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Animacation ad with 3 games and crazy prizes!

Disney XD Animacation

Hey Poptropicans! Are you ready to get sucked into a swirling colorful portal, search for dwarves, and color the world around you? All that and more awaits within the Disney XD: Animacation ad building (which is also a common room) – but this ad, it seems, is only available for younger players (to see if you’re eligible, check the dropdown menu in your inventory and see whether there’s one for “XD Animacation”, which should be in green). (Update: Poptropica has confirmed it’s only for ages 6-11.)

Anyway, after resigning myself to making a new account just for this purpose, I found the ad on Main Street of Cryptids and Monster Carnival. Upon entering, you’ll get to watch yourself transported in a swirl of cartoon characters… and inside, you’ll get to play 3 games and win some cool prizes!

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To the left, you’ll find Mabel’s Water Race. All you have to do is pick a character, then keep your mouse aimed at the center of your character’s the dartboard while the character you picked races some other creatures at the top of the screen. If you win, you’ll get the Animacation Power, which colors other characters in your area either purple, blue, or yellow!

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On your right is the Fun House: here, you’ll have a time limit to jump, run, and bounce your way through fun house mirrors, falling watermelons, moving snake platforms, and more. If you make it, you’ll win the Steve the Llama Follower – and he’s half a head taller than your Poptropican!

fun house

Back in the Animacation common room, if you jump up to the “XD” sign, you’ll be able to reach the 7D Mines. Your task here is simply to get through the mines and click on all the dwarves along the way (check the bottom of your screen to see what they look like). Pretty easy to spot – although Bashful was bashfully hiding behind a rock. When you catch ’em all, you’ll win a Dwarf Costume, which actually comes in 3 variations, and they all have awesome hats!

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If you win all three games, you’ll be awarded the Ultimate Prize: a Steve the Llama Bling Necklace! When you use this, your game screen will sparkle and be tinted yellow/blue/purple for a moment, then a black wave will wash over the screen and replace it with another one of those three colors, and then again until it’s back to normal. It’s all rather surreal.

bling necklace

Hope you made it through that bizarre world with your vision intact, and enjoy your prizes! 😀

*disappears through a swirling portal of greens, blues, purples, and yellows*

Mission Atlantis Island, Survival Island

Mission Atlantis (Ep. 2) for members & Survival (Ep. 3) for all!

Surfing for our Mission Atlantis guide (now with Ep. 2)? We’ve got you “tidally” covered.
Or if you need the PHB’s
Survival walkthrough (includes Ep. 3), click here!

Video guides are also available on our island trivia pages! (click for: Survival & Atlantis)

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Survival Ep. 4 extras, Myron Van Buren exposed, and Mission Atlantis Ep. 3 name + description

Hey guys, BT here. Now I know all of you are anticipating playing either Mission Atlantis: Fortress of the Deep or Survival: Distress Signal later today, but I have news on both episodic islands.

First of all, there are two new extras for Survival (a printable poster and desktop wallpaper) in celebration of Cabin Fever, the fourth episode. These two extras, especially the desktop wallpaper, reveal the appearance of our much-talked about seeming antagonist of Survival, Myron Van Buren.

Now this looks like a face of someone you can trust.

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Why aren’t you trusting him yet???

Anyhow, next up we now have a description for Episode 3 (presumably the last episode) of Mission Atlantis with an… interesting yet vague description.

Episode 3: Out of the Blue – You’re on the verge of the greatest discovery in human history — but an ancient intelligence has other plans.

…ancient intelligence? Well… that explains the techy stuff seen on the Daily Pops lately… but… I’m kinda lost. Why do I have the feeling it’s the same ancient intelligence that was discovered back in Lunar Colony? Maybe I’m rethinking from HP’s post way back when…

Ah well. I’m just curious, that’s all. Especially now that I know what Myron Van Buren looks like, I can anticipate Cabin Fever in peace.

…oh, I’m excited for “Fortress of the Deep” and “Out of the Blue” also.

BT out!

Daily Pop, PoptropiCon Island

Poptropi-Con: the next Island adventure?

Hey everyone! Remember Fuzzy-B’s post about Poptropi-Con about a week ago? Well, PHB reader Slippery Raptor went hunting for more clues to the island and discovered a recent Daily Pop discreetly containing the words “P-Con”, likely short for Poptropica Convention!

pcon

Sounds like it’s for a convention (as in MineCon or VidCon), plus the ticker on the bus (top-left corner) even says “conven”. I suspect this may be a future island, and according to the bag the guy is carrying, it’ll be out later this year, 2014!

With Survival on its third episode and Atlantis’s second episode due sometime today, I’d guess that “P-Con” may not be ready until around September or October. I really think this will be a cool island!

~SW5~

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Which episode next? Rhino costume for Survival!

Edit: BT here. The Creators have confirmed that both islands will have episodes released tomorrow (Thursday, June 26)! Scroll down this post for more details!

I’m confused now – which island will release its next episode first, Survival or Mission Atlantis? On one hand, the Atlantis: Ep. 2 medallion came first, followed by the incomplete one of Survival: Ep. 4…

medallions

…and, on the other hand, the Creators have just released a new members-only freebie into the Store for Survival: Episode 4: the Rhino Costume!

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UPDATE: As noted by Enricc1, if you have a friend wearing this costume, you can customize it from them, even if you’re not a member! HP (username: puterpop) is currently wearing the Rhino, so you can customize this two-piece outfit from him if you’d like. Hurry, before the Creators fix it! 😛

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Also, everyone can now play episode 3 of Survival (Distress Signal) on the Poptropica iOS app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And not only that, the Creators have confirmed that this episode will also be online for everyone tomorrow, June 26 (Thursday)!

Oh, and Episode 2 of Mission Atlantis (Fortress of the Deep) will be released on the same day (June 26), but only if you’re a member. We’ll have the walkthrough here on the PHB as soon as possible, so keep an eye out for it! 🙂

Back to the medallions, though: they’re arranged in the order of the islands, and the next installment of Mission Atlantis looks like it’ll come before Survival’s, seeing as that medallion came first. (That is, unless the Creators go rogue and break their pattern again, which has been happening quite a bit lately…) Long story short: Atlantis: Ep. 2 for members tomorrow, Survival: Ep. 3 for everyone on the app now as well as online tomorrow! Now to wait for Survival: Ep. 4…

~SW5~