Who in the world is Zaggy Moondust?

So, what’s the deal with Zaggy Moondust you ask?  He wasn’t in Lunar Colony, like some Poptropicans were expecting, so who the heck is he supposed to be?  Well, we here at Poptropica Secrets don’t want to leave anyone in the dark.  Zaggy Moondust is a funny reference to a character called Ziggy Stardust who was the alter-ego of 1970’s glam-rock star David Bowie.  1970’s?  Glam rock?  What’s that got to do with a space station on the moon?  David Bowie, whose costume is uncannily captured in the Zaggy Moondust membership gear, made an album called “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” which had space-themed songs like “Starman”, “Lady Stardust”, “Star”, and the titular song “Ziggy Stardust”.

David Bowie also had a song called “Space Oddity” that includes a rocket countdown and blastoff.  He really liked writing space-themed songs!

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141 comments

  1. First! I still remember when I used to hear about David Bowie.

    Oh yeah, Ziggy Stardust. 🙂 Good old days.

  2. My sister used to like David B

  3. Happy Bubbles, would you like to go on the chatroom with me?

  4. Isn’t it funny how people on Poptropica are like 5-15 but, no onE (except HS/FT/BJ/et cetera) here is under 8?

  5. Never watch Adventure Time at night before you sleep.

    Oh My God, it’s worse than listening to Skrillex at night.

    It just…you think you’re like, hallucinating.

    It’s scary.

  6. can you tell me your username so i can friend you!!!!! mine is foodtest

  7. http://bit.ly/OC4VTc

    Okay, this song, Father Said and PLUR by BOTDF are my fav songs.

  8. Is BOTDF a band or something? I’ve never heard of them.

  9. Well I guess no one is on.

  10. NOW I am!

    Woo! That’s SO interesting! I’ve heard the name “David Bowie” once or twice, but never in my LIFE have I heard of Ziggy Stardust!

    But hey, it’s REALLY interesting. Of course, I never really wondered who Zaggy Moondust was, because neither have I finished Lunar Colony, nor have I gotten the Zaggy Moondust members-only costume xD I’m no member!

    Oh and Brave Star, BOTDF stands for Blood On The DanceFloor, a band (?) that CS likes. I heard their song ‘PLUR’, and it’s AWESOME!!

    BTW, more details on Super Villain Island! *cheer*
    http://www.poptropica.com/island-tour/super-villain-island.html

  11. I know what BOTDF stands for. *facepalm* Why is everyone confusing me and Brave Sky?

  12. Your names are the same. But you have a Gravatar.

  13. RW, I hate BOTDF, only like one song.

    Have you HEARD the other songs? Like, I Heart Hello Kitty, Candyland, et cetera.

    They’re so vulgar! Oh My God, seriously.

  14. Who like Hello Kitty? WTF?

  15. I don’t know.

    Oh, Ari, Duddy’s annoying the hell out of me.

    He needs to leave. Seriously.

  16. C.S, Adventure Time? Scary? You’ve got to be kidding

  17. B.S, 2 words, GAME CARD. My member ship from game card expires in September.

  18. Adventure Time at night is f**king random. There’s bright lights and you think you’re hallucinating. When you’re so tired you can’t even stand and you watch Adventure Time, it’s scary. Believe me.

    I was like, “Why is that human so small? Why is that dog jumping and he’s so tall?”

  19. I bet Adventure Time is scary at night, but I’ve only watched it once. It wasn’t really my style.

    I’m starting to like Skrillex too. Not at extreme fangirl mode though, and I still love Katy Perry, but I like it.

  20. That’s the power of Kat. 😀 LOL.

    What songs do ya like, Mang?

    I’m extreme fangirl mode.

    HB, if you can deal with headaches and FT cussing at people…if you can deal with that, join the forum.

  21. I love Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, it’s probably my favorite, but I also love Bangarang. I don’t really know any others, but you can think of it those are the only ones I know but I love them. Actually, I know First of the Year (Equinox), but I haven’t listened to it.

    I guess I’ll join the forum, but don’t blame me if I quit soon.

