Thursday, January 23, 2014

more info abt monster carnival

In the dead of night, a caravan rumbles into town. The traveling carnival has returned! But this is no day at the park. Behind the lights and the laughter, the carnival harbors a dark secret. Buy a ticket if you dare, but beware — once you enter, you may never be able to escape the Monster Carnival!

so this was supposed to come out in 2008: Monster Carnival Island was and is an island that was supposed to be released in 2008, but strangely disappeared from the map while it said "COMING SOON!". In it's place became 24 Carrot Island. But 5 years later, in February 2014, the island will come back with all new features. and here's some brainstorming about Monster Carnival that was posted a longggg time ago:
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and, of course, if you did Mocktropica you saw one of the things while sorting the trash was a piece of paper that said "Monster Carnival" then NO WAY. so of course we kind of expected this was coming... if you go through the Daily Pop you'll see a ton of clown and carnival-related stuff.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Mocktropica Island Walkthrough

COSTUME: Wear any casual costume.

Starting the Island
1. Talk to the woman on your left as you enter the island. Then enter "Poptropica Worldwide Headquarters."
2. Talk to the scientist on your left and he'll give you a piece of cake.
3. Go up to all the other floors (using the elevator on the right) and talk to the people. Then go back down and a woman lets you into the basement.
4. Talk to the developers in the basement (and the blonde girl last). The blonde girl gives you the IDs of 3 missing people from the development team.
5. Click on the computer next to the blonde girl. Click "yes" then change the buildings to this order:
Then save & quit.
6. Now go left and click on the computer on the 2nd table. Click on "Island Maker Pro"
Change the settings to Night, Rainy, & Happy, then save and quit. Go up the stairs and exit the basement.
7. You get an achievement from the scientist. Go left and talk to the kid with the pet. Then go right to "Ephraim University."
8. Talk to the professor and he gives you a piece of paper. Click on the ad until the paper burns up.

Cheese Curds
1. Go right and enter Grunwald's Cheese Factory. Jump up the 2nd floor through the gap in the floor. 
2. Talk to the guy and he says he won't come back unless the machine stops making cheese curds. Start to walk away and he gives you a box of cheese curds
3. Go left to Main Street and find the kid with the narf pets. Equip your cheese curds and press space to throw them to the left. The narfs will follow.
4. Continue left to Mount Funshine. Throw some more cheese curds and the narfs fill up the chasm so you can get across. You can un-equip the cheese curds now.
5. Go left and climb up the rocks. Don't worry, the falling rocks don't hurt because it's glitchy. Basically you can jump on anything with a black edge, so it's pretty easy to get up. You don't have to try and jump too far.
6. Now talk to the guy at the sign -- the mountain isn't finished yet! 
He leaves his climbing axe behind, so pick that up.
7. Now jump down and go back right to Main Street. The scientist has a terrible idea-- making you pay every time you go somewhere! Go right and click on the guy in sunglasses and a black trench coat, and he gives you counterfeit coins. Now go back left and give the coins to the scientist so you can leave. Go right to the cheese factory.
8. Go back up and USE your climbing axe on the cheese machine. Yay! You got your designer back!

Billy Jordan
1. Now you're back in the basement. Uh-oh. Your inventory bag is gone, and we need our developer back! Good thing the designer finished fixing the mountain so we can get him... 
2. Change the settings to DAY and CLEAR, then save & quit. 
3. Run back left to the mountain, and climb up. It's just a bit farther than you climbed before. Talk to the man sitting in the tree and you have to play... mancala! Basically, just play normally, and ignore the ladybugs. However, for most people this is pretty hard to beat so luckily I made a walkthrough :-) Just copy exactly what I do in the video, and you should win.
4. Now you're back in the basement. Click on the computer and change the order of the buildings to car, small building, blimp, big building. Remember to SAVE & QUIT, because I always forget :)

The Writer
1. Go right outside and talk to the scientist. Time to get your first soda bottle. To get onto the roof, first jump onto the Bluelocust, then jump onto the top of the stone blimp, then the roof of the Bluelocust, then the red thing on Poptropica HQ, then onto the roof, where you can go right and get the soda bottle. Just follow this:
this took a LONG time to make, haha
2. The safety inspector gives you a ginormous helmet. You can take it off for now, because it makes it easier to run. Now go right and talk to the scientist, who needs help getting the crate open.
3. Go back to the basement and open up the where you switch around the buildings. Double click on the box and it will open. 
4. Now go right to the university. Give the professor the soda bottle. He tells you he needs something from the trash. Run back to the basement yet again.
5. Click on the bags next to the vending machine and you find a man sleeping. Give him the cake and he moves. Click on the trash can and sort through it until you find the Zomberry island script. 
6. Go back to the university and give the script to the professor. Yay, you got your writer back!

