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Finnmona and Brookezus

During your current adventures in Poptropica, you might find two more new advertisement buildings that you can try your hand at to get fabulous prizes!

Goldfish:

The snacks that smile back have been all sucked up a vacuum cleaner! It’s your job to rescue them all by going through a maze trying to find doors that cage your cheesy friends within the two-minute time limit. Clicking on the keypads starts a short video that you have sit through. (You’ll shortly realize how thirty seconds can feel like an hour.) After the video finishes, you are given a numeric code that you must punch into the keypad. Pressing the big red button finally lifts the door; you can then run up to the Goldfish as it jumps up to your screen happily. You repeat this for all five Goldfish, and you’re set! Just be wary of any incoming metal rock thingies trying to hinder your path to success. All in a day’s work! Also, if you have some sort of object that enables you to fly, use it by all means! It’ll definitely make your journey much smoother.

lol, paradox

For all of your good deeds, you receive a ‘Goldfish Outfit’ and a ‘Goldfish Stalker Follower’! I am sporting the two in the above picture. But if you’re like me, you don’t want to sit through multiple monotonous clips just to get a code. Luckily, the codes are the same for everyone. So, I can just list the codes right here:

  1. Xtreme (orange, excited face) – 53279
  2. Brooke (light yellow, female) – 34418
  3. Swimmington (orange, smug face) – 54234
  4. Finn (yellow, sunglasses) – 89721
  5. Gilbert (brown, salt on body) – 73592

Ramona and Beezus:

The movie starring Joey King and Selena Gomez has been made into an advertisement building to spread the word for its premiere on July 23rd. Ramona wants you to help her paint her mural. You must completely breathe color into her painting in ONE MINUTE, or else you fail. You must never fail Ramona. To succeed, you have to constantly make sure you have lots of paint to brush all over her picture. What I did was just charge until my paint gauge was full and just scrub with my mouse as fast as I could in horizontal strokes. You will be rewarded with a ‘Magic Paintbrush’ once you complete her task. If you are stationed near a fellow Poptropican and you press the space bar, you will paint them a new color!

I made the Goldfish guy gold. There's probably a really cheesy (HA!) pun I could make about this; I just don't know what.

EDIT: Special thanks to captain_t3chn0 and Loud Shark on the Poptropica Help Chat for informing me about other ways to have fun with your Magic Paintbrush!

A. Pictured here is what appears to be Hercules un-becoming (is that a word?) a statue. All you have to do is wave your brush in front of him, and he just suddenly jumps out of his inanimate counterpart. Now he can have his statue and his moving limbs! That’s like hitting two clones of Hermes with one stone.

B. You can paint the cat. Have I mentioned that your magical paintbrush also paints the subject’s eyes? ANIMAL ABUSE!

C. You can paint the dummies. What’s interesting is that if you paint one of the dummies it will also paint the other dummies simultaneously. 😮

ALSO, for anybody who’s having a hard time finding these ads, I personally found the Goldfish ad on Shark Tooth Island and the Ramona and Beezus ad on Early Poptropica Island. If you can’t find them here, I recommend searching across the other islands’ respective Main Streets.

~Smockers


Steamworks Island

Furious Flora :O

And here’s GB with the Neeeeewwwww PCB post! (hope Hijuyo doesn’t mind me taking over the show xD)

Green Boa: Hi all! I’m Green Boa, with todays episode, Furious Flora! (:

Hades: Blah blah blah, give me time to read the post.

Green Boa: OMBR! YOU AGAIN?!

Hades: Miss me? *winkwink*

(Audience Boos)

Hades: Has everyone forgotten what happened to the little children in the last post? I can remind you… >:D

Green Boa: O_O Eeep!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

After settling on a sketch we liked, it was time for to give a little more life to the plant monster that will be menacing players on Steamworks Island.

Below are two approaches to the plant monster. Can you spot the differences between them?


Little details, like the color of the planter, and big ones, like the plant’s eye, can make a big difference in the monster’s appearance.

The next step: animation test!

Green Boa: It doesn’t look that dangerous. O_o
Hades: Foolish mortal. Bola is highly poisonous, highly aggressive, highly-
Green Boa: Looks highly sleepy to me. ._.
Hades: That’s part of his trick, stupid thing.
Green Boa: He actually looks pretty cute. 🙂
Hades: Would you like to pet him? *takes bola out of pocket*
Green Boa: Soo cuuuute.
(Bola Bites hand. HARD)
 
Green Boa: OMR!! GET IT OFF!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Audience: 😯
 
Hades: 😈
(Green Boa jumps in pain towards the film camera. Camera falls over and breaks making screen blank)
 
O_O
Sneak Peeks, Steamworks Island

Steamworks in Sketch

Hijuyo: Hey readers, this is “Steamworks in Sketch”, starring our special guest speaker – Hades from the Poptropica Creators’ Blog!
Hades: Look, I saw what you guys did to Captain Crawfish. And anyone who dares touch me now will be sent to the Underworld… forever!

