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Hello everyone! Welcome back to the PHB’s Halloween Extravaganza: The Show Must Go On, our costume contest requiring participants to dress for the carnival or circus and bring along a handheld item. Now it’s time to announce the winners! *drumroll* Without further ado…

🥉 In 3rd place, we have “Patty and Cake: the Pie Throwing Clowns” by Lazy Kid. This dynamic duo sure looks like they’re having a lot of fun!

🥈 In 2nd place, we have “Fire Eater” by Jean of Pop, now a 5-time winner of our Halloween contests! Jean, you really ate with this one.

Before I announce the winner, I want to thank all of the participants for making outstanding costumes. The PHB staff had a hard time picking the winners! And now for the top prize…

🥇 In 1st place, we have “The Good Monster” by Magic Kid! Just look at this cutie — how could anyone resist that adorable face? 🥹

The winners are in for some awesome prizes: a copy of Poptropica on Steam for #1 🥇 or a Poptropica merch item of their choice from Zazzle (up to US$20 for #2 🥈 or US$10 for #3 🥉). Winners, keep an eye on your email inbox as we’ll be reaching out shortly to coordinate your prize!

In addition, the winning costumes are now immortalized in our Look Book for all to enjoy for years to come. 👀🩵

Plus, we enjoyed so many of your costumes that we just had to shout out several more. Enjoy our pick of honorable mentions down below! ✨

“Lion Tamer who’s also a Lion” by Unknown Spider

While the future of Poptropica seems uncertain, the show must go on. My name is Smart Icicle, and I had a wonderful time hosting this year’s costume contest. I hope you all have an amazing Halloween. 🎃

Thank you and goodnight!

~📚🧊

🎵 Well, it’s been a wild ride / And we’ve enjoyed every insane minute of it
We don’t know what the future holds / But we’re grateful for every moment we got to spend with you
And remember, it’s not really goodbye / ‘Cause we’ll probably see most of you very soon 🎵

Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: Murder at Myron’s 🦉 Part 4/4

October 31, 2024November 1, 2024 LJ

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Magic Kid. Enjoy!

Alright Poptropicans! Magic Kid is back again with the final part of the fanfiction, Murder at Myron’s. (Read parts 1, 2, & 3 first! 🙂)

The villains are pointing fingers, investigating, and analyzing everything and everyone in order to figure out who murdered Myron Van Buren. It’s extremely difficult, however, to figure out. All the shifty suspects are 100% capable and dangerous, but all claim innocence.

They had just discovered a secret tunnel and some more interesting variables when another well-known— yet uninvited— villain turned up. More contention will break out as they blame the newly arrived Dr. Hare for the murder. But what happens to him, to our Narrator Merlin, and to every villain at that dinner-gone-wrong?

You’ll have to read this shocking conclusion to the series in order to find out for yourself what happens in the end…

Murder at Myron’s

Part 4/4

All the Villains except Dr. Hare were shock-quiet as Dr. Hare, pink bunny suit and all, stepped inside in the warm house and shivered in the sudden temperature change. And then more chaos, more arguing, and just more contention in general broke out for probably the millionth time that evening.

Captain Crawfish pinned Dr. Hare against the Lincoln Log style walls of the cabin and shouted at him. “WHY DID YOU KILL MYRON? AND TO HAVE THE NERVE TO COME BACK TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME LIKE AND INNOCENT LITTLE SHRIMP? HOW DARE YOU, RABBIT!”

Everyone else was ganging up on Dr. Hare and joining in on the shouting now.
“I see how it is! You got mad you weren’t invited and decided to get a little bit of revenge, right? Daphne poked at him.

“N—no! I got an—”

I was accidentally pushed roughly against the wall by the villains gathering and this kind of behavior continued.

“Who are you working with?” demanded Mademoiselle Moreau, who had been the one to discover that breakthrough of the window having to have been unlocked from the inside.

“Why would you DO this?” asked Ringmaster Raven angrily.

“M—Myron’s d—dead?” Dr. Hare asked, barely managing to talk because of Crawfish’s grip on his throat.

“AYE, YOU MUCK OF SLIME—”

“What should we do with him?” Director D asked in cold rage.

Gretchen replied in equal anger “I don’t know! I think we should just let Crawfish have him at the moment!”

“No! Wait— I didn’t—”

“Why else would you come here uninvited?!” Mordred shouted.

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Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: Murder at Myron’s 🦉 Part 3/4

October 28, 2024October 30, 2024 LJ

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Magic Kid. Enjoy!

*poof* Heyo Poptropicans! I come bringing you Part 3/4 of Murder at Myron’s! Read the previous episode here, or if you’d like to go to the beginning, you can reach that here.

Okay so quick recap: A lot of Poptropica’s villains come together for a dinner party at Myron Van Buren’s cabin, but after searching for the host, they find Myron DEAD in the trophy room. *DUN DUN DAAAAAA*

Last episode was a game of “Where’s Myron?” but now it’s time to figure out who, out of the choice of many dangerous unpredictable villains, killed him. Can Merlin figure out who the villain of villains is before they take another victim?

Perhaps this episode will be the answer…

Murder at Myron’s

Part 3/4

Pandemonium.

Black Widow’s scream reached the dining room and brought in a rush of people, spilling in through a door and crowding the entrance of the trophy room. Everyone gathered around Myron’s body, whispering loudly and shouting questions repeatedly until someone answered it.

