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The Halloween Festivities Are Already Beginning?

Note: By the way, don’t forget to check out 2 very interesting, Halloween-related posts! One by Hijuyo about the many peculiar happenings in the world of Poptropica… and another by Golden Eagle about the many things that the creators are doing for the Halloween celebration! I COMMANDETH YOU TO GO FORTH AND READETH THE ARTICLES!

Note 2: GE asked me to say that she won’t be here mostly for 3 1/2 months due to her need to study for the SATs. 😦 (She is not leaving the PHB or the PHF permanently.) Of course, everybody is sad, but I hope everybody wishes her luck! She deserves it. Everybody here will miss you, GE! Have fun! ;D

Note 3: Added a new rule that might concern a few.

Note 4: Just added a MUST-READ RULE that I accidentally left out! PLEASE READ TO ENSURE THAT YOUR COSTUME WILL BE VALID FOR JUDGING!

Note 5: Oh my, I promise this is the last time I ever update this post. x) Maybe. Anyway, check out the newly released October issue of the Poptropican’s 911! The scariest month of the year is here, and you should get in the know about what’s happening and what happened!

Note 6: The contest has ended. No further submissions will be accepted. Comments are now closed. No exceptions. I hope all of you enjoyed entering the contest; judging will start. Results will hopefully surface around the weekend time. Thanks for all of the entries, too! I roughly counted a whopping 114 costumes entered. Thanks again.

The surprise (that I may have divulged to some of you) is here! I’ve been working on the railroad PHB for almost a year now; my anniversary is in 4 days actually. 🙂 The ride has been fun the whole time, and I knew I couldn’t bask in the happiness alone. My only intent to work for the PHB has always been to become the most popular Poptropican in the world please the viewers and readers as much as possible. That is why the PHB is having the first EVERContinue reading “The Halloween Festivities Are Already Beginning?”

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Halloween Leaks

Following up with Golden Eagle’s post about Halloween hitting the Poptropica Creators’ Blog, it seems that it has also arrived in-game as well! Besides the spooky costumes released to the Poptropica Store yesterday, there have also been some new strange ones appearing around multiplayer rooms.

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, a new mini-quest (which may or may not be an island) called the Haunted House is coming just in time for this crazy festival! Many of the Haunted House’s costumes seem to have been leaked, similarly to the Monster Carnival leaks. Among the outfit surprises are:

  • Pumpkin trick-or-treat basket
  • Grim Reaper hood, robe top + bottom, black cape, and scythe
  • Skeleton body, skull head
  • (Glitch) Dummy stand, eyes, face
  • Witch (black dress, hat with spider, fat nose, broomstick)
  • Mummy head + body wraps
  • Vampire (medallion, shiny hair, cape, etc.) (looks like last year’s)
  • Hippie man (Could this mean Reality TV is still coming?)
  • Rifle, skateboard, or big sword (originally from Nabooti phone code)

It is said that dummies similar to the ones in Super Power Island’s Masks & Capes store will randomly appear in multiplayer rooms for a period of time, which you can Costumize from to get these costumes. This is probably how this Halloween ‘leak’ happened. Be on the lookout for Grim Reaper dummies in your Multiverse room if you want that scythe!

This morning, I was hanging around our Poptropica Help Chatroom, and decided to meet in a Multiverse room with the rest of the online users. In this collage of pictures below, several of the above costumes mentioned can be seen. On another note, I also saw Golden Eagle there (with yellow hair and a gray guitar), as well as managed to Costumize some others to form my Poptropica Halloween costume for this year. 🙂

Halloween Leaks

As you can see toward the end of this picture, I met a player whose in-game Poptropica name was really ”Elmo PWNS”. Now I’m not sure how he did it, but according to Deathstalker (Seph), it’s a cheat that only 2 people know how to do. Sounds awesome, though!

One totally spectacular sight from today was the Fact Monster (he is also shown toward the end of the pic). Fact Monster is a website that sponsors Poptropica, and for those of you who have been to Time Tangled Island, you’ve probably noticed the educational ”Fact Monster” fact bubbles. Their site mascot is a red monster with purple wings, and this pretty much how he appeared to look like on Poptropica.

A couple months ago, around the time Astro-Knights Island was released, people started to see a weird mouth that curved upward and had three sharp teeth poking above it. At first, no-one knew where they came from, but now it seems that Fact Monster was the one who brought it around. Because FactMonster.com sponsors Poptropica, you might be able to call them ”Poptropica Creators”. After all, FM had the ability to change his Poptropican’s name to ‘Fact Monster’!

Fact Monster pwnz

^As you can see, I’m next to the cool Mr. Fact Monster with my Halloween costume – black skin, scarecrow head from a Goosebumps advertisement, with a vampire cape from last year’s Halloween costume pickers! 😛

There have also been rumors of a Poptropican named ”Tinker Bell” roaming Poptropica! Because Tinker Bell is a Disney character, could this mean that Disney is hoping to be affiliates with Poptropica??

But there comes a mystery with the arrival of Fact Monster. Mostly everyone who was online at the PHB’s chatroom at the time of his arrival did not seem to be Fact Monster himself, but then who could it have been? Fact Monster was probably someone in the chatroom, because he knew exactly which Multiverse room to go to. Either that, or the Creators have a list of which Multiverse rooms are currently open and who is in them.

