About Poptropica®

Poptropica® is a virtual world in which kids explore and play in complete safety. Every month, millions of kids from around the world are entertained and informed by Poptropica's engaging quests, stories and games.

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1. Poptropica English Word Games. Play in a world populated with Poptropica characters where learning English vocabulary is easy and fun. Build towns and compete in exciting games. Become the mayor of a town - win games, upgrade your shops and grow them into towering skyscrapers.
2. Poptropica is an online role-playing game, developed in 2007 by Pearson Education's Family Education Network, and targeted towards children aged 6 to 15.

Kids create a 'Poptropican' character to travel the many Islands of Poptropica and use gaming literacy to enjoy a narrative that is often rooted in factual history. Problem-solving skills are honed as kids discover and solve mysteries unique to each Island.

There are always new areas to explore in this ever-expanding world where kids can collect objects, read digital books and comics, watch movies and compete in head-to-head competition. Parents can always trust that their children are playing — and learning — in a safe online environment.

Poptropica is published by Family Education Network, a part of Sandbox Networks, Inc.

Poptropica was selected as an Official Honoree in the 17th Annual Webby Awards in the Games category.

Safety

Your Child's Account

A Poptropica® user account is not required to play Poptropica. An avatar (Poptropican character) is needed to play, which requires the player's age and gender. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from players.

A user account is required to enjoy certain features of Poptropica, such as viewing a personalized 'Welcome Back' page, accessing items in the Poptropica Store, adding friends, and getting Membership. In order to create a user account, just click on the 'Save' button in the lower right hand corner of any Island screen and enter a username and password. Players should not include their name or any other identifiable information when creating their username.

Your child's avatar name (e.g. 'Scary Tomato'), which is displayed to other users, is randomly generated. It is different from the username that your child selects to save and log in to their user account.

If your child would like to set up the 'Forgot Password' feature, a parent email address is required in order to do so. An email will be sent to the parent email address which requires you to confirm this request. If you confirm, and your child's password is forgotten in the future, you'll be able to reset the password.

Poptropica® does not share any user information with other sites, nor do we collect user information from other sites.

Friends and Social Interaction on Poptropica

Players can interact with one another in common rooms by using scripted chat options. No free typing is possible, and therefore no personal information can ever be shared.

Poptropica's friends feature allows players to express themselves on Poptropica. They can share basic information about their personality, mood, and achievements. Players build their profile page by answering multiple choice Pop Quiz questions.

No personally identifiable information is collected from players, or shared with other players.

Press & Media

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Poptropica Launches Poptropica Worlds

Reimagining of Iconic Kids Digital Play and Learning World Goes Live for Web and Mobile

BOSTON/LONDON, 23RD MAY 2017 - StoryArc Media's Poptropica has launched Poptropica Worlds, a reimagining of the safe, engaging, and interactive learning world that, for a decade, has consistently captivated millions of kids 6-12 through fun, immersive storytelling.

Poptropica Worlds is available now to play for free, as a seamless experience between web and mobile. The announcement was made by Abhi Arya, President, StoryArc Media and Co-Founder and Partner, Sandbox & Co.

Created by Jeff Kinney, author of the hugely successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series, Poptropica is about immersive and interactive storytelling. Poptropica Worlds stays true to these roots and takes Poptropica's immersive narrative to the next level.

Poptropica Worlds provides users with enhanced game mechanics, greater customizability and masterful new graphics. It also offers users a more robust and dynamic mobile experience and can be synced across web and mobile devices via the user's Poptropica Cloud account. Players will be able to transfer their accounts from Poptropica to Poptropica Worlds to preserve their Poptropican character name and look.

In Poptropica Worlds, every child gets to be the hero of their own adventure. Kids are empowered to explore a chain of story-based islands where they can battle monsters, solve mysteries and complete quests as their personalized Poptropican avatar that they create and build out.

Poptropica Worlds will launch with a new customizable Home Island; the Home Island will be an extension of the player's avatar that reflects the adventures they choose within the game. Poptropica Worlds will also launch a new story island, Crisis Caverns, about a supervolcano that threatened to blow Poptropica sky high. Crisis Caverns is modelled after the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park, and is focused on teaching geology concepts. Poptropica Worlds will add subsequent islands, mixing new islands with remastered islands from the classic Poptropica.

Jeff Kinney said: 'It's exciting to see a brand-new version of Poptropica for a new generation of kids. Quite a lot has changed since Poptropica launched in 2007. Back then, 'mobile' was barely a whisper. Poptropica has been rebuilt from the ground up, and millions of kids will spend countless hours enjoying the worlds we've created.'

'Since the Sandbox acquisition in late 2015, we at StoryArc have been hard at work conceptualizing the most dynamic ways to enhance what is already one of the most popular and beloved digital experiences in all of children's media,' added Arya. 'Poptropica enjoys unrivalled brand equity with a huge, passionate and loyal user base. At the heart of everything we do, we have kids in mind. The challenge has been to build something even more amazing. Poptropica Worlds is the result of a year's worth of thought, creativity and execution from the most awesome game designers in the industry. We are super excited about what we are about to unveil, and we know both our current and future fans are going to love it.'

