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** The first concept for the Clock Tower at the Snow Forts had it as an actual snow fort, being made entirely of snow. The clock itself was analog rather than digital, and the plaque explaining about Penguin Standard Time was absent (although it was later removed in 2012 anyways, after the room was redesigned).
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* CreatorsBacklash: Former staff member, Chris Hendricks (known by his username Screenhog), who worked in lots of things during the game's initial years, regrets making the penguin's design on the player card the way it is. While he does appreciate how iconic and loved that drawing has become, he's pointed out in some videos that he sketched and finished the drawing in under 15 minutes, on his first attempt, back when ''Club Penguin'' did not have a definitive art style yet; by his own words, it looks "dumpy-looking, with a clueless expression its his face, and its beak is a weird shape", and besides [[NonStandardCharacterDesign stood out like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest of the artwork seen on the game's later years]]. However, [[TheArtifact it had to stay for the remainder of the game's duration]] because it would be ''insanely'' hard and time-consuming to redraw every item on the player card if the penguin paper doll was changed.

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* CreatorsBacklash: CreatorBacklash: Former staff member, Chris Hendricks (known by his username Screenhog), who worked in lots of things during the game's initial years, regrets making the penguin's design on the player card the way it is. While he does appreciate how iconic and loved that drawing has become, he's pointed out in some videos that he sketched and finished the drawing in under 15 minutes, on his first attempt, back when ''Club Penguin'' did not have a definitive art style yet; by his own words, it looks "dumpy-looking, with a clueless expression its his face, and its beak is a weird shape", and besides [[NonStandardCharacterDesign stood out like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest of the artwork seen on the game's later years]]. However, [[TheArtifact it had to stay for the remainder of the game's duration]] because it would be ''insanely'' hard and time-consuming to redraw every item on the player card if the penguin paper doll was changed.
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* CreatorsBacklash: Former staff member, Chris Hendricks (known by his username Screenhog), who worked in lots of things during the game's initial years, regrets making the penguin's design on the player card the way it is. While he does appreciate how iconic and loved that drawing has become, he's pointed out in some videos that he sketched and finished the drawing in under 15 minutes, on his first attempt, back when ''Club Penguin'' did not have a definitive art style yet; by his own words, it looks "dumpy-looking, with a clueless expression its his face, and its beak is a weird shape", and besides [[NonStandardCharacterDesign stood out like a sore thumb in comparison to the rest of the artwork seen on the game's later years]]. However, [[TheArtifact it had to stay for the remainder of the game's duration]] because it would be ''insanely'' hard and time-consuming to redraw every item on the player card if the penguin paper doll was changed.


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** The penguin's design on the player card was originally going to be just a 2D stylized version of its in-game model, but this idea was turned down and it was replaced by a 2D penguin. Six years later, in 2011, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/8/88/Player_Card_Concept.png/revision/latest?cb=20130223120233 the team was planning to redesign the player card penguin]]; while its basic shape would be retained in order to avoid having to redraw every single item's appearance on the player card, its shapes would look smoother, and its eyes and beak were remade to look closer to the newer art style.
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* ''Club Penguin Island'' had several updates planned for the future that never came to pass due to the game's closing in December 2018. The most notorious were the addition of Puffles and Card-Jitsu, which were too hard to implement and such were going to be added much later into the game.
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** Sometime after the original game's closure, the original creators of ''Club Penguin'', Lance Priebe and Lane Merrifield, tried to buy the rights back from Disney in order to bring the game back, but Disney did not agree to it.

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** Sometime At some point after the original game's closure, the original creators of ''Club Penguin'', Lance Priebe and Lane Merrifield, tried to buy the rights back from Disney in order to bring the game back, but Disney did not agree to it.
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** Sometime after the original game's closure, the original creators of ''Club Penguin'', Lance Priebe and Lane Merrifield, tried to buy the rights back from Disney in order to bring the game back, but Disney did not agree to it.
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* WordOfGod: The reason why there weren't any bed furniture items in ''Club Penguin'' was to prevent players from simulating inappropriate actions (although some players improvised their own beds by mixing-and-matching existing furniture). When kids asked about it, the mods gave the excuse that they didn't have bed furniture because "penguins sleep standing up".
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Aunt Arctic being the Director was actually an afterthought. Despite players interpreting several clues to have been foreshadowing towards the Director's true identity (such as Aunt Arctic's glasses becoming darker when the player hovers the cursor above it on the newspaper), it was stated that the Director was originally conceived with no clear identity in mind, and Aunt Arctic was chosen simply by process of elimination, as she was the only mascot that would fit the role at the time.
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Updating some terms to past tense. Also, CPR was forcibly shut down by the police, not an unannounced shut down. The devs made an announcement after the shutdown went into effect.


