Synopsis
Pelican Rock is the toughest prison ever built. And after you’re framed for a crime you didn’t commit, it’s your new home! Use your wits to devise an escape plan, and your nerve to pull it off. But getting out is just the beginning — because the real criminal is still out there!
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or December 30, 2015 (for all)
Common Room: Bert’s Basement Gym
Preceded by: Timmy Failure Island
Succeeded by: Monkey Wrench Island
Resources on this page: Island Extras | Synopsis from Poptropica | Quippy’s Store Items | Video Walkthrough | Written Walkthrough | Album Photos | Trivia
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Quippy’s Store Items
Quippy sells the following items in Bert’s Basement Gym, the common room: Prisoner Costume, Pet Bird Follower, Escapee Dr. Hare*, and Handcuff Toss*.
Video Walkthrough
For a written walkthrough with pictures, scroll down on this page!
Written Walkthrough
Walkthrough written by Slanted Fish & Brave Tomato
Special thanks to: Slippery Raptor, Captain Crawfish, Happy Panda, & Nice Hawk
Welcome to Bay City, a lovely seaside town modeled after San Francisco. Walking left, you’ll admire how everything seems to be just fine and dandy until — “stop, thief!” — a masked bandit streaks past with a bag of loot!
Being the heroic Poptropican you are, there’s no time to waste, and you dash off right in the same direction. Run up to the top of the hill, where you’ll see the stack of money the bandit dropped.
Just then, the bandit reappears, covering you with the emptied sack and revealing their identity to be – your doppelgänger! Yes, this sneaky character looks exactly like you, but with shoes! He/She will then run off, leaving you to be caught by the police, who refuse to believe you’ve just been framed.
Welcome to Pelican Rock Prison
You’ll be taken to Pelican Rock, a high-security island prison much like Alcatraz, where the worst offenders are sent. Fun fact: most of the characters you’ll meet on this adventure are the same gender as your character!
It’s time for lockdown, which means a guard will be prowling about to make sure everyone’s in bed. When the guard walks off, pick up the Metal Cup on the table. You can also get a closer look at the grate in your cell, which you’ll need later. It’s your first night, so click on the bed and get some sleep.
In the morning, you’ll be taken to the prison yard for some recreation time. Here, you can talk to your fellow inmates. There’s Patches with the bird, Marion who’s reading a pamphlet, Van Nostrand the painter, Florian “Flashy” Fosbury the weightlifter, Big Tuna who hates you, and later on, you’ll meet a pair of twins.
After you mingle with everyone, Warden Sharp will appear, ordering all the inmates to line up so she can intimidate them with a speech. One of the prisoners, Big Tuna, will even try to fight you thinking you’re the real Booted Bandit – but gets taken away.
License Plate Duty
Next on the schedule is work. You’ll be put on license plate duty in the metal shop, with one other inmate whose comments over the days you’ll come to spend here will sometimes offer hints. For now, though, your fellow inmate tells you to ask for a drill bit to get to work. You can get the Drill Bit from the prison guard at the front desk.
Give the drill bit to your fellow inmate, who will tell you to start making license plates with the machine at the left. (Also: See that “PHB 1” plate on the wall? That’s a reference to the Poptropica Help Blog, the website where you’re reading this walkthrough!)
Making license plates is pretty simple: just click the letters and numbers to match the plate at the top. For today, you’ll only need to make 3. Each completed plate earns you a stick of gum.
When you’re done, talk to the guard to get your 3 sticks of Gum and return the drill bit.
A Second Helping
Next, you’ll be brought to the mess hall for meal time. You’ll be handed a Spoon which you’ll have to return when you’re done. The twins will hint that it’s possible to break through the walls, and Patches, the gray-haired one, will offer to help you steal “seconds” for three sticks of gum.
Hand over your gum, and (s)he’ll cause a disturbance that gets one of the guards away from the spoons. Talk to the other guard, who will give you a Spoon, not realizing you already had one. After the first guard realizes the distraction was faked, say you’re done eating and you’ll return one of your spoons (while still keeping another).
It’ll be time for lockdown again. When the guard walks away, click on the grate in your cell and test the edges (not the metal bars) with your spoon. You’ll find that it’s not strong enough, so you’ll need to sharpen it somehow. For now, it’s time to get some sleep.
Slow Bloom
Alright prisoner, time for Day 2 at Pelican Rock! You’ll find that routine comes naturally in this place, but with each day, you’ll get a little closer to formulating an escape. At the prison yard, talk to the bird feeder, and the pelican at the top-right corner will leave its nest, allowing you to grab its Egg.
Go back to where the pelican is pecking on the ground and pick up the leftover Seeds. Then walk a bit left to the mound of dirt, and use your seeds to plant them there.
Hop over to the puddle on the steps below the leaking pipe, and use your metal cup to get a Cup of Water. Then, go back over to the dirt and use that to water the seeds you planted.
If you talk to the painter, Van Nostrand, you’ll learn that she/he wants some sort of living thing to paint, like a flower. Marion, the pamphlet reader, will want 3 sticks of gum in exchange for files about the prisoners. Flashy, the weightlifter, will talk about wanting to keep up the perfect physique.
That’s all you can do in the yard for now, so talk to the guard and say you’re ready for work.