(A loud gasp comes from the audience and several scared kids try to run away.)

Hades: Not so fast! I haven’t even begun! *zaps finger in your direction* CHARON!

(Hades’ ferryman, Charon, scoops up the now dead kids and carries them away.)

Hijuyo: O_O
Hades: Okay, I think you guys get the point. Captain Crawfish may have been a weakling, but not me. There’ll be no messing around with ME, the great Hades!
Hijuyo: Uh…
Hades: ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME?! Yes? No? Well, the show must go on. As I was saying, I, the great Hades, mightier than all you midgets, will be presenting you “Steamworks in Sketch” – amazing, never-before-seen sketches of the upcoming STEAMWORKS ISLAND, where I will be RULING ALL OF POPTROPICA!!
Hijuyo: Ahem.
Hades: Oh right, here it is:

Evolution of a Steamworks Island monster

For Steamworks Island, the we’ll pit you against a variety of mutated plant monsters. But how did we make the creepiest, crawliest, ickiest plant monsters around?

We started by brainstorming.

These are just some of the sketches we drew to help us visualize what our monstrous creations would look like. Not all of the sketches will make it into the final product — in fact, most won’t — but this allows us to try out different ideas. Then we’ll take the very best concepts and work them into Poptropica.

Hijuyo: This island sounds… dangerous? Full of evils and deaths and all things scary? o_O Those poor plants! Innocent life turned to killers! D:
Hades: Yeah! This is the perfect island to take over, to cause fear and death and destruction and…

(One day later…)

Hades: …oh, when this island’s ready, it’ll be MINE! Mine to take over, to rule, every inch will belong to ME! Those plants are my minions! I…
Hijuyo: You were saying…?
Hades: …Right. Anyway. You probably need to see more of the Steamworks stuff that I’ll be colonizing:

Steamworks monster sketch

Yesterday, you saw some of the earliest ideas for the plant monsters that will appear on the next Poptropica island, Steamworks Island. This one seemed appropriately icky.


It’s still no more than a sketch — just an outline of an idea. But we’re already thinking about how the plant will look when it’s colored and detailed, and how it will move. The next step is to take this sketch and Poptropica-ize it!

Hades: Got that? This enhanced plant monster is gonna be colored and detailed! It’ll move! It’ll be Poptropica-ized! Oh yeah, and just look at that pic’s name – BolasSketch! Its name is Bolas! And it’ll be all mine to control! MUAHAHAHAHAHEhehehe…

Store

Celebrate the 4th’ with the newest mind-blasting store items! :D

*Ka-BOOOOOOM!!!*

The Creators have made things easier for Americans. The new “radiating” store items have arrived conveniently just before the American Independence day. So let’s watch as sparks fly in this new PCB post! 😀

Celebrate with some powerful party favors.

Here are three items in the store to pump some power into your party.

The Atomic Power item will generate a lot of atomic energy for you and those who happen to be near you when you punch the power button (space bar.)

The fireworks are another new item in the store. Just launch them and watch the fireworks shower above. I recommend using them on top of a tall building on Spy Island, or at the Pirate Outpost. Just try not to light them too close to the gun powder on Pirate Outpost. We don’t want to have to release an injured victim outfit in the store.

And last, don’t forget those Silly Streams. Always fun for spraying at friends, and innocent mimes that are often too easy of a target.

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MASTER MIME

Thank you, Master Mime. On another note, I will be slowly quitting the Poptropica Help Forums, run by the awesome Coderkid. You won’t see me on many chats, nor will I be active on many blogs, such as the Poptropican Info Blog. I have decided to stay on the PHB, since it has been a dream of mine to join and post. Which reminds me…
I’m sorry.
I haven’t posted in a while, because everything has been posted before I get the chance to. Keep up the great work, guys!
So, on those notes, Happy Independance Day, Americans, and enjoy your July 4th, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Australia, Equador… 😛
~Hyper Star aka Athena

Happy Independence Day from everyone at the PHB, and enjoy the freedom in this weekend’s special header by our friend Frostdragon!
~Hijuyo
I am free! 😀
Steamworks Island

Curtain Call for Steamworks island! :O

New island has been revealed! With a snazzy name, ‘Steamworks’. 😀 (Ok Coder, how did you know? 😉 )

Friday, July 2, 2010

All week we’ve been showing you sneak peeks of the newest Poptropica island currently in development, and we’ve promised to reveal the island’s name.

The time has come. My fellow Poptropicans, the Poptropica creators are proud to announce their newest creation:


STEAMWORKS ISLAND is coming soon!

Make sure to visit the official Poptropica creators’ blog often for the latest news and announcements about Steamworks Island, including some of the incredible gameplay features we have in store.

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MASTER MIME

It seems to be a ‘structure’ theme with robots, gizmos and gadgets, wild and wacky plants, and a deserted looking town. o__O Anyway, this island looks really cool! It had better be, too, sailing on a pheonix warbird can get boring. 😆
-Green Boa