One of the guests online at the time was someone called ”Zerror”. At one point he said ”Boo?” to the public, but other than that, nothing much. I decided to private-chat with him. Is Zerror who he seems to be? This was the dialogue we went through:

Hijuyo: Hi, Zerror.
Zerror: Hello
Hijuyo: What’s your Poptropican’s name?
Zerror: I believe most of mine read as unidentified unidentified
Hijuyo: Do you know Fact Monster?
Zerror: maybe…
Hijuyo: What’s your login username for Poptropica?
Zerror: one of them is Zerror
Hijuyo: Are you one of the Creators?

At this question, there was no reply. Very interesting… and suspicious. Do you think Zerror is the Fact Monster or not? (By the way, a search on the username ”Zerror” at the Avatar Studio shows the name Undefined Undefined and a guy with the black Nabooti turban and Thornax Launcher from a recent LEGO Bionicle ad.)

In another Multiverse room, I found a Garden Fairy dummy. Like with Super Power Island’s hero costumes, clicking the dummy would let you Costumize from it. This Garden Fairy was wearing a red dress, fairy wings (from a Tinker Bell advertisement), curly red hair, and best of all – a candy cane from last Christmas.

Garden Fairy

The picture above shows that Sleepy Melon has Costumized the dummy. When I hovered over her character, it showed her face with the dummy’s skin. Funny glitch – sometimes, it even happens with the eyes.

And as Deathstalker pointed out, the Poptropica Help Blog only needs a little OVER 9,000 hits before we reach the grand two million! IT’S OVER 9000! IT’S OVER 9000! IT’S OVER 9000! 😀

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New Island?

GE here! I haz some very important newz!

There is going to be a new mini-quest coming soon on Poptropica!!!
It’s called “Haunted House” and I have a pretty good feeling its about Halloween. =P

Right smack dab on the Poptropica homepage, there is this icon…yes…the icon of all icons.

 

Its small, blue, and white. Can't miss it.
Its small, blue, and white. Can't miss it.

I don’t know if this means if RTV will never come out (which in that case, I apologize for Smockers. He wanted hippie mans costume). We’re also not sure if the Haunted House is going to be a seperate island or just part of the other islands – or if it is just temporary!

They’ve obviously started to get decked for Halloween (or as I call it, the orthodontist’s dream come true) on the Creators’ Blog homepage.

 

New header
New header!!!

They’ve gotten a new header, complete with Jack-o-lanterns and orange borders on each letter!!! =)

And a new post….by Shark Boy (Man)!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Ghoulish Outfits & More!

Check out the new outfits in the Poptropica Store. Also, a new mini-quest called Haunted House will be coming soon to Poptropica! We hope it doesn’t scare you too much…

 

Frank the Man with his wife and a techy pumpkin friend?
Frank the Man with his wife and a techy pumpkin friend?

I dig Franks wife’s cape. It da bomb!

The Creators have changed their gravatars, too!

Shark Boy is now:
If you want to look up this awesome boy, check out sharkboycreator on the Avatar Studio!

Vlad is now:

Dr.Hare is now:

Hazmat is now:
Hazmat Hermit’s username is justinlacy, and his real name is also Justin Lacy!

Binary is now:
Binary Bard’s username is binarybard. Spider880 once shared with us that his password was ”poptropican”, but it has been changed now.

Director D is now:

Comic Kid is now:

And this could be proof that Thirsty Whale is still working!!!

Thirsty Whale is now:
Thirsty Whale’s username seems to be thirstywhalecreator. Look it up on the Avatar Studio!

And maybe the best of all…

Cake is still cake:

Welcome to the world little Haunted House, and congratulations on learning how to read so early in life. (Reworded from the Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket) I hoped you enjoyed my post as much as I enjoyed my cake. 🙂

I iz outz!

(Thanks to Metsfan21 for telling me about it)

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Minimizing and Bobbleheading?

Its GE here. School and homework is gone for today. Today was a good day…unless you count me almost going to detention and sobbing like a maniac on the way there totally day-wrecking. Curse my fear of “utterly destroying” my permanent record. Well…i learned a lesson. Don’t follow your friends into Art class 2 minutes before Language Arts starts.

Onto a more “pleasant” subject, the Creators released the Minimizer and the Bobblehead-ifier in the Store. I decided to check it out myself, since the PHF is down and i couldn’t see if anyone noticed before me.

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“Remember kids, with a little determination and hard work, you can make things from Microsoft paint look decent!”-Kevin the Whale.

And speaking of Kevin the Whale…i might post him on the PHF soon. He’s such a cute little fellow!

Away from my eye-disintegrating attempt to follow Kevin’s advice…the Creators made a post about it. This time it was by

Dr.Hare

Minimizer and Bobblehead

Make yourself tiny with Minimizer, or shake things up with Bobblehead. Head over to the Poptropica Store to check out these awesome new items!

I myself would be very delighted to meet a mini-Dr.Hare. ^_^ I never met a normal sized one anyway.

I’m out my dear associates.

(On a brighter note, i will most likely take the SAT in early December or early next year. 😀 Maybe i’m over-doing it…but i started to look at Ivy League college qualifications. =| )

Update: Thanks to some very kind people on the PHB chat, i found out that there is a new “Ye Old Poptropica Store” on Astro Knights Island (bottom picture). Its basically just a cart that shows a featured Poptropica Store item. Plus, the Poptropica Store screen has been updated to have some new categories, like “Most Popular” and “Creators’ Picks” (top picture).

Updated store

Poptropica Store cart