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Little firebreathing dragons!

Scroll down or click here for Green Boa’s notice.

There’s a new gold card item in the Poptropica Store, and it’s part of the Followers series! This one’s called Dragons, and it features three tiny, cute little dragon followers which blow out substances from their noses every so often, which is pretty neat.

The yellow one blows small clouds with smilie faces, the blue one seems to spit a trail of blue little circles, and the red one breathes fire. Which one do you like? 😀

In other news:

  • If you haven’t already, please welcome RavenClawGurl, the PHB’s newest author of awesomeness! :]
  • Our improved Cryptids Island guide, written by Super Thunder, is not only helpful with its instructions, but also has pictures too! Check it out!
  • There’s a whole bunch of sneak peeks on the Daily Pop the PHB hasn’t mentioned yet, and which I’m not bothered to take pictures of here, but do remember to check them out on Poptropica. They’re called ‘Sizing Chart – We use visual aids to communicate the scale of new objects and scenes,’ ‘Wireframed – Before the art is finished, we use outlines to visualize our scenes,’ ‘Go Go Robot – Just some of the ideas that would eventually become the steam robot costume in the Poptropica Store,’ ‘Publick House – This place on Cryptids Island could use some customers. Come right in!’, and ‘Newfangled Technology – The wonders of the twentieth century!’
  • Read Escape From The North Pole, the holiday special episode from our sponsor, the comedy known as Party With Hobos, which is irrelevant to partying with hobos because it’s too awesome like that. ;D
  • Thanks to Metsfan21 for providing the Christmas header we had up from December 24th to 26th.

happyholidays(:

Cryptids Island, Store, Web Development

The Big Boys from Cryptids Island

Check out our Cryptids Island resources:
Guide | Map | Videos | Info

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My best friend, Bigfoot!

In the land of legendary creatures, who emerges to be the best of the big boys [and girls and its]? This post addresses 10+ of them (plus, because there’s lots of champions here!). This post is kind of long, so click “Read More” to discover who loves Cryptids Island on Poptropica, what Poptropicans’ beliefs on Cryptids Island are, and some PHB updates! Continue reading “The Big Boys from Cryptids Island”

Cryptids Island, Store

Chupacabra in the limelight

Entangle yourself in a string of brightly colored festive lights, with three blinking patterns to choose from. Free for Poptropica members and 75 credits for non-members, the “Tangled in Lights” costume is sure to be a holiday favorite. Batteries included. (Wait, this stuff runs on batteries, doesn’t it?)

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Or, put someone else in the limelight… you might be interested in learning about the legendary cryptid Chupacabra, who you might just be able to encounter very soon on the next Poptropica adventure, Cryptids Island!

Know Your Cryptids: Chupacabra

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Chupacabra: ¿Que es?

Cryptids Island is coming on Monday to Poptropica! Before you take on some of the world’s most fearsome mythical monsters, we’d like to tell you a little bit about the legends.

“Chupacabra” is Spanish for “goat-sucker,” and that’s exactly what this creature is said to do. Unlike many cryptids, the Chupacabra is a relatively recent phenomenon. The legend began in Puerto Rico in 1995, when a farmer found that several of his animals had been killed overnight, and the blood drained from their bodies through strange puncture wounds.

Since then, the stories have spread to Mexico and the United States. But accounts of the Chupacabra vary widely: sometimes it is reported to be doglike in appearance, and sometimes, as in the drawing above, as an alien creature that walks on two legs. The only thing that unites all the tales is the creature’s bloodsucking behavior.

Recently, a Chupacabra body was thought to have been found, but was proven to be a coyote with mange. So the questions remain. Is the Chupacabra a new, unknown animal? Is it a space alien? Or is it nothing more than a legend dreamed up by angry farmers? Perhaps one day we will know the truth.

Do you believe in the Chupacabra?