  22. YAY! YOU’RE JOINING THE FORUM! But right now isn’t really a good time to join because of all the fighting going on but……

  23. Okay, I made an account on the forum. 😀
    Problem is, and this is a big problem, I can’t post anything… and it isn’t restricted to one page. If I go onto any thread, I can’t post anything, so whatever. If you see a post from Kittens+Bubbles, than it’s me.

  24. That’s the way it is when you join you can’t post until you get approved. I see you on the Who’s Online.

  25. Yes, taht’s probably me, but I just closed the window. Oops. I’ll open it soon….

  26. Youuuuu like Sonny’s music!!!

    You have earned my respect!!! 😀

    Bangarang is the first song on Bangarang EP. It’s an interesting song with hardly any meaning except, the words Sirah speaks at the end which, I can’t really understand because of her voice. Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites is a song with lots of meaning but, no one can understand what.

    Don’t watch any of his music videos if you don’t want nightmares.

    Especially First Of The Year (Equinox).

    Bangarang & Rock ‘N’ Roll (Will Take You To The Mountain) are okay.

    Not Ruffneck (FULLflex) though.

    Yeah, that’s just about it.

  27. @CR: I have a name, you know.

    It’s Kat.

    😀 LB.

    http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9lpr2rjgZ1rxgliao1_400.jpg

    Wow, I have no life.

    But, IDGAF.

    How can he so f**king adorable?

  28. I love this picture.

    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m96wv0Sc9y1rcxyamo1_400.jpg

    Him with Joel’s cat. 🙂 It’s cute.

  29. That’s cool, I just saw Betty Jetty in the photograph so she might be in there too. And the bonus quest has an additional villian, so I’m guessing either Zeus or El Mustachio Grande

  30. Drake, which island do you think it will be on? It says the bonus quest will be a popular island in ruins, if you didn’t know.

  31. What’s his name…

    Professor Meowingtons or something like that.

    Meowingtons is adorable. 🙂

  32. Good Morning everyone! NO SCHOOL TODAY!! WHOO-HOO!

  33. I am going on the fanblog.

    First, I need to go on the computer.

  34. I am in the middle of listening to three Katy Perry songs in perfect order- in the beginning of the Wide Awake music video, it starts with California Gurls and ends with Teenage Dream with Wide Awake in the middle, so I am listening to California Gurls then Wide Awake then Teenage Dream. Then Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, because I feel like it.

  35. Do you like cats, HB?

  36. I LOVE CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 😀

  37. WHOA!

    Um…okay.

    So…you like Katy Perry?

  38. Who doesn’t like Katy Perry?

  39. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 And she also loves cats!

  40. WHEEE KATY PERRY CAT PARTY! 😀 Okay, I guess I’m over excited.

  41. I’m listening to Wide Awake right now.

  42. I’m listening to The Making of Katy Perry’s Wide Awake Music Video.

  43. I could have made a reference.

    I love this cat. 🙂

    http://www.meowingtons.com/images/meowingtons.jpeg

  44. OMG HE’S SO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀

  45. Yes, I know, he’s adorable.

    I am bored.

  46. I started a new comment page!:D

  47. Can we talk about Music?

  48. Ok. I’m listening to Nick Minaj right now.

  49. Oh that’s cool.

    So…are you fangirling tonight?

    Because, I am.

    A ton.

    I have a million links ready.

    And, I started to warm up.

    So, who or what are you fangirling about?

  50. Okay, you have fun doing that 😀

    I AM SO F**KING HAPPY THAT I CAN FANGIRL!

    WHEEEEEEEEEE!!! 😀

    I’m acting so retarded.

