Halloween Party 2016 Critique

Hello penguins! Last year, I introduced my party critiques by discussing the Halloween Party 2015. This year, I will go into more depth and discuss different elements that changed this year. So let's begin!


The art is pretty good. My favorite room has to be the Ski Lodge. The pumpkins are placed in locations that feel good, almost strategic. The hanging lights and the fish skeleton are really cool graphics, and the Ski Lodge just looks magnificent in the dark.

Another favorite of mine is the Dance Club. The pumpkins look really cool, especially the Astro-Barrier pumpkin by the stairwell. The candelabras are interesting, and the large pumpkin by SoundStudio is very detailed. The tiles behind the large pumpkin have great coloring.

The amazing art doesn't come without a few issues, though. For example, the pumpkin next to the Lighthouse door has a few issues. The shadow erases part of the doormat, and the right side of this Jack-o-Lantern appears to be in front of the support beam when it really should be behind it. This issue has been present at every Halloween Party since 2011, but every year it goes unchanged, and every year I lose my patience just a bit more.

Another glitch is the Pizza Parlor glitch. This problem presents the pumpkins behind the counter instead of atop it in the Pizza Parlor.

This clearly wasn't intentional, because the .SWF file didn't have this issue.

It's just the actual display in the game that's off.


The Halloween Party often has some of the best music, so let's examine what is on the table this year.

The main theme for this party is 1035. It is a remaster of a track from the Halloween Party 2008 titled Under the Cover of the Storm. It is a great song to listen to; I love it. It even includes a triangle.

The track 1055 is a remaster of an older song called Halloween Jam. It features some great instrumentation from the piano and the violin, and the background of the track even includes a triangle and sandpaper. At one point, all of the instruments cut out and all that's heard is the sound of thunder. It's really fun to listen to.

My favorite song from the party is 1036. The only instruments I can recognize are an 808 drum and possibly a harp, but trust me, it's really good. The last track fit really well with the Nightclub from the Halloween Party 2007, but this one fits best with the flashier, bigger, more animated and interactive Nightclub from recent Halloween Parties.

The Nightclub from the Halloween Party 2007

The Pizza Parlor track, 1033, is also an entertaining tune. It is basically a looping instrumental of Gotta Get the Gotcha from Halloween Panic. My favorite part is when the piano starts to play, just before the hook. The main part of the song, the chorus, is essentially a remix of random voice samples to a tune. It's wonderful. I would say this is a wonderful Club Penguin track, but sadly, this song was not made by Club Penguin. It appeared in a YouTube video by Thomas Ridgewell in 2014. I will not name it here, but if you ask me by clicking this link and sending me a tweet, I will tell you.

The Mine Shack's theme (1041) is alright. The only instrument it is an organ, which would be okay if the song didn't have a bunch of sound effects in it, but since it's still very spooky and interesting to listen to, I don't mind it too much.


Since most of the rooms are the same as they were last year, there isn't much to say here; but I'll try.

Transformations from 2012 and 2013 returned, including three zombies, three vampires, three werewolves, and a new ghost that has not been seen before. They are all very cool, but unfortunately, they are completely randomized with no way of choosing which creature or color you mutate into. The system is flawed, but still enjoyable and interesting.

Just like they did in 2015, the tube tables at the Dance Lounge have returned as well. I think these are quite neat, and I would not mind seeing them used yet again in the near future.



Aside from that, penguins with the Miner's Helmet or Hard Hat can turn the Iceberg into a Jack-o-Lantern. This is a good deal more fun with friends, for it takes longer to achieve this alone.

But aside from all of that, the main quest is a new scavenger hunt. This quest is quite basic, just requiring the player to find and collect all three of a specific variant of spectral sweet hidden in a room. There are sweets of other colors in order to confuse you, though, so beware.

This quest is very simple and doesn't provide me with a decent amount of content. Another thing is, unlike trick-or-treating or the hotel quests from former Halloween Parties, these cannot be redone at any point; but other than that, these quests are harmless. I tend to overlook them.


The story here is quite simple. Spectral sweets have appeared all over the island, and it is your duty to collect them all to provide a power source for the aforementioned Monster Maker 3000, located at the Beach. I see no problem with this, but I wish the team had explained us why these candies had been placed where they were.


