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The title says it all: the long awaited Mythology Island SUI is now available to everyone! Click here to get your fill of the mythological mash, and here for the PHB’s walkthrough to guide you along — you can call us the magic golden thread. 😛
For a review on all the changes from the old version of Mythology, check out BT’s post from when the Mythology SUI was released to members last week. 🙂
Enjoying the new Mythology Island? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!
-HPuterpop
The recent episode of the new Mission Atlantis adventure (click here for the PHB’s walkthrough) is the simplest to finish out of the two episodes of episodic adventures that have been released. Still, I still consider it my favorite out of the two, mostly because of the tone. Survival: Episode 1 is really depressing, and the backgrounds do not improve the sad tone. It still is fun, but not as enjoyable to play. Mission Atlantis is a change in tone completely. Everything is happy, warm, and fun, even when the darker parts of the story kick in. Perhaps it has something to do with the blueness of everything (Poptropica’s main color is blue), but the island just feels right. It reminds me of classic Poptropica.
That being said, I’m not looking forward to the upcoming chapters of Mission Atlantis. From the looks of it, all you’ll be interacting with will be pipes and fish. No offence to fish, but I’d rather hang out with something that knows the difference between you and seaweed. The only island that could pull off being alone for the majority of the island is Steamworks, and you have a robot buddy for half of that. I’m not so sure that they’re going to even try to put a little mysticism or mythological properties into upcoming episodes of Mission Atlantis, which is sorta disappointing. And if I have to listen to Cam and his repetitive monologue for another 15 minutes, I don’t know what I’ll do.
The episode itself is quite enjoyable and clever, with a cliffhanger that isn’t as creepy as the last ending in Survival was. As I said before, the atmosphere is great, and everything contributes to that — the music, backgrounds, and characters all make the episode great. My peeves are few, although there are some notable ones:
I rate this episode 4 stars out of 5, although I don’t have much hope for future episodes.
-HPuterpop
Hey everyone! This might be one of the best island ideas out of all of the Create Your Dream Island (CYDI) runner-ups, and it’s from a boy! 😀 This island, created by Joel B. of Ohio (also known as Giant Foot) is called House of Cards Island!
I personally thought that the plot was great and it sounds really entertaining–
In Card Kingdom, the Ace of Hearts has been stolen from the Heart Kingdom. The King and Queen of Hearts need your help to find it before there is a war.
Nothing more like Poptropica than seeing Poptropicans fighting in a war! xD Anyway, I’d say this is my favorite so far out of all the runner-ups. Here’s why the Creators liked the idea:
Joel’s vision of the “Card Kingdom” sounded like an incredibly fun place for us to design. He sent an additional sheet with several characters, as well as descriptions of the traits of each card suit. It was some impressive world building!
Sounds amazing! Here’s a snippet of his interview, which you can read on the Creators’ Blog.
Poptropica Creators: How did you come up with the idea for your Island?
Joel: My sister and I were jumping on the trampoline after the contest was announced, thinking up ideas for islands and House Of Cards was my favorite out of all of them.
How do you think of an idea on a trampoline?! That’s unique.
Overall, great idea! Joel, if you read this blog, I want to see more of your ideas! I think this island could have won, except that the name of this island is a famous TV show, so Poptropica probably didn’t want to get sued.
(UPDATE: Thanks for commenting here, Giant Foot! His username is Booch18 if you want to add him.) Anyway, that’s it! Cya!
~SW5~
EDIT: The glitch has been fixed! You can now return to your popping, Poptropicans! 🙂
Quick post to warn you that at the moment there is no way to log in. When you log in, it redirects the page to the wrong url (poptropica.com/base/base.php instead of poptropica.com/base.php). Whether this is a glitch or not, I don’t know. Maybe they are updating the system with the new profile that was leaked a while ago. Otherwise, we may not be able to log in for a while…
-HPuterpop
Hey everyone! The Creators have announced the third runner-up for the Create Your Dream Island (CYDI) contest (remember, they’re going by alphabetical order according to island name). Runner-up #3 is Golden Mustache Island by Emma T. of New Jersey, also known as Strange Goose!
In my opinion, I thought this island idea was corny – but very, very, unique! xD This was the pitch:
On Golden Mustache Island, people look for where the golden mustache is and who took it!
The idea is alright in my opinion, but it would be interesting to see how they’d make an island like this. Those mustaches, bro! :3 Here’s a snippet of the interview with Emma – you can read more on the Creators’ Blog.
Poptropica Creators: How did you come up with the idea for your Island?
Emma: I love mustaches and the 70s. I thought it would be more exciting if there was an idol/statue stolen from the mustachians (instead of Poptropicans 🙂
I hope they’ll feature a guy runner-up soon – I wonder if there’ll be any violent island ideas. xD
~SW5~
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