literally 4? Well, my dad had downloaded it to his phone so I could play it when I was bored. He figured it was just another app about getting kids to learn. I soon realized it was more than that.

I have absolutely no idea what that account was, but I do remember my favorite part of playing is making characters (I had a lot). Around 2016, I began actually learning to play the islands! Of course, I could not do it without the help of Thinknoodles’ walkthroughs.

Friendly Folk: All so nice and polite, for a while at least.

Speaking of Thinknoodles’ walkthroughs, knowing how to watch them meant I was able to learn that there were more islands than just the mobile ones. I realized it was also a computer game, so I asked my parents if they could lend me their computer to let me use Poptropica there. I was then able to discover loads more islands that were just waiting to be clicked on.

2019–2020 | White Cheetah and the end of Flash

Around 2019, on a family vacation, I was feeling very sick. I was about 7 or 8 at the time. It is here that I made my first actual Poptropica account that I could stick with. Introducing: White Cheetah. I used to think that this account gave me good luck, and it’s the account I first beat multiple islands on (like Mythology for example).

In 2020, the pandemic hit, and I wasn’t playing Poptropica as much. But when I came back to it, I noticed that lots of the islands were missing. I went searching and found out about the whole end of Flash situation. That day involved tears… a lot of them. Soon, I stumbled upon the Old Island Directory, and it was useful until it stopped working.

2024–2025 | Flashpoint at the Library and Lucky Fish

In the summer of 2024, I started playing Poptropica lots more. It was just so fun again! When I found out about Flashpoint, a way to access old islands, I asked my parents if I could get it on their computers. They said no because one was for work, and one had no storage left. So after school, I began going to the library, and downloading Flashpoint every single day just to play the islands (everyday because the computers were wiped of all history each morning). I would stay there for hours, until one day they started blocking sites at the library, so I couldn’t play there.

I had been asking for a computer for a while, and finally on my birthday, I got one. The first thing I did was download Flashpoint and play Poptropica. I played there for about a month when I wanted to let my sister try it out. But when I hit “new player”, that account was wiped. So I started with a new character, Lucky Bean, where I completed lots of islands.

In the summer of 2025, on Flashpoint Poptropica, I wanted to try out the AS2 version to see if it was different. In doing this, my main AS3 data was wiped, and I had to start over. After shuffling names for a good while, trying to get Lucky Bean again, I came across Lucky Fish. I chose this one because it still had Lucky in the name, but “Fish” made it sound more water related. So, I stuck with it, and Lucky Fish is now my main Poptropica account. This summer, I also started my own site, The Poptropica Fan Blog.

Poptropica has been a huge part of my life, and taught me many things (including my rights!). I hope you enjoyed reading about my life on a digital web game. Thank you for reading!

– Lucky Fish

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My Place in Poptropica: Brandon K

May 4, 2024 Slanted Fish

This is a guest post from Brandon K sharing their My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!

Hello! My name is Brandon K, and I’ve been a semi-longtime player of Poptropica (started about 2014 or 2016, I don’t remember). I want to write this post to share my experience with Poptropica, because I’ve had some really good experiences with this game, and I still enjoy it now.

I got into Poptropica with my sister, who first led me to this game, and I started off my Poptropica journey on 24 Carrot Island. I spent about 20 minutes just messing around with the drink mixer in the Carrot King Diner, until my sister told me what to do, and I had some more trouble trying to figure out how to befriend the cat. (I was new to point-and-click games.) Eventually I figured it out (albeit with a lot of help) and then she just led me through the rest of the island.

After this, I started exploring things like the Store, and noticed that you could buy costumes! I thought this was the coolest concept ever, and I tried to learn the game a bit better, so I played 24 Carrot until I felt I could do another island no problem.

So, I hopped over to the next island my sis recommended, S.O.S. Island. This island was ok, but at the time, I wish I could’ve played the members’ bonus quest, because the island just felt a little too short.

Flooded: How’s a person supposed to breathe down there?

Eventually, I found that I’d completed every island that the game could offer! I was so overjoyed because I had a whole bunch of credits, and so I went to the Store, and bought some cool costumes that I thought were awesome. (You might see me post some of my costumes as ASGs on the Discord). Out of all of these islands, Zomberry Island was just so good. I liked the storytelling, and all of the mini games it had were really good.

Fast forward a bit to about 2020, and I log on to see that Flash was going away! I was so sad as I watched all of those islands that brought me hours of fun just disappear, never to return again. But it was ok, because I still found fun by hanging around in common rooms with others, and playing mini-games, as well as playing some of the remaining islands.

Breakdown: Looks like a bad neighborhood.

Fast forward again to 2022 — Even more islands were gone! I was devastated to find this out, and at the time, I forgot about the game because it just wasn’t fun anymore.

Then in 2023, I found out about the new islands that were introduced, but they just weren’t the same. The art style just wasn’t like I remember. But I found fun, yet again, when I stumbled upon the PHC and Flashpoint! I had finally found the community of Poptropica gamers that actually cared about this game, and I was finally able to relive those younger years, and play all of those Islands I enjoyed so long ago. I guess you can say it’s nostalgic.

Wonderland: You can’t have more fun under one roof.

I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

– Brandon K

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My Place in Poptropica: Golden Feather

March 17, 2024 Slanted Fish

This is a guest post from Golden Feather sharing their My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!

Hi, I’m Golden Feather, and this is My Place In Poptropica.

I first started playing Poptropica around 2017, when I was 6 or 7. I saw it in an ad, and so I decided to try it out. I figured out a lot of the islands, but I could never figure out Red Dragon Island (based on Magic Tree House). I really liked Spy Island, and this was back when you could customize off NPCs, so I had a lot of fun with that.

Fish Out of Water: The pond outside this hut isn’t finished yet.

I actually still have access to my first account, where my name was Icy Shell. (I was a sucker for mysterious names.)

Around 2020, my account stopped working, so I had to make my current one. So now I am Golden Feather.

Poptropica was a big part of my childhood, and I am so glad I decided to click on that Poptropica ad that fateful day in 2017 (or maybe it was 2016?). I even got my lil bro into Poptropica now!

I always dreamed of winning the costume contest, and being rich in credits. I have achieved the credit dream, but not the costume one… yet.

World Warriors: Welcome back to the stage of history.

Thank you for reading.

Your favorite neighborhood psycho,
-Golden Feather

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My Place in Poptropica: Fearless Goose

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 Slanted Fish

This is a guest post from Fearless Goose sharing their My Place in Poptropica story, which is all about one’s Poptropica journey. Enjoy!

Hi guys, I’m Fearless Goose and this is my first ever blog post.

2019 | A blue book

It was a normal day in 2019 during school when I saw a blue book titled Poptropica: The Official Guide. When I got home, the first thing I did was check out Poptropica. I was 7 at the time, so I don’t remember the account name sadly.

I was so excited to play, and the first map I played was Mission Atlantis, Episode 1. But being so young, after facing the first challenge, I ragequit for a month.

Hot Seat: This outfit will go straight to the dome.

2020 | Take two

The second time I played Poptropica was around 2020, a few months before Flash was discontinued at the end of the year. I played a few maps, but I didn’t really like the game, because for my 7-year-old brain, it was very hard.

2024 | Resolution

This year, one of my resolutions is to play games from my childhood, one of them being Poptropica. I was heartbroken to find out about most of the islands being removed, but happy they were a part of my childhood. I went from ragequitting to easily beating all of the remaining islands. I also enjoyed playing with my interesting character.

Well that’s my story. And if you have free time, just write your story. To see how to send in your story, click here.

This is Fearless Goose, over and out.