Winston went over to investigate the commotion, and seeing his master’s body, he quickly sat down in a nearby chair with a small, “Oh, dear.”

“ALRIGHT, WHO DID IT?” Director D shouted over the noisy crowd, already exhausted from the arguing that was happening.

Everyone clambered to answer.

“It wasn’t me!” Isabella, the chef, said.

Daphne shouted over the noise, “MORDRED AND BLACK WIDOW WERE IN HERE FIRST!”

“Don’t look at me, I didn’t do it!” Mordred protested after several heads turned to him.

“To be fair, neither did I!” Black Widow added.

Gretchen argued back. “You two were in the room first, you both had opportunity.”

“But what’s our motive?” Black Widow shot back. “I, at least, had no desire to murder Myron Van Buren. I swear, I just found him like that! Mordred, on the other hand—”

“Excuse me?!” Mordred said. He was about to argue but was cut off.

“I think it was Moreau, she hasn’t said a WORD since entering this room, unlike everyone else,” Daphne accused bluntly.

“That’s MADEMOISELLE Moreau to you,” she replied coldly. “And silence is no admission to guilt. Would it be impossible to believe that all this noise began to give me a headache and I would rather not contribute to the tumult?”

“Oh.”

“Who said ve vas murdered? This could have EASILY been an accident!” Count Bram wondered.

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Guest Posts

Halloween Fun 101 🎃

October 25, 2024October 30, 2024 LJ

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Invisible Ring. Enjoy!

It’s that spooktacular time of year again! Thrilling parties, chilling movies, tricks and treats all around! Yes, Halloween is upon us like the brisk autumn air that just blew in out of nowhere. Speaking of which, you best put on a hat! It’s only going to get colder from here…

Once you’ve grabbed your hat and picked out some pumpkins, go find a costume, and hurry! Time is running out and you can’t trick-or-treat without a costume! I mean, maybe you can, but what fun would that be?

If you’re having trouble deciding what costume to choose from, try rooting through your closet. If you have no costumes in your closet, you can either get creative with a clever combination of clothes and accessories from your inventory or swing by the nearest costume shop and pick something out!

Most importantly, grab a bag or a Halloween basket to put your candy in. Grocery bags and pillow sacks work great, but if you don’t have those go get a happy meal at McDonald’s! They always have Happy Meal “Boo Buckets” this time of year!

But I know what you’re thinking: “Aren’t we a little old for this trick-or-treating business?” My answer is no! Why? I know people who still go trick-or-treating even in their 50s! Plus, there are whole families who trick-or treat in group costumes like the Flintstones or the Incredibles.

Besides, we all have masks on so nobody is going to really know how old you are. Just play nice and blend in with the crowd. You’ll be just fine.

But if your neighborhood has grouchy neighbors who tell you that you’re too old for trick-or-treating, then I suggest you try trick-or-treating at the mall. There are also fall carnivals, trunk-or-treats, and harvest festivals everywhere on Halloween night, so try finding events like those as well!

P.S. Feel free to attend as many Halloween parties and events as I do, because it isn’t just bonus candy; it’s bonus costumes and Halloween fun too!

I hope that you found this post spooktacular and that these Halloween tricks treat you well this season. Thank you for reading and I wish you all a very Happy Halloween! 🎃

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Invisible Ring.

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!

Fanfiction, Guest Posts

Fanfic: Murder at Myron’s 🦉 Part 2/4

October 11, 2024October 10, 2024 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Magic Kid. Enjoy!

Howdy guys! It’s Magic Kid, again, and I’m back with the second part in my latest fanfiction: Murder at Myron’s! If you have no idea what’s going on, you can read the first part here.

Guys, I am having WAY too much fun writing this, I’d forgotten how satisfactory it was to leave innocent readers on cliffhangers.

Last time I left you guys, you were introduced into a villain get-together dinner party, which was all jolly good fun until Winston returned to the party with the news that Myron Van Buren is MISSING!

*comical gasps from the crowd*

Where did he go? You’ll have to read for yourself to find out…

Murder at Myron’s

(Part 2/4)

Lightning split the sky, illuminating the scene.

Mordred was looking piercingly at Winston, as though he was reading his mind to see if this was some sort of prank. Director D was looking politely surprised. Moreau made a small gasp that was so comically French of her that Daphne sniggered. Ringmaster Raven did not seem affected by the news and remained still.

Captain Crawfish, on the other hand, spit out a drink and banged the empty cup on the table with a loud “HE’S MISSIN’?”. Gretchen Grimlock (whom Crawfish’s drink had been spat out on) was scowling and looked disgusted. Black Widow couldn’t care less. And Count Bram sat up a little straighter in his chair, waiting to hear more.

I, Merlin, was shocked to hear that the host had disappeared. I wondered what had happened to him and was very curious to find out. Excited (though very concerned), I started to fly around Mordred’s head.

“I’ve looked everywhere!” Winston said heavily. “He’s nowhere in the house — or outside, for that matter.”

“Odd,” Moreau said. “He’s normally the first one present for these sorts of things.”

“Very odd indeed,” agreed Raven.

Gretchen mused, “He ALWAYS makes a big scene whenever he’s at a party. Something must be wrong if he’s not around…”

Captain Crawfish stood up. “I’m going to go find him!” He started to walk out of the room.

“Wait!” Winston said. “We should go in groups to search. I hate to be the paranoid one, but something’s definitely off. It wouldn’t be safe to go alone.”

“Alright,” Crawfish sighed. “Which one of you lot wants to come with me?”

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