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Recap: Poppies 2021 Awards 🏆🥳💙

July 25, 2021December 17, 2021 Slanted Fish

Hey Poppie-tropicans! We’ve just wrapped up another dazzling Poppies, our annual fan-directed Poptropica awards event. 🏆✨

Thank you all for joining in on the festivities throughout the month! We received over 260 votes in the polls to help determine this year’s winners and announced the awards this weekend in a livestream hosted by Sporty Boa, MaryannTheConqueror, and Slanted Fish. Catch the vid below, or scroll down to directly see the winners of the 2021 Poppies!

And the Poppies go to…

Poptropica Awards

👨🏼‍🎤 Hottest Male Poptropican: Director D (runner-up: Octavian)
👩‍🎤 Hottest Female Poptropican: Red Riding Hood (runner-up: Black Widow)
🤦‍♀️ Most Overrated Character: Dr. Hare (runner-up: Balloon Boy)
🏞 Most Picturesque Scene: Binary Bard’s Dream, Super Villain (runner-up: Heart of the Forest, Twisted Thicket)
🥺 Cutest Creature: Merlin (runner-up: Dryad)
🥴 Okay-est Ad Island: SpongeBob Island (runner-up: SpongeBob Island 2: Kamp Koral)
🎁 Coolest Member Gift: Bunny Car (runner-up: Boba Tea)
😵 Ickiest Poptropica Name: Hamburger Hamburger (runner-up: Beefy Brain)
😎 Bougiest Poptropica Name: Golden Moon (runner-up: Invisible Ring)
😭 Most Missed Feature: Old islands (runner-up: Costumizer)
😍 Finest Piece of Merch: Time Tangled wall clock (runner-up: Shark Boy plush)

Community Awards

🏝 Best Dream Island: Cherryfall Island by Smart Icicle (runner-up: Opposites Island by Noisy Snowball)
🃏 Silliest PHB April Fools’ Prank: Poptropica Dating Sim Fan Blog, 2021 (runner-up: Omegon’s Takeover, 2015)
🎨 Best Fan Art of the Year: “He is a villain” comic by AdventuresNHunters (runner-up: “The Boy Nobody Wanted” by MaryannTheConqueror)
🏡 Coolest Clubhouse: Gamer Clubhouse by Theo’s Ghost (runner-up: Cozy Clubhouse by Slanted Fish)
🎉 Most Popping PHB Party: Pride Palooza (runner-up: Beev Party)
🎥 Fan Favorite Video: “#TBT POPTROPICA FAIRY TALE ISLAND!! | Road to Captain Thinknoodles” by Thinknoodles (runner-up: “The Poptropica Timeline (one year later)” by Dimension Bros)

Most Picturesque Scene: Binary Bard’s Dream, Super Villain

Congratulations to all the winners!! 🥳💙 To see the percentages in votes for the top 3 of each category, check out the beautiful slideshow created by Fierce Flyer in the archived livestream above.

We also had fun hanging out with everyone in Poptropica’s Arcade and on our PHC Discord server! Shout-out to the Dimension Bros, who were nominated for two fan videos (and one clubhouse), for tuning into the Poppies live on their TV and giving us this intense reaction video:

“Best Fan Art” Nominee Gallery

This year we had so many contenders for the “Best Fan Art” award that we went with a whopping ten nominees to choose from! Feast your eyes:

“The Boy Nobody Wanted” by MaryannTheConqueror

From nominating to voting to partying, thanks for joining us another awesome awards act! By the way, this Monday, July 26 marks our 13th anniversary — the PHB’s a teen now. Happy blog birthday! 🥳

Keep on poppin’ on,

—🌟 the Poppies Help Blog 🌟 —

Advertisements, Contests, Creators' Blog Guest Posts, Tribes

Vivo la tribal, or at least an outline 🐊

July 23, 2021July 22, 2021 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! In this post, we’ve got another ad game, another challenge, and another guest post. Poptropica’s certainly been busy!

Let’s start off with the big green tree base on Home Island promoting the upcoming Netflix animated film Vivo. Head inside and you’ll find it’s even prettier within! You can also talk to the animals to start a game.

The goal of the mini-game is to make your way through the Cuban rainforest to reach the Sand Dollars girlband before time runs out. Along the way, you’ll have to dodge flies, crocs, and even a giant snake.

You’ll win two prizes at the end: Gabi’s Stylin’ Outfit (with a drum animation) and a Head Rider of Vivo, a kinkajou (honey bear).

Between Vivo and Kamp Koral Island 2, it’s cool to see Poptropica pulling in their ad dollars in more creative ways again. Let’s hope we’re on our way to getting rid of those pesky sidebar ads—and while we’re wishing, how about the return of bigger game screens?

Vivo releases on Netflix in two weeks on August 6, with songs by the legendary Lin-Manuel Miranda (of Hamilton fame). Stay tuned!

Next up, another official artsy challenge! While the past few weeks and months have seen fan art, fan fic, and costume design contests, the new Coloring Creation Challenge asks Poptropicans to create their own Pop-themed coloring page! The idea is to create an outline drawing (with black or blue marker) on a white page that can be colored in, like so:

Previously released coloring pages from the Pop Creators

To enter the challenge, snap a pic of your design and drop it into Poptropica’s submissions form no later than 8 p.m. PST on Monday, July 26. Doodle on!