Finishing off the island
1. Now there's this really annoying ad. Run back to the Poptropica HQ building and go to the 3rd floor. Give the woman the counterfeit coins to get rid of the annoying ad. 
2. Now go back downstairs to the basement, but you get stuck on the loading screen. Put on your helmet to break through the letters. Now you're in the Poptropica servers! Take off that annoying helmet.

3. Now you need to balance out the servers. Go right and follow the red thing until you find a square thing that controls where the pipes go. Click that twice.
4. Find the squares for blue and green as well. Click the blue one once and the green one twice and you're good!
5. Now it's time to beat the final boss. Basically, let the scene play out and you have to fight the Mega Bot. Don't worry, this is easy. Click on the bot over and over to shoot coins at it. Follow him around until he dies. When you're done, shoot coins at the two achievement notices and you have beat the boss. You receive your ISLAND MEDALLION!

the next island!!!!

Maybe macysthanksgivingparade can tell us a little more about the history of this island...

Friday, January 17, 2014

Announcing the next Poptropica Island!

See? Dreams do come true.

Then again, nightmares do, too...

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CAPTAIN CRAWFISH

Thursday, January 16, 2014

This is interesting...

So basically Poptropica users can add objects and play around with the landscape to make their own background basically? But not an island... So I went to try it out, but Captain Crawfish forgot to mention something-- IT'S MEMBERS ONLY! So lol it doesn't look that great anyways but if you're a member you can check it out...

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Step into our lab...

We've got a cool new feature to announce. We were playing around with a prototype for user-created Islands and found ourselves wondering what direction to go in.

Then we thought: who would know better than Poptropica players? That's why we've just made available our first-ever Poptropica Labs project, exclusively to Poptropica Members!

This is a prototype that will let you play around with some basic tools to create your own scene in Poptropica. You can explore randomly generated scenery, place objects, and morph the landscape. Who knows? Maybe you'll find things to do that we never even thought of.

To access it, log into your Poptropica account and click on the Poptropica Labs slide on the welcome back page.

Play around. Place scenery. Look for gold. Explore different islands. See what you can come up with. When you're done, you can save a screenshot of your scene -- and since we want to see what you're doing, too, it'll also send the screenshot to us!

When you leave the Poptropica Labs demo, you'll also have a chance to take a survey. We would very much appreciate your time in filling out the survey and helping us figure out the future of this project.

We're excited to see what you come up with!

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CAPTAIN CRAWFISH

Mocktropica

It's now out to non-members! Just finished it this afternoon and I'm finisher number... 4278, haha. This island is REALLY glitchy, and I think most of them aren't intentional glitches. The New Poptropica is super annoying for running and stuff... Anyways the walkthrough should be up soon, maybe tomorrow, and remember to just wear a casual costume.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

something I just realized

I have 2 screens on my computer, so it's not a problem for me, but I realized you can put the PoptropicArticles walkthrough side by side while playing Poptropica because the body text is so small. This is good if you don't want to keep switching back tabs!
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Quick Update on Super Power

The old costume looked pretty bad, so I designed a new one -- but you can basically combine whatever cool casual stuff you want to look super-power-ish, and this is just one I came up with in a few minutes... Do whatever you want! (http://poptropicarticles.blogspot.com/2012/07/super-power-island.html)

Monday, January 6, 2014

Poptropica App

I haven't had much time to play around with the Poptropica app, but here's a cool costume that I made:
It's pretty simple and inexpensive, you just need the vampire girl hair, leaf crown, white skirt, and gray top (or you could choose the other colored one if you want).