Category: Pranks

Heyyo Poptropicans, it’s Ultimate iPad Expert here! Yesterday the PHB brought some saddening news (yesterday for me, at least – time zones are confusing). Slanted Fish is taking a break from the blog, but there’s good news as well, and that’s what this announcement post is all about!

HPuterpop, Giant Hawk, and I (UiPE) have been placed in charge, and we’re ready for something new. Everyone knows how YouTube is this amazing platform for all sorts of people to create all sorts of video content. Well, we believe that video is the future of entertainment and news. Blogging is so old school. We’re moving on to better things…

And so, we’d like to proudly announce the Poptropica Help Vlogs!

The PHV is a YouTube channel dedicated to videos about Poptropica, with a focus on helping out players. Essentially, we’re shifting from the PHB to the PHV. From here on out, we’re not delivering the latest Poptropica news by blog post anymore. We’ll be vlogging (video blogging) instead!

Consequently, we’ll be closing down the PHB. Once we get into the swing of vlogging, there will be no need for this place we know as the PHB anymore. We know some of you may be saddened by this, so we’re giving you a week to enjoy the blog before everything is completely gone. Goodbyes are difficult, but this is what’s best for the future of Poptropica news. We must take advantage of the superior medium of our time, and that’s why Poptropica Help Blog will soon be Poptropica Help Vlogs.

To kick things off, we’ve uploaded a pilot vlog (which is really several things rolled into one) on our channel (which has been in use by the PHB before, though the vlogging is a first). Hopefully, this introduction welcomes you to the future of the PHV by showing the kinds of content we’re excited to produce for you guys. You can check it out right here (and on our channel as well):

We’re using our prior Poptropica Help Videos channel for the new PHV in order to keep our precious subs. Check it out here! So cool, right? Be sure to like, rate, and of course, subscriiiiibe!

• Ultimate iPad Expert •

Hi Gs,

Well, as some of you may have guessed, Tobor Aureum was just a clever disguise for Omegon – and once again he came into the real world and trapped us all. BT came up with the idea, then I took care of graphics and in the end we all played a part in an awesome April Fools’ prank this year.

Tobor Aureum, if you haven’t figured it out already, means Robot Golden, which would be Omegon. Tobor is just Robot backwards, and Aureum is Latin for golden.

As the day progressed he made two posts, one with a picture of a nice, young Poptropican, the next with some of his good looking attributes gone, and finally Omegon revealed the next day. Through it all, however, there was a red glow in his eyes that I’m surprised some of you didn’t catch immediately. (Oh, and Tobor’s thank-you post also contained a hidden message that was revealed after the takeover!)

I also updated the header and background to give off a more graffiti-ed vibe. 😛

I put together 4 trapped PHB author graphics, which were fun to make. Featuring Samwow5, Spotted Dragon, Slippery Raptor, and Slanted Fish in Omegon’s infamous electro-cells!

The final product was so worth the work and I was really glad to see a good plan come to fruition. 😀

Throughout the day, we had the PHB authors gradually change their profile pictures to henchbot avatars, and because we all live in different time zones, it gave off the effect of us being gradually converted (just as we will slowly convert back to our regular avatars).

Fishy also wrote a post to update everyone about the prank that Poptropica pulled this year, the floppy-disc Text Adventure – all in Omegon’s commentary. It’s pretty enjoyable to read, so head over there and give it a look see. 😉

The best thing about this prank, however, was the comments. The majority the time it was either me, BT, or Fishy who was commenting as Omegon, and the other authors joined in by pretending Omegon had taken over their accounts. I have to say that the conversations (and sometimes arguments) were just gold. The post “The Reign of Omegon lives,” got about 400 comments which is colossal, and through these we learned a few things about Omegon:

• Omegon likes creme-filled donuts
• He assigns numbers to his hench-bots
• His electro-cages have themes
• His middle name is FEAR
• He talks in really annoying ALL CAPS

We also learned that some of you would willingly give themselves up to Omegon and join in the fun of being a hench-bot! What loyal fans we have… 😛 The comments are really witty, so go have a read!

Anyway, thank you, everyone, for the fun yesterday. It was really exciting and many of you had fun trying to solve the mystery of the Blogging Intern. Until next year…

//Ok, back to my donut — hey, where did it go? What is this?  Raw fish?! Wait… no… CRAWFISH?!//

TAFN.

-HPuterpop

GREETINGS, EARTH-DWELLERS. IT IS I, OMEGON.

I HAVE COME TO TAKE MY RIGHTFUL THRONE HERE ON THE POPTROPICA HELP BLOG. MY DISGUISE WORE OFF QUICKLY, AS YOU CAN SEE (it was so stuffy in there!). TOBOR AUREUM. ROBOT GOLDEN. HEH. CUTE. THANKS TO HENCHMAN 0608 FOR THAT ONE. NO, YOU CAN’T HAVE A RAISE.

MY HENCH-BOTS MADE ME AWARE OF PITIFUL AND INSULTING SO-CALLED EPISODES OF HOPE AND THE FIGHT AGAINST “FICTITIOUS” TYRANNY IN POPTROPICA.

THEY TEND TO FORGET THAT TYRANNY WILL FOREVER REIGN NO MATTER HOW OFTEN INSULTED AND DEFEATED. I WILL ALWAYS RETURN. AS PUNISHMENT FOR YOUR DISGUSTING OPTIMISM, THE POPTROPICA HELP NETWORK IS UNDER MY CONTROL NOW.

I MUST THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW TO TAKE OVER. YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT YOU HAD A ROLE IN MY TAKEOVER, ESPECIALLY TO DEAR SLANTED FISH, WHO EASILY FELL TO MY TRAP.

SPEAKING OF WHICH, YOU’LL BE SEEING SOME MAJOR CHANGES AROUND HERE… SOME BIG CHANGES. SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR BELOVED PHB AUTHORS.

THE REIGN OF OMEGON WILL LIVE ON… CHECK OUT THE COMMENTS!

Ω