Mocktropica Island Guide

Synopsis

Poptropica is under new management, and itโ€™s falling apart at the seams! The newest Island isnโ€™t finished, the staff is nowhere to be found, and you canโ€™t take two steps without running into a game-breaking bug. Get ready to go behind the scenes for your most important adventure yet โ€” because this time, youโ€™ve got to save Poptropica itself!

For walkthroughs on Mocktropica Island, scroll down.

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Released: December 19, 2013 (for members)
or January 16, 2014 (for all)
Common Room: The Bluelocust Restaurant
Preceded by: Virus Hunter Island
Succeeded by: Monster Carnival Island

Resources on this page: Island Extras | Synopsis from Poptropica | Video Walkthrough | Written Walkthrough | Album Photos | Trivia | Quick Guide

Island Extras: Map | Official Tour | Videos | Mega Fighting Bots | Champions Map | Poptropica’s Mocktropica story | PHB Island Review | Is Poptropica becoming Mocktropica?


Video Walkthrough

For a written walkthrough with pictures, scroll down on this page!


Written Walkthrough

Walkthrough by Brave Tomato & Samwow5
Special thanks to: HPuterpop & Slanted Fish

Welcome to Mocktropica, an adventure of Poptropica’s management mishaps (that did not age well)! The woman outside Pop HQ will tell you that Poptropica is under new managementย and they fired almost all of the Creators and slashed the budget. That explains the glitching everywhere!

Next, head inside the headquarters talk to the guy with glasses. He’ll happily demonstrate what he does as a focus tester. Afterwards, you’ll get Cake.

Now explore the rest of HQ by taking the elevator on the right, and be sure talk to all the people there. On the second floor is the safety inspector; the third, the obnoxious ad sales lady; and the fourth, the frugal resource manager who comes up with ridiculously cheap island ideas.

After visiting all the floors, head back down and talk to the woman from earlier. She’ll tell you the developers are working in the basement and unlock the door for you. Go inside and ask the girl with frazzled blonde hair if you can help. She’ll send you on what’s totally a fetch quest, despite claiming otherwise.

She wants you to find three old employees and will give you their ID Badges. Click on the computer to her right and move the buildings around in the island editor (doesnโ€™t matter where).ย 

Leave the basement, and the focus tester will now tell you about this “achievements” feature he’s implementing.ย Also, if a pop-up ad randomly shows up, just click on it to get rid of it. Theyโ€™ll show up from time to time.

Now, leave the building and head right towards Ephraim University. You’ll probably earn some useless achievements along the way.

Enter the university and you’ll see one of the employees that you’re supposed to bring back to Poptropica HQ: Max McPatrick, writer turned professor.ย Talk to him and heโ€™ll show you a poemโ€ฆ while an ad is bouncing around. Click on the ad multiple times and you’ll end up accidentallyย burning his copy.ย Oops.ย Well, he says that he’d return if you got him some soda (that will come later!).

Head back to the Poptropica HQ basement and click on the computer to the left. Open “Island Maker Home Edition,” and click to change the mood from “grumpy” to “happy.” Don’t forget to save!

Then leave the building and head right to the cheese factory.ย Because you changed the mood, the guard will let you into the building. Inside, hop up to the second floor. You’ll find another ex-employee: Lance Pitcher, the designer. He says he doesnโ€™t want to leave, though, because his current job is stress-free. However, he’ll give you some Cheese Curds.

Leave Grunwald’s Cheese Factory and go back to Main Street. Click on the medallion-wearing boy and press spacebar while carying the cheese curds. The Narf pet will chase after him. Now go back to the cheese factory and you’ll find that the Narfs are multiplying!

The boy will run back to Main Street, so follow him, and he will run to the cliff (Mt. Funshine). Follow him there.ย Throw a cheese curd into the chasm and all the Narfs will run after it, filling up the chasm and allowing you to cross.

Continue going left and climb the mountain until you reach the hiker who’s disgruntled because the scene isn’t finished. He’ll throw out his Climbing Axe. Take it, and now, head back to the cheese factory. Hahaโ€ฆ time to teach the cheese curd guy a lessonโ€”

BUT WAIT! You are pulled over by the focus tester, who has yet another bad idea: PopCoins! Now you have to pay to do things โ€” including leaving Main Street.