Sharpening the Spoon
In the metal shop, you’ll see a metal grinder, but you can’t use it with the guard there. So instead of making the recommended five license plates at work today, go overboard and make more – when it gets to 7, the machine will break down.
The guard will come over to see what’s up, and while he/she is blinded by the fog, quickly run over to the grinder and use your spoon. You’ll now have a Sharpened Spoon, and when you leave, you’ll also get 7 sticks of gum!
Meal time follows, and there’s not much to do or say, except the cook (at the kitchen on the left) will tell you that he/she will let you work in the kitchen if you bring three free eggs. You can get these from the yard, one day at a time, and if you’ve been following along in the guide, you’d already have one so far.
Back to lockdown, and once again you have a limited amount of time to explore your cell before the guard returns. Click on the grate, and this time, with your sharpened spoon, you can begin chiseling away at the edges. Note that as you chip away, the bar at the top indicating where the guard is will disappear, so you may want to stop every so often to make sure you’ve still got time. If you do get caught, the penalty is about 5 sticks of gum.
Eggs & Prisoner Files
Rise and shine! Time for another day of routine at Pelican Rock. At the prison yard, fill your cup with water again and continue to water the plant growing in the dirt mound. Then, talk to the bird feeder and another pelican will leave its nest. This time, the nest is somewhere on the left – to get there, hop on the bust of the warden, then onto the windowsill, then onto the pipe with the nest to grab the second Egg.
Also, if you hand over 3 sticks of gum to Marion, the pamphlet reader in the yard, you’ll get some Prisoner Files in exchange. This gives you some info about the prisoners, including yourself, that you can read about.
There’s not much else you can do for the rest of the day, so if you want to skip through faster, you can tell the guard at the shop that you’re done even without working (although you may want to earn some more gum if you’re running low). At the mess hall, you can tell the guard you’re done eating, and then it’ll be time for nightly lockdown again.
Continue chiseling away around the grate, and if you’re fast enough, you might just get the whole thing done! Otherwise, you can finish another night. Even if you get in, you can’t leave without the guards noticing.
Wake up, it’s the same thing: water the plant (see instructions above) and talk to the bird feeder to get the pelican away from its nest. This time, the nest will be at the top left, so go the way you did to get to the second nest, then hop up one more pipe and windowsill to get to the final nest and grab the third Egg.
You can skip work again if you like (although it is recommended you collect gum since there are more payments to be made), and now that you’ve got all three eggs, you can bring them to the cook at the mess hall!
Sunflower Studies
Go to the mess hall and talk with Flambe, the cook, again. Since you have the eggs, he/she will hire you as sous chef (second-in-command)! After tasking you with mixing mashed potatoes, go to the bowl of pasta and grab an Uncooked Pasta from it. There’s not much else you can do right now besides show off your mashed potato stirring ability, so head over to lockdown and call it another night.
Good morning, sunshine! Time for another beautiful day in Pelican Rock! Upon entering the yard for recreation, water the plant one last time (as mentioned before in previous days) and you can grab yourself a Sunflower!
Go back to Van Nostrand and give the flower to him/her. As thanks, Van Nostrand will give you a Painting of the tower, and promises to fulfill any painting favors. If you have 7 sticks of gum to pay, use the uncooked pasta (which looks like a drill bit) and ask to have it painted silver. Upon payment, Van Nostrand says that it’ll be ready and painted by tomorrow.
Work if you want, but you don’t have to, and you can skip meal time, too. However, things get juicy when it comes to lockdown. When the guard goes away, quickly click on the grate to go into the vent. Use the metal cup next to the pile of plaster to get yourself a nice Cup of Plaster. Before the guard comes back, exit the vent, and then go to sleep.
Yeah, yeah, good morning. You get the idea by now. In the prison yard at recreation time, all you have to do is go up to Van Nostrand to collect what is now a Painted Pasta. It looks more like a drill bit now, but you still need to trick the guard into thinking otherwise. Exit the recreation yard, and skip work if you’d like.
Entering the Vent System
When meal time comes, you can do more things! Go over to the cook’s area and use the cup of plaster in the mashed potato pot. Stir the part and the potatoes will turn into potato marble.
Distraught at the ruined mashed potatoes, Flambe will take out the potato plaster block. If you click on it, you can use the sharpened spoon to chisel yourself an unpainted Dummy Head. When you’re done with that, go back to your cell and call it a night.
The next morning, return to Van Nostrand, and in exchange for 5 sticks of gum, he/she will paint the dummy head in your likeness. As before with the pasta, Van Nostrand needs one day to paint it. There’s nothing else you can do today, so you can just not work, skip meal time, and go right to sleep.
Today’s going to be a more interesting day for you in Pelican Rock! When you go out to the yard for recreation, talk with Van Nostrand again and she’ll give you the Painted Dummy Head, which is painted to look like you while sleeping. Not long after the exchange, Warden Sharp will come over and take away Van Nostrand’s painting privilege for having an untucked shirt. Yikes.
There’s not much you can do for the rest of the day, so you can go right to lockdown. Use the dummy head and you’ll place it in your bed before you enter the vent. Now, you have all the time in the world in the vents.