This Halloween Party was great. I can't say it's as great as good as 2015, but it is a lot more enjoyable than the 2014 Halloween Party. It involved great returning elements and decorations, some new and old music, and some exellent activities. This Halloween Party ranks in as an 8/10. Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki, the Club Penguin Wiki Archives, and Pokebub for information and assets.

If for whatever reason you want to read the unedited version with typographical and factual errors, please, be my guest. Click here to read it.

Club Penguin Customs - Puffle Party (Vol. 3)

Hello penguins! Today I will be unveiling something amazing, and you will never guess what it is, unless you cheated and looked at the title of this post. I will be displaying four new rooms for my fully customized Puffle Party! Yay! So let's begin, shall we?

So let's begin with the room I changed the least, the Coffee Shop. For the Coffee Shop, I used the Puffle Party 2015 variant. All I did was remove the Club Penguin Times sign above the Book Room stairs. After all, the Book Room doesn't hold the newspaper office at this party. See Vol. 1 for images of the Book Room. I also tried to change the archway to blue, but that didn't turn out well.

This is an update to the Pizza Parlor. You may be thinking, "But Icystorm 9, you already showcased the Pizza Parlor in Club Penguin Customs - Volume One! Why would you showcase it again?" Well, hear me out. This one is a lot better than the other one. The flaming puffle on the giant Hot Sauce bottle has shading added to match the shading already present before, and the red puffle next to it has been rescaled to be the same size as the other puffles. The menu on thecounter is a different color, having been changed from green to pink. The tables in the center of the room have been slightly changed, color-wise. A Jolly Roger flag has been placed on the left side of the pizza oven. I recolored the lightbulb and the shading by the pedestal, and set a small surfboard on the front. The balloons have been updated to fit more, since I erased some of the white on them. The red puffle atop the piano has been fixed so the layers follow physics. Most importantly, I have added a box of free Puffle Bandanas in front of the piano.

This is my version of the Plaza. I updated the ground to have snow instead of the yellow mats. I recolored all of the ground (while messing with the Puffle Park archway by accident) and made it gray. I edited the shading of the sidewalk just a bit as well. Finally, I added the puffle design in the snow from the Puffle Party 2012 (with a bit of recoloring, of course).

The Mall is definitely my favorite out of Volume Three. The first thing I did was I removed the snack cart sitting atop the escalator, and instead placed a matte painting of a yellow puffle painting on the wall. I then added the lights shining upon it from above, giving certain parts of it a lighter tint than others. Next, I changed the costume shop sign to have a happy puffle, as well as a nervous white puffle, whereas before the puffles were uncolored. I cropped in the tower seen at the stage in the Puffle Party 2009 Lighthouse, and enlarged it. Since the puffle was enlarged with the tower, I edited the princess puffle out and replaced it with a new puffle of the correct size. After that, I placed the stump down. I thought that the yellow puffle paintings should be included, so I placed them for free (backgrounds) by the doorway. I placed a crown atop the head of the mannequin in the clothing store, and added a sculpture of the Modern Art next to the cash register, as well as placing a snow sculpture of the Super Puffle next to the downward escalator. I recolored the paint can yellow in the Anvils + More shop window, as well as turning the cash register yellow. The entire Fragile Things, Inc. store has been removed and has since been replaced by a puffle painter, who paints your character. The Fragile Things, Inc. sign has been replaced by a sign displaying a paint set. To the right of the paint stand, the play director sits. This puffle directs the play occurring on the main floor. The puffles on the costume trunk have all been colored yellow. I recolored one of the hoodies in the bottom-left corner yellow and did the same with the Costume Trunk catalog icon. Finally, I placed a fish burger on the cutting board in the food court because my brother told me to do so.

This was definitely one of my favorite sets to make, especially the Mall and Pizza Parlor, which took 12 or more hours total between the 2 of them, not including updates I made for Vol. 1. I hope you enjoyed this set of customs. What room should I make next? Goodbye!

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

Stars and Celebrities

Hello penguins! This post will teach you about a party with quite a few special guests that attended. Enjoy!

With the exception of the Music Jams having the Cadence and the Penguin Band, most parties only have one famous Club Penguin character visiting. In 2013, the Hollywood Party began, and oddly, four different characters were waddling around at this party. This party saw Gary, Aunt Arctic, Cadence, and Sensei available at meetups and similar events.

