The Year in Poptropica.

This has been a big year for Poptropica! So many updates, 9 new islands, many new suits, new additions to the game! I thought I would put together a timeline of some of the big things.

January
1st: Happy New Year, it's 2012. There are only 23 Islands.
6th: The trailer for S.O.S. Island is released.
12th: Ghost Story Island is now released to all.
13th: We get the first look at the Friends feature on the PCB.
19th: The Creators announce the first ever Members Only Bonus Quest.
26th: S.O.S. Island is released for Members.

February
6th: We get our first look at Vampire's Curse on the PCB.
7th: Vampire's Curse Island is announced.
15th: The Vampire's Curse trailer is relesed.
16th: S.O.S. is released to all.
22nd: We get a look at the Photo feature of Friends on the PCB.
29th: The map is transferred to a Multi-Page system.

March
1st: Vampire's Curse is released to Members.
8th: We get the first look at Twisted Thicket.
14th: The Pie costumes are released on "Pi Day"
14th: The trailer for Twisted Thicket is released.
22nd: Vampire's Curse is released to all.
23rd: The Waffle costumes are released.
30th: We see a preview of the Pop-Quiz feature.

April
1st: The Creators post the Nose joke, that all Poptropicans are getting noses.
2nd: The Fake Noses item is released in the store.
6th: The Friends Feature was announced.
12th: Twisted Thicket is released to Members.
18th: Poptropolis Games is announced.

May
1st: The Friends feature is now available.
2nd: Twisted Thicket is released for all.
10th: The Baby costume is released.
11th: We start getting to see the individual tribes.
18th: Legendary Swords is now completely free.
24th: Poptroplis Games Island is released to Members.
30th: Wimpy Boardwalk is announced.

June
14th: Poptropolis Games is released to all.

July 
2nd: We get our first look at Lunar Colony Island.
3rd: Wimpy Boardwalk is released to Members.
13th: Lunar Colony is announced.

August
6th: We get our first hint at Super Villain Island.
9th: The Zomberry Island map plan is released.
16th: Lunar Colony is released to Members.
24th: Super Villain Island is announced.

September
6th: Lunar Colony is released to all.
13th: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Island is announced.
14th: Poptropica celebrates its 5th birthday.
27th: Super Villain Island is released for Members.

October
9th: We get our first look at the actual game-play of Zomberry Island.
18th: Super Villain is released to all.
22nd: The Skeleton Power is released in the store.

November
5th: The Candy Bar costume is released in the store.
6th: Poptropica Adventures is released.
15th: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is released to Members.
19th: The Skull Pirate costume has become widely known.
22nd: Non-Members get a month to use the Costume Closet.
27th: Zomberry Island is announced.
29th: Tribal Common Rooms are released.

December
6th: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is released to all.
11th: We see animations for an upcoming island.
19th: Zomberry Island is released to Members.
21st: Poptropolis starts shaking.
28th: We get a look at a mall that is part of an upcoming Island.

Happy New Year!

The First 10 To Enter

Congratulations to the first 10 finishers of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been available to Poptropica Members for a little over a day now, and already thousands of you have turned a golden ticket into a gold medallion. Once again, we'd like to extend special congratulations to the Poptropica players who finished just a little quicker than everyone else.

The first Poptropicans to complete Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are:

1. Dizzy Leopard

of the Flying Squid

2. Zippy Leopard

of the Flying Squid

3. Little Owl

of the Wildfire

4. Angry Claw

of the Nanobots

5. Smart Eagle

of the Pathfinders

6. Green Seal

of the Seraphim

7. Trusty Grape

of the Black Flags

8. Young Clown

of the Nanobots

9. Perfect Cactus

of the Pathfinders

10. Invisible Axe

of the Flying Squid

Congratulations to everyone who has enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so far! If you want Early Access to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, become a Member today!

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Congrats to those guys being the top 10 to finish the new island! Any one else notice that this is the first time that the creators put the winners tribes? Only one of my Seraphim tribe mates are up!

If you haven't won yet remember to check out our Island Guide Page for the Guide, Video Guide, and Map!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Guide

Walkthrough and pictures by Samwow5 (Tough Icicle) edited by Fuzzy-B

The Golden Ticket

First, when you get to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Island, talk to Charlie next to the blimp. He says he will do anything for money, then walks away. Follow him all the way to the left, enter into the next area, and go all the way to the left to the payphones. Click on the one on the far left.

You get some money, then same guy who asked for money earlier comes out of Charlie’s house. Follow him, and enter the Corner Shop. When you get in there, he is right next to the counter.

Give him the coin so he can buy a Wonka Bar. He asks you to open it for him. Like the polite person you are, you open the candy bar, and you have the Golden Ticket! You tell Charlie to run and you push the people away. People will chase after Charlie. Follow them out the door, then there’s a game you have to protect Charlie from the townspeople!

The game’s pretty easy. Just click on the crates, trash cans, and piles of snow so Charlie doesn’t get captured. The next morning, the townspeople are looking for Charlie when a golden ticket flies out of the sky! The townspeople chase after it, and it goes into the area by Charlies house! Run to the area. Follow the ticket all the way up to the top right of the area.

