Baron's Airship, Fan Art Features, Home Island, Monthly Costume Contests

Red October sky from the Baron on high 🚁☁️

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, Red October is upon us! 💥🌚🩸

The Baron has made her landing on Home Island and brought her blood red aura everywhere. Let’s get off that dusty rock and go see what’s new!

As promised, the six winning designs from September’s costume contest have arrived at the Baron’s pop-up shop. Be sure to snag your Heart Witch, Pumpkin Punk, Will-O’-Wisp, Zombie Nerd, Midnight Kitten, and Phantom costumes for free, and while you’re here, consider the smiling and/or grimacing pumpkins (50 credits each) and Baby Jersey Devil plushie (300 credits) for your clubhouse. 🎃🎃

The Creators must be watching us, since Gentle Dolphin threw out the idea of a Jersey Devil plushie here just last week. But hey, while we’re punkin’ around, we’re still thrilled to see cool stuff in the game — whether it’s a clubhouse item or winning costume creation!

By the way, the Baron’s Red October makeover extends throughout Home Island! We know the Creators can’t resist polishing the dust off this rock from time to time, but we have to admit this fresh crimson paint is quite a mood. Even Amelia got in on the Halloween spirit with a unicorn headband that wasn’t there yesterday! 🦄🎃

The Red Baron and Red October atmosphere will be here all month. Enjoy the sinister spirit and playground aboard the Baron’s vessel!

The spooky vibes continue in Poptropica’s latest Instagram stories. In addition to Halloween-inspired fan art, Poptropica also promoted their Red October event and World Teacher’s Day. Are there teachers following Poptropica on Instagram? Now that may be a little eerie…

Anyway, that’s a wrap on this update. Happy (or should we say melancholic?) Red October! Pop on by Home Island and enjoy the Halloween vibes and costumes all through the month.

Keep popping on, Poptropicans! 👻

~🐠

Member Gifts, Social Media, Store

Amelia’s not squidding around with unicorns 🦄🦑🎃

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Happy spooky season, Poptropicans! In addition to the PHB’s special Halloween site skin, this update brings you store (and more) treats, plus tantalizing tricks through bonus dialogue and memes. Let’s pop in!

October’s mood is Halloween spirit, and Poptropica promises that this entire month’s store updates are going to be Halloween themed — starting now! At Adventure Outfitters, you’ll find tons of spooky costumes, and even more spilling over to the shop floor on both sides. Among them is a new blue Fuzzy Monster (Sully, is that you?) and the return of the Bubble Unicorn for members (you know Amelia, she loves her unicorns). See more on the Pop Creators’ Blog »

While we’re here for more treats than tricks, member gifts are here! Players of privilege can dress up with the Bread Head, Lion Mane, and Dino outfits — matching with recent pet items.

After you’ve made your rounds at the store, consider paying Amelia a visit upstairs in her home. If you’ve completed Amelia’s mini quest, you can come back to her place to find her enjoying some tea. Strike up a conversation and she’ll talk about unicorns, naturally, as well as hint at more quests to come! 🦄☕️

Thanks for the tip and pics, Giant Dragon!

Over on Twitter, Poptropica’s been playing a different game. Sharing images from the recent popular Netflix drama Squid Game, they created two memes about playing Poptropica beyond broken internet and reasonable bedtimes. Fortunately, playing Pop won’t get you eliminated because many islands themselves have already been decimated…

Also fortunately, you don’t need to have watched the show (which is recommended for ages 16+) to enjoy these memes. Nope, new Pop might not have epic tribes like the Flying Squid, but at least we got these Stationary Squids for amusement. 🦑

That wraps up this post! Stay tuned for the PHB’s annual Halloween costume contest coming up soon — you could even get a head start by snagging the latest scary store styles. Pop on, Poptropicans! 🎃✨

~🐠

Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: The Princess and the Raven, part 5 👸🐦

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Shy Scorpion. Enjoy!

Hello Poptropicans, and welcome to the next part of my fanfiction! It’s Shy Scorpion and I know it’s been a while, but welcome to part 5. (Catch up on part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 if you missed any of them.)

  • “The Princess and the Raven”

Scene 4: Snow White is sitting in Red’s Pizza Basket with some very familiar faces: Red, Cinder, and Amelia. They are all eating pizza while Red bakes some more at the counter.

SNOW WHITE:

Wow! It was lucky to meet you here, Amelia. I’ve seen you once, after Rumpelstiltskin was defeated, but we never really got to talk.

CINDER:

Yeah, you’re a great storyteller too, I loved hearing about your race against the Baron!

