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Penguins and Puffles Around the World!
For over a year, Mountains Monday has included a photo taken in-real-life related to Club Penguin each month. It’s featured a huge range, from ski resorts to pianos, and demonstrated just how large the franchise was! Unfortunately though, it’s becoming really difficult to find new and exciting images, mostly because I’ve already shared them all. I still really like the concept of these photos though, so I’m planning to try something new!
When Club Penguin was still around, there was a section on the official blog called “Penguins Around the World” from which players could submit different photos which they’d taken featuring either a penguin or puffle. You can see an example below!
I’m really keen to introduce something similar to this as part of Mountains Monday! Although the plan is mainly dependent on how many people choose to get involved, each month, I’d hope to feature your photos of something Club Penguin related here on this blog! It could be anything, big or small. For example, here’s a photo of my puffle which I took a couple of years ago at Table Mountain in South Africa.
All you’d need to do is:
- Take a photo of your penguin or puffle in front of a nice background – it doesn’t need to be anything too special, even a tree outdoors would be super cool! It must be your own photo.
- Email the photo to photo@clubpenguinmountains.com or DM it on Twitter to @CPMountains – please include your penguin name if you would like it to be featured in the blog post!
I recognise that this will be a lot easier with Club Penguin merchandise, which not everyone might have access too, but even if you’ve drawn or created something, feel free to submit that too! The only rules are that it must be a photo (not a screenshot, I’m afraid!) and your own.
I’m not sure if all photos will be featured since that depends on how many people submit one, and I’m not even certain about what to expect because this is my first time trying something like this. However, I hope people will be interested and that it’ll be a lot of fun to participate in and read!
Waddle on!
-Torres 126
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Card Jitsu Cards Giveaway (19/07/21)
As always for the third Monday of the month, it’s time for another Card-Jitsu cards giveaway! I should stress that, as always, these cards are loose physical ones, meaning they’ll be posted to your address; they can’t be redeemed online.
For today, you can see all the cards below!
They are the following cards:
- Penguin Play Awards
- Puffle Paddle
- April Fools
- The Test
- Customize your Penguin Card with accompanying sticker sheet
- Crab Costume (power card)
The giveaway has now closed! The winner is Silkcharm – congratulations, please check your email! If you didn’t win, don’t worry as there’ll always be more giveaways in the future. [screenshot]
The challenge for this event was to guess what each set of emojis referred to, and 75.7% of people answered them all correctly. Here were there answers:
- Set 1: Recycling Plant (room name)
- Set 2: Bunny Hill (name of a Sled Racing track)
- Set 3: Night of the Living Sled (name of a Stage play)
The giveaway will close at 9am BST on 21st July, so be sure to enter soon if you’re interested.
Best of luck if you choose to enter!
-Torres 126
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Club Penguin’s Unreleased Rooms
For today’s Mountains Monday, I wanted to actually take a look at something which people might be less familiar with, which are some of the unreleased rooms. Although the Club Penguin team regularly used to have new ideas, only a couple of them ever ended up making them into the files!
One of those was the Fog Forest in 2014, which seemed to resemble part of the Puffle Wilds. Part of the mystery to do with this room though was that its purpose remained unclear, and there was never an official explanation given as to why it was implemented. You could actually visit this room through a special link, which was especially peculiar!
The other well-known but unreleased room was the “Welcome Room”, which was shown in the physical Club Penguin guidebook. Last month, Polo Field (Chris Gliddon) shared some concepts and designs of various iterations which could’ve ended up on the island! In the end, the “Welcome Room” proposal never really made it; although there was a room for one player when they first signed up, this was later replaced by the Map which offered introductory quests.
Interestingly, two other concepts shared by Chris were potential changes to the map, including a design which featured the underground elements beneath the island. These were both from around 2011, but the map never really underwent major design changes except temporary ones for parties.
Perhaps the most significant of unreleased rooms though, if it counts as one, was the Puffle Wilds. This was never properly considered a room, and there are no public assets beyond a couple of sketches. However, if this interests you, feel free to check out this post which covers it in more detail!
