PHB Sneak Peeks – Page 7 – 🏝 Poptropica Help Blog 🗺

Shark Boy may have been alienated from Poptropica, but his alter ego (otherwise known as Nate Greenwall, Poptropica’s lead graphic artist) is still out and about, churning out some really cool (and even unreleased) Poptropica imagery. They’re available for viewing on his portfolio website (scroll down for more info!). Here’s a look at some graphics of interest (as usual, click to enlarge):

Wow, did you catch all that?! Anyway, Nate has several pages on his portfolio site dedicated to various works he’s created for Poptropica (not all of which are posted above, but some may be familiar). If you’re interested, you can browse through them by clicking the links below:

Advertisements – designs for Poptropica ad buildings & characters
Dr. Hare’s Lair – LEGO Cuusoo – includes unreleased designs for a Dr. Hare minifigure
Papercrafts – from the LEGO Cuusoo campaign
Character design & animation – various Poptropica character designs (if you look closely, you’ll see the Sultan to be encountered on Arabian Nights Island!)
Posters & wallpapers – a selection of Poptropica wallpapers/posters
In-game illustrations – some full views of areas in the game, including the area by the sea in Ghost Story and even a palace for the upcoming Arabian Nights Island
Merchandise – among various things, the most noteworthy of all are the iTunes music CD covers and kids’ tattoos/face paint designs, both of which it looks like Poptropica is planning on releasing one day! (you can listen to Poptropica’s music at the PHB’s Behind the Scenes page too)
Logos, web, mobile design – graphics relating to Poptropica’s user interface (UI), including an array of buttons and icons, some of which have never been released

There’s a lot of creative work that goes into making Poptropica what it is and what it will be, and the artistic geniuses at Poptropica give us beautiful results. Enjoy the Nate Greenwall collection! 🙂

Arabian Nights Island, PHB Sneak Peeks

Arabian Nights Ep. 1: item sneak peeks

September 1, 2014September 2, 2014 Blake

What’s popping, Poptropicans? Blake here, with a bizarre (you might even say bazaar) sneak preview of items for episode 1 of the upcoming Arabian Nights Island! (Thanks to Nameless UnDEFiNed for the links and Giant Rock for providing full views!) Click to enlarge the images, or scroll down for file links:

Down on the right is a sneak peek of one of the island’s areas, which you can find more about in this earlier PHB post. Also, here are the original links to the SWFs:

Keep checking the PHB for more sneak peeks on Arabian Nights Island and other Poptropica shenanigans on the horizon! Stay popping, Poptropicans.

*walks away humming Arabian Nights from Aladdin*

Arabian Nights Island, PHB Sneak Peeks

Arabian Nights Ep. 1: backgrounds and more details!

August 15, 2014August 15, 2014 Samwow5

Hey everyone! As you may know from my last post, I’m going to be more inactive, but not leaving. I still have 7-8 days left in my summer to post here. 😛 Anyway, let’s get going with these sneak peeks!

HP and I were looking behind the scenes and found some amazing stuff about Arabian Nights Ep. 1: How Bazaar! As you see below, that is the background of the Cliff on Arabian Nights Ep. 1. This is the first background and it explains what to do on a part of the island. (click on it for better detail)

This one below is of the Cave on Arabian Nights Ep. 1 (continued from the pic above), and it also explains what to do in that part of the island. Looks like there was some kind of mining accident that occurred here years before you’ll go in. (click on it for better detail)

If you haven’t seen some of the latest Daily Pop sneak peeks of Arabian Nights Ep. 1, How Bazaar, well here they are (again, click to enlarge):

In Spired: I can see my house from here.

Sleep Tight: Don’t let the Desert Locusts bite

Missing: This place is a shadow of its former self

One especially caught my eye, “The Camp Value”. If you notice in the Cave background above, there’s a place that says “abandoned campsite of previous explorers”.

It could be that the Daily Pop pic is a picture of another explorer’s previous camp, or your own campsite that you make on the island. This island is looking better and better! If I find anything interesting I’ll try to make another post. 😀

~SW5~

PHB Sneak Peeks, PoptropiCon Island

PHB Sneak Peeks: PoptropiCon confirmed!

July 16, 2014July 17, 2014 HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

The rumored convention island is a reality! Let me explain. 😛

While doing my creepy daily check on Poptropica’s servers, I found a strange title on the list of game files titled “con1”. I checked it out, and sure enough it was what I thought — the rumored convention island. In fact, it has the same name as what we’ve been calling it, PoptropiCon Island! 😀 After toying around a bit with the file names, I finally got into the island and found these amazing scenes.