AMELIA:

Thanks, but I am so glad to meet all of you! You’ve all really caused a buzz among people on home island. Speaking of which, how’s it going with these boyfriends of yours? 

CINDER:

Great! The huntsman and I are actually really alike, and that helps a lot. We’ve had some great conversations over cups of coffee. 

AMELIA:

Nice! I prefer tea myself, but never mind, how about your boyfriend, Snow White? 

SNOW WHITE:

(silent for a second) It’s good, actually, it’s great! I guess I always thought villains were all horrible people. But I’m seeing now that actually some of them had good inside of them, they just needed the right person to bring it out.   

AMELIA:

(smiles) I’m starting to see that. Speaking of villains, have you guys heard the news about Rumpelstiltskin?

SNOW WHITE, CINDER, and RED:

No! 

AMELIA:

He recently sent my friend, the adventurer one, on a quest to find and free the king of Fairytale Island. 

RED:

Why would he do that? I thought he was obsessed with taking away everyone’s happy endings? Won’t this make the prince happy?  

AMELIA:

I’m just as confused as you are! Once they found the king, he started crying about a… queen or something? But I’m not sure why this is a big deal. 

SNOW WHITE:

(going pale) If the king comes back, do you think everything on Fairytale Island will go back to normal?  

AMELIA:

(happily) Of course! (sees her face) What’s wrong?   

SNOW WHITE:

I think I know why Rumpelstiltskin did what he did. To ruin my happy ending!

AMELIA:

What? Why? 

SNOW WHITE:

If the king comes back, then my postponed wedding to the prince is back on again! 

A bell dings, and another familiar face walks in. 

RUMPELSTILTSKIN:

(with a grin) Why, that’s precisely the point!

I hope you liked this next part of my fanfiction! I was basing a lot of this around the new Fairytale Island side-quest, so if you’re not a member (like me) and want to find out what happened, the PHB has a walkthrough for Rumpel’s Challenge.

Did you find any of my easter eggs? Tell me your thoughts on this next part and where it could go in the comments. Next time, Poptropicans! 

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Shy Scorpion. If you did, you might also enjoy The Villain Saga, which inspired this fanfic!

The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you! 📰✨

Advertisements, Fan Art Features

Surprise scavenger hunt and stories 🎎

Slanted Fish

Surprise, Poptropicans! There’s a new ad game in town and its commercialization might just be a tad outrageous.

You’ll find LOL Surprise and the Outrageous Millennial Girls (OMG) on the map’s third page or on Time Tangled Island. Talk to Royal Bee and you’ll be invited to join a mini scavenger hunt for 10 glittering surprises all over the beach house. You’ve got just a few minutes!

  • Baby Driver reference?

Once you find all 10 items, you win! You’ll get to enjoy the Royal Bee and Lady Diva costumes as well as a Party Cruiser accessory.

As with all ads, this game is only here for a limited time, so play while you can and get dolled up with the dolls’ prizes!

In other news, over the weekend, Poptropica shared a few fan posts on their Instagram stories. We’ve got doodles and danger:

That wraps up this update! Are you surprised by the scavenger hunt? Delighted by the doodles? Joining in the art fun for Poptober? We’d love to know. Keep on popping on, Poptropicans! ✌️

~🐠

Clubhouse Crawl, Social Media

Eyes popped for Pop playthroughs 🎥👀

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! We’ve got a clubhouse to visit and videos to see. A Poptropican’s eyeballs always stay popped open! 👀

First up, the official blog’s Clubhouse Crawl series continues with this jungle home from Orange Tiger! You can take the tour on the Pop Creators’ Blog or here in this Instagram video. Look out for the big troll, hex-a-decker couch, and Amelia-approved unicorns! 😈🛋

Speaking of Amelia, remember when she invited us over for tea and made us do her dirty work? The Creators recently dropped a new video playing through Amelia’s “eye-popping” mini quest along with a written guide, but just saying, the PHB’s got one too. 😉☕️🦄

Amelia’s mini quest also hints at lore not yet revealed, particularly through a photograph of a baking session with some mysterious girls and a cat. Some Poptropicans have their theories, and Poptropica promised in a recent tweet that there’s more to come!

If your eyes need to be popped and ears peeled for any video, though, we can’t help but mention our recent hit, “Backspace.” Watch the clip below and get the behind-the-scenes of this “Blank Space” Taylor Swift parody music video created as a lament for Pop’s ex-islands! 🏝🪦

Hear “Backspace” on Poptropica Help Videos (PHV)!

Even the Pop Creators seemed to enjoy the callout. 😂

And while you’re on our YouTube channel, check out our new playlists:

That wraps up this update. Keep on popping on, Poptropicans! ✌️

~🐠