Friday, July 29, 2016

Blast to the Past - Water Parties

Hello penguins! Today I will be talking about some of the most popular parties in history, the Water Parties. If you weren't at the Water Party, continue reading for the necessary information. So let's get started!
In July 2007, one of the crabs behind the glass in the Underground Pool began to tap on a window. This crab mistakenly cracked the glass, and water started leaking into the cave. Penguins decided that a Water Party was a fun idea; this was the beginning of the very first Water Party. After that, Gary patched the glass and all was well.

In Summer 2008, due to positive reviews, Club Penguin encored the Water Party. At this second Water Party, the Mine was transformed into a museum displaying the story of the mishaps starting the first Water Party.

In August 2009, the entire island was lifted out of the water so Gary the Gadget Guy could permanently fix the windows in the Underground Pool, therefore putting an end to the Water Party, once and for all.

I really enjoyed sharing this fact, and I hope you enjoyed reading it. I post them somewhat often, so be sure to check this site often if you enjoy them. Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for the images and the .SWFs.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The First Purple Puffle

Hello penguins! Today I'll be talking about the first purple puffle shown in the game. You may be surprised of where it came from, so I feel I should begin talking about it as soon as possible. So let us begin!


That's right, the first purple puffle appeared in the first PSA Mission, the Case of the Missing Puffles on June 30th, 2006, while the purple puffle was first available for adoption on August 25th of that year. This purple puffle belongs to Aunt Arctic, and is named Scone. In this mission, Aunt Arctic's puffles, Cornelius the green puffle and the aforementioned Scone go missing and it's the character's job to find them. At the end, the puffles are found located snapping pictures atop the Tallest Mountain (also known as Mount Tallest).


I found this fact quite interesting, and I hope you do, too. If you like to read about interesting facts such as this, please return soon. Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for this interesting fact. Go check out that site.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Club Penguin Customs - Submarine Party Forts

Hello penguins! Since my last installment of Club Penguin Customs had only four rooms in it, I decided to make yet another post with another room that I've been working on - the Submarine Party's Snow Forts.


The very first thing I did was I added the stone fort. Since cropping it was a bit annoying, I decided to hold on the second fort and recolor the clock tower. After that, I decided to add some starfish to the outside of the clock tower for decoration. Finally, I cropped out the old wooden wreck fort and placed it in its designated spot.

As you can see, the fluffies from the top of the Clock Tower sign have gone missing. That was intentional. this room is unfinished. All I have to do is add a few pieces of coral and that fish and I'll be finished, so check the forums for when that happens, or if you wait a bit after that you can read about it here, on Club Penguin Secrets. Goodbye!

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Club Penguin Customs - Puffle Party (Part 2)

Hello penguins!

I am aware that today I was supposed to showcase another installment in Epic Igloos, but since I haven't seen many interesting igloos lately, that will be released next week. Until then, let me now show you the next few rooms in my expanded Puffle Party.

It's time to begin.

So this first room is the Clothes Shop, which I have decided is the Unicorn Puffles' domain at this party. I changed the regular yellow puffle carpet in the lobby into a Yellow Unicorn, and then, since I didn't like that much, I changed it into a Black Unicorn. I intentionally made the horn, hair, and tail small, for stylistic choice. I added a Black Unicorn Puffle on the chair in the lobby. Next, I added a Black Unicorn potion in the pet bed next to said chair. The  coffee table had a magazine with a yellow puffle on it, so I changed that yellow puffle to a yellow unicorn puffle. The dish on the shampoo shelf in the lobby has been changed from purple to yellow. I also added a yellow o'berry on the desk, resting against the pencil cup. I placed two more yellow unicorn puffles on the resting sofa and on top of the crown. A white unicorn puffle is modelling for the cameras. Clicking one of said cameras will result in earning a background featuring a white unicorn puffle. A white unicorn potion has been placed next to the camera. The painting above the resting sofa has been modified, so to change the puffles featured into two breeds of the unicorn puffle.

