PHB Sneak Peeks

PHB Sneak Peeks: Pets, alternate worlds, and more!

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans!

While Poptropica remains pretty quiet about what they’re working on, our resident glitcher idk recently uncovered some interesting test scenes behind-the-scenes. Keep in mind, as these are test scenes, there’s no guarantee of whether they’ll appear in game eventually. With that said, let’s take a look!

In this scene, we get a backdrop with a scenic mountain range that features a few platforms and a character you can talk to – who’s accompanied by a cute little blob that may be a pet!

We know from Poptropica that pets will be part of the New Poptropica – and this might be one of them. Or maybe just a prototype. Who knows?

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Here’s another room, named “Air Control Test”. According to idk, the red block shoots your character into the air! Wonder what this could be for. Some skydiving, perhaps?

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There was also this rather empty room, save for a character who offers you something to open a treasure chest. Thanks… matey.

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Moving on, here we have a royally-dressed character who seems to be hinting at something super interesting… the idea of other Poptropicans coming from an alternate “Poptropiverse” (probably meaning Poptropica universe)! Could the Realms theory proposed in an earlier Popspiracy be true?? Hmm… perhaps this will be answered through the Poptropica graphic novels, as book 2 hints!

Finally, idk also uncovered these unused graphics for the Daily Pop which featured a “Challenge of the Day”, although the activity is unknown. Perhaps it was replaced by the flash games section.

Anyway, that’s all for this sneak peeks post! Hope you enjoyed the behind-the-scenes look! Keep poppin’ on, Poptropicans. Have a geisha goodbye, courtesy of Shaky Skunk! 🎎

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Contests

To the finish line: coming up, Closing Ceremony!

Slanted Fish

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Hey Poptropic-athletes, it’s been an energetic month of friendly competition for the PHB Tribal Tournament, but we’re almost to the finish line. This Friday, August 26th, we’ll be wrapping up our Games with a Closing Ceremony where we’ll be announcing the winning tribes for each category and the overall reigning champions, so don’t miss it! Here are the details:

  • 7pm Eastern time (that’s 6pm Central, 5pm Mountain, 4pm Pacific, and for all other time zones, check a time converter). In some parts of the world, it may be Saturday (26th) morning.
  • The party will be on the PHC at discord.me/thePHC – a completely safe chatroom environment where PHB staff and other Poptropicans regularly hang out – with Multiverse, games, and more!
  • Feel free to pop in and out as your schedule permits – you’ll usually find Poptropicans online at this time! Cheer on your tribe, battle against players in Multiverse rooms, and have fun!

As the tournament draws near its end, keep in mind the final day you can compete in our various competitions: Wednesday, August 24! (Some posts originally said the 21st but it’s been extended.)

Be sure to check out how you might like to participate: for example, there’s the Artistic Athletes round, where you can submit Poptropica fan art, written works, fashion, and Realms. Click here for more info.

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The Tribal Thinkers round also ends this Wednesday, August 24. If you haven’t already, check out your tribe’s channel on the PHC and help out your fellow team members with the trivia questions and stolen snapshots we posted earlier! Double-check for mistakes and you could help win more points!

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Finally, there’s the Medal Marathon, where you can earn points for your tribe just by playing through Poptropolis Games Island and sending us your scoreboard – the better your rank, the more points you earn, and you can play as many times as you like! Check out this post for all the details.

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We hope you’ve had a blast competing in these Games and chatting with tribemates and competitors alike on the PHC this month! We hope you can make it to the final party this weekend (see details above), where we’ll be announcing all the winners on the chat. (Don’t worry, we’ll also have a recap of the results here on the PHB – but the best excitement comes live!)

May the best tribe win the glory!

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Bonus Items, Graphic Novels, Store

New freebies in the Store: “The Lost Expedition” Edition!

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! Something’s popping, and you don’t want to get lost on this expedition!

Remember a couple of weeks ago when we showed you guys some unreleased Poptropica Store items? Well, they’re here! And the best part: THEY’RE FREE! Thanks Creators! 🙂

In celebration of the recent release of the second Poptropica graphic novel, The Lost Expedition, Poptropica has released seven awesome items that you can pick up for free at the Store: Amazonian Woman, Loon’s Head Cane, Secret Society Trooper, Shakespeare in Love, Stun Baton, Terror Captain, and White Out. They’re not going to be around forever, so get them while they last!

