PHB – 🏝️ Poptropica Help Blog 🗺️

Welcome back to the PHB, where Poppies hype is in full swing! 🎆🎉🏆

After sorting through your nominations, we compiled the most popular nominees into a poll for your voting pleasure! Cast your votes for who you think should win this year’s Poppies before the poll closes on Monday, July 20.

🏆 VOTE NOW! 🗳️

What do you after you’ve voted? Join us for our annual Poppies Party on the PHC Discord server on Saturday, July 25 @ 7PM EST / 4PM PST! If you’re in a different time zone, use a time zone converter to see when the party starts in your area. 🥳⌚

We’ll start with a video announcing this year’s winners, then we’ll have fun and chat in the server. Poptropica’s common rooms may not work like they used to, but that won’t stop us from having a good time. We played a few rounds of Gartic Phone last year, so feel free to suggest some fun activities for the event.

Although we can’t see each other in common rooms, do dress your Poptropican to the nines for the PHB’s 18th birthday! You can style your avatar inside any version of Pop or draw a custom fit traditionally or digitally. You can make a spiffy suit, a dazzling dress, or maybe even some genie garb? Just a little reminder that Lucky Fish’s Genie Dance Art Collab is accepting submissions until next Tuesday, July 21. 🧞‍♂️😉

Thank you for voting, and see you at the Poppies!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

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🎊 Poppies 2026: Nominations!! 🏆

July 1, 2026July 12, 2026 Magic Kid

UPDATE: NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

POPTROPICANS! ✨🎉 Set down your sandwich, get your nostalgia caps on, and lock in! It is that time of year again… time for…

✨ The Poppies 2026! 🦸

If you’re new here, welcome to our yearly super cool event called: The Poppies! This is our annual community awards event. During the month of July, the Poptropica fandom (that includes YOU!) nominates, votes, and finally, celebrates the winners of our awards categories! It truly is a fun time for all members of this community to get together and celebrate this game we know and love, and the fandom built around it.

This year, we have 10 categories! You can make up to 3 nominations in each category of whomever or whatever you think deserves the crown for that title. 👑 Nominations are open now until July 8, so tell yourself and your friends to get your suggestions in soon!

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Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons, PHB Series

FINAL ROUND: Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons!! 🥹🥳✨

November 8, 2025November 8, 2025 Magic Kid

Ladies and gentlemen… The moment that has been destined to happen for eight months now…

The FINAL post for the series Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons! 🥳

Now before I show you the final batch, I need you to appreciate the glory of this chart:

*Credits for this challenge:* @abisalli on Tumblr

There are no spots left. I can’t believe it!

Well, actually I can believe it. I put a LOT of work in this series. 😂

Each drawing took me about 20 minutes (according to Procreate’s nifty little time-tracking tool) and there were a total of… 72 emoticons. 😳

…You do the math. 😂🙏

I actually really enjoyed it all, though! And if anyone’s curious, here’s my process with Ned Noodlehead:

So that’s how I draw them! 🙂

*dramatic sigh* Well, there’s no point keeping them all from you any longer… the final batch…

ROUND 10!!

“And… wrap that up and give it to a child on Christmas, ’cause we’re done!” 😝

Typically at this point of the post, I’d just have the normal drill of “If you want YOUR Poptropican drawn blah blah blah” but since this is the last post in the series, I would like to give a special thank you to everyone who’s supported this series! Whether you’ve been here from the very beginning, or if you just found this a week ago, I really appreciate everyone who’s contributed a Poptropican and everyone who’s left a comment. THANK YOU! 💖

Over and out!

~Magic Kid✨

Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons, PHB Series

Drawing Your Poptropicans As Emoticons: Round 9! 😜✨

July 28, 2025July 29, 2025 Magic Kid

Hey Poptropicans! I hope that you all had a BLAST at the Poppies a few days ago. (Happy Birthday, PHB! 🥳) But since I now have your attention, here’s the next batch of Poptropicans drawn as some emoticons. 🤩

Since I didn’t get enough OC requests, a lot of these guys are actual in-game characters, which was lots of fun to draw either way. 😁

(The crossed-out ones have already been drawn, but the ones in the highlighted circles are free to choose from, if you would like to suggest a character for next round 😉 )

And now~

ROUND 9!