This is my version of the Snow Forts. I originally was planning on ripping all of the forts from the Puffle Party 2012 and placing them here, but then I decided against it. Instead, I divided the puffle types into teams. As you can see, the first team, the red team, consists of the black, red, brown, rainbow, purple, and blue puffles. The rainbow puffle is a recolored version of the brown puffle from the Snow Forts at the Puffle Party 2012. Therefore, the blue team consists of the pin, yellow, white, gold, orange, and green puffles. The Gold Puffle is a recoloring of a white puffle shown in the Mine during the Puffle Party 2010. I also placed a random Blue Puffle on the log to spectate. The top of the clock tower's sign, which previously featured two fluffies, now showcases an O'Berry and a Rainbow Berry. The Blue Puffle on the Puffle Feeding sign is secretly a pin, but it shines when moused over it (similar to secrets in catalogs such as the Penguin Style catalog).


I didn't do much to the Puffle Feeding area. First of all, I replaced the white ground that the penguins walk on with gray snow from the Ski Village. I then added shadows to objects such as the fence, rocks, and O'Berry bushes. One of the holes had a graphical glitch, so I fixed it.

And now, the final room in the set, the Puffle Show. First of all, I fixed a graphical glitch on the Free sign. Next, I replaced the bland text at the Start and Finish lines with hand-drawn words to make it look more authentic. I then removed the bleachers and added more floorboards there. Since the bleachers covered up some of the sides of the Snacks booth and the Photo shoot, I had to fix the sides of those places. I added an exclamation point to the Applause button. I took the outside view from the Pet Shop and then updated the graphics. That was set as the path to the Puffle Wild. One weird thing about that view, though, is that it looks like a white sky from this perspective. I might fix that in future updates to my Puffle Party.

I hope you enjoyed the second part of my customized Puffle Party. Part 3 should be finished in September, but with my current production speed, it might not be done until January. But whenever it comes out, I hope you enjoy it. Goodbye!

All customs will be posted early on clubpenguincustoms.com/forum.

All elements are either hand-drawn or come from the Club Penguin Wiki.

Friday, July 15, 2016

Descendants Party Review

Hello penguins! Today I will be discussing the controversial Descendants Party of September 2015. So without further ado, let us now commence with the analysis.


As for the rooms, there are only 3 decorated rooms and no special party rooms. So for Club Penguin, this isn't good. This will probably be a short section.

The Mine Shack is a boring room. The exterior to Aurodon Prep looks too much to a castle and too little like an actual school. Aside from that, the paths to the Dojo Courtyard and the Skatepark aren't very easy to see, and the entrance to the Mine feels like a joke, being a mere trap door created using the wood from the regular Mine building. I've seen the grass before in the Puffle Park and the Water Party; but this grass looks as if it is meant to be real, whereas the grass in the Puffle Park is astroturf and the grass seen in the Water Party is sod. One cool thing about it, though, is that the statue changes every couple minutes into something cool.

The School is alright. It looks how I imagine a fancy school would. I enjoy the study room quite a lot. It doesn't feel too crowded, much unlike the cafeteria in the regular School. The classroom is not nearly as good; It is very typical, and it has some obnoxious square-patterned stained-glass windows. Not to mention a few graphical bugs.
This chair has no seat. I suppose this student will have to stand.
The Iceberg is, by far, the best room in this party. It has a dark sky, some nice building designs featuring some interesting things painted on the wall. In the distance, a small array of small ice chunks can be seen floating in the water, which is really cool. The Aqua Grabber is placed in a spot that is convenient, and it doesn't feel like it's there because it has to be; instead it feels like it was placed there because that was the most natural location for it. One note, though, is that the clotheslines have pants that penguins are unable to wear, due to them not having legs.

3 rooms for a party seems really lazy. It is slightly understandable with the current art team of 2 people, with them also having to design catalogs and such, but at the time, Club Penguin had a larger art team and they made what is, to this day, the smallest official party of the 2010s. It wouldn't hurt to decorate the Mine and the Forest. The Mine hasn't been decorated at all since it was redesigned in 2013, and I was really hoping that it would be decorated for this party. Unfortunately, that's a bunch of lost potential.


This party had some very interesting music choices. At this party, every single decorated room had different music.