So what do you think of this move? Did you meet any of the mascots that the Hollywood Party? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for images and information.

Casa Fiesta! The Musical

Hello penguins! Today I will be telling you about an old song that appears as if nobody remembers its existence.

In 2008, Club Penguin decided to make a new theme song for the returning Winter Fiesta party. This led to the creation of 229. 229 is most well known today as the Ski Village music from the 10th Anniversary Party, but that track was actually not played in that during the Music Jam 2011. The real song that played is titled 292, and is actually a bit creepy in parts. Listen to it by clicking the song ID or by clicking the following link:

This is the link.

Do you like the song 292? Between that and 229, which one do you prefer? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki Archives for use of music files.

Cancelling Construction

Hello penguins! Today I will be telling you all about a weird construction project that occurred earlier in Club Penguin's history. So let's begin!

In March of 2009, the fourth annual St. Patrick's Day Party was coming up, and as Club Penguin does every once in a while, a few locations were updated with objects used while setting up the party, such as construction equipment and paint cans. These objects were present in three rooms: the Ski Village, the Forest, and most oddly the Cove.

The Cove having construction is especially weird because the Cove was not decorated for the St. Patrick's Day Party of that year. Once the party started, it was reverted back to its regular state. Nobody is sure as to why this why this happened, and has since remained a mystery.

I hope you enjoy this fact! Why do you think there was construction at the Cove? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for information and images.

Rockhopper's Adventure Party Background

Hello penguins! I will now display a fun fact about some of Rockhopper's older backgrounds released specifically for the Adventure Parties.

In 2009, the team decided to try something new with meeting mascots: party-specific backgrounds. At the Adventure Party, meeting Rockhopper would result in collecting a new item. This item was the Rockhopper Background (9029). It features the Captain, Yarr, and the Migrator covered in plants.

In 2012, this was done once more at the fourth Adventure Party, the Adventure Party: Temple of Fruit. This time, the image featured Captain Rockhopper wearing tropical facepaint, his puffle Yarr, the forest, and a volcano exploding with raspberries.

Which one do you prefer? Do you think the Adventure Party should return? Do you have any of these backgrounds? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for information and images.

The Water Park

Hello penguins! I will now be showcasing a popular room from a past Summer Party in Club Penguin.

The fourth and final takeover of 2013 was sure interesting; it was a combination of the Music Jam 2011, the Summer Kickoff Party 2007, and the Water Party 2008, and including new elements from the Disney Channel Special "Teen Beach Movie". The Water Party division of the party featured obviously the party room Epic Wave, and also included the Waterpark.

The Stadium was transformed into a pool with water slides for this party. This room was quite popular, and is a favorite of many. Standing on any of the three gray arrows will take your penguin down the water slide and into the pool below. 

Do you like this room? Would you like it to return? Bonus points to anyone who can tell me what item was available in this room. Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for images and information.

The Surprise Party

Hello penguins! Today I will share an interesting fact about an old party decided by the community.

In 2007, Club Penguin decided to let the community choose a party. The options were the Western Party, the Sports Party, and the Pirate Party. The poll was held from November 8th to the 14th, and the results were not revealed until the party had begun on November 23rd. And when the 23rd arrived, the party began, and it turned out to be the Western Party.

Did you attend the Surprise Party? Would you be willing to participate in another party poll? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for images and information.

The Serving Table

Hello penguins! Today I will be showcasing a cool feature that not too many penguins are aware of.

In 2011, Club Penguin decided it would be fun to introduce a new feature into the game. At the Puffle Party in February of that year, the tables at the Dance Lounge would react when food was served there. If a penguin served a table while wearing a food vendors' outfit such as the Coffee Apron or the Ice Cream Apron, the table would display that type of food. This returned at the Halloween Party and Card-Jitsu Party later that year. These features returned, of course, at the Pizza Parlor during the 10th Anniversary,

and during the Halloween Party 2015.



Do you enjoy this feature? What party would you like to see it at next? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki and Tomisino1 for images and information.

The Rarest Background

Hello penguins! I will now be providing information about an often overlooked rare item in Club Penguin.

