Poptrop-trivia: the Chicago World’s Fair of Mystery Train Island

by Zippy Turtle

As we all know from Mystery Train Island, the Ferris Wheel was invented for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 in an attempt to rival the amazing new tower that the French engineer Gustave Eiffel had built for the World’s Fair in Paris in 1889. The fair’s actual name was: The World’s Columbian Exposition which was a way of commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ crossing of the Atlantic in 1492. Did you know that the fair’s Ferris wheel was 264 feet high and had 36 cars that could each hold 60 people? That’s 2,160 people! Remember, nothing like this had ever been built before and no one really knew if the structure would hold up. Would you go up 264 feet in an invention that hadn’t ever been tested with that many people? Me neither! But a lot of people paid 50 cents for the opportunity to ride around and around hundreds of feet over the city.

Would you have ridden the first Ferris wheel at the Chicago Fair?

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Scary Sky June 29, 2012 at 6:35 pm: SMILES
Scary Sky June 29, 2012 at 6:36 pm: did you see that short leopard can’t comment on here ?
Short Leopard June 29, 2012 at 6:36 pm: You really think “Sonny Moore” has a “sexy” voice,that means you must think that auto- tune is sexy.
Cheerful Singer June 29, 2012 at 6:37 pm: Yeah
Short Leopard June 29, 2012 at 6:38 pm: I can but FM moderates my comments
Cheerful Singer June 29, 2012 at 6:39 pm: Hannah, email me your email then, you can become a kitten!
Short Leopard June 29, 2012 at 6:44 pm: Sorry about the auto tune part i didn’t mean it.
Short Leopard June 29, 2012 at 6:47 pm: how do you get polls on your blog?
Scary Sky June 29, 2012 at 6:50 pm: im not aloud to email people i do not know and ask her why
Cheerful Singer June 29, 2012 at 6:53 pm: Ok
Cheerful Singer June 29, 2012 at 6:57 pm: Fierce Moon, I am furious with you!!!

You have taken away some of my best friends on this website!!!

KNOW WHAT?

(Scary Sky, create a blog and we can all blog like, you me and SL)

I’M NOT GONNA POST ON HERE ANYMORE!!!

THIS WILL BE MY LAST COMMENT!!!

I don’t care if you ban me.

Things were better with the OTHER girl with the last name Moon.
Cheerful Singer June 29, 2012 at 7:05 pm: STRANGE MOON! Yeah, she was WAYYYY better.
Cheerful Singer June 29, 2012 at 7:08 pm: http://poptropicasecrets.com/costumes/it-begins-and-wannabe-costume/

Where WS met Ke$ha.
Short Leopard June 29, 2012 at 10:05 pm: are you gonna stop commenting?
Drake June 30, 2012 at 7:38 am: Sorry, C.S. but I think ur a goner
meezers123 June 30, 2012 at 8:17 am: the picture of the week is a cow in wild west island
jeandog2002 June 30, 2012 at 8:38 am: CS can i come onto ur blog?
Cheerful Singer June 30, 2012 at 9:16 am: @jeandog2002: I’ll need your email.
Cheerful Singer June 30, 2012 at 9:19 am: I. Am. Shocked.

I said those things about Fierce Moon and I’m STILL HERE?

OH. EMMMMM. GEEEEEEEES.

We are the only ones who aren’t banned (who aren’t new) and…

We need to make these last.

People on this post!

WE NEED TO MAKE THESE MOMENTS LAST, FOR THESE MAY BE THE ONLY ONES LEFT!!!!
Scary Sky June 30, 2012 at 9:27 am: Kat plz plz don’t go ill never be the same if you do plz don’t go tell short leopard and ayamn to make new accounts on here ! just plz don’t go !
Cheerful Singer June 30, 2012 at 10:39 am: Fine. I…I guess I’ll stay.
Fierce Moon June 30, 2012 at 5:38 pm: Cheerful Singer is OFF this website and is banned from any other website !
OFFTOPIC July 3, 2012 at 6:52 am: ur weird
Tough Lizard July 5, 2012 at 1:10 pm: Fake fierce moon …again?
Spotted Comet July 9, 2012 at 3:27 pm: Ok, Cheerful Singer,(what kind of name is that?) You seem really annoying so Good Bye
david July 12, 2012 at 8:35 am: wiat did i just see drake wow and cheerful sing shut youre preagin ass up youre anoyying and the REAL Fierce Moon dont ban me fo my language im standing up for ou
Tough Lizard July 16, 2012 at 8:26 am: David and Spotted Comet u two either be nice or get out of this blog! :angry face:
Grey Paw July 16, 2012 at 9:46 am: Fake Fierce Moon: Stop. You’re just plain stupid to think you can pretend to be Fierce Moon, and she doesn’t have control over every website.

Why won’t all you stupid imposters stop?
Drake July 16, 2012 at 12:05 pm: Omg, the old nerd is back, DAVID LEAVE UR 23 DAM IT, GET A DAM LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Drake July 16, 2012 at 12:07 pm: U always try to act like the top dog around here, cuz u have nothing better to do I suppose
Drake July 16, 2012 at 12:08 pm: Oh and everybody u used to know is gone. Infernape, Bashful Zloud, Neat Hopper, Aand and everybody else is gone so no use trying to come back
Drake July 16, 2012 at 12:09 pm: Oh and B.M. got banned, me and him had a fight for the record books, and he’s banned permanently.
Drake July 16, 2012 at 12:10 pm: LOLLLLLL, I meant Bashful Cloud and Aang,
Cheerful Singer July 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm: I found the haters!

It’s my poptropican name.

And, I don’t care if you find me annoying, that’s your opinion.

If you have a problem with me, that gets personal.

I do find auto-tune sexy.

LOL! I’m so retarded.
Cheerful Singer July 16, 2012 at 2:48 pm: BACK TO THE STREETS WHERE WE BEGAN!

FEELING AS GOOD AS LOVERS CAN!

P!ATD
Chilly Sun July 19, 2012 at 4:01 pm: where in poptropica #5 SUBWAY STATION ON SUPER POWER ISLAND
Bony Joker July 25, 2012 at 4:57 am: I thought these comments were about the ferris wheel. Not trying to be a party pooper.
Bony Joker July 26, 2012 at 12:19 am: Every single one of these posts ends up as a dramatic conversation. Barely anyone talks about the actual question.