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What are these strange characters and powers all about? That’s what the new graphic novel, The Lost Expedition, can answer – and at least one PHB author (Brave Tomato) has already taken a look at the book and can definitely recommend it for all Poptropicans!

So… Quick! To the bookstore! Poptropica recently shared this drawing on social media, which they say was made by a Poptropica Creator on a whiteboard at Poptropica’s headquarters.

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Anyway, be sure to pick up your new Store freebies and buy the new graphic novel to support Poptropica if you haven’t already! Keep on poppin’ on, Poptropicans!

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My Place in Poptropica

My Place in Poptropica: Friendly Leopard

Slanted Fish

This is the My Place in Poptropica story of Friendly Leopard, who slowly but surely gained interest in Poptropica through her friends. See the bottom of this post for details on sending in your own MPIP!

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2010-2011 | My Parents’ Friend’s Kid

I first found Poptropica through my parents’ friend’s kid. That day, my parents invited friends over to celebrate Christmas Eve, and their friends happened to bring their kid along. As we always did, during gatherings, we turned on the computer and I let her play whatever she wanted (since I was the kind of kid who watched TV more than played games). She immediately logged into Poptropica and started playing.

She also created my first Poptropica account for me: Creepy Popper. She then helped me complete my first island, Reality TV Island. Naive as I was, I actually thought Reality TV was the only island that was fun to play, since the other islands were about stories and adventuring, and Reality TV had many mini-games. After a while, I got bored of Poptropica and abandoned my account.

For a few years after that, I didn’t play Poptropica much. I did return once in a while, but most of the time it was just to replay Reality TV island, which I usually left after a short while.

2014 | Other Islands Are Fun, Too

During December 2014, I returned to Poptropica after wondering how the islands are completed, which was the time when I saw the person who introduced Poptropica to me play Wimpy Wonderland Island. I wondered if perhaps adventuring virtually could be fun too.

I also created a second Poptropica account, Friendly Leopard, because I thought the first account had a terrible name, and I wanted to start over. So I, of course, played Reality TV again, but this time I moved onto several other islands like Shark Tooth Island and Wimpy Boardwalk Island. It was all well, and I had a wonderful time. My favourite island at that time was Lunar Colony because I loved how it explored alien life.

Then I came to Astro-Knights. I took very long just to make it to the boss battle, and many parts like the helicopter guy took very long for me to beat, and the boss battle was so frustratingly difficult. Because I couldn’t beat Mordred at the end, I abandoned Poptropica again.

2015 | If They Can, So Can I

That year, I met a girl in real life who also played Poptropica. Her Poptropican name is Cheerful Joker. She was an avid Poptropica fan, and kept bugging me to give her my Poptropica username, which I refused at first because I had already abandoned the game. Eventually, I gave in. This friend loved Poptropica very much, and slowly my interest in the game was sparked again.

I went back to Poptropica and began the long journey of completing Poptropica islands, including having to face Astro-Knights again. My motivation was that if Cheerful Joker and Cheerful Fox (another good friend of mine) could do it, I could too. Cheerful Joker also introduced me to the PHB, which I frequently used, along with Thinknoodles, to help with completion of islands.

Soon I only had Nabooti and Red Dragon Island left, which I could not complete because membership was required (I had already done the other sponsored islands before they were locked up for members only). My gaming skills also got better, so islands that once gave me such difficulty, like Astro-Knights, were no biggie anymore.

This was also the year I begun to buy lots of virtual clothing, which I mixed and matched to form costumes of various anime characters (an example is one of my accounts with the username kanadetachibanaa, who is dressed as Kanade from the anime Angel Beats).

2016 | Now an Avid Fan

In 2016, one of my friends, Grey Hippo, also joined Poptropica. However, she isn’t playing it now because of her parents’ disapproval and their expectations on her grades.

Red Dragon Island was also finally re-released to the public, so I finished that, and now I only have Nabooti left to complete. I am still waiting for it to be released… someday. I still check the PHB for updates, and am excitedly waiting for the next Poptropica island. And that is how I transformed, from a girl who didn’t care about games to becoming an avid fan of Poptropica!

Overall, my journey as a Poptropica player has gone on for many years, and over time I was able to find out why so many people loved Poptropica — their fun and exciting virtual adventures, evil and cute villains (like Dr Hare), their crazily interesting followers and their cute costumes! Honestly, deciding to rejoin the Poptropican fandom was never a regret of mine.

