Daily Pop, Mocktropica Island

Mega Fighting Bots (among other things)

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Hey Poptropicans, guess who? Yeah, it’s me, Angry Wing. I know you all want to get up and give me a standing ovation, but please, fight the urge and hold it in for now. Aw, I’m just kidding with you. I’m not here for applause, I’m here to tell you stuff. Stuff other than talking about applause. ANYWAY!

All the talk is about Gamer Guy, Gamer Guy’s firing, Mocktropica, glitches, and Mega Fighting Bots. A little background: Gamer Guy was first introduced a long time ago, when his character began appearing in some Daily Pop Sneak Peeks. Remember, everyone wanted to know when Poptropicans would be getting iPhones? Gamer Guy then was a character on Zomberry Island. Most likely, you played video games in his house. Then, last Tuesday, Captain Crawfish handed over the helm of the Creator’s blog to him. (Get the pun there?)

Finally, what’s gotten him fired is his promotion of a rival website. This is where we arrive at Mega Fighting Bots. Still with me so far?

The Mega Fighting Bots website is empty except for this:

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Definitely not much to get from this, although the game was previously playable…

I have come to one conclusion. It’s all just another promotion for Poptropica’s newest island. A fun one, more elaborate than we have seen in the past. Kudos to the Creators for reeling us in on this adventure.

One more thing: this shouldn’t really have come as too much of a surprise, as this Sneak Peek was posted weeks ago.

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Just sayin’.

That’s it, Poptropicans! This has been a story recap/update from your favorite friendly neighborhood Angry Wing. 😉

Mocktropica Island

Full Effect — not yet here…

HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

Today, I logged into my pop account, clicked on return to your game, which was Time Tangled (yes, still enjoying the update).

Poptropica Creators' Blog

I was surprised to see not Time Tangled at all, but in fact MEGA FIGHTING BOTS!  And once the screen was loaded, I couldn’t get out!  If I went back to the home page, it would redirect to MFB!  Not only that, but it wasn’t the normal MFB site; it was the new Poptropica format/player with Mega Fighting Bots inside it!

The first effect of Gamer Guy’s ploy, I believe.  You can still make a new player, and you can still go to recent islands through the homepage… but this is just  the beginning, I think.  In the next couple days, I believe Poptropica will start to fall apart!

Edit: Due to comments, I wonder really if this is intentional, or just a weird glitch… jumping-to-conclusionitis is a condition I suffer from. 😉

-HP

PHB Sneak Peeks

Spying on Spy Island

HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

I’m going to make one more prediction: Spy Island is the next to be updated!

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Thanks to Elphangor and raqk for figuring this one out, lets go in order here… first, Elphangor revealed a new soundtrack for Spy Island.  You can listen to it here.  One, I love it, and two, what?!  This is crazy!  But still not crazy enough!

Next one goes to raqk, who found a background for Spy. That’s not much of a discovery, eh? Let’s take a look at the link:

http://static.poptropica.com/game/assets/scenes/spy/mainStreet/background.swf

See anything interesting?  The new “sound improved” island’s url are always /game/, while the old island’s url are always /base.php/.  So, the conclusion is, Spy Island is most definitely coming next, and also, it’s already been uploaded?  I’ll let you guys muse over it while I eat donuts.  I dunno why I said that… 😛

-HP

PHB Sneak Peeks, PHB Specials

PHB Sunday Special: Hacks, Music, and Genius

HPuterpop

Hi Gs,

A while ago, Strange Cat (or Christmas Clown) mused that I may become the new Codien…

I didn’t really take it seriously, but now, I sort of wonder.  I think I may have hit the jack pot, I can prove it to you with a link.  Maybe even a couple links.  Anyway, let’s break this down into parts.

static.poptropica.com-game-assets-scenes-poptropolis-mainStreet-interactive.swf

Gamer Guy

The talk of the town is that Gamer Guy got fired.  Well, I’m pretty sure he didn’t get fired.  I have my theories, but I also may know who he really is. I don’t know for sure, but Kyle Fox sure fits the description: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kyle-fox/14/190/587

I believe that Kyle did a one time job for Poptropica, and the posts were just part of that.  They took advantage of the situation, and made it into a sort of publicity stunt.  When the job was over, his fun was over. This seems to be slightly forced though, so what do you guys think?

The Music

If I haven’t told you before, here it is:  if all else fails, I will root for the new improved islands JUST because of the amazing soundtrack. Jeff Heim is a genius, his music is genius, and you can hear the actual original soundtracks from their original files. This is only the beginning.  More will be revealed later.

The Backgrounds

As well as music, you can view the backgrounds of scenes just like you can view items!  Sadly, you can’t save them to you computer, as they are shockwave files, and some of them are off of the screen.  Maybe in the future we can have a page dedicated to the backgrounds, as there are key words to reveal them.

The Body

You can also view parts of the Poptropican body!

The Sounds

You can also hear the sounds!

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In  all, I think that this is a major breakthrough, and it’s not just for the sound islands.  To file away everything together will be a huge undertaking, but I think that it can be done!

There is more than just what I showed you today; the possibilities are endless!  I will post more some time or another. 🙂

-HP

Mocktropica Island

Mocktropica Island is available to Members Thursday!

Samwow5

Mocktropica logo

That’s right! Mocktropica Island will be available for members starting Thursday, December 19! That’s 6 days away; at least they won’t be “mocking” us anymore about the island! xD Non-members will get to play starting January 16, 2014. Also, I was hoping for someone to write the guide with me – anyone is welcome to help contribute!

Mocktropica Island will continue the trend of showing where you rank with other island finishers with the World Champions map. PHB reader Nameless UnDEFiNeD told us about a little error on the Mocktropica Tour page – if you look down at the bottom of the map, it says Virus Hunter instead!

MocktropicaMap-ComingSoon

In other news, Gamer Guy was fired from the Creators’ Blog because of his bad grammar and his promoting of a “competing” website. Crawfish actually thinks Mega Fighting Bots is taking players away! Wow Poptropica, I never thought they could have more players than you, you have like 500,000,000 players!

Anyway, that it Poptropicans! Stay cool! I know I will! TI out!

I love that catchphrase! Thanks Squeezy Wing!

~SW5~