Category: Pranks

Pranks, Store

sɹǝʍoɥs lıɹdɐ

Chicken Wing

˙uʍop ǝpısdn pǝuɹnʇ sı plɹoʍ ǝɥʇ ǝɹǝɥʍ sı

ʎɐp s,looɟ lıɹdɐ

Ssh… you’re being watched…

You do not know me. But I know you, and I’m here to offer you the chance of a lifetime. There are only two options, and you can either fail or succeed.

Some people don’t know fun even when it’s (literally) in their face. Take this glum guy, for example. I mean, come on. This is supposed to be a day of fun and smiles! So, who are you going to follow – the happy* or sad one?

Click on one of the two kids! Will you find success or failure?

*happy – This costume is called April Fool and can be bought at the Poptropica Store for 75 credits (unless you’re a member, in which case it is free). The bow tie really does spin! :mrgreen:

Mythology Succeeds Reality Tomorrow

Members: Play Mythology Island Tomorrow! Poptropica needs a hero to spare it from the wrath and thunderbolts of mighty Zeus. You must travel throughout Ancient Greece – crossing the River Styx, climbing Mount Olympus, exploring the underworld – to help Zeus find his sacred items. Don’t disappoint the gods, or else Poptropica might suffer.

~Hijuyo =)

Pranks, Web Development

Poptropica Fools!

Codien

April Fools Day, 2009

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April Fools day. A day for foolery and miscious. And PHB had a go at it.

The logo used in the PHB April Fools, 2009 Prank.
The logo used in the PHB April Fools, 2009 Prank.

For 3 days before, during, and after Aprils Fools day, the PHB team changed the whole site to appear as if it was now serving another online game called “Club Penguin”. And boy did PHB fool alot of people!

Crying, thrashing, tearing, yelling, “WE WANT PHB BE BACK! WE WANT PHB BACK!”. We got dozens of comments and emails of pure panic that the site had mysteriously changed over night.

Not only was it the readers that got fooled but the Poptropica Creators Blog (PCB) got fooled too:

Rest In Peace – Help Blog

We wanted to acknowledge a certain “Help Blog” for Poptropica that recently changed formats. They had a lot of talent, and we’ll miss them terribly. Good luck guys.

Whether or not this was the creators just joining in on the foolery, or maybe they were just completly fooled, or maybe they were just talking about another site (unlikely 😉 ).

So what on earth did we do to make it look so much like we had changed.

Heres what the site looked like.
Heres what the site looked like.

First off Codien designed the header, making it as real as possible as if we were really a help blog serving Club Penguin.

Now we had to write the posts and pages.  We were stuck. We had to write lots of posts and pages in less then 3 days. We couldn’t do it. So we emailed a very good friend of ours and asked her if we could use her posts for the prank.

This person was Happy Pippi – Happy Pippi owns a  wonderful, amazing, well organized blog involving Club Penguin. Her blogged is filled with amazing posts and pages.

When we asked she was very happy in letting us use her posts (Suggesting the name 😉 ).

We would like everybody to give a very big thanks to Happy Pippi. THANKS HAPPY PIPPI!

Please visit her amazing site by clicking on this link:   http://happypippi.wordpress.com/
Or you can access it by clicking on the link button saying Happy Pippi in the right hand bar.

We will add more stuff to this latter. With a more detailed explanation and behind the scenes work.

April Fools!

-PHB Team-

Scary Tomato
Smockers
Codien

Pranks

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Chicken Wing

“O HAI DERE!”

A mysterious voice booms out loud and clear. You stop to listen.

“You’re from Poptropica, aren’t you? Just to let you know, it’s not really safe around these parts. There have been rumors circulating around about these places, rumors you don’t want to hear about. Believe me, it’s horrible here. Seriously, have you seen… Poofendirtz? Oh, you don’t even want to know!

…

(Long, awkward silence)

…

You DO want to know? You do realize that you may find yourself dead if you wish to continue, right? Because if you make one wrong move, well, we’re not going to be held responsible for it, capisce?

…all right then. No backing out now!”

By now, you’re really starting to feel creeped out, but there’s no way to escape now. You come across a diversion on the path you’re walking on and wonder what you should do next…