Go into the Pop HQ basement and click on the computer on the right. Set the time of day to night, and donโ€™t forget to save! Go outside and youโ€™ll see a guy lingering around like a creeper. Turns out he was fired from Poptropica, and is now passing out Counterfeit Coins as revenge. Great, now you can use it to leave Main Street!

Go into the cheese factory and stand next to the speed control panel near the worker. Use the climbing axe to destroy the machine, transforming the factory into a vat of cheesy goodness. Distraught, Lance agrees to return to his job at Poptropica, finally finishing the mountain scene.

Oh, and your inventory will break. Also, while you’re in the basement, click the “Island Maker” settings on the computer back to “day” and “clear”ย (because Lance made it rain). Donโ€™t forget to save!

Now, go back to Mount Funshine, and make your way up to the top. (No chairlift for you, sadly!) Sitting on a tree is Billy Jordan, ex-lead developer. He promises to go back to Poptropica if you can beat him at Mancala.ย 

Basically, the goal is to get the most stones into your big tray (on the right). In each turn, you select a cup in your row (the bottom), and the stones inside of it will be dropped into the cups after it, one at a time.

  • If the last stone lands in your tray, you get to go again.
  • If the last stone lands on an empty cup, you get to capture all the stones across from that cup into your tray.

Also, the bugs don’t count at all. (Tip: Get rid of bigger clumps on your side so he can’t “capture” them!) The game ends when one player has cleared all stones from their cups.

Once you win, Billy will be back at Poptropica HQ. While you’re in there, open up the computer on the right and click “Random” on the island editor that moves objects around on Main Street until you get this (oh, and donโ€™t forget to save!):

Now you can easily hop onto the top of Poptropica Worldwide Headquarters and grab the Soda Pop Bottle. Before you can hop off, the safety guy will appear and give you a Helmet. Put it on, thenย jump down to the right.

You’ll find a crate blocking the way. Go back into the basement and click on the island editor where you move the buildings. The crate is in the far right location โ€” click on it and it will break.ย Donโ€™t forget to save!

Now, leave the basement and go to the university. Give the professor his soda. Instead of coming with you, though, he’ll tell you he itches to fix typos in Poptropica scripts. Time to get him one!

Go back to the basement again. Youโ€™ll see that Slash the cost-cutter has decided to save money on chairs by making people sit on each other’s laps. Awkward.

Now click on the duffel bags to find a sleeping guy… in front of the trashย bin. Talk to him, and after he goes back to dreaming about sweets, use the Cake to wake him up. He’ll also move away from the garbage.

Dig through the trash and you’ll eventually find an old Script for Zomberry Island. Just for fun: You can read a page of the typo-ridden script by clicking “Examine” on the item in your inventory!

Head back to the university and give the script to the English professor. When you leave, the sales lady will be beaming about her most annoying ad yet. Go back to Pop HQ, up to the third floor to Ad Sales, and pay the lady with your Counterfeit Coins to get rid of the ads for you.

Now ride the elevator down and the budget lady show up to brag about eliminating most of Poptropica’s servers. Try to exit, and you’ll find that you’re stuck in a perpetual loading screen. This is not a glitch! Go to your inventory, put on your protection Helmet, then bust all of the letters with your fat head.

Afterwards, you will be in Poptropicaโ€™s internal servers. You can find a map of the proper settings at the bottom. First, head over to the red cord and click on it until the red line points down. Then click the blue cord once (pointing left), the green cord twice (pointing left), and the server will be all fixed.

Youโ€™ll talk to the lady in green again, thinking that youโ€™ve saved Poptropica. Butโ€ฆ she notes that we still need to experience the Poptropica-style villainous twist.ย As if on cue, all four of the meddling managers reveal themselves to be the owners of Poptropicaโ€™s rival website, Mega Fighting Bots. And they plan toย destroy you for fixing all their sabotaging!

So they summon their respective Mega Fighting Bots and band together Power Rangers-style into one giant robot in one of Poptropicaโ€™s coolest cutscenes.

