Recap: Poppies 2022 😍🏆🎡

Greetings, Poppie-tropicans! We’ve come to the end of another sparkling Poppies — our eighth year of Poptropica fan awards.

Thank you all for joining in on the festivities throughout the month! We received over 160 votes in the polls to determine this year’s winners, announced via a livestream hosted by Slanted Fish, Sporty Boa, Gentle Dolphin, and Lucky Joker. Catch the spectacular slideshow celebration below, or scroll down to directly see the winners of the 2022 Poppies!

Also, click here to enjoy the full version of our “pop down memory lane” through seven years of Poppies past from our intermission show by Smart Icicle. For even more mems, check out our Poppies playlist!

And the Poppies go to…

Poptropica Awards

• Best Side Quest: The Baron’s Crusade and Rumpel’s Challenge (tied)
• Best Dream Island Winner: Jade Scarab Island (runner-up: Goofball Island)
• Best Returning AS3 Island: Monster Carnival Island (with a twist!) (runner-up: Mocktropica Island)
• Most Missed AS2 Island: Astro-Knights Island (runner-up: Mystery Train Island)
• Most Captivating Current Character: The Baron (runner-up: Dr. Hare)
• Most Legendary Lost Character: Balloon Boy (runner-up: Binary Bard)
• Most Ironic Name: Hamburger Hamburger (runner-up: Icy Flame)
• Most Magical Name: Blue Moon (runner-up: Golden Cloud)
• Coolest Wallpaper: Mythology – Hydra (runner-up: Poptropica Crowd)
• Most Pointless Update: Removing the Costumizer (runner-up: Removing islands on the mobile app)
• Best Comic: Mystery of the Map (runner-up: Zomberry: Day Zero)
• Best Costume Contest Winner: Love Potion Demon (runner-up: The Rockette)

Community Awards

• Funniest TikTok: “Expectations vs Reality: Poptropica Looks” by PoptropicaCreator (runner-up: “Best island you can even @ me” by kpizz_)
• Funniest Tweet: “i wanna do a poptropica concert” by @LilNasX, now deleted (runner-up: “More of this, please!” by @Poptropica, now deleted, in a response to Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden for US president)
• Best Community Creations Theme: Ghosts & Ghouls (runner-up: Arabian Nights)
• Most Fun Contest: The PHB’s Halloween Costume Contest (runner-up: Poptropica’s Make Your Own Mighty Action Force Card Challenge)
• Most Aesthetic Pinterest Board: “Monster Carnival” by haunteddisco (runner-up: “Mythology” by gallifreyanfairytale) (See more Pop Pinterest boards here!)
• Best Pop-over Special: Poptropica x Pokémon Go (runner-up: Scooby-Doo)
• Best Official Guest Blog Post: “Poptropica Fashion (Poptropashion?)” by Pink Crush (runner-up: “Invisible Ring’s Ultimate Movie” by Invisible Ring)
• Best Fan Video: “How it Feels Returning to Poptropica in 2021” by the Dimension Bros (runner-up: “Backspace – Poptropica Parody Music Video of ‘Blank Space’ by Taylor Swift” by the PHB)
• Best Fan Art: “Carnival” by XMzhier (runner-up: “Nervous Star & Blueberry Cake” by Bunnies_n_Bowties)

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the 2022 Poppies! The spotlights are well deserved.

This year, the Poppies had a special visitor on our Discord server: Official Poptropica! At least, it seems to be — our hunch is that it’s legit. Appearing after the show for only a few minutes, the new account dropped by with just one short and sweet message of thanks plus some hype for “more Discord appearances.” Will we get to interact with the current social media manager like in the days of Skinny Moon? Maybe we’ll find out soon. In any case, it’s an honor to have Pop stop by!

“Best Fan Art” Nominee Gallery

Feast your eyes on this year’s glorious gallery, chosen by the people:

From nominating to voting to tuning in live, thanks for joining us at the Poppies blue carpet, bearing with technical difficulties, and celebrating the Poptropica universe, fandom, and PHB’s 14th blog birthday!

Keep on poppin’ on,

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