The first track, 954, which played at the Iceberg, is not good. It sounds like dubstep (of which I am not a fan), but attempting to be a cheap pop music instrumental. Another thing that's not helping is that you could lay the vocals from Kesha - Cannibal on top of Track 954 and it would fit quite well.

The second track, 955, which played at the Mine Shack, is quite bland. It sounds as if it's heard in the background of all school movies (Lemonade Mouth, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Monsters University, etc.). It's nothing special. As I type this sentence, I have been listening to this track for a mere 4 minutes and I have already grown tired of such monotonous music.

The third track,  956, which played at the School, is out of place, but mediocre otherwise. It starts off sounding like it was directly pulled from the Teen Beach Movie soundtrack, and then quickly gets all cheery and such. Trumpets start playing, and penguins begin to cheer in the background. The first point that I would like to make is that I do not like the cheering. If I wanted to hear obnoxious noises from others when they weren't necessary, I would spend more time with my siblings. The next topic is that this song is way too cheery for a school. When I enter school, I usually think, "The next 7 hours are going to be boring." I have never walked into school on a regular day and thought, "What a glorious day this is, that I get to continue my education!" Happy songs like this do not belong in a school, much less a quiet school such as this.

Also, apparently the Town Center had different music for this party, but it sounds identical to the regular Town Center music.


The costumes are plentiful, but mostly forgettable. I originally thought there were only 4 character costumes (because there were 4 characters on the login screen), but it turns out that there were 6 characters. I only know 2, though, those 2 being Mal and the son of Cruella De Ville.

The head items are so bland that only 2 of the 6 look like parts of costumes. The rest appear as if they come from the Penguin Style in 2013.
If I didn't look it up, I wouldn't know if the hair in the bottom-right corner is from a costume, or if it is the one in the top-right.
The feet items available are all boots. None are particularly special, with the exception that one set is blue. I am aware that in the movie (that I didn't watch), the characters most likely wore boots, but they look so generic that they could've used previous feet items instead.
Remember that the artists couldn't make more party rooms because of these bland items.
But don't forget, there were non-member items available in the interface. Most of them are forgettable. The first 4 are variants on things we already had. The only things I could find use for were the last 2 non-member items, with one of them being a literal stick.
Since when do dogs exist in the Club Penguin universe?


This party has very little playability. This party was marketed as a party of imagination, but to do that, we need to be given the material to do so; at this party, we were not given that.

The Mine Shack had no playability at all. This room would be completely useless if it didn't have the path to the Iceberg.

The school has very little playability; the only thing I found to do at the school is taking part in class. Penguins could potentially have conversations with others in the study room or the hallway, but that can barely be considered as playability.

The Iceberg has a few things to play with. First off, there is a child's wagon that could be used for sitting in, if the need arises. Featured also is a big building with 2 stories and a balcony, with open doors to allow penguins to see into the second floor. There are other buildings that are less beneficial to playing and storytelling. Not only are there things to enjoy on the Iceberg, but there is also a pier extending to the Northeast, possibly to go fishing on. This is positively the best room for playability at this party.

This party has no story whatsoever, which is a shame, for a decent story may have saved this party from such an unpleasant rating.

This party was not good. It had lackluster rooms, annoying music, unmemorable items, and little-to-nothing to do. On the other hand, the Iceberg was nice to look at and had things there that could occupy me for at least 3 minutes. This party gets a 2/10. Goodbye!

I would like to thank the great people at the Club Penguin Wiki (especially the Wiki Archives) for information and use of .swf files for analysis. I could not have made this review without these sites.

Sunday, July 3, 2016

The Statue

A fun little secret about the Mine Shack from the Descendants Party is the statue. Every few minutes, it would morph. If it was a penguin, it would transform into a beast. If it was a beast, it would transform into a king penguin. The king is most likely a character in an old Disney princess movie, and the beast is a reference to the beast from Beauty and the Beast. It morphs similar to metal melting, being reformed, and hardening again without any metalsmithing. It's really cool. If you would like to see it morph, you might want to check out the .SWF file.
The king penguin

The beast
Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for information. Goodbye!