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How’s it going, Poptropicans? It’s Lucky Joker here and I hope you all had a Happy New Year!✨ In case you missed it, you can look back on the previous year with our 2018 Rewind: a Poptropica Screen Odyssey.

And now, onto the first news item of the year: the redesigned friends page (which we first got a sneak peek of two weeks ago) is finally here! For reasons unknown, Poptropica has yet to officially announce it. Anyway, here’s a look at my customized page:

To edit your own page, just click the pencil icon at the top right corner. Note: You’ll have to be a member to access these edit options.

From emotes to flowers and more, members can choose from a wide selection of stickers to put on their sticker wall. Here they are below:

In addition to the sticker wall, members can also customize their profile by choosing a wallpaper from the 10 options available. Non-members are left with a default blue background with intersecting lines, but members’ options include these backgrounds:

What non-members can customize is their daily mood, a little bubble located up by your Poptropican’s name that displays your emoji of choice.

Everyone is also able to use the message wall, where you can leave pre-scripted comments (similar to the ones in the Blast-Off Arcade) or drop off an emote. You can do this on your own page as well as write on friends’ pages.

While visiting friends’ pages, you can also give them a “like” up at the top, and visit their clubhouse by following the clubhouse link. You can scroll through a person’s list of friends and view more profiles, but unfortunately the lists only shows about ten friends, so if you’ve added more (as many of us probably have), they’re going to be tough to find.

There’s also a space on each profile called a photo board, but it’s empty, and there currently doesn’t seem to be a way to fill it up. The Photo Booth is currently absent from Home Island, and album photos from islands completed is a feature that hasn’t carried over to the redesigned profiles. And finally, there’s the costume closet, which works much the same as before.

So what do you think of the new friends page? I’m quite a fan of the design, but I do miss some of the features that got left behind with the old one—like the display of your battle ranking, being able to see which islands you’ve completed, pop quizzes, and pretty importantly, finding specific friends and being able to add new friends. What else needs to be part of the friends experience on Poptropica? Share your thoughts in the comments!

Thanks for reading as always. I’ll talk to you guys in the next one… pop on!

– Lucky Joker 🍀

Hello, everyone!

Lucky Joker here to report a minor update that has sneakily made its way onto Poptropica Original in the create a character process.

Lots of new hair and mouth options (some of which are purchasable in the game, like the lips from the Pop Star outfit, for example) have been added in for both boys and girls—replacing many of the older ones.

Here are some GIFs showing all of the new stuff: (Click the images to enlarge them or visit Poptropica for crisper quality.)

You can even see some of the randomized NPCs sporting these new looks too! That’s how I came across this update in the first place. 😛

Though this update is pretty insignificant, I have to say that I absolutely love the new variety of hairstyles—especially the afro!

Well, that about wraps this post up. Thanks for reading, as always! Talk to you in the next one.

– Lucky Joker 🍀

Hello, everyone—Lucky Joker here to help you find this week’s March Prize!

The prize this week is the Dr. Hare Plushy—which was once an unlockable prize you could earn by buying the real-life Dr. Hare plush toy and redeeming the coin code. Now it’s free, and it’s located somewhere on Mythology Island!

If you click the image on the billboard on Home Island, you’ll be led to almost the exact spot the plushy is located. Convenient, right?

Where is it, you ask? He’s hanging out on top of the Midas Gym. Better be quick, because you only have about a week to claim him!

In other news, the Poptropica Creators have recently taken to social media to ask for suggestions from us players on what we want to see in the game!

The posts on their Instagram and Facebook pages have received a vast range of suggestions, varying from themes for islands to upgraded common room features. Personally, I’d like to see the friends feature added to Poptropica Worlds, as well as the winning costumes from the #MyPoptropicaCostume contest. (We’ve been waiting an awfully long time now!)

If you’re reading this, Creators: We here at the PHB have listed many of our proposals in our Pop Petition series—as have our readers, who’ve shared loads of cool island ideas in this discussion post from back in January.

I have to say it’s nice that Poptropica is reaching out to its players to seek ideas for new content. It’s been a while since we’ve had any communication from the Creators, so this a nice step forward.

What new (or old) features would you like to see in Poptropica? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!

– Lucky Joker 🍀

Hey Poptropicans!

With the recent arrival of 2018 (and a goodbye to 2017), we’re looking forward to what Poptropica has in store for us antsy adventurers this new year. So we’re asking the question to all of you: What Islands do you want to explore on Poptropica?

Now, unlike the Create Your Own Dream Island contest Poptropica held back in 2013 that brought us Arabian Nights Island, we can’t promise anything to happen from your ideas. Instead, we just want to offer this as a space to discuss your island ideas, hear from others, and leave thoughts and feedback for each other!

Personally, I would love to see more islands inspired by aspects of globalization we haven’t seen before, or much of, in the game. This includes more diversity in representation of geographical regions (I’m especially partial to Asia, being from this corner of the world), cultural traditions (such as Native American culture), and even religious mythology (an island on Greek mythology is one of Poptropica’s most popular, but why don’t we also explore our contemporary stories valued by large populations of the globe, like those of Hinduism, Buddhism, or the Abrahamic faiths?).

The world is a rich place, full of stories, and we might not be able to get them all. But if Poptropica is a starting place for many young people, wouldn’t it be amazing if they got to experience a taste of even more places, people, and stories from around the world? In our increasingly globally-connected age, “around the world” may only be around the corner, and a Poptropican who understands their neighbors’ cultures makes for a better neighbor, which is why these are the types of islands I would love to see on Poptropica.

These are a couple of maps I created for the post PHB Special: World Geography with Poptropica Islands, in which I considered where in the world Poptropica Islands took place.

But what do you think? What island creations have you been cooking up in your mind? Are you inspired by certain fandoms, friends, legends, places you’ve been, or places you dream of visiting? What if you combine some ideas together? Ponder that and tell us…

What Islands do YOU want to explore on Poptropica?

Share your thoughts in the comments!