  51. It’s time to fangirl? WOOHOO! Prepare to be Katy Perry-ed!

    About Katy Perry
    A former Christian artist, Katy Perry rebranded herself as a larger-than-life pop star and rose to prominence during the summer of 2008. Before she topped the charts with songs like “I Kissed a Girl” and “California Gurls,” though, she spent the better part of a decade recording music under a different name. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (or Katy Hudson, as she billed herself on her 2001 gospel album) was born on October 25, 1984, in Santa Barbara, CA. Raised in a religious household as the daughter of two pastors, she was forbidden to listen to secular bands as a child, although a childhood slumber party introduced her to the music of Alanis Morissette and Freddie Mercury. Religious music remained at the forefront, however, and Katy released a self-titled Christian album in 2001 under her original name. She would later abandon the genre (and her given surname) in favor of a pop career.
    At age 17, she began working with hitmaker Glen Ballard, who had produced and co-written Alanis Morissette’s chart-topping Jagged Little Pill in 1995. Several years later, she teamed up with the Matrix, a Grammy-nominated production/songwriting team whose résumé included collaborations with Avril Lavigne, Shakira, and Korn. Tired of producing music for other artists, the Matrix had plans to record an album of their own, with Perry serving as one of the group’s two singers. The project was ultimately shelved, but not before Perry appeared in a 2004 write-up by Blender magazine, who hailed her as “the Next Big Thing!”
    With the Matrix’s unreleased album sitting in the vaults at Sony Records, Perry went back to the drawing board and began working on a solo album for Columbia. The project was eventually canceled, although two of its songs were later given to Kelly Clarkson, who scored a Top 40 hit with “I Do Not Hook Up” several years later. Perry (who, by this point, had shed her original surname due to its similarity to actress Kate Hudson) then signed with Capitol, who encouraged their new client to write her own music and helped establish her image as a boisterous, tongue-in-cheek pop star. Perry’s debut single, “UR So Gay,” generated a small buzz with its mischievous lyrics and clever music video, but it was “I Kissed a Girl” that proved to be her breakthrough hit, topping the charts in 20 countries and pushing its accompanying album, 2008’s One of the Boys, into the Top Ten in America. Perry supported her debut by joining the Warped Tour that summer, where she toured alongside her boyfriend at the time, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes. Meanwhile, “Hot N Cold” became her second multi-platinum hit, “Thinking of You” (one of the album’s three songs written solely by Perry) cracked the Top 40, and “Waking Up in Vegas” cracked the Top Ten.
    Such success meant that Katy Perry had officially become one of the industry’s biggest pop stars, celebrated as much for her outsized behavior and outrageous fashion choices as the music itself. She continued touring through the summer of 2009 (albeit without McCoy, whose boyfriend status had been revoked earlier that year) and found time to tape an installment of MTV Unplugged, which was released in November. Meanwhile, she worked on a new album and started up a whirlwind romance with comedian Russell Brand, eventually becoming his fiancé. Recording sessions for her album wrapped up in early 2010, and Perry scored her second number one single with “California Gurls,” which was released that May. The accompanying album, Teenage Dream, followed in August.

  52. Are you Katy Perry-ed yet?

  53. I’m doing my fangirling now so I don’t have to later.

  54. The big huge Katy Perry thing above isn’t up to date, later she divorced Russel Brand, but anyhow you probably knew that…. if you didn’t, there you go!

  55. Aaaand I’m talking to myself. Anyone here?

  56. I’m here.

    Hee hee.

    You Katy Perry-ed me.

    Prepare to be Skrilled…

    Later.

  57. Lol I’m such a fail…Brave Star, sorry for the confusion.

    CS, you like Hello Kitty…?

    I LOVE Katy Perry! I love ALL her songs, bu my current favs are ‘Wide Awake’ and ‘Hot And Cold.’

    Oh and Happy Bubbles, the forum is under a lot of fighting right now….bad time to join BTW….*headdesk*

  58. OMG, No, I Heart Hello Kitty is a song by BOTDF.

    I’ve been addicted to them lately.

    And Skrillex.

    Mostly Skrillex.

    Never gonna stop being addicted.

  59. I like Nicki Minaj better than Katy Perry.

  60. I’m getting ready for a long night tonight.

    But, I may need to go sleep, kinda back out the fight.

  61. I did my fangirling shift early so I can watch the Top 30 Cat Breeds on the Animal Planet website. I’m on the third cat, Domestic Shorthair. 🙂

  62. Oh, that’s cool.

    I’m doing my fangirling shift late and extended.

    Oh My God, Joel. Oh My God.

