Snapshot Series, Web Development

Reality is a lovely place… but Poptropica is a better one.

Slanted Fish

Following into the travels of Dr. Hare, last week we saw him posed in front of yet another ferris wheel. As our blog readers correctly predicted, he was touring London, England, with landmarks like the London Eye and Big Ben behind him! And now, here’s another shot at the same location, but with a different angle, so you get a glimpse of St. Paul’s Cathedral as well.

It’s cool how Poptropica is showing how they can extend to be bigger than just something on your computer screen – the things you can learn from Poptropica are part of the real world too! And, you can apply real world things to Poptropica…

That’s Hermione, Harry Potter, and Ron in Poptropica form! As you may know, the PHB has its own Costumes page, a collection of images of creative costumes you can put on. Someone recently submitted this great picture, and if you’re interested in more, click here.

Also, two Poptropica Creators’ names were recently discovered and added to our database. They are Nate Tufts, Illustrator/Designer working for Poptropica (see his blog) and Nasan Hardcastle, creates and designs artwork for Poptropica.com (see his blog).

On a final note, as I mentioned before, I may have less time to blog here since high school has started, so although you may see less frequent posts from me, I hope the rest of the authors will continue to bring you guys the news in a timely and awesome fashion. I will still be around to work behind the scenes to ensure the blog is updated well. 🙂

~Hijuyo

Snapshot Series

World domination: one step at a time

Slanted Fish

Where’s Waldo? …Oh, you meant Dr. Hare. 

Dr. Hare is somewhere out there… and if you can locate and stop him before he conquers the globe, you will win a box of carrots*, courtesy of the 24 Carrot Factory. First he went to an amusement park in Utah – and with the ferris wheel in this snapshot, it looks like he’s still up for more games!

*not an actual prize

Where is he now?
edit: Some readers have suggested that this may be the London Eye!

Tell us what you think in the comments!

Store

Would you like some ketchup/mustard/wasabi with that?

Shaggy Tornado

Great news Poptropicans! Have you heard of the new upgrades to the Hot Dog and Tofu Dog costumes in the Potpropica store? They now come with new handheld bottles of ketchup, organic ketchup, mustard, and wasabi! Perfect for squirting unsuspecting passerbys! And for squirting Captain Crawfish before nomming him! 😀

New this week in the Poptropica Store

The only thing that can make a hot dog better is some ketchup and mustard. That’s why we’ve upgraded the Hot Dog costumes in the Poptropica Store with a new power!

Now, when you costumize the Hot Dog, you can choose to give your character a bottle of ketchup or mustard to squirt onto unsuspecting Poptropicans. For vegetarians, the Tofu Dog costume now comes with bottles of wasabi sauce and organic ketchup.

Best of all, if you’ve already got the Hot Dog or the Tofu Dog in your inventory, now you’ve got the new powers, too! No need to do anything but costumize them.

Enjoy!

*Captain Crawfish runs away from PHB in fear*

GET HIM!!!!!!!!! >:D

But before you run off with your armed squirt bottles, thanks to Striped Grape for showing us pics of this new upgrade!

Tofu Dog Item Card. The Hot Dog card will look just like this, except it's replaced by ketchup and mustard.
Tofu dog with wasabi bottle
In action!

*runs off with mob to squirt CC*

Mystery Train Island, Sneak Peeks

A new minigame for Mystery Train?

elmopwns

It’s EP here with another new post. This one is actually a sneak peek, quite exciting! The creators have began to get us pumped up about the new islands coming. In the last post, there was a new trailer about a “legend coming,” possibly to do with Mystery Train Island. I’d say I’m pretty warmed up about this.

New minigame? I bet it has something to do with quickly taking the customers’ orders. Will this be a pre-island game like Shrink Shot? Or will it be a minigame actually in the island?

I’m thinking it will be a pre-release game, because if you look closely and examine the picture, you’ll actually see a gold sign that says “Mystery Train Island, coming soon” which just proves it will be one of those minigames like Shrink Shot released before the island is actually out.

EP out!

Mystery Train Island

The Legends of the Hidden Temple

MT

excuse the 90’s nickelodeon show reference, but i have no idea what to name this thing..

T.G.I.F.! The creators posted a video today from their PoptropicaCreators account entitled, “The Legend is Coming”. What could it mean? What does the ‘E’ stand for? According to the video, we’ll just have to scratch our heads until September.

Edit: If you pause at 0:17, you see a robot-like body.

Moar Edits: According to PHB Commenter, Aang, the ‘E’ could stand for Evil Co. from an old picture with robots in Daily Pop.

MOAR MOAR EDITS: Thanks to Squeezy Rider, here’s a screenshot from Daily Pop showing robots with the letter ‘E’.

Meanwhile in the Island Tour, Poptropica has released a description of the island along with seven fascinating screenshots.

How do you solve a mystery when everyone is a suspect? It’s 1893, and some of the world’s brightest minds are traveling by train to the World’s Fair in Chicago. But after a dastardly crime puts the fate of the Fair in peril, only you can piece together the clues and collar the criminal. All aboard for a whodunit that will keep you guessing until the last twist of the tracks!

This definitely psyched me up about the island. How do you feel about it?