We track down some amazing new things about Poptropica that other blogs have found before us, but are generously contributing their news with the rest of the Poptropica community.
From a loyal PHB reader’s blog by MonkeyTacozwe find some news on a new game called ‘Quiz Game’ that will be coming out soon to Poptropica! And we uncover the truth on the Cat/Dog Glitch from Poptropical Thunder’s Blog that will cause you to go barking mad!
News flash! RawrDude reports that Poptropicans everywhere are falling under the power of the mysterious Phantom and are vanishing into thin air! One moment you see them, and the next thing you know they’re gone. For some people, it’s not as strong; but for others, they look as if they’ve seen a ghost! There are different levels of transparency for different people, but who knows what kind of Phantom could be trying to take over Poptropica??
The Phantom (of the Opera) is here!
No, no, not him!
So, if you wish to maybe disappear for a while, the price is only 250 credits ($2.50 US) at the Poptropica Store. It’s in the Cool Stuff section, and it’s awesome; you can even choose how visible/invisible you want to be —
Wait, what are you saying? Too expensive? Well, don’t leave yet, there’s more. For just 75 credits ($o.75 US), female characters are able to purchase the grand, purple Gothic Cheerleader costume! Remember the Cheerleader costume a few days ago? ♪CheerfulPanda♫ has kindly provided us with a list of similarities and differences between the two, so you can decide which one you’d like to buy!
The Gothic Cheerleader’s action is that she has that angry emoticon (not the one where your head turns red & flys in midair!) I also compared and contrasted the 2 cheerleader outfits:
Original has the following:
blush on her face
pink lips (smiling)
the letter P (for Poptropica) for the outfit design
yellow pom-pom
comes in 3 colors=red, blue and purple
Difference=
Gothic has the following:
skull earrings
front hairpiece
“bags” in her eyes
purple lips (obviously NOT smiling)
skull design on outfit
purple pom-pom
comes in 1 color
Thanks also goes to Director Lion (Gentle Lion) for informing us about this costume being added and that there is currently a Froot Loops sidebar ad for younger players (aged 6, 7, or 8). It is advertising FrootLoops.com, where you can ”help Toucan Sam save breakfast from the FrootOctopus”!
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Also, check out VladtheViking’s updated Poptropica Tour video! It has now been uploaded to YouTube, but not updated at the Poptropica.com homepage yet… 😛 The title is ”Poptropica Tour: Summer 2009”, and includes Astro-Knights, but not Reality TV Island. Orange Tummy noted that it’s still not very updated, because the old Games Icon is still on the top-right corner for all the island previews, except Astro-Knights, which has the old Poptropica Store symbol.
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Wow, take a look at these sea animals! According to Lazy Feather, this was once posted on Nate Greenwall’s blog (a Poptropica Creator whose other identity is Shark Boy) but was taken off one day. Well, that makes sense: Sharks can be found in this aquarium. There are also two crabs that look like the one from Time Tangled Island, as well as some littler fishies, two seahorses, a snail, and a submarine.
One of the pictures on one of Nate’s blogs shows him in his office, using the computer. This mysterious aquarium, which is currently not released on Poptropica.com (if it was even meant for Poptropica, which it looks like it was), is on his screen. (For more information, click here.)
Notice how it’s got three floors, like a Main Street multiplayer room usually has. This may have been Shark Tooth’s multiplayer room until they decided to use a Coconut Cafe instead (maybe; but we’re not sure), or as MoNKeYTaCoZ suggests, possibly the one for Reality TV Island? Bony Melon reckons it could be one of the upcoming Party Rooms, such as the one shown with pink crystals. Anyway, click on the picture to view the full picture!
Poptropica Creator Shark Boy has just revealed a major update that will be coming soon. We don’t know a whole lot about it, but here’s what Shark Boy said on the Poptropica Creators’ Blog:
We’ve been working on a bunch of “super-special” outfits, new abilities, and some other awesome stuff that we will be offering for Poptropica credits. You can earn FREE credits for each island you beat, or you can purchase more credits. Poptropica credits can be used to get some cool stuff from our store. Stay tuned, coming soon!
Stats There will be a new interface called “Stats”. This will have/show:
Your character’s Poptropica name (such as Invisible Foot in the picture)
A picture of your character’s current look
Your battle ranking from playing multiplayer games in chat rooms
The number of “Poptropica Credits” you have, and a button to be able to purchase more of these credits.
An option to change your account’s password
Which island medallions you have
Your recent Poptropica activities – whether it’s just logging in or winning/losing a multiplayer game
A box telling you what’s happening around Poptropica: the example talks about Astro-Knights coming up!
Poptropica Store: you’ll get to spend your credits on cool rock star outfits and more!
Store
There’s also going to be a “Store” tab. So far, this is what we know:
Poptropica will be having a store for buying in-game items and powers. The “super-special” costumes they are working on can be bought here, as well as some new abilities (possibly Comic Kid’s new emotes from the many previous sneak peeks?) and other awesome stuff!
To shop at the store, you need “Poptropica Credits”, which are going to be Poptropica’s “money”, or their type of currency.
Some free credits can be gained from completing island quests.
You can purchase more credits, most likely with real-world money, such as American dollars.
Stuff
Lastly, there will be an interface titled “Stuff”. We don’t really know what this is, but maybe it’s a new type of inventory. Maybe all your equipment from Time Tangled, 24 Carrot or whatever island will be moved to this tab. (Just a guess.)
