Merchandise, PHB Sneak Peeks

Poptropica Mad Libs and possibly other books?

We all know Poptropica released an Official Guide Book, but while searching the Barnes & Noble website, PHB reader Muddy Axe discovered there could be more Poptropica books to be published!

As many people know, Mad Libs is a popular word game for kids where you pick random words based on parts of speech, then fill it into the blanks of a story for hilarious, nonsensical results. And now, Barnes & Noble lists a book called Poptropica Mad Libsย by Roger Price available for pre-order.

There is also a pre-orderable book titled Poptropica Lime 1 by Elizabeth Corfe, and according to Amazon, “This title is part of Pearson’s Bug Club – the first whole-school reading programme that joins books and an online reading world to teach today’s children to read. In this book: Discover the online secrets of Poptropica. This title is suitable for ages 6-7 (Lime level).”

Do you think you’ll be buying these new titles if/when they’re released?

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Red Dragon Island

Creators’ Favorites

So, for some reason, the Creators thought that we would like to know what islands are their favorites.ย  And they’re starting with Captain Crawfish.

You might think that his favorite island would be Skullduggery.ย  After all, he’s the star villain in it.ย  But I guess he likes being the hero better than being the bad guy.

Creators’ favorite Islands: Captain Crawfish’s pick

Over the next week, we’ll be sharing the Poptropica creators’ picks for their favorite Islands. Today: Captain Crawfish.

My favorite is Red Dragon Island. I love the art for old Japan, and I especially like all the cool ninja powers you learn to use near the end. You wouldn’t expect an old sea salt with a peg leg could master the grappling hook, but I did it!

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CAPTAIN CRAWFISH

A pirate in Japan…doesn’t quite fit…ย  Well, what can I say?ย  It’s Poptropica, anything can happen.

Lunar Colony Island, New Islands

238,900 Miles Away From Home

The next island has been announced!ย  And, like you’ve probably guessed from the picture above, the island is going to be called Lunar Colony.ย  Looks like this is the space-themed island we’ve all been waiting for!

So I’m guessing from the trailer that the Poptropican in the space ship is either you or another Poptropican.ย  (I know, brilliant deduction, right?)ย  Maybe they were flying around in space, got hit by a meteor, and then crash landed on the moon.ย  And…maybe you have to go out and find them…and when you find them they’ve started a one-man colony on the moon…ย 

Or!ย  Or, they could have a bunch of passengers in the ship and they are going on a mission to start a colony on the moon cause Poptropica’s become too polluted…ย  Like in the Disney movie Wallโ€ขE, except they’re not living in a spaceship they’re living on the moon…

I don’t know… All of my ideas sound pretty bad.ย  Anybody have any other ideas?

PHB Specials, Pop-over

PHB Pop-over Special: What Makes You Beautiful

Pop Boyband

Can you guess which Pop(tropica!) boy band this is?

If your answer is One Direction, you’re right! ย In this PHB special, I’ll explain how you can dress like them on Poptropica using only 75 credits per band member (none if you’re a member). From left to right;

  • Niall: Hair from Reality TV Island Main Street, clothing from Leprechaun costume (Poptropica Store)
  • Zayn: Hair from standard customizing when signing up (make it black at the 24 Carrot Diner), clothing from Rock Singer costume – jacket, shirt with red tie, pants, microphone (Poptropica Store)
  • Louis: Hair from Cryptids Island Main Street, shirt from Mime on Counterfeit Island, mic from Rock Singer costume
  • Liam: Hair and clothing from Cryptids Island Main Street, mic from Rock Singer costume
  • Harry: Hair, shirt, jacket, pants from Vampire Boy costume (Poptropica Store)

Hope you enjoyed this bit of randomness from the Poptropica Help Blog. Are there any other customization ideas you have? Let us know! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Ice Age Continental Drift

If you go onto the Map in Poptropica, you might notice something new.ย  Well, two new things, actually.ย  The first new thing is this:

The Creators have added Wimpy Boardwalk to the Map!ย  It’s obviously not out yet, but maybe that’s a sign that it’s going to come out soon!ย  …Maybe?

Anyway, the second new thing that you might notice is a certain iceberg floating around on the bottom of the map.

It’s an ad for the new Ice Age movie!

Click on the little iceberg to enter the ad.

When you enter the ad you’ll see this to the left:

If you click on it, an icon will appear next to your items.

If you click on the icon, you’ll be brought to a page where you’re able to see previews, a list of the characters, the story line, things like that.

There’s a sign that’s shaped like an arrow next to the notifier thing.

Go to the left and a monkey named Captain Gutt will tell you this:

This page will pop up:

The page says “Select A Game”, when it should say “Select The Game”, cause the game called Granny’s Bath isn’t available for you to play until July 2nd.ย  Which is fine by me; Granny’s Bath doesn’t sound like a very…appealing game anyway.

The game that you can play is called Escape from Captain Gutt.ย  This game is really easy.ย  What you do is you sail your iceberg, following the arrow of a compass.ย  The arrow points to your home.ย  The iceberg’s controls are exactly the same as the ones for your boats in Skullduggery Island, which makes it that much easier.ย  Basically just point your cursor in the direction that you want to go and click to fire what they say are cannonballs, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re actually snowballs.ย  Just try to avoid hitting other icebergs, running into sea crabs, and getting fired at by pirate ships.ย  Oh, and, obviously, Manny doesn’t understand that someone shouting things at you while you’re trying to sail is very distracting.ย  So, just try to ignore him.

Once you beat the game, you get two items.

The first item is a Badger Pirate Flag.

The second item is a Dodo Follower.

When you’re done with the game, go to the right and you’ll see a trailer that you can watch if you want to.

Keep going right, and you’ll see another sign shaped like an arrow.

Follow the sign, and go to the right.

Go to the right and up a little bit and you will find yourself in front of the ScrArcade.

If you go inside you’ll get to see some trailers.ย  There’s also a spot where you can download some wallpapers.

If you go to the right you’ll see another arrow sign.ย  They must really like arrows…

This thing is so important that it needed two signs, the second one (which is a little bit to the right of the first one) is even decked out with a disco ball.

Sid is standing to the right of this purty sign.ย  Talk to him.ย  Your conversation will go as follows:

(Bit melodramatic, don’t you think?)

The dancing game is really easy, as well.ย  It’s one of those memorization games that you see all the time.ย  A letter will get a glow around it, and you have to press that same letter on your keyboard.ย  Then it’ll be two letters, then three letters, and so on.

Once you beat the game you’ll get two more prizes.

The first prize is the Granny Costume.

The second item is the Acorn Costume.

Edit: Thanks to Tough Spider for letting me know that the boys’ prize for the Dance with Sid game is a Sid Costume instead of the Granny Costume.ย  Here’s a picture of it:

Well, that’s about it.

Since I can’t think of any other way to end this boring post, and since I’m sort of obsessed with these Brave motion graph things that I found on Brave’s website…

If you haven’t seen Brave yet, you should see it for two reasons.

One: cause it’s so hilarious you’ll laugh so hard that you’ll start crying.

Two: cause I told you so. ๐Ÿ˜‰