** The Costume Catalog is located in the Puffleberry Mall, which replaced the Stage. The store's sign that contains it even has the comedy/tragedy masks that used to be seen above the theater.

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** The Costume Catalog is was located in the Puffleberry Mall, which replaced the Stage. The store's sign that contains it even has the comedy/tragedy masks that used to be seen above the theater.



* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018, putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were mostly squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after predatory allegations were made towards the owner of ''Club Penguin Online'', leaving ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it was suddenly shut down on April 13th, 2022. That was one month before ''Club Penguin Legacy'' opened and became the sole option as well. Time will tell for how long CPL is going to be up for.
* MilestoneCelebration: While an anniversary party is held each year, the 10 Year Anniversary Party from 2015 was probably the most effort put into a party in years, with most rooms having the decorations of parties from every previous year, and even going so far as to have a dedicated yearbook in the book room.

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* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018, putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were mostly squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after predatory allegations were made towards the owner of ''Club Penguin Online'', leaving ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it was suddenly forcibly shut down on April 13th, 2022. That was one month before ''Club Penguin Legacy'' opened and became the sole option as well. Time will tell for how long CPL is going to be up for.
* MilestoneCelebration: While an anniversary party is was held each year, the 10 Year Anniversary Party from 2015 was probably the most effort put into a party in years, with most rooms having the decorations of parties from every previous year, and even going so far as to have a dedicated yearbook in the book room.
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updated image link for "get better soon" postcard (again)


** There was once a postcard called the "[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/2/23/Get_Better_Soon.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190218182727 Get Better Soon]]" postcard, which was meant to be sent to players who were sick. However, people started using it as a form of ''death threat'', which caused it to be removed from the catalog in 2008.

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** There was once a postcard called the "[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/clubpenguin/images/2/23/Get_Better_Soon.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20190218182727 "[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9rNia0WsAAVkBZ?format=jpg&name=large Get Better Soon]]" postcard, which was meant to be sent to players who were sick. However, people started using it as a form of ''death threat'', which caused it to be removed from the catalog in 2008.
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*** There were also originally going to be ''three'' polar bear antagonists. However, they felt like that was too many characters, so they molded them all into the one character of Herbert P. Bear, along with giving him a sidekick, Klutzy.

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*** There were also originally going to be ''three'' polar bear antagonists.antagonists with a BigThinShortTrio theme. However, they felt like that was too many characters, so they molded them all into the one character of Herbert P. Bear, along with giving him a sidekick, Klutzy.
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* WorkingTitle: The original 2000 program by Lance Priebe that would evolve into ''Club Penguin'' was named ''Experimental Penguins'', followed by the more recognisable ''Penguin Chat''.
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* NoBudget: The budget for the very first versions of ''Club Penguin'' was minuscule, the game effectively being an update to an experimental chatroom program that Lance Priebe had made in his spare time. Chris Hendricks recalls that they used Swift 3D as their modelling tool mainly because they couldn't afford the $1,000 licence for 3D Studio Max.
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** There were several items that were modeled, but never made it to the game, such as an "arrow-to-the-head" hat, which was going to be the free item for April Fools' Party 2006 but scrapped for being "too violent".



** The antagonist for ''Puffle Launch'' was originally be supposed to a character named "Scowly the Owl", but he was later replaced by a crab named Klepto.



** One of the early emoticons was a skull, which was meant to be used for ignoring other players. It was removed when players started using it to pretend to be dead.

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** One of the early emoticons was a skull, which was meant to be used for ignoring other players. It was removed in November 2007, when players started using it to pretend to be dead. dead or, like the aforementioned postcard, use it as a form of death threat. The emoticon only remained as the symbol for the ignore list. The heart emoticon was removed at the same time, although it was brought back a couple months later.
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* FollowTheLeader: ''Club Penguin'' had lots of [=MMOs=] which simply copied its format, such as ''Pandanda'' and ''[[PandaingToTheAudience Panfu]]''.