Really cool OCs, as always. 😎 (I mean, the actual game characters are okay too, I guess– 😝)

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. 😁

The next post will be the last round in this series!! If you ever have thought about submitting your Poptropican, this is going to be your last chance. Let’s make this last batch unforgettable! 😄

Over n’ out!

~Magic Kid

Poppies

Recap: Poppies 2025 Awards 🏆1️⃣7️⃣🎉

July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 LJ

Greetings, Poppie-tropicans! This weekend was the PHB’s 17th birthday, and we celebrated by announcing the winners of the Poppies, our Poptropica fan awards. We appreciate everyone for joining in on the fun this month, from nominating to voting, with almost 400 votes. Wow!

We kicked off the party with a chaotic pre-show skit right before the awards, and every author was featured in our Poppies presentation, which doesn’t happen very often! You can take a look at the video below or keep scrolling for the list of winners.

Thanks to Smart Icicle and Gentle Dolphin for the video, with pre-show skit scripted by Magic Kid and LJ.

And the Poppies go to…

🔵 Poptropica Awards 🔵

🌄 Best Character Arc: Mya Wong – Poptropica Graphic Novel Series (runner-up: Binary Bard aka Mordred – Astro-Knights Island)
🤖 Best Robot: Sprocket from Steamworks Island (runner-up: Merlin from Astro-Knights Island)
😋 Tastiest Food: Cake from Mocktropica Island (runner-up: Fried Dough from Monster Carnival Island)
🏠 Best Island to Reside In: Monster Carnival Island (runner-up: Counterfeit Island)
😡🔚 Worst Ending: Fairytale Island (runner-up: Monster Carnival Island)
😄🔚 Best Ending: Mystery Train Island (runner-up: PoptropiCon Island)

*Check out our* Old Islands Guide to find out how you can play all the classic Poptropica adventures.

🟡 Community Awards 🟡

🎨 Best Fan Art of the Year: “The Bucky Stops Here” comic by cacaocheri (runner-up: “Behind the scenes of the end of Super Villain Island” by bashful-sword)
📹 Best Fan Video of the Year: “Gentle Dolphin VS Zeus (April Fools 2025)” by Gentle Dolphin (runner-up: “Poptropica was the peak of gaming and you can’t tell me otherwise (Poptropica cookie decorating video)” by Everyday Cookier)
✍️ Best Guest Post of the Year: “How To Draw a Poptropican: A Deep Dive” by HPuterpop/Andrew Wiles (runner-up: “Logging Back In: The Islands That Raised Us” by Cobalt/Koi)
😍 Cutest OC: Invisible Shadow by lookingforcuteartsss (runner-up: Super Wing by Gentle Dolphin)
😎 Coolest OC: Maroon Ring by happyclonetrooper (runner-up: Icy Fang by thebutterflyoficeandwisteria)
👕 Best Cosplay: Ringmaster Raven Cosplay by Toma/toma.ki (runner–up: Steamworks Island inspired outfit by clovermulo)

Kudos to all the winners and nominees of the 2025 Poppies, our 11th annual round! You’re all incredible. 🥳💚

It was a shame the Poptropica common rooms wouldn’t work, so we couldn’t see each other in them, but that didn’t stop us from having fun! During the party, a group of us lingered after the announcements and played a few rounds of Gartic Phone, which has always been a great time whenever we’ve played it on the Poptropica Help Chat (PHC). Check out a few of our masterpieces! 😏

*Shout-out to snoopypilots for archiving most of the drawings as GIFs.*

🎨 Best Fan Art Nominees Gallery 🎨

“The Bucky Stops Here” comic by cacaocheri — read the rest here!

Thank you for being with us on the blue carpet this year! It was wonderful celebrating Poptropica’s legacy once more, along with the PHB’s 17th birthday. Just one more year until adulthood! Until then, Poptropicans…

Pop on!

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