Backgrounds were released in May 2006. Since then, every background has been obtained by hundreds and possibly thousands of people. There is one exception, though. One background has been collected by less than 500 users. That item is the Penguin of the Week Background.

The Penguin of the Week Background was released in March of 2014 and can only be obtained by being or having been Penguin of the Week. While this item is rare, it is possible for anyone to obtain it; a new penguin has this item added to their inventory nearly every week.

I hope you found this secret interesting. Do you have the Penguin of the Week Background? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for images and information.

The Final Easter

Hello penguins! Today I will be talking about the last time Club Penguin released anything for Easter.

Club Penguin held a tradition of having an Easter Egg Hunt every year beginning in 2006 and ending the tradition in 2012. Many players especially liked events such as these, so at the Puffle Party 2014, Club Penguin released a final item for Easter.

The Lavender Bunny Ears were released in April 2014 and were available at the Beach for free for the duration of the annual Puffle Party. This item is similar to previous Bunny Ears, most notably the Pink Bunny Ears, having similar colors. The items were released once again at the 10th Anniversary Party in the Daily Item Calendar, and have not encored since.

If you like this fact, come back later for more. Another secret about Easter may be posted soon. Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for information and images.

Operation: Tri-umph Party Review

Oops, I messed up my schedule so now I have two party reviews in a row. Oh well.

Hello penguins! Today I am going to be talking about Operation: Tri-umph, also known as Operation: Doom. I sure am late posting this, so let's get started.


First of all, I am going to talk about the rooms. During the first week, only the Snow Forts was decorated. I do not think this is a good idea, nor did the community, and I am fully aware of why; This room isn't very good.

The dance floor does not look okay. It has these awkward ellipses in the middle that make the floor look odd; I'm glad they haven't done it since. The satellite sticking into the ground appears like it's facing completely in the opposite direction.... for some odd reason. I do like how the flags have been turned into disco balls, though. That's cool.

In week three, my favorite decorations were released.

I like the Plaza, but I don't know why the Pet Shop, Park, the three hotel rooms, and the Underground Pool aren't in gray. Oh well. I like how the items available in this room are in a briefcase instead of a crate as the last two were.


Now I am going to judge review the music in this party.

The first track, 1105, is quite obnoxious. It has a ton of screaming in the background, and it gets annoying very quickly. It is quite repetitive and repeats itself after less than a minute, 55.353 seconds to be exact. It never comes to a complete stop; it is quite definite where it begins and ends. The buildup seems to have just 5 or 6 notes used multiple times. Somewhere near the middle of the track, there is a portion that just plays twelve notes, made up of four different piano keys, while the artist repeatedly presses the same button on an 808 drum really quickly, which bothers me quite a bit.

The Town Center's music, 1109, is a remake of Track 297 from the Fall Fair parties, and is quite fitting with how much buzz the Town Center recieved in the second week of this party. It includes the buzzing of small vehicles in it, matching how it encourages playing around with little cars and stuff; not to mention that the most popular cars, the Wheelers, are from the Fair 2011.

And finally, the Cave Maze's music, 899, is welcoming and fun. It starts off slowly, but gets better as time goes on. It begins with some odd (possibly string) instrument, which plays two measures four times, but then it turns into an epic tune reminding me of the Festival of Flight for a few seconds and then encores the two measures four more times. After this portion of the track, a magnificent xylophone part is played and really reminds me of the Adventure Party 2009 and a bit of the Temple of Fruit and the Underwater Expedition from 2012. This xylophone part is definitely my favorite part of the song; I am a bit disappointed that it isn't present for longer.


The items were quite controversial for this party, and now I'll explain why.

This party has no new free items, but instead has 3 returning free items and 18 new free items for members only. They tried to boost sales for memberships, so they spent their time remaking a few old free items as members only, when they should have just let them be. The worst of these is probably the Music Jam Cap (ID 1266). Said cap, which was re-released for the 10th Anniversary Party, is for all players; yet the Dance Battle Cap (ID 21077), which is completely identical, is for members only.

Besides that, a few of the items, especially in the Town Center, seem just a tad improbable. For example, a large spoon will serve no purpose unless you run a site such as mine or PengFeed.

I know it's been said a bunch, but I wish they would've made at least three items for non-members.


