Category: Popspiracy Theories

Popspiracy Theories, The Missing Link

The Missing Link: A Realization

HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

I’m going to explain this theory in a similar order to how it unraveled in my mind – it all started with 24 Carrot Island. Updating the wiki has allowed me to go through the islands with a keener eye, creating pages for every character named or unnamed in each island quest. One thing I noticed was something inside the carrot farmer’s house.

There are two pictures, one hanging on the wall and one fallen off. The first is a picture of a carrot, but the second is a picture of a man. I zoomed in on this and found that the man has very similar features to the farmer – however, it seems fairly narcissistic to put up a picture of solely yourself in your own home. So we can assume that this character shown in the picture is someone else. But who? I say pilgrims from Early Poptropica Island. But how would the farmer be a descendant if the pilgrims are still pixelated and living in their lifestyle in the same time frame?

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If we accept that 24 Carrot Island is based in present time, then the pictures not being in color would mean that they are pretty old. This leads me to my second point.

We never actually got confirmation that 24 Carrot Island was in present time, I just presumed considering it’s relatively similar features – but if you really take into account all the attributes of the island, it would make sense that 24 Carrot was based in 1960. The style of the diner is unique to that time frame, and the theater is playing movies such as Night of the Living Carrots. This is a reference to the movie Night of the Living Dead, which came out in 1970.

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The advertisement on the side of the Factory is reminiscent of ads from that time period. And there was a financial crisis followed by a boom in America around this period as well (if you don’t remember, there was a financial crisis on 24 Carrot Island). So, what does this mean – other than further supporting my time machine theory? Well, we have a sure time frame for when 24 Carrot Island takes place, which means that the pilgrims of Early Poptropica Island are out of place. Especially if we accept the theory about the farmer being a descendant of the pilgrims.

So, let’s rethink the Time Tangled incident. On Shark Tooth Island, Professor Pendulum is already on vacation before you solve the time issue. This means that time could have been mixed up on Shark Tooth/Early Poptropica. In fact, it’s proven with the Greek warrior on the top of the Tourist Center.

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But how much is mixed up? Well, we can tick off the pilgrims, and even the medicine man (check out this theory to understand what I mean). However, how far can this go? What’s the major conflict on Shark Tooth Island? The Great Booga Shark. Now, how would that modern civilization be built with the shark roaming the waters? It simply couldn’t. So let’s take a closer look at one of the temple rooms:

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This room has a few things to comment on. The skeleton of a “great beast”  lies in a small hallway, that connects to a spiked pit. It almost looks like a sacrificial Booga shark room, what with the golden Booga shark statue that’s not seen elsewhere.

If we take a look at the skeleton, there aren’t any distinguishable limbs, and it actually looks a lot like the Great Booga Shark... In fact, it’s almost identical. As for the shark swimming, the waters were probably much higher at one point, considering the statue’s base is way above the water line.

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But HP, you say: Booga sharks might just be a species of sharks that live near Shark Tooth. Well, that could be the case, but on the drawings on the wall in the trophy room, a shark (the one with the neckband) is prevalent. Also, the fruit bat man‘s wording (the “great beast”) is seemingly provocative of the Great Booga Shark. All in all, I find this theory to be way more fun. 😛

I’ll be revisiting the pilgrims and more Early Poptropica weirdness later. 🙂

TAFN.

-HPuterpop

Popspiracy Theories

Poptropica Mystery: Where did the native islanders go?

HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

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This mystery goes all the way back to the very 2nd Island – Shark Tooth Island. On it, you learn a few things about it’s history:

  • Professor Hammerhead discovered the island and it’s ruins years ago. This island was abandoned some time before it was re-inhabited.
  • The native islanders there found how to calm the shark using a special concoction.
  • The Medicine Man will only talk to Native Islanders.

This said, we have some things to consider – primarily about the Medicine Man. Is he a native islander? He wears a grass skirt and will only talk to native islanders, which leads to the presumption that he is… but if he still is there, then where are the rest of the native islanders? Read the rest of the post over on Slippery Raptor’s Blog!