Check out Pepe’s Pizza Puffs, which was also posted as a sneak peek on the Creators’ Blog along with a look at a pizza puff costume – could that be a bonus costume for members?

Also, con1 does mean that there will be other cons, thus meaning that this will be an episodic adventure. 🙄 I don’t know about you, but I don’t like having to wait a whole month before I can continue my adventure. I honestly like a story that you can play through and complete in one sitting.

From the looks of it, your task for episode 1 of PoptropiCon Island will be to get inside the convention center, considering that all the locations in it are outside.

Now, my thoughts: I am so glad that this is happening. If you saw the pictures in the gallery above, then you definitely know why I am so excited. The attention to detail is pretty awesome, and the premise is just as neat.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this unreleased tid bit. More info about the island is coming soon. 😀

-HPuterpop

Glitches, Merchandise, PHB Sneak Peeks

Forgotten toys, the evolution of Poptropica, and hidden findings!

June 10, 2014June 10, 2014 HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

I’ve been inactive for a while, but that’s about to change — I’m now on summer break! Prepare for more HP than you ever asked for… 😛

Forgotten Toys

Am I just really uninformed? I was searching through Poptropica photos on Google finding fan art for the Popcorn, when I came across this image:

forgottenToys

From a first glance, this seems normal — it’s just a picture of some of the Poptropica toys in a store… But before you write a nasty comment talking about how we wasted your time, take a second look:

forgottenToy

Wait, there’s a Rock Star toy?! Also, the green coins that have redemption codes on the back are apparently gold in this picture!

You may recall that the Rock Star outfit was removed from the store mysteriously, and is now considered a rare item — but now it makes sense! Because they were going to release a Rock Star toy, they deleted it from the store and probably were going to make it the redeemable card for the toy. But why wasn’t it released? Tell me your thoughts in the comments. 🙂

The Evolution of Poptropica

No, this isn’t another “A Pop Down Memory Lane”. Instead, I want to talk about the logo, the motto, and the terminology of Poptropica. First, the logo. When Poptropica started back in 2007, it had the same logo on the homepage that it has always had — but another logo with similar features has risen and is used outside of the game, in logos and more.

First, my thoughts: personally, I like the new logo better. It seems more “poppy” so to speak. As for who designed it, I presume it was designed by the trailer maker for Poptropica, Tyson Burnham, as he was the first to use this logo in his videos.

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Secondly, the motto of Poptropica seems to have changed outside of the game — on the homepage, the motto is “Explore • Collect • Compete”. However, seen on a banner on the Island Creator Kit book page, the motto is “I am what I play.” To be honest, the latter one sounds pretty awesome (and accurate). 😛

Thirdly, the phrase “island”. First noted by Poptropica Secrets, the term “island” after the island name is seemingly becoming extinct. She muses that the first island ever, Early Poptropica, also didn’t hold the island title, but that was probably because they hadn’t decided about island titles yet.

Lately, Islands have been losing the island title, and episodic adventures aren’t going to have the island title either. The last “island” was Virus Hunter Island — even MCI is officially MC! I can see where some islands don’t sound right with the island title (e.g. Mission Atlantis Island), but to do away with the (iconic) phrase completely isn’t a good idea. 😦

Old, Hidden, and Strange

I recently posted about a “Monster Adventure” logo that was found while searching through the files of Poptropica via the “JPEXS Flash Decompiler”, but I found more than just that. First, I found a picture possibly relating to Monster Carnival — along with classic Poptropica “pow”s and “sting”s was “Raarrr!”. This has never been used in an island, so what is it doing there?

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The tiny picture below is of two Poptropicans running — and it’s also filed next to the Sky Dive game picture. Obviously there was supposed to be a race minigame, and I would rather enjoy the feature. Also, this very same type of mini-game was done in Poptropica Adventures for the DS.

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Including Monster Adventure, there’s many strange things in this file — tell me what you think of these in the comments. 🙂

Upcoming Survival Costume

An upcoming item will be released to the store soon — a fishing suit. Yes, it was obtainable in Survival: Episode 2, but it looks like it’s going to be an actual item in the Store. Plus, it’s free! (just like in the episode… 😛 )

newFishingSuit