Hub Island & Poptanium Stashes

There's a new island that just sprung up out of the blue this week: a Home Island, just like the one on the mobile app! Previously, new players had to figure out Poptropica just by trial and error (which I still think is a great way to learn something), but now the new Home/Hub Island also offers a guided tutorial. And it goes beyond the simple medallion-shard-finding quest from the mobile app: you can talk to almost any character for guidance, such as how to use the Costumizer.

Here's the fun part: now available on the online Poptropica through Home island is the Colorizer, now for free (just go into the New You shop). Previously, if you wanted to recolor your hair or skin color, you had to splurge in the store to buy the Colorizer, or visit certain places in the game that did it.

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The Bundle Shop and the Arcade are also there, but they redirect you to the Poptropica Store and the Pathfinders common room, respectively. Hopefully there are plans to expand these with a new store and app-style common rooms (with the new chat and games).

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And a quick word on the topic of Poptanium stashes -- in Poptropica Realms, it's possible to share worlds that you've created with the public. Poptanium is the currency that is needed to build anything in your realm, and there's a tool that lets you place Poptanium bricks into your realm, which can be collected later. So you can "give" Poptanium to other players by putting Poptanium bricks down and then sharing it! Brave Seagull has done just that, with an enormous world that not only looks good, but is filled to the coffers with pyramids of Poptanium that you can collect. The code is 9thzx., and according to Slippery Raptor's estimates, you can collect up to  4,630 Poptanium from it!