Arabian Nights Island, Popspiracy Theories

BTS Overview & Theory: Arabian Nights Ep. 3

Slanted Fish

BTS - Arabian Nights 3

Hey everyone, and welcome back to our Behind the Scenes Overview & Theory series! This time, we’ll be covering Arabian Nights Ep. 3: Careful What You Wish For, written by several of us on the PHB staff. Be sure to also check out the BTS post for Arabian Nights Ep. 2!

The episode will be released tomorrow for members, and is expected to be out mid-July for non-members. Without further ado, scroll down for spoilers!

:: description ::

Like always, let’s start off with the basics. Here’s the episode description:

The genie is out of the bottle, and now everyone wants a chance to make their wishes come true. But whether you’re a greedy merchant, a lovelorn palace guard, or a Sultan with a long-buried secret, heed this advice: be careful what you wish for!

Dun, dun duh!!! 😀

:: daily pop sneak peeks ::

Let’s take a look at the Daily Pops – we were only able to find relevant images posted from January to April 2015. After that, there were none, as they focused on pictures for Timmy Failure Island instead. This episode has been a long time in coming!

You can tell that all of these sneak peeks have a chance of relating to the island, but a few of them are only maybes, such as the Skeleton Key and Dust to Dust…

:: items ::

That is, until you see the items for the island!

As you can see, the Skeleton Key and Moon Dust/Stone are shown. Before moving on, there are a couple of things we need to note about the items.

While the Moon Dust and Moonstone are two separate items, the Crystals are only one item (in different forms). Regarding the Divination Dust, “Divination” is seeking knowledge by supernatural means. Also, a geode is basically a rock lined with crystals.

:: scenes & dialogue ::

Okay, now we can move on to the layout of the map and the scenes that take place. What happens is inferred from the dialogue we have uncovered for each scene.

First, we have the Treasure Keep. Nothing visual is significant besides the background.

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The treasure room is the place where we left off. In this scene, we will finally see the genie face to face and he will grant the first wish, made by Brutus, the muscleman for the 40 thieves. Brutus wishes to make everything that he touches turn to dust.

But the treasure keep is part of the thieves’ lair, where you were being held prisoner last episode! Don’t worry, you’ll live to see the Desert outside, once someone (the princess?) gets you out just as the thieves’ cave collapses.

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You’ll also be revisiting the Bazaar, which we don’t have a picture for, but for which the dialogue is rich with hints of genie hunting, camel chasing, and more item trading.

Beside the bazaar, as you may recall from the first episode, is the Palace Exterior. Here, the Master of Coin for the 40 Thieves wishes to hold infinite wealth – only to have the genie turn him into a treasure chest! Careful what you wish for, indeed!

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Inside, of course, is the Palace Interior, which is still looking completely ransacked. In nervous words, you tell the Sultan that you had the lamp but lost it, and that the last time you saw the Vizier, he had vanished into thin air. (Well, he did!)

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In the Atrium, for which we only have this snippet of a look inside, your character watches someone enter the lamp room, and also realizes that the sultan and genie must have met before.

atriumThen there’s the Lamp Room. As the name suggests, the lamp room holds the genie’s lamp, the magical instrument where wishes are being made.

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Also in the palace is the Princess Room, where you barge in and also discover the name “Samhal”, which may be the genie’s true name. Judging by the knifed drawing on the wall, however, she’s not too fond of the genie. Also, check out BT’s theory post about why the princess seems so sad!

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Finally, there’s the Vizier Room, which houses a crafting table, kind of like in the previous episode. Plus, you make an obligatory Disney reference: “Hey, a magic carpet! Now I’m in a whole new world.”

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:: final theory ::

In Arabian Nights, Episode 3: Careful What You Wish For, the genie has been released and everyone’s getting a chance to make a wish. However, the granted wishes don’t always turn out to be what people imagined: as we can see in the “Oh Baby” Daily Pop and desert dialogue, one man wishing to be “young” gets turned into a baby – and that’s just one!

Amid all this, there’s drama in the royal family – if you’ve read BT’s theory post about the princess, our speculation is that the princess, jealous of the bond between the genie and her father, the sultan, broke bad on her own and became one of the 40 thieves – the leader, in fact. That’s why she’s been forcing prisoners to rub lamps: to find the right one so she can get rid of the genie herself. We can tell by her bedroom wall that she really wants the genie gone.

