History Trivia / Poptropica

* GodNeverSaidThat: On December 14th, 2023, a Discord screenshot, initially believed to be made by the Poptropica team, claimed that Poptropica will shut down on December 29th that year due to financial issues, causing many who grew up with the game mourning over its loss. However, [[https://x.com/poptropica/status/1735509964381372710?s=46 this was immediately debunked]] by the official Twitter account, which confirmed that they will remain active, even after that date, and that Poptropica "dropping" the membership subscriptions (which many also believed had ties to the shutdown hoax), was an intentional decision that was meant to last all month.

* FollowTheLeader: It's an open secret that Mythology Island was cashing in on the success of the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' franchise. In fact, the island came out just two months after the first [[Film/PercyJackson film]] did.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Defied. A character from Shark Tooth Island nicknamed “Shark Boy” was used as Poptropica’s mascot until he was suddenly replaced with Dr. Hare. This is because “Shark Boy” was already trademarked and the creators didn’t want to risk a lawsuit. Later appearances refer to the character as “Shark Guy”.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: El Mustachio Grande was meant to appear in Super Villain Island alongside the four featured villains.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://poptropica.fandom.com/wiki/Poptropica_Wiki:Main_Street Here]].

* HeAlsoDid: The lesser-known product of Creator/JeffKinney, and, really, what started as an educational kids' game is about as far as you could get from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''. Granted, he does include two islands based off his hit book.

* FollowTheLeader: It's an open secret that ''Mythology Island'' was cashing in on the success of the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' franchise. In fact, the island came out just two months after the first [[Film/PercyJackson film]] did.

* OrphanedReference: The revamped ''Mythology Island'' port removed you paying Aeolus for the wind bag (with him instead just giving it to you for free), yet his sign still says they cost a drachma.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Defied. A character from Shark Tooth Island nicknamed “Shark Boy” was used as Poptropica’s mascot until he was suddenly replaced Dr. Hare. This is because “Shark Boy” was already trademarked and the creators didn’t want to risk a lawsuit. Later appearances refer to the character as “Shark Guy”.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://poptropica.fandom.com/wiki/Poptropica_Wiki:Main_Street Here]].

* FanNickname: Some fans have dubbed Black Widow's former henchman “Brown Recluse”.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The models of television and reality TV game shows being treated as the most popular thing to watch in Reality TV Island makes it clear it was produced in late 2000s.
** CJ’s chunky desktop computer and use of leetspeak in Shrink Ray Island had already fallen slightly out of style in the early 2010s, but it feels more and more outdated the longer time goes on.
** Back Lot parodying two films that came out in 2012 (Film/TheHobbit and Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter) now dates the island into what year it takes place in.

* HeAlsoDid: The lesser-known product of Creator/JeffKinney, and, really, what started as an educational kids' game is about as far as you could get from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''.

* HeAlsoDid: The less known product of Creator/JeffKinney, and, really, what started as an educational kids' game is about as far as you could get from ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid.''

* TheWikiRule: [[https://poptropica.fandom.com/wiki/Poptropica_Wiki:Main_Street here]].

** On the topic of Super Villain, concept art shows that the totems were meant to assemble together.

* FollowTheLeader: Mythology Island came out just two months after the first [[Film/PercyJackson Percy Jackson]] movie did.
* MeaningfulReleaseDate: S.O.S Island came out in 2012, which was the one hundredth anniversary of the Titanic sinking.

** Back Lot parodying two films that came out in 2012 (Film/TheHobbit and Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter) now dates the island into what year it takes place in.

* FollowTheLeader: Mythology Island came out just two months after the first Percy Jackson movie did.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: S.O.S Island came out in 2012, which was the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: S.O.S
Island came out in 2012, which was the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

** The models of television and reality TV game shows being treated as the most popular thing to watch in Reality TV Island makes it clear it was produced in late 2000s.[[note]] While the island did come out in the 2010s, it was finished by literally the first two months of the decade, so it was mainly produced in the previous one. [[/note]]

* MeaningfulReleaseDate: S.O.S Island came out in 2012, which was the one hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.