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* FollowTheLeader: ''Club Penguin'' had lots of [=MMOs=] which simply copied its format, such as ''Pandanda'' and ''[[PandaingToTheAudience Panfu]]''.''Panfu''.
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** One of the early emoticons was a skull, which was meant to be used for ignoring other players. It was removed when players started using it to pretend to be dead.
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* TheWikiRule: The [[https://clubpenguin.fandom.com/wiki/Club_Penguin_Wiki Club Penguin Wiki]], and another [[http://www.clubpenguinwiki.info/wiki/Club_Penguin_Wiki Club Penguin Wiki]].
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updated image link for "get better soon" postcard
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* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018, putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were all but squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after predatory allegations were made towards a private server's owner, leaving Club Penguin Rewritten the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it too was suddenly quashed on April 13th, 2022.

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* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018, putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were all but mostly squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after predatory allegations were made towards a private server's owner, the owner of ''Club Penguin Online'', leaving Club ''Club Penguin Rewritten Rewritten'' the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it too was suddenly quashed shut down on April 13th, 2022.2022. That was one month before ''Club Penguin Legacy'' opened and became the sole option as well. Time will tell for how long CPL is going to be up for.
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There's a big misconception that Disney forced CPR to be shut down. However, with this link https://www.reddit.com/r/ClubPenguin/comments/uxvnct/the_reason_why_club_penguin_rewritten_was_shut/?sort=confidence there's an extremely good reason the game will never come back.


* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead-up to its forced shutdown in April 2022, the developers implemented [[InternetAds advertisements]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that players were ''forced to watch'' and could not skip with an adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing it like this gave Disney legal means to shut down the server and resulted in the arrests of at least three of its developers.

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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead-up to its forced shutdown in April 2022, the developers implemented [[InternetAds advertisements]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that players were ''forced to watch'' and could not skip with an adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing it like this gave Disney legal a law enforcement group called "Operation Creative" means to take control of the website and shut down the server and resulted in the arrests of at least three of its developers.developers by the City of London Police.
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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to its forced shut down in April 2022, the developers implemented [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with an adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing it like this gave Disney legal means to shut down the server and resulted least three of its developers arrested.

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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up lead-up to its forced shut down shutdown in April 2022, the developers implemented [[InternetAds advertisments]] advertisements]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that players were ''forced to be watched'' watch'' and unable to be skipped could not skip with an adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing it like this gave Disney legal means to shut down the server and resulted in the arrests of at least three of its developers arrested.developers.
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Since the link to CPI may not longer be functional, the link has been removed.


* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' [[https://www.clubpenguinisland.com/2018/09/thank-you-penguin-family/ caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018,]] putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were all but squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after predatory allegations were made towards a private server's owner, leaving Club Penguin Rewritten the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it too was suddenly quashed on April 13th, 2022.

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* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' [[https://www.clubpenguinisland.com/2018/09/thank-you-penguin-family/ caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018,]] 2018, putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were all but squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after predatory allegations were made towards a private server's owner, leaving Club Penguin Rewritten the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it too was suddenly quashed on April 13th, 2022.



* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to its forced shut down in April 2022, the developers implemented [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with a adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing it like this gave Disney legal means to shut down the server and resulted least three of its developers arrested.

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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to its forced shut down in April 2022, the developers implemented [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with a an adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing it like this gave Disney legal means to shut down the server and resulted least three of its developers arrested.
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all of these potholes are NRLEP tropes.
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* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' [[https://www.clubpenguinisland.com/2018/09/thank-you-penguin-family/ caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018,]] putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were all but squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after [[PaedoHunt predatory allegations]] were made towards a private server's owner, leaving Club Penguin Rewritten the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it too was suddenly quashed on April 13th, 2022.

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* FranchiseKiller: The negative reception of ''Club Penguin Island'' [[https://www.clubpenguinisland.com/2018/09/thank-you-penguin-family/ caused the game to be shut down by the end of 2018,]] putting the lid on the series. Attempts to continue it unofficially by fans were all but squashed by Disney sending out DMCA takedowns in 2020 after [[PaedoHunt predatory allegations]] allegations were made towards a private server's owner, leaving Club Penguin Rewritten the sole option of Club Penguin living past Flash until it too was suddenly quashed on April 13th, 2022.



* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to its forced shut down in April 2022, the developers started becoming [[{{Greed}} greedy for cash]], implementing [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with a adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing fangames is a big no-no for the public. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Guess what happened when they were finally caught]]?