And so the gratuitous action sequence begins!

Toย defeat this mega-bot, keep on shooting your fake PopCoins at it just by clicking on the target. Move your cursor out of the way when it throws rocks and its fists at you! Once the robot goes ka-put, throw the coins at the achievements to end their meddling once and for all!

Defeated, the four managers lament and then retreat into their airplane back to their game! Thanks to you, Poptropica is back in the right hands and you are awarded the Island Medallion! Congrats, you’ve completed Mocktropica Island!

Bonus Quest

The developer, Billy Jordan, will show up on Main Street to talk about winning back Mark Hertz, one of Poptropicaโ€™s best ex-programmers, who has been lost to the rival game Mega Fighting Bots. Meet Billy in the basement of Pop HQ, and he’ll transport you to the MFB arena.

Talk to Bucket Bot. Then click on the Mega Console on the right to begin the Mega Fighting Bots tournament, playing as Bucket Bot!

The first bot you are to battle is Safety Bot.ย He is very cautious and avoid most attacks. Wait for him to come around the bend, then attack! Even more, you can lure him by standing in the corner, and then when he starts to come toward you, go down a square, as shown:

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Repeat this again and again for all the bots โ€” it really works! You have to beat each bot in two (out of a maximum of three) rounds to defeat them.

Level 2 is Ad Bot. Be sure she is in your target zone before you attack โ€” she changes directions quickly.

Level 3 is Shredder Bot, who is easily ticked and has a bit of a temper.ย She hurtsโ€ฆ a lot. Hard to defeat. She will come at you with different angles andย has a broader strategy.

Level 4 is Focus Bot.ย He is not hesitant like Safety Bot. When he comes at a different angle,ย he will follow through.

Finally, there’s the Mega Bot. He’s the lost programmer, Mark Hertz.ย Of course, he is the biggest, fastest, strongest, and smartest. Once you defeat Mega Bot, he will get thrown out of the ring, and you’ll have brought back the lost programmer!

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After you’re both transported back home, you get a little present from the now famous Bucket Bot. Itโ€™s a terrific Bucket Bot Costume! Congrats, you’ve finished the Mocktropica Bonus Quest!

Looking for more walkthroughs?ย Check out ourย Island Helpย page! ๐Ÿ


Album Photos

These pictures appeared in a former feature known as the photo album.