If you go up and to the right, you’ll be in the vents of the mess hall. What you want to do here is configure it so the path of the air goes to the farthest vent, right above Flashy’s favorite spot during meals. (You may have picked up on the hint from the metal shop inmate about getting Flambe to cause a scene at meal time.) Here’s a diagram, courtesy of Nice Hawk from Poptrickia:
Then, go back left and up to the vent system of the metal shop. Re-direct the path of the air so that it goes from the license plate machine at the far end over to the spot right above the guard’s desk. As with the mess hall vents, your character should say something to confirm when you’ve done it right. Once you’re done, head back to your cell to get some sleep.
Tools for Escape
Good morning! With all that you’ve set up, today’s going to be an interesting day, except for recreation, which you can skip. At work, you’ll want to break down the machine again by making 7 license plates. This time, when the guard tries to turn on the fan, the fan will blow down at the desk spot, continuing to leave his/her glasses fogged up.
Give the guard your Painted Pasta, and that will be able to fool the guard so that you can keep the Drill Bit.
At meal time, run over to Flambe’s kitchen and press the green button to turn on the fan. Click on the pot of mashed potatoes, and as you’re mixing, some of it will fly up into the vent and, because of the vent configuration you did, will land right on Flashy’s head. Upset about his/her ruined hairdo, Flashy will cause a scene, and pretty soon a food fight breaks out!
Flambe tries to stop them, but comes back defeated, asking you to rescue the precious mixer. Get out there into the potato battlefield and pick up Flambe’s Mixer under one of the tables. (Since you’ve got your drill bit, it’ll automatically be attached to form a Mixer With Drill Bit.) Flambe will appreciate your dedication so much that you’ll get to keep it.
With the guards highly annoyed, everyone is then sent straight to lockdown. When the guard walks away from your cell, put the Painted Dummy Head back on your bed, and climb into the vents. Go up and right to the mess hall vents, then run over to the far right and use the Mixer With Drill Bit to pry open the pipe at the end. The twins will come rushing over, saying you’ll need some help in escaping and that they’ve got rafts that will be ready tomorrow night.
For now, you can sleep easy knowing that escape is close at hand.
Escape!
The next day at recreation, talk to Patches the bird feeder, saying you might not be around for long and will miss the bird. Patches will say he/she might be able to get the bird to fly with you. Just then, Flashy and Big Tuna show up, ready to beat you up. You quickly ask Patches for some bird seed and fling it onto them, causing them to be pecked by pelicans.
Run to the exit, and it’ll skip right ahead to lockdown. You know the drill: wait for the guard to go off, place the painted dummy head on your bed, and enter the grate into the mess hall vents. When you get to the end pipe, the twins will arrive, but just as they go ahead to set up the rafts, the pipe bursts, and you’ll have to go up instead of down with them.
Now you’ll have to avoid being detected by the spotlight and guards at windows. Hide behind objects, stay away from whichever window is lit as the guard on duty goes around, and keep making your way right. If you get caught, you’ll just restart at the last checkpoint. At one point, you’ll have to push a box and jump on top of it to continue forward.
Soon enough, you’ll find yourself trapped right before you get to a large spotlight shining from a watchtower. Behind you, a couple of guards are approaching with Warden Sharp, saying they could hear footsteps. It looks as if you’re doomed – but then Patches’s pet bird appears, taking the blame for the noise of your footsteps.
As the spotlight shines on the bird, you’ll be able to jump off the roof, and a cutscene will show you heading back to Bay City by raft with your fellow escapees.
Back to Bay City
But it’s not over yet! The twins will run off, but the police are back on the prowl and waiting for the Booted Bandit to return to collect the treasure at the tower. You’ll start off at the bottom of the hill, and need to work your way to the top without getting detected.
Enter Kurt’s Fish Warehouse, and climb up to the top windowsill. Next, walk across the telephone wire all the way to the left. Hop up to the top, onto the red bench, then onto the tree branches, and keep going right. When you get to the Colt Tower, push the trash can over to the statue of the guy with the coonskin cap, then hop up to it, jump right to stand on the tower ledge, and go up.
Continue climbing up the ledges until you reach the top. Your character will wonder what’s different about how the tower was supposed to look, and pull out the painting by Van Nostrand from earlier. Notice that the arch window in the middle doesn’t go all the way down like the others. Click on that spot on the tower, and you’ll realize it’s been filled with plaster.
Use your sharpened spoon there, and you’ll find a safe! Just then, the real Booted Bandit appears, and so do the police. You need to prove that you’re not the Booted Bandit (um, can’t they see you’re the one not wearing boots??).
Anyway, the safe might just save you, but no one knows the combination except Flashy Fosbury. However, you might remember something Flashy was always saying (and by the way, it’s also in the prisoner files): the number is 26-34-30.
Crank the dial, and the safe will open, revealing… glamorous head shots of Florian “Flashy” Fosbury?
No one is more upset than the Booted Bandit, who inadvertently makes a confession and gets arrested on the spot. As for making it up to you for all the trouble, Marshal Tex Brannigan promises to put in a good word for all your new prisoner friends, and offers you the Island Medallion.
Congratulations, you’ve completed Escape From Pelican Rock Island!
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Album Photos
Poptropica used to save album photos of iconic moments from your island adventures, but this feature does not exist anymore.