Finally, after all that chasing, you get the Golden Ticket!

Go back to Main Street, and run to the right, all the way to the Chocolate Factory. Wow, the townspeople are not even mad. Something fishy is going on here. Anyway, the gates to the factory open for you.

You go inside the gates, and all the people who got a Golden Ticket are there. The factory owner, Willy Wonka, asks for all the tickets, and you’ll go inside the factory.

 

Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory

When you go inside, all the kids except you and Charlie act up and run away. Willy Wonka wants to find them, and asks you to get him his cane.

When you get the cane, run all the way to the right. You enter this place with has a room selector. Click on Chocolate first.

There’s a hand above that points which way to go. Follow where the hand tells you to go. After a while the hand leads you to the Chocolate Room.

The Chocolate Room

Augustus Gloop has gone nuts and jumps into the river…. and now he’s stuck in the chocolate tube.

When you notice that Augustus is stuck, click on the wheel next to you. It pushes Augustus up the tube.

Now Augustus is still stuck at least halfway up.

Now, you have to use another wheel, located above Augustus and to the right a little. Click on it, and it should shoot him up a little more. Now you have to use the third wheel, located to the far left of Augustus. Click on it.
Then a bunch of Oompa-Loompas will come in and sing “Augustus Gloop, Augustus Gloop, the Big and Greedy Nincompoop.” They take Augustus’s mom to the Fudge Room to look for her son. Follow them there.

The Fudge Room

You’ll see Augustus stuck in a tank. Click on the wheel beside him.

He falls down onto the conveyor belt covered with chocolate. Jump all the way to the left onto a platform and click the green button.

Now, he can pass without getting chopped into pieces. He falls down to the next level, when he gets near the Wonka-Oven. Click on the button with blue fire.

When you press the button, the oven should have blue fire. Now, jump onto the platform to the right and click the red button. Now, when you press the button, the oven should have hort blue flames that don't hurt Gloop. He’s going to go down to the last level. Click this orange button when he gets to the Bigger Wonka-Oven. Now when Augustus gets in between the flames, press the next button in line. When you finish, he comes out and leaves. You leave the room too, and come back where you choose a room to go to. Click on the Television Room, and follow the hands until you reach the room.

The Television Room

When you get to the TV room, you’ll find Willy Wonka teleporting his biggest candy bar through television. Then Mike Teavee decides that he wants to be the first person to be teleported through television. He gets zapped and finds himself in the television across the room.
There’s an Oompa-Loompa next to the television. He says he was watching his show but it went on the fritz, so he asks you to adjust the antenna.

The antenna should be both facing to the left when your done.
After you fix it, you’ll be able to see Mike clearly. An Oompa-Loompa comes onto the screen and leaves with Mike. Go into the Bubblegum Room.

The Bubblegum Room

When you get to the bubblegum room, you’ll see Mike hung up. The Oompa-Loompa tells you to go to the monitor to try to save Mike. Just keep adjusting him until it reaches the Poptropican size on the screen. Go back to the halls and click on the Inventing Room. Follow the hands until you reach the room.

The Inventing Room

Violet Beauregarde is right next to the Gumball Machine. Step on any of the buttons. If you step on the  yellow button some Yellow Bubblegum will come out. Violet will chew on it and turn into a Big Blueberry. They take her to the Juicing Room which is to your right.

The Juicing Room

Now you’ll have to save Violet. Adjust all the fruits into the right position (Orange in position 1, Yellow in position 2, Red in position 3, and Purple in position 4).
It should look like this when you finish.
Now Violet is squeezed back to normal size! Next, head to the Nut Room.

The Nut Room

Veruca Salt is there, begging her dad for a squirrel. Walk over, and when you pass the squirrels, you’ll get a Walnut. Then Veruca jumps up and trys to grab a squirrel. Some squirrels jump on her and push her down a hole. You jump in after her.
When you get in the Incinerator, jump up to the right and pull the chain. A Giant Gumball comes out. Push it right to the fan.
Pull the chain again, and push the Giant Gumball right until it falls into the doorway.
Jump over the Giant Gumball, then run right and pull the generator switch.
Jump down to the bottom left, where there’s another generator and a trash can. Push it back left until it is in front of the doorway. Then pull the second generator switch.
 Jump up and to the right, you’ll see a squirrel turning a wheel. Use the Walnut. The squirrel will stop, and you’ll save Veruca Salt and her dad! But before you leave, get the Whipped Cream and Fizzy Lifting Drink. To get out of the room, use the Fizzy Lifting Drink.

 

Saving Charlie

When you go back to the hallway, you will notice that the “Chocolate” on the room selector is blinking. Click that, and follow the hands so you know where to go.
When you arrive, Willy Wonka is there with Charlie Bucket, deciding to give the keys to the factory. Suddenly, the land Charlie was standing on breaks off! Talk to Willy Wonka and say you want to save him. This will start a minigame.
In the game to save Charlie, you need to to make your way across the river. You can use the Whipped Cream to help you make temporary platforms for you to hop on. The orange logs are safe for you to jump on for any amount of time. Make your way around to the right and save Charlie with Wonka’s cane.
After you save Charlie, Willy Wonka gives the keys to Charlie, and you get a lifetime supply of chocolate and visiting rights to the factory whenever you want. And, of course, the island medallion.


