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Sneak Peek: Underwater Salvage and Volcano Adventure

  The Daily Pop has some interesting images in their Sneak Peek section. The teaser images seem to  hint at a future island that involves underwater salvage — exploring the depths of the ocean looking for ancient artifacts — and a volcanic island, possibly with some kind of monster on it. If these images are together, then it looks like …

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Crafting Dr. Hare

The Poptropica Creators are certainly pushing their LEGO project. This time they’ve rolled out a PDF of Dr. Hare that you can print, cut out, and construct yourself. I have to admit, that would look pretty cool on my shelf. Here’s the original announcement: We still need 2,300+ more votes to reach 10,000 supporters for the Dr. Hare’s Lair Lego …

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Repeat Playability: Your Ideas

Last week, I suggested an idea for how Poptropica can make itself more fun for those long spans of times between the release of new islands. The main problem, of course, is repeat playability. Once you’ve played and completed Zomberry Island, for example, what do you do while you’re waiting for Night Watch Island? The creators of Poptropica spent so …

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How to Fix Poptropica’s Problem a.k.a. Repeat Playability

  Several days ago, the creators of Poptropica made an announcement that they would be changing 24 Carrot Island.  You can read all about it here. Well, the change is here and Members can now play 24 Carrot BETA Carrotene Island. The gist of what they’ve done is upgrading 24 Carrot Island with music and sound effects, a bigger screen, …

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‘Ears to Dr. Hare!

If you’re not already aware of it, Poptropica hit its goal for getting 7,500 votes for a Dr. Hare themed LEGO set and because of it has released the Doctor Hare Ears Power.  Here’s what they had to say on the Creator’s blog: Sometime this weekend we passed another crucial milestone on our LEGO CUUSOO project. We now have more than …

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Costume Contest: Villains!

  SO, you guys are awesomely creative! Some spectacular costume combinations for our first Villain-themed Fan Costume Contest. Below are the entries with the poll further down below that. Good luck to all of the contestants and may the best bad guy win! (Sorry about the delay in posting this. I know some of you were worried about your submissions, …

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Costume Contest: Poptropica Villain!

  EDIT: Keep your Poptropicans in  your costumes until Saturday the 15th! Thanks! It’s time for another costume contest! The theme of this one? Make up your own Poptropica villain! Dr. Hare, Black Widow, Captain Crawfish, and [insert your villain name here]? Do you have the imagination, the knowledge of Poptropica costume items, and the chutzpah to put together a …

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24-Carrot Island Redux

  An interesting post today on the Creator’s blog. They posted the video below with this text: It’s a good thing I had my speakers on or I might not have guessed anything was different! Weird stuff. So…they’ve added sound effects to 24-Carrot Island?? Or is there something else going on? What do you think? Discuss!

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Dr. Hare’s Ears!

  If you pay attention to the Creator’s blog, you know they’ve been trying to get a LEGO Poptropica set made and they need 10,000 signatures to do it. I haven’t been re-posting their pleas for more signatures, but this time I am. Why? I’ll let them explain: Minions, we are verging on another major milestone in the march to …

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Vote for the Island Where You Want to Live!

                      The nominations are in for the Poptropica Island where YOU would want to live in real life. Some of the nominations are for places that seem really dangerous, but we weren’t asking which island is the safest, so if you want to be chased by immortal undead…that’s up to …

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Nominate The Island Where You Want to Live!

  Hey all, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted and I’m sorry about that. In a touch of grand irony, right after the Poptropica creators announced Virus Hunter Island I got strep throat. If you’ve never had strep throat, it’s no fun. You know that scene in the Avengers movie where the Hulk grabs Loki and slams him back and …

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Virus Hunter Island is Official!

  We speculated about it and we made some assumptions, but now it’s official! The next exciting adventure from Poptropica is Virus Hunter Island! Here’s the description from the Creator’s Blog: Somewhere in Poptropica, an unknown citizen harbors within his bloodstream a dangerous new virus. Your mission: locate Patient Zero, and eradicate the disease before it spreads. Prepare for a …

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Cheese Island?

    Some of the images that get posted to the Poptropica Sneak Peek pages clearly give away what the theme of a future island is going to be. The ones for the alleged Virus Hunter Island, for example, are pretty obvious. Then there are the ones that seem like they might hint at something big — like piloting airplanes …

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The Winner of Our Anything Goes Costume Contest is…

  CONGRATULATIONS SLIPPERY MELON! With the them of “Anything Goes” no one knew what was going to sway the voters, but it looks like a little bit of undead with a whole lot of style and fashion brought Slippery Melon the prize. Here’s what she had to say about her costume: It’s Frankie Stein from Monster High! She’s so cute! …

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Anything Goes Costume Contest is Super Close!

Wow, there’s only a few votes separating the current leader of the Anything Goes Costume Contest from 2nd place! I’m going to keep the contest going until the end of the day tomorrow (Monday, May 6th at 5pm EST). So…get out the vote! Use the comments below to try to sway anyone who hasn’t voted yet. Tell us who you …

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