Poptropica: Legends

Poptropica: Legends Demo Releases July 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 🐬

Social Media

Grad caps and gamer lore 🎓👾

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! It’s grad season, and at least one creative graduate has decorated their mortarboard with Poptropica art! 🎓 Reddit user ottomicbomb recently shared their grad cap featuring a bedazzled Dr. Hare and blimp, and it reminded us of a couple other artful pieces from years past, by Azia and happyclonetrooper. Check them out below, and if you’re a new grad too, congratulations! 🥳

by ottomicbomb
by Azia
by happyclonetrooper

While graduation (and their fancy hats) mark the end of an era, it also invites us to look back at our beginnings. A new meme by TeamTheorist on Instagram, of the famed Theorists YouTube channels including Game Theory, referenced Poptropica among a carousel of 2000s–2010s virtual worlds, each captioned “Where my gamer lore started.” Specifically, it features the Hydra scene from Mythology Island:

Whether you’re currently celebrating the start or end of a chapter, or are just bumbling along in the middle, thanks for being part of our journey! If you’d like to join a community of Poptropicans, you can always find new things happening in our PHC Discord server (open to ages 13+), including plenty of art and memes. We’d love to have you!

~🐠

Comics

Poptropica Fan Comic: The Bucky Stops Here 🚁🍺💥

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! 💥

~🐠

Uncategorized, Web Development

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

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! 👀

~🐠

Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons, PHB Series, Uncategorized

😝 Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons: Round 8! 🤟

Magic Kid

BOO! Hey, Poptropicans, we are SO back. 😎

Credits for this challenge: @abisalli on Tumblr

(The crossed out ones have already been drawn and the circled ones have already been claimed. To make it easier to find them, the ones available currently are in a highlighted circle! 🙂 )

This batch was loads of fun to draw. Thank you for submitting your amazing Poptropicans. All the designs were very epic! 🤩

Alright! Let’s cut to the chase– Here you go…

ROUND 8!

G3—NERDY
D9—Unknown Spider
H6— Geo
F7— Mias Elias’ Popsona
H8—Cuddly Flame
A2— Dwynwen
H9—Icy

Again, GREAT OCs! I hope y’all like them. ☺️

Now, you know the drill…

How to get your Poptropican drawn next? Here’s what you need to do:

💬 COMMENT BELOW (on the most recent DYPAE post) a reference screenshot for your Poptropican (using a public image sharing site like Imgur), their name, AND which facial expression you would like them to have from the chart near the top of the post (for example, E2).

  • 🙅‍♂️ When asking for an expression, please don’t ask for one that has already been claimed (either by someone in the comments before you, or one that has been crossed out or circled blue in the chart). First come, first served!
  • ❗️ Please only comment ONE Poptropica character per person. BUT if you’ve already gotten one of yours drawn, you CAN comment ONE MORE character! 😝

⏳ After you comment, WAIT PATIENTLY. Everyone who comments and wants to have their Poptropican drawn will get added to a list, so no one gets missed. Each round I’ll only post a handful of them, so hang tight, yours will get drawn at some point. 😃

GOODBYE!

Over n’ Out

~Magic Kid