  63. I’m BBBAAACCCKKK!!!! Not that anyone cares… 😐

  64. Hello, Mang, how are ya? 😉

  65. Ahhh, Nicki Minaj has a lot of curses in her songs…but Starships isn’t bad..

    Short Leopard, aren’t ya kinda young to be listening to that stuff..?

  66. Oh Brave Sky, who I always tend to confuse with my good friend Brave Star,

    Where are you back FROM…??

  67. I’m now on Colorpoint Shorthairs. They go on a little about how loud the cat is, teehee so true.

  68. I’m going on to the next one… CORNISH REX!!! Huh. Strange name.

  69. Can we do something all of us together?

    And am I the only one who likes Skrillex here?

  70. Okay, that cat is over… Now Egyptian Mau.

  71. Oh yes, Kat, I didn’t see your comment. What would we do? And I like Skrillex.

  72. Now on to Exotic. That’s all, just Exotic. Exotic Cats….

  73. @RedWing: I’m back from the long hours of shopping with my mom…

  74. Oh, yeah, I forgot.

    But, I am the only fangirl and thus, I am proud of that! 😀

    IDK what to do. Possibly just talk. Watching Prank Call videos on YouTube.

  75. La la la la

    I finished watchong Havana Brown, and next… After the advertisement…. HIMALAYAN!!! 😀

  76. I am ready to faaaaaaaaangirl!

  77. I like cats. 😀 And Katy Perry.

    More fangirling: Katy Perry’s cat is named Kitty Purry.

    In the making of the Wide Awake music video, they hired a French person to direct it. He had a lot of experience behind him. They made the music video 3D because the movie is in 3D, and the song Wide Awake is about being on tour and what it was like on tour. The tour I’m talking about is a huge tour Katy Perry went on that was over 340 days long. I’m not exactly sure how long it was, but it was freaking LONG. In the middle of the tour, she had tough times with her divorcee Russel Brand.

    She and Russel have matching tattoos. They are written in Hindu (if I remember correctly) and both say Go With The Flow.

  78. Did you know Sonny was in a band called From First To Last?

    Ah…those days.

    Emily and Note To Self are my favorite songs on “Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has A Body Count” and everything they’ve done.

    Emily makes me sorta cry. It’s so beautiful. I miss the times when they were together.

  79. A body angst? What’s that?

  80. The Himalayan is the same as the Persian except for coloring: the Himalayan is a pointed cat, which means it is light colored with dark extremities. Hmm. They are fluffy. 😀

    They came to be because two Harvard scientists crossed a Persian witha Siamese-and they got the first Himalayan!

  81. I should Taylor Swift every body! Okay. She grew up on a Christmas tree farm. She always saved the best tree for her family. She loved to sing. For Christmas, she got a guitar one year. She didn’t know how to play. One day, a computer repair man came to her house. He noticed her guitar, and asked her if she knew how to play. When she said no, he offered to teach her a few chords. After that, she couldn’t put it down! One day, she sand the star spangled banner @ a basket ball game

  82. I am staring to wanting to leave the forum now……

  83. I’m just starting to warm up.

    Ari, I won’t hate on One Direction right now.

    Just…fangirl. Please.

  84. Time for Maincoone….

    They are every healthy and can live long

    You need to brush them twice a week due to long fur

    They are loyal family members

  85. I’m not good at fangirling….

  86. I skipped the Japanese Bobtail cat, so I will say: In old Japan/Edo, they were all ordered to go outside and fend off rodents from silk worms. Hello Kitty is a Japanese Bobtail too, and the cats you often see waving in stores are also Japanese Bobtails.

  87. Wait I meant that other comment like I skipped it as in didn’t say anything about it. I watched the video.

  88. I’m fangirling about cats.

  89. I’m going to watch the rest if the cat stuff, then fangirl about Katy Perry, then do something else. That is my schedule. It starts…NOW!