So now we know what the “super-special” outfits were for. At least we get credits for finishing an island too, so even if you aren’t allowed to buy stuff off the Internet, you’ll still get a chance to spend a few. Magic Monster suggests that maybe winning multiplayer games might also get you credits, because they mention winning and losing Soupwords and Balloons in the “Recent Activity” section. However, that could mean we could get credits just for logging in – which is a bit unlikely, but we don’t know for sure. What do you think?
Also, as Incredible Fish noted, you will soon be able to change your Poptropican’s password! So when this update comes, please don’t give away accounts on the Poptropica Talk page (or anywhere else on this site) to the public, or it may become out-of-date very quickly because there are people out there who like to mess up accounts. Other people won’t be able to use most of our Poptropica Talk accounts soon, so enjoy them while you can!
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Snapshot Sagas
Vlad encounters a “visitor of mysterious origin” in this next episode of Snapshot Sagas! Check it out:
I had such a relaxing week! I was sipping some coconut milk at the Coconut Cafe and taking in some sun on the tropical Shark Tooth Island beach. My relaxing time didn’t last long however, because I ran into something out of this world on my latest trip to the Coconut Cafe! It was a Poptropican named Striped Hero, but I couldn’t be sure if he was really from Poptropica because I had never seen anything like him before! He was just as friendly as any other Poptropican that I have met, and I was able to take a photo with him, but his origins are still a great mystery to me!
Congratulations Striped Hero! You have been the latest visitor of mysterious origin featured on Snapshot Sagas!
Keep looking for me anytime you visit an island! You could be the next Poptropican (or mysterious visitor) featured on Snapshot Sagas!
Congratulations from the PHB, Striped Hero! And as Cheerful Claw said, we definitely won’t have to worry about them delaying Astro-Knights any longer because they’re acknowledging the fact that the cyborg-face is out. Take a look at The Mechanical Fever news post to learn more about this metallic mask!
I’m sure all of you remember the post about Nate Greenwall right? Well I think Nate is actually Shark Boy! Take a look at this new post from the PCB:
Blog Post Title: Creative Spaces
Description: This is a picture of me in front of my desk. I have some cool toys and art surrounding me, to encourage creativity. You can even get a glimpse of a scene from Astro-Knights on my computer screen. Maybe some of the other creators will be showing you where they work?
And I found this image on another one of Nate’s blogs:
And yes, that is Nate Greenwall himself. Notice that both offices are the same. Even though some obects were moved, taken away, or added, it is still the same office.
Now that raises another question, who is Comic Kid? The comments on this post contained some possible answers to this question:
Rachel said:
I think that Comic kid = Jeff Kinney, because you know how Jeff Kinney wrote “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”? Well its very cartoony, which makes me think of comics. It’s just a guess, but who knows?
Grey Flame said:
Also, it’s kind of funny that Jeff Kinney’s (Comic Kid?)series is ‘Diary of a Wimpy KID’ and his (maybe) name is Comic KID.
I found that cool 😀
Update! We also have evidence that the Poptropica Creators view this site! Thanks for finding this, Cheerful Claw! A post titled “Poptropica” on Nate’s blog says:
As some of you know or have found out I, along with a lot of other awesome people, work for Poptropica; however, I am NOT the one to email or ask questions about Poptropica. I am like crazy busy – I hardly have time to even look at my blog or even post.
What an interesting toungue that words of mystery flow through. Yes, we all know that Hazmat is a bit loopy but this is just weird.
But don’t panic. The languge he is using is a type of Programing language used in computers and preferably games e.g. Poptropica.
If you don’t know, Poptropica is developed with a program called ‘Adobe Flash’. It is a program where anyone can make games and movies with it (I use it too. 😀 I might make a poptropica movie with it too oneday?). The text in the speech bubble below is probably ‘Action Script’ which is from Flash. From Action Script you can run commands and make things happen in the game.
E.g. When you click on this button here. It will make this explode here. WHY DID YOU PRESS IT!
Whether or not this coding is actually from Poptropica or its just Hazmat…being Hazmat, we don’t know. 😛
What do you think?
What we can tell from the script:
It has something to do with a Bomb that will explode at any moment because of some kind of CD-o-Matic 10,000, but it appears it can be dropped. Phew! BUT MAJORLY ITS HAZMATS SECRET PLAN! What on earth could that possibly be about. An evil island ruled by Hazmat Hermit? An island covered with toxic waste? What do you think? Comment what you think?
ST posting: There’s also a new poll on the Creators’ Blog asking, “What is your all-time favorite island?” I voted for Nabooti Island, although Time Tangled comes a close second and Big Nate third in my mind. The majority of Poptropica’s players think a little differently, though. Here are the current results:
Island Name | Percentage
Early Poptropica | 2%
Shark Tooth | 2%
Time Tangled | 5%
24 Carrot | 3%
Super Power | 12%
Spy | 39%
Nabooti | 12%
Big Nate | 22%
Want to voice out your own opinion? Head over to the Poptropica Creators’ Blog now and submit your vote!
We track down some amazing new things about Poptropica that other blogs have found before us, but are generously contributing their news with the rest of the Poptropica community.![The Phantom [of the Opera] is here!](https://poptropi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/phantom-item1.jpg "Phantom item")
I had such a relaxing week! I was sipping some coconut milk at the Coconut Cafe and taking in some sun on the tropical Shark Tooth Island beach. My relaxing time didn’t last long however, because I ran into something out of this world on my latest trip to the Coconut Cafe! It was a Poptropican named Striped Hero, but I couldn’t be sure if he was really from Poptropica because I had never seen anything like him before! He was just as friendly as any other Poptropican that I have met, and I was able to take a photo with him, but his origins are still a great mystery to me!
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