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Every month, millions of kids from around the world are entertained and informed by Poptropica's engaging quests, stories, and games. Poptropica cultivates a child's knowledge and skills by sparking their natural curiosity and providing a high calibre informal education platform that allows kids to explore, play and have fun. By engaging with Poptropica, kids explore such learning fundamentals as literacy and problem solving as well as 21st Century skills and other subjects that are customizable to their interests. Poptropica is free to play, while monthly paid membership offers kids a deeper immersive experience. It will be available on the web, iOS and Android.

Poptropica has consistently sustained and grown its status as a platform leader and has continued to inspire repeat engagement from both its dedicated fans and those new to the platform. The Poptropica ecosystem now includes games, books and merchandise. The platform currently has over 2 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs). Poptropica was named one of Time Magazine's '50 Websites that Make the Web Great.'

The original Poptropica game that multiple generations of children have come to love will still be available to players. In fact, a membership to Poptropica gets kids premium access to both Poptropica and Poptropica Worlds platforms for 2017.

Poptropica is part of Sandbox & Co's group of award-winning products, platforms and brands for millennial parents and their children. The group consists of Hopster, Tinybop, SuperAwesome, TeacherVision, FamilyEducation and more. Together, the group currently reaches over 20 million kids, parents and teachers worldwide every month, helping to drive the Education 2.0 revolution through interactivity, creativity, exploration and personalisation.
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Hey there, Clawtropicans! It’s me, Purple Claw, hereto talk about a question I’ve been asking myself for a while now, that being – you guessed it – is Poptropica Worlds a more educational game, as in, more educational than the original Poptropica? Let’s get started with the analysis!

To answer this question, we have to do a litle research, or as I like to call it, pop down memory lane…

The Poptropica Creators have always claimed Poptropica is an educational game, but is really true? Well, yeah. Or, at least it started out like that — Poptropica’s first three islands were pretty educational. Here’s why:

Early Poptropica and Shark Tooth Island had two very similar buildings: they both had museums. One being an art museum, and another full of shark facts; you get the idea.

The Pop Art museum is pretty much like any art museum, but what stood out the most was were the questions you could ask each artist — questions about their drawings, their personal life (such stalkers we are), etc. It’s pretty fun. The Shark Museum on the other hand simply had facts about sharks, that found myself pretty interested in them. That was literally my absolute favorite part of the island.

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Time Tangled Island was – and still is – one of Poptropica’s most educational islands, and unlike the first two island mentioned, Time Tangled had a different method. When it still wasn’t a SUI, you could find some circles leading to Fact Monster articles, a Poptropica sponsor at that time (Fact Monster is an educational website where you can get help with homework and stuff, it’s actually pretty fun).

This was a new thing for Poptropica, but it didn’t last long with the release of 24 Carrot Island, and I’m glad, since those Fact Monster monstrosities can really get in the way of your gameplay, and could be pretty annoying at times. Glad I never got to experience them. 😛

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for some other players) the following islands stopped being too educational (examples: 24 Carrot, Super Power, Big Nate etc.), and I don’t even know why. Maybe they were too busy to make museums and/or overall educational islands at that time.

This all changed with the release of Counterfeit Island, which fell in the ”museum-kind-of-educational-island” category. The following islands of Poptropica weren’t all educational – but there are quite a lot, such as Red Dragon, Mythology, Arabian Nights, etc.

So, we can all now probably agree that Poptropica is an educational game, but… what about Poptropica Worlds?

Well, since Poptropica Worlds has a whole of two islands as a whole (excluding Home Island, since there isn’t any adventure or quests, but maybe decorating your home counts as an adventure, I don’t know), so I can’t say much about it, but I’ll give it a shot.

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Well, just like Poptropica’s first two islands, Poptropica Worlds also follows the ”museum” method, and it does much better job than Early Pop and Shark Tooth did.

Crisis Caverns’ museum is the Visitors’ Center, which has facts about the supervolcano, and other facts that inspired the island to be made. Is was an important part of the island, since it kinda moved the plot forward by giving (spoilers) that park ranger the elk antlers. The Pop Art museum, on the other hand, had nothing in common with the island (well, it had one thing in common if you count the fact that it’s the ‘pop’ art museum), but besides that, it didn’t add anything to the plot, so it made things less interesting…

The Reboot of 24 Carrot is simply gorgeous — it’s literally what made me like PW is the first place! The plot was improved and the visuals were really pretty. But, since Poptropica Words still isn’t such a social game, in the place of the common room there was a carrot museum, which isn’t really all bad. And just like on Crisis Caverns, this museum also moved the plot forward.

Well, as of now, I’d have to say… drumroll please… Poptropica Original.

Why? Well, simply because it has more islands, which means more variety. But to the direction PW is going, I believe Poptropica Worlds will be considered a pretty educational game, since the island museums are pretty fun and don’t get in the way of your gameplay.

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Whether you like Poptropica being an educational game or not, the Creators made a really good job on it on Poptropica Worlds.

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