#poptropica photo booth

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Where is Binary Bard, did he skip school

No.

[busystomper]

Poptropica has gotten a handful of features the last several months between member gifts, a friend/profile page revamp, housing, Realms returning, additional things to Home Island, and even a new island (currently in Early release).

And as much as I adore the sticker wall and how colorful it is/can be (I think if I had one complaint about the old page, it’d be how blue it was), I’m also really disappointed as two of the things I liked most are gone: 

The personality picks. I loved those. I always hoped they’d add more. And now they’re just gone. I wish I screencapped them or something. Maybe I recorded them somewhere? Either way I’m super disappointed as I love personality things like that.

The photo board being blank. As far as I can tell, I’m guessing it’s for Photo booth stuff since the add-on (also I... can’t seem to find the photo booth at the moment thus no photos, but we’ll deal with that later), but it also seems to have replaced the photo system that had been added in the past that I really liked. I really can’t stress enough how much I kind of hate replaying things and I worked really hard on replaying the islands to get all the photos (as they sadly weren’t added retroactively using however your Poptropica currently looks). Only for the photos to be gone now. I love souvenir photos so much and it being gone breaks my heart.

I know the Colorizer was brought up in a blog post, but it still doesn’t effect everything which is also frustrating:

Just let me have my wavy ponytail, game T___T

I’ve been pretty much MIA with most Poptropica updates since Membership started having monthly items. I hate missing out on things and I get membership rather sporadically. While I get that this is likely a thing to keep people subscribed, I feel a lot of games forget, especially with a collecting/customizing element, people are also less likely to sign up if they’ve already missed out. And Poptropica has unfortunately had a handful of limited time things, not even counting the recent membership item addition (and don’t even get me started on how I missed the Puppy buddy item by a few hours-- at least I have a pet puppy...). I also just genuinely can’t afford to stay long-term on most subscription services. SO MANY things have subscriptions lately and it’s actually kind of exhausting as my finances vary so much per month right now.

On a different note, I wish there were more ways to earn credits. As mentioned, I don’t really replay things and you only get about 100-200 credits (depending on your Membership status) upon an island replay. That’s genuinely just not enough for me to find it worth it. The arcade games don’t give much. I’m surprised there isn’t an option to just buy credits, but while I understand why membership items have prices now, I do miss when I could just buy things for free while having membership. My savings are dead and my house is still empty. I also attempted watching Ads, but they... just wouldn’t end? Like they never came to a stop, I actually had to refresh the game to even exit them. 

Finally, Poptropica Worlds seems just... completely MIA now. There’s no link to it anymore, though you can still access it, and no updates or mentions of such for ages with focus seeming back on the original Poptropica. 

I really enjoyed the updated customization of Poptropica Worlds, but I’m not really surprised if it was less popular and thus may not be receiving any more updates. Essentially, like Club Penguin Island, it was a soft reboot. And nobody wants a reboot. People either want something new or an expansion to what they already had. And starting over and doing the same things/stories and not have any of their stuff isn’t a great way to go about it. While some of the islands were big revamps or even sequel-ish, it still didn’t feel like a sequel when we essentially had nothing.

I’d love if they found a way to bring that updated customization to normal Poptropica, but I don’t know if that’s possible. 

Anyway, tl;dr version: I miss my personality modules and photos and credit earning sucks </3

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Wham, bam, thank you Zeus

⚡🕵️‍♂️

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

If Cactus were to kill these Twilight characters, is he still considered the bad guy? /hj

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Cactus is hot fr 🥵

But he's married to the job! Lol, "job".

Also, warning: he doesn't understand how sex works XD If that's what you're looking for

See the utter look of confusion on his face? /hj

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Seriously, WHY did they get rid of the Photo Booth?! Why did they do that?

Also, Costumizer...

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Look behind you Cactus...

Digging up his career

The monster hunter is... scared?!

Hiding on the roof...

If you stand perfectly still, they won't see you...

Praying?

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Did Raven get him?

Raven, why did you get Double D

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

The customizer was the best part of Poptropica! You could steal someone else's drip!

It was beautiful 🥺

And then they got rid of it for... confusing reasons.

Um... ok.

They got rid of all of the good features that made the game unique... the Daily Pop, the personality quiz, the photo booth... even down to the login screen.

Wanna know something funny? PoptropiCon Island is the one island where the gameplay relies on the Costumizer. So they couldn't get rid of it for that.

So stupid.

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Modern Poptropica is SUCH a downgrade from what it used to be, based on everything I've seen. I feel so bad that I hadn't experienced the game back in it's good days. I'm pretty new here, and I'm mad that I missed the good stuff.

I think the design of everything looks blander.

Old login page:

New login page:

yuck

Old character creation:

New character creation:

Is this it? I actually don't know if there's something else.

Old friends page:

New friends page:

Old Pop Quiz:

New Pop Quiz:

???

The new store design is not bad

Old store:

New store:

They took away so many good features, like the Costumizer, friends page and photo booth. Is there an actual reason why they redesigned everything to make it blander and worse?

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Everyone loves Poptropica for its storytelling and its older features, like the photo booth and costumizer.