I’d like to give a huge thank you to Chris for sharing the images and concepts which he has recently – it’s been really interesting to see some of the things which never quite made it to Club Penguin! Thank you very much for reading!
Waddle on!
-Torres 126
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Club Penguin’s Treetop Treasures
As it is the first week of the month, it’s time for another Mountains Monday post, so I’ve selected a new tune which was themed around pirates, and probably suitable for the Island Adventure Party: Treetop Treasures!
This might be one which you remember from Club Penguin Island since it was used for the adventures there, but it was also present in the Pirate Party of 2014. It’s a nice tune that’s slightly calming though, so I hope that you’ll enjoy it!
Pirate crabs at the Pirate Party in 2014 Thank you very much for reading, waddle on!
-Torres 126
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Club Penguin’s Mural in Haiti
It’s the fourth Monday of the month, so as normal for Mountains Monday, it’s time to share another photo of something which occurred in real life related to Club Penguin! This one is particularly sweet because it relates to a charitable endeavour undertaken in 2010. At the start of the year, there was a terrible earthquake in Haiti which caused a lot of destruction.
A few months after it, the Club Penguin team helped reconstruct infrastructure there. That included playgrounds for children, and for one of those, the team set up a mural based around the island there. You can see it below!
One of the really sweet things about this was that the team actively tried to involve the whole community; penguins were encouraged to submit artwork, and there was a vote with some of the selected options. For example, the artwork above was actually initially submitted by a community member, and you can see it below.
The charitable endeavours of Club Penguin really do convey how much it made the world a better place, so I thought it’d be nice to share today.
Waddle on!
-Torres 126
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Card Jitsu Cards Giveaway (21/06/21)
As always for the third Monday of the month, it’s time for another Card-Jitsu cards giveaway! I should stress that, as always, these cards are loose physical ones, meaning they’ll be posted to your address; they can’t be redeemed online.
For today, you can see all the cards below!
They are the following cards:
- Jet Pack Pilot
- Stadium
- Community Tree
- Puffer Fish
- Customize your Penguin Card with accompanying sticker sheet
- Field-Ops (power card)
This giveaway has now ended! The winner was Yankee21399 – congratulations, please check your email! If you didn’t win, don’t worry as there’ll always be more chances.
Here were the answers to each hint:
- Klutzy – Crab (he is a crab!)
- Elemental Chamber – Test (after the Test Chamber 3000)
- Rookie’s pet – Rock (he has a pet rock!)
- Veggie Villain vegetable – Corn (appears in The Veggie Villain PSA mission)
Based on this, the final word is OCEANS. 93.8% of people who entered identified this correctly!
The giveaway will close at 4pm BST on 22nd June, so be sure to enter soon! On a separate note, I realise that this blog has been slightly quiet lately (you may have noticed it’s taken me a few days to approve comments) however I’m pleased to say that it’ll be more active again; I’ve finally finished my exams, so I’m a lot more free now! Apologies for missing last week’s Mountains Monday because of this.
Best of luck if you choose to enter!
-Torres 126
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Club Penguin’s Rock the Boat Quartet
As it is the first week of the month, it’s time for another Mountains Monday post, so I’ve selected a new tune which was initially themed around summer: Rock the Boat Quartet!
It’s a slightly longer one, but it sounds very different at different bits. Above all though, for a lot of people, it might hold some nostalgic memories from around summer 2014 since this was one of the most popular choices for Igloo Music at the time – you could hear it all over the island! This tune was associated with the Music Jam of that year, including other summer-themed events.
On a completely separate note, you may have noticed that this blog has been a little quiet in the last week. Although there hasn’t been much news, I might not be approving comments as much this week since it’s Exam Week, so everything is a little hectic!
I hope that you like it, waddle on!
-Torres 126
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Club Penguin’s Real Puffle Skateboards
For Mountains Monday this week, it’s time to feature something related to Club Penguin in real-life! Often, that can feature a piece of merchandise, but most products except membership cards were retired by 2013.
