Category: PHB Series

Contests, PHB Parties, Poppies

Recap: Poppies 2026 Awards 🏆🌟🧞‍♂️

Slanted Fish

Hey hey, Poppie-tropicans! ✨ Roll out the blue carpet, it’s time to announce the winners of this year’s Poptropica fan awards—brought to you in the video below by our hosts Magic Kid and Gentle Dolphin.

Thanks to everyone who joined in on the nominations, voting, and celebrations on the PHC, where we reminisced about Poppies past. 🥹 Happy 18th birthday, PHB—welcome to adulthood! 🧓1️⃣8️⃣🎉

And the Poppies go to…

 💙 Poptropica Awards 💙

  • 🦸 Best Superhero Character: The Player (runner-up: Piñata Man)
  • ⚡️ Most Enjoyable Power-Up Item: Jet Pack (runners-up, tied: Chameleon Suit and Poseidon’s Trident)
  • 🌈 Most Magical Character: Rumpelstiltskin (runner-up: Elf Queen)
  • 💀 Worst Island to Reside In: SOS Island (runner-up: Survival Island)
  • 🎭 Favorite Duo/Team: Oliver, Mya, & Jorge (runner-up: Super Power prisoners)
Name That Tuna: Let’s hope you’re not a chicken of the sea.

🔷 Community Awards 🔷

🖌️ Best Fan Art Nominees Gallery 🖌️

Enjoy this selection of top-tier Pop fan art, chosen by the people.

A Poptropica Canvas by Tough Spinner
Clay Blimp by Wild Catfish
Elyana print(“Salve, munde!”) by Smart Bubbles
Astro Knights My Beloved by snoopypilots
The Royals by lookingforcuteartsss
Poptropicans as Miis by happyclonetrooper

🧞‍♂️ The Genie Dance 🧞‍♂️

And our celebrations wouldn’t be complete without a poppin’ after-party… so we’re hitting the dance floor… as genies! 🪔 What a way to represent how the time just flies by, like wisps of smoke. 💨

Thanks to all who joined our Genie Dance inspired by Arabian Nights Island, and a huge shout-out to Lucky Fish for hosting this community art collab—click to enlarge the collage above! ✨ Let the credits roll:

  • Top row from left: Slanted Fish, Lucky Fish, Smart Skull
  • Middle row from left: Gentle Dolphin, LazyKid (1), P (OC: Niged), RainbowBrush (Tough Spinner), LazyKid (2 & 3), Magic Kid, Invisible Ring (OC: Nin-Genie)
  • Bottom row from left: P (OCs: Dandelion, 8u55l3 / Buzzle, & Ruby), Husky Alpha (|-|u$|<¥41ph4), Sporty Runner (OC: Lone Cheetah)

Before we call it a wrap, we’ve got a few more awards to give out…

  • 🧞 Most Creative Genie: Nin-Genie by Invisible Ring
  • 🧞‍♀️ Scariest Genie: Husky Alpha (|-|u$|<¥41ph4)
  • 🧞‍♂️ Cutest Genie: RainbowBrush (Tough Spinner)
Nin-Genie by Invisible Ring
Husky Alpha
Tough Spinner

Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you all for coming out to the blue carpet to celebrate Poptropica’s enduring magic, and the PHB’s big, all-grown-up 18th birthday. 🪩 We love you all! 🫶

POP ON, POPTROPICANS! 💖💨

Poppies

🏆 Poppies 2026: Voting Time!!! 🗳️

Gentle Dolphin

🏝️ VOTING ROUND IS NOW CLOSED. TUNE IN FOR THE POPPIES! 🏆

Welcome back to the PHB, where Poppies hype is in full swing! 🎆🎉🏆

(Poppies 2026 banner by Magic Kid)

After sorting through your nominations, we compiled the most popular nominees into a poll for your voting pleasure! Cast your votes for who you think should win this year’s Poppies before the poll closes on Monday, July 20.

🏆 VOTE NOW! 🗳️

What do you after you’ve voted? Join us for our annual Poppies Party on the PHC Discord server on Saturday, July 25 @ 7PM EST / 4PM PST! If you’re in a different time zone, use a time zone converter to see when the party starts in your area. 🥳⌚

We’ll start with a video announcing this year’s winners, then we’ll have fun and chat in the server. Poptropica’s common rooms may not work like they used to, but that won’t stop us from having a good time. We played a few rounds of Gartic Phone last year, so feel free to suggest some fun activities for the event.

Although we can’t see each other in common rooms, do dress your Poptropican to the nines for the PHB’s 18th birthday! You can style your avatar inside any version of Pop or draw a custom fit traditionally or digitally. You can make a spiffy suit, a dazzling dress, or maybe even some genie garb? Just a little reminder that Lucky Fish’s Genie Dance Art Collab is accepting submissions until next Tuesday, July 21. 🧞‍♂️😉

Thank you for voting, and see you at the Poppies!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

PHB Series, Poppies

🎊 Poppies 2026: Nominations!! 🏆

Magic Kid

UPDATE: NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

POPTROPICANS! ✨🎉 Set down your sandwich, get your nostalgia caps on, and lock in! It is that time of year again… time for…

✨ The Poppies 2026! 🦸

(2026 Banner by Magic Kid)

If you’re new here, welcome to our yearly super cool event called: The Poppies! This is our annual community awards event. During the month of July, the Poptropica fandom (that includes YOU!) nominates, votes, and finally, celebrates the winners of our awards categories! It truly is a fun time for all members of this community to get together and celebrate this game we know and love, and the fandom built around it.