Of course, the sultan has recruited you to help him, as well as his wise friend the Vizier – who, despite his “vanishing” in Episode 2, might just make a return.

So that’s our theory and evidence for the final episode of Arabian Nights! Check back here on the PHB for a guide when the island releases tomorrow for members.

Stay popping, Poptropicans. 😀

Advertisements, Popspiracy Theories, Social Media, The Missing Link

The Missing Link: Poptropica’s Glitchy Cash Cow

HPuterpop

(Disclaimer: The views expressed in this post represent those of the author, not the entire Poptropica Help Blog or its community. Further discussion can be found in the comments.)

Hi Gs,

In 2013, Jeff Kinney was interviewed on Skype. One of his points was that in order to keep up with the times, they would have to update to mobile soon. Now, I for one object. Poptropica is not a mobile game. There are 40+ islands online to play, each taking 1-2 hours, some exceeding, with amazing art, dialogue, story, and overall gameplay. Poptropica is just simply not a flippant game that you play whenever you’re bored. You have to set down and devote yourself to an island.

So the absurd idea that kids aren’t playing Poptropica online any more is, well, absurd. Poptropica is a game for your computer, it’s a desktop game. I’m excited for the day whenever they actually release a desktop version. With that said, Poptropica didn’t really seem to care about the obvious facts. They went ahead and started to pursue mobile.

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And in this process, they became extremely greedy, and lost a lot of their quality. Here’s why:

I’ve extracted the Android Poptropica app, and found some key files that have traces of a company called ‘Milkman Games’. Looking that up, I found that this company specializes in converting flash games into apps – Android and iOS. With this said, you have to realize that Poptropica isn’t solely a flash game. It uses PHP & a number of other codes, which contributes to the majority of the major game play elements.

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So in an attempt to fix the game and be able to quickly and cheaply convert it into an app, they rebuilt the engine – in a matter of months, and with different developers than from the original game. This lead to what we know as SUIs. Anyone who has played SUIs know – they’re not as good as classic Poptropica islands. They aren’t as fluid, they’re glitchy, and likely to crash.

This is the one bad thing that’s happening to Poptropica.

Now we know the reason, and Poptropica can’t keep it under wraps any more. To prove it, you can just take a peek in the files. They have ‘Home’ Island, which is Tutorial Island on the app – verbatim, and updated to match the app. In fact, that’s where I got the Arcade sneak peaks.

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So with this said, Poptropica’s little cheap scheme has been unveiled, and sadly, it’s growing every day as something irreversible. Unless the team gets their heads screwed on straight, Poptropica is going to become something not even considered a game, even less-so than what the gaming community once considered it.

TAFN.

-HPuterpop

Graphic Novels, Mystery of the Map Island, Popspiracy Theories, The Missing Link, Time Tangled Island

The Missing Link: Octavian’s secret

HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

So, you guys have faithfully been waiting for the next Missing Link about my giant Time Tangled theory – well, it looks like I was onto something.

If you guys have read any of the Mystery of the Map novel (which involves the origin of Poptropica), you may have realized that it basically debunked my theory – it looked like that time travel and inconsistencies have nothing to do with Poptropica’s wacky timeline. In fact, it didn’t look like there was much a timeline in the first place, what with the apparent viking island being a part of Poptropica as a whole, and not a teleported time period.

But just recently, I was looking through MotM at Octavian’s appearances, searching for an Easter egg. I found multiple Easter eggs throughout, not all about Octavian, and I’ll be posting more about those in the future, but for now, we’re talking about Octavian.

Two things to mention about the excerpts: first, Octavian saying “Because it is time.” If I have learned anything from the Flash on the CW, its to look out for double meanings in phrases. Time is mentioned indirectly multiple times throughout the book, not only by Octavian. So let’s think about the phrase as a double meaning; “Because it is time”. To preface, Mya shouts “Why are you doing this?!” while she hangs off of the balloon. So his motive for crashing the balloon is time. Now how does that fit in? Read more to find out!

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