DIRECTOR D., wearing a uniform similar to those worn by the GUARDS, heads down a long hallway. The doors are bolted shut, and security cameras turn to follow him as he walks. MOREAU is a few paces behind him, casting wary glances at the cameras.
MOREAU
Are you sure no one will recognize us?
DIRECTOR D.
Positive. Most of the news from our areas hardly reached anywhere else, unlike for some of these people.
They turn to look at a window, looking into the LUNCH HALL. Several prisoners sit at tables, some in groups, others alone. The SUPER POWER VILLAINS appear to be starting a food fight.
MOREAU
So, which one do you want to start with first?
DIRECTOR D.
I’m not quite-
DR. JUPITER approaches the two from behind, seemingly from out of nowhere. Both nearly jump when he speaks.
DR. JUPITER
Who are you interested in? I can probably give you some suggestions.
DIRECTOR D.
(Gathering himself; pretending not to have been spooked)
Uh, well, someone a little less…violent, perhaps. Intelligent so…they can have a good conversation, and one of your more notorious prisoners…so we can still have a challenge.
He tries his best to get people who will both be helpful for him, but not cause any suspicions from the doctor. It seems to work, as Jupiter quickly begins going through a mental list of prisoners.
DR. JUPITER
Ah, well…you may want to try Dr. Hare first. He’s very smart–
Cut to a door opening, looking into a small room with DR. HARE at a table, handcuffed. The shadows of DIRECTOR D. and MOREAU are seen entering.
Howdy Poptropicans, it’s LJ here with an exclusive interview with our newest Popular Poptropican!
Popular Poptropican (formerly known as Community Celebrities) is a series where we recognize members of the Poptropica online fandom for their exceptional involvement and participation in community events. (Check out some of our past interviews here.)
Now without further ado, allow me to introduce you to Dangerous Dragon, an active commenter who recently won my Pop The Difference contest and who has an impressive 5 guest posts on the PHB (from this year alone). Let’s get to know this rising star together.
Welcome, Dangerous Dragon! Tell everyone a little bit about yourself.
Hello! You might already know me, but I am Dangerous Dragon! I joined the community because I loved to search about Pop. One day on the homepage I saw “Blog” and it took me to the Creators’ Blog. Then I searched if there were more and that’s where I found the PHB.
What is your favorite island in Poptropica? How about your least favorite?
My favorite is Time Tangled. The story is exciting and fun. I love anything with Time! Also, it tells us about many events that took place in history. Bring the fact monsters back please!
For my least favorite, I will say Mocktropica because after what’s happened with Poptropica, the jokes aren’t even funny anymore. I literally played the island with my pet Leo. The pop coins or tokens also made it into the game as credits. I have no problem with it… it’s actually a fun island, but these two things are examples of jokes in the island not aging well.
With three winners of the Dream Island contest finally decided, which adventure are you most looking forward to?
To be honest, I’m excited for all of them. But if you want to know about the one that I’m excited about the most… it’s Secret of the Jade Scarab. I never got to play Nabooti, so this Island can hopefully give those similar vibes. The others sound fun too… Goofball and Fairy Tale!
What does your dream island look like?
Well, my dream island is Jedi Island. I actually already sent a post in for this but I don’t want to give spoilers, so maybe see for yourself when the post comes out!
Tell us what you enjoy about the Poptropica community.
I love the community as I love the competitions and friendly posts on the PHB!
What are your goals?
I would love to work for Poptropica as a blogger. My other goal is to become a writer or game designer. I guess I just love Poptropica!!! I would also love to become a staff writer on the PHB someday! Even if I don’t get to, though, I’ll still be guest posting.
Thank you, Dangerous Dragon, for taking part in this interview with me. I had a lot of fun, and I hope you did too. To any readers who want to know more details about DD’s discovery of Poptropica, check out their My Place in Poptropica story. I think you might enjoy it.