Trivia
- Escape From Pelican Rock Island is Poptropica’s 45th island, and was released to members on December 10, 2015. It was released to all on December 30, 2015. The login page featured the prisoners running across the screen, with a police officer chasing them and Escapee Dr. Hare trailing behind.
- The island was re-released for Steam on May 25, 2022.
- The location is based on San Francisco’s Alcatraz island prison. “Bay City” is a nickname for San Francisco.
- The “Colt Tower” you chase the Booted Bandit up to is based on San Francisco’s Coit Tower.
- On the hill, there is a sign for Krpata Motor Oil, a reference to Poptropica Creator Mitch Krpata.
- The gender of many of the characters you meet depends on the gender of your character (it will be the same gender).
- The metal shop contains a reference to this very fansite you’re on, the Poptropica Help Blog (PHB)! On the wall, there is a license plate which reads “PHB 1”.
- The other license plates are “2STUFF”, “7 ATE 9” (as in 7, 8, 9), and “LANGE” (a reference to Dr. Lange, a Poptropica Creator whose persona is a character on Virus Hunter Island).
- The painting given to you by Van Nostrand is signed “Patches” – the name of another prisoner. This may not be a mistake: if you check the prisoner files, Van Nostrand was incarcerated for copyright infringement, so Patches probably did paint that picture. But because Van Nostrand claims the work of others as his/her own, s/he will tell you it is “an old one of mine.”
- The name Patches could be referring to his/her patchy hair, as well as his/her practice of “unlicensed phrenology” (according to the case files). Phrenology is a pseudoscience that divides the brain up into sections or “patches” that have to do with different feelings and thoughts.
- Warden Sharp, in addition to being the name of the Pelican Rock warden, is also the name of the asylum warden in the Batman universe.
- The word flambé, as in Chef Flambé, refers to a cooking method in which you cover food with liquor and set it alight briefly.
- On Chef Flambé’s file, it says some of his/her associates are Boba Fleigh and Bario Matelli, which are references to famous chefs Bobby Flay and Mario Batali. Also on Flambé’s case file, it says his/her real name is Dean Paulus, which is a reference to the famous chef Paula Dean.
- Besides the Booted Bandit, there is one other character on this island with footwear – the kid wearing skates on Main Street!
- Depending on how long you take to finish the island, you’ll see some of your prisoner friends free on Main Street at the end! The more days it takes you to escape, the less of them will be freed.
- The music in the trailer is the theme from Mystery of the Map Island.
- Before Poptropica’s conversion to Haxe, you could see some of your prisoner friends free on Main Street after your escape, depending on how long you took to finish the island! The more in-game days it took you to escape, the fewer of them would be freed in the end.
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The island is not really hard!!!
And Thanks for the written guide
i just found out a glitch,
on day 2 when you are in the metal shop after you have played the licence plate game ask the warden for the drill bit then in the middle of your speech click on the warden again and say “im done for the day” and you will receive 14 gum and a drill bit
ya me too i have the game half whey done
that actually worked
thats sooo cool
I did this, and i did not get the 14 gum
but i did get the drill bit XD
It didn’t work. Btw, I wasn’t on day 2
+Ezra
ARGH I RESTARTED THE ISLAND AND IT DIDN’T WORK!!!!!!!! WHY I WAS SO FARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found another bug that made it impossible to do the island. After you ask the chef if you can be a chef as well he tells you he wants eggs right? So I am come back the next day and I run past him for a brief second and I manage to get a piece of macaroni, I used the macaroni on the guy who gives the drill bits thinking it looks a bit like macaroni and he took it from me asking if I was playing games. Is it possible to get another piece of macaroni? I think there must be but when I am in the kitchen I click on the macaroni and it just says that they look like drill bits.
Well thats great, I always have such a hard time getting the drill bit.
The part where u have to go thru spotlights AND guards is SOO hard! Beware
it’s so annoying and it always takes me ages to get through that bit
i tried hiding behind objects but i still got caught someone help plz
thanks helped me SOOO much axept i knew that the code was 640
For PixieLove, there’s a certain point in the escape thing where there are guards walking inside the buildings you have to go through on top of the big spotlights. The guard silhouettes are seen through the windows and they hold flashlights. It’s pretty hard to get through but you can do it– stay behind the guards and walk to the right at a bit of a distance as they’re seen walking to the right, and stop between the walls– not the windows– to avoid being seen by them. Gets super hard when your Poptropican gets through the line of sight of the big spotlights, but I know you can do it if you keep trying– and if you haven’t already. Good luck!
that part is really hard but i finally finished it
I know, right?
when I was on the part where you pry the door open, somehow it gliched out and brought me into mess hall with no way out, really weird!
I went to shop and then went to pop home and now I’m outside the prison and I have my items but I can’t get back in Help
slantedfish: Contact Poptropica support so they can help!
I have a big problem too. You know when you are changing the mess hall vent arangment.
I accendentaly fell down into the mess hall and I cant get back into the vent at all. You cant even climb onto the lights on the celings. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp me!!!
I also have a problem. I can’t get past the female guard above the red bench, if I try getting on the bench, I keep getting caught. 😞Help?
