Shrink Ray Island, Poptropica's 20th island first released in  2011, has been remade for the big screen and sound! Everyone, not just Members, get to enjoy it. The remake is largely the same as the original, aside from some zoomed-up scenes and minor adjustments.

Stay on the lookout for a video walkthrough and review from Poptrickia sometime soon! In the meanwhile, check out the excellent written guide. Happy shrunken adventures!

Since I made this post, Arabian Nights has been confirmed by the Creators! Here's the info page. Keep reading though, there's a lot more sneak peeks here than you'll get from the official site.

What's with the title? you're probably thinking. How Bazaar is going to be the name of the first episode of Arabian Nights Island. If you'll recall, Arabian Nights was the winner of the Create Your Own Dream Island contest, and by my predictions, it's going to come to life right after PoptropiCon! Warning: spoilers ahead. This is another one of Poptrickia's exclusive sneak peeks of unreleased islands, which I got by looking at Poptropica's files. By the way, what do you think of these sneak peeks? Awesome? Interesting? Creepy?

So far, the only official word on the island is below; let's try to figure out how it fits with the first episode.

First off, you start inside a cave. Definitely can't fly a blimp in there, but the blimp's been dead since Survival. I find this unlikely, so let's assume that you actually start in the desert. From the desert, you can get to the Cliffs, and from the Cliffs, into the Cave (or vice-versa). Here are the notes for the cliff and the cave:

UPDATE: The near-complete versions of the Cave and Cliff scenes has been uploaded as well! Check them out:

(Click to zoom). As you can see, it's not very complete, but an interesting insight into the Creators' design process. Zoom it in and you can get some hints for the island. Watch for the quicksand when the island comes out for real!

Now it gets exciting: there's also a palace! Your goal for this episode seems to be to get into the palace, because it's guarded by two guards. Inside the palace is the sultan. As you can see in the picture, all is not well...

The sultan's palace has been ransacked! Lots of precious things are gone (like his bed), but most of all, one very special lamp. Here's a conversation you have with him:

And now, to explain the title of this post. A bazaar is what you'd call a market in the Middle East (read: Arabia). There's going to be a Skullduggery trading post-style bazaar in Arabian Nights 1, with an inventory and everything. Check out these images, which show the items from the island inside images of the three different bazaar stalls you can visit. In the episode, you need to trade items you find for bazaar items.

Notice the salt bag? You can find that in the Cave, seeing from the image above. And the telescope can be found on the palace minaret. So here's the deal. You start off with only the sultan's orders and the jewel, and go back and forth between the bazaar and other places to try and trade the lamp away from the bazaar people. In the meanwhile (or maybe this will tie in with a later episode), you try to find the hideout of the Forty Thieves in the Cave, Cliffs and Desert. Sounds like an exciting island, especially if it has more than the usual 3 episodes! UPDATE: It doesn't.

I also found the Desert scene. It connects the Bazaar and the Cliffs. Here it is:

Comment if you can draw even more connections from this ragtag collection of sneak peeks. The official sneak peeks can help you a ton as well.

Anyway, those are the preliminary findings! There's one item, the Camel Harness, that hasn't been uploaded yet, and obviously the Desert, Cave, and Cliffs need some work, so I'll keep this post updated until the day Arabian Nights 1 releases. In the meantime, you can play Survival 4, Mission Atlantis 3, PoptropiCon 1, and Land. Have fun!

P.S. Guess what I just made? A Daily Pop Sneak Peek gallery! It automatically fills with the latest Daily Pops, lets you browse by month or date, loads fast (I mean really fast, considering it's 900+ files), and makes things a whole lot more convenient. Check it out!

Mission Atlantis episode 3 ("Out of the Blue") just released for Members, and Survival Island 4 ("Cabin Fever") is also here for non-Members and the Poptropica app. Atlantis 3 is the last episode of one of the most intriguing and exciting islands yet! I wonder if Poptropi-con will be this short? UPDATE: Mission Atlantis guide and video complete!

Poptropica Land alpha 2 is also here, and it's... just... amazing. Can't put it into words. You can literally build or destroy anything in the world --- and it's a MASSIVE world -- and it SAVES! Excuse me, give me a couple hours or so to play it. By the way, I got #15 on the Player Map for Atlantis 3! That's my closest yet!

So, Survival Island episode 5 is in development now. It starts off with a chase scene, where you try to escape from Van Buren, and this guy helps you. His name is Merc (or it may be Max McGullicutty, from the Survival 3 plane manifest -- it would explain why he's wearing a tie), and he's your true rescuer in Survival. The one who isn't trying to hunt you. He's the one who wrote the message "Meet me in the woods" and "You are not alone" on the tapestry in your room from Survival episode, and signed it "M.M."

He's might be a very superstitious fisherman. Here's a conversation with him (where Neptune is, of course, Hades -- creepy) that you will have with him in Survival episode 5:

UPDATE: Changes in the files suggest that this is actually dummy dialog that coincidentally seems to fit with Survival 3. Equally likeley is the fact that Merc/Max is actually from the plane and is in a similar situation to you. (Click the image to zoom).

Survival Island episode 4, Cabin Fever has arrived for Members! In it, your rescuer Myron Van Buren offers a hot meal and a comfy bed, but you're not his guest — you're a prisoner. Can you escape the wilderness lodge before his next hunt begins?!

UPDATE: The full written walkthrough is now complete, click here to read! Also done is the video walkthrough, click to watch!