  90. Ari, I bet you. Just try it.

  91. Thanks, Mang. Thanks.

  92. YOU HATE CATS???? Um… okay. But I hope you don’t mind me talking about cats every so often.

  93. Hmm. My history/spelling teacher would say the info about zaggy moondust is an “oh gee wiz I didn’t really need to know that fact” but I find it interesting 😛

  94. Sparky, I agree with you. And I definitely, definitely don’t agree with your history/spelling teacher. Anyhow, I finished my cat breeds marathon, so… TIME TO FANGIRL!!!!

  95. Round 1 of Fangirling/Fanboying we won.

    We’ll see next time or later tonight.

  96. Oh, that’s cool, HB.

    Maybe we could chat?

    I just though of maybe doing song lyrics from our favorite artists (yes, I know, Skrillex songs don’t really have lyrics but, whatever…) and we could guess what song.

    For example, if I were to do…um…Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites, I’d do the ending.

    So, I’d do…

    “You don’t need to hide, my friend, for I am just like you” and if you guess SM&NS you’d be right.

    Yeah, like that.

  97. Yeah I FREAKING HATE CATS!

  98. Oh…that’s interesting.

  99. My friend has a cat that’s leash trained.

  100. Cats are alright… I guess. I much prefer dogs, right now i’m listening to One Direction. Whenever i’m not on here, I spend my time fangirling over them…

  101. Listening to Katy Perry (predictable) and pretty much dancing… Really in the mood for it. 😀 For some reason when I’m getting my insomnia it sounds so much better, like Ginger Ale on an airplane.

  102. I’m listening to Nicki Minaj.

  103. LISTENING TO KATY PERRY MUSIC

    1. THE BEGINNING
    Mellow Happy Bubbles finishes off her cookie and starts music.
    2. THE TRANSFORMATION
    Happy Bubbles sits up and listens to music for a little. Lasts about three seconds.
    2. THE PARTY
    Happy Bubbles becomes a crazy Katy Perry music lover.

    So, I am mellow, then I listen to music for three seconds, then I start dancing.

  104. We have won the battle!

    We won, guys.

    We did it. 🙂

  105. Happy Bubbles, BTW…

    Kittens+Bubbles was activated.

    Welcome To The Forum.

  106. WOOHOO!

  107. So, yeah.

    Customize your profile and maybe leave a VM on my profile or PM me and we could talk.

  108. Oh, by the way, on the forum, I’m KitKatAllen.

    And, there’s a little celebreation tonight so…perfect timing.

  109. I’ll be there. It’s the one about stopping the cyberbullies right? I think that’s the only one.

    I’ll send you a message soon. I already friended you.

  110. Watchin twitter people fight bout 1D and Justin B

  111. GONE FOR GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

  112. come to my party dxy89

  113. They could of named the costume Ziggy Stardust though.lol

  114. I totally LOVE the song “Space Oddity!” I have it on my ipod, and listen to it all the time! I find myself just absent mindedly thinking about poor unfortunate ‘Major Tom’ in the middle of History class!

  115. party tommorow at 8am

  116. room code bnn87

  117. Wow I had no idea about him before. I was like who the heck is this dude? I have membership so I got it anyway, lol, Its a cool outfit but I just had no idea who he was C:

  118. to all poptropicans,
    I am your ruler! Now make the guy on the spaceship to relax and tell him that he is ugly.Oh and that he missed a chance of a life time.

  119. So, I have the Zaggy Moondust thing.Wait not me Feirce Moon does I think

  120. So what r u guys goin to do for a poptropican halloween costume?

  121. Dangerous Peanut’s cat profile pic has a really close resemblance to my aunt’s cat, Jelly-Tot. Yeah, weird name, but hey, Jelly Belly’s a fat kitty cat and is a female! I never knew that. Gosh, it’s so hard to tell apart male and female cats.

  122. I LOVE cats! and dogs I hvae to cats and a dog who is hyper she is a jack russle tterrier and black lab mix. we call her a jack lab . she is eating our deck. no joke. one of my cats coudve died if we didnet take to the vet shes ok now. now the other cat is sick.

  123. OK, Short Leopard, if you hate cats so much, then why the CRAP is your name Short LEOPARD?????!!!!! D:

  124. Leopards are CATS, genius!!!!