Wait never mind, looks like I went the wrong direction…
This is for Ceilie: The exact same thing happened to me. Just log out of the game and then log back in. You should go back to the beginning of the ventilation system or the beginning of the mess hall ventilation system. You should be able to do it just fine after that.
poprtopica is not good with collision detection
I didn’t do the sharpening metal spoon fast enough. How do I fix this????
In response to Ceilie, you’ll have to leave the island and go to the map. There, you can return to the island and the glitch will be fixed. However, the bad thing about doing this is that you’ll have to redo the vents.
true DAT
I think i’ve made a mistake: on day 1 when u get the metal cup i accsidently filled it up with water from the sink!
what do i do???
It’s ok! You don’t have to use the puddle of water from the plant then 😀
I mean for the plant hehe
Hello,
yes the island is actually easy! I ahve the medallion.
See you around!
Was i the one who didn’t know they would see the PHB-1 Reference
Correction: only one
there were no corrections
What do you mean? We pointed out the reference in the guide. 🙂
I meant i thought you would not notice the reference,anyway,does the booted bandit’s suit make him/her really that fat?Really look at it.
Of course we’d notice! We even saw it in a Daily Pop before the island released. 🙂 The Booted Bandit doesn’t really look that fat… 😛
what do you do if you don’t get the egg at first
slantedfish: You can go back and get it another day!
Ccan someone please help me… I missed the part with the seeds for the first three days and i don’t know how to get them now… What do I do. The bird is no longer around and the prisoner that feeds the bird won’t lay seeds… What do I di
slantedfish: If talking to Patches (the bird feeder) doesn’t work, you may have to restart (click on the cog icon in the menu).
Awesome guide~! 🙂 😀
Do you guys need more pictures for the guide? If so, I have plenty to share.
We have some and we’re working on adding them, but feel free to email [email protected] if you have any to share! 🙂
BEST GUIDE EVER : (
I HATE IT
JK : )
okay so when i try to do the configuration in the mess hall,i move to the first spot to turn and i just fall down into the kitchen. Is this supposed to happen? do I have to restart the map because I got really far and don’t want to restart. Please help…..
Confused and Clueless, The same thing happened to me and if you just refresh your page (you will have to sign in again) and just try again it should work
Yay! One of my pics are in!
@SlantedFish I am almost done my second sets of pics to send you
Which Pic? O.O
Haven’t played the island yet (due to loss of membership, because I’m too lazy AND too poor to buy membership), but from the looks of it, this island looks GENIE-US. (Get it? Arabian Nights Island?) Nice of the Creators to add a PHB reference. Now it’s just time to wait…
When does the island come out for non-members?? It’s killing me to wait!!
slantedfish: Dec 30, 2015! You can also play on the app now! 🙂
BTW, Merry Early Christmas poptropicans!!
I’m finally FREE!!!All these days!Free at last!*runs to the hills and shouts”I’M FINALLY FREE!”*
I need to get the plaster but my cup is full of water, I already grew the sunflower so I don’t know how to empty the water what should I do besides restarting the island?
Never mind I got it
I have tht problem too. How do I empty the cup ???
Just click on the plaster. The cup will automatically empty the water and be filled with plaster.
Just click on the plaster I had the same problem it fills it with plaster even know there is water in it
Same here
I love this guide, but when you’re on the tree branches trying to escape the police,you say to keep going right. But I tried that and a police guard caught me when I tried to jump to where he wouldn’t see me. I mean, other than that, this guide has been a big help. Thanx!!!!
When the guide says go right, it does mean you’ll need to continue making your way to the right to progress, but it also involves being careful not to get caught (as the guide mentions). 😉 Anyway, glad it’s been able to help! 🙂
how do i chisel the grate?!?! i cant do it !!!!!!
To chisel, click away at the rim surrounding the grate (the edges). You’ll need the sharpened spoon to do this.
It won’t let me make more than six license plates for some reason and therefore I can’t obtain the sharpened spoon.
thats because there is a timer. try doing it faster.
I can understand Fioran. He/she (very confusing) is just a huge narcissist,like your truly. Only that I would hide a bit more than selfies in that safe…
I would hide beautiful paintings of myself! That way,I can look beautiful AND colourful!
And the doppelganger thing was also pretty great xD
And how come you don’t wear a jumpsuit like everyone else?
Also,what’s the least number of days you have to stay at Pelican Rock to escape from it? There could be speedrunning strategies and all that jazz.
Three
I liked that island. It is one of my top favorites definitely.
Is this island out for everyone. If it is, I don’t have access.
slantedfish: It will be out for everyone on December 30, 2015. 🙂
I have a problem about taking the plaster, my mug’s filled up with water. What do I do?
The mug doesn’t care. Click on it anyway; it’ll replace the water with the plaster.
see you can put the water for the sunflower ..or do what ylimegirl says ;
Pro-tip!
You can get up to *11* gum sticks a day. Yup, *11*. How?
Since the “danger” timer resets once you exit, and you can go back to the license plate machine until you reach your quota of 5, it’s a simple process. On your first round, make 4 license plates. Then press the X to exit. (If this is your first day, after you make the first three, go back and make one more before exiting again.) Then re-enter the mini-game and make ’em until the machine starts exploding, which allows you to create seven more. Presto! You have made 11 license plates and can now obtain 11 sticks of gum. Begin cornering the gum market, my friends~
That’s complicating… 🙂
Sometimes it’s necessary to fix a glitch. 😛
U also get more no matter how many unmake the further get
Hi, I got to the vent part and then somehow managed to exit to the main part of the island (outside of the prison). How do I get back inside the prison? I really want to finish the island but don’t want to restart!