Trivia

  • Mocktropica Island is Poptropicaโ€™s 36th island. It was released on December 19, 2013 for members and January 16, 2014 for non-members. The login screen had the Poptropica logo glitching into small white rectangles. The members-only bonus quest came out on January 9, 2014.
  • Mocktropica Island was re-released for Steam on May 25, 2022.
  • The island is a parody of Poptropica itself, hence the name [mock + (pop)tropica]. It is the first island to break the fourth wall, in that it acknowledges that Poptropica is a computer game.
  • The desktop wallpaper contains a โ€œto-do listโ€ which mentions โ€œBalloon Boy Rescue Island.โ€ Balloon Boy is a running gag in Poptropica that started from Counterfeit Island โ€“ could we be seeing his actual return this time?
  • Common room: The Bluelocust Restaurant (labeled โ€œest. 2007โ€ โ€“ the year Poptropica was released!)
  • Before the island was released, temporary Creator Gamer Guy advertised the robot-smashing game MegaFightingBots.com on the Creatorsโ€™ Blog. MFB is referenced during the Mocktropica quest, and features heavily in the members-only bonus quest. However, non-members can play MFB by clicking on the computer screen in the university, as well as just visiting megafightingbots.com!
  • The fraternity house at Ephraim University has the Greek letters Pi Omega Pi, which translates to POP โ€“ for Poptropica!
  • The outside of the Poptropica Worldwide Headquarters displays several references to other islands in the P-shaped glass windows. Among the items, you can see a statue of a Greek goddess fromMythology, a shark statue and palm trees from Shark Tooth, the Hair Club from Spy, cacti fromWild West, etc.
  • Inside the basement of Poptropica HQ, there is a doll of Medicine Man from Shark Tooth Island on the ground, and dolls of Dr. Hare from 24 Carrot on the tables. On the wall, there is a poster referencing the Konami Code of video games.
  • The development computer in the basement contains a desktop filled with icons, designed like an early Windows computer, including a System32 folder. Clicking on some of these icons will result in an unhelpful โ€œPโ€ troubleshooter, a parody of Clippy, an old Microsoft Office gimmick.
  • The cost cutter on the top floor of Poptropica HQ says that if she had friends, theyโ€™d call her โ€œSlash.โ€ You can ask her if itโ€™s because she plays the guitar (in reference to the guitarist Slash), but she tells you itโ€™s because she slashes expenses.
  • The poem that the writer/professor at Ephraim University was trying to teach his students was O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
  • The โ€œWe Can Moo It!โ€ moo-tivational poster at the cheese factory is a reference to the American wartime propaganda poster โ€œWe Can Do It!โ€
  • The trash bin in the basement contains some interesting contents, such as pages referencing characters from other islands (Salerno from Lunar Colony as โ€œSalamiโ€, Zeus from Mythology as โ€œSpruceโ€, El Mustachio from Wild West as โ€œEl Mustachitoโ€, Dr. Hare from 24 Carrot as โ€œDr. Beevโ€, Binary Bard from Astro-Knights as โ€œBinary Investment Bankerโ€). There was also a page that said Monster Carnival, slashed out by a big โ€˜NOPEโ€™, plus blueprint pages for โ€˜the return of Balloon Boyโ€™ (a running gag since Counterfeit Island) and โ€˜Battle Arenaโ€™ (a feature promised for Legendary Swords that was never fulfilled).
  • Also in the trash are random artifacts referencing various tidbits from Poptropica, including: a toy figure of afro guy (the white-skinned, black-haired character that occasionally displays when loading gets glitchy), the bathroom door with the message (seen in New Jersey on Cryptids Island), tickets for the underground tunnel tour from Counterfeit Island, the bag of popcorn fromWimpy Boardwalk, the bottle of Valley Rain from Gamer Guyโ€™s apartment in Zomberry (also, the name is a parody of Mountain Dew), and a mailed travel letter for Joe Stockman from Virus Hunter. After digging through the trash, youโ€™ll eventually find a script for Zomberry Island.
  • If you examine the Zomberry Island script, youโ€™ll find that itโ€™s ridden with typos and talks about what the player can find in Gamer Guyโ€™s (or โ€œVideogame Guyโ€™sโ€) apartment. At the bottom, the part where it talks about finding the empty Valley Rain bottle in the trash is crossed out in red with the note โ€œCliched! No more dumpster diving on Poptropica โ€“Jeffโ€ โ€“ ironic because youโ€™d just been dumpster diving to find that script in the first place. Jeff may refer to Jeff Kinney, the guy who created Poptropica.
  • At the edge of the cliff of Mt. Funshine, after youโ€™ve changed the mood, the safety guy says โ€œYou shall not pass!โ€ โ€“ a reference to Gandalfโ€™s famous line from The Fellowship of the Ring.
  • One of the chalkboards at the university says โ€œThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,โ€ a sentence which contains every letter of the English alphabet at least once. The other board has a mind map about woodchucking, a reference to the tongue twister โ€œhow much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?โ€ There is also a ridiculous essay prompt combining rodent-based deforestation, Moby Dick, and the advent of movable type.
  • A large Poptropican-ized portrait of William Shakespeare hangs on the wall of the university, as well as smaller portraits of Jane Austen and Homer.
  • The boy with the orange poofy hair sitting in the second row of the university classroom is a parody of the titular character from Napoleon Dynamite, and his โ€œdo itโ€ shirt is stylized like the โ€œvote for Pedroโ€ shirt Napoleon Dynamite wears in the film.
  • A statuette of Rodinโ€™s sculpture The Thinker is nested underneath the cubby hole in the back row of the university.
  • The island editor in the basement is on a โ€œGraycom Tablet 4000 series,โ€ perhaps a reference to Wacom drawing tablets. There is also a Zeus statue to the left of the editor.
  • The cake given to you by the focus tester is a Black Forest cake.
  • A horned version of the Skull Mask from Legendary Swords sits on top of some drawers on the second floor of Poptropica HQ. There is also a Dr. Hare doll on a desk.
  • The third floor of Poptropica HQ has a sign advertising โ€œSports Nectar, Poptropicaโ€™s favorite sports drinkโ€ โ€“ first seen on Cryptids Island.
  • The fourth floor of Poptropica HQ contains large mounted icons of non-existing Poptropica islands, including Aqua Knights Island (the โ€˜knightsโ€™ part of the logo looks like the one for Astro-Knights), Tax Cut Island, The Return of Crawfish (a reference to Skullduggery), and Giant Island (a reference to Cryptids).
  • The trailer video contains a morphing cow, which may be a reference to the viral YouTube video โ€œcows & cows & cowsโ€œ.
  • You are given the ID badges of Poptropica Creators Lance Pitcher (designer), Billy Jordan (developer), and Max McPatrick (writer). Perhaps these are real-life references to Creators Jon Pitcher, Jordan Leary, and Max Brallier.
  • According to a tweet by professional artist Coralee Lazebnikova, the blond pony-tailed Poptropica worker from the basement is modeled after her.
  • The developer with the sleep mask in the basement says, โ€œAll work and no play makes me want to curl up into a ball and cry,โ€ a reference to the proverb โ€œall work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.โ€
  • The name of the school, Ephraim University, is a reference to the fact that many of the real Poptropica staff were located in Logan, Utah, the home of Utah State University and a large Mormon population.
  • The bonus quest, in particular the character of Mark Hertz and his cryptic final email, are a parody of the movie Apocalypse Now (not for kids!).
  • Members get an additional Mocktropica gear pack, which includes Unfinished costume, Glitch power, and Narf follower. The Unfinished costume is ONLY available until the end of Early Access!
  • Bonus quest: A rogue programmer has conquered a rival website and now rules it like a king. You must venture outside the safety of Poptropica to bring him back โ€” if you can last long enough to find him!

