Characters / 
Locations / 
Items / [[File:{{{mapicon}}}|30px|link=]] [{{{maplink}}} Map] / 
Guide / 
TourFairy Tale Island is the 52nd island on Poptropica. It is a winner of the create your own dream island competition, made by Perfect Crab. It was released April 22nd, 2021 for everyone.
Quote[]
| “ | Enter Fairytale Island through Mainstreet, where you’ll soon encounter many familiar favorites from fairytale folklore (try saying that 5 times fast) and discover that several of the island’s residents need your help in reclaiming their happy ending. Make the most out of your visit and become the hero of your own tale! | ” |
| —Poptropica Tours | ||
Plot Summary[]
A mysterious figure has stolen everyone's happy endings, and you have to save them. Starting in the forest with Red, you navigate your way through while avoiding the wolf, into the cabin, where you find a lumberjack, and lure the wolf in so... he can eat the grandma and Red can date the lumberjack. The player character then suggests better ways to meet girls, and you move on to Cinderella, who needs to get up the hill to her ball. Along the way, you encounter slapping plants and cat-i-corns, as well as some cameos from characters like Ishmael from S.O.S Island. Once you get there, you find out Cinderella is a rocker nicknamed cinder, and you then move onto helping the Dwarves and Amelia wake up Snow White. You are asked to find a prince for snow to kiss, and there just happens to be one, but he needs you to talk to his dad "The King". He is then revealed to have goblin eyes and a goblin tail, and masqueraded as the king to steal the happy endings. He says he'll let them go if you guess his name, and then gives you some magic lipstick to wake up Snow. You tell Amelia about this, and she asks the dwarves what Snow loves. You click on these things, but to your surprise, she's kissed by a goat, and her true love was becoming a veterinarian all along. You are then whisked away to a room of gold, where you guess (and say) Rumpelstiltskin's name 3 times, and because of this he escapes. Amelia then hands you the Fairy Tale Island Medallion.
Rumpel's Challenge[]
In the side-quest (members only), on home island, Rumpelstiltskin appears. You’re (naturally) startled at the sight of a known villain hanging around as though he owns this place, and immediately call for Amelia to tie him up with a rope. But Rumpel doesn’t have time for your threats. He tells you that he knows where the real Fairy Tale king is imprisoned, and gives you a riddle, all for his amusement.
Accepting the side quest will cause Rumpel to vanish in a puff of purple smoke and a riddle appears. Now, time to find the king…
The instructions on the riddle point to Mythology Island; specifically, the Museum of Olympus with its statues of gods. Once inside the museum, you’ll find a second riddle hovering in front of Zeus’s statue; whose head has now been replaced by Rumpel’s. Pick up the second riddle. This riddle clearly references Time Tangled Island!
Open the time machine thing. Now click on the image of the Viking at 2 o’clock on the time device. You’ll be transported back to the year 831 AD. Climb up the rocks as high as you can go, past the cave. A third and final riddle will be waiting for you beneath another horrible stone bust of Rumpel.
Who else fits the description but the disheartened Fairy Tale prince himself! Follow the riddle to Fairy Tale Island and enter the castle area, where you’ll find the prince sitting on the flight of steps, continuing to lament the loss of his real father.
He’ll perk up when you share the clue with him. He knows what “golden troves” is referring to: the castle’s treasury! And luckily, he’s got a key.
Inside the treasury, jump up onto a platform at the far right, where a gate hides a small trove. Pulling the lever on the wall beside it will raise the gate and reveal a gold mermaid with — you guessed it — Rumpel’s head in place of the original.
Moving on from this cursed image… jump down from the platform on the opposite side, and descend the stairs onto a lower level. Pull the lever set into the side of the stairs, which will raise a gate up ahead. Go through it and jump all the way down. Here, you’ll find your path blocked by another gate; pull another lever on the wall just behind you to open it.
