Find Greg on Main Street on any of the islands and click on him. A few seconds later, the book cover will appear. It looks like the latest book will be called, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth. Greg also tells you that the book comes out on November 9.

I like the book series but I was hoping that Poptropica would have done something a little more exciting than just have Greg standing around and showing off a book cover.

Greg shows off the cover of his new book in Poptropica.

They’ve been posting every day this week with a new tip. On Monday, they talked about hidden clickable items like the crab in Time-Tangled and the cockroaches in Reality TV Island. On Tuesday, they posted about the cell phone codes from Nabooti, which of course most of us have all known about for a while. And yesterday, they revealed one of the keyboard shortcuts — the costume randomizer (CTRL + SHIFT + R) which completely changes your Poptropica character’s look to something totally random.

Even though a lot of these tips and tricks are pretty old (the keyboard shortcuts have been around for a very long time), some newer players might not know about them and it’s great to see the Poptropica Creators sharing some “official” secrets. I hope they reveal something truly new soon!

Oh and here are all the cell phone codes and keyboard shortcuts in case you are wondering.

Nabooti Island Cell Phone Codes

• 911 – Police Hat
• 411 – Brain Helmet
• 1225 – Santa / Elf suit
• 1337 – Nerd Disguise

Poptropica Keyboard Shortcuts

Note: Mac users should use the COMMAND key instead of CTRL. However some of these keyboard shortcuts may not work on a Mac because they conflict with built-in system functions like taking a screenshot, etc.

• CTRL + SHIFT + R – Randomize your look
• CTRL + SHIFT + S – Change your skin color
• CTRL + SHIFT + H – Change your hair color
• CTRL + SHIFT + P – You get a pumpkin head
• CTRL + SHIFT + 1 – Laughing emote
• CTRL + SHIFT + 2 – Crying emote
• CTRL + SHIFT + 3 – Angry emote
• CTRL + SHIFT + 4 – Jumping emote

In this post, they show you how you can click on some bugs and stuff in different parts of the game. One example they give is the crab at the very beginning of Time-Tangled Island. When you click on him, he hides in his shell. If you click on him several times, he explodes into tiny pieces. Gross! But he re-appears shortly, so no crabs were harmed in the making of this game.

In Reality TV Island, when you go into Bucky’s room or into the Motel Office, you’ll see tiny cockroaches darting around on the walls. If you click on them, they will get smushed. Yuck.

It's kind of gross, but when you click on the cockroaches in the Reality TV Island motel, they get smushed.

There’s a new book in the series coming out soon and Greg is wandering around in Poptropica to promote it. When you click on him, he tells you to come back on Thursday to see the front cover of the new book. If you haven’t read the series yet, it’s really funny!

The costumes are very similar to what the characters from the Twilight movies wear. The girl vampire outfits each have a totally different look. One features a frilly outfit with blood red lips and fangs and another outfit is very trendy with dark sunglasses (since when do vampires go out in the sun?). The costume for boys looks very much like Edward’s outfit from the movie and features wavy hair, dark glasses, and a brown trench coat.

Don’t forget that there are two other Poptropica Vampire costumes available for free in the Haunted House mission. At the end of that mini-quest, there’s a costume party and there are two vampire outfits you can costumize. They are more classic Dracula-style outfits with capes, but they’re fun choices to get your vampire on!

http://www.poptropica.com/steamworks_island.html

The only things noteworthy about the page for now are that members will get early access soon and it will become available for everyone to play later this summer. There’s also a short plot teaser, which reads like this:

The silence of empty streets welcomes you. Metal and machines fill the lonely halls, and a growing mystery lurks behind a shroud of steam. Can you uncover what happened to the inhabitants of this ancient island? Gear up for a steam-powered adventure you will never forget!

The look of the images in the promo show vine-covered buildings from ancient times, probably Mayan or Aztec. And the clues in the teaser promo along with the screenshots that the creators have posted show that part of the mystery involves a giant plant monster and that there will be lots of steam-powered machinery involved. And it appears we might even get the chance to pilot a steam-powered mech.

The gamer dude outfit has a choice of either green or purple for the t-shirt. The gamer girl outfit lets you choose between pink and blue.

Gamer Girl Costume

Gamer Dude Costume

The new mech pilot costume features a very cool helmet, goggles, jacket and backpack. If you press the spacebar while wearing the outfit, your goggles will flip up to reveal your eyes.

And as the Poptropica Creators also point out in the official blog, there are lots of places in the game to get shark items. The best place to go is Shark Tooth Island. You can use the costumizer on Shark Boy inside the museum to get a regular shark outfit and the street vendor outside sells dorsal fins!

Atom Power

The first one is Atom Power. It makes you glow green and yellow with an atomic look. Little green electrons and protons circle around you. The best part is that when you activate the special power for the card with the space bar, your green glow expands to cover the whole screen and any Poptropicans nearby also turn green and glow. You can get everyone you meet radiated!

Radiate everyone with the Atomic Power in Poptropica

Fireworks

It’s not the Fourth of July without Fireworks and now you can buy this special power in the store. When you put the Fireworks on, your Poptropica character will hold a firecracker in his or her hand. Press the space bar to place it on the ground and set it off. It will shoot into the air and then explode into several different fireworks displays. They look best against a dark night-time background, like on Spy Island or the Pirate Outpost on Skullduggery.