Synopsis
The Flying Ace Race is underway! But one evil pilot is about to throw a monkey wrench into your plans. To beat the Red Baroness and win the race, you’ll need to build the fastest yellow blimp in Poptropica! Get ready to take flight in a compact adventure made especially for first-time players!
Preceded by: Escape From Pelican Rock Island
Succeeded by: Crisis Caverns Island (Poptropica Worlds)
Note: This was the first island new players encountered on Poptropica Original from 2016 to 2019, until it was replaced by Snagglemast Island.
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Written Walkthrough
Walkthrough written by Hyper Gamer & Slanted Fish
Welcome to Poptropica! Monkey Wrench Island is the tutorial quest that will introduce new players to Poptropica’s adventures. If you’re not a new player and you want to play this adventure, you can do so by talking to the pilot, Amelia Earhart (like the historical figure), standing by her plane on Home Island.
Regardless of whether you’re old or new, talk to the pilot and she’ll ask you if you are ready to start the race. Click “Yes, let’s go!” to start, or if you want, you can ask her a bit about the world of Poptropica.
The race takes place in the sky, and you and Amelia are racing together among other aircrafts. The ref will tell you the prize is a medallion. But just as you’re getting started, the Red Baroness throws a wrench at your plane, causing you to crash down.
You’ll land on an island… Monkey Wrench Island! The tutorial will tell you how to move your character, and you’ll find a monkey to the right. Keep following him.
He’ll take you into a jungle, where Amelia’s plane is caught in some foliage. The tutorial will teach you how to jump, and you’ll need to jump twice on Amelia’s plane to make it fall out. Now, though, we need to find a wrench to do some repairs.
Follow the monkey back to the beach, and watch him tilt one of the platforms in the opposite direction. Do the same with the other platform, and you’ll trap the crab so he has no place to hide. The crab will drop the Wrench, and you can pick it up.
Now follow the monkey back to Amelia’s plane, and talk to Amelia. She’ll offer to show you how to use items, but if you already know how, you can skip that tutorial and go straight to your inventory to click “Use” on the wrench.
You’ll fix the plane, and you, Amelia, and the monkey will fly off. You won’t get very far, though, because the plane breaks down again.
Follow the monkey to the right, and you’ll end up at some tropical resort. The tutorial will show you how to interact with items in scenes, and you’ll ring the bell to get Crusoe to come over. As Crusoe is talking, Amelia pulls you aside and offers to show you how to change the speed of dialogue if you want.
Anyway, Crusoe asks for a rope, cloth, and fruit drink. Jump up to the fruit machine and click on the red handle. You will be shown a bag of fruits to the left. Jump up to it and click on the bag. You will be shown a red handle on the other side. Jump up to the handle and click on it to spin it. The bag will hit a tree, causing the contraption to break. You now have your Rope.
Jump up to the fruits and click on the broken bag to get your Cloth. Then, push the fruits into the gap towards the center. Go back down to the fruit machine and click on the handle. This will create the Fruit Drink you need.
Go back to Crusoe and click on him to give him the items. He will go off to make you a better flying device. However, a while passes and he hasn’t returned, so Amelia asks you to investigate. Go up and to the right, and you’ll find Crusoe sleeping instead of working!
Click on him to wake him up. He will show you his plans for the flying machine and tell you to build it.
This must be some, joke right?
However, the monkey has a better idea, and you can see him excitedly waving about a stack of papers. Click on the monkey, and you’ll have his version of the flying machine – much more impressive.
In fact, by the time you decide you’ve had a good look at his blueprints, he and his team of monkeys will have your brand new blimp ready for you to fly! Board the blimp, and you’ll be back in the race.
Click on the bags to lighten your load. When you only have one bag left, the Red Baroness will push you out of the blimp, but you’ll quickly fly up again. She will try and push you off the blimp. Avoid the objects she throws (or don’t – it has no effect). Amelia will tell you to drop the last bag – and there’s Crusoe, stowing away!
Since you can’t drop him, Amelia tells you to throw away something heavy you’re carrying. Go to your inventory and click on the wrench to throw it away. It’s still not enough.
Amelia tries to convince Crusoe to let go of his drink, but he won’t listen, so it’s up to you. Ask him, “Well…can I at least get you a refill?” to take the drink from Crusoe and throw it away, and it lands in the Red Baroness’s plane. Crusoe will jump to the plane to catch his drink, accidentally spilling some, and cause her plane to crash.
You will win the race, and the referee will award you the Island Medallion as well as 150 credits to spend in the Poptropica Store! Confetti will rain from the sky, and the islanders of Home Island—where you’ve landed—will dance. Congratulations, you’ve completed Monkey Wrench Island!
Did you know? The tutorial quest used to take place on Home Island (also formerly Hub Island) itself, and while it featured a pilot and wrench, it was a lot less interesting.