Bonus Quest Walkthrough

Wonka’s three biggest rivals have infiltrated the factory and absconded with his most important recipes! It’s your job to take to the skies and bring those recipes back!
In the glass elivator you fly around the skies. Pick up the floating candy to refuel yout elivator, once it is full, click to relese the candy to gum up the enemy planes engines. Do this 3 times and you get the Helio-Gum item!

click here for the original guide~

Skullduggery Island: The Book

This week there has been a lot of promotion from the Creators Blog about the new Poptropica book "Skullduggery Island" and some new additions to the map! Read on if you dare to venture the high seas with monsters and scallywags!

Read the first two chapters of Skullduggery Island!

It may not be available at bookstores until next week, but you can read the first two chapters of Skullduggery Island right now on our sister site, FunBrain.

Like what you've read so far? You can pre-order Skullduggery Island from Amazon right now. It will also be available in bookstores everywhere on November 8!


BLACK WIDOW

Watch the trailer for Skullduggery Island

We've cut a nifty trailer for the book adaptation of Skullduggery Island, which, as you can see, stars the best-looking pirate this side of the Barbary Coast. I assume everything works out really well for me at the end of the book. Right?


CAPTAIN CRAWFISH

So your telling me that we can not only watch the trailer for the book, but we can go ahead and read the first two chapters too? Yes we can, that is just to much awesomeness for me! Also to promote the new book Skulduggery Island has moved to the front page of the map!

In some other map news, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory island has been added to the map, and the Info Page has been updated!

Bonus Quest: Three of Wonka's rivals have stolen his most secret recipes! Take to the skies in the Great Glass Elevator and bring these villains down to earth.

Members Only Items: Members get an additional Charlie and the Chocolate Factory gear pack, which includes Oompa-Loompa costume, Oompa-Loompa power, and Everlasting Gobstopper item. The Oompa-Loompa costume is ONLY available during Early Access! When do you think it will be released? 

 

   Poptropica Adventures on the Nintendo DS releases November 6th
   The four new books including Skullduggery Island release November 8th
   Carlie and the Chocolate Factory Island releases soon

Super Saturday Mega Post

Lets look back at the big news this week in the world of Poptropica!

• Super Villain Island

This week Super Villain Island was released to everyone! Do you dare venture into the minds of the dastardly villains of Erewhon Prison? Can you take on the evil Dr. Jupiter Zeus? If you ever get stuck on anything, remember to go on to our Island Guide Page to find Guides, a Map, and the info page.

• Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Island

The info page for the new island has been relesed along with all of the goodies that go along with it!

 "After years of silence, Willy Wonka's magical chocolate factory is re-opening, and you've got a Golden Ticket. But when a group of misbehaving kids threaten to destroy Wonka's candy creations, he needs you to save the day. Prepare to untangle a confectionary conundrum that's full of sweet treats and sticky situations!"

So it appears that the we will be finding the last golden ticket! On the info page you can find four preview photos, a printable poster, a wall paper, and a link to the book and original movie!

• Lunar Colony Island

For all of you with smart phones there is another free guide available in the official Poptropica app!

Lunar Colony walkthrough now available!

If you're still stuck on our latest free Island, Lunar Colony, you're in luck: You can now download the Lunar Colony guide in our official walkthrough app for FREE! The Lunar Colony guide is available now for Apple iOS devices, and will be available soon for Android devices.

If you have an iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad, download the updated Poptropica Tips & Tricks app from the App Store.

If you have an Android-powered phone or tablet, download the updated Poptropica & Tricks app from the Android Market.

Then, open it up and select your free Lunar Colony guide to download the guide -- and then get to work!


CAPTAIN CRAWFISH

You must all ways remember your guide before blasting off into space!

• Store Items

As it is every Halloween, all of the monster costumes, Frankenstein, Ware-wolf, Swap Monster, Vapmpire, Haunted House, etc. are all moved to the front of the store, but this year there is a new spooky costume in town!
In my opinion, this suit is much better then the old skeleton suit that was obtainable through winning Haunted House. This looks much more like a real skeleton on the body because of the depth. You can see the spine behind the ribs! How cool is that! The only When you press "I'm a skeleton", you are turned into that skeleton you see at the left. But be warned! You don't customize this! When you press "I'm a skeleton", you are instantly wearing that entire suit. So if you have an awesome costume on, it will be gone. When you press "I see skeleons" everyone on the screen, including you, becomes a skeleton!

• Big News

Congratulations to Poptropica for having over a half billion different characters created!

500,000,000 Poptropicans and counting!

It's been a year of milestones for Poptropica. 5 years, 30 Islands, and now this: 500,000,000 characters created.

If Poptropica were a country, it would be the third biggest in the world. Thank you to everyone who is a part of Poptropica! 


BLACK WIDOW

How insane is that?! It is really crazy, but when you think about it, how many of us just have one account?