The same thing happened to me twice i don’t think there’s another way inside.
I fell through the flour when I was getting to the part with the twins!
I’m sorry but the only way to fix this is to restart the island.🙁
Tall Cactus actually there is a way you can fix it without resetting the island! you can reload the page, log in and you should be fine!
you have to refresh the page and sign back in it should take u back to the vent part.
i love this island i played it without the guide in early December. And you guys are awesome at making these guides they help me a lot.
Friendly Fish? I had a HUGE glitch. At first when I was escaping, I was dodging lights and stuff when, BOOM. I’m back in the town. It now looks like when the bandit just escaped! Please help!
slantedfish: Contact Poptropica support about the glitch so they can fix it!
Thanks so much!!! You’re so awesome! You like, know EVERYTHING about Poptropica. Well, obviously. Thanks again! 🙂
Same thing happened to me. I was about to escape, and I have already restarted once before when I went to a different island. Is there any way I can get back to the prison? (Not that I necessarily want to… 😉 )
Ok so every time I tried to go on the tree branches and go right, a guard catches me. I try to be careful and I do it exactly as the guide says, but he keeps catching me. Is it a glitch or how can I fix it? PLEASE HELP!!!!
A guard (you’ll see a silhouette) will be patrolling inside the buildings, so be careful to not be against the same window the guard is passing by.
It won’t let me sharpen the spoon after I distract the guard.This worked on the app though. 😦
when I need to obtain the second spoon the twins only & patches only talk about meal Time I have the the three sticks of gum but I can’t give it to patches for the distraction I have already restarted once because of this and it has happened again . Please help me with this problem. Thanks in advance!
You need to eat the food first. Then the twins and Patches will start talking about the spoon. You won’t need to restart because it isn’t a glitch. Hope this helps!😀
Thanks but how do you eat?
Click on the food
Contact Poptropica.
Guys, This island is very glitchy. Like, i gave the dummy head to the painter and the next day, she didnt give it to me. its been 5 days and she STILL hasnt given it to me. please help!
This happened to me, too. But eventually she did give it to me a few days later. I would try re-logging into Poptropica. Maybe that will help. If not, you will probably have to restart the island.
after entering the vent system I went to the top right and and after making the air go over Florian’s spot I returned . but the next day after pressing the green button in the cook’s kitchen and then mixing the pot of mashed potatoes it doesn’t land on Florian’s hair.
How long is it meant to take to scrstch out the vent with the sharpened spoon? Its tsking me ages. Whyy?
SlantedFish: Make sure you’re scratching at the edges, not the middle! If you’re efficient, 1-2 nights should be enough, but take as long as you need. 🙂
Thankyou!
Sorry for the spelling mistakes!
just be patient and take your time and you shall finish GoodLuck
PLEASE HELP! ITS DAY 6 OR 7 AND I STILL CANT GET THE SEEDS TO PLANT
Have Patches feed the birds, and when she/he does, there should be seeds on the ground that you can pick up. Then go to the pile of dirt and click on it, or go to your inventory and click use on the sunflower seeds. Can’t remember which- haven’t played this island since it came out for members on Dec. 10. Either will work. Then just water the flower every day till it’s fully grown.
I was escaping the prison when I fell into the hole and I ended up in the town. No one is chasing me, there isnt a trash can, what do I do? Is it a glitch?
Yes, it is a glitch. Unfortunately the only way to fix it is to restart the island.🙁
when i go to another island and come back to pelican island I end up on main street. what do I do to go back to the prison?
Restart the island.
how do i restart?
You restart by going to the menu chest thingy, and clicking on the settings icon. On the settings, there should be a restart island button. Click on it and the island is restarted!
How do you get passed the meal time?
slantedfish: Talk to the prison guard by the door. Refer to the guide for more help! 😉
Help i am stuck at the egg part… when i get there, the bird came back already
I have a tip- right when you ask Patches to feed the birds, start heading to the nests RIGHT AWAY. It will make things a lot easier.
You can jump to the top of the statue and jump from there. It is much easier.
This island makes me think of the game The Escapists. Maybe that was used as inspiration. But some of us may never know.
UGH. Okay so I’ve chiseled the entire grate surrounding perfectly and fully but it doesn’t open!! This is infuriating.
don’t worry! all you need you need to do is go to sleep that step is done don’t worry about it. When the time comes it’ll open
Funny how the twins’ prisoner numbers are 1221 and 2112
Van won’t give me the painted dummy head and I can’t make another one?
Wait a few days in-game. If a week passes and nothing happens, try re-logging into Poptropica or reloading the page. If that doesn’t work, restart the island. I would also contact Poptropica to make sure it doesn’t happen again to you or anyone else.
I ❤ this island!!!
When I landed the mashed potato onto Florian’s head, she/he was yelling “My beautiful hair!! Someone will pay for this!!” (or something like that) then the guard said, “Sit down Narcissus!”. Then I’m like, “Who’s Narcissus?” so I searched on Google and it glitched my computer. It kind of started over and when I came back, I lost some progress. I recommend not doing that ’cause you might encounter the same luck as me. BTW, Narcissus is “In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope. He was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him.”
