I played and ranked EVERY Poptropica Island so you don’t have to…

I spent the entirety of December playing ALL 51 islands in Poptropica history to rank on a Tier List for you!

A lot of these islands are hard to find these days so this is the perfect video to watch if you’re feeling nostalgic for this browser game from your childhood!

Do the islands hold up as time goes on? Or will the new islands struggle to compete with the early classics?

I'm also extremely curious which island is your favorite? I've seen a crazy amount of different answers, so I wanna see some more!

I really appreciate any support on this video, it took a ton of work. If you liked it PLEASE like the video, it would mean a lot! Let me know what else I should rank.

but it was copyrighted... I'm really sad because that's quite possibly the best intro music I've ever heard.

Timeline:
0:00 What's Poptropica?
1:16 Island Naming
3:02 Early Poptropica Island
4:00 Shark Tooth Island
4:37 Time Tangled Island
5:28 24 Carrot Island
7:00 Super Power Island
8:16 Spy Island
9:17 Nabooti Island
10:21 Big Nate Island
11:32 Astro Knights Island
14:24 Counterfeit Island
15:52 Reality TV Island
17:19 Mythology Island
18:10 Skullduggery Island
19:51 Steamworks Island
20:43 Great Pumpkin Island
21:26 Cryptids Island
23:17 Wild West Island
24:41 Wimpy Wonderland Island
25:43 Red Dragon Island
26:56 Shrink Ray Island
28:39 Mystery Train Island
30:05 Game Show Island
31:27 Ghost Story Island
32:26 S.O.S Island
33:21 Vampire's Curse Island
34:39 Halfway There!
34:59 Twisted Thicket
35:51 Poptropolis Games Island
36:33 Wimpy Boardwalk
37:15 Lunar Colony Island
38:19 Super Villain Island
40:31 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Island
41:11 Zomberry Island
42:21 Night Watch Island
43:24 Back Lot Island
44:21 Virus Hunter Island
45:45 Mocktropica Island
47:04 Monster Carnival Island
48:04 Survival Island
50:27 Mission Atlantis Island
51:20 PoptropiCon Island
52:41 Arabian Nights Island
53:48 Galactic Hot Dogs Island
54:48 Mystery of the Map Island
55:26 Timmy Failure Island
56:05 Escape from Pelican Rock Island
56:50 Monkey Wrench Island
57:54 Snagglemast island
58:25 Reality TV: Wild Safari Island
59:04 Fairy Tale Island
1:00:07 Goofball Island
1:00:46 Jade Scarab Island
1:01:40 Reflecting on our Journey
1:03:36 Final Rankings

[heyytori]

so so good. i remember ghost story island scared me so bad because—in this SOUNDLESS GAME—suddenly i’m looking through a telescope and i hear a WOMANS VOICE COME THROUGH MY SPEAKERS. needless to say child me was so freaked out. 10/10 island.

[yahoojojo]

I remember being absolutely mindblown when Counterfeit Island made you go to a different island to talk to someone, that seemed completely out of the box for their independent islands design.

[xLuannaSims]

This is insane. Poptropica was definitely a STAPLE in the computer lab. I think the last island that I remember playing was the superhero island? I feel like I “aged out” of the love of it. My favorite island was the super spy one too!

[annamoore]

The Cryptid Island terrified me as a kid because of the Jersey Devil. When it appeared, I screamed and force quit the game. I was absolutely convinced that the Jersey Devil was going to be outside my bedroom window despite me living in Arizona. I was traumatized!

[steventhefan]

I remember never progressing past Super Power Island because once my character could fly I thought what more could I want, and starting the next island without the power made me upset so I’d never leave.

[yuvale]

This days Poptropica greatest failure is being a phone app instead full blown steam game where each island is a playable full on game (and you can definitely remove some of the islands and make a big islands.
That way the money will be more investment to the game

[donut]

Fun fact: Arabian Knights was actually a fan-made Poptropica island! People were able to submit their designs and ideas to Poptropica using these “Create Your Own Island” books!

[mallk]

Interesting to note about poptropolis games: it was a special island in that it wasn't always available to play. It would "rise from the sea" for a short amount of time before "returning to the depths" I think it was supposed to be a once a year thing. but yeah

[thrat]

mythology island is always my favorite, when you actually care about greek mythology and can notice the references, same with the astro knights and the arthurian references... poptropica is super fun with reinventing existing stories
also i genuinely fucking hate shrink ray island and i remember how much i hated having to try to escape and i spent several hours on it by just going to the shop and procrastinating😭

[avie]

Seeing the Jersey Devil jumpscare for the first time was SO SCARY as a kid I’m still traumatized

[daysnosleep]

Poptropica will always have a special place in my heart. I still occasionally use the account I created when I was 7 years old. I especially remember how nearly all of the islands were too difficult for me to understand so I’d literally just watch Thinknoodles walkthroughs for every single island 😭😂

[KatieZeldaKat]

Skullduggery Island was one where younger me was so proud of defeating the final boss using only the second best ship rather than the full best ship.

It just felt so cool that the boss wasn't restricted to having the best gear, and it allowed you to challenge yourself by being more tiny.

[themudkipninja]

The Marie Curie puzzle on shrink ray island can be found by turning on the hot water in the bathroom; the code’s written on the steamed mirror. Years later I still haven’t forgotten the absurd difficulty of that island..

[knocktimes]

I was really upset about the old islands not being playable anymore.. they were truly unmatched. Maybe one day I will download flashpoint and relive my childhood once more. I remember being really bad at Spy island because I never wanted to look up guides LOL. At the time, some of the islands were member locked as well, so I didn't get to fully experience some islands like Wimpy Kid. I think one of the moments I remember most was being mind blown at Fiona's song in Ghost Story Island, because of both the sound and getting to play the violin. To this day I still remember the melody😹This video deserves more attention, I'm glad you made it!

[liesebeam]

I believe survival island is based on the story "The Most Dangerous Game". I think its an awesome concept for a poptropica island and im pleasantly suprised they went for it

[saraharebalos]

Pop tropical was such a huge part of my childhood. I remember playing counterfeit island for the first time with my sister on our 13th birthday. It introduced her to art history and restoration. Now she has a bachelors in art history and is going to graduate school this summer for archival studies. Literally introduced her to her dream job!

[Srofvid]

On the vampire island, when the count is defeated and dies, seeing how his ashes form his image next to his long lost wife on the portrait, really had 9 year old me crying

[AJ-pgje]

time tangled was my absolute favorite. was shocked by how many others i remembered playing once they were described

[danielle]

I enjoyed poptropica so much as a kid. I assume the reason why the islands got easier as they went along was to make it more accessible to children? Because I remember not being able to finish some islands without the help of ThinkNoodles in elementary school.. still, I wish they had stuck with their original complexity, especially since their audience was aging anyway. My favorite islands growing up were Cryptids & Ghost Story. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video, it was all super nostalgic for me :)

[Emily-zgtf]

Justice for shrink ray island, definitely started up the nostalgia