🏝️ Poptropica Help Blog 🗺️

Hey Poptropicans! The Poptropica comic strip is back! 🌪

Starting this week, Poptropica is posting a daily comic with one strip each day in-game, which you can access by clicking the top banner on the map. However, the PHB will do you one better: you can read ALL of these previously released strips on our Comics page! 👀

Follow along on the adventures of Oliver and Jorge as they hop from island to island trying to make their way home — outside of the wacky world of Poptropica! You might recognize these boys from the Poptropica graphic novel series, which (as the Creators’ Blog realized) is not the same as the comic strip, and actually came out after it. Mystery of the Map, the first graphic novel, just won “Best Comic” in the Poppies — and is also fully archived on our Comics page! 🌟

Speaking of the PHB’s archives, some of you may know that we saved many of the old Pop strips through the efforts of one super-fan back in 2020. Just recently, however, the rest of the missing strips have been uncovered thanks to another fan, Nezt50! 🥳 You can find these recovered comics in Part 3 in our Comics archive, involving adventures in a few worlds that seem to parallel those from the game, like the underground mole people of Crisis Caverns, years before its release.

Poptropica’s comic strips ran daily for a period of time from 2014–2016 and were available on various online platforms. They were written by Paul Gilligan and illustrated by Kory Merritt, who is also the artist for the graphic novels.

Although the comic strips ended on a cliffhanger with the boys arriving on an island of Dr. Frankensteins, there’s no indication yet of whether the story will continue. However, with over 300 strips to share, Poptropica could be posting for a while before we get to that point — though we may have our answer by this time next year! 📅

In other news, enjoy Poptropica’s latest Instagram stories. Thanks for showcasing (and visiting) the Poppies awards, Pop Creators! 🥳

Anyway, enjoy the comics! Whether you log in for each day’s drop or read them all at once in the PHB’s Comics archive, worlds of chaos await. 💥

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Free Membership Giveaways

PHB Membership Giveaway: July 2022

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, we’re approaching the end of the month, which means it’s time to announce another lucky Poptropican to win our monthly membership giveaway! 🎁

Congratulations, Young Rider — your new membership status lets you play various island episodes including Survival, Ep. 2: Hook, Line, and Sinker, along with other exclusive quests! Plus, you’ll also get to enjoy premium store items, member gifts, and other perks.

If you’re not a member, you still have the chance (or many chances, in fact): the PHB is hosting a giveaway every month, and it’s easy to enter! Just comment on the Free Poptropica Membership page and leave at least two other comments around the PHB within the month to be entered into that month’s giveaway.

We’ll announce a winner sometime in the final week of each month. If you don’t win, you can always try again for the next month! Full details »

Congrats again to Young Rider! Keep on popping on! 🚴‍♀️

Fan Art Features, Store

Eye for Poppin’ Styles 👁

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! We hope you enjoyed the extravaganza of our Pop fan awards this month — be sure to catch the whole Poppies recap on our blog, including a surprise visit from Official Poptropica! 🏆✨

Following that big buzz, this update is short and sweet. Enjoy the latest hits from Pop’s Instagram stories, including a makeup reel, vivid drawing, and a meme from a mobile game studio Poptropica follows. 🎨

As July wraps up, it’s almost time to say goodbye to many of the summertime styles in Adventure Outfitters! Find out more about this week’s costume rotation and the exiting items on the Creators’ Blog.

Thanks for popping in! 🌟 If you haven’t already, do settle in for just a bit longer to admire all the honorees at the Poppies, including the most voted “Coolest Wallpaper,” highlights of nostalgic memories, and a glorious gallery for all the “Best Fan Art” nominees chosen by you all.

See you in the next one!

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PHB Parties, Poppies

Recap: Poppies 2022 😍🏆🎡

July 25, 2022December 17, 2023 Slanted Fish

Greetings, Poppie-tropicans! We’ve come to the end of another sparkling Poppies — our eighth year of Poptropica fan awards. 🏆✨

Thank you all for joining in on the festivities throughout the month! We received over 160 votes in the polls to determine this year’s winners, announced via a livestream hosted by Slanted Fish, Sporty Boa, Gentle Dolphin, and Lucky Joker. Catch the spectacular slideshow celebration below, or scroll down to directly see the winners of the 2022 Poppies!