Narcissus was a man who was obsessed with his beauty. simple.
he literally fell in love with his reflection and starved to death because he refused to do anything but stare
Whenever I walk on the telephone wire without jumping the guard catches me what should I do????
This island was awesome!!!!
I found a cheat….when you ask Van Nostrand to paint the pasta sliver, if you click on him straight after you ask him he gives it to you. Happy to help!
Thanks so much! Your the best! the glitch worked btw.
PLZ HELP on day one during meal time when i click on the twins and patches they say the same stuff over and over instead of doing what the guide says what their supposed to do (sorry if this doesn’t make sense)
never mind i just read a comment stating the same situation and i also read the reply’s so i know what to do now
HOW DO I EAT!
Click on the food in the middle of the table.
the orange haired girl will not let me eat! when i click on the food in the empty seat she keeps saying “we’re not friends booted bandit go sit some were else”
ohhhhhhhhhh, on That table i get it
thanks Cuddly knuckle aka wilbur
You’re welcome.
do i have to restart the island if i don’t get the second egg on day two?
No, just try again the next day.
No, when you miss an egg, you can get it the next day.
k thanks
PLZ HELP!!!!!!!!! when i got off of poptrpoica and came back on a few hours later i got back on this island with the same account i used before and now im in the town and when i go into the thief chase scence theirs no thief!!! What do i do?!?!?!
Restart the island.
ok 😥
how do you restart the island??????????
@miaisAWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11: You restart the island by going to your menu and clicking on the settings (blue gear icon) and when you click on it, in the bottom there’s a Restart Button Island. Sorry if you already got it.
HOLD on!!!!!! i see the thief by the fresh sushi shop is this a glitch do i have to restart?
I keep accidentally clicking the link to the island on the side of the game and end up on main street! Please make a way to get back in prison without restarting the island!
Nope, sorry. You have to restart the island.
Y do i always get this loading symbol whenever i try to open the prisoners files?
Every time I try to water the plant with water, it says “I don’t want to over-water the plant”. Did i do something wrong? I’ve had to restart this island 3 times due to glitches, I don’t want to have to re-start it again.
No. You’re not doing anything wrong. You can only water the plant once a day.
I didn’t water the plant at all that day, though.
my chisel doesn’t work!
On what?
click on the sides
It won’t allow me to return the drill… and I’ve restarted the island 3 times now. What do I do?
You don’t return the drill the cook. After the food fight scene, he tells you to keep the drill so you keep it for later use. Got that??
when I got the mixer it wouldn’t connect with the drill bit and I have no idea what to do now, PLEASE HELP ME. *hug* *hug* please????
tap “use” on the drill bit and it will automatically connect to the mixer 🙂
No it won’t T_T It loads FOREVER.
same with me
Hi, idk if this happened to any of you, I focused on getting the eggs and didn’t know i had to get the seeds, Patches won’t feed the birds anymore and there is no way for me to get the seeds. I already restarted the island, but was wondering if it is a glitch and if it happened to anyone else
no it didn’t happen to me as I missed it as well but on the next day he fed the bird again.
The characters remind me of the characters in orange is the new black, especially the chef(red). 😄
I can’t get patches to tell me about giving her gum to make a distraction in the mess hall? The twins only say : Disguised potatoes for dinner again
i have that same problom! what is wrong?
Make sure to sit on the bench seat on the table next to Patches 🙂
I FIGURED IT OUT!
You have to sit down to eat in between Patches and the other one, and a cut scene will happen!
I just loved this island!!!!!!!!
same thing good island made
plz help me… while making license plates every digit i click comes twice
i still cant get out of jail from the pipes from the metal shop
Like the idea of gum as the money
So the painted dummy head lets you stay in the vents forever until your done in the vent?
Yes, when the dummy head is on your bed, the police pass by and think it’s you sleeping on your prison bed.
cool.. So the police really think that it is you sleeping when you are actually in the vents?
Its weird that they think that its you, even though your head is way above the covers????
Yeah, it’s really weird.
What do you do with all the extra gum you have if you have some??
ya chew it 🙂
I’m real lost
Where are you lost?
I can help you. I finished the island.
when you’re lost and alone, when you’re sinking like a stone, Carry onnnnnn..
I’m a little confused.. So Marion gives you tips and help if your stuck?
Ack! when I go to go and get the dummy head that Van Nostrand she just says ” Maybe I should take up sculpting…” and I’ve checked my inventory, clicked on him/her multiple times! Please Help!
It’s probably a glitch. Try to re-login to Poptropica and try again. If that doesn’t work, you’ll have to restart the island.
NEVERMIND! I tried to give him/her gum and didn’t quite work and then she gave me the dummy!
I can’t get the 2 egg!!!!!!!!!!!!Hep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never Mind
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES ANYONE ELSE GET REALLY SAD WHEN WE HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE TO PATCHES FOR THE LAST TIME???