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CAPTAIN CRAWFISH

“Goat-sucker”? o.O …hmm, maybe we don’t want to encounter this cryptid…

[Distantly, you hear a noise]
Captain Crawfish (what number are we on? 8?): AAAHHH!
(You hear slurping.)
Chupacabra: Yur yummeh, Crawfeesh.
Captain Crawfish 8: NOOOoooOOoo! I’ve still got to live! Please, don’t suck my blood! Heck, I’m not even a goat!
Chubacabra: Ewww! I only eat GOATS! *spits Crawfish out*
Captain Crawfish 8: Whew! I survived!

[His panicked footsteps come closer to the PHB set and he emerges, out of breath from running for his life.]
Captain Crawfish 8: Hey, guys! It’s me!
PHB peoples: OMG!OMG! ME FIRST! LET ME AT HIM! :O
Captain Crawfish 8: …whoops.
(The crowd descends on Captain Crawfish!)
PHB peoples: FOOOOOOOD!
Chupacabra: *reappears* Where is he? I don’t care if he’s fish, I want him too! SHARING IS CARING, PEOPLES!

(Due to violence, the rest of the scene has been censored.)

~Hijuyo

Daily Pop, Sneak Peeks, Store

Deck the seas with cheerful creatures

‘Tis the season to be jolly… and Poptropica’s doing that by decking the seas with cheer and monsters! 😛

Have a ball this holiday season!

Sounds pretty cheesy, but it’s just a catchy slogan to advertise the new FREE costume in the Poptropica Store: the Holiday Ball, a giant ornament that covers one’s whole body! So spread some holiday spirit by decking the halls in the color of your choice (red, green, or blue).

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Daily Pop Peeks

Catch up with all these new sneak peeks [and their descriptions], on the Daily Pop now!

F for Fake
This attack never happened, but is the giant squid still out there?

Name That Animal
If we drew it right, it shouldn’t be that hard to guess!

Deep Dark Woods
One of those would make a nice Christmas tree. Dare you to go chop it down.

Off-Street Parking
Just put that truck anywhere.

Monster Mash
Not everything we design ends up in Poptropica. These monster costumes never made it past the concept stage.

Inner Peace
This looks like a nice, quiet place. At least, until you show up.

Up on the Housetop
Something tells us that wasn’t old Saint Nick.

Sea Power
The stormy seas of Skullduggery Island began as a simple sketch.

Works of Dart
Concept sketches for some surly pub patrons.

Getting to Know Daily Pop

Captain Crawfish of the PCB recently posted a series of “getting to know” the Daily Pop posts. I’ve combined them all into an article for the PHB, so read it here! You can also access it via our Cool Stuff page.

So now’s the time to get to know the Daily Pop –  a fun Poptropica feature packed with comics, games, leaderboards, ratings, and exclusive sneak peeks.

Click here for the Daily Pop article!

*POP POP DAILY POP POP POPTROPICA!*

~Hijuyo

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Ewwwwww, chewing skulls? Disgusting…

Would you do it? Unless you were a crazy cannibal, no. I know the Black Widow has stolen a few… Okay, a LOT of priceless pieces of art, but CHEWING A HUMAN SKULL?!!! That’s just gotta be the limit… -____-

Even worse, the skulls fly…

Just in time for Halloween, you can get a spooky new type of chewing gum in the Poptropica Store.

When the spooktacular gum pops, a group of wailing ghouls flies away. Take some into any common room and see if you can scare the daylights out of other Poptropicans, like I did to this precious princess here:

Who needs a costume? Not me!

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BLACK WIDOW

Chewing skulls and sending them to bite the butts of poptropicans? Revenge revenge, Black Widow’s back in town. I THOUGHT TERRORIZING PRICESSES WAS BB’S JOB??!!! >:OOO That’s the LIMIT!!! Chewing skulls, tolerated; sending them to bite bottoms, tolerated; but STEALING A JOB?!

…….

That’s perfectly fine. Anyway, when you blow these bubbles they look like ice kind, explode like classic, and then skulls burst out, forcing people to hand out the treats. 😀

Anyway, I is out.
GB is gooooooooonnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeee…