Goofball Island is the 53rd island on Poptropica. It is the winner of the Design Your Dream Island Contest, made by Thirsty Flame.
Plot Summary[]
Goofball Island is the adventure of trying to track down Dr. Blandston, who is turning the colorful island of goofball island into boring grays and turns all the swirly colorful things that make Goofball Goofball, into normal, gray, and straight things that are very boring. You need to find out who this Dr. Blandston really is to stop the entire vibrant city to turn into a place with hardly any character at all. A fun island, full of plot twists and mysteries, but if your not careful the whole island will become a gray, dreary place.
Walkthrough[]
When you get inside the island, you'll be in front of the city hall. Go to the colorful man with the top hat (Mayor Naise) and the black and white woman (Detective Anna Gram) next to you. It will go through a conversation, saying that Dr. Blandston made most of the people in the island bland. As said by the mayor, Dr. Blandston wears a surgeon outfit. After that, you'll automatically get inside the city hall.
After the conversation ends, go to the top floor then go to the desk in the middle. Grab the device and the matchbook in front of the desk, then get back to detective Gram. She'll give you a suspect files, and will tell you to take thumb prints of 4 citizens. First, talk to the mayor. He'll give you his thumb print right away. And then, go back to the top floor, and talk to the man with glasses (Jumpy Spinner). He'll ask you 3 questions before giving his thumb prints. The answers are: 1600s, Emperor Thirsty Flame III, and Xavier. After proving that you know about the island, he'll give you his thumb print.
Get outside from the city hall, then go to Goofside. Click on the piñata. Equip the piñata costume and put it on (required to get inside Crazy Club). Talk to the giant monster (Bosko Oksob). Choose either option, and you'll get the third thumb print. Go inside Crazy Club, and talk to the guy with the upside-down head on his crotch (Bobby Bill). He'll challenge you to a dance battle. The minigame is quite simple, you just need to follow his moves. The numbers below blinks, and you need to repeat the sequence as the same order. Do it 5 times, and Dr. Blandston appears behind Bobby. He zaps him, making him black and white and bland. Bobby will finally give his thumb print, and now you need to chase Dr. Blandston. Just go up the ladder on your right, and go left until you're close to the doctor. The floor under him will break, making him unconscious. You open his mask, revealing he's the mayor!
Go left until you meet Bosko. Another Dr. Blandston will appear behind him, making Bosko classy and black and white. He'll give you a leaf blower. You and the mayor then walk left to Dullsville and go to Detective Gram's apartment. Her arm has turned goofy, and she tells you that Dr. Blandston makes her arm goofy. She then gives you the dust, and tells you to dust the door handle to look for the Dr's thumb print. Click on the door. Then, click and hold the door handle. Then choose the middle thumb print on the right row. Huh, it's Detective Gram's thumb print? She later escapes through the window.
Follow her out of the window, and in to the subway. Go right, then go inside the tunnel. Go to the right, then go down the hole in the dentist's office. Go left, drop down, go right, and you'll see a writing. The mayor will tell that the bland and the goofy was once balanced. Go right, and pick up the crystal. You'll automatically put it inside the device. Drop down, then go to the machine in the middle. Use the leaf blower, then it will reveal Detective Gram looking more goofy. She'll later tries to zap you. It cuts to a minigame.
Using the device, try to find Detective Gram behind one of the gravestones using the dialogue that appears. Follow where the dialogue appears. And if the dialogue is on top of one gravestone, then Detective Gram is behind that gravestone. Wait until she appears, then zap her using your device. Do it 5 times, then she will drop to the ground.
The detective, a little bit goofy, tells the player to dust the device. Just click and hold a little bit above the trigger until you saw 2 fingerprints. Match those 2 fingerprints with the bottom right one. Wait, isn't that your fingerprint? Detective Gram said you should think harder, as a flashback plays. You're Dr. Blandston?
The mayor tells you that you need to use the device once again to free the island. You have 3 options to choose: Goofy, balanced, and bland. Choose either of them (it affects your ending!).
Congratulations! The island is saved, and you got your medallion from the mayor.
Blitz on the Fritz Side Quest[]
Trivia[]
- Goofball Island is the first island where you can choose what the ending is (you choose the ending when you pick either bland, goofy, or balanced).
- It is also the third island to be originated from the Dream Island contest winner.
- Anna Gram's name is actually a play on words/pun of anagram, which means a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another.
- Its creator, Thirsty Flame is referenced in the island as Emperor Thirsty Flame lll the founder of Goofball Island.
- Van Nostrand from Escape from Pelican Rock Island is also referenced when you talk to the bland woman on the middle floor.
- Hive news is on all endings.
- Goofball Island was designed by a player named Thirsty Flame. It was announced as a winner of Poptropica’s Design Your Dream Island Contest on January 7, 2021
- Goofball Island was released to all on November 18, 2021.
- The Blitz on the Fritz side quest was released for members on January 11, 2022.
- There is no common room and Quippy store on this island.
- Emperor Thirsty Flame III is named after Thirsty Flame, the player who designed Goofball Island. You can read about the design process in this interview, where he mentions, among other things, how Bosko may be named after one of his original characters.
- Mayor Naise is a pun on the word mayonnaise.
- The bland lady on the second floor of City Hall mentions a pop artist named Lichtenstoon who created the painting of hangers in her office. This may be a reference to Roy Lichtenstein, a leading figure in the 1960s pop art movement whose work is more likely to fit in with the goofy side of City Hall. According to her, Lichtenstoon was born near Pelican Rock. She also references Van Nostrand, the painter from Escape From Pelican Rock Island.
- Lichtenstoon is said to have painted “The Flying Girl,” which may be a reference to Roy Lichtenstein’s “Drowning Girl.”
- The bland lady goes on to say she once went on a field trip to another island to go to its art museum, which parallels a storyline from old Poptropica: in Counterfeit Island, players travel to Early Poptropica Island to visit the art museum there.
- The bland lady’s casual referencing of two classmates’ names, Timmy Jenkins and Speedy Runner, suggests that it is commonly accepted that some Poptropicans have real world names while others have Poptropican player names.
- As revealed in a book in the mayor’s office called A Brief History of Goofball Island by Gray Bird, the original name of the island was Otimbo Island.
- The book also reveals more about Xavier from Home Island: as part of the Adventurers’ League, he discovered and renamed Goofball Island in 1976. It is also the first time we see his full name, Xavier Pendragon, which itself is the name of a character from the video game Eternal Champions.
- According to Jumpy Spinner, while the island was founded in 1647 by Emperor Thirsty Flame, the Native peoples date as far back as 1,000 years before them.
- A blandified citizen in City Hall (who is being held by goofy citizens) mentions that he is looking forward to streaming a Bucky Lucas biography, referencing a character from the original Reality TV Island.
- According to the Suspect Files, the player character is 4.3 feet tall and weights 350 pounds. Those are some zany proportions.
- The collecting of thumb prints in this island’s storyline points towards the idea that Poptropicans do have fingers, despite their ball-shaped hands.
- Bosko’s last name, Oksob, is his first name backwards.
- Above the Crazy Club, you can find a strange, bored-looking bird flying, and hop on its big body for a brief ride.
- Regular Dan’s name is a pun on two facts: that he’s the Crazy Club’s only regular (frequent visitor), and that he is now a blandified character. (In his goofier days, he was known as Irregular Dan.)
- The Dusty Crust Bakery has a sign saying their bread is made with gray-n, which must be some especially gray grain. You can order their gray bread and munch on it with the space bar.
- Dullsville is reminiscent of film noir, a cinematic genre associated with black-and-white visuals, low-key lighting, and crime dramas. The visuals on this side of town even flicker with old-school film effects.
- The letters behind the name Dr. Gramston DDS stand for Doctor of Dental Surgery, representing her title as a dentist.
- This is the first time in Poptropica that music adjusts itself within a scene: when you’re on the bland side, the music slips into softness, and when you’re on the goofy side, it gets loud and vibrant.
- The illegible inscriptions you find in the crystal cave are also seen in a cave in the Baron’s Crusade Side Quest.
- Shrink Ray Island, Home Island, Fairy Tale Island, Goofball Island, and Jade Scarab Island are the only islands with new animations.
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Bland Ending[]
Goof Ending[]
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