Quick Guide

For a full walkthrough with pictures and more detail, scroll up on this page.

  1. Talk to the lady outside of Poptropica HQ, then go inside HQ and talk to the focus tester who will give you Cake. Then ride the elevator to each floor and talk to all the people inside HQ.
  2. Leave Poptropica HQ and come back in. Talk to the girl from earlier, then go down to the basement and talk to everyone. Then talk to the girl with frazzled blonde hair who will give you 3 ID Badges.
  3. Move the buildings randomly in the island editor and save. Leave the basement, talk to the focus tester, then go to Ephraim University. Go inside and talk to the professor, who will show you a poem. Click on the moving ad until it burns the poem.
  4. Go back to the basement and change the mood to โ€œhappyโ€ in the Island Maker Home Edition (on the other computer). Save, leave, and head right until you get to the cheese factory. Enter and talk to the worker, who will give you Cheese Curds when you leave. Equip the box.
  5. Go back to Main Street and press the spacebar to throw a cheese curd near the Narf pet. Go back to the cheese factory to find the Narfs multiplying. Run left all the way to Mt. Funshine and throw a cheese curd over the cliff, then cross the Narf bridge. Go left, climb the mountain, and take the Climbing Axe.
  6. Go back to Main Street, talk to the focus tester, go back to the basement, and change the setting to โ€œnight.โ€ Head back to Main Street and talk to the creeper who will give you Counterfeit Coins. Use this to leave Main Street and go back to the cheese factory. Enter and use your Climbing Axe to destroy the machinery, which will bring Lance Pitcher back to HQ.
  7. Change the settings to โ€œdayโ€ and โ€œclearโ€ and then climb the mountain again, this time all the way to the top. Talk to the bearded man (Billy Jordan) and beat him at Mancala, which will bring him back to Poptropica HQ.
  8. In the basement, move the buildings around in the island editor from shortest to tallest, then save. Go outside and get to the top of the HQ building to pick up the Soda. Take the Helmet from the safety guy, jump down, and talk to the focus tester about the crate blocking the right side. Go back to the basement and destroy the crate in the island editor, then save and leave.
  9. Enter the university and give the prof his soda. Return to the basement and click on the shuffling luggage bags to reveal a sleeping man. Use the Cake from your inventory to move him, then dig through the trash can and take the Script. Give it to the university prof.
  10. Leave the university, talk to the ad sales lady, then go to the 3rd floor of HQ and pay the ad lady with your coins to get rid of all ads. Go back down and talk to the budget lady. Attempt to leave and youโ€™ll find yourself stuck in a loading screen. Wear your Helmet and pop all the letters. Now youโ€™ll be in the internal servers.
  11. Redirect all the beams as shown in the map on the server floor. Simply go to the red cord and click on it until the red line points downwards, then click the blue cord once, and then the green cord twice. Then a cutscene follows, and all the new managers reveal their true intentions.
  12. In this final boss battle, just keep shooting your coins by clicking on the mega fighting bot over and over until it is destroyed. Move away if it throws rocks or its fists at you. When heโ€™s gone, throw coins at the achievements until they disappear too. Congrats, youโ€™re done!

