🏝️ Poptropica Help Blog 🗺️

Remember Poptropica’s “PopTopics” book series? Where they tell you the cool (or strange) truths of the real world that helped inspire Poptropica’s islands? Soon to join the collection are two new books, both of which will be released February 20 and can currently be pre-ordered on Amazon!

The Creators even gave a little blurb for each one so you’ll have something to look forward to:

Scary Monsters gives you the low down on the myths and legends behind the creatures you’ve encountered in your adventures on Cryptids Island, Vampire’s Curse Island, Zomberry Island, and more. All of these monsters have a basis in fact — and we’ll reveal them to you!

Wild West is all about the amazing true history of the American frontier. Find out what parts of Wild West Island are made up, and which are based on fact. You might be surprised to learn which is which!

More on Poptropica merch, Black Widow even posted a reminder about Poptropica’s personalized clothing shop, which includes sweatshirts for colder weather! Honestly, maybe she just wanted shamelessly advertise her “gorgeous face”. We’re onto you, Black Widow. 😉

Finally, here’s another reminder that we are looking to publish your Poptropica stories, island ideas, fan art, and more for the next issue of The Poptropican’s 911, coming out in March! Please email your entries to poptropican911(at)gmail.com (replace at with @), and refer to our Magazines page for more details. For inspiration, check out our most recent Pop magazine issue! 🙂

Advertisements, Glitches

Clip Art, Glitches, and Typos

January 30, 2014 HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

Yes, this will be a mash of a ton of things. Be sure you have the eye protection before viewing this hazardous stew… 😛

I was working on an epic fail compilation, but I think I’m just gonna stick with this. I’m sorry, but I have no idea how to “cick”, unless that’s a misspelling of “kick”, which in that case, I’m gonna have to go to the PopTransport, and teleport to the Kickin It ad, and win the prize, to get the special action of kicking so I can kick that sign. 😛 But seriously, guys, change it. 😛

Next, a couple silly glitches that are likely to be patched soon, are going on right now… first, I officially have a replica of Magic Snowball’s Poptropican. I was trolling around Early Poptropica, and I happened to go inside the Pop Shop. When the page loaded, my character wasn’t there… instead, there was Magic Snowball. Her costume, at least. I made the user “magicsnowball230“… if you know the reason behind this, or you know how to make it happen again, please notify me. 😉

Lastly in glitches, alerted to me by Unicorn Cat, this strange glitch that let’s you costumize Houdini in a very odd place (the Nut Job ad)–

Thanks Unicorn Cat for the gif. I’ve tested it, and it works! Have fun. 😉

I started a new page on my site, Mister Monster. I’m sure that some of you will appreciate it; Poptropica Clip Art! I’m always updating it, and I take requests! It’s always free, and you only have to credit me if you want to. 🙂

shirt

And don’t forget — this Saturday, I’m going to be doing a Poptropican Portraits livestream at 6pm EST time and 5pm CST time. I’ll have a special guest talking with me this time, who is yet to be revealed. Who will I draw? Send in your username to [email protected], and I’ll draw (no pun intended) one name from a hat to see who will be drawn live. I hope you can make it! 😀

-HP

Labs (Land)

Mind Blow (Poptropica Labs)

January 27, 2014January 28, 2014 HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

I recently wrote a review on the new feature, Poptropica Labs, where I failed at houses… then the Creators posted some spectacular examples, including this:

*turns green with envy*

You see, I guess this was what the Creators were looking for. Instead of fail houses like what I made, this stuff IS like actual islands. The only problem is that there is no actual story to build, no NPCs to make. I’ve wrote a list of things Lands needs.

An undo button.
A delete item button.
Make the ground pile less bumpy.
Make the pillars a part of the background — not something you can’t walk past.
A birds eye view feature.

And those are just a few of the things that need to be done. Otherwise, I’m not using Lands. I’m just not. Do you agree? 😛

I tried once more to create something. I failed. Miserably. ~~Guess in the comments what you think it is.~~ Yes, it is indeed a rabbot — or a lower half of one anyway… 😛 I ran out of space. >.<

-HP

Cloudy with 2 chances of ads

January 26, 2014 Slanted Fish

The forecast today calls for a double serving of ads for the animated movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2! On islands such as Poptropolis Games, you might find an ad building where you can go inside and talk to the boy (Flint Lockwood) to begin a game.

entrance

You’ll be in a boat and must make your way across the river safely. The red bar shows how much health you have and the green bar shows how much progress you’ve made. All you have to do is click the yellow button every time you see one of the “foodimals” in your way! When you reach the end, you’ll receive two prizes: Steve (monkey worn on your back) & Bacon Cheespider (worn on your head).

river

On other islands (such as Mocktropica), you might find just a video ad instead. Watching the trailer will award you with a straw-Barry Costume at the end of the video.

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In other news, be sure to send in your Poptropica stories, island ideas, fan art, and more to [email protected] so we can start compiling them for the next issue of our magazine coming out in the second week of March! Take a look at our Magazines page for more info. We would love to publish your creative Poptropica fan work for other Poptropicans to enjoy, so don’t be afraid to submit an entry or two! 🙂

Poptropican Portraits

Poptropican Portraits Round 5

January 25, 2014January 28, 2014 HPuterpop

Edit: Requests are maxed out on this round.

Hi Gs,

Poptropican Portraits is back! 🙂 (How do you like the new logo?)

I hope everyone is satisfied with their portrait! 😀 If you don’t see yours in there, just tell me in the comments. Also, I’m only taking up to 15 requests this round. The request limit may differentiate with rounds, but for those who request past 15, will be moved on to the next round. 😉

And yes, I’m taking requests again (Although I don’t think you guys got the memo that I wasn’t taking them last round. 😛 ). The criteria follows, with new rules:

This is how the system works: you leave requests on the post that has the portraits requested last week. I will only take requests that are left on the latest portrait post.
Requests must be made by the owner of the account. I really would like if people would stop requesting portraits for their friends; if the friends really want them enough, they can come on here and request them.
I must have either a username or a link to the avatar studio included in the request. Otherwise, I will have to use a low quality photo from somewhere on the web, which makes the colors different from the actual character.
No requesting two times for the same character unless its a specialty. Sometimes, I will make another one, because I wasn’t pleased with it. Please tell me in the comments how you liked your portrait! If you are not pleased, I am very sorry.
Keep in mind that I need you to keep the outfit that you want to be drawn from the time that you request it to the time that it is published. Otherwise, I will draw something you may not have been expecting! So please keep that in mind.
I won’t accept glitch accounts anymore that are not your main account. I’ll still accept minor accounts, just not if they’re loaded with glitches. It’s difficult to draw, and most of the time it’s for advertising, which I don’t enjoy drawing…