Be sure to explore the rest of Home Island while you’re here! You can alter your appearance, play with a Photo Booth, interact with other players, and more.
If this is your first time on Poptropica, hopefully the quick tutorial was helpful in getting you acquainted. Here on the Poptropica Help Blog, we have tons more Poptropica resources for you—island walkthroughs, latest news, and more—so if you’re interested in being part of the Poptropica community: welcome! 😀 We hope you like it here.
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Thanks to Hyper Gamer for helping with the PHB’s Monkey Wrench Island Guide! We hope you find this tutorial helpful! 😀
Great guide. Glad to help out. It actually started on Discord with TheKeystone asking if I wanted to write the tutorial after I, said “Now to make a tutorial of Monkey Wrench Island. Not that we really need one.”
Well, even if most people are able to figure it out without a guide, it’s good to have one for documentation. It might even be cool to look back on, especially if the tutorial changes like it did – and now we have our Hub Island Guide to look back on! Thanks again, Hyper Gamer!
Your welcome!
What language did the monkeys write the construction map for the blimp?
I find this super helpful😂😂
Slanted Fish, I came to the part where the Home Islanders dance, but they just keep on dancing and it just stays like that. Help?
slantedfish: Try leaving the island and then returning to it!
Thanks!
slantedfish I completed the quest and and after i got my medal it goes black and i tried to refresh the page but it goes to the login page. So I had to create a new charater because thats what i did the last time and i came to this part again and it still goes black but i can still hear the music. WHAT DO I DO?
slantedfish: Sorry to hear you’re having trouble – try contacting Poptropica support so they can help, and try playing on a different web browser in the meantime!
great guide!
When I finished there was a glitch and it made me start over!
did you still keep your medallion?
I got that too
Here is what you do:
Go to where the settings are and click “Restart island” then you’ll go back ho Home Island main street and you’ll get the medailion and credits
but great guide! thx
nope didn’t give me my medallion
Sorry to hear it glitched on you – contact Poptropica support if the problem persists!
Easiest. Island. EVER!!!!!
I finished Monkey Wrench Island yesterday, it was fun! ^ u ^
It was so fun! I love Monkey Wrench, and I hope it helps a lot of new players!
I’ve been playing for years, but I did Monkey Wrench Island and it’s cool as well as a great introduction for beginners. I want to play it again, but there is no ‘Restart Island’ button in the Settings. Every time I revisit Amelia, the plane is not there and I consequently can’t replay it. What do I do?
slantedfish: You should be able to replay by talking to Amelia – contact Poptropica if that’s not working!
IDK. I finished Monkey wrench Island for the fourth time a couple of days ago and the plane disappeared for me. Maybe the creators made it so you can only play the island once.
Not sure. I know I did it once with Incredible Skull, and I thought I did it twice with Mighty Warrior (I have a whole bunch of accounts) but I don’t know what I did to bring the plane back. Were your four times all on the same file?
Also, I’m looking for the Zombie Monkey follower around the cinema on 24 Carrot Island but it’s not there. What’s up with that?
Never mind, it’s on Zomberry. XD I am so stupid.
What monkey follower?
@Raven: The Berry Scary Monkey follower.
It’s still there. In 2017. I don’t even…
hey the choco monkey has a monkey wrench twin but with eyelashes
Did anyone else have a problem at the start of the game when you had to get the plane down? I could climb up the vine but I couldn’t jump after that. I wouldn’t allow me. I have tried restarting the island over and over again but it keeps doing that.
Crusoe’s the best.
Actually,I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to be a reference of sorts to Robinson Crusoe…
I just noticed that the Red Baroness talked in puns.
yep. And then she nearly gives you a hair cut the hard way.
Monkey Wrench Island is so easy I can crack it in five minutes!
Help! the monkey is under the platform and when i do it on top, the crab just goes to the monkey’s side!
Hey,where’s the trivia?
There’s not much to comment on for this island in terms of trivia. 😛
Here’s an interesting trivia : The Red Baroness is possibly based off a fighter pilot in the German Air Force named Manfred von Richthofen, who was nicknamed the Red Baron.
This island was simple, but I liked it! It reminded me a lot of the old islands! Great for beginners, using it in my Fanfic!
does anyone know why this island is gone? it was so much fun 😦
Poptropica replaced it with another tutorial called Snagglemast Island. They never said why, but my guess is they felt Snagglemast was more straightforward as a tutorial than Monkey Wrench.
that’s sad it was actually kind of fun though 😦
Some of the flying machines in the race are from other islands, the Reality TV helicopter, the Cryptids Hot Air Balloon and lawn chair attached to balloons, the Astro-Knights Phoenix, the Arabian Nights Flying Carpet, etc.
I can’t believe they removed this Island Why Can’t Jeff kinney just make all Islands return