However, in 2014, the Club Penguin team attempted to restart merchandise production as part of a partnership with an online store. The range of products included phone cases, hoodies, and also skateboards! These weren’t sold for long, and it was widely perceived as a failure due to the extremely high prices which the products sold at. That being said, some of the designs were visually impressive!
The skateboard featuring the rainbow puffle even made it in-game too as part of the School & Skate event in 2014, which also introduced the skatepark to Club Penguin. I remember finding it a little peculiar to see the emphasis of skateboards added to Club Penguin at the time, but it was probably perceived as a trend that could’ve been profitable.
As part of that, the Club Penguin team also revealed a “digital short” featuring the skateboard. In reality, it was really just an advertisement, but it was rare for a video similar to this to be released.
The expensive pricing of these skateboards largely resulted in them being forgotten despite the emphasis that the Club Penguin team tried placing on them, but I thought they’d be fun to explore in a Mountains Monday post, so I hope that you enjoyed reading!
Waddle on! 🛹
-Torres 126
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Card Jitsu Cards Giveaway (17/05/21)
As always for the third Monday of the month, it’s time for another Card-Jitsu cards giveaway! I should stress that, as always, these cards are loose physical ones, meaning they’ll be posted to your address; they can’t be redeemed online.
For today, you can see all the cards below!
They are the following cards:
- Bamboo Forest Sketch
- Seafarer’s Gown
- The Great Snow Maze
- Popcorn Party
- Customize your Penguin Card with accompanying sticker sheet
- Fire Dragon (power card)
The giveaway has now closed! The winner is Jasmin231 – congratulations, please check your email! If you didn’t win, don’t worry; there’ll be plenty more giveaways in the future. [screenshot]
The challenge was to identify the three rooms from the image, and 68.8% of entrants managed to successfully do so! Here are the answers:
- Picture A: Pet Shop
- Picture B: Ski Lodge
- Picture C: Arcade
The giveaway will close at 1pm GMT on 18th May, so be sure to enter soon! Best of luck if you choose to enter!
-Torres 126
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Club Penguin’s PSA & EPF Merger
Given all the talk about the EPF and PSA lately, I thought it’d be a little fun to use this Mountains Monday to consider the history of the two agencies! Neither were actually formed specifically to combat Herbert; he arrived to the island a few years early, having floated on an iceberg seeking a warm and peaceful land. Instead, after a perilous journey, he found Club Penguin! Much to his disappointment, it was cold and noisy; this became a grievance which made him resort to evil…
However, the Elite Penguin’s Force first mission was not to combat Herbert! In 2008, the organisation was formed under orders from the Director. They became involved in rescuing Gary after his mysterious disappearance, and defeating the villainous Ultimate Proto-Bot 10000. It’s never been known for certain what prompted this decision to split the organisations, even though they remained closely linked together. Some theories suggest it was a “back-up”, but that prompts the idea that the Director was familiar with an active plot against the PSA. Other fan theories suggest it was necessary due to avoid corruption and leaks orchestrated from within the PSA.
Protobot: the EPF’s first big opponent In May 2010, Herbert successfully managed to achieve his aim: Rookie had accidentally provided him with a PSA spy phone, and Herbert used the phone’s teleportation technology to plant a popcorn bomb in the PSA HQ. It would become the last event which the PSA would be involved in. The popcorn bomb exploded a few minutes later, irreversibly damaging all technology. It was following this explosion that the Director ordered the PSA and the EPF to be merged; all PSA agents were transferred to the EPF, and the PSA was effectively abolished.
Popcorn explosion of May 2010 There was never any inquiry into how the Popcorn Explosion could’ve been prevented, and it was largely forgotten about until Herbert struck again as part of Operation Blackout in 2012. His ability to destroy the EPF then resulted in the Command Room being destroyed for several years! But by then, the EPF and the PSA had already been irreversibly split.
This post was a little different, even for Mountains Monday, but I hope that you still enjoyed it!
Waddle on!
-Torres 126