I really need a life I’m getting emotional over a character in a simple game at 12:18 am…
But Patches was special to me 😦
Me too
He’ll live forever in your heart
no, i get sad when u gotta say bye, too!! btw, SlantedFIsh, if u read this, OMG OMG OMG!! i have u as my friend on poptropica and my name is koolcatz263 on it
slantedfish: Awesome! 😀
How can I add you slanted fish?
slantedfish: My username is slantedfish and everyone is welcome to add me if they want to! 🙂
I did it in 15-20 days (don’t remember) the first time one friend got out the other time 7 days and none got out weird
its not WORKING! I hate this! Where the vending matchiene thingy was there it clossed one to finish it but wont go!
Dang it i have to restart the islnad
why?
what happens when you get stuck in the pipes that leads to the roof?
Is this a glitch? I gave the pasta to Nostrand then I gave her the gum and she already had the pasta painted… eh. It was helpful anyways.
It is okay. It is a cheat. It also works with the dummy head.
My brother ruined everything
hey its really helpful for me but only 2 potropicans got free.sad thing for the others
You mean three
i find most of your gides helpful but on this island i did not need help
I don’t get it! How do u open the grate? I abandoned this island, some sorta bug thay didn’t fix..
This island was really easy!
I agree
What I don’t understand is why do we want to find Flashy’s stuff? it doesn’t say anywhere!
slantedfish: It does. Booted Bandit mentions that he/she is certain there’s treasure to be found there.
Did anyone notice that the painting is signed by Patches not Van Nostrand? So weird!
HELP! The bird flew back to its nest before I could get this first egg! What do I do?
Try again the next day, it still stays in the same spot
Anyone notice that the painting you get as a gift from Van Nostrand is signed by Patches and not by Van Nostrand?
slantedfish: Yup, guess they didn’t catch that. 😛
mine would not load past escaping the prison.
how are you supossed to get on the red bench if the cop is on top is there another red bench
Yeah there is another red bench
If you go to the end of the telephone wire, near the tree there is another red bench
every time i get on the telephone pole, a police catches me. no matter what. I’m wondering if its a glitch. Can someone help!
it is a glitch because it shouldn’t be doing that unless you are jumping to high
I found a weird glitch. Just when Van Nostrand gave me the painted dummy head, the dummy head went to my inventory..then, when Warden Sharp appeared, the game immediately loaded to Work. The next day, I found Van Nostrand still painting instead of weeping about losing his painting privileges!
~Curious Tiger~
I had the same thing happen to me! I forgot to get the cup first night, so I was behind, so I gave the pasta and head to Nostrand at the same time. The next two days I got the items, but as soon as they went in my inventory recreation ended.
I cant get through the grate to get into the vent!!! Ive tried so many times and it has been more than 5 days(in game)!!! What should i do??? Is it a glitch???
Oh i got it ur supposed to tap…
I kept rubbing and rubbing…
What if you have MORE than 7 sticks of gum? because I have 25 sticks of gum..
WAIT NVM
THE AIR VENTS WONT DO IT AFTER I REPOSITION THEM! IVE TRIED 5 TIMES! HEELLPPPPPPPPP!!!!
It won’t let me go on after the cop asks me what I want in return, then it loads and the bubbles move all over
I WANT TO WIN BUT I STILL CAN’T FIGURE IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who are all the prisoners that can be released? Are Big Tuna and Flashy some of them?
slantedfish: All that weren’t accomplices of the Booted Bandit – so not those two. 😛
on my first try with the fans I FELL INTO THE KITCHEN 😛
My drill bit is not attaching to that mixer. What should I do???????
Simply click use on the drill bit and it will attach to the Mixer.
It loads forever and won’t stop until I refresh and log back in, only to try again the same thing happening.
Well… you would have to contact the Creators about that.
I didnt get my painted pasta back! it says “Maybe I can take sculpting…”
What should I do????
also, Warden Sharp didnt take her painting privilege away. I found i skpped that part so… WHAT SHOUDL I DO PLZ HELP MEH!
I had to restart the island 😦
THIS ISLAND IS BASICALLY BASED OFF A PRISON ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
I went to Alcatraz last weekend :3
“You break the rules you go to prison. You break the prison rules you go to Alcatraz.” nailed it
I combined the drill with the mixer, but whenever I try to use it on the grate above the cafeteria, my character does nothing and it loads forever. I’ve reset my island twice, same result.
HALPPPP i cant get back the painted noodle it wont let me get it back Please i checked my inventory and its not their then i go back to the kitchen and it wont let me get another one 😦
Well, if this is a glitch, contact the Creators, or sadly restart the island.
SOS my drill bit won’t combine with my mixer and when i click on the “use” button it just loads forever, and does not stop.
just start over again
I am also having this problem and I do not want to start over.
When I go to use the mixer in the vents above the mess hall, the drill bit is not attached and when I try to click “Use” the loading circle spins endlessly!!! Help! I really don’t want to restart a second time! :(((
Please help!! :(((
Your supposed to press the drill bit first
it happened with me too once
i think u should restart poptropica
Hey guys and girls, about the glitch that happens when it takes forever to load when you try to attach the drill bit to the mixer, you should contact the Creators and they will fix it.
Thanks! Where can I contact them?
WAIT! OMG! After I couldnt combine the mixer with the drill bit… I went to sleep and at meal time I combined the drill bit and mixer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did anyone else notice that the painting was signed Patches?
YES!