This year, we have 10 categories! You can make up to 3 nominations in each category of whomever or whatever you think deserves the crown for that title. 👑 Nominations are open now until July 8, so tell yourself and your friends to get your suggestions in soon!

Continue reading “🎊 Poppies 2026: Nominations!! 🏆” →
Pranks

April Fools, My Little Ponies! 🦄

Gentle Dolphin

Welcome back, everypony! We at the Ponytropica Blog can’t wait to continue sharing the magic of friendship with you all! But first, we need to clarify something…

✨APRIL FOOLS!✨

Ponytropica: the best blog in all of Equestria!

Sorry, fillies and gentlecolts, but our pony-focused rebrand was a ruse from the beginning.

Magic Kid kicked off the shenanigans by announcing our little rebrand and hopes to bring in the much larger MLP fanbase. She even drew this adorable banner depicting the current PHB authors as ponies!

Banner by Magic Kid

Later, I shared my picks for the Poptropican Elements of Harmony. Not gonna lie, this was actually an idea I had for a while. Whether or not you agree with my picks, it was a fun thought experiment as both a Poptropican and a pegasister.

The pony palooza even extended to our Discord server, the Poptropica Help Chat, which was renamed to the Ponytropica Help Chat. Some of you liked the blog’s bold new direction and played along. For example, Lone Flipper submitted this cute drawing of her pony-fied Poptropican to our #pop-art channel! And to top off the fun, I shared another post: Pop 5: Horses, featuring Poptropica’s most superior stallions. 🐎

The PHB will continue to be the top stop for all things Pop, but that won’t stop us from dipping our toes into other IPs. Feel free to combine your love for MLP (or some other media) with Poptropica any time of year. That’s the reason why our Pop-over series exists! 🎠

If you wish to see more Poptropica and Pony content, I highly recommend following Sleepy Biker, who has been reimagining Pop characters as various creatures in Equestria. You can follow her on Deviant Art, Instagram, and Tumblr.

And feel free to draw some other Pop characters or even your OCs as ponies. 🐴 We could probably make a sequel featuring your art.

Thank you for reading, and have a great day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

Pop 5, Pranks

Pop 5: Horses 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

Gentle Dolphin

Welcome back to the Ponytropica Blog, the place for all things Poptropica and ponies! 🐴🌈🏝️

It’s no surprise that Poptropica has some ponies (and pony-like creatures) that call it home. Today, we’ll be counting down the five best horses in all of Poptropica! We’ll be looking at every variety of horse from the mundane to the mythical. Sound the bugle because it’s time to see which Poptropican pony will win this race to our hearts!

And they’re off!🏇

#5: Jersey Devil (Cryptids Island)

Starting our list in fifth place is the cryptid that terrified a generation! Some may argue that the Jersey Devil is more goat than horse, but we think its horsey face and build are enough for it to qualify for this list. In fact, we argue that it counts as a draconequus like our Chaos King, Discord! Nonetheless, the Jersey Devil’s bone-chilling design and stage presence gave us one of the most iconic and frightening moments in Poptropica history! 😱

#4: Pony Girl (Poptropicon)

Pony Girl

Coming in fourth place, we have the purple pony paladin herself! Pony Girl presumably originates from the Pony Girls comic book series, in which she is a superhero with the power to animorph into a crime-fighting equine. This horse-powered hero is so good that she earned a spot in the Mighty Action Force! She may only be a horse half of the time, but the fact that she fights villains as one earns her a place on this list! She’s truly an Equestria Girl!💜

#3: Pet Pony and Baby Alicorn Followers (Store)

We have a tie for third place! These little ponies follow you, the player, throughout your travels. On one side, you have precious pet ponies that are super customizable. On the other, you have a flying blue baby alicorn. It’s hard to choose who’s the better bestie, so why not pick both? Since pets and followers can be active at the same time, embark on your next adventure with your earthbound equine and airborne alicorn at your side! 🐴

#2: Pegasus (Astro Knights Island)

Our runner up in this race is the pegasus from Astro Knights Island‘s Jungle Planet! Although Mordred used this winged horse as a decoy, it becomes a noble steed that helps you take down the Mother Phoenix. An interesting thing I want to mention is that, despite being called a pegasus, this creature also has a horn, which technically makes it an alicorn. However, it lacks a horn in the Astro Knights book adaptation, therefore being a more traditional pegasus. Horn or no horn, this is a welcome ally on your interstellar quest! 🪽

#1: Elmer (Wild West Island)

Time for some horseplay.

Finishing our list in first place is Elmer from Wild West Island! Now, what’s a good cowboy without a trusty horse by his side? Your reward for taming this stallion is a loyal companion on your mission to stop El Mustachio Grande. You and Elmer travel to towns, deliver mail, pan for gold, herd cattle, uncover secret hideouts, and bring outlaws to justice! And Elmer did all of that without wings or magic powers! Let’s give the biggest “Yeehaw!” to Elmer, the best horse in all of Poptropica! 🤠

Do you agree with our picks? Did we forget any of your favorite Poptropican ponies? Let us know in the comments below, and stay tuned for more posts from the Ponytropica Blog! 🐴🌈🏝️

Thank you for reading, and have a pony-tastic day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🦄