Last but not least, there’s a new guest post on the Creators’ Blog by Invisible Ring on the gone-but-not-forgotten Tribes of Poptropica. As she explains, tribes were teams you could join in the Poptropolis Games and rep on your friends page or with custom hats you could make in the Twin Palms Mall of Night Watch Island. Plus, each tribe had their own themed common room!

You can learn more over on the PHB’s Tribes page as well as the individual tribe pages linked there (thanks for the blog shout-out, Ring!).

Here on the PHB, we’ve enjoyed even more tribal fun with our 2016 and 2020 Tribal Tournaments, and we even host a series of epic “Tribal Tailorings” in our ASG collection. Here’s hoping for the return of the eight epic tribes!

“Seraphim for the Win” by happyclonetrooper

That’s a wrap for this post. What did you think of the Vivo ad game, and will you be streaming this release? What ideas are brewing in your head for the Coloring Creations Challenge? And which tribe rules them all? Share with us in the comments, and stay popping!

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Bonus Items, Fan Art Features, Time Tangled Island

Time to Tangle with credits to spangle 🤑

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, lots of news incoming! We’ve got an island-sized treat for non-members, credit crazes, another ad game, and that’s not even all of it—but more for another post. Let’s POP into this one!

First up, Time Tangled Island is now available for all players! 🎉🕰 Although it has been free for most of Pop’s history, it was locked behind the paywall since it was first ported over to Haxe last September. Guess it was only a matter of time. (Thanks to Neat Peanut for the tip!)

Fun fact: This trailer video is so old that it was posted on the Poptropica Creators’ first YouTube channel, VladTheViking.

One downside: it’s been reported on the PHC that playing through islands no longer awards credits. But fear not, the Poptropica economy finds other ways to function…

As an acceleration of the daily login credit rewards, Poptropica is launching a credit craze campaign where, over the next 10 days, if you login to Pop every day, you’ll automatically receive a bonus 5,000 credits on July 31, good for spending sprees in the game’s various stores.

The campaign began Wednesday, July 21, so if you didn’t miss that day, you can keep your streak going till Friday, July 30 for your shot at the big prize! After all, the Creators make it sound so appealing with this absolutely golden quote from their post:

What comes to mind when you think of your favorite four letter F word? If you’re already thinking “FREE,” you’ve got the right idea!
Poptropica Creators’ Blog

If you know, you know. 👀

Like the sketch? There’s always more on Instagram, so let’s round off this post with the latest fan art features on the Creators’ story:

Maroon Ring’s blimp by @happyclonetrooper

That’s a wrap for this post, but there’s more on the horizon! Keep on popping on, Poptropicans, and see you in the next one. ✌️

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Déjà vu, it’s Kamp Koral Island 2 🧽

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, remember Kamp Koral Island? It’s back!

Poptropica’s third SpongeBob Island comes with three limited time items which you can win from playing the various mini-games.

The first thing you’ll see on Kamp Koral Island 2 is SpongeBob standing by a house marked Obstacle Course and surrounded by balloons. Getting the game to activate was a real obstacle for me, but fortunately, Ammonite provided some pics. At the end of this sea-legged race, you’ll win Plankton’s Helicopter Pack.

The fun continues at the next house over, marked Jellyfish Meadows. This is the exact same game from last time — collect all the jellyfish before time runs out — though the prize is different. You’ll win a Wacky Pool Noodle, which has a thrust action accompanied by SpongeBob’s hilariously creepy laugh!

Nearby, talk to Plankton and he’ll tell you that SpongeBob borrowed his chips. Follow the chip trail up to the lookout at the top and pick up your very own purple Chip Bag! (Tap the space bar to take a bite.)

That’s all for the prizes, but there are a few more activities left on the island! Like the previous SpongeBob Islands, you can play three head-to-head arcade games: High Dive (Sky Dive), Star Link, and Bubble-loons (Balloons), all styled with SpongeBob graphics. Also like last time, you can pull a lever to make jellyfish rain.

Sandy’s got enough air to throw you three challenges

While it may be too late for this iteration of Kamp Koral to make it to the 2021 Poppies, there’s still time left to vote for the “Okay-est Ad Island” and other fan awards. Be sure to cast your votes before the poll closes this Thursday, and join us this Saturday for a poppin’ party (that’s got the Creators’ seal of approval) to hear the winners announced live! 🏆🏝

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Blast from the Past, Store

Get in Character with Bucket Hats 👒

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, there’s a new store update at Adventure Outfitters, and bucket hats are in! With the new Sandy Beach costume, you can match with your pet by getting them a Bucket Hat — or Blue Shades to go with last week’s Water Battle outfit!

Summer looks also include a Lifeguard vest for pets and the return of the Boho Chic for members. See the full stock on the Creators’ Blog »

In other news, as you’re moving about Poptropica, you may notice a new sidebar ad from Infoplease which links to a Pop quiz of Pop characters! It’s not clear if the Pop Creators made this or if they’re just linking to anonymous fan-made content, but either way, it’s a fun little game that tests if you can name 10 classic Poptropica characters. Play it here »

That’s all for now, but we’ll have more news in other posts! Remember to vote in the Poppies if you haven’t already, and stay tuned for our guide to the new ad island. Keep on popping on!

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