LEGO Poptropica

Dr. Hare LEGO project turned down

Slanted Fish

Remember the big campaign last year for the Dr. Hare’s Lair project on LEGO CUUSOO to reach 10,000 supporters so that it could be considered for production? We haven’t heard from the Creators on this since the goal was reached last August, but this is what shows on the site now:

archived lego

Yup… it looks like we’re not going to have a Poptropica LEGO set anytime soon. 😦 Apparently, the LEGO CUUSOO team had already reached this decision about a month ago (on Jan 30, 2014). The Creators never mentioned this, so had I not checked, I wonder when we would’ve found out. 😛

Here’s an excerpt of what they said about the decision:

LEGO Review Results for Poptropica: Dr. Hare’s Lair

2014.01.30

First and foremost, congratulations to PopCreators for reaching 10,000 supporters on LEGO CUUSOO, and toward everyone for all of the support of the Poptropica: Dr. Hare’s Lair project! The results of the LEGO Review are in and you can see full details on the LEGO CUUSOO Blog.

Review Results for Poptropica: Dr. Hare’s Lair

Our team has thoroughly considered the possibility of releasing this project as a LEGO set according to the criteria of the LEGO Review. Unfortunately the LEGO Review Board has decided that we will not produce this project as a set.

Thank you to PopCreators for the passion and creativity that went into this project, and to all of you who voted so that we would have the opportunity to consider this as a potential LEGO set. We’re sorry to deliver this disappointing news.

To read more, visit the archived Dr. Hare LEGO project page and scroll down. Personally, I quite like LEGO products, and to combine it with Poptropica would have been really cool, so I’m sad to hear that the final decision was a no. 😦 Still, at least we got some cool Dr. Hare stuff out of the campaign. 😛

Magazines

Poptropican’s 911: Issue 14 coming next week!

Samwow5

911mag

Hey everyone! I wanted to say we are getting so many submissions for our Poptropican’s 911 magazine and they are great: Thank you! The release date for the next issue of the magazine is March 8, 2014 (issues come out every two months)! The deadline to send in submissions for this issue is March 6, 2014 at 11:59PM CST.

Entries you can send in include: Stories (Poptropican fan fiction),  Island Ideas (what kind of islands would you like to see on Pop?), Fan Art (drawings, poems, comics, etc!), and Fashion (send us some Multiverse or common room pics to show what the current trends are!). Think of your ideas and send them in! You never know, you might make the magazine!

~SW5~

P.S. I also have a contest going on my blog and I’m giving away rare Creator costumes!

Web Development

A Look at the New SUI Costumizer

Slanted Fish

As you may have heard, the Costumizer feature is finally fully functional on all the new sound-updated islands (SUIs). Let’s take a closer look, shall we? First, to access it, you’ll need to open the Menu, which should be in the top right corner. Look for the green shirt button:

shirt button

Once you click on that, you can select the character you’d like to customize from!

select character

This will then bring up the new Costumizer window, with a more fanciful background than the plain blue of the old one. You can hover over items the other character is wearing to select what you’d like to put on. So far, so good – it’s a lot like the old Costumizer!

But here’s a new handy feature: click on the green shirt with a magnifying glass on the left side to bring up a panel where you can choose from all the items that are customizable!

clothing

If you click on the button above that – the Poptropican with a cursor on it – you can select another character in the area to customize from. (Or, if you’re the only character visible on the screen, the Costumizer will bring up only you and you can un-customize from the right.) And if you need some inspiration for your new wardrobe, check out our Costumes page! Happy Costumizing! 😀

Web Development

We want our way (maps for SUIs!)

HPuterpop

(¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-> Hi Gs, <-.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯)

I know, the title is sorta snotty, but it’s true. We demand a lot out of the Creators, and sometimes we get a little impatient. 😉 There are a few key features of Poptropica that were lost when islands converted to SUIs, and one of the features that they got rid of… that has been a part of Poptropica since it started… was the Map. But, as the title states, we citizens of Poptropica want our way! That’s why, over the past week, I have developed fabricated SUI maps to be put on the PHB’s Maps page (Also, check out the fonts page for a plethora of new fonts to use!):

I tried to make them as accurate as possible to the original maps, and hopefully they will help a few of you guys out. Other than that, they’re a nice tribute! 😀

If you’re unfamiliar with the island maps, this was a feature that showed you where you were on an island and what places you had yet to discover. This was a great help to the beginners as well as the oldies. The PHB has a Maps page (under the Cool Stuff tab) that documents all of the maps as if you had already played the island. This told the player a little more about the island, and more about where he should go. Maybe it was just a little too easy with the Map to play Poptropica.

As you may have guessed, this is you guys’ prize for getting me 10 likes on my Following Up post. Let’s try to get this post 15 likes! I know you can do it! Who knows what the next prize will be… 😛

-HPuterpop

Astro-Knights Island, Lunar Colony Island, Night Watch Island, Vampire's Curse Island

Going left of Main Street

Slanted Fish

Some of you may have seen the Roman soldier on top of the tourist center on Shark Tooth Island, as mentioned in Sam’s post last week – but in case you missed the updates in that post, there’s more to the Shark Tooth shenanigans. If you go left of Main Street, you’ll find yourself on a small island with a wrecked ship in the background that definitely wasn’t there before. And that’s not all! Check out some of these other new places on other islands, also to the left of Main Street:

There’s a floating car on Night Watch, a smoldering crop circle on Astro-Knights, a barbed wire fence and some PASE boxes on Lunar Colony, and a plain wooden fence on Vampire’s Curse. Those seem to be all the ones so far, but do comment if you find another. 😛

All of these areas are pretty small, and they seem to serve no purpose as of now – my guess is that they might be used as ad spaces in the future, but who knows? Leave your thoughts in the comments!