There’s a new challenge beyond this gate: a giant, snoozing dragon, guarding its treasure. To avoid waking it and activating its fire-breathing abilities, jump over the heaps of gold until you reach the opposite side of the scene. Whew!
Finally, you’ve reached what you came for. As you’ll see, there are six troves behind gates: three on a bottom floor, and three on a top floor. Each trove has a pink panel beneath it. And trapped behind the bottom middle gate is the king!
Upon seeing his father, the prince cries (at least this time it’s out of relief). His tears change the panel below him from pink to gray, and the adjacent gates surrounding the king’s cell will be lifted.
The key to freeing the king lies in the prince’s “fragile crybaby disposition,” to quote the king. In other words, you’re supposed to throw various insults at the prince to make him cry on the panels to activate the movement of the adjacent trove gates.
From what I can tell after multiple tries, the key to opening the king’s cell is to get all of the gates open at once. This can be done a number of ways, although the simplest order may be this: bottom middle (done automatically), bottom left, bottom right, top right, and top left.
Hurrah, you’ve freed the king! That’s all there is to this mystery, right?…Right?
Trivia[]
- Fairy Tale Island is the first non-episodic island without a common room.
- It is also the only island in which you do not collect any quest items (excluding the medallion, which does not appear in the items screen).
- There is a part two, as there are some cliffhangers (Rumpelstiltskin's escape and the return of the queen).
- Fairy Tale Island was designed by Perfect Crab. It was announced as a winner of Poptropica’s Design Your Dream Island Contest on December 28, 2020.
- Fairy Tale Island was released for all players on April 22, 2021.
- There is no common room and Quippy store on this island.
- You earn a total of 950 credits for completing the island (250 for each side quest, and 200 at the very end).
- The pigs on the main street are a reference to the Three Little Pigs fairytale. You can see them working together to build a house with straw, sticks (wood), and bricks, the materials from the original story.
- The “Break the Spell” side quest is inspired by the classic fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. In Poptropica’s version, it’s not a prince’s kiss that saves Snow White, but a goat, representing Snow White’s love for animals.
- The “Red Riding Food Delivery” side quest is inspired by the classic fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. In Poptropica’s version, Red delivers pizza for a customer, rather than for her grandmother. The big bad wolf also isn’t hungry for humans, but for pizza. Meanwhile, the huntsman in Poptropica’s retelling has some strange ideas on how to meet girls.
- The “Climb the Mountain” side quest is inspired by the classic fairytale Cinderella. In Poptropica’s version, Cinderella isn’t escaping an evil godmother nor racing a midnight curfew, but she is in a hurry to get to a ball, where she becomes Cinder, the punk rock star of the show. (“Cinder” also refers to partly burnt coal or wood, so the name is fitting here.)
- The island’s villain, Rumpelstiltskin, is inspired by titular character of the classic fairytale Rumpelstiltskin (with e and l mixed up in Poptropica’s spelling). In Poptropica’s version, there is no spinning of straw into gold, but we do have to guess at his name.
- On September 23, 2021, Poptropica released a follow-up, Rumpel’s Challenge, for members only. It was released to all on July 13, 2022. The side quest corrects the spelling of the villain’s name to Rumpelstiltskin as in the aforementioned classic fairytale.
- Amelia Earhart from Home Island appears in front of the palace and is involved with the story.
- High Road, the name of the mountain, refers to the saying of “taking the high road,” meaning to choose the morally better path.
- The mountain includes cameos from other Poptropica places: a Grapple-Pap cart from the Grapple-Gift side quest, the cart in the mud styled after the Adventure Outfitters store on Home Island, and the boy on that cart resembling Ishmael from S.O.S. Island (who also appears occasionally on Home Island to promote the arcade).
- The cat-i-corns on the mountain are a blend of cats and unicorns, hence the name.
- Shrink Ray Island, Home Island, Fairy Tale Island, Goofball Island, and Jade Scarab Island are the only islands with new animations.
Gallery[]
Web Archive[]
 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