And now, the most important factor of every party, the playability.

While we didn't get many things to do in the first week of the party, a lot more content was released in the second week. The Town Center has some really nice, fun things to do. We can play on the roads and the baseball diamond while we are super small.

The third week, the Plaza rooms were released, and this set was definitely the best. It had the maze returning from the Cave Maze event from May 2015. A lot of people reacted as if this was a bad or stupid thing, but I think it is quite wonderful. It gives newer players the opportunity to play a maze, and it adds to the otherwise small amount of events to do at this event. In doing this, they also give older players the chance to complete the maze, had they forgotten to log in for a few weeks in May 2015. I would say that the playability in this party is hit or miss.


The storyline for this event is simple and basic. Herbert decided that to make the penguins less of a nuisance, he would build a dance party at the Snow Forts. Second, he would use a shrinking machine to make all of the penguins really small. And third of all, he would take the color out of 2 and 1/2 rooms on the wonderful island of Club Penguin. To stop Herbert's evil scheme, the penguins had to find the main controls for the machines and shut it down. This is all well and good, except for a few questions: What would hosting a dance party do? I'm not completely sure. How would shrinking penguins make them less of a nuisance? Why didn't Herbert make any big machines like the Popcorn Bomb and the Sun Blocking Ray? This plan seems as he Herbert has stopped trying. In retrospect, this story sucks.


This party was a bit of a let-down. It had a few decent decorations, and the music was overall okay. The items weren't good, but it had a decent amount of things to do for a few days. The biggest problem was probably the story. I'd give this party a 4/10. Goodbye!

I would like to thank the Club Penguin Wiki and The Club Penguin Wiki Archives for use of .SWF files to take screenshots of, as well as music files. If you would like to see the unedited, uncut version of this blog post for whatever reason, click here.

Adventure Ho!

Hello penguins! Today I am going to present to you all an interesting fact about one of the most popular parties ever, the Adventure Party.

The original Adventure Party ran from June 12th to June 16th, 2009 and was popular enough to warrant its first spinoff party, the Island Adventure Party, in 2010, and for the Island Adventure Party to encore in 2011, which was well-recieved, justifying another spinoff sponsored by Innocent Smoothies, titled the Adventure Party: Temple of Fruit in 2012.

During the very first Adventure Party, there were a few party rooms that most people seem to forget about. The one I am going to talk about is the Dock.

The Dock was replaced for the Island Adventure Party in 2010. It wasn't around for long enough to be fondly remembered by many, and not vastly different enough for a large amount of people to remember it for being unique; but I think this room is quite interesting in itself.

Instead of having a moving background like the team would have done if this party were to come out in 2013, it has two wheels spinning counterclockwise that loop a matte painting of the rainforest to give the effect that you are in the rainforest, but also still on Club Penguin Island.

I hope you found this fact interesting. If you did I will post more facts on August 22nd, 29th, and 30th for you all to enjoy. But until then, what do you think of this room? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki Archives for providing the files used in this post.

Epic Igloos - August 2016

Hello penguins! Welcome to Epic Igloos, the feature here on Club Penguin Secrets where I show you 3 igloos and go into detail about them.

First, I present a vacation home igloo made by Spanish user Beyeza1. It features the house, a garden with many different types of crops to tend to, a small creek flowing into the garden, a picnic table with a colored umbrella and two lawn chairs, two red pool chairs with a glass end table between them and a Catchin' Waves beach towel in front of them, a well, a wheelbarrow full of fresh dirt, and finally, a glass statue of a penguin that is way taller than any penguin in the game. I think the best thing to do here is work in the gardens. I really want some of that tasty watermelon. Yum.

This is a train depot built by Harry Cp, also known as MyCPTales. It has a nice entrance room with benches and small trees. Above the doors is a clock tower, found in many train depots. To the left we have the ticket booths where penguins can buy tickets to ride on the monorail train. To the right we have a relaxation room of sorts with a bench, a Slurpee machine, a dish of candy, and a platter of tasty nachos and salsa. Delicious! Below that we have the platform for waiting whilst the train arrives. There happens to be a street musician's forgotten guitar case there, out in the open for anyone to steal. I hope it isn't taken before they return. At the very bottom we have the track with a train arriving. This train is really cool, and is made up of the 2014 Lockers, Old Sofas, and 2014 Puffle Tubes. It is one of the most stylish trains I have seen since the Holiday 2013.