Non-members, all is not lost -- you can play the first 3 episodes with Poptrickia's full written/pictures/video guide, or check out some exclusive sneak peeks to be ready for when it does arrive.

Remember the Dr. Hare's Lair project on Lego CUUSOO that the Creators were hyping up for a while? Though it got the required 10,000 supporters, it was sadly turned down in favor of a Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary set.

Recently, TheFastComet on Lego Ideas has been on a roll, and has designed a Legendary Swords-themed set, complete with the boss robot at the end. He's even got an official shout-out from the Poptropica Creators, and may be working on a replica of the red rocket. Continuing in the spirit of awesome villains, he also has a Binary Bard's Citadel set collecting supporters; one word: YES. I've supported both projects and I hope you will too! Here's a link to more Poptropica Lego projects. With a sample this large, at least one has to become a reality, don't you think?

That's all for today. I've confirmed the existence of the rumored Poptropi-con Island... but that's for my next post. Until then, I'll just be hearing "Tally-ho" in a British accent repeating in my head over and over... you'd have to play the episode to understand.

Just letting you know that Survival Island episode 3 is going to release on Friday instead of today. The Creators just announced this, with promises that they're going to "nip and tuck" a few things prior to that. Aargh, I could have saved my sleep yesterday! If anyone knows the exact time that new islands arrive, please write that and your timezone in the comments. It'll really help me get walkthroughs in faster.

Anyway, I have an announcement to make: From now on, Poptrickia will provide video walkthroughs for EVERY new island. Now that the islands come in short episodes instead of jumbo hour-long ordeals (which I enjoyed, for the record), making a video guide is easier, and in my opinion, more fun for you to follow. Don't worry, I'll still be writing written walkthroughs as I have for the past 3 years; those are still Poptrickia's focus. Old islands may or may not get new video guides (Mocktropica and Mythology will, though).

Now that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Island has been out for almost a week, it's time to start pondering about the next Poptropica island; and let me tell you, the Daily Pop has given us plenty of clues. The Sneak Peeks section of the Daily Pop is a gold mine -- you should be visiting it every day! Anyways, here's what I make of the current information:

• This island takes place in a run-down outskirts of a big city.
• There is a Chinatown in the island.
• It might take place during the 1990s (but there are also many disco references, which is from the 1970s). The picture to the right mentions the Y2K bug.
• There are some minor connections to schools.
• The plot of the theme has something to do with science fiction and possibly horror movies. Definitely there's a movies reference.
• There are many ships in the island and many references to importing and exporting stuff.
• Smoothies. There's a smoothies shop and multiple references to berries from all over the world (hint, hint: shipping reference again.)
• I'm so confused.

I think there might be more than one island here and I'm getting them mixed up, that's why I'm confused. There is some proof of these below, taken from the Daily Pop. There are lots of pictures of run-down towns with a skyscraper skyline in the distance and a Chinatown near there with cramped apartments and small houses sprinkled all over for a long time; so that part's for sure. The rest, however, is not certain. A lot of islands have things to do with schools, despite the theme being completely unrelated to them, so maybe we can shoot that one down. There are lots of shops and sports areas, something common in big cities. Take a look at the pictures below and let's continue with the next three confusing possible themes. Remember to click on the pictures for a larger view and caption!

So it takes place in a run-down outskirts of a big city with a Chinatown. But what's it about?

As you can see, there's a reference to movies (especially movie monsters.) There's a door hidden in a cemetery, which is creepy enough for me. And something about a "bad moon" on the scarecrow picture.

There are many references to ships, cargo shipping, importing, and exporting here: the picture of the ship, the cargo control panel, the imported car, and the berry map. Berries are also important here: the berry shop is mentioned three times and is connected to the shipping theme. On the line sketch, only the smoothies shop is labeled and everything else is blank; this shows that it's the most important part of this scene.

Well, that's all for now! I hope you have a better idea about how the next island will be like and have enough information to begin your own research to connect the dots and help solve this mystery. And that brings me to my next thing: I can't solve this mystery myself! I need you all to help me figure out the topic of the next island before the Creators announce it. So take a moment to look through this evidence and the Daily Pop Sneak Peeks and post a comment below with some of your own insight about this next island.

And lastly, there's a new costume in Poptropica! Just enter the code wimpy2012 in the box on your home screen to recieve a Wimpy Kid themed multi-costume card. It's actually been out for a while now... The costumes were slowly unlocked one-by-one by how many people entered the code to get the card. You can enjoy all three now!

Poptropica has reached a count of 500,000,000 total Poptropicans! According to the Creators, that means that Poptropica would be the third most populous country in the world, if it was a country. This begs the question... can Poptropica grow too strong and allow Dr. Hare to finally take over the world? Stay tuned to find out more on this dangerous new video game...

In other news, Super Villain Island is now open for everyone to play! Have fun today on one of my very favorite islands!

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Wimpy Boardwalk is arriving this summer to Poptropica, and it's looking pretty exciting! There are three Members-only bonus items and, as usual, a bonus quest for Members. One of the hottest new items is the Heat Wave, as pictured to the right. There's also a new trailer for this island. I have to admit, I'm really excited now!

In other news, Poptropica has recently released a new home screen! It's got direct links to Island Tours and Parents/Membersphip/Merchandise (which isn't too helpful), and a direct link to the latest Creator's Blog post (which I can really use!)