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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to its forced shut down in April 2022, the developers started becoming [[{{Greed}} greedy for cash]], implementing implemented [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with a adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing fangames is a big no-no for it like this gave Disney legal means to shut down the public. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Guess what happened when they were finally caught]]?server and resulted least three of its developers arrested.
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* MilestoneCelebration: While an anniversary party is held each year, the 10 Year Anniversary Party from 2015 was probably the most effort put into a party in years. Even going so far as to have a dedicated yearbook in the book room.

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* MilestoneCelebration: While an anniversary party is held each year, the 10 Year Anniversary Party from 2015 was probably the most effort put into a party in years. Even years, with most rooms having the decorations of parties from every previous year, and even going so far as to have a dedicated yearbook in the book room.
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** Players had tried "tipping the iceberg" with drills for probably as long as the iceberg had been a thing, but it was only when the game was about to shut down in 2017 that the ability to tip the iceberg was finally added.

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** Players had tried "tipping the iceberg" with drills for probably as long as the iceberg had been a thing, but it was only when the game was about to shut close down in 2017 that the ability to tip the iceberg was finally added.



* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to it's forced shut down in April 2022, the developers started becoming [[{{Greed}} greedy for cash]], implementing [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with a adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing fangames is a big no-no for the public. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Guess what happened when they were finally caught]]?

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* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The sole reason why ''Club Penguin Rewritten'' will '''never''' return. In the lead up to it's its forced shut down in April 2022, the developers started becoming [[{{Greed}} greedy for cash]], implementing [[InternetAds advertisments]] in the Rockhopper's Daily Treasure that were ''forced to be watched'' and unable to be skipped with a adblocker. They also patched a workaround for that to ensure this happens. Monetizing fangames is a big no-no for the public. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Guess what happened when they were finally caught]]?
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** Players had tried "tipping the iceberg" with drills for probably as long as the iceberg had been a thing, but it was only when the game finally shut down in 2017 that the ability to tip the iceberg was finally added.

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** Players had tried "tipping the iceberg" with drills for probably as long as the iceberg had been a thing, but it was only when the game finally was about to shut down in 2017 that the ability to tip the iceberg was finally added.



** The Costume Catalog is located in the Puffleberry Mall, which replaced the stage. The store's sign that contains it even has the comedy/tragedy masks that used to be seen above the theater.

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** The alleged Rainbow Puffle arrived at the March 2013 Puffle Party.

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** The alleged Rainbow Puffle had been rumored since the later 2000s, but it finally arrived at the March 2013 Puffle Party.


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** Players had tried "tipping the iceberg" with drills for probably as long as the iceberg had been a thing, but it was only when the game finally shut down in 2017 that the ability to tip the iceberg was finally added.


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** PSA mission #10 references the famously rumored "golden puffle", with it instead being a literal golden puffle statue.
** The Halloween party had a painting showcasing the iceberg being tipped.

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* OfferVoidInNebraska: The ''[[TheMagazineRule Club Penguin Magazine]]'' was available in most parts of Europe, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina, but '''not''' in North America.
** Also, there was an offer for free 1-month membership, which was ''again'' not available in North America.


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** Originally, some game devs were insistent on there being NoAntagonist because they wanted the game to be a perfectly safe place. However, this was changed when the PSA missions were developing, as by mission three the creative team felt like it was already getting hard to come up with obstacles without there being some sort of villain behind them.
*** Even when they introduced the unidentified white fur in episode four, they still weren't sure if they were going to add a villain. If the players reacted negatively to the missions hinting at an antagonist, then the plan was to reveal that the white fur was actually a white puffle. If this had been the case, this also would have been their debut, as white puffles weren't in the game yet. However, they didn't need to go that route as players were ''ecstatic'' over the idea of a villain.
*** There were also originally going to be ''three'' polar bear antagonists. However, they felt like that was too many characters, so they molded them all into the one character of Herbert P. Bear, along with giving him a sidekick, Klutzy.
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* WriterRevolt: In a video by artist and musician Chris Hendricks titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSxgjQpVCg 5 Things I Didn't Want in Club Penguin (but got in the game anyway)]]", he explained that the game's implementation of realistic hair was this. Chris was against this idea, feeling that it looks weird on the penguins and that it humanises them too much, in spite of hair being a popular fan request. The 'Clown Hair' wig was first implemented as a protest against this idea, before the Big Wigs catalog was introduced with three major conditions: The hairstyles would explicitly be named "wigs", they would look like wigs rather than natural hair, and a vote would be held in the newspaper as to whether the wigs should stay in the game. Eventually the pro-hair side won out, and more realistic-looking wigs were added down the road.

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