– Achievement Unlocked –

You survived the glitches of Mocktropica Island!

549 thoughts on “Mocktropica Island Guide”

  1. When I got the fizzee pop, the safety guy appeared, but he didn’t get the part where he gave me the helmet, cuz it was stuck loading. When I refreshed the page, he was gone, I was on the ground, and I had no helmet. Now, I am stuck on the loading screen where you need the helmet. STUCK. I had to make a new account. I tried reloading and cheese curds and pickaxe and nothing worked.

  2. i’m up to the part where your poptropican is with the floating logo thing and before that i did not get the hat because it wouldn’t load so i went on to a new tab then i went back up to the building to get it but he wasn’t there. what do i do?

  3. ok i went to menu and clicked the blimp and clicked ok then i went back on the island to try and fix it .it worked! he is up there but i click him it won’t do anything except my poptropican walks over to him and nothing help and please please pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaase!!!
    REPLY

    Slanted Fish: If you’re stuck because of a glitch, contact Poptropica via the contact link on their website.

  4. When I got the soda the safety inspector never came so I never gt the helmet so I’m stuck at the loading screen where I have to bust all the letters.

  5. i pressed the boy wearing the medal then pressed space and the pet did not go after it it was already there then i went to the factory it was not there then the boy was still in main street the pet was multiplying there i went to the mountain and throwed the thing it did not went after it

  6. so i beat that robot thing and afterwards the people came down and talked then they went to the ship. they wouldnt get in so i refreshed it and when i went back only the man dropped after a couple minutes (and yes i mean minutes) nothing happened. everyone juststood there and the spinning circle never went away. i refreshed and shut down and restarted the computer a thousand times and the same thing happened. what do i do?
    please help!!!!!

    1. Omg I hate new poptropica. It’s so buggy even in a game thats supposed to have bugs! Atleast the old 1 let you save wherever you wanted. D: I miss the good ol’ days. And the new levels are the old good levels too!

  7. I wish u could save certain checkpoints and u could load them whenever u wanted in case a glitch gets u stuck

  8. when i jumped off the building, my game didnt load, so i had to go back to it and i didnt get my helmet and i am now stuck in the loading scene

    1. if u go into the menu and tap the blimp then come back to the island u will be on main street again

  9. im stuck when I’m trying to get to the computer when ever i log on it just loads forever

  10. i never got the safety hat from that guy and now im stuck in that loading screen where u have to break the letters-what should i do?

    1. Is it raining? I had the same problem and I think it was something to do with the rain because once I turned it off i was fine.

  11. Okay somehow I didn’t get the helmet (have no idea why) so I’m stuck on the last level where it’s on the loading screen because I don’t have the helmet to break the Poptropica letters. :/

  12. every time I talk to someone after that my poptropican’s mouth keeps on moving like it’s talking but it actually isn’t. Is that a part of Mocktropica island of another glitch and my mouth disappears too.

  13. i tried to get the helmet but i couldn’t. now im stuck in the loading screen and dont know what to do!