P.S. Now, I also want to give a tip to people who’ve just started playing Poptropica: play easier islands first to increase your gaming skills. This way, hard islands won’t be as much of a problem anymore. I promise. At least, it was to me.

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Hope you enjoyed this “My Place in Poptropica” story! Feel free to send in your own (please include a minimum of 550 words, type with good spelling and grammar, divide it into labeled sections, and include your username). Look out for more community MPIPs in the future!

~the PHB

Guest Posts, Popspiracy Theories

Popspiracy: Conflicting Islands, Time, and the Blimp

Slanted Fish

(This is a guest post by Happyhappy760, a PHB reader here to share some Poptropica thoughts. Keep in mind that what she presents is only theory, not to be taken as fact. If you have a Popspiracy, see below for details on guest posting! Enjoy! –SlantedFish)

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Hey guys, it’s Happyhappy760 here, and some of you may of seen me from the PHC or around the PHB comments section. Please don’t visit my blog. (It’s dead.)

Anyway, I’m sure that all of us sometime or another have visited these particular islands: Time Tangled, Monkey Wrench, and Early Pop. Now, there’s something in common between all these islands… Guess!

They all play a part in the beginning of Poptropica! (If you got that wrong, wamp, wamp, waaamp. Unless you found another thing in common. But that’s not what we’re talking about.) Monkey Wrench Island shows how the blimp was made, Early Poptropica shows were Poptropica all began, and Time Tangled allows you to go back in time to before Poptropica was created.

Part 1: The Conflicting Timeline of Islands

So, you may be thinking,”Happy, you need to tell us what this is about!!” Okay, I’ll tell you. This is where everything comes together. First, think about the islands and time. Think back to when there were like, three islands. (Ahh, the good old days… sorta.) There was NO Monkey Wrench.

We started with Early Pop, with no blimp at first, but the blimp later appeared when other islands showed up. The pilgrims settled down in Ameri– ahem, Poptropica. But in Monkey Wrench, the monkeys make the blimp.

Then in Time Tangled, you go back before Early Pop began. And Early Pop started in 1982, according to the pilgrims’ sign! In Time Tangled, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452. According to the Shark Tooth museum, Professor Hammerhead died at 77! 1982 was NOT 77 years ago! (Although at some point it will be. But right now, it’s not.) So if all these timelines are getting mixed up, Poptropica is basically one big Time Tangled Island! But… there’s a catch.

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Part 2: The Blimp is a Time Machine, and Poptropica was established as an entity following the existences of ancient world civilizations.

The blimp. It could be a time machine in itself! It allows you to go to different times! Even in Poptropica’s earlier days, you had the blimp, but what if you were from the future, and the blimp took you back in time?! As Poptropica evolved into more and more islands, and SUIs, your blimp made its way back to the future! In the future, where it came from, Monkey Wrench Island was there, and maybe that’s where the blimp came from.

Now, notice how Time Tangled goes back in time before Poptropica’s settlers settled down (when you use the mini time device to travel to ancient civilizations). But look at real world events, people! There were people in ancient civilizations before America became a country! It could be the same with Poptropica! (Just that Poptropica sort of replicated real world events.)

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Also, maybe the reason you didn’t use your blimp to get around Time Tangled Island is just because it’s an island. It’s too big to fit in the lab, and it’s too big to take back to certain times. Besides, if you took it back to those other time periods, some Poptropicans would think it was an enemy spirit or something, and destroy it. Then how would you get to the different islands?

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Part 3: Crusoe and the Grecian warrior on Shark Tooth

And remember that warrior on Shark Tooth? Maybe Crusoe from Monkey Wrench is his descendant! ‘Cause what if the warrior hung onto your blimp and follow you to Shark Tooth?

I’m sorry, that doesn’t make sense. Kind of. But we don’t know where Crusoe went after we landed on Home Island. Maybe he went to Shark Tooth (he does have that jungle aesthetic) and settled there. So… yeah. I’m getting ahead of myself.

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(My Photoshop paint job. It could be worse! :P)

But there’s one thing I can’t figure out… If the Early Pop pilgrims are the earliest settlers of Poptropica, then who are these guys who supposedly come before their time?

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If you can figure this one out, good for you. But that’s my Popspiracy, and I hope you enjoyed!

~Happyhappy760

P.S. Don’t forget to be happy.

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Share your Pop conspiracies in the comments or on the PHC – we’d love to hear them. If you’d like to develop it into a full guest post like this one, contact the PHB (minimum 500 words). Stay popping!