The third and final igloo I will present this month is a prison created by the user Tamsy4. It has a nice front room with two computers, shelves with numerous trophies and awards, a control desk, and televisions which may or may not be for announcements occasionally. Below that, we see the cafeteria. It has lockers, one picnic table for the prisoners to sit at, and one cafeteria line with green slime and eyeballs, which may or may not be what actual real prisoners eat. The conversation room is to the right of the cafeteria. The conversation room is where the prisoners can talk to their visitors. The right half of the room is the cells. There are 8 cells in this prison, holding up to 8 prisoners. All cells have dishes of food and water for the prisoners to eat and drink. I wonder what the food is made out of.....

So that's all for this edition of Epic Igloos! Check back soon for more secrets and more! Next week I post a fun fact about the Adventure Party. I hope to see you then. Goodbye!

Fashion Festival Party Review

Hello penguins! Today I'll be reviewing the Fashion Festival from August 2015. Two reviews in two weeks? You people are spoiled. Anyway, here I begin.

First of all, the rooms. From the few rooms that we got, I really enjoy them from the start through week two. My favorite room is the Stadium. It has a lot of fun things to do, nice coloring on everything, and has a nice blue instead of the sand seen in many of the other rooms. It also features a nice golden puffle statue atop the waterfall.

The Dock is also really nice. It has a nice stage that fits the theme very nicely, and the voting booth even has a Party Hat on.



But at the start of week three, the winners of each category were announced in a very annoying way. The winners were announced in tall frames instead of a booth, which would have been helpful, as it was during the Festival of Snow.

One room that I didn't like throughout the whole party, though, was the Epic Wave. This room debuted at the Teen Beach Movie Summer Jam in August two years prior, and was lots of fun. This time, the coloring was all weird. The rest of the party had a nice even coloring. Plenty of darks, plenty of lights. But the Epic Wave just had darks. 80% or more was either dark purple or dark blue, which is quite unappealing.

The music is notably enjoyable.

The main theme reminds me of the Fashion Show in February 2012, which, I assume, is what it was going for. 

As for the other tracks, the Snow Forts comes from the Music Jam 2014 and actually fits, which is a miracle at this point. The Dock may or may not be new music. It sounds quite familiar, but I can't seem to find the source. This track is wonderful. The Forest seems to have new music, which is quite nice and fits the theme. 

But most of all, my favorite track in this party is for the Epic Wave, which has been recycled from the Teen Beach Movie Summer Jam of August 2013. It has grand instrumentation and doesn't get annoying, even after long periods of time. It's one of my favorite tracks in the game, up there with the Winter Fiesta 2008 theme. It also slightly reminds me of Pump It by the Black Eyed Peas simply for the instruments used.

This party had one item. Just one. It's a little less than two, but a bit more than zero. It's a background.

This is the Fashion Festival background. It's not good. The stage portion is fine, but the flowers are kind of mediocre. Dot had no reason to be here, and since they only have one or two drawings of her new outfit this is the only one they use and I'm sick of seeing it everywhere. The shadows don't even look right. Also, this item focuses on the classy stage while having nothing to do with the other two stages, which is stupid. It would be nice if there were different versions of this item without Dot in them, but this is what we got. Oh well.

This party has arguably more playability than most other parties in 2015. The 3 stages had playability already, but the main feature of this party was to create outfits, submit them, and then vote on them; But to submit outfits, you had to get a ticket. The way to get tickets was, you had to vote on ten outfits in the voting booth. This most likely prevented users from spamming outfits and overloading the system and preventing all others from collecting likes.

Another cool playability feature is that every two or three days, the categories on each stage would change. This keeps the stages fresh and interesting and justifies the length of the party - three whole weeks.

As for story, once again, this party has none. I'm glad that when I review the Inside Out Party next month, it will break the streak of no stories.

In conclusion, this party is good. It's not necessarily great, but far from being bad or obnoxious. It had some good decorations, and some bad decorations. it had some okay music. While the item wasn't very good, it had good activities to make up for it. I'd give it a solid 7/10. Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for information and images.

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.