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Wazzup, Poptropicanos! 🤟 It’s Pride Month: that special time of year when we shine a light on the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community while also honoring the significant contributions they’ve made throughout history. ✨ Let’s joyfully celebrate the acceptance and pride of the LGBTQ+ community and how far it’s come. 🌈

Like the real world, our online Poptropica community is home to a diverse array of awesome LGBTQ+ people who have greatly heightened the fandom with their contributions. What better way to celebrate this amazingness than by throwing a party in the Party Time Tower on Time Tangled Island? We’re proud to invite you to join us there!

🥳 WHO: Only the coolest people are on the guest list, and that includes all of you, LGBTQ+ and allies alike. Some of the PHB staff will be hanging out too!
👑 WHAT: Common room parties on Poptropica and chatting it up, creating art, and more all on our Discord chat server, the PHC. Don your most funky and dazzling rainbow outfits to increase your chances of being featured in our recap!
🦄 WHEN: Saturday, June 28 — starting at 4PM PST / 5PM MST / 6PM CST / 7PM EST. (Tip: Search your location on this time converter to see what time it’ll be where you live.) Drop by when you can!
🪅 WHERE: Join us for some fun and games at the Party Time Tower on Time Tangled Island, plus our Discord server, the PHC.
🎊 WHY: To recognize and respect everyone’s inherent worth — and to have fun, of course!

For those who are unfamiliar, LGBTQ+ is a term that encompasses individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. Learn more about LGBTQ+ identities in our post that explores this topic with some very cool Poptropica fan art! 💥

Sadly, members of the LGBTQ+ community often face a lack of respect regarding their sexual orientation or gender expression. However, that will never be acceptable in the Poptropica community! Keep your spirits high during these particularly challenging times, friends. 🫶

🎉 See you there, Pride-tropicans! 🎉

– 🌈 the PHB 🌈 –

Poptropica: Legends Demo Releases July 2025 🎮🗓️

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 Gentle Dolphin

Hey, Poptropicans! We’re excited to share some updates on the anticipated fan game, Poptropica: Legends. Let’s get the biggest news out of the way: the game’s demo is set to release in July 2025!🎉🎮🗓️

That’s right! The Poptropica: Legends demo is releasing next month!

Get ready to rediscover, recollect, and reignite in the Meridian’s Lighthouse Beta! Patrons get early access to the Lighthouse beta next month, then everyone gets full access to the polished version released sometime after that. Here’s what to expect in this playable preview:

2 Sidescrolling Scenes
3 Top-Down Scenes
Soundtrack
Dialogue
Inventory
Achievements
Sound Effects
~30 minutes of gameplay

The game’s creator, HPuterpop, wants to celebrate the game’s demo release by sharing some new progress on the project.

First up, we have a curated collection of assets: cursors, items cards, backgrounds, character sprites, and even the main menu! These assets clearly take inspiration from Poptropica’s while putting a unique pixelated spin on them. By the way, that character sheet may look familiar to those who have read HPuterpop’s How to Draw a Poptropican essay. ✏️

You may have also spotted a “Free Play” section on the main menu. While you explore the world as Meridian in Story Mode, you can create and play as a custom character in Free Play Mode, just like in OG Poptropica!

Now, here are a couple of new faces joining the story: an ancient spirit named Booga, who is inspired by the Shark Tooth Island temple keypad, and two organizations called the Bureau of Heroic Poptropicans (BHP) and the Poptropica Espionage Network (PEN) . Hmm, that BHP sounds a little familiar… 🤔

Finally, check out this video preview of an in-game conversation between Meridian and Puck! It’s a neat look at how you interact with NPCs, complete with detailed sprites and 10/10 voice acting. 😜

Big thanks to HPuterpop for sharing these with us! If you want to stay updated on the game’s progress, check out the Poptropica: Legends website and follow the game’s social media accounts. You can also contribute to the game on its Patreon, the Creators’ Blog!

That’s all for now! We hope you like this look into Legends’ development. Stay tuned for the demo this July, and stay in the know with the ~~BHP~~ PHB!

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

Comics

Poptropica Fan Comic: The Bucky Stops Here 🚁🍺💥

June 13, 2025June 18, 2025 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! Remember Bucky Lucas, the washed-up contest winner on Reality TV Island? Poptropica fan artist Cherry (cacaocheri) recently made a comic imagining his life after coming home from losing the game show, and with their blessing, we’d love to share it with you!

(Content warning: Contains references to alcohol.) Enjoy the comic below:

Aww, you’ll be okay, Bucky! 🥹 Speaking of comics, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our Poptropica comic strip collection with better quality visuals, courtesy of HPuterpop. Enjoy all the adventures with Oliver and Jorge from our Comics page! 💥

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Uncategorized, Web Development

Blimp Journey: Passing the baton for a Poptropica-inspired game 👨🏾‍💻🫆

May 20, 2025June 13, 2025 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! Several months ago, an aspiring game developer began working on a Poptropica-inspired game that came to be known as Blimp Journey. Though progress was promising, sadly the project has since been halted. Now you’re invited to continue this work!

Allen Dawodu, also known as Looks to the Moon or mysystemlagz on Discord, along with a small team, has so far released a tutorial and two simple islands which can still be played on BlimpJourney.com for now. Check out screenshots below from the adventure Scorched Complex, which includes Poptropica-like elements such as point-and-click movement, collecting items, and puzzles:

The tutorial, as well as another quest called Dragon’s Claw Volcano, are accessible by going to the map via the hamburger menu in the corner. The latter features more colored artwork and puzzles:

Credit also goes to era for story development, Antonio Raymond for music, Snoopypilots for artwork, and the (now gone) Blimp Journey Discord community for playtesting and offering feedback.

Though Allen has stopped working on Blimp Journey due to limited time and resources, he’s inviting anyone with game development skills and passion to continue his work (built with the Godot engine) using the source code and assets for the project, now publicly available on GitHub. This repository, he says, has everything you’ll need to create character designs and islands relatively quickly. And if you do end up creating something with it, we at the PHB would love to hear about it!

While we’re sad to see the end of Blimp Journey, it’s definitely left an impact for Poptropica fan game development, as there are currently a couple other games in the works that have been encouraged by this project. 💥 Poptropica Legends, led by HPuterpop, is aiming for a demo release in June, while NewTropica, led by FoundOasis, aims to recreate a Poptropica launcher like Flashpoint. We’re keeping our eyes peeled for updates, so stay tuned with us! 👀

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