Gather ’round, Poptropicans! After twenty-nine days of drawing and posting, the PHB’s Pop Masquerade Birthday Collab comes to a close. Now, on the final day of Poptropica’s 18th anniversary month, we begin this masquerade with paper faces on parade! 🎭
We present to you… the PHB’s Pop Masquerade Birthday Collage! 🎂🖼️
A round of applause to all 32 artists who contributed to this year’s birthday collage! These internet illustrators accepted our invitation and filled the Poptropica Help Ballroom with 54 masked characters. Let us admire the attendees’ fashion and pay tribute to their talented designers. 👨🎨👗🧥
Before we end this celebration, let us show our gratitude to the Poptropica Creators for bringing this game to life and to Coolmath Games for keeping it alive on their website. Throughout its life, Poptropica soared to great heights and plummeted to devastating lows. Despite everything, the Creators put their all into the game while the fans showed their support. Here’s to 18 years of Poptropica! We may hide our faces tonight, but we will never hide our love for this game! 🎭🖥️
Thank you all for coming to our party, and have a good day!
FADE IN on the ship, later the same day. CRAWFISH has managed to gather everyone on the ship together on the deck. EDWARD is next to him with an old blackboard and a piece of chalk the size of his knuckle. Compared to the lovely weather from earlier, storm clouds are approaching once more.
CRAWFISH
All right, you lily-livered new folk!
(con’t)
I know none of you are used to life at sea, so we’re going to change that starting now!
HARE gags, still a little green in the face.
CRAWFISH
Each one of you has to carry your weight, no matter how high and mighty you may think you are.
EDWARD
None of us want to go through the trouble of training all of ye, so most of this will be cleaning an’ simple chores.
Submissions are now closed. Stay tuned for the birthday collage!
Greetings, everyone! We have celebrated Poptropica’s 16th and 17th birthdays with community art collabs, and this year will be no different! Now that Poptropica is old enough to be a legal adult, this year’s art collab will have a classy theme…
🎭 Masquerade Ball 💃
Masquerade parties inspire mystery, intrigue, and creativity. Dress to the nines with your favorite mask and have a grand time at the finest birthday party this side of the internet! All you have to do is follow three simple steps:
1. Draw a character wearing a mask. They can be a canon Pop character, a popsona, or even a character from another piece of media. Please save your drawing as a ✨transparent .png file✨; doing this makes it easier for us to add your art to the collage. Here are two examples drawn by me and Magic Kid:
2. Upload your picture to the internet. Post your drawing to a website that supports transparent images such as Imgur, Discord, DeviantArt, and Twitter/X. You may send us a maximum of three images.
3. Comment on this post with a link to your drawing. Copy and paste your image link to a comment on this very post so we can see it. Along with the link, please add your Poptropican name and/or one social media username that you want listed in the artist credits.
We will be accepting submissions for this collab until Monday, September 29th @ 11:59 pm EST. Just like our previous birthday collabs, we will gather everyone’s drawings and edit them into one big birthday collage. Let’s make Poptropica’s 18th birthday a magical one! 🎉✨
Hello, Poptropicans! Welcome to the Poptropica Help Blog, the blog where childhood game nostalgia is 24/7!
Back in June, we covered a post by Team Theorist that features Poptropica in a carousel of classic virtual worlds. Now, Team Theorist has referenced Poptropica again, this time on the YouTube channel that started it all: The Game Theorists! 🎮💚
This community poll which gained 100K+ votes asks viewers, “From these options, which of these childhood MMOs were your FAVORITE growing up?” Club Penguin is the obvious winner here on Massively Multiplayer Online games, but our beloved Poptropica firmly stands in second place, beating Webkinz and Neopets. Way to go, Pop!!! 💙🎉
Some people in the post’s comment section have shared their fond memories of Poptropica, and a couple of these comments were liked the The Game Theorists themselves! Here are some of our favorites:
It’s true that Poptropica is a classic in the kids virtual world scene, but does it deserve to be called a true MMO? On our Discord server, the PHC, BlueShade pointed out how Pop is grouped with other browser MMOs despite not primarily being an MMO. Sure, common rooms and friend pages are part of the game, but Pop is better known for its story-rich islands than its multiplayer features. 🤔
On that note, great stories inspire great theories! (You see where I’m going with this?)
Dear Team Theorist, we would love to see an official Game Theory episode about Poptropica! We believe that a Poptropica Game Theory episode would be a fun nostalgia trip for fans as well as a great way to revive discussion surrounding the game. Matpat already covered the Coolmath Games ARG, so please give Tom a chance to cover another game hosted on CMG. Plus, like FNAF and Hangman, Poptropica has its own Balloon Boy! 🎈👦
There are plenty of interesting topics to cover in an episode such as hidden lore, character motivations, islands disappearing and reappearing, and even Poptropican anatomy. We in the Pop community have made our fair share of conspiracy theories, and we’d love to have you throw your hat in the ring! Please consider making a Poptropica theory because it would be a fascinatingly pop-tastic trip down memory lane. But hey, that’s just a theory… a PHB theory!
Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by HPuterpop/Andrew Wiles. Enjoy!
Hey everyone! Alright, so I know there are a number of you who are wondering about Poptropica: Legends, and first let me just say — thank you so much for your interest and support. While we’re not quite ready to release the beta just yet, we’ve been hard at work and are excited to offer a little sneak preview of all the amazing stuff our art, voice acting, and sound departments have been cooking up! Check out our trailer:
Please keep in mind: this is not final gameplay footage! We still have quite a bit of polish to go, but it gives you an idea of the level of quality we’re hoping to achieve. Here’s another preview, showcasing the full Booga intro with sound design:
This project means so much to all of us and every day we grow more confident that we’re on the right creative path. The team has grown rapidly since we really ramped up production three months ago, and we’re working around the clock to make sure the finished game is, as the kids say, “peak”. We have 25 team members now, enough to make my head spin — as the project manager, the more people I bring on, the more we accomplish, the less time I have for art! This is, of course, a tale as old as time.
Our website got a major overhaul, as we’d like to put our best foot forward for newcomers and fans alike. This new face is more animated, interactive, and professional! Have fun exploring all the interactive elements scattered throughout. 😀 More additions to come in the following days. As always, check it out at: www.PopLegendsGame.com.
With that said, I know we promised you guys the Meridian’s Lighthouse Beta Demo for Patreon supporters by the end of this month, and sadly, it doesn’t seem to be in the cards. To be honest with you, this project truly is massive, and there’s so much work to be done. Many of us work full-time on top of contributing, which is already a lot — and as far as funding, that’s almost entirely coming out of my own pocket. Our Patreon brings in US$30 a month right now, which we’re extremely grateful for! That said, it’s definitely not enough to help off-set the time we must spend working our day jobs.
Specifically, I’d like to thank Poptropica Legends Lucky Joker and HoneyBee for their continued monetary support — you guys were here at the very beginning! This generosity will not be forgotten.
We also have undergone some restructuring with our programming team management, so things should be smoother going forward — there is a Unity build, don’t worry, but right now our art department is moving a lot faster. We felt it was best to wait until we have a slightly more polished product before releasing it into the world — by August 15th we hope to have a Version Alpha ready for you to check out!
I want to apologize for the let-down of this beta release — but do keep in mind, only Patreon supporters would’ve been able to access it anyway! The more funding we’re given, the more time we can devote to this as opposed to our day jobs — and the faster you guys will be able to experience this new game. Support us on Patreon here!
We’d love your feedback on the new website! Also, if you’re a Patreon supporter and want to see more behind the scenes, let us know which department you want to tour next. Stay up to date on our socials:
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!
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