  14. I tried to get the helmet, but i couldn’t and I don’t know to restart the island. Please Help Me!!!!!

    1. The way to restart the island is to go to the menu, click the gear in the top left corner, and then there should be a button to restart the island. I had to figure it out, too. Mine glitched and I had to restart as well! ๐Ÿ™‚

  15. Um… I’m at the part of the island where you go to pop the poptropica bubbles with the helmet on the loading screen but I never got the helmet. After I got the soda bottle the safety guy never came and I just continued on. Do I need to restart the island?

  16. im at the part where youre supposed to get counterfeit popcoins from the guy and the guy isn’t there. What dod I do?

    1. Click on the computer in the basement.
      Click on “ISLANDPROHOMEDITION”
      Change “Day” to “Night”.
      Go outside and he will be on Main Street!

  17. HOW TO GET A HARD HAT if you glitched and didn’t get it on the roof, like I did. You go into the building and up to the second floor with the safety inspector, click on the customizer button and the inspector. Click on his hard hat and then hit accept. Now you have the hard hat you need!

  18. Uhm… I didn’t know we were supposed to get a helmet since no one really came forth to give me one or I didn’t really think about returning to the guy. So I’m at the part with the poptropica buffering and I don’t have a helmet.. What do I do?

  19. When I press spacebar on the boy for the pet to chase after him, the load cursor shows and it doesn’t stop. Do you know why?
    Thanks,
    Popular Storm

  20. I’m going to try this again, but I keep throwing coins at the robot and it turns red, but it doesn’t start throwing rocks at me. D:

  21. Hey guys!! I just got the soda and I cant destroy the crate in the island editor. Help Please! Thx!

    1. Did you click on the crate? If still didn’t work refresh page p.s. it will bring you to your last save (Just a suggestion)

  22. Im stuck on the perpetual loading screen part because when I try to pay the Ads lady my character says “Nothing but worthless virtual currency” help!

  23. I’m stuck in between two boss cut scenes, I can’t move and I can’t use my cursor to restart the island. What do I do?

  24. Hi I need desperate help. I got the orange soda gave it to the guy, came back to mainstreet was stuck in the box. I rejoined the map and destroyed the box, but now I cant talk to the saftey guy ontop of the roof. I need the helmet to pass the area so please help me!

    1. I did the hardat thing by customizing, but now I cant get to the blue loading screen where you need the hardat

  25. that’s weird guys???? everything worked fine for me just a bit freezing but I never had to restart the island

  26. Help pls? I’m stuck right after I get the first guy back on the job. He says he changed the scene a little darker but then my backpack thing turns into pixels and crumbles away, and the first computer dude says “Oh no, a critcial glitch! Who will help us?” or something like that, and my mouse is the loading circle. I tried reloading but it won’t work. What should I do?

    1. your inventory crumbling is part of the game. to get your inventory back, you must give the teacher the “soda pop” you get on the top of Poptropica HQ. Then, he will come back to work for Poptropica HQ and fix the bug, and you will get your inventory icon back, with all of your stuff still in tact. ๐Ÿ™‚

  27. Hey so my game is glitching. I went to click the trashcan but my computer won’t pop up the hand to click on it. Help? Reloading doesn’t work…

  28. Never mind i did it all in one sitting. Thank you for the guides i completed all of the island available to me.

  29. Look people, maybe you should REREAD the guide and PAY ATTENTION before you go posting comments about you struggling. And even if the guide DOESN’T cover what you need 2 know, read the OTHER COMMENTS please! Some1 may have already asked your question and the PHB has replied! And, also, if you do post a comment, try to spell words right and although it is okay 2 use text language sometimes (2, 1, u, r, etc), PLEASE make sure your comment has correct grammar, spelling, and generally makes sense. Please don’t spam. Taking the actions above will help clean up the PHB immensely.
    Yours sincerely,
    Fast Flame

  30. when the blue poptropica loading screen camed i were thinking it was glitch and i refreshed and then the girl. was not there the last maniger was also not there when i entered basement it camed like old no loadings help me !