🌟 Would you like to be the next Popular Poptropican? 🌟
To nominate yourself or someone you know, send me an email at [email protected] or a private messageon Discord with the following:
the name of your nominee (a Poptropica name or other screen name)
a reason why your nomination should be the next Popular Poptropican
Thanks for reading as always and I’ll talk to you all in the next one. Pop on!
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Noisy Snowball (Inking 5). Enjoy!
Hey there! This is Noisy Snowball talking! This is my first guest post, and I’m super excited to share my dream island idea!
First, here’s how I got my idea: One day I was in online school, thinking about stuff. I had the concept of the butterfly effect on my mind, and Poptropica in my brain as well. The butterfly effect is the idea that a small change can result in larger differences later.
Anyway, I had a thought. Why not make an island using the butterfly effect as the main gimmick? It was perfect! I started writing as soon as I could. I call it: Opposites Island!
Plot
The player starts at what seems to be the ending of the island. You’ve managed to stop a scientist who was going to steal a dimensional travel machine. However, before everyone can celebrate, a portal sucks you away…
You wake up in a destroyed version of the island you just saved, and after walking, you spot another version of yourself! This other version of you says that the villain has managed to steal the device — while causing a lot of destruction, which didn’t happen in the original dimension. You agree to help this version of yourself stop the villain.
Soon you both notice that there are two versions of the villain, who seem to have teamed up, are switching between dimensions. Now, you and your double must solve puzzles and platforms to stop the villains!
Plane to See: Sometimes a simple machine isn’t too simple.
Near the end of the island, there would be a final boss fight, where you and your double must stop the teamed-up villains. Afterwards, both versions of the villain would be captured, both you and your double would get a medal, and you would say goodbye to your double.
The double trouble gimmick
The main gimmick with this island is that both versions of you would act in opposite of each other. For example, if you pushed a box to the right on the not-destroyed island, the box would be instead on the left for the destroyed island. Everything would be in reverse, and you would have to use that as an advantage to solve puzzles.
Do Not Enter: Why doesn’t anybody ever pay attention to the signs?
This island would really show how a simple choice can really change things, and how to look at things and imagine how things could have gone differently. That’s the butterfly effect!
That wraps up my dream island concept! This is Noisy Snowball, guest writer, signing off!
The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you! 📰✨
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by White Fox. Enjoy!
Hi! I am White Fox, and this is my first time writing on the Poptropica Help Blog. I want to write about the Poptropica villains—more specifically, what happens to them after you defeat them at the end of an island adventure?
Whatever happened to the Binary Bard, for example, after he had to give up the princess? Did he just float around in space? Enjoy my theories, and do share yours in the comments!
Dr. Hare meets space aliens?
You destroy his Rabbot, and he flies off to space. Then what? Well, he happens to land on Pewter Moon.
He runs into the aliens, thinking they know him because he is such a popular villain (blah, blah, blah)… but they don’t recognize him. One alien tells Hare to talk to their boss. The alien boss freaks out, and accuses the mighty Dr. Hare of being the Binary Bard in disguise. The who-what now?
Hare steals a spaceship (because that is his specialty) and takes off to another galaxy. The door to the next universe closes behind him, and he is stuck on the roof of an obsidian castle.
Binary Bard in a Hare-y situation
You defeat him, take the princess, take the medallion, ya go home. Right? Well, you never actually got rid of the Binary Bard…
When you had to defeat him, he was in a robot suit. After you destroyed his robot suit, he became weak. That ball on his robot was his power force. Too bad he didn’t have someone to help him repair it…
Turns out, being a genius, Dr. Hare could help! Can you believe the guy was watching you solve the problem on the door and fight the Bard? He went inside and saw another weak, evil villain (ahem, that is, a weak villain… Dr. Hare wasn’t weak. *cough* as if *cough*). The Bard told him he could have half of the universe if he helped him.
So, after the robot suit was repaired, and they were just about to split their kingship, poof! They ended up at Erewhon Prison for Super Villains. No one quite knows how they got captured and sent there, but most are glad it happened.