Don’t miss the intermission show by Smart Icicle where you can enjoy a “pop down memory lane” through seven years of Poppies past. For even more mems, check out our Poppies playlist! 🎥

And the Poppies go to…

Poptropica Awards

🏔️ Best Side Quest: The Baron’s Crusade and Rumpel’s Challenge (tied)
🏝️ Best Dream Island Winner: Jade Scarab Island (runner-up: Goofball Island)
😀 Best Returning AS3 Island: Monster Carnival Island (with a twist!) (runner-up: Mocktropica Island)
😢 Most Missed AS2 Island: Astro-Knights Island (runner-up: Mystery Train Island)
🧝 Most Captivating Current Character: The Baron (runner-up: Dr. Hare)
🤴 Most Legendary Lost Character: Balloon Boy (runner-up: Binary Bard)
🙄 Most Ironic Name: Hamburger Hamburger (runner-up: Icy Flame)
🪄 Most Magical Name: Blue Moon (runner-up: Golden Cloud)
😎 Coolest Wallpaper: Mythology – Hydra (runner-up: Poptropica Crowd)
☹️ Most Pointless Update: Removing the Costumizer (runner-up: Removing islands on the mobile app)
💬 Best Comic: Mystery of the Map (runner-up: Zomberry: Day Zero)
👗 Best Costume Contest Winner: Love Potion Demon (runner-up: The Rockette)

Download the “Coolest Wallpaper” for your desktop or mobile device!

Community Awards

🤳 Funniest TikTok: “Expectations vs Reality: Poptropica Looks” by PoptropicaCreator (runner-up: “Best island you can even @ me” by kpizz_)
😂 Funniest Tweet: “i wanna do a poptropica concert” by @LilNasX, now deleted (runner-up: “More of this, please!” by @Poptropica, now deleted, in a response to Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden for US president)
🎨 Best Community Creations Theme: Ghosts & Ghouls (runner-up: Arabian Nights)
🤩 Most Fun Contest: The PHB’s Halloween Costume Contest (runner-up: Poptropica’s Make Your Own Mighty Action Force Card Challenge)
✨ Most Aesthetic Pinterest Board: “Monster Carnival” by haunteddisco (runner-up: “Mythology” by gallifreyanfairytale) (See more Pop Pinterest boards here!)
👉 Best Pop-over Special: Poptropica x Pokémon Go (runner-up: Scooby-Doo)
✍️ Best Official Guest Blog Post: “Poptropica Fashion (Poptropashion?)” by Pink Crush (runner-up: “Invisible Ring’s Ultimate Movie” by Invisible Ring)
📹 Best Fan Video: “How it Feels Returning to Poptropica in 2021” by the Dimension Bros (runner-up: “Backspace – Poptropica Parody Music Video of ‘Blank Space’ by Taylor Swift” by the PHB)
🖼️ Best Fan Art: “Carnival” by XMzhier (runner-up: “Nervous Star & Blueberry Cake” by Bunnies_n_Bowties)

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the 2022 Poppies! The spotlights are well deserved. 🥳🌟

This year, the Poppies had a special visitor on our Discord server: Official Poptropica! At least, it seems to be — our hunch is that it’s legit. Appearing after the show for only a few minutes, the new account dropped by with just one short and sweet message of thanks plus some hype for “more Discord appearances.” Will we get to interact with the current social media manager like in the days of Skinny Moon? Maybe we’ll find out soon. In any case, it’s an honor to have Pop stop by! 🤩

(UPDATE – DEC 2023: The Discord appearance has been debunked as not representing the real Poptropica. The PHB apologizes for the error.)

“Best Fan Art” Nominee Gallery

Feast your eyes on this year’s glorious gallery, chosen by the people:

From nominating to voting to tuning in live, thanks for joining us at the Poppies blue carpet, bearing with technical difficulties, and celebrating the Poptropica universe, fandom, and PHB’s 14th blog birthday! 🥳💙

Keep on poppin’ on,

— 🌟 the Poptropica Help Blog 🌟 —

Advertisements, Fan Art Features, Polls

Camp Cretaceous and Art Bodacious 🦕🖌

July 21, 2022 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, pop in for dinosaurs and doodles!

Home Island has a new ad building for the Netflix show Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, with a chase game that’s a bit of a challenge! Your goal is to run away from a dinosaur, jumping over obstacles until you reach the end — but if you hit three obstacles, you’ll start over.

If you’re successful, you’ll win a Camp Cretaceous Merch cap and Camp Cretaceous Raptor Tooth necklace (which comes with an audible roar, and makes you sweat when you tap the spacebar).

*Thanks to Dizzy Feather for contributing to this segment!*

Here’s the latest in Poptropica’s Instagram stories! In addition to bodacious fan art features, the Creators also launched a Pop poll with the help of the Little Miss/Mr meme to ask about device preferences for playing Pop. It’s not the first time they’ve popped this question, but just like before, desktop (at 85%) wins over mobile by a long shot.

Last call for voting in the Poppies! 🏆 Polls are open until this Friday, and we’ll be announcing the winners of our Poptropica fan awards this Sunday at 7pm EST in a spectacular slideshow. See you there! 🥳

In addition to the YouTube livestream, we’ll also be hanging on Discord and the Arcade in Poptropica. See the party details here, and if you haven’t already, spare a few minutes to VOTE IN THE POPPIES! ✅