  31. its taking so long for me to defeat the boss idk what im doing
    like whenever it ogt his it turned red kinda?? but now its not even doing that

  32. At the beginning of the island i talked to the boy and he ran off then when i went to the cheese factory he ran off again and I didnt know i wasnt supposed to so i talked to Lance Pitcher the cheese curd guy and got the cheese curds then when i went back to the main street the madallion wearing boy said these pets are driving me crazy and doesnt run to Mt.Funshine and i tried to just throw a curd in there already with out him there but it didnt work

  33. I left Mocktropica Island to color my hair in 24 Carrot Island and when I came back Mocktropica Island started over, I have no items or achievement or experience talking with anyone, but things like the basement doors were unlocked and the Narfs are still in the chasm making a bridge but nothing else is the same.(mostly)

    1. Yeah, like a underwater sea thing with a hidden kingdom anyone has ever seen before…(dun dunn dunnnnn) But really, I mean it!

  34. I defected the boss nd destroyed the ads but after that it just freezes nd i cant click anything nd i tried reloading the page nd logging back it nd it just did the same thing

  35. I haven’t finished it yet but I think the island is really easy thanks to your walkthrough thanks :)!

  36. Hey guys,I finished the island the day it came out for members and I am trying to restart the island because 1.They didn’t even give me the island photos.
    2.I haven’t got a chance to play the bonus quest.
    I’m doing everything right but every time I try to go Ephraim University at night,it will take FOREVER,SERIOUSLY,I left my computer on overnight (I went to bed at 12:00am) now its freakin’ 10am AND IT IS STILL LOADING!!The first time I played it,it took seconds to go to Ephraim University and I haven’t even experienced any glitch you guys mentioned and I tried 2 computers and ALL 3 BROWSERS and brrrrrick,won’t even load,someone PLEASE help!

  37. Okay so, I see the big crate blocking me from going to the university and the cheese factory, bit everytime I try to find it in the placement editor things on the computer, I can’t find it! It just doesn’t show up, im bot sure what to do.

  38. SOMEONE HELP!
    i do all the steps up to where you need the soda then rearrange it ok?
    then… i climb up and… THE SODA IS NOT THERE!!
    WHAT DO I DO!
    please help!

    1. I had this weird glitch where the soda crate is to the right of Main Street and when I go into the Poptropica HQ and click on the computer program thingy, THE CRATE IS NOT THERE!!! SOMEBODY PLZ HELP!! (sticking out bottom lip and doing sad cute puppy-dog eyes)

  39. I HAD TO REDO THIS ISLAND SO. MANY. FRECKING. TIMES BECAUSE IT KEEPS GLITCHING!!!!! THE FIRST TWO TIMES, I GOT TRAPPED IN THE SODA BOTTLE BOX, AND I JUST RECENTLY NEVER RECEIVED THE FRECKING HELMET SO I COULDN’T BREAK THE LETTERS!!! GAHHHHHHH

  40. I NEVER GOT THE SAFETY HELMET! UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! i climbed back up to the top of the building and the safety guy kinda just sat there and blinked even when i clicked on him. apparently ill have to redo the island according to the other commentors D:<

  41. slanted fish,I challenge you to beat me in the ghost story island before me.I saw your profile and I saw that you don’t have the ghost story island,so I challenge you with this island.the winner buys for the other a membership card for 6 months.ok?

  42. NOOOOOOO!how do you dare.that’s unfair.ok never mind.you are so clever and so fast. excellent work.deal is deal.I will try to get you a membership card.

  43. When I was just inside the servers thingy, I accidentally pressed on something on my computer and I went back and it took me back to the homepage where I logged in and I got so confused, because the ad is not there, the trash guy is not there, the teacher is not there and I don’t know what to do now…

    1. Neither did I, I just logged out and logged back and the screen went away, but now I can’t get it back. I’ve been trying to get the guy to give me the helmet by going up to the top of the building and he’ll appear when I click on something in my bag, but nothing happens when I click on him. Can somebody help us because without either you can’t finish the game!

  44. the crate isn’t showing up on island editor mode for me? does anyone have this problem? how do i solve it???

  45. the part where you click the boy wearing the medallions and them click spacebar will not work for me. please help

  46. uh after i talk to all the people in the building, i come out but when i go back in, everythings still the same!

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