El Mustachio Grande’s gang’s got his back
This Wild West villain was a handful, but eventually you got him back in prison. Thing is, as soon as you take the medallion and ride on outta this island, the trouble begins…
You got him in the iron pen, but what about his gang, y’all? They broke in here once. Y’all were warned, right? The gangster said, and I quote: “Nothing can stop the Grande Gang!”
Well, the guard was on his lunch break, the Marshal was outta town, and Mustachio had his smoke bombs (and real ones, because that is how he is). So he dropped the smoke signal for: “Get your tushes on your horses and get down here!” The gang broke him out of prison and headed straight for the train, ready to ambush it again.
Lucky for the regular people, your trusty sidekick Annie Oakley was ridin’ on the train, right down to Dos Cactos. (Oh, I’m sorry, Oakley… I mean the superior friend Annie Oakley. Please put down your spud gun!) Anyway, she managed to shoot them down, but they rode away before she could call the Marshal (you) on ’em.
Heading for the casino in Dos Cactos, the gang happened to run into some lost cattle. Since the gang is not as nice as you are, they didn’t really try to herd them back to the ranch. Once they got to the casino, they were challenged to a shooting contest. They shot down all the targets against everyone. Then they had to face off against Annie Oakley—and no one’s a match for Oakley!
They did not bother her again. She turned them in, but the Pop Police decided they’d better be sent to Erewhon Prison.
Black Widow’s revenge
The Black Widow was a relentless, ruthless villain whose specialty was stealing art and selling it for money.
You were trying to stop her at the same time when a friend-who-you-thought-was-a-traitor-who-turned-out-to-be-a-friend will beg you to stop her before she destroys a million dollars worth of art. Oof. Tough crowd. Well, when you team up, everyone assumes she is done for. You knocked her out. The end. But do you really ever stop her?
Apparently, she hasn’t had her revenge quite yet. Since you have left the island, she plans to get back at the curator for ruining her plans. Her disguise won’t work anymore. But if she could just learn the secrets of where all the art is…
She managed to customize from the assistant curator. Now she looked just like him! In her disguise, she talked to the curator to find out where the art was. But being a smart old lady, the curator noticed something suspicious. She told the Black Widow that she had forgotten what a painting was called and pointed to “The Starry Night,” by Vincent van Gogh. The Black Widow didn’t know the names of art! She just knew how much she could sell it for! She was caught and sent to Erewhon.
That’s all for this post! Share in the comments your theories, plus what villains you would like to hear about next.
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The months seem to be going by faster and faster for me, and we’re already at the next island! Before we begin, I would like to thank everyone who participated in last month’s Monster Carnival Island Flash-back—we had guest posts analyzing characters and presenting hopes and ideas for the island that had been years in the making.
And now for March’s Island…
Wild West!
While not as popular as others like Super Villain or Mythology, Wild West Island is still beloved and remembered by many. It is another great example of Poptropica’s ability to simplify backgrounds based off real-life locations while still keeping a certain charm. And I won’t deny that one of the most memorable parts for me was our Poptropican being able to ride the horse, Elmer.
Concepts for the horse’s design and animation
Wild West also incorporated a similar map style as Skullduggery (later used in Ghost Story), where you could travel between ports or locations from a bird’s-eye view, while sailing your ship or in this case, riding your horse. It also incorporated 3D elements!
Part of the map used to travel between different towns in the island!
I also cannot legally finish one of these posts without mentioning any villains. El Mustachio Grande is well-recognized for his flashy design, and while lacking in backstory, he manages to make up for it in personality!
Now here comes your part, Poptropicans! Wild West and other classic islands were rendered unplayable for most people in the Flash-Haxe transition, but the months of work that Poptropica’s artists and writers put into it should not go to waste! Make fanart, fanfiction, videos, and guest posts. Let the